Jon with Longclaw, Arya with Dagger and Brienne with Oathkeeper. This post was originally published in 2017. We have updated it to reflect the events of season eight.
Say, have you seen any Valyrian steel lying around? Why am I asking? Oh, no reason, just there’s a giant army of the dead about to attack Winterfell and they’re commanded by these evil demons who are only vulnerable to Valyrian steel and dragonglass.
This list was originally published in 2022. It has been updated to include Scream VI. Don’t let the lyrics to unofficial Ghostface theme song “Red Right Hand” fool you: The killer in the Scream movies is neither god nor ghost. While the original 1996 film is rightfully credited with reviving the slasher genre for a new generation, Kevin Williamson’s script for the Wes Craven–helmed horror classic distinguished itself from the movies that inspired it by keeping the identity of its villain a secret until the third act.
Anyone who’s watched even five minutes of a reality singing competition since American Idol first became a phenomenon in 2002 knows that song choice is everything. The right take on a well-known tune can win over with the judges — and the viewers — while a wrong note will send your reality-TV dreams home in a Ford-sponsored body bag. So with American Idol kicking off its thirteenth season tonight, it had us wondering: Which songs have become go-to choices for the contestants competing on these programs over the years?
Do you prefer the Unkempt Hot Dad Beard? The Closely Shaved Well-Kept Beard? The Basically Stubble Beard? Well, do we have the show for you. In this sprawling and unwieldily post-Peak TV era, how should you choose which show to invest your time in next? Maybe you read a great review. Maybe the show was created by or stars someone whose work you love. Or maybe you’re just chasing that sweet, sweet high of perfect beard content.
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Welcome to the second installment of Beach Read Book Club. Today, we’re discussing chapters four through six of The Guest, including how Alex’s pill addiction changes our understanding of the narrative, the encounter with Nicholas, and that extremely tense afternoon at the beach club. (If you need to catch up with part one, click here.
In “What It Takes,” the sixth episode of Succession’s third season, the Roys got together with a bunch of megarich, Willa-leering Republican operatives and H-name-droppers and decided who would be the next president of the United States of America. In that installment’s final minutes, saddest man Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) leaves a meeting with brother-in-law Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong). Tom is full from diner food and room-temperature water, exhausted from diverting stabs in the back, and pent up with cake batter that his wife, Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook), won’t accept, and he leaves Kendall with parting lines that are infused with simultaneous pragmatism and melancholy: “My hunch is that you are going to get fucked.
In less than six years, she has become one of the most successful pop artists of all time. Who is she? Ariana Grande. Illustration: Bráulio Amado/Jim Spellman/WireImage/Getty Images Ariana Grande. Born the 26th of June in 1993 in Boca Raton, Florida, Ariana Grande grew up within what she refers to as a “stereotypical poker-playing, loud, friendly, food-shoving, loving Italian family.” She is the only daughter of Joan Grande, CEO of a “company that manufactures communications equipment for the Marines and the Navy,” and Edward Butera, a graphic designer from whom she became estranged after her parents divorced in the late ’90s.
Lara Jean and Peter can sleep soundly because Vulture is on the case. There comes a time in every woman’s life when she finally realizes that she’s starting to have real feelings for her fake boyfriend. It happened in She’s All That, and Pretty Woman, and nearly every Sandra Bullock movie. In To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Lara Jean Covey and Peter Kavinsky plot to fake date to make their actual crushes jealous: Peter was dumped by his popular ex, Gen, and Lara Jean is working out her feelings for her sister Margot’s ex-boyfriend.
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Marvel’s Jessica Jones introduces the titular character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, along with Luke Cage, who’ll have his own series next year. But as always with comic-book film and television adaptations, there are plenty of other heroes and villains hiding in plain sight on Jessica Jones. There are also characters with wildly different backstories than the ones we see onscreen, starting with our heroine, Jessica, who actually tried out the masked-avenger thing in the comics before she ultimately became a private investigator …
Every episode of The Boys, Prime Video’s ultraviolent, savagely satirical superhero series, offers an abundance of gross moments. Some involve violence. Others involve sex. And others still feature characters crossing moral, personal, and ethical boundaries. But even in a series in which no one’s hands are ever fully clean — literally or figuratively — some characters behave worse than others.
This week’s episode, “Beware the Jabberwock, My Son,” plays as if it will be a grossness drought in its opening scenes.