Kathryn VanArendonk

With Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem,’ Cixin Liu’s near-unadaptable novel invites a perfect attempt at adaptation — if not a perfect TV show.

Clay’s parents are the best part of Love Is Blind’s season-six finale. Clay rejects AD at the altar, and the conversation between his parents gives us something better than Reality TV’s usual shock: a moment of legitimate insight.

HBO’s latest limited series, ‘The Regime,’ is desperate to say things about fascism but can only get as far as noticing them.

Sarah J. Maas writes massively popular book series — ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ and ‘Crescent City’ — that mix fantasy lore with soft-core romance. She glues it all together with a whole lot of trauma. Her latest is ‘House of Flame and Shadow.’

Read Vulture’s critics’ discussion about how TV in 2023 explicitly and subliminally cast doubt on the sparkling future of streaming television.

Thanks to Scandoval and other narrative-rupturing events, reality TV in 2023 could no longer claim its sole hold on the truth.

In 2023, reality TV collided with real life and came out of the crash a better genre. Join vulture in celebrating 25 moments that shaped reality television this year.

Against all common and creative sense, the sixth and final season of ‘The Crown’ resurrects Diana and Dodi for a series of bizarre conversations with the living. Vulture’s critics had to immediately convene to process this haunting choice.

Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s Showtime series ‘The Curse’ will plunge you into doom-filled unease. Then it gets stuck there.

In its second season, ‘The Rings of Power,’ Amazon’s other epic fantasy series, figured out what kind of show it wants to be.

Seven episodes into ‘Love Is Blind’ season 5, the mess is everywhere. Two contestants reveal they knew each other pre-experiment, sabotaging one of their relationships. A separate couple implodes in Mexico. A mini-reunion reaps chaos. Let’s discuss.

With ‘The Golden Bachelor,’ ABC had an opportunity to reimagine the reality dating genre. Instead, it fell back on more of the tired, cruel same.

The end of Sterlin Harjo’s singular half-hour dramedy for FX on Hulu might also be the end of a small but astounding moment in post-prestige television.

“Creation Myths,” the season two finale episode of ‘Foundation’ on Apple TV+, pushes against the edge of how long characters can stick around without breaking the stakes of this centuries-spanning sci-fi story.

“When I got cast in The Hobbit, Peter Jackson said, ‘We loved you in Pushing Daisies. That’s why you’re here.’”

We have some humble suggestions/demands for season four.

The new season reflects the comedian’s intense anxieties about Now — sometimes too directly.

Prime Video’s much-anticipated Lord of the Rings series is a best-case scenario for storytelling by monetary brute force.

This imperfect but captivating series adaptation of the 1992 film is both a correction and a celebration.

Who knew money-flavored white noise could be so soothing?