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Brian Moylan is the author of the New York Times best seller The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Housewives. He also writes Vulture's Housewives Institute Bulletin newsletter. He started covering television in 2000, and his TV reporting and criticism has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Vice, Gawker 1.0, Time, Cosmopolitan, Town & Country, the Washington Blade, and many other outlets.

  1. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Lemon and LymeUgh, I am so tired of this Yolanda conversation.
  2. overnights
    RHOBH Recap: Whatever Happened to Erika Jayne? There are so many levels of miscommunication going on here!
  3. vulture reading room
    Teresa Giudice’s Prison-Memoir HighlightsAvoiding tabloids, what she ate, and DIY dildos.
  4. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Faye Done AwayThe whole Kathryn and Kyle and Faye thing is super odd.
  5. The 6 Degrees of the O.J. Simpson TrialThe careers, channels, and genres that owe themselves to the trial of the century.
  6. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Ghosts of Housewives PastAttention, Lisa Vanderpump: You do not own the color pink.
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    American Horror Story: Hotel Finale Recap: Closing TimeWhere’s Lady Gaga? This season finale really needs more of her.
  8. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Bethenny Ever AfterThis is not a drill: Bethenny Frankel has met Erika Jayne.
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    American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Queenie for a DayYou only get to be a ghost if you’re a main character or Naomi Campbell.
  10. overnights
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Whites OnlyBoy, do we love it when these girls travel.
  11. overnights
    American Horror Story Recap: Why Is Dying the Only Way?Only vampires and people who listen to too much Morrissey will understand.
  12. overnights
    Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Attack of the Five-Foot Pony“I have some questions about how to use SnapsChatter. Are you a Millennial?â€
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    American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: ’Til Death Do Us PartyYou’re still on probation, Ryan Murphy.
  14. dad bod
    Oliver Hudson Is Embarrassed About His Dadbod“I read the script saying ‘you are in a Speedo with fucking Jamie Lee Curtis.’ This is not good news.â€
  15. overnights
    Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Zero Weddings, Zero FuneralsThis show just got dark. Not fun dark, but sad dark. Way-too-real dark.
  16. overnights
    Scream Queens Finale Recap: Red Devil’s AdvocateI have a lot of questions about the killer’s motives.
  17. goodbyes
    America’s Next Top Model Was the Only Reality Show That Understood CampWe watched because it was poking fun at its own seriousness without even knowing it.
  18. American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Lowe BlowsAlmost everything makes sense! That never happens in Murphyland.
  19. Scream Queens Recap: The Hero Takes the MallDid Grace get blonder, or was it just the contrast of her hair to one of her ugly hats?
  20. Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Premiere Recap: Pitchers and CatchersThe Real Forehead Wrinkles of the Sherman Oaks Mall have returned!
  21. overnights
    Scream Queens Recap: Head of the TableHas anyone ever seen one of those electric turkey carvers in real life? No.
  22. quiz
    Can You Name That Shirtless Man?Can you tell one actor who hasn’t eaten a carbohydrate since the Bush administration from the other?
  23. overnights
    American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Ghouls on FilmThank God they were not zombies!
  24. overnights
    Scream Queens Recap: Boone’s FarmWhy is the Red Devil such a lousy killer?
  25. overnights
    American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Mother MonsterThere is nothing at all interesting about John Lowe. Not one single thing.
  26. overnights
    Scream Queens Recap: Un-American PsychoWe finally got some answers about Grace’s mother, the Bathtub Baby, and just what Denise Hemphill would do with her lottery money.
  27. American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Vaccine It AllI might be almost, maybe, kinda, sorta, a little bit prepared to say that American Horror Story is good again. Almost. Maybe.
  28. high school tv showdown
    Where Are the Gossip Girl Characters Now?These drama-loving characters can’t be happy for that long, can they?
  29. overnights
    Scream Queens Recap: Phony BolognaFinally, after all these weeks, the action is sagging. No one even died this week. No one we actually cared about, at least.
  30. binge on tv not candy
    Simpsons, Buffy Writers on Halloween EpisodesPlus: How to avoid sitcom trick-or-treat monotony, according to folks from Home Improvement, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Parks and Rec.
  31. overnights
    American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Come On, AileenI never quite understood why American Horror Story needed to have a Halloween episode.
  32. overnights
    American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: Fountain of EuthanasiaThere are a lot of interesting stories going on here, but the one that I don’t give two Toblerones from the minibar about is the stupid killer.
  33. overnights
    Scream Queens Recap: Truth or ScareThe killer doesn’t really seem to be after Kappas. Well, he does, but he surely hasn’t killed that many.
  34. overnights
    American Horror Story: Hotel Recap: March of CrimesGod, I really hope AHS didn’t blow its load before episode three.
  35. overnights
    Scream Queens Recap: The Shining, Unhappy PeopleWhy are the people who keep dying the ones we care nothing about?
  36. overnights
    Are We Supposed to Feel Sorry for Teresa Giudice While She’s in Prison?Bravo’s prison special on Giudice tries to provoke sympathy for the former Housewife.
  37. overnights
    American Horror Story: Hotel Premiere Recap: The Bed Bugs BiteThere is no way the Hotel Cortez could exist in modern-day Los Angeles, because if it did, I’d be booking a room faster than you can type Kayak dot com.
  38. overnights
    Scream Queens Recap: Trick or TweetThis show is either the most spot-on satire of political correctness and identity politics on college campuses, or it’s the stupidest thing ever.
  39. tv tropes
    A Guide to Sleeping With Your Co-Worker on TVThe office romance is one of the most tried and true TV tropes, and boy, have there been lots of them.
  40. overnights
    Scream Queens Recap: Texas Chainsaw MascaraThe plot of Scream Queens is moving like a roller coaster flying off the track and careening toward a black hole.
  41. life after reality tv
    Reality TV Is a Snake Eating Its Own TailWhat is life post–reality television? More reality television.
  42. life after reality tv
    The Many Stages of Life After Reality TVThe relationship between the star and their experience changes as time wears on.
  43. overnights
    Scream Queens Series Premiere Recap: Chanel’s ClutchThat premiere packed so many new characters, so many deaths, and so many of Grace’s awful hats into two hours that my head is still spinning.
  44. trends
    10 Character Types You’ll Come Across on Every Ryan Murphy ShowFrom the bitchy blonde to the lesbian of color.
  45. overnights
    RHONY Reunion 3 Recap: Corned Beefs, RehashedRamona Singer fell asleep on television.
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    RHONY Reunion Part Two Recap: Pointers, SistersDon’t these women ever realize that these things are taped and preserved for future researchers at the Real Housewives Institute?
  47. overnights
    RHONY Finale Recap: The Beginning Is the EndLike a computer virus that replicates its own mistakes, Ramona is Ramona, always and tautologically forever.
  48. overnights
    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: New York Fashion WeakAnd the Never-Ending Sorry.
  49. overnights
    The Real Housewives of New York Recap: From Ashes to BashesI cried real tears last night while watching The Real Grave-Robbers of Piccadilly Circus. 
  50. vidcon
    An Old Person’s Remote Recap of VidCon 2015I am not what you would call a power user.
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