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The Sexiest Goos of Wuthering Heights

Ranked by how much they seem to turn Cathy on. By Fran Hoepfner

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The 32 Best (and Worst) Wuthering Heights Adaptations

Is there another novel that crosses borders and eras as smoothly as Emily Brontë’s 1847 classic does? By Bilge Ebiri

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Sandra Hüller Gets Her Greatest Role Yet

Already a master of submerged heartbreak in so many previous parts, Hüller is mesmerizing in Rose. By Bilge Ebiri

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Industry’s Ken Leung Doesn’t Need to Know What’s Next For Eric

“It isn’t about what he’s feeling or where he’s going. It’s that he’s walking away.” By Roxana Hadadi

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summer olympics 2028 12:10 a.m.

LA Mayor Karen Bass Wants Casey Wasserman Out of the Olympic Committee “My opinion is that he should step down.”
tributes 2/16/2026

Francis Ford Coppola Remembers Friend and Frequent Collaborator Robert Duvall His fellow Godfather stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino paid their respects as well.
departures 2/16/2026

Anderson Cooper Leaves 60 Minutes After Almost 20 Years He’s hoping to spend “as much time with them as possible” with his family.
winter olympics 2/16/2026

Taylor Swift Is Enchanted By Team USA Figure Skaters Paying tribute to “Three American showgirls on ice.”
crime 2/16/2026

Nancy Guthrie’s Family Cleared as Suspects in Missing Persons Case Some progress has been made in identifying a suspect.
box office report card 2/16/2026

A Lot of Ladies Got Their Heights Wuthered This Weekend The film’s box office was 75% women.
obits 2/16/2026

The Godfather’s Robert Duvall, Dead at 95 Duvall’s standout performances began with Boo Radley and ended with an Adam Sandler movie in 2022.
what happened here 2/16/2026

A Breakdown of Armie Hammer Allegations, Controversies, and Attempted Comeback Hammer is starring in a movie alongside Billy Zane, Jake Busey, and Tyrese Gibson.
ice out 2/16/2026

Natasha Rothwell Goes Off-Prompter to Condemn ICE at Independent Spirit Awards She joined “ICE OUT” pin-wearers like Kumail Nanjiani and Lake Bell.
vulture games 2/16/2026

Telematrix No. 103: February 16, 2026 Can you name an Emmy-nominated Mandy Patinkin or Moira Kelly TV show?
vulture games 2/16/2026

Cinematrix No. 692: February 16, 2026 Can you name a Halle Berry movie that begins with A-G?
vulture 10x10 2/16/2026

The Executive Dysfunction Puzzle 23-Across, Three Letters: Tuber mentioned in Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta”
ufos 2/16/2026

Obama Walks Back ‘Aliens Are Real’ Statement on Podcast He meant more in a mathematical probability, rather than a he’s seen them and they invented the iPhone kind of way.
crime 2/16/2026

What We Know About the Nancy Guthrie Missing-Persons Case “I wanted to say to whoever has her or knows where she is, it’s never too late,” Savannah Guthrie said in a new video.

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overnights 2/16/2026

The Real Housewives of Potomac Reunion Recap: Life’s a Stage Stacey has to reckon becoming a fan favorite while becoming more isolated from the cast.
overnights 2/15/2026

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Recap: Flea Bottom’s Up The flashback serves two purposes: an origin story for Duncan and to underscore the growing instability of the Seven Kingdoms under the Targaryens.
overnights 2/15/2026

Industry Recap: Kompromat Whitney Halberstram’s constructed identity is finally falling apart — and he’s determined to take everyone down with him.
overnights 2/15/2026

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: The Answer Is Always You The war is over, but the battle for our hearts is just beginning.
overnights 2/13/2026

RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap: You Can Call Me … Myki! Myki Meeks walks into the Werk Room wearing a shirt that says revenge, and the judges hand her the silver platter to get it.
overnights 2/13/2026

Love Story Series-Premiere Recap: Shiny People, Shiny Problems Ryan Murphy’s Love Story is here to canonize the ’90s’ most iconic couple — and the “corseted” demands of the Kennedy family tree.
overnights 2/12/2026

The Traitors Recap: Thin Ice The newest Traitor joins the turret, and their first order of business is helping Rob terrorize the figure skaters.
overnights 2/12/2026

The Pitt Recap: The Groundskeeper at Three Rivers Stadium PTMC feels like a powder keg this week as the Fourth of July heat wave pushes the staff to their limits.
overnights 2/12/2026

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Manifest Destiny Kyle and Dorit’s friendship is officially beyond repair, but that’s only half the story.
overnights 2/11/2026

Southern Charm Recap: Itchy Grass Is Greener Austen seems to be prioritizing literally anyone else over his friendship with Shep and Craig — and for good reason.
overnights 2/11/2026

Love Is Blind Season-Premiere Recap: Group Therapy While six couples are doing shots in Mexico, one pair is inexplicably hiding in Malibu.
overnights 2/10/2026

Vanderpump Rules Recap: The Rule of 3 A hot-mic confession from the cousins leads to a classic existential question: Are we watching real people or reality-TV actors playing characters?
overnights 2/10/2026

Summer House Recap: A House Divided Summer House should be fun. Kyle and Amanda? Not fun!
overnights 2/10/2026

Tell Me Lies Recap: Mind Games It brings me no pleasure to report that Pippa has turned to the dark side.

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berlinale 2026 2/16/2026

Sandra Hüller Gets Her Greatest Role Yet Already a master of submerged heartbreak in so many previous parts, Hüller is mesmerizing in Rose.
berlinale 2026 2/15/2026

A Star-Studded Stink Bomb Lands in Berlin Rosebush Pruning, starring Callum Turner, Riley Keough, and Elle Fanning, somehow makes its madness boring.
album review 2/13/2026

Charli XCX Does a Perfect 180 on Wuthering Heights The album is just as committed as Emerald Fennell is to melding old and modern worlds, but it’s much less devoted to popping eyeballs.
berlinale 2026 2/13/2026

‘Do You Think I’m Going to Hell?’ The new film Mouse, starring Sophie Okonedo, takes the saddest, most familiar of subjects and brings forth something quietly revelatory.
theater review 2/12/2026

Sean Hayes’s Theme and Variations: The Unknown He inhabits more than a dozen characters in David Cale’s slick, unsettling play.
tv review 2/12/2026

This Love Story Isn’t Special Beneath a careful re-creation of ’90s New York, Ryan Murphy’s take on JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette lacks a big idea and, more fatally, actual feeling.
post game analysis 2/12/2026

Social Media Is Suffocating The Traitors From cast members airing grievances to conspiracy theories and claims of bullying, the discourse is threatening to overshadow the game.
theater review 2/11/2026

The Other Place Is a Low-Stakes Antigone Stripping the ancient Greekness out of Sophocles saps the tension and conflict.
movie review 2/9/2026

Finally, a Smooth-Brained Wuthering Heights Emerald Fennell’s Emily Brontë adaptation is brave enough to just be about two messy bitches.
review 2/9/2026

Bad Bunny Made MAGA Look Stupid He refused to let a baseless culture war over his halftime show be the story.
movie review 2/6/2026

Sirāt Has the Most Brutal Rug-Pull You’ll See This Year Oliver Laxe’s desert rave thriller brilliantly depicts trying to dance while the world ends.
movie review 2/6/2026

Alexander Skarsgård Does a Lot Without Words in This Salty-Sweet BDSM Romance Pillion is an unexpectedly sweet movie about a young man meeting the leather daddy of his dreams.
theater review 2/5/2026

High Spirits Has Just Enough Fizz It probably wouldn’t sustain a full-scale revival. But it’s perfect for the two-week Encores! series — especially with Andrea Martin.
sundance 2026 2/2/2026

This Year’s Sundance Was Full of Failed Adults Run Amok, Josephine, and many other films on this year’s lineup focused on adults who, under the guise of helping kids, ultimately fail them.

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The Traitors’ Candiace Dillard Bassett Is Rooting for ‘Everybody But Rob’ By Rebecca Jennings

The Real Housewives of Potomac (S10/E18)

Life’s a Stage Stacey has to reckon becoming a fan favorite while becoming more isolated from the cast.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (S1/E5)

Flea Bottom’s Up The flashback serves two purposes: an origin story for Duncan and to underscore the growing instability of the Seven Kingdoms under the Targaryens.
Industry (S4/E6)

Kompromat Whitney Halberstram’s constructed identity is finally falling apart — and he’s determined to take everyone down with him.
All Creatures Great and Small (S6/E6)

The Answer Is Always You The war is over, but the battle for our hearts is just beginning.
RuPaul’s Drag Race (S18/E7)

You Can Call Me … Myki! Myki Meeks walks into the Werk Room wearing a shirt that says revenge, and the judges hand her the silver platter to get it.
Love Story (S1/E1)

Shiny People, Shiny Problems Ryan Murphy’s Love Story is here to canonize the ’90s’ most iconic couple — and the “corseted” demands of the Kennedy family tree.
The Traitors (S4/E9)

Thin Ice The newest Traitor joins the turret, and their first order of business is helping Rob terrorize the figure skaters.
The Pitt (S2/E6)

The Groundskeeper at Three Rivers Stadium PTMC feels like a powder keg this week as the Fourth of July heat wave pushes the staff to their limits.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S15/E9)

Manifest Destiny Kyle and Dorit’s friendship is officially beyond repair, but that’s only half the story.
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Streamliner

now streaming The 17 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Let’s get freaky. By Savannah Salazar
sport invernali What We’re Obsessively Watching at the 2026 Winter Olympics A (slightly) curated schedule, because we really can’t miss curling. By Eric Vilas-Boas
streamliner It’s a Great Time to Finally Buy a TV Antenna Meet your ticket to free broadcasts. A good one costs less than $20. By Rebecca Alter
buffering MAGA’s Attempt to Sabotage Ted Sarandos Flopped It’s worth grilling Netflix on its Warner Bros. deal. Senate Republicans did something else. By Josef Adalian

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overnights Industry Recap: Kompromat Whitney Halberstram’s constructed identity is finally falling apart — and he’s determined to take everyone down with him. By Amanda Whiting
berlinale 2026 A Star-Studded Stink Bomb Lands in Berlin Rosebush Pruning, starring Callum Turner, Riley Keough, and Elle Fanning, somehow makes its madness boring. By Bilge Ebiri
album review Charli XCX Does a Perfect 180 on Wuthering Heights The album is just as committed as Emerald Fennell is to melding old and modern worlds, but it’s much less devoted to popping eyeballs. By Craig Jenkins

Movies

tributes

Francis Ford Coppola Remembers Friend and Frequent Collaborator Robert Duvall

His fellow Godfather stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino paid their respects as well. By Alejandra Gularte

box office report card A Lot of Ladies Got Their Heights Wuthered This Weekend The film’s box office was 75% women. By Bethy Squires
obits The Godfather’s Robert Duvall, Dead at 95 Duvall’s standout performances began with Boo Radley and ended with an Adam Sandler movie in 2022. By Bethy Squires
ice out Natasha Rothwell Goes Off-Prompter to Condemn ICE at Independent Spirit Awards She joined “ICE OUT” pin-wearers like Kumail Nanjiani and Lake Bell. By Bethy Squires

gold rush The Film Independent Spirit Awards Loved Train Dreams And Adolescence, but what awards body doesn’t? By Bethy Squires
now streaming The 17 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Let’s get freaky. By Savannah Salazar
berlinale 2026 A Star-Studded Stink Bomb Lands in Berlin Rosebush Pruning, starring Callum Turner, Riley Keough, and Elle Fanning, somehow makes its madness boring. By Bilge Ebiri
gold rush What Would a Sinners Surge Look Like? One Battle After Another is still the Oscar front-runner. But if a Best Picture upset is coming, there will be signs. By Nate Jones
norway’s finest Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas Is Cooler Than Awards Season “It’s not a real competition. We made something months ago, and now we’re putting it in a pot, and somebody’s going to choose one.” By Jason P. Frank

Movies

TV

departures

Anderson Cooper Leaves 60 Minutes After Almost 20 Years

He’s hoping to spend “as much time with them as possible” with his family. By Alejandra Gularte

cancel culture Every TV Show Canceled in 2026 So Far The CW defunded Good Cop/Bad Cop. By Bethy Squires
vulture politics Stephanie Pratt Does Not Want her Brother Spencer for Mayor of L.A. “A vote for him is a vote for stupidity.” By Bethy Squires
we love love Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams Hard Launches Girlfriend on Valentine’s Day She’s been dating him since at least the Old Spaghetti Factory. By Bethy Squires
tribute James Van Der Beek’s Brother Says Losing Him Feels Like ‘Heartbreak’ “There is a feeling of devastation and pain that runs so deep in the heart, I didn’t know it would hurt so badly.” By Alejandra Gularte

tv review
This Love Story Isn’t Special Beneath a careful re-creation of ’90s New York, Ryan Murphy’s take on JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette lacks a big idea and, more fatally, actual feeling. By Nicholas Quah

more plz Yaaaay! The Muppet Show Revival Is a Ratings Success. We’re wiggling our arms, Kermit style, in triumph. By Bethy Squires
regency romance Dearest Reader, This Cinderella Story Is Getting Sexier by the Minute Bridgerton teases a big romantic monologue in its new trailer. By Jason P. Frank
you wanna be on top? Tyra Banks Threatens Us With an America’s Next Top Model Reboot “You have no idea what we have planned for cycle 25.” By Alejandra Gularte
backstories Farewell to a Frequent Flier The cast and crew of The Pitt debrief on season two’s most heartbreaking good-bye. By Roxana Hadadi

Music

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Maya Hawke’s Stranger Things Co-Stars Packed her Valentine’s Day Wedding

A V-Day anniversary cuts the present budget in half. By Bethy Squires

for sale Wasserman Agency Is Up For Sale After more than a dozen artists called for Casey Wasserman’s removal. By Alejandra Gularte
album review Charli XCX Does a Perfect 180 on Wuthering Heights The album is just as committed as Emerald Fennell is to melding old and modern worlds, but it’s much less devoted to popping eyeballs. By Craig Jenkins
long-term goals BTS Isn’t Preoccupied With the Grammys Anymore “We don’t want to be desperately eager for it.” By Jason P. Frank

online feuds Homeland Security Is Posting Like Nicki Minaj The government-run social-media account is getting into an endless back-and-forth with Cardi B. By Alejandra Gularte
drummerama Josh Freese Still Doesn’t Understand Why Dave Grohl Fired Him “I think I have a pretty good read on people, and I did not see that coming.” By Devon Ivie
on that note When Is a Band Not the Same Band Anymore? From Foreigner to Lynyrd Skynyrd, a number of legacy acts are touring without any of their original members. Audiences don’t seem to care. By Devon Ivie
karaoke Kid Rock Says He Didn’t Lip-Sync During His All-American Halftime Show He says it was “prerecorded but performed live.” By Alejandra Gularte
celebrity unfollowing randomizer Cardi B and Stefon Diggs Unfollowed Each Other After the Super Bowl Twisting the knife a little after his Super Bowl loss. By Alejandra Gularte

Music

Comedy

hosting duties

All the Saturday Night Live Season 51 Hosts and Musical Guests

Two pretty blond boys will take on hosting duties next: Connor Storrie and Ryan Gosling. By Jason P. Frank

r.i.p. Catherine O’Hara’s Cause of Death Confirmed She died from a pulmonary embolism and suffered from rectal cancer. By Jason P. Frank
this week in late night An Absurdly Permissive Seth Meyers Won Late Night This Week Plus Ian McKellen getting Shakespearian on ICE and a free and frisky Amanda Batula on WWHL. By Bethy Squires
smoothie king Conan O’Brien Wants Hailey Bieber’s Smoothie Erewhon, you’re leaving money on the table. By Bethy Squires

post-mortem Ron Funches Is Done Defending Himself The Traitors’s most misunderstood Faithful believes he played the game right, even when he was wrong. By Roxana Hadadi
last night on late night SNL’s Ashley Padilla Is a Mom Seeing the Light About Trump But she still thinks he’s a good businessman, for the record. By Bethy Squires
last night on late night Pete Davidson Calls Out ICE in Saturday Night Live Cold Open “Y’all are making me look like the upstanding, reasonable adult in the room. That’s crazy!” By Bethy Squires
vulture lists Where to Watch Catherine O’Hara’s Best Work The late actor’s unique comic sensibility has shown up in some of the most beloved movies and TV shows of the past five decades. By Brian Tallerico
rip Catherine O’Hara’s Friends and Collaborators Pay Tribute “Mama,” Macaulay Culkin, her son in Home Alone, wrote. “I thought we had time.” By Jason P. Frank

Comedy

Theater

theater review

Sean Hayes’s Theme and Variations: The Unknown

He inhabits more than a dozen characters in David Cale’s slick, unsettling play. By Jackson McHenry

theater review The Other Place Is a Low-Stakes Antigone Stripping the ancient Greekness out of Sophocles saps the tension and conflict. By Jackson McHenry
theater review High Spirits Has Just Enough Fizz It probably wouldn’t sustain a full-scale revival. But it’s perfect for the two-week Encores! series — especially with Andrea Martin. By Jackson McHenry
egot watch Steven Spielberg EGOTs at the 2026 Grammy Awards Technically, he’s an EEEEGOOOT. By Bethy Squires
theater review When Bad Forces Happen to Good People: Blackout Songs and Data Two new plays about addictive substances: one about booze, another about money and ambition. By Jackson McHenry

hello 12 hello 13
Just How Long Could an Adrien Brody Tonys Speech Be? He’s making his Broadway debut in The Fear of 13 alongside Tessa Thompson. By Jason P. Frank

it’s just a jump to the left Are There Any Celebrities Not Starring in the Rocky Horror Show Revival? Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Rachel Dratch, Josh Rivera … shall I go on? By Jason P. Frank
theater review The Disappear Vanishes Up Its Own Navel In Erica Schmidt’s drama, the characters are meant to be self-absorbed but also visionary artists. They’re good at the first part. By Sara Holdren
theater review ‘An Ark’ at the Shed Is All Headsets, No Heartbeat Mixed reality yields full banality. Plus: Better ideas at the January theater festivals. By Sara Holdren
move on Look, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey Are Making a Hat The Wicked co-stars will play George and Dot in the West End revival of Sunday in the Park With George. By Jason P. Frank

Theater

Books

q&a A Grand Theory of Celebrity and Who-dom What does fame mean today? The hosts of the popular Who? Weekly podcast have written a book that explores the question. By Nicholas Quah
emergency conversation You Don’t Have to Read Wuthering Heights To See Wuthering Heights The literacy crisis is real, but watching one horny movie adaptation without experiencing the source material is not a crime. By Jackson McHenry, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Alison Willmore
vulture investigates Is Heathcliff White? We called up some academics and asked. By Jasmine Vojdani
chapters ‘If It Isn’t Fun, It Goes’ How Nintendo’s trust in “Miyamoto magic” changed video games forever. By Keza MacDonald
must reads 8 New Books to Read This February A close study of Toni Morrison, a Richard Hell reissue, and a novel about a woman trying to live without love. By Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani

Books

Art

2026 preview 10 Art Shows We Can’t Wait to See in 2026 Will the New Museum actually reopen? By Jerry Saltz
art review The Crazed Cataclysms of Nicole Eisenman Her paintings at David Zwirner are delirious indictments of politics, art, and money. By Jerry Saltz
furniture Bianca Censori Made Some Medical Sex-Dungeon Furniture The designer and wife of Kanye West says it’s about “collapsing the distinction between object, body, and idol.” By Clio Chang
reasons to love new york How the Painter Sasha Gordon Marshaled Her Monsters “People assume I’m a bitchy, confident artist when I’m actually really afraid of everything.” By Adam Moss
rip Frank Gehry, World-Famous Postmodern Architect, Dead at 96 Gehry is one of only two architects to guest star on The Simpsons. By Bethy Squires