Tuesday, September 29, 2026
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A24's Primetime is finally in theaters. It stars a darkly hilarious Robert Pattinson as former To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, and it's firmly one of the year's best films. As the end credits will tell you, it's also based on an essential Esquire story—and you can read it below.—Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor
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NBC's To Catch a Predator arrived in Murphy, Texas, to conduct a sting operation. The only honest thing that followed was the gunshot.
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A cop guards the open gateway that leads from the house's driveway to the side yard, in case the man inside attempts to flee. At first the camera is static and the shot is simple: the cop, the gateway, vertical red fence planks, a right foreground portion of green bush. After a few minutes of this, the cameraman starts playing with the composition. The screen fills almost entirely with the bush, and then the view pans left from the bush to the cop, who is big and bald and has three upside-down blue V's—sergeant stripes—on the sleeve of his shirt. The cameraman zooms in past the cop to the patio area beyond, to a lattice of firewood and the blur of something green. The camera stills, focuses. The blur becomes a wheelbarrow. A green wheelbarrow leaning belly-exposed against a red wall.
It is past 3:00 p.m. and Chris Hansen, the host of "To Catch a Predator," a recurring series on NBC's Dateline television news program, arrived here at 8:30 this morning, having gotten hardly any sleep the night before. He never gets much sleep on these shoots. Although aspects of his show are tightly choreographed, Hansen and the rest of his production team must always remain loose limbed, ready to adapt to changing circumstances and unpredictable hours. The show's protagonists, after all, are recruited on the fly, and everything depends on them. They drive the plot, and Hansen never knows exactly where that plot is going to take him. Before the unexpected series of events that began yesterday afternoon, for example, Hansen had no intention of ever being here, outside this house, waiting for a SWAT team on an overcast Sunday afternoon.
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If you’ve been keeping a close eye on your social feeds—and your social feeds are dominated, like mine, by people who think way too much about the way guys get dressed—you might have noticed a theme emerging recently. Menswear is experiencing a recalibration. The “anything goes” mentality is retreating into the background, replaced by an impulse to gear up in clothes that are nice. Normal. The sort of stuff that you can mix and match, wear and not worry about.
Some folks posit that this is a consequence of the resurgence of preppy style. I’m not so sure. More and more men are indeed looking at the wardrobes their fathers and grandfathers cultivated and thinking, Hey, maybe that could work for me. However, I don’t think that the preppy thing was the instigator for this reevaluation; it was the other way around.
Exhausted by the churn of social media, the questions about what shoes or pants or what-have-yous are cool right now, men first started to think about a return to normalcy. So the cause was actually the desire to invest in and wear clothes that make our lives easier. The effect? Embracing an archetype built on long-lasting staples and versatile pieces that can pair with pretty much anything in your wardrobe.
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There are complicated watches, and then there are complicated watches that somehow manage not to look like complicated watches.
Vacheron Constantin’s latest Overseas belongs firmly in the second bucket. Created to mark the collection’s 30th anniversary, the new Overseas Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin combines a white-gold case with an azure dial. Just 200 will be made.
There is an awful lot going on beneath that rather handsome blue face. Its self-winding caliber 1120 QP/1 measures just 4.05mm thick, yet it manages to keep track of the date, day, month, leap years, and phases of the moon. Assuming you’re still around to worry about it, the calendar won’t require correcting until 2100. Even more impressively, the entire watch is only 8.1mm thick.
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