How 'The Handmaid’s Tale' Picked Each of Its Songs

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser]( [Vulture]( May 24, 2017 [Follow Vulture on Facebook]( What to Read Today [How The Handmaid’s Tale Picked Each of Its Songs The show’s music supervisor walks us through the music of each episode.]( [Pete Wells Is Wrong About What a Critic’s Role Should Be He doesn’t want to review a fancy place in Mexico — fine. But there’s more to criticism than giving advice.]( [Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: The Greatest Boobs Around “We already have a Big Naturals here in East Dogmouth. It’s not a supermarket, but they do serve wings.”]( [Ariana Grande ‘Broken’ After Manchester Arena Bombing, Officially Suspends Her World Tour Through June 5 Her shows have been postponed so Ariana and her team “can further assess the situation and pay our proper respects to those lost.”]( [Vulture Pick: Amazon Echo Dot A smaller, cheaper version of the Alexa that can still play music, turn on your TV and turn off your lights.]( [Dany’s Got a New Throne, and Other Things We Learned From the New Game of Thrones Trailer An unlikely sex scene is seemingly on the way.]( [In Restless Creature, a Ballet Legend Confronts the Realities of Sexism and Retirement When she decided to retire from ballet, Wendy Whelan’s entire life changed.]( [What Happens to Nudity Onscreen When You Remove the Male Gaze? “It’s like, Wait a second, I’m not the object?”]( [Ellen DeGeneres Is Returning to Stand-up With a Netflix Comedy Special It will mark the comic’s first TV comedy special since 2003.]( [Harry Styles Made the Most Intriguing Pop Album of the Year The album deliberately tackles the trappings of a classic-rock album and succeeds.]( [Get a First Listen to Christine Ebersole’s Ode to Pink in War Paint Only Elizabeth Arden could deliver a torch song to a color.]( [Game of Thrones Season 7 Trailer: Gird Your Loins! The show returns July 16.]( [Cannes Review: Michael Haneke Makes Snapchat Scary in Happy End God bless the teenager who introduced Haneke to social media.]( [Aziz Ansari’s Formerly Chubby Cousin Harris Plays His Buff Cousin in Master of None Harris got hot.]( [The Flash Season-Finale Recap: Panic in Central City Barry finally pays penance for his mistakes.]( [The Returning Stars of Twin Peaks, Then and Now Looking good, Shelly.]( [Watch a Lot of Fantastical Space Battles in the New Trailer for Valerian Luc Besson’s intergalactic space drama hits theaters this July.]( [Jimmy Kimmel Basically Let U2 Have His Show Last Night The band talked about the Manchester bombing, Trump, and played two songs --- one new and one much older.]( [Cannes Review: The Beguiled Is Bloodless in All the Wrong Ways On the whole, The Beguiled is too polite to feel rewarding.]( [New Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer: What’s a Teen Got to Do to Join the Avengers? Swinging into theaters July 7.]( [Wonder Trailer: Jacob Tremblay Is Going to Make You Weep Again and You Won’t Even Know It’s Him He plays a boy attending elementary school for the first time.]( [Carrie Fisher Would Have Been Center Stage in Star Wars Episode IX “She thought IX would be her movie. And it would have been.”]( [Jon Stewart’s Animated Project Scrapped at HBO It proved to be too complicated to pull off.]( [Finally, We Know More About Space Laura Dern in Star Wars: The Last Jedi She’s very pink.]( [Seth Meyers Sees a Whole Lot of Swamp Monsters in Trump’s Drained Swamp So much for that three-word slogan.]( [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](param=daily) | [privacy policy]( | [nymag.com]( | Copyright © 2017, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013