Mary Trump on What Comes Next; Is It a Reality Show or Cult?; the Best Movies and TV of 2020

Plus: Will Wall Street Get Its Way in the Biden Administration? [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Weekly]( A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR December 3, 2020 [EXTREMELY ONLINE]( [“Everywhere I Went, They Went With Me, Because They Were on My Phone”]( By Alice Hines [Before we all spent our days on Zoom, the spiritual community Twin Flames Universe used the power of its Facebook group and webcams to spread a gospel of eternal love—and build its founders’ business along the way. Is it a cult that has manipulated some members’ understandings of their own genders, as ex-followers allege, or the outermost extremes of influencing?]( [Read More]( If someone forwarded you this email, [sign up for “Cocktail Hour” here](. [WORD ON THE STREET]( [Biden Has Kept Wall Street at Bay, but Can It Last?]( [Trump surrounded himself with Goldman alums, as past administrations also plucked finance execs for plum economic posts. Treasury secretary isn’t happening, but with thousands of other openings, says one banker, “plenty of people who worked on Wall Street” will land in government.]( By William D. Cohan [Read More]( [COUP COUP PUFFS]( [“At least this is what’s leaving office in January. The encouragement to walk into any room and, with total confidence, barely string together complete sentences, ones with almost no apparent connection with reality, and know that people have to listen.”]( [— Kenzie Bryant on the startling confidence of Rudy Giuliani’s sideshow troupe]( [Read More]( [FOOTBALL IS LIFE]( [Why Ted Lasso Matters]( By Maureen Ryan [After a cruel 2020, the humane ideas behind Apple TV+’s defiantly good-hearted Jason Sudeikis comedy actually feel kind of…important.]( [Read More]( [TRUMP FAMILY CIRCUS]( [Mary Trump Is Still on the Case]( [After diagnosing her “dysfunctional” family in a 2020 best seller, the president’s niece is now tackling America’s trauma in The Reckoning—and hoping the soon-to-be ex-president faces the music. His “egregious” postelection behavior, she said, makes the “urgency of holding him accountable even greater.”]( By Joe Pompeo [Read More]( [YEAR IN REVIEW]( [The 10 Best Movies of 2020]( [Vanity Fair’s chief critic lists his favorite releases in a very strange year for film.]( By Richard Lawson [Read More]( [2020’S COMMON DENOMINATOR]( [The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020]( [From The Crown to the NBA bubble, here’s what kept us sane during a very strange year.]( By Sonia Saraiya [Read More]( [Vanity Fair]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.