‘Dicks: The Musical’ Is Never As Outrageous As It Wants to Be

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( movie review [Dicks: The Musical Is Never As Outrageous As It Wants to Be]( Still, the A24 musical comedy is determined to avoid self-importance or any greater meaning, which makes it admirable in its own right. Photo: A24 Craig and Trevor (Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson), the main characters of the anarchic but only intermittently funny Dicks: The Musical, are like Patrick Bateman if he took up [song and dance]( while steering clear of thoughts of murder. They aren’t caricatures of straight-male entitlement so much as they’re a form of exuberant cosplay, a pair of suit-wearing, bachelor-pad-owning, sport-fucking salesmen who stride through their lives in New York like the place was built for them. They’re of a shared type, but in this case there’s a physical resemblance as well — the two happen to be identical twins who were separated at birth, and who reunite after becoming office rivals. Sharp and Jackson are gay men who approach the trappings of macho heterosexuality as a delightful novelty — tossing back stimulants, crooning about how well endowed they are, and jumping the line for taxis and coffees, something that inevitably involves cutting in front of a pregnant woman (or a whole string of them). [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. Subscribe now to [save over 60%]( on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • The Great British Baking Show: [The Cookie Crumbles]( • Loki: [Back to Basics]( • Our Flag Means Death: [Soup Bitches and Gravy Baskets]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [Sufjan Stevens Dedicates Javelin to Late Partner “He was an absolute gem of a person, full of life, love, laughter, curiosity, integrity, and joy.”]( By Jason P. Frank [Martin Scorsese Speaks Gen Z in His Second-Best Film of the Year Superhero movies may not be cinema, but TikToks most certainly are.]( By Rebecca Alter [The 12 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Prepare for scares.]( By James Grebey and Savannah Salazar [Who Should Play Paris Hilton in Her A24 Series? Sliving is a full-time job.]( By Vulture Staff [All 31 V/H/S Segments, Ranked With V/H/S/85 hitting Shudder, we ranked every entry in the franchise known for incubating horror auteurs.]( By A.A. Dowd [Stick Season Is Having Its Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves is here to sass Noah Kahan on record.]( By Jason P. Frank [Zach Zucker Dares to Say Comedy Is About Being Funny “So the funnier you can do stuff, the more comedy there will be in the thing that you did.”]( By Vulture Editors [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 13-Across, Nine Letters: 2023 movie based on a viral 2017 short story. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty, Netflix A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved