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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.

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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Friends and LoversIs this the backdoor pilot to some spinoff series for Braunwyn?
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    Cobra Kai Season-Finale Recap: O Holy FightThe season wraps in true Cobra Kai fashion with some giant karate brawls and the promise of a big tournament to come.
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    Cobra Kai Recap: Ali Want for ChristmasWe’re spending a little too much time on romance and not enough time on ass kicking.
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    Cobra Kai Recap: Tournament of LiesIf Daniel, Johnny, and Kreese want City Council to believe that karate isn’t about fighting, couldn’t they agree not to fight over their tournament?
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    Cobra Kai Recap: Cool and the FangJohnny’s grand plans are no match for the realities of L.A. real estate.
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    Cobra Kai Recap: Sensei My NameIt’s another karate miracle!
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    Cobra Kai Recap: The Chozen OneAn underground Dee Snyder concert, some old-man karate, and a battle in an abandoned laser tag arena — what more could a Cobra Kai fan ask for?
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    Cobra Kai Recap: Turning JapaneseAn action-light episode instead puts its energy toward revisiting some of this show’s most classic themes.
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    Cobra Kai Recap: Money for NothingJohnny and Daniel both have to focus on something other than doing karate for a change, and it’s frankly pretty boring!
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    Cobra Kai Recap: Making a KreeseAt the end of this supersize episode, only one person has a protégé left, and it’s not the one you’d think.
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    Cobra Kai Season-Premiere Recap: All-Out Karate RiotIn the wake of last season’s martial-arts melee, it’s clear that karate can hurt, but perhaps karate can also heal.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Fish in the SeaThe COVID story lines this episode raise many questions, but we do finally get some answers from Elizabeth.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Speaking in TonguesWhat the hell is Elizabeth talking about?
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    Southern Charm Recap: They Got CrabsYou may think this episode is about the trouble between Shep and Taylor and Austen and Madison’s breakup, but it’s actually all about Craig.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Brought to You by Peach VodkaThe producers are trying their best to salvage this coronavirus season, but this Lake Arrowhead trip really isn’t doing it.
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    Southern Charm Recap: Positives and NegativesTwo vicious and very necessary breakups give Austen and Kathryn the wakeup calls they so desperately need, but will they listen?
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Anti-Social DistancingAn odd, insightful episode centered on life in lockdown gives us a glimpse of the ‘wives as we’ve never seen them before.
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    Southern Charm Recap: Statue, LimitationsIf you thought this show couldn’t bungle both COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter in a single episode, think again.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Lockdown and OutEach one of the Housewives handles preparing for the pandemic exactly the way you think she would.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: One Tequila, Two TequilaShannon wants everyone to think she’s a great person, without doing the actual work to be a great person.
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    Southern Charm Recap: Lock It DownThe drama in this episode is almost moot, because as soon as lockdown hits, it’s wiped away by the noise of the coronavirus.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Apocalypse VowBraunwyn’s vow renewal slash super-spreader event sure is something.
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    Southern Charm Recap: Every Dog Has His DayCraig and Lucy may have gotten into the mud, but Thomas is the real bad dog here, and he deserves to be left alone with his fleas.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Little Red CorvetteThe all-cast events have been in short supply this season, but at least we get some good small group scenes this week.
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    Southern Charm Recap: All ApologiesMadison is mad to be mad and Shep is sorry to be sorry and neither of them are really progressing.
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: When Life Gives You Lemonade BoyYes, we should all be empathetic for what Braunwyn is going through, but it’s no reason that Gina should give her a pass.
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    Southern Charm Season Premiere Recap: Doubting ThomasSo we’re really keeping this guy around, huh Bravo?
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say LemonIsn’t Braunwyn going through enough right now without subjecting herself to this fight with Shannon again?
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: I’ll Be the JudgeLet’s look at the drama that Tamra hath wrought, shall we?
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    The Real Housewives of Orange County Season-Premiere Recap: New House, Who Dis?The 15th season offers a nod to Housewives history before kicking off a parade of new houses, new men, and new friends.
  31. hardest things
    The Hardest Thing I Ever AnimatedSixteen animators and artists from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, BoJack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Toy Story, and more recall their toughest gigs.
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    The Real Housewives Versus RealityCan a class of reality stars weaned on outrageousness find a way to respond to the current moment — and do we even want them to?
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Season Finale Recap: Bingo Was Its Lame-OAppropriately, Dorinda goes out snapping at her friends and raging over something completely insignificant.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Mob MentalityLeah knows what makes a moment, and she is not one to shirk from confrontation, even if it means her sweatpants party is going to be ruined.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season-Finale Recap: Swinging RichardsAll of these women may have an agenda, but the show as a whole has an agenda that supersedes all of them.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The French Canadian ConnectionThis may be the closest to MILF Island we’re ever going to get on reality TV.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: There’s No Place Like RomeDenise Richards is an existential threat to this entire franchise and, because of that, it must destroy her.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Humpty DanceThere are people who refuse to admit they’re wrong and then there is Dorinda.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Giving the BootWhatever the etiquette version of passive aggression is, Sutton has perfected it.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Flash PointRHONY has a Ramona problem, and Leah just might be the solution.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Chow, BellowWe’re not getting the whole story here, and what we are getting is backfiring.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Petty in PinkRamona has been at this long enough to know that she wasn’t going to have a Housewives party without there being any drama.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Bi Bi BirdieBrandi’s whole story about Denise reeks of plausibility, and so far is a boon to this season.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: A Stinky SituationThe lengths to which Ramona goes to unclog a toilet so as not to anger Dorinda says a lot about Dorinda’s recent behavior.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Past PerfectWas it Kyle’s idea to say, “I’m calling every former cast member whose last name doesn’t rhyme with Sander Hump and invite them to my party�
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Proxy WarRamona is pissed because she brought Elyse onto the show and now she is not paying proper fealty.
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    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: The Right StuffThis fight is no longer about saying “threesomes†in front of kids; it’s about how Denise and Aaron are handling it.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Who’s Zoomin’ Who?The scariest thing about Luann’s Halloween dinner isn’t Dorinda’s behavior — it’s these new confessionals.
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Post MortimerI was not expecting Tinsley’s last episode to play out like this.
  50. bring back my girls
    Give Drag Race Season 12 a Do-OverOne of the best group of queens this show has seen deserves the full, unadulterated Drag Race experience. Enter All Stars.
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