Throughout its nearly 50-year history, Saturday Night Live has had no shortage of ridiculous characters wearing equally ridiculous costumes. From beloved sketches that feature the Land Shark to infamous bombs likeRobert Downey Jr.’s Suitcase Boy, the SNL cast members have never been too afraid to look silly on TV. It’s just really charming when a show that airs hours past the kids’ bedtime suddenly starts feeling like Sesame Street with cast members dressing up like cartoonish aliens or whatever David S.

This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Peacock’s The Office channel. Other than its pricing structure — you can watch for free! — NBCUniversal’s Peacock doesn’t radically depart from the template established by Netflix more than a decade ago. It’s mostly the same mix of new and old TV shows, movies, and unscripted programming, all available on demand and served up via endless rows of colorful tiles which have been algorithmically arranged to get viewers to stop and click.

I am become Oscar, destroyer of nerds. This article was originally published on July 28. We are recirculating it now timed to Barbie’s streaming debut on Max. Be sure to also read Alison Willmore’s review of the film, Jen Chaney’s tribute to Allan, its unsung hero, and Allison P. Davis’ close-read analysis of what Greta Gerwig is trying to tell us. In July’s Barbenheimer explosion, the world witnessed something it had never seen before: A movie meme actually lived up to the hype.

Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle in PEN15. The first time I watched Big Mouth, I thought, Okay, this is the only way to make a truly frank, no-holds-barred TV show about middle schoolers. But it turns out that there is another, non-animated approach that also works. It’s the one taken by Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle in PEN15, a new Hulu series that the two co-created, along with Sam Zvibleman, and in which they star as middle-school versions of themselves.

From POTUS, at the Shubert Theatre. Lights come up on the West Wing, and someone is already yelling. In what looks like the Oval Office (or one down the hall), the president’s harried chief of staff, Harriet (Julie White), is shouting “Cunt!” at press secretary Jean (Suzy Nakamura). In response, the theater takes a moment to register the shock. It’s comedy time. The subtitle of Selina Fillinger’s brisk new farce POTUS is Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.

Ray Stevenson. Northern Irish actor Ray Stevenson, who brought a formidable screen presence to leading roles in Punisher: War Zone and HBO’s Rome and had supporting turns in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars, has died at the age of 58 in Italy. Representatives confirmed to Vulture that he died on Sunday, May 21. Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that the actor was in Ischia filming a project called Cassino in Ischia and was hospitalized on Saturday for an undisclosed cause.

Richard Aldrich’s If I Paint Crowned I’ve Had It, Got Me (2008) “I was going to say that when I got the DVD for ‘Schindler’s List’, one critic said, ‘You should have a box of tissues ready.’ And I was going to say, ‘That sounds a bit sick!’” —Ricky Gervais on the Holocaust joke that he didn’t tell at the Golden Globes [MTV] “There are a lot of problems out there in the world, many of them serious, many of them that I care deeply about, but who am I, or any other actor, to get in the way of tradition?

Ripley Seven Mercies Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ripley Seven Mercies Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Wealth and status, as we know, have everything to do with desire. Lust and greed are twinned cardinal sins, which matters in Catholic Italy, where Tom Ripley is trying to pry his way into Dickie Greenleaf’s life.

RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Naff-ta Awards Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. Naff-ta Awards Season 4 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Oh what a dastardly trick those editors played on us. They spent the whole episode building up Copper Topp, making us think that she was being wrongfully maligned by her fellow queens and that she would make some sort of triumphant return to snatch the crown (ugh, am I in a lyric-writing challenge?

Ryan Gosling saying, “Logan’s Run? More like Logan’s Dumb. Ryan Gosling is no longer attached to star in the remake of Logan’s Run. This would’ve been Gosling’s first attempt at carrying a big-budget, tentpole movie, after years of turning down such roles. Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, with whom Gosling also worked on the upcoming Only God Forgives, is still onboard to direct. There’s no word yet on why Gosling left, but we suspect he was too busy starring in all of our dreams.