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  1. vulture travel
    Start Making Your Reservations for The White Lotus Season 3One ticket to Thailand for 2025, please. And book that spa manager we love.
    By Rebecca Alter
  2. trailer mix
    The Despicable Me 4 Trailer Teases Mike White’s Take on GruThis latest installment features Will Ferrell and Sofia Vergara as new villains.
    By Tom Smyth
  3. dream vacation
    Let’s Predict the White Lotus Season 3 GroupingsThe fun of White Lotus casting season is not just in the famous names; it’s also in figuring out who Mike White paired off.
    By Nate Jones
  4. role call
    Colin Hanks Answers Every Question We Have About Orange CountyOn what happens when a Tenacious D superfan gets his first leading role opposite Jack Black in a comedy based on Mike White’s life.
    By Derek Lawrence
  5. vulture movie club
    Cellooo, It’s Time to Go Back to School of RockTwenty years later, one great rock show can still change the world.
    By Chris Stanton
  6. chalet 2000
    Where Will The White Lotus Season 3 Take Place?Mike White teased a season satirizing spirituality, but that could be anywhere.
    By Bethy Squires
  7. cheating watch
    Which of the Cheaters Actually Boned in the White Lotus Finale?Next season, they can just have an orgy.
    By Jason P. Frank
  8. finale thoughts
    Jennifer Coolidge Tried to Get Mike White to Change The White Lotus’s Ending“Mike likes to stick to reality.”
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  9. close read
    The Real Cost of The White LotusThe best things — really all things — in life? They definitely are not free.
    By Jen Chaney
  10. chat room
    Theo James Knows ‘Something Else’ Happened Between Cameron and HarperThe White Lotus star unpacks that brawl in the Mediterranean and Daphne’s big paternity question.
    By Marah Eakin
  11. chat room
    Sabrina Impacciatore Thought She’d Never Book Another Role After The White Lotus“[Mike White] told me, ‘Sabrina, you have to be more bitchy!’ And I didn’t get it right away. I was scared people could hate me.”
    By Valentina Valentini
  12. backstories
    Inside The White Lotus Premiere’s Survivor CrossoverKara Kay and Angelina Keeley explain how they ended up on that Sicilian beach.
    By Gabe Bergado
  13. tv review
    The White Lotus Retracts Its FangsMike White’s HBO series remains well appointed and well acted in season two, but a creeping timidity undermines its satire.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  14. credits italian style
    The White Lotus Gets Operatic, Horny in New Opening-Credits SequencePlay the season-two theme song at every Halloween party this weekend.
    By Jackson McHenry
  15. emmys 2022
    Mike White, Survivor Loser, Wins Three Emmys for White Lotus“Don’t vote me off the island!”
    By Jason P. Frank
  16. casting
    Michael Imperioli Will Lead the Ensemble of The White Lotus Season TwoAubrey Plaza is also joining the series.
    By Bethy Squires
  17. chat room
    Murray Bartlett on All the Shit That Goes Down in the White Lotus FinaleLiterally.
    By Lisa Liebman
  18. a long talk
    Mike White Accepts the CriticismThe White Lotus creator understands if you feel conflicted about that ending. So does he.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  19. clean the pineapple suite
    The White Lotus Extends Its Stay at HBO for Season 2More terrible rich people!
    By Devon Ivie
  20. music notes
    The White Lotus Score Is Definitely Trying to Make You AnxiousComposer Cristobal Tapia de Veer breaks down how he translated the HBO series’s “Hawaiian Hitchcock” vibe into its wild, haunting soundtrack.
    By Shaad D'Souza
  21. encounter
    Jake Lacy’s Change of PaceAfter years spent playing preternaturally charming, the White Lotus actor finally gets to go full jerk.
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. tv review
    The White Lotus Is No VacationMike White’s new HBO series set at an upscale Hawaiian resort is an arresting satire of entitlement that cuts like a knife.
    By Jen Chaney
  23. profile
    The Joke Was Never on Jennifer CoolidgeShe spins roles as trophy wives and divorcées into comic gold. Now she gets to show what else she can do.
    By E. Alex Jung
  24. Will Ben Stiller’s Characters Ever Grow Up?The secret of Stiller’s success: His perennial man-children connect with a universal sense of inadequacy within us all.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  25. Brad’s Status Is a Naked, Grim Exploration of EnvyEven if you relate to Brad, you’ll probably end up wishing he’d save it for his shrink instead of a paying audience.
    By David Edelstein
  26. Everyone in Hollywood Is Envious. Mike White Is Willing to Talk About It.The director of Brad’s Status on his “craven” contemporaries, Dawson’s Creek and Enlightened, and whether he considers himself “successful.”
    By Kyle Buchanan
  27. Ben Stiller Is a Sad Dad Named Brad in the Brad’s Status TrailerCo-starring Jemaine Clement, Luke Wilson, and Michael Sheen, hopefully as dads too.
    By Ethan Sapienza
  28. Ben Stiller to Star in Mike White Comedy ‘Brad’s Status’ Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt, and Mike White are teaming up for a new comedy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, White (School of Rock, Nacho […]
    By Megh Wright
  29. all growns up
    Read an Extensive Oral History of Swingers“I remember them shooting and I actually thought, at the time, This is so embarrassing for them.”
    By Anna Silman
  30. Mike White to Produce a New HBO Comedy from ‘Girls’ and ‘Klovn’ WritersIt’s been eight months since HBO canceled writer/director Mike White’s critically-acclaimed series Enlightened, but White is already getting […]
    By Bradford Evans
  31. NBC Buys Pilots from Krysten Ritter, Mike White, and MoreNBC has bought three sitcom pilots from familiar TV names. Krysten Ritter is working on yet another show with a swear word in the title; […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  32. Bill Hader Is Leaving ‘SNL’ After 8 Years; Last Episode This SaturdayAfter eight seasons as a cast member, Bill Hader is leaving Saturday Night Live. Hader tells The NY Times, “It was a hard decision, but it has […]
    By Bradford Evans
  33. HBO Cancels ‘Enlightened’; Somebody Start a Kickstarter Right Now After two excellent but low-rated seasons, HBO has canceled its critically-acclaimed comedy-drama Enlightened. HBO released a statement […]
    By Bradford Evans
  34. farewells
    HBO Cancels EnlightenedSometimes, it seems, ratings do matter to the pay cable network.
    By Denise Martin
  35. Maria Bamford and the Cathartic Comedy of Mental IllnessMaria Bamford is launching a revolution from her microphone. In less than two years, Bamford has survived the death of her best friend — […]
    By Marisa Carroll
  36. ‘Cracking Up’: The Show That Made Mike White CrazyIt’s a story as old as time and one that sadly continues to be relevant, usually on network television: a well meaning individual has a […]
    By Roger Cormier
  37. Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: ‘Enlightened’ Season 1It took a while for Enlightened to fully gain the public’s recognition, but by the time it finished its second season this past Sunday, it had […]
    By Jenny Nelson
  38. ‘Enlightened’ Season 2 Review: It’s ‘The Wire,’ But FunnierSomething like a little less than one month ago, Patton Oswalt began to tweet his effusive praise of a show very few people had heard of. Like […]
    By Roger Cormier
  39. postmortem
    Mike White on Enlightened’s Finale, and His Plan for Season ThreeIt would be set in the legal world.
    By Denise Martin
  40. ‘Enlightened’ Creator Mike White on American Audiences’ Unfair Gender Bias “If I have a male protagonist, it’s a studio movie, and if it’s a female protagonist, it’s an indie movie. That’s just how it is. It’s not […]
    By Bradford Evans
  41. the vulture transcript
    Mike White on Enlightened’s Tough Road“I’m in this anxious place, but I’m afraid this will be the best thing I ever do. I think it will be. That it might be over is sad.”
    By Denise Martin
  42. inspiration
    Enlightened Is Trying to Be More Like HomelandJust a little.
    By Margaret Lyons
  43. profiles
    Mike White Would Like to Make You SquirmThe Enlightened showrunner on his proudly eccentric path.
    By David A. Keeps
  44. The Return of ‘Enlightened,’ TV’s Most Cinematic ComedyThe HBO comedy-drama Enlightened flew under a lot of people’s radars when it premiered in the fall of 2011, scoring soft ratings but a Golden […]
    By Bradford Evans
  45. tv review
    Seitz: Enlightened’s Heroine Is Still Deranged, But Not Totally Wrong The HBO comedy’s second season is brilliantly nuanced.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  46. The New Season of ‘Enlightened’ Looks Neat Here’s the trailer for the second season of HBO’s acclaimed series Enlightened, which debuts on January 13th at 9:30, right after Girls. […]
    By Bradford Evans
  47. The Best Frozen Moments from the 2012 Golden GlobesSofia Vergara making her Modern Family character look restrained, Nicole Kidman giving the stinkeye, and many many more glimpses of the audience.
    By Josh Wolk
  48. Enlightened’s Mike White on His Reluctant Return to TV and His Own Nervous BreakdownAfter Cracking Up ended, “I was like, ‘F-ck you all.’”
    By Dan Hyman
  49. the industry
    Mike White Will Direct Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesHe beat out Jonathan Demme and Matt Reeves.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  50. zombies
    Jonathan Demme Wants to Direct Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesBut so do Matt Reeves and Mike White.
    By Willa Paskin
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