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  1. overnights
    A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Season-Finale Recap: Sherlock and WatsonPip solves the case and gets the guy? This is how you solve a mystery, folks.
    By Fletcher Peters
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    A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Recap: Barney’s Last StandI’m still reeling from all the revelations in this episode.
    By Fletcher Peters
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    A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Recap: The Grieving GatsbyEach new discovery wreaks havoc on Pippa’s social life.
    By Fletcher Peters
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    A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Recap: Keep an Eye on Your DrinkWhy didn’t we spend the entire episode at the calamity party?
    By Fletcher Peters
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    A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Recap: Down to the Tennis CourtsPippa finds a good cop to her bad cop in Ravi, and the case gets a lot more interesting (and cute).
    By Fletcher Peters
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    A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Series-Premiere Recap: Good Guys Don’t Kill PeopleMeet Pippa Fitz-Amobi: She’s bookish, clever, Not Like The Other Girls™, and she’s going to solve the disappearance of Andie Bell.
    By Fletcher Peters
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    Poker Face Season-Finale Recap: How Deep to Dig the HolePoker Face has one last big reveal up its sleeve.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Poker Face Recap: What Are Men to Rocks and Mountains?Joseph Gordon-Levitt crackles with chaotic energy in Poker Face’s best episode yet.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Poker Face Recap: Listen, All Y’all, It’s a SabotageWhat is Charlie’s life at this point but a series of left turns?
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Poker Face Recap: There Are No Small RolesThis week’s episode feels like an experiment — can you make a satisfying episode of Columbo that barely stars Columbo?
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Poker Face Recap: You Can’t Kill the RevolutionIrene and Joyce’s murder is pretty badass to watch — like if The Golden Girls joined Fight Club.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Poker Face Recap: You Can’t Un-murder SomeoneDoxxxology’s got a killer new song.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Poker Face Recap: Little Miss GalahadDespite the Columbo inspiration, Charlie is a drifter with a strange power, not a detective with any jurisdiction.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Poker Face Recap: The Dead (Meat) Poets SocietyWhen two brothers who run a barbecue stall have a beef, Charlie uncovers a meaty conspiracy.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Poker Face Series-Premiere Recap: A Knives Out TV MysteryRian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne’s weekly whodunit kicks off with a fun low-stakes romp.
    By Amanda Whiting
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    Bad Sisters Recap: A Very Full BathWe can only watch the same group of people try to kill the same person for so long without getting a bit bored.
    By Kayti Burt
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    Surface Recap: Liar, LiarThe revelations and twists here are meant to be bombshells, but they land more like duds.
    By Erin Qualey
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    Surface Recap: I’m New HereHow did James and Sophie get together? Also, where did those millions of venture-capital dollars go?
    By Erin Qualey
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    Surface Recap: Excess BaggageSophie’s trippy evening reveals interesting things about Baden, James, and Caroline.
    By Erin Qualey
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    Surface Recap: Sex, Lies, and AudiotapeInstead of acting like a damsel in distress, Sophie finally lets her anger and lust lead the way.
    By Erin Qualey
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    Surface Recap: An Affair to RememberGugu Mbatha-Raw and Stephan James have such an enticing onscreen chemistry.
    By Erin Qualey
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    Surface Recap: Horse PlayAri Graynor as Caroline is doing a fantastic job of straddling the line of supportive friend and possible villain of the story.
    By Erin Qualey
  23. overnights
    Surface Series-Premiere Recap: A Fresh Start “If my life was so perfect, why would I try to end it?”
    By Erin Qualey
  24. book review
    Kwon Yeo-sun’s ‘Lemon’ Is a Murder Mystery That Refuses to Be SolvedThe novel by Kwon Yeo-sun tracks the aftermath of a teen girl’s murder, with three very unreliable narrators.
    By Arianna Rebolini
  25. movie review
    The Dry Is a Mystery You Might Find Hard to ShakeEric Bana is spectacular in this thriller that never lets up on the grief.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  26. mystery
    Okay, We Get It, You’re MonolithsThis ad campaign is getting boring.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  27. mystery
    A Second Mystery Monolith Has AppearedIn Romania of all places.
    By Hannah Gold
  28. vulture lists
    13 Great Ensemble Whodunits to Watch After Knives OutEven more murder plots for you to figure out.
    By Nick Allen
  29. how mysterious!
    All the Mystery-Writing Insight and Advice You Could Ever NeedThe 12 stories featured in our How Mysterious! series serve as an online university* for budding crime writers. (*Unaccredited)
    By Vulture Editors
  30. how mysterious!
    How I Learned to Write Mysteries the Mystic River WayBy deconstructing Dennis Lehane’s best seller, Angie Kim was able to shape her own debut novel.
    By Angie Kim
  31. how mysterious
    The Crimes Never End: A Guide to Mystery’s Biggest, Longest-Lasting FranchisesThe Boxcar Children? Hardy Boys? Women’s Murder Club? Still out there solving.
    By Zach Schonfeld
  32. how mysterious
    The Secret to a Good Mystery Movie? It Isn’t the SurpriseMichael Green, the writer behind Blade Runner 2049 and two Agatha Christie adaptations, reveals the key to resurrecting a whodunit for the screen.
    By Chris Lee
  33. how mysterious!
    Emergence’s Showrunners on How to Build a Puzzle-Box ShowStep 1: Don’t be afraid to answer your mysteries.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  34. 8 Unforgettable Detective-Themed Comedy SketchesLooking back at times when mystery and humor mingled, from Monty Python to Key and Peele.
    By Ramsey Ess
  35. how mysterious!
    13 Mystery-Writing Tricks Used by Acclaimed NovelistsIncluding the Bullseye Method and the Don Draper Principle.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  36. 13 reasons why
    13 Reasons Why Season 3 Trailer Tries to Make ‘Who Killed Bryce Walker?’ HappenThe third season drops August 23.
    By Rebecca Alter
  37. let’s makeup
    You Can Try Tatcha’s New Mystery Product for Free at SephoraHere’s what it is and how you can try it.
    By Kathleen Hou
  38. algorithms
    Algorithms Are Black Boxes — Even to the Tech Companies That Make ThemThe complex webs of code tech companies rely on produce results, but even they don’t know how. It’s time for them to admit it.
    By Brian Feldman
  39. select all
    Just a Few Questions About This Microwave DungeonFirst of all, why? And second of all, what?
    By Brian Feldman
  40. The 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017The most unsettling of escapism.
    By Maris Kreizman
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    What the Heck Does the Letter J Stand for on this Dumb Rug?I am perplexed.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  42. mystery!
    It’s That Time of Year: Goat Heads Are Starting to Appear in BrooklynWell, at least one was discovered in Crown Heights.
    By Jen Kirby
  43. mystery!
    Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn?Some say it’s a strange religious ritual. Others, a prank. I went looking for answers.
    By Adrian Chen
  44. mystery!
    Channing Tatum in Talks for Bad RomanceAbout which we know eerily little.
    By Halle Kiefer
  45. Mystery
    Clues in the Josh Rubin, of Whisk Café, CaseSuspects at Woodbury Commons.
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  46. francophile
    James Franco May Star in Movie As Mystery, the Pickup ArtistIn an adaptation of The Game.
    By Willa Paskin