This story originally ran in October of 2017. Following David’s return to Saturday Night Live in October 22, we are republishing it with a new chapter. “Haunted Elevator” is a Saturday Night Live sketch about confused people trying to figure out what this guy named David S. Pumpkins’s deal is. The now-classic sketch (more commonly referred to as “David Pumpkins”), starring Tom Hanks as Mr. Pumpkins, was written by similarly confused people trying to figure out what his deal is.

In January, Animal Collective released Merriweather Post Pavilion, a gorgeous, wonderfully weird set of psychedelic electro-pop. But the trio — Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, Dave “Avey Tare” Portner, and Brian “Geologist” Weitz — are a restlessly creative crew, and this month they return with a killer five-song EP titled Fall Be Kind. Vulture checked in with Weitz to talk about the new disc, the band’s rabid fan base, and why the Grateful Dead were punk before punk even existed.

Neil Patrick Harris. Of the many comfortable forms of pop culture available to you in recent months, one of my favorites involves watching Neil Patrick Harris pretend to be a sailor, badly. In the fifth and sixth episodes of Netflix’s Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Harris plays Captain Sham, a lonesome sailor who’s looking for love with Alfre Woodard’s neurotic Aunt Josephine. Of course, as is obvious to both the audience and the show’s protagonists, the Baudelaire children, Captain Sham is really the nefarious Count Olaf in disguise, following them so he can get his hands on their fortune.

Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning A Separation (2011) was a devastating portrait of an Iran in which there’s no common ground, everyone is forced to lie, and justice is a pipe dream. (But opiates are hard to find, so pipe dreams aren’t readily available.) The film was amazingly bleak, but so illuminating I came away strangely optimistic: The first step in curing a disease is being able to see it whole.

Spoilers follow for Succession season four, episode eight, “America Decides.” No matter which left-leaning campaign political operative Nate Sofrelli (Ashley Zukerman) is running, he can’t escape the Roys. After an absence following season three’s “The Disruption,” Nate is back in their destructive orbit, first as a guest of old friend Kendall at the preelection “Tailgate Party” — where Nate, realizing the optics of rubbing shoulders with the Roys while working for presidential nominee Daniel Jiménez (Elliot Villar), leaves early — then on the phone with Shiv and Ken as the polls close during “America Decides.

Azealia Banks. The trolls are coming home to roost. Longtime Donald Trump supporter and then abandoner Azealia Banks has taken to Instagram to congratulate Trump on winning the U.S. presidential election, and to apologize for briefly recinding her support. “I’m fucking proud as FUCK of you,” Banks writes. “I must say that I am TRULY inspired by this and feel deep amounts of vindication. Thanks for letting me know that I’m not crazy (even though I fronted a few times) liberals run hollywood and it’s been a COLD WORLD OUT HERE FOR ME AS A TRUMP SUPPORTER.

This weekend, as you search for a movie to watch, you can either go see Non-Stop or pick one of approximately 14 billion options available on streaming over a variety of services, be it Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, On Demand, or other sites. Every Friday, Vulture tries to make life easier by narrowing it down to a handful of heartily recommended options. This week, we’ve booked tickets for an airplane-themed comedy, musical, docudrama, and horror anthology.

Actor Giancarlo Esposito attends the North American Premiere Of “Lilyhammer”, a Netflix Original Series at Crosby Street Hotel on February 1, 2012 in New York City. Breaking Bad baddie and upcoming Community guest star Giancarlo Esposito will star in J.J. Abrams’s upcoming pilot Revolution for NBC. The “high-octane drama,” from Supernatural creator Erik Kripke, is about a group of people trying to survive “in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist.

Unlike Donald Glover’s past and current shows, his stand-up specials, cultclassic feature, sketch videos, and blockbuster cameos, his rap alter-ego Childish Gambino is not meant to funny. Gambino’s new record, Camp, is an outlet for all the thoughts and feelings that only get hinted at in the quadruple threat’s stand-up. These include growing up poor, being bullied, feeling misunderstood, and generally not having a place. In other words: serious shit. That didn’t stop Glover from penning some zingers that both lighten the mood and give his comedy fans something to hold on to as he rises to the top of a whole new set of charts.

“Maybe it is over.” Brockhampton started with a modest goal. Texas-born rapper, singer, and producer Kevin Abstract only wanted to start a band, an “all-American boy band.” The gifted friends and collaborators he found along the way — some from Texas and others from Connecticut, Florida, Ireland, and elsewhere — flouted boy-band convention. They represented a variety of races, regions, and sexual orientations. They worked out their issues in their art, making music about the quest to find happiness where predecessors in the field sang songs about teenage relationship drama.