Spoilers follow for The White Lotus season-three finale “Amor Fati.” Rick Hatchett got everything he ever wanted. He found someone who loves and accepts him and makes a vow to value her. He faced the man who killed his father and walked away a better man. “I got the monkey off my back,” Rick …
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Photo: Fabio Lovino/HBO If you’re still hungry for more after The White Lotus’s season-three finale, you can always scour the cutting-room floor. Writer-director Mike White told the Hollywood Reporter some of his episodes originally came in at an hour and 40 minutes before getting cut down to the tight hours that aired. (Meanwhile, the …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: HBO (Stefano Delia, Fabio Lovino) For more on The White Lotus, sign up for The White Lotus Club, our subscriber-exclusive newsletter obsessing over, dissecting, and debating everything about season three. Spoilers follow for The White Lotus season-three finale, “Amor Fati.” It’s so hard to leave a vacation behind. This is true even if, …
Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO Zombies are never just zombies. They’re metaphors for disease, as in World War Z, or for infectious emotional states like panic and fear, as in The Walking Dead. They can be exaggerated expressions of becoming a brainless follower zapped by digital life. Sometimes they’re classic “every human has a monster inside …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: HBO Employment at luxury-hotel chain the White Lotus has its perks: You’ll be working in a once-in-a-lifetime locale, so breathtakingly beautiful only the wealthiest white-collar criminals and most emotionally unstable heiresses can afford to be there. I’m also assuming there is some kind of employee discount and maybe a daily coupon …
Photo: HBO Spoilers for the season-three finale of The White Lotus below, duh. Hey, so that episode of television was bonkers, right? Whether you loved The White Lotus finale or were like “meh,” it’s fair to say that nobody expected the twink brother to go full on Lazarus followed by both [redacted] getting shot. …
As the School of Rock chalkboard would denote, this is “hard rock.” Jack Black returned to host Saturday Night Live after a 20-year hiatus, delivering an episode so good that even Ms. Mullins would get into a tizzy watching it. But wait — Black doesn’t know if he can do it. He wants to …
Photo: Seliger Studio For New York Magazine’s annual “Yesteryear” issue, we invited some of Broadway’s greatest legends to revisit the generation-defining performances that had, for years and sometimes decades, held New York audiences captive: Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, Nathan Lane as Nathan Detroit, Patti LuPone as Evita. The final 29 performers wouldn’t merely …
Photo: It’s here and then it’s gone. When the run of a play or musical ends, that’s it. If you’re a movie or TV aficionado, you can always make your way back through the canon to catch up. Theatergoers make do with fragments: cast albums, the tiny percentage of shows that were filmed for …
Art: © Amy Sherald. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photograph by Joseph Hyde The artist Amy Sherald is best known for her magnificent 2018 portrait Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, which has been looked at, studied, and written about as much as any portrait in the 21st century. It features Obama resting her …
