#vulture recommends

[annlarimer]

Slings and Arrows Was Like Nothing Else on Television

And you can finally stream it online again.

[snowshoe1980]

10 Icy Nordic Thrillers to Get You Through the Winter

Cold weather and cold murders.

[underthecitysky]

Why Aren’t You Watching Schitt’s Creek Yet?

This Canadian gem of a sitcom is wildly underrated.

[bookgeekdom]

10 Women Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month

Selections from Amber Tamblyn, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and more.

[iablmeanie]

Pushing Daisies Is an Inadvertent Guide to Social-Distance Romance

If you’re looking for a love story without any touching, try Bryan Fuller’s short-lived but much-beloved procedural.

[walden-media]

The Best TV of 2020

These aren’t just very good TV shows. These were our escapes from despair.

We love a year end list! Thanks Vulture for including The Baby-Sitter’s Club in your picks for the Best TV of 2020!

[grandpaspeaches]

I Quit Watching The Magicians and That Was a Huge Mistake

Now in its fourth season, the Syfy fantasy drama is a weird, dark, totally unpredictable romp.

All of those changes are good. They’re crucial, really — what should be a bare-minimum requirement for how to make Grossman’s trilogy work as a TV show. But they’re not the most important change, which has less to do with the relative significance of each character in the story, and is more about the fundamental way The Magicians tackles the experience of living in the world. The show is a romp, but it’s also a show about human beings trying to live in a universe where the rules are perpetually shifting around them, where every day brings some new nonsensical obstacle, and where all of their efforts are undermined by nightmare-logic monsters that would be hilarious if they weren’t also truly scary.

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The 8 Best Comic Books to Read in July

From queer bounty hunters to … a shirtless bear fighter?

“You’ll thrill to Fish’s linework and facial acting and you’ll swoon for Osborne’s vivid characterization of a girl struggling to separate fact from fiction while navigating trauma. Plus, it has one of the best covers of any comic book this year. I mean come on, look at that thing! It’s hypnotic!”