‘Furiosa’ Isn’t Trying to Make the Apocalypse Look Cool

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( movie review [Furiosa Isn’t Trying to Make the Apocalypse Look Cool]( George Miller’s Fury Road sequel is bleaker and more fantastical than you might expect. Photo: Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection “As the world falls around us, how must we bear its cruelties?” The words we hear right at the start of [George Miller’s]( Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga are very much in line with the apocalyptic prologues of most of the films in the Mad Max series. But this time the question never dissipates, haunting Miller’s slow-burn epic like a malignant, merciless spirit. Furiosa feels like a personal and perhaps necessary counterpoint to the exhilarations of Mad Max: Fury Road. That 2015 masterpiece, a belated return to the postapocalyptic-gearhead action series upon which Miller had built his early career, was so rousing that it was easy to lose sight of the bigger, sadder picture. Furiosa — somber, steady, and supremely twisted — is a reminder that none of this stuff is really supposed to be cool. “We are the already dead, Little D, you and me,” Chris Hemsworth’s sadistic warlord Dementus says to Anya Taylor-Joy’s vengeful Furiosa at one point late in the film, using the nickname he gave her as a child. These are the End Times, and they are the End People. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • The Valley: [Big Bear Necessities]( • Dark Matter: [The Blair Caplan Project]( • Loot: [Billionaire Besties]( • Under the Bridge: [Arrested Development]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [No One Wrote About Sex Like Alice Munro In Munro’s stories, women blow it all on desire.]( By Madeline Leung Coleman [54 Questions the Wicked Trailer Thrust Upon Us Like, what’s up with the goat and where is SpongeBob?]( By Vulture Staff [I’ve Heard of a Hole in One, but Happy Gilmore 2?!?! Subtitle suggestion: “Happier Gil-even-more.”]( By Jesse David Fox [David Copperfield Accused of Drugging, Grooming, and Groping Numerous Women The magician’s lawyers say he “never, ever acted inappropriately with anyone.”]( By Justin Curto [Wait, What Happened on Outer Range? Before diving into another season of rodeos, murder, and time paradoxes, let’s travel back two years for a refresher on where we left off.]( By Ben Rosenstock [Cher Gives the Rock Hall Her Uno Reverse Card Despite the diva’s insistence that she would never accept the honor, she’ll now attend the induction and “have some words to say” about it.]( By Devon Ivie [Um, Is NewJeans Okay? What HYBE’s public fight with the head of ADOR has to do with the girl group — and the rest of K-pop.]( [All That’s Lori Beth Denberg Accuses Dan Schneider of ‘Abuse’ She also recalls being barred from the set of The Amanda Show after attempting to help Amanda Bynes.]( By Jason P. Frank [Caution: The Wicked Trailer Spoils The Wizard of Oz (1939) Two pretty best friends take a trip to the Emerald City …]( By Jason P. Frank [Everything We Know About Wicked, If You Dare to Find Out Doctor Dillamond, is that you?]( By Jason P. Frank [The 20 Best Documentaries on Max Paris Is Burning, Hoop Dreams, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, and more.]( By Brian Tallerico [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 7-Down, Eight Letters: Performers with openers Photo: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images, DreamWorks [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name an Oscar-nominated Viola Davis film? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Monica Schipper/WireImage, Theo Wargo/Getty Images, Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved