AMC’s new martial-arts drama Into the Badlands premiered last week, but is it worth getting into all the mythology? Or is the show just another swords-and-armor drop in the bucket? On this episode of “The Vulture TV Podcast,” Margaret and Matt talk about AMC’s future, take a listener call, and talk to director and activist Lexi Alexander about the state of the industry for female directors. Further reading: “Into the Badlands Feels Like a Rough Draft of a TV Show” by Matt Zoller Seitz; “Lexi Alexander on Why More Women Aren’t Directing Superhero Franchises” by ReBecca Theodore, “100 Women Directors Hollywood Should Be Hiring” by Kyle Buchanan.

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Invasion Home Invasion Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Invasion Home Invasion Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » Shout-out to the best TV bottle episodes: Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine waiting on their Chinese-restaurant reservation; Peggy and Don arguing about what the money is for; Mulder and Scully stuck in Alaska with an alien parasite intent on takeover.

This is only a fraction of the costumed heroes you will meet in Invincible. Invincible, a new series premiering tomorrow on Amazon Prime Video, is an hour-long animated superhero drama with the violence of The Boys, the storytelling structure of a Netflix drama, the look of the animated ’90s X-Men, and the outlook of … this part I’m still not entirely sure about. The TV series is based on a comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker, and it’s another interesting entry in the growing pantheon of movies and TV shows that want to take the idea of superheroes seriously in one way or another.

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If you tried to adapt an M. C. Escher painting for the stage, you might end up with something like John J. Caswell Jr.’s Scene Partners. Its reality is fragmented, tessellated, constantly re-creating itself — it’s a house of interlocking, perspective-defying staircases, a dream hallway where it’s impossible to tell which way is up. If you happen to be someone who takes notes during plays for a living, you might find yourself writing down helpful observations such as: Okay so none of it’s real.

House of the Dragon has had no shortage of drama. Generational vendettas, carnivorous crabbies (remember Craghas Drahar?), assassinations and dragon-egg abductions, sexual scandals and faked deaths. Amid all that power-grabbing and chaos-festering, why not add religious tension into the mix? It’s obvious that war is coming, and while the season’s eighth episode, “The Lord of the Tides,” throws all kinds of fuel into the fire between the Targaryens and the Hightowers, the presence of the seven-pointed star is a particularly intriguing wrinkle.

A wine down with Insecure’s OTP. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Bobby Doherty Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Bobby Doherty It was always about Issa and Molly. Even in the pilot episode of Insecure in 2016, Issa and Molly go through a full arc of loving, fighting, and making up when Issa raps about Molly’s broken pussy. Over five seasons, their relationship has been the through-line of the show: Men might come on your face and go, but friends are forever.

Bear Grylls in You vs. Wild. Netflix’s new interactive show You vs. Wild asks you, the viewer, to choose how adventure survivalist Bear Grylls will make it out of the wilderness alive. Stay warm by running, or stop and build a fire? Eat gorse flowers for energy, or snack on some raw bird eggs? Do a front flip or a back flip off of a helicopter into a frigid lake?

Gypsy Rose Blanchard We know Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s favorite Taylor Swift song and watched that Hulu series about her successful conspiracy to murder her mom, but what do we really know about the pop-culture figure? Well, Blanchard is betting that you’re curious and nosy. She’s set to release a memoir, My Time to Stand, written with Melissa Moore and Michele Matrisciani. The BenBella Books release is out in January 2025, one year after the author finished serving her seven-year prison sentence for the second-degree murder charge over having her boyfriend kill her mother.