Vulture Lists

From Samantha Bee's anger to Jimmy Fallon's hair mussing.

Step one: Hire a recognizable actress from the '90s.

Beyoncé, David Bowie, Kanye, and more produced the year's most lasting images.

From an illustrated Salvador Dalí dinner-party cookbook to tales of modern artist rivalries.

From the simple to the mind-bending.

Funnel laughs through your earbuds with standouts that include The Read, With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus, and My Favorite Murder.

It was a fine year for big-budget blockbusters, e-sports entries, and indie games alike.

Starting and ending with witches.

Including breakout clips from Saturday Night Live, Portlandia, Inside Amy Schumer.

Just another "Best of 2016" list featuring Beyoncé.

Including financial insecurity, dunk histories, and a couple of true-crime series — including an unfairly criticized returning classic.

It's been a supremely weird year for comics and their creators.

1. Stop living in the past.

There were too many great films this year to include in a mere ten best list.

It would be much easier to make a Worst Performances of 2016 list than one that could do justice to all the terrific ones.

Narrative innovation was on full display this year, including in a throwback entry from a revived classic.

Who's alive? Who's dead? And what's coming in season two?

Can you imagine Winona Ryder in The Hudsucker Proxy?

From Southern Gothic to Regular Gothic.

By Michael Lewis, Siri Hustvedt, Ratika Kapur, and more.