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Michelle Trachtenberg’s Dawn Was the Beating Heart of Buffy

The little sister from hell gave the show’s later seasons new stakes and pathos. By Fran Hoepfner

crime

Karen Huger Served Stiff Sentence for Her Fourth DUI

The Real Housewives of Potomac star is sentenced to one year behind bars, despite asking the judge for leniency. By Claudia Rosenbaum

close read

Love Is Blind Can’t Keep Up With the Discourse

Season eight is stuck in the same superficial relationship to social media it finds so concerning for its participants. By Kathryn VanArendonk

scene report

Will the Revolution Start at a Jesse Welles Concert?

The folk singer bringing NPR liberals, Marxists, and Joe Rogan together. By Jack Denton

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Cinematrix No. 338: February 27, 2025 Can you name a Dustin Hoffman movie based on a book?
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tributes 2/26/2025

Blake Lively, Rosie O’Donnell, and More Remember Michelle Trachtenberg “I loved her very much,” said Rosie O’Donnell. “I wish I could have helped.”
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The 2025 Oscars Have Conan O’Brien, Former Winners, and a Wicked Performance Queen Latifah will perform as part of a tribute to Quincy Jones.
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Who’s Canceling on the Kennedy Center Under Trump? Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens is the latest to cancel.
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Paramount Rolling Back DEI Initiatives While Seeking Federal Approval for Merger The news comes as Paramount seeks federal approval for a merger with Skydance.
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Is Elon Musk Going on The Daily Show? Or is this like that time he said he’d donate $6 billion to end world hunger?
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Cheese: An Annotated History of the Oscar Class Photo Revisiting 40 years of fancy midday Hollywood hangs.
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23 Punhinged Oscars Watch-Party Menu Ideas Who’s bringing “A Confit Unknown”?
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Blake Lively Seeks Revenge in Another Simple Favor Trailer The only missing person in this sequel is Ryan Reynolds’s gin brand.
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Travis Kelce Is Mending His Super Bowl Heartbreak With His Girlfriend’s Songs “She has something for everything.”
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16 Icy Nordic Thrillers to Cozy Up to While It’s Still Winter Cold weather and cold murders.
crime 2/26/2025

Karen Huger Served Stiff Sentence for Her Fourth DUI The Real Housewives of Potomac star is sentenced to one year behind bars, despite asking the judge for leniency.
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Cinematrix Clarifications and Corrections Vol. 4: A Most Punctilious Year Celebrating our birthday the only way we know how — by being sticklers.

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Survivor Season-Premiere Recap: Idol Curiosity Why is everyone forming end-of-game alliances so quickly?
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Summer House Recap: Textual Awakening The Carl and Lexi situationship is progressing too quickly, and I’m starting to get worried.
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Abbott Elementary Recap: Glam-ma It’s always fun to watch Barbara go for a little spiraling out.
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Deal or No Deal Island Recap: A Comedy of Terrors In a week built around scary challenges, nothing was more horrific than a couple of players’ awful strategies.
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Caviar Dreams Sutton completely misplays her retaliation against Dorit and ends up completely losing the fight.
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The Bachelor Recap: WifeVision Grant makes some interesting choices, and we’re left with a truly bizarre final four.
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Below Deck Down Under Recap: All Hands on Deck I’m really rooting for Bri and Harry. I hope they get married.
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The Real Housewives of Potomac Reunion Recap: Maternal Instincts Unfortunately for Mia and her big walk-off move, she has completely run out of grace among this group.
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Suits LA Series-Premiere Recap: Et Tu, Rick? Suits LA works overtime trying to make prosecutor turned celebrity lawyer Ted look cool and make him nearly unwatchable in the process.
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Mayfair Witches Recap: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Rowan? Rowan has so little influence over the other characters or story that I’m starting to wonder if she even needs to be here anymore.
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The White Lotus Recap: Genesis The guests are having difficulty enjoying paradise when the doom of their secrets constantly threatens them.
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All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Christmas Pigeons in February There is a Christmas pigeon plot, but let’s make sure we take the time to appreciate the foxes because they are rare and cool.
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1923 Season-Premiere Recap: The Dead of Winter Will Spencer Dutton ever make it back to Montana?

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theater review 2/26/2025

Overexposition: On the Evolutionary Function of Shame A script that tries to do a lot of explaining.
close read 2/26/2025

Love Is Blind Can’t Keep Up With the Discourse Season eight is stuck in the same superficial relationship to social media it finds so concerning for its participants.
theater review 2/25/2025

This Curse of the Starving Class Doesn’t Have Much in Its Fridge And a sheep is the star of the show.
what am i lemon a father? 2/25/2025

The Baldwins Is Grimmer Than You Imagined Everyone involved with this should be ashamed.
theater review 2/24/2025

Idaho, and What Came After: Samuel D. Hunter’s Grangeville The playwright best known for The Whale turns a critical eye on the art he’s made about his hometown.
book review 2/24/2025

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Frustrating Return Her new novel Dream Count suffers from the retrograde gender politics and bad writing that has defined her career of late.
theater review 2/23/2025

Dispatches From the Apocalypse: Safe House and The Barbarians Two plays that, fitfully and incompletely, get at this moment’s dread.
movie review 2/22/2025

The Monkey Has Good Kills, But No Soul The latest Osgood Perkins movie, adapted from a Stephen King story, is a fine diversion — if you ignore the gaping hole at its center.
close read 2/21/2025

Let’s Call That Severance “Love Triangle” What It Was Doppelgänger sexual assault is nothing new in fiction. Neither is the reluctance to engage with male victims’ responses to it.
movie review 2/21/2025

Daisy Ridley’s Die Hard Knockoff, Cleaner, Has Some Fun Action But Little Else Not even veteran action-master Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye) can’t fix this dopey script.
theater review 2/20/2025

Liberation Is the Best Play I’ve Seen This Season Bess Wohl’s latest is drawn from the true stories of her mother’s 1970s encounter group.
performance review 2/20/2025

He Overacted. He Did Too Much. He Deserves the Oscar. Jeremy Strong is doing something that very few supporting actors are willing, or even empowered, to do nowadays. Reward him for it.
tv review 2/20/2025

Not Now, Zero Day A vestigial limb of the Resistance era, the Netflix political thriller clings to a version of the status quo that no longer exists.
close read 2/20/2025

The White-Power Fantasy of Reacher The streaming juggernaut fronts as wallpaper TV, but its uncanny fiction is anything but easygoing.

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Survivor (S48/E1)

Idol Curiosity Why is everyone forming end-of-game alliances so quickly?
Summer House (S9/E3)

Textual Awakening The Carl and Lexi situationship is progressing too quickly, and I’m starting to get worried.
Abbott Elementary (S4/E15)

Glam-ma It’s always fun to watch Barbara go for a little spiraling out.
Deal or No Deal Island (S2/E8)

A Comedy of Terrors In a week built around scary challenges, nothing was more horrific than a couple of players’ awful strategies.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S14/E13)

Caviar Dreams Sutton completely misplays her retaliation against Dorit and ends up completely losing the fight.
The Bachelor (S29/E5)

WifeVision Grant makes some interesting choices, and we’re left with a truly bizarre final four.
Paradise (S1/E7)

The Man Who Saved the World In the retelling of the End of the World, Paradise turns itself into a thrilling, relentless, deeply unsettling disaster movie.
Below Deck Down Under (S3/E4)

All Hands on Deck I’m really rooting for Bri and Harry. I hope they get married.
The Real Housewives of Potomac (S9/E19)

Maternal Instincts Unfortunately for Mia and her big walk-off move, she has completely run out of grace among this group.
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extras! extras! Wicked Is Finally Flying Onto Streaming (With Hours of Extras) Oh, Miss Elphaba. The things one watches these days! By Rebecca Alter
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say cheese After-hours With the Oscars Class of 2025 This year’s Academy Award nominees gathered for one more drink and smile before the season’s final showdown. By Bethy Squires and Myles Hendrik
enter the cinematrix One Year of Cinematrix, by the Numbers Let’s dive deep into 338 grids’ worth of data. By Britina Cheng
rip Michelle Trachtenberg, Buffy and Gossip Girl Star, Reportedly Dead at 39 Cause of death is currently unknown. By Jason P. Frank

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tributes

Blake Lively, Rosie O’Donnell, and More Remember Michelle Trachtenberg

“I loved her very much,” said Rosie O’Donnell. “I wish I could have helped.” By Bethy Squires

coming soon The 2025 Oscars Have Conan O’Brien, Former Winners, and a Wicked Performance Queen Latifah will perform as part of a tribute to Quincy Jones. By Justin Curto
pretty statues Cheese: An Annotated History of the Oscar Class Photo Revisiting 40 years of fancy midday Hollywood hangs. By Zach Schonfeld
nom noms 23 Punhinged Oscars Watch-Party Menu Ideas Who’s bringing “A Confit Unknown”? By Rebecca Alter

trailer mix Blake Lively Seeks Revenge in Another Simple Favor Trailer The only missing person in this sequel is Ryan Reynolds’s gin brand. By Rebecca Alter
boogie nights The Man Behind The Brutalist’s Disco Song Isn’t Sure Why It’s There Either ‘I hear people are jumping and dancing at the end of the movie.’ By Katherine Gillespie
rip Roberto Orci, Star Trek and Transformers Screenwriter, Dead at 51 The creator of Fringe, Sleepy Hollow, and Matador died from complications of kidney disease. By Alejandra Gularte
one take blunder The Tyranny of the GlamBOT Must End In fact, the live-action celebrity GIFs aren’t half as interesting as the person taking them. By Fran Hoepfner
vulture lists How to Watch and Stream All the Oscar Contenders This Year Witches! Architects! Bob Dylans! By Brian Tallerico

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Is Elon Musk Going on The Daily Show?

Or is this like that time he said he’d donate $6 billion to end world hunger? By Bethy Squires

vulture lists 16 Icy Nordic Thrillers to Cozy Up to While It’s Still Winter Cold weather and cold murders. By Andrea Duncan-Mao
vulture games We Think You’ll Like Telematrix, Our New TV Trivia Grid Game Vulture is finally giving television the attention it deserves. By Vulture Editors
cast away John Lithgow Says Dumbledore Casting Will Define the ‘Last Chapter’ of His Life Lithgow explains how it was a “hard decision” to accept the role for the upcoming Harry Potter TV series. By Alejandra Gularte
can’t read my Poker Face Season Two? We Wouldn’t Lie About It Cynthia Erivo, John Mulaney, and more are on deck with Natasha Lyonne. By Jason P. Frank

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The White Lotus Got Ke Huy Quan’s Number Calling him up for a season-three cameo. By Jennifer Zhan

what am i lemon a father? The Baldwins Is Grimmer Than You Imagined Everyone involved with this should be ashamed. By Kathryn VanArendonk
the news Rachel Maddow Takes On Her Own Network Criticizing MSNBC for firing all its non-white prime-time hosts, including Joy Reid. By Jason P. Frank
coming soon Finally, The Best Star Wars Show Is Coming Back The final season of Andor kicks off April 22. By Savannah Salazar
departures Lester Holt Halts Hosting NBC Nightly News Stepping down as anchor after a decade, he will move to Dateline full time. By Jennifer Zhan

Music

sad beautiful tragic

Travis Kelce Is Mending His Super Bowl Heartbreak With His Girlfriend’s Songs

“She has something for everything.” By Justin Curto

postponements Drake Has $ome Postponed Tour Dates 4 AU He pushed the final four dates of his Australian tour for “a scheduling conflict.” By Justin Curto
what dr. phil hath wrought Bhad Bhabie Twerks on ‘Travis Barker’ While Dissing His Daughter She took a page from the “Cry Me a River” playbook. By Jason P. Frank
rip Roberta Flack, Formative Quiet-Storm Singer, Dead at 88 She was the first artist to earn the Grammy for Record of the Year back-to-back. By Justin Curto

r9 watch A Timeline of Rihanna Teasing Her Allegedly Real Next Album, R9 “There’s no genre now. That’s why I waited.” By Jennifer Zhan
rip Notorious B.I.G.’s Mother, Voletta Wallace, Dead at 78 She maintained her son’s memory after his 1997 killing. By Justin Curto
crime Diddy’s Attorney Doesn’t Want to Represent Him Anymore Citing “sufficient reasons” he can’t disclose. By Justin Curto
my single is dropping Jennie and Doechii Make Big Moves in ‘ExtraL’ The L stands for large, not legendary. By Justin Curto
my single is dropping Tate McRae and The Kid Laroi ‘Know Love’ Or so they say on their new collab. By Bethy Squires

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The Stand-up Perfection of Jay Larson’s ‘Wrong Number’

In the 2012 bit, the comedian’s skills elevate a monologue into an immersive multicharacter drama. By John Roy

baby it’s covid outside SNL50’s ‘COVID Curse’ Got Martin Short and Maya Rudolph Steve Martin broke the news alongside a photo of the pair smooching at the event. By Jennifer Zhan
this week in late night Seth Meyers’s Cavalcade of SNL Writers Won Late Night Plus, David Letterman on The Tonight Show and Lizzy Caplan waxing poetic on waxing. By Bethy Squires
snl50 Adam Sandler Joins SNL50 to Make Everyone Cry And to make Kanye West rethink his antisemitism, apparently. By Jesse David Fox

snl 50 Ladies and Gentlemen … Lady Gaga As both host and musical guest on SNL. By Jason P. Frank
openings Hannibal Buress Is Opening a New Venue in Williamsburg Isola Brooklyn is coming to the former Knitting factory space on Metropolitan Avenue on March 9. By Clio Chang
last night on late night John Oliver Calls Elon Musk ‘One of the Worst White Guys’ From South Africa “(Which is really saying something).” By Bethy Squires
tributes Why Aubrey Plaza Was Wearing Tie-Dye at SNL50 It was her first public appearance since the death of her husband, director Jeff Baena. By Bethy Squires
live from new york Every Single Thing That Happened at SNL50 Everything that went down at Studio 8H. By Vulture Staff

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Theater

theater review

Overexposition: On the Evolutionary Function of Shame

A script that tries to do a lot of explaining. By Sara Holdren

theater The Best Hate-Watch of All Time A guide to Smash, from screen to stage. By Jason P. Frank
works in progress Closers Only Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin, and Bill Burr battle for the top of the Glengarry Glen Ross leaderboard. By Rebecca Alter
theater review This Curse of the Starving Class Doesn’t Have Much in Its Fridge And a sheep is the star of the show. By Jackson McHenry
works in progress LaTanya Richardson Jackson Brings a New Grande Dame to Broadway in Purpose “I have not tried to infuse her historically with my life, but it is so me.” By Soraya Nadia McDonald

tony awards
Cynthia Erivo Is Holding Space for the Tony Awards Hosting this year’s ceremony at Radio City Music Hall. By Jason P. Frank

theater review Idaho, and What Came After: Samuel D. Hunter’s Grangeville The playwright best known for The Whale turns a critical eye on the art he’s made about his hometown. By Sara Holdren
works in progress George Clooney Is a Little Nervous About His Broadway Debut “There’s all this panic.” By Jackson McHenry
theater review Dispatches From the Apocalypse: Safe House and The Barbarians Two plays that, fitfully and incompletely, get at this moment’s dread. By Sara Holdren
theater review Liberation Is the Best Play I’ve Seen This Season Bess Wohl’s latest is drawn from the true stories of her mother’s 1970s encounter group. By Sara Holdren

Theater

Books

vulture lists 5 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month Including a new novel that will sneak up on you. By Marshall Heyman
book review Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Frustrating Return Her new novel Dream Count suffers from the retrograde gender politics and bad writing that has defined her career of late. By Sanjena Sathian
neighborhood news ‘So You All Got the Email …’ At the launch for Susan Morrison’s Lorne after a reply-all blizzard. By Paula Aceves
jang-jang-jang-jang The Monkey Saves the Stephen King Adaptation by Skewering It The closer you look at The Monkey, the more you can see its deliberate subversions of the tropes that have come to define the Stephen King movie. By Louis Peitzman
julianne ‘the resistance’ moore Why Is the Pentagon So Scared of Julianne Moore? Book-ban insanity comes for Freckleface Strawberry. By Rebecca Alter

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Art

the work of art Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the Protagonist After 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has turned to a new subject: herself. By Adam Moss
art review The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun Kim Her new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage. By Jerry Saltz
remembrances Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World The longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74. By Jerry Saltz
art review Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands A retrospective at the Met captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy. By Jerry Saltz
extremely online The Hyperpigmentation Drawing Meme Is a Work of Art Call it TikTok’s modern-day Mona Lisa. By Jennifer Zhan