Toxicity in the ‘Lost’ Writers Room; the Best of Netflix; Inside the Far-Right’s Education Blitz

  [Plus: Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards]( [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf)   [Vanity Fair's Cocktail Hour logo image | A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks]( [The Untold Story of Lost’s Poisonous Culture]( [By MAUREEN RYAN]( [The show was a groundbreaking smash, but behind the scenes it devolved into such toxicity that even co-showrunner Damon Lindelof now says of his leadership: “I failed.”]( [R E A D M O R E]( [“Smart People Are Falling for Stupid Lies”: How One Florida County Has Become Ground Zero for the Far-Right’s Education Blitz]( [By KATHRYN JOYCE]( [From board battles to book bans to “woke” audits, Republicans in Sarasota are waging a grassroots assault on “everything, everywhere, all at once,” says the county’s former school board chair.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [Nothing to See Here, Just Trump Reportedly Vowing to “Immediately” Fire Anyone Who Investigated Him If Reelected]( [By BESS LEVIN]( [According to Rolling Stone, the ex-president’s allies are already working on a list.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to (and Leaving) Netflix in June]( [By SAVANNAH WALSH]( [New episodes of Never Have I Ever, Manifest, and The Witcher are arriving—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [It’s Yayoi Kusama’s World, and We’re Just ’Gramming From It]( [By DELIA CAI]( [In a world now chockablock with Instagram traps and immersions galore, a new “avant-garde art journey” arrived to test our limits.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [From the Archive: The Talented Ms. Holmes]( [By NICK BILTON]( [From the moment Elizabeth Holmes arrived on the tech scene, her rise was meteoric. By October 2015, her revolutionary blood-testing start-up, Theranos, was valued at some $9 billion, and she had been anointed the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire. Then it all fell apart.]( [R E A D M O R E]( [Vanity Fair Logo](www.vanityfair.com) [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](newsletter=vf) Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.