'Stranger Things 2' Was Worth the Wait

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser]( [Vulture]( October 24, 2017 [Follow Vulture on Facebook]( What to Read Today [Stranger Things 2 Was Worth the Wait The second season of the Netflix sci-fi hit is just as good as the first.]( [Only the Brave Is Proof We Need More Firefighter Movies The stirring ensemble drama is everything that’s great about war movies, without the war.]( [Harvey Weinstein Accuser Says ‘He Orally Forced Himself on Me’ Mimi Haleyi details the 2006 encounter in which Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually assaulted her.]( [George Clooney on Harvey Weinstein Scandal: ‘I Want to Know Who Knew’ The Suburbicon director wants to know why it took so long for this story to come out.]( [Anna Faris Opens Up About Being Sexually Harassed by a Director While Filming The director “slapped” her ass.]( [Julianne Moore Says She Was Harassed by James Toback Her encounter occurred in New York in the 1980s.]( [Mark Wahlberg Hopes God Is a Cinephile, So He Can Be Forgiven for Boogie Nights Do four Hail Marys for this one.]( [Nico Segal Is Chance the Rapper’s Not-So-Secret Weapon He’s worked with everyone from Kanye West to Ed Sheeran. Here’s the story of how he got there.]( [Terry Richardson Banned From Working With Condé Nast Richardson has been repeatedly accused of sexual assault and harassment.]( [What to Know About the New Stranger Things Characters Like any good sequel, Stranger Things gets a lot bigger in season two.]( [Exclusive Video: Mandy Gonzalez Mixes the Personal and Political in ‘Fearless,’ Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda See the music video from the Hamilton star’s debut single.]( [El Chapo Producer on Sean Penn Feud: ‘He Put Them All in Potentially Dangerous Situations’ Sean Penn tried to derail the movie’s release, the producer of The Day I Met El Chapo says.]( [Kid Rock Confirmed He’s Not Running for Senate in an Extremely Kid Rock Way “Are you fucking kidding me?”]( [So, Who’s the Super A-list Book Editor Secretly Consulting on Younger? We know he lives in New York.]( [Cate Blanchett: ‘Women Like Looking Sexy, But It Doesn’t Mean We Want to F*ck You’ She also had some shade for Steve Bannon.]( [Kathy Griffin Says Working With Lisa Bloom Was a Disaster; Bloom Wishes Her the Best “Yes, I did not have a good experience with her. I felt that she and her husband exacerbated my personal situation.”]( [Who Is Anna Torv, the Mindhunter Actress You Thought Was Carrie Coon? The hard-core Fringe fans are already screaming at the question in that headline.]( [Who Will Win RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 3? All Stars season three is any queen’s game to win.]( [Guillermo del Toro on the Late Federico Luppi: ‘He [Was] the Most Human Presence Onscreen Ever’ Outside of Argentina, the late actor was best known for his work with del Toro.]( [Why AMC Shouldn’t Panic About The Walking Dead Ratings The Walking Dead isn’t the phenomenon it once was, but it’s still easily cable’s No. 1 show.]( [Funny or Die Is Making Comedy Shorts Exclusively for Amazon The first will premiere on November 10.]( [Dancing With the Stars Recap: Last Tango in Tinseltown Why is Shania Twain a guest judge?]( [What Oskar Eustis Has Learned From 30 Years of Friendship With Tony Kushner “There’s no artist I’ve learned more from than Tony, and what I’ve learned is a kind of fearless grandiosity.”]( [Here Are 5 Nice Things Chris Pratt Says About Anna Faris in Her Book’s Foreword “She is the amazing, effervescent, former short girl, theater nerd, camp counselor, crossing guard, headgear-wearing …”]( [The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Ice, Ice Babies Did Vicki suffer a heart attack in Iceland?]( [Read More on Vulture »]( REACH THE RIGHT ONLINE AUDIENCE WITH US For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com This email was sent to {EMAIL}. [subscribe]( | [vulture.com]( | [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy policy]( | [nymag.com]( | Copyright © 2017, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013