The Ugliness Behind HGTV's Never-ending Fantasy Loop

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [View in browser]( [Vulture]( September 20, 2017 [Follow Vulture on Facebook]( What to Read Today [HGTV Is a Never-ending Fantasy Loop. Look Deeper, and It Gets Pretty Ugly. There’s nothing more addictively soothing than watching someone flipping homes on HGTV. Until we end up in a real-life rerun of the housing bubble.]( [Finally, All of Will & Grace Is Coming to Streaming (and the New Season Will Be, Too) See, not everything about 2017 is awful!]( [So Many Good Movies Are Coming to the New York Film Festival The uptown fest is hosting a handful of big U.S. or North American premieres.]( [Dream Team Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, and Amy Poehler Are Making a Netflix Comedy About the Nightmare of Being Stuck at a Party The eight-episode series is set during a “seemingly inescapable party” in New York.]( [Vulture Pick: Joan Crawford: The Enduring Star by Peter Cowie A big, gorgeous coffee-table book on Crawford.]( [There’s Yet Another Contender for the Game of Thrones Prequel Throne In the game of Game of Thrones prequels, you win or you die in development hell.]( [Listening to MF Doom Is Still a Frustrating Experience The reclusive rapper is releasing music at a steady clip, but is it any good?]( [What’s Underneath Dance Music’s Big Tent? After Skrillex helped bring EDM to the pop charts, a whole new wave of artists are taking the genre in surprising new directions.]( [Ben Stiller Punches Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories Trailer Noah Baumbach’s latest film also stars Dustin Hoffman.]( [Watch Harry Dean Stanton Argue With David Lynch About Tortoises in Lucky, His Final Role See it in theaters September 29.]( [Oscar Futures: The Race Begins, But Who’s in the Lead? There’s no overwhelming Best Picture front-runner, but these actors are leaping out ahead.]( [The 13 Most Unbelievable Things That Happened on Gossip Girl The true identity of Gossip Girl still makes zero sense.]( [Eugene Hütz’s 10 Favorite Books Including Charles Bukowski, Mikhail Bulgakov, Lao Tzu, and more.]( [Sean Penn Is Gonna Try Life on Mars for Hulu, Will Probably Come Back With an Award Hulu has given a straight-to-series order to The First, created and executive produced by Beau Willimon.]( [Lena Waithe on Her Surreal, History-Making Emmys Night With Aziz, Reese, Nicole, Riz, and Donald “I’ve gotta stand there acting like they ain’t Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman talking to me.”]( [Every Emma Stone Performance, Ranked From Superbad to Battle of the Sexes, she’s shown astonishing range in a decade onscreen.]( [Marvel’s The Punisher Trailer Makes Good on the Whole Punishment Part See just how high the body count can get in two-and-a-half minutes.]( [Give the People Sterling K. Brown’s Booty! We almost got his “full moon.”]( [The NYC Parks Department Is Trolling Us With Drake’s Wheelchair Jimmy Meme Now Just hold on, we’re going to Fort Greene Park.]( [A Handy Guide to Mike Schur’s Favorite Actors From Kristen Bell to Adam Scott.]( [The New York Philharmonic’s New Music Director Thrills to Exhaustion Jaap van Zweden brings the excitement, over and over and over.]( [The 14 Greatest Blair Waldorf Headbands on Gossip Girl Like any good fashionista, the queen bee of Gossip Girl had a headband for every occasion.]( [Here Are the Rest of the Horror Movies Coming Out This Year Expect Leatherface, Jigsaw, and Madelaine Petsch being killed by a camera.]( [Beck Explains the Creative Process Behind His New Song, ‘Dear Life’ “For this album, I wanted to make something that was uplifting, had a lot of energy, and made you want to sing along.”]( [17 Nicolas Cage Movies You Had No Idea Existed Thanks to the Internal Revenue Service, Cage has become the king of VOD movies.]( [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