The Story Behind 30 Rock’s Magnificently Silly Leap Day Episode (www.vulture.com)
The Truth Behind Max’s Cancellation Spree (www.vulture.com)
“You didn’t get many things that were broadening out from HBO. You got things that were adjacent to HBO.”
The Second Annual Stunt Awards Are Here (www.vulture.com)
The Best Podcasts of 2023, According to People Who Make Podcasts (www.vulture.com)
What We Do in the Shadows’ Sixth Season Will Be Its Last (www.vulture.com)
What We Do in the Shadows’ Sixth Season Will Be Its Last (www.vulture.com)
What We Do in the Shadows’ Sixth Season Will Be Its Last (www.vulture.com)
The sun is coming up on television’s darkest, weirdest comedy.
Did Taylor Swift Attend a New York Jets Game to Detract From Her Private Jets? (www.vulture.com)
Dolly Parton on the Most Prolific and Invigorating Music of Her Career (www.vulture.com)
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous Ancestry Called Into Question (www.vulture.com)
Scavengers Reign Gorgeously Animates a Natural Sci-Fi World (www.vulture.com)
Scavengers Reign animates the horror of a sci-fi habitat pushing back against humanity.
The Best Books of 2023 (So Far) (www.vulture.com)
I Am Filled With Dread Whenever Netflix Buys a Movie I Love (www.vulture.com)
Hit Man, we hardly knew you.
Spotlight on / controversy about corporate manipulation of Rotten Tomatoes (www.vulture.com)
Leaving aside bias towards the American market and critics, this latest criticism of Rotten Tomatoes influence comes from this September 6th piece from Vulture. The report provides new evidence of PR firms paying critics and persuading them to keep negative reviews off of Rotten Tomatoes tracking....
The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes: The most overrated metric in entertainment is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip. (www.vulture.com)
The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes (www.vulture.com)
The most overrated metric in entertainment is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip.
The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes -- Vulture (www.vulture.com)
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Let Superman Be Soft (www.vulture.com)
Article by Vulture that pushes back against the “grittification” of superheroes and how “My adventures with Superman” subverts the trend that has dominated cinematic appearances of Superman in particular
Vulture: 37 TV shows coming this fall (www.vulture.com)
Nice long list of premiere dates if you’re interested in knowing what’s coming.
The Final Sondheim The complete, from-beginning-to-end story of how Stephen Sondheim, David Ives, and Joe Mantello created the musical Here We Are (www.vulture.com)
An in-depth story and interview with playwright David Ives and director Joe Mantello about the development of Sondheim's final show, Here We Are, by Frank Rich, long-time Sondheim advocate and former theatre critic for the New York Times....
Power Bottoms: The NYU classmates behind the year’s most delightfully dumb comedy. (www.vulture.com)
An interview with Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, and Emma Seligman....
Britney Spears Musical ‘Once Upon A One More Time’ will close on Broadway on 3 September (www.vulture.com)
Once Upon a One More Time, the Broadway musical that uses Britney Spears hits to re-tell and revise various fairy tales, has announced an early closing. The final performance at the Marquis Theatre will be on 3 September 2023. Once Upon A One More Time started previews in May 2023 and opened in June to mixed reviews....