'The Bachelor' Finale's Half-Hour Spectacle of Human Misery

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser]( [Vulture]( March 6, 2018 [Follow Vulture on Facebook]( What to Read Today [The Bachelor Finale’s ‘Unedited’ Scene Was a Half-Hour Spectacle of Human Misery The franchise plummeted to new depths of ratings-mining cynicism.]( [The Best Shows on Netflix to Use as Background Noise From Altered Carbon to Grace and Frankie, what to watch while you’re cooking, cleaning, and napping.]( [Is Eliza the Most Thankless Part in Hamilton? Today’s Olivier nominations continued a trend.]( [Of Course Fyre Festival Spent an Exorbitant Amount on a Yacht for Blink-182 And other nonsense.]( [Editors' Pick: Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin "At a critical moment in feminist history, Lazarin’s intimate stories find women of almost all ages exploring the essence of freedom and the mixed blessing of human entanglement."]( [Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like Is a Joyous Celebration of a TV Legend Like Fred Rogers himself, this PBS special speaks to the deepest part of us.]( [Christopher Robin Trailer: Winnie the Pooh Is Coming for Paddington’s Throne Winnie the Pooh has ditched the Hundred Acre Woods.]( [How a Veteran R&B Singer Scored the Biggest Hit of His Career Tank’s “When We” is doing big numbers, and even he’s surprised.]( [A Tribute to Lady Bird, Which Won No Oscars, But Was Still Hella Tight We need more movies that show girlhood and home life as something dramatic and exquisite.]( [Tony Winner Ruthie Ann Miles’s Daughter Killed in Brooklyn Car Crash Miles’s daughter was one of two children killed in the crash.]( [How Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling Overcame Their Own Insecurities The stars of A Wrinkle in Time get real with Vulture.]( [Colbert Switched His Monologue at the Last Minute to Respond to Yesterday’s Bonkers News Cycle Sam Nunberg’s media blitz trumped the monologue Colbert had planned.]( [Why RuPaul’s Reversal on Trans Issues Is So Surprising A look back at the history of RuPaul on trans identity.]( [Thoroughbreds Is a Psychological Thriller That’s Also a Romantic Comedy Between Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke Director Cory Finley on violence against women onscreen, and why men are so afraid of female characters alone together.]( [Luke Cage and His Hoodies Will Be Back on June 22 Netflix released a teaser for season two of the Marvel series.]( [The Bachelor Finale Pissed Off Some Former Bachelor Stars, Too “STOP. FILMING. HER.”]( [Time’s Up Co-founder Will Lead the Recording Academy’s Female Task Force Tina Tchen was also Michelle Obama’s chief of staff.]( [Hard Sun Is a Waste of a Great Idea Hulu’s sci-fi-flavored cop thriller squanders one of the most audacious hooks I’ve ever seen.]( [Jordan Peele Put His Oscar in the Creepiest Place Possible And next to his Key & Peele Emmy.]( [Trump Tweets Jokes About Low Oscars Ratings: ‘Problem Is, We Don’t Have Stars Anymore’ He even throws in a “joke.”]( [A Complete Guide to Every Apple TV Show in Development Is Reese Witherspoon the new queen of Apple? We think so.]( [FKA Twigs Returns to Expand Your Mind (and Tiny Home) in New Spike Jonze–Directed Apple Commercial Featuring a surprise new song from Anderson .Paak!]( [The New Aladdin Movie Will Have Songs from the Greatest Showman and La La Land Writing Duo The pair won Best Original Song for “City of Stars” last year.]( [Life on Oyelowo Street He’s tackled roles from MLK to Othello. But with Gringo, he’s ready to make you laugh.]( [UnREAL Recap: Essential Honesty Why in the world is Serena on a silly show like Everlasting?]( [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 © 2018, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013