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Molly Fitzpatrick is a freelance writer who has covered TV for Vulture since 2017. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, and The Village Voice, among other outlets. She wrote an oral history of Jersey Shore.

  1. overnights
    The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Recap: Ghosts of Pirates PastSadly, we are not getting the Scary Island explanation we’ve been wanting from Kelly.
  2. 25 days of reality
    The Charm OffensiveInside the journey to runaway best seller for Scandoval’s most notorious artifact.
  3. 25 days of reality
    April Kirkwood Turned the Golden Bachelor Mansion Into a Sorority House“I go, ‘Come on, girls! I don’t want to sleep by myself on the other side of the room. It’s too far away.’ So we made a big California king–size bed.”
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    The Golden Bachelor Season-Finale Recap: A Goddamn Close SecondGerry manages to pull off a pretty serious heel turn, as Leslie looks quite the part for the first all-but-announced Golden Bachelorette.
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    The Golden Bachelor Recap: Gerry Versus the VolcanoWhy are they making Gerry have back-to-back Fantasy Suites? They’re overworking our Gatch!
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    The Golden Bachelor Recap: The Telltale FartThe “Women Tell All” might feel like fun and games, but we have some major heartbreak here.
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    The Golden Bachelor Recap: The Many Loves of Gerry TurnerIt’s the first hometowns in The Golden Bachelor’s history, and they do not disappoint.
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    The Golden Bachelor Recap: Triangle of SadnessGerry’s on a boat!
  9. profile
    Gerry Turner’s Rose Is TimelessAmerica’s new favorite hunk is a 72-year-old widower. He may be the best thing ever to happen to The Bachelor franchise.
  10. overnights
    The Golden Bachelor Recap: A Pretty PickleGerry realizes the pain and sacrifice these women are making in his name.
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    The Golden Bachelor Recap: Zip Your LipAlliances are starting to form as Gerry has to balance the women’s rising tensions.
  12. vulture lists
    The 21 Best Witch Movies of All TimeFrom The Craft to The Wizard of Oz to Hocus Pocus.
  13. overnights
    The Golden Bachelor Recap: One HeadlightIt’s only the second rose ceremony and Gerry might be hitting the gas more than he should.
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    The Golden Bachelor Series-Premiere Recap: GerrypilledPerhaps these are famous last words, but I like Gerry!
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    The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: The Princess’s GambitIs it too early to say that Jessel has the makings of a top-tier Housewife?
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    Riverdale Season-Finale Recap: Jughead’s Beautiful Dark Twisted FantasyA finale that was never supposed to be a finale leaves us on a confusing cliffhanger, and without the prom we were promised.
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    Riverdale Recap: Fire Walk With MeAs Barchie contemplate an affair, Jughead and Charles team up to track down Riverdale’s camera-toting voyeur.
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    Riverdale Recap: 6 Inches Forward and 5 Inches BackRiverdale’s latest musical episode falls depressingly short of conveying just how radical, heartbreaking, and funny its source material is.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Reunion Recap: What a Decade It’s BeenIt’s a strange comfort that this franchise, like the glittering cock-a-roach it is, has persisted for 10 years, and could very well last another 10.
  20. encounter
    Decamping Upstate With Real Housewife Luann de LessepsVintage shopping and oat-milk cappuccino with the reality-TV fixture.
  21. overnights
    Riverdale Recap: J’AccuseThere is no I in “murder,” but there is a team in “head trauma.”
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    Riverdale Recap: Making a Making a MurdererSo if Barchie is happening, then Jughead must be dead. Right? Sure.
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    Riverdale Recap: Gone Baby GoneIf you’re going to maybe, possibly kill your boyfriend, it’s helpful to have your mutual half-brother who also happens to be an FBI agent on hand.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season Finale Recap: Forgetting Teresa GiudiceTurns out, contrary to seasons of evidence we’ve accumulated, Tre is capable of feeling guilt—or at least feeling embarrassment.
  25. overnights
    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Ol’ Salty’s RevengeA thrilling new chapter in the ponytail saga begins, courtesy of Teresa “Hot Mic” Giudice.
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    Riverdale Recap: Et Tu, Betty?So, how is Riverdale going to explain its way out of this one?
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: After He CheatsTeresa may be the very last human being with basic cable to come to the conclusion that Joe cheated, but at least she found her way there.
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    Riverdale Recap: Chess, Lies, and VideotapeFor now, Jughead lives, and he’s challenged Brett to a school-mandated, three-round nerd contest, for honor?
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Sexually FrustratingIt’s not cute when the RHONJ men insert themselves where they’re not supposed to be.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Wrong Side of HairstoryFor once, refreshingly, Teresa is held accountable by her castmates. Well, briefly.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Requiem for a PonytailTen years ago we witnessed Ashlee Holmes pull out Danielle’s weave, and now, to christen a new decade, the prophecy has come to fruition once more.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Marriage StoryDanielle Staub is, in her own way, a genius.
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    Riverdale Recap: HypnosisterIn order to stop her shadowy alter ego from ever forming, Betty must go on a mind-soul-metaphysical journey. As you do.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: DolphinadoIn which Jennifer gets knocked into the water by a large mammal for the second consecutive day.
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    Riverdale Recap: Analyze ThisThis episode is a great reminder that, among a competitive field, Cheryl reigns as our Trauma MVP.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Straight From the Horse’s ButtIt’s time to introduce Jamaica to the official state sport of New Jersey: yelling in restaurants.
  37. oral history
    Jersey Shore: An Oral History“It was like zebras in the Serengeti. We wanted to see this in action. Where does that happen? The Jersey Shore.”
  38. overnights
    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Oh, MonTheresa and Margaret and Jackie at a rum tasting in Jamaica… what could possibly go wrong?
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    Riverdale Recap: Blossom-Eat-Blossom WorldHonestly, an ice storm should be the least of the Riverdale gang’s concerns this Thanksgiving, what with all the violence and blackmail.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Tipsy Equals to Good BlowjobsI love hanging out with these women when they’re drunk, particularly when they’re not yet threatening-each-other-with-shards-of-glass drunk.
  41. reality tv
    A Pilgrimage to the High Church of Bravo“We both are so fucking broke, and we’re just like, ’Let’s spend an asinine amount of money to go to BravoCon.’”
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: It’s a VibeDanielle joins the ladies for an “adult obstacle course,” yet nobody screams even a single expletive. Gold stars all around.
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    Riverdale Recap: Sketch AlleyArchie’s one-man war against Dodger and his mass corruption of Riverdale’s kids rages on.
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    Riverdale Recap: VigilarchieBlackmail? Vigilantism? Another surprise half-sibling? We have, hard as it may be to believe, seen literally all of this before.
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    The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season-Premiere Recap: Duck YouTeresa has heard that Jackie’s spreading rumors about who she is ducking, and she is not pleased with Melissa, whose fault this somehow is.
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    Riverdale Recap: The Night He Came HomeHalloween comes to Riverdale bearing VHS tapes and creepy dolls of unknown origin.
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    Riverdale Recap: EvernevermoreArchie’s dream of building a community center will require much more than the sudsiest teen-stud car wash in the history of teen-stud car washes.
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    Riverdale Recap: Bros for LifeWelcome to senior year.
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    Riverdale Season-Premiere Recap: Frederick Arthur AndrewsRiverdale — both the town and the series — bids a heartfelt farewell to one of its best.
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    Southern Charm Recap: What’s Your Hook?As Austen returns from the boys’ get-over-Madison RV trip, he appears to have still not gotten over Madison.
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