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party report
Barry Jenkins Says His Favorite Scene in Beale Street Is the ‘Simple Sh*t’ It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment.
arrests
Cardi B Could Get Jail Time If She Skips Court Again This judge is not happy.
spin-offs
Jane the Virgin Has Immaculately Conceived a Possible Spin-Off The CW is developing a series from Jane producer Valentina Garza.
the streaming wars
Why You Season 2 Jumped From Lifetime to Netflix “The stars have aligned,” says co-showrunner Sera Gamble.
not a biopic
A Prince Movie, But Not a Biopic, Is in the Works It’ll be “something like Mamma Mia!” Cher, are you busy?
vulture homepage lede
Grimes: The Complete Timeline (So Far) Photos of Grimes and Elon Musk at the pumpkin patch not included.
podcasts
Serial Season 3 Is the Podcast’s Biggest Ever It’s got more than 50 million downloads in just two months.
trailer mix
Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club Trailer: Lindsay Welcomes You to Her Life in Mykonos Premiering January 8 on MTV.
billboard charts
Travis Scott’s ‘Sicko Mode’ Is No. 1, Which Is, As They Say, Pretty Sick Meanwhile, he’s applying to Harvard.
The Hidden Meaning Behind My Brilliant Friend’s Neapolitan Dialect If Neapolitan is the language of Lenù and Lila’s imprisoning neighborhood, then Italian is the language of social mobility.
mental health
Pete Davidson Gets Candid About Being Bullied in Emotional Instagram Post “I’m trying to understand how when something happens to a guy the whole entire world just trashes him without any facts or frame of reference.”
seen
Art Basel’s Blinky Neon Vagina Artist Suzy Kellems Dominik’s Lumpy #MeToo Totems “I thought it was very important to say, ‘This woman of a certain age, she’s not going to be invisible any longer.’”
box office
Crazy Rich Asians Did Not Have a Crazy Good Opening in China One reviewer likened it to “General Tso’s chicken.”
stand-up
Netflix Will Release 47 Stand-up Specials on New Year’s Day The Netflix stand-up-comedy avalanche is upon us.
best of 2018
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2018 Headlined by a defiant tragicomedy about rap, robbery, and Teddy Perkins.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
best of 2018
David Edelstein’s 10 Best Movies of 2018 Including a few directorial debuts — and some incredible new works from old favorites.
good one podcast
For Rachel Bloom, All Roads Lead Back to Space Jam On this week’s Good One, Rachel Bloom talks about writing “Space Jam,” her first attempt at blending her musical and sketch-comedy backgrounds.
By Jesse David Fox
best of 2018
The 15 Best Albums of 2018 Featuring Mitski, Earl Sweatshirt, Mac Miller, Pusha T, Kacey Musgraves, Pistol Annies, and much more.
100 scares
How Robert Wise Manipulated the Ghosts of Hill House for The Haunting Very few scenes in horror are as memorable or terrifying.
season renewals
Netflix Picks Up Lifetime’s Creepy Penn Badgley Show You for a Second Season A new home for the stalker series.