Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: ABC, Disney, HBO, NBC, Netflix, Pluto, Showtime The shapes that witches take on TV are similar to the ones they take in pop culture more broadly. There’s the traditional “ugly” witch embodied in children’s characters like H.R. Pufnstuf’s Witchiepoo or Looney Tunes’s Witch Hazel, both of whom wear pointy hats and …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Holt McCallany can talk for a long time about filmmaker David Fincher, with whom he’s worked three times. On the beloved crime-thriller series Mindhunter, which was unexpectedly canceled by Netflix after its second season. On Alien 3, the prison-planet sequel that was Fincher’s directorial debut and so plagued …
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Photo: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Nobody let Cynthia Erivo go on Archive of Our Own. She might stumble upon a story with the logline: “Elphaba doesn’t like to be interrupted when she’s hard at work, but Glinda has other plans,” tagged “Dom/sub.” The actress took issue with a fan-made version of the Wicked poster that …
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Photo: Apple TV+ As a therapist, is there such a thing as having too many boundaries with your patients? Probably not. But that’s what Jimmy suggests to Paul in “I Love Pain.” Shrinking tends to justifiably depict Jimmy as the Wrong One and Paul as the Right One, and that’s still the case here …
Carlos Samonte / Hulu Spoilers for all six episodes of La Máquina below. Fourteen years ago, during a drunken night at the Berlin Film Festival, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna had an idea for a project that would reunite them onscreen. It would focus on the complicated relationship between an aging boxer and …
Photo: Netflix The edit is not edit-ing, y’all. I don’t know whether this is coming from Netflix’s cutting room floor or from the cast telling camera crews to scram, but we’re really being kept at arm’s length. Big dramatic moments have been happening offscreen all season. I definitely understand wanting to keep certain conflicts …
Photo: Apple TV+ Early in the first season of Shrinking, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of the show’s premise. It’s one thing to follow a therapist with unconventional methods, but Jimmy’s way of doing things was clearly unethical, and the show knew it. How sustainable could that be as a plot engine …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture. Photos: Marc Piasecki/WireImage, Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Dior Homme Dream Scenario director Kristoffer Borgli is cooking up another dream scenario for stans. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are starring as the central couple in The Drama, Borgli’s upcoming feature for A24. According to THR, the pair end up …
Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Good+Foundation Jerry Seinfeld is correcting his comments about political correctness. “I did an interview with The New Yorker, and I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy,” Seinfeld recalled during a recent episode of Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast. “I did say that. That’s not …
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Photo: Michael Parmelee/FX When Aaron finally started playing for the pros last week, he quickly learned the same lesson as many a young person thrust into the spotlight before they’re ready: Fame is a prison, a force that can easily destroy your sense of freedom. That’s what Sherrod warned Aaron, and by the time …
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