The Fascism of 'The Walking Dead'

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser] [Vulture] December 13, 2016 [Follow Vulture on Facebook] What to Read Today [The Fascism of The Walking Dead One of TV’s most prominent franchises has a fundamental and frightening ethical flaw that has been left to fester.] [50 Cent Threatens to Quit Power Because It Was Snubbed by the Golden Globes (But Probably Won’t) Just another day in the life of 50 Cent's Instagram.] [What Dancing With the Stars Taught Us About Rick Perry's Qualifications to Lead the Department of Energy "People are probably watching this going, 'What a dumbass.'"] [Hulu Is Rebooting Foxy Brown As a TV Series Sadly Not Starring a Whole Lotta Beyoncé Meagan Good, DeVon Franklin, and Tony Krantz are reviving the iconic Pam Grier character.] [Vulture Pick: Little Black Classics Box Set by Penguin This box set consists of 80 books, less than 80 pages long, culled from enduring works for world literature.] [Break Out the Kombucha! Search Party Is Renewed for Season Two People of Earth gets a season two pickup, too.] [Review Roundup: Rogue One Is Everything You’ve Seen Before, But on a Different Scale It's more polarizing than last year's Force Awakens.] [Lady Gaga Is Going to Be Interviewed by Noted Detractor Piers Morgan About PTSD "There is a mental-health youth epidemic."] [The 20 Best Comedy Sketches of 2016 Including breakout clips from Saturday Night Live, Portlandia, Inside Amy Schumer.] [Greta Gerwig Doesn’t Think She’ll Ever Be As Good As Meryl Streep, But Is Pretty Chill About It "I often wonder, do they ever get insecure?"] [Beyoncé, Donald Glover, Nate Parker Top NAACP Image Awards Nominations Nate Parker and Donald Glover were also nominated.] [Madonna Biopic Tops 2016 Hollywood Black List There are 73 scripts on this year's list.] [Jake Gyllenhaal Is Bringing Sunday in the Park With George to Broadway Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford will head to the Hudson Theatre in February.] [The Gay Subtext of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer It’s the gayest thing about Christmas.] [The Walking Dead Lost a Sizable Chunk of Its Audience This Season Not even the zombies of The Walking Dead are immune to the ratings-shrinking virus that has hit just about every veteran show this fall.] [RuPaul on Donald Trump’s Election: ‘It Feels Like the Death of America’ "I'm still so heartbroken over it."] [Focus Buys Rights to Daniel Clowes Graphic Novel Patience He's the cartoonist behind Ghost World and Wilson.] [William H. Macy Supports Emmy Rossum’s Shameless Equal Pay Fight: ‘She Deserves Everything’ "It's about fucking time."] [What Information Can We Glean From Nicole Kidman’s Wig in This Top of the Lake: China Girl First Look? Top of the Lake: China Girl debuts in 2017.] [Donald Trump and Kanye West, Old Friends, Met to Talk About ‘Life’ This Morning "We've been friends for a long time."] [America’s Next Top Model Season Premiere Recap: Always Be Branding Who knew Rita Ora could be such a charming host?] [The Magnificent Seven’s Lee Byung-Hun on Hollywood Racism and That Time He Got Mistaken for Ken Jeong "I can't say who, but there are actors who wouldn't even look me in the eyes because I was Asian."] [Zootopia’s Directors on Their Golden Globe Nominations and What Adults Can Learn From Its Message That Kids Already Understand "It's humbling to be part of the conversations in a way that animated films usually aren't."] [Samantha Bee Laughs at the Mad Scramble to Blame Prioritizing Identity Politics for Trump’s Presidency "Identity politics" sure seems like a negative rebranding of "civil rights."] [The 10 Best Podcast Episodes of 2016 Just another "Best of 2016" list featuring Beyoncé.] [Read More on Vulture »] REACH THE RIGHT ONLINE AUDIENCE WITH US For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact [Giorgia.Rosenbluth@nymag.com] This email was sent to {EMAIL}. [subscribe] | [vulture.com] | [unsubscribe] | [privacy policy] | [nymag.com] | Copyright © 2016, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013