Fantasy - Vulture

overnights Apr. 17, 2025

The Wheel of Time Season-Finale Recap: Make It RainThe finale doesn’t offer a tidy ending to the season and instead makes a strong case to continue following all these characters and gigantic world.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Apr. 10, 2025

The Wheel of Time Recap: Battle FlagThe show takes a detour to focus on Perrin & Co. making their stand in the season’s biggest battle.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Apr. 3, 2025

The Wheel of Time Recap: Party HardIt’s been too long since we’ve spent time with the trollocs.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Mar. 27, 2025

The Wheel of Time Recap: Dream WeaverEven as we zoom in from location to location, the performances keep the series from spiraling out of control.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Mar. 20, 2025

The Wheel of Time Recap: Cities in DustWho would have thought a millennia-worth of infodumping would be so riveting?

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Mar. 13, 2025

The Wheel of Time Recap: The Red WeddingWe’re on the verge of having too many characters, places, and quests to keep track of.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Mar. 13, 2025

The Wheel of Time Recap: You Can’t Go Home AgainThe season officially gets cooking with the introduction of a new evil queen.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Mar. 13, 2025

The Wheel of Time Season-Premiere Recap: The People of the DragonAll hell breaks loose at the White Tower, and it’s hard to keep track of everything that is going on.

By Sean T. Collins

book review Nov. 27, 2024

The Perfect Fantasy Novel for These Uncertain TimesThe last book in Tad Williams’s influential Osten Ard series has a strong anti-authoritarian streak.

By Sarah Jones

overnights Oct. 3, 2024

The Rings of Power Season-Finale Recap: A Stranger No More!The finale puts a nice cap on a pretty good season and leaves the series plenty of room to explore.

By Keith Phipps

overnights Sept. 26, 2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap: Under SiegeThe siege of Eregion makes for the biggest and best episode of the season.

By Keith Phipps

overnights Sept. 19, 2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap: My Dinner with AdarIn a week with big developments, the long dinner conversation between Galadriel and Adar makes for the episode’s best moments.

By Keith Phipps

overnights Sept. 12, 2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power RecapCelebrimbor’s solution for all the bad rings is to … make more rings. And for men, one of Middle Earth’s more disappointing races?

By Keith Phipps

overnights Sept. 5, 2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap: Ent It Cool?A busy episode manages to bring in some old favorites from Tolkien and the Jackson films.

By Keith Phipps

overnights Aug. 29, 2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap: When Coronations Go WrongIt’s the extremely rapid rise and fall of Míriel, the queen regent who seems destined never to be queen.

By Keith Phipps

overnights Aug. 29, 2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Recap: Dark Times Come to Khazad-dûmIt’s another setup-heavy episode, but Sauron’s plan is becoming clearer and it’s nice to have the dwarves back in the picture.

By Keith Phipps

overnights Aug. 29, 2024

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Premiere Recap: Sauron UnmaskedYou just can’t keep Sauron down.

By Keith Phipps

overnights Aug. 4, 2024

House of the Dragon Season-Finale Recap: Family MattersThis was a very good episode of TV and a terrible season finale.

By Amanda Whiting

overnights July 28, 2024

House of the Dragon Recap: An Army of BastardsDid the bastard massacre in the dragon pit remind anyone else of Jurassic Park?

By Amanda Whiting

overnights July 14, 2024

House of the Dragon Recap: Just MeatTo more dragons! The cause of, and solution to, all Targaryen problems.

By Amanda Whiting

profile July 11, 2024

Lev Grossman Takes His TimeThe author of The Magicians returns to adult fiction with The Bright Sword. It only took ten years and a transpacific move.

By Choire Sicha

overnights July 7, 2024

House of the Dragon Recap: You Win or You DieWe begged for a dragon fight all season. We just had to see dragons fighting.

By Amanda Whiting

overnights June 30, 2024

House of the Dragon Recap: Forgotten HistoryRhaenyra won’t be able to avoid war for much longer.

By Amanda Whiting

overnights June 23, 2024

House of the Dragon Recap: Brothers In ArmsHave you seen anyone fail upward as spectacularly as Ser Criston Cole?

By Amanda Whiting

overnights June 16, 2024

House of the Dragon Season-Premiere Recap: Rat RaceWell, it looks like peace won’t be an option, thanks to Daemon.

By Amanda Whiting

game review Mar. 21, 2024

The Platonic Ideal of Fantasy AdventureDragon’s Dogma 2 delivers a quirky, evocative open world straight out of a sword-and-sorcery novel.

By Lewis Gordon

movie review Mar. 8, 2024

Netflix’s Damsel Is Sweaty, Snarly, Slithery FunMillie Bobby Brown might have the lead role in the new fantasy thriller, but the dragon steals the show.

By Bilge Ebiri

books Jan. 30, 2024

Sarah J. Maas Is the Mortal Queen of Faerie SmutHer massively popular series, including “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” mix fantasy lore with soft-core romance — and a whole lot of trauma.

By Kathryn VanArendonk

vulture guides Jan. 30, 2024

12 Romantasy Authors to KnowHere are some of the most popular creators of sexy fantasy worlds.

By Julie Kosin and Kathryn VanArendonk

book review Oct. 26, 2023

In Alex Pheby’s Novel Malarkoi, God Is Dead and Objects Are AliveThe second book in Alex Pheby’s trilogy Cities of the Weft spins fantasy tropes in strange and visceral new dimensions.

By Emma Alpern

exit interview Oct. 6, 2023

Reinventing the Wheel of TimeFor the series’ breakout second season, showrunner Rafe Judkins followed a different kind of fantasy.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Oct. 6, 2023

The Wheel of Time Recap: Rand and DeliverWith an electric season finale, Wheel’s approach to epic fantasy has reached must-watch television.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Sept. 29, 2023

The Wheel of Time Recap: The Great EscapeJust as our hero starts to come into his own, we get a shocking twist that is a genuine bummer.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Sept. 22, 2023

The Wheel of Time Recap: Master and ServantEgwene’s breaking is the most disturbing moment in the series to date.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Sept. 15, 2023

The Wheel of Time Recap: Are You Afraid of the Dark?We’re benefiting from seeing our characters develop more, but we have to suffer through these lifeless night scenes.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Sept. 8, 2023

The Wheel of Time Recap: Blood SimpleWheel seems to have taken a leap in its second season. Here’s hoping it keeps up!

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Sept. 6, 2023

The Wheel of Time Recap: Level UpWhoa. Where did this show come from?

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Sept. 5, 2023

The Wheel of Time Recap: Rand on the RunWe’re digging into interesting relationship dynamics with new and familiar faces.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights Sept. 2, 2023

The Wheel of Time Season-Premiere Recap: Roll OnAmazon’s big-budgeted series may not be remarkable, but it knows to deliver all the hits of fantasy that fantasy nerds want.

By Sean T. Collins

overnights July 28, 2023

Outlander Recap: Reality BitesTime travel becomes a major buzzkill when you’re aware a whole lot of people are going to die.

By Maggie Fremont

overnights July 28, 2023

Good Omens Season-Finale Recap: Something’s Getting CloserThe Good Omens finale suffers from a little Marvel-itis.

By Bethy Squires

overnights July 28, 2023

Good Omens Recap: Ferocity and DangerosityEverybody is having very big feelings at the Wickber Street Traders and Shopkeepers Association Monthly Meeting.

By Bethy Squires

overnights July 28, 2023