Along with those horrible tiered ruffle skirts and awful Hollister henleys (probably), the latest aughts trend to re-emerge afresh is using Jake Gyllenhaal as a stand-in for real-life literary scammers who somehow became more interesting after news broke that they were lying Ps of S.

Remember Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich? I only just flushed the taint of that blatantly sexist and alarmingly exploitative account of Epstein’s many alleged victims out of my system. Right on time, too, because the menace behind it, producer and author James Patterson, has been greenlit on a new docuseries about the…

In this week’s New Yorker is a sparkling, not-at-all stuffy profile of talk show host/influential neologist Wendy Williams. Michael Schulman’s piece hits a lot of the beats of the recent Lifetime movies about Williams’s life that it references (the infamous Whitney Houston interview, Williams’s on-air fainting, her…

Hacks, an HBO Max show about a floundering comic legend and sort-of-canceled television writer, is genuinely enjoyable television, if not entirely groundbreaking, which for now I think is just fine for me. This is helped greatly by the addition of Jean Smart in a starring role, delivering what is shaping up to be the…

The hoop/key combo that dangled from Janet Jackson’s right ear for much of her Control and Rhythm Nation 1814 eras sold for $43,750 at an auction that concluded Sunday (which just happened to be Jackson’s 55th birthday). The auction was hosted by Julien’s Auctions and boasted more than 1,000 items from throughout…

WHY IS PIKACHU IN THIS: Katy Perry, “Electric” - Well, here’s a music video for a song that Katy Perry has made that also sounds like it belongs in a deodorant commercial. Truthfully, I cannot follow what is happening. Katy Perry and her best friend, Pikachu, inspire a girl to follow her dreams; that appears to be…

There is one perfect thing on this Earth, and that single thing is Eurovision, the yearly song competition that allows an ever-in-flux number of European countries, along with Israel and Australia to attempt to one-up each other with pop music, to weird and delightful results. And just as Texas-style barbeque…

This will be the final season I ever watch of The Real Housewives of Dallas, now that the Season 5 reunion has wrapped and Dr. Tiffany Moon has apparently evacuated the premises. It was an unbelievable and at times excruciating season to sit through. Moon, like co-star Kary Brittingham, was subjected to the extremely…

This week on The Drew Barrymore Show, Barrymore learned what “cheugy” means and immediately wondered aloud if the word describes her. Ross Matthews, who is very good at what he does (and what he mostly does on The Drew Barrymore Show is serve as Barrymore’s lackey), assured Barrymore that she is not cheugy. “You’re…

Though he wouldn’t publicly come out for another two years or so, on George Michael’s third solo album, Older, the pop star told us he was gay without telling us he was gay. In retrospect, it was all very obvious, as Michael would explain to MTV News in 2004: “By the time Older came out, my presentation of myself, the…

Truthfully, the Friends reunion special that has been hanging around like a threat for the better part of a year is not something I spend a lot of time pondering. Friends is fine, but for me, it is not a lifestyle—but it is for an awful lot of people, all of whom I hope are happy with this pithy little teaser and the…

In a non-televised context, subject matter regularly discussed on Showtime’s Couples Therapy would qualify as raw. “Uncomfortable” barely begins to describe conversations had the show’s Season 2 couples have with their therapist, Dr. Orna Guralnik—sometimes they’re borderline taboo. Tashira describes the attraction…

On Tuesday’s episode of The View, host Whoopi Goldberg moderated a conversation about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s recent stint in Montana. Well—moderated isn’t really the right word for what happened, because she pretended to sleep for most of the discussion.

When we last checked in on NBC regarding the Golden Globes, whose parent organization the Hollywood Foreign Press Association came under fire earlier this year for a decades-long lack of Black members, the network was breaking its silence on an awards show it has broadcast for the past 25 years. “We are taking these…

HBO’s latest prestige crime procedural, Mare of Easttown, scratches the itch for gritty, well-produced drama, neatly filling the hole left by other offerings like True Detective but with a much-needed tweak. Instead of being forced yet again to plumb the depths of police work as a proxy for masculinity, viewers are…

Like a good portion of the Jezebel staff, I am currently hooked on Mare of Easttown, the latest prestige crime drama from HBO starring an Oscar-winning white woman. The show stars Kate Winslet as Mare (yes her name is Mare, no she’s not the mayor) an extremely rough-around-the-edges detective in small-town…

Here is a fun fact that I never would have known without The Drew Barrymore Show’s service: Laura Prepon (pronounced “pree-pon”) has named her kitchen line after a common mispronunciation of her last name. As she explained to Barrymore: “It’s Prep-On Kitchen because I feel like if you prep your food in advance it’s a…