The long-awaited and super-hyped HBO Max reboot of Gossip Girl is mere months away, slated to hit the streaming network in summer 2021. The show appears to be updated for our new reality—the cast is much more diverse, but the prep school uniforms remain, made contemporary for a modern audience. And while the fashion…
Happy New Year, the celebrities are already back on their bullshit. For his performance on NBC’s 2021 New Year’s Eve Celebration program, The Voice personality and sometimes country music star Blake Shelton decided to debut a new song titled “Minimum Wage,” which features an imaginatively tone-deaf chorus of “Girl,…
“I want the world to know, that Billboard is a lie. You can buy No. 1s on Billboard,” is how rapper troll 6ix9ine kicked off an Instagram video he posted in May of this year. His purpose was to allege that he had been cheated out of reaching the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the most trusted weekly tally of the…
Yes to a slow dance: “Afterglow”, Ed Sheeran - My partner’s favorite thing to do is get drunk and say “let’s just jam.” Jamming is what he calls putting on sadboi music as loud as possible and swaying back and forth, oftentimes by himself. This NYE as we sit at home there will no doubt be another call for jamming and…
It’s a tale as old as scripted television: a program garners enough attention to last a few seasons too long, and as a result, exhausts all momentum. The plot burns out, hot and fast, leaving little room for a creative conclusion. Instead, all fans are left with is a disappointing coda, a rush to the finish line that…
Sometimes a single word defines an era, and it’s fitting that in this exceptional—and exceptionally difficult—year, a single word came immediately to the fore.
A walk through a once-thriving, now visibly depressed mall can provoke a specific kind of ambivalence. Like most figurative trips through time, it can be funny to revisit what once attracted people (or intended to) vis a vis contemporary sensibilities. The very purpose of these megastructures, one-stop efficiency, has…
Is anyone genuinely shocked to find out that love is still dead in the year of our lord 2020? Probably not. In a period when partnered people were suddenly spending way more time with their live-in significant others than they probably ever expected to, the relationships of normies and Hollywood couples were tested—and…
In Monday night’s fifth season premiere, TLC’s Dr. Pimple Popper officially embraced our new normal. While Before the Pop, a spin-off that aired earlier this year, featured socially distanced (i.e. screen-based) consultations performed by Dr. Pimple Popper (dermatologist Sandra Lee), the original series has at last…
It would have been enough for singer/mogul/personality Jessica Simpson to get the last laugh in her 2020 memoir Open Book. She writes at length and with sensitivity about how it felt to be mocked—she’s so introspective that Open Book functions at times like an X-ray of a butt of a joke. “People’s laughter meant a lot…
The 90-minute finale of season 5 of The Real Housewives of Potomac served fractured friendships, “plots” that never panned out, and bookended Monique Samuels’s announcement that she has left the show.
From the outside, Wonder Woman 1984’s Diana Prince seems like she has it all. She’s got a dream job as an archaeologist at the Smithsonian, respect and admiration from co-workers and pining suitors, and supermodel good looks. But at night, when she goes home to her luxurious condo, takes off her luxurious power suits,…
The only way to understand Promising Young Woman is to skip right to the ending. The film’s mashup of soft-feminine romance with trauma marked by vengeful spite makes for a delicious combination of tonal confusion. There is a lot happening in director Emerald Fennell’s audacious debut and the landscape she builds…
Yes, haha: Ludacris, “Ludacrismas” - I have never seen the film Fred Claus nor do I want to, but I am thankful for its soundtrack, which gave us this 2007 Christmas banger in which Ludacris requests Jordans and an XBox from Santa, raps about getting twisted on the holidays, and sweetly promises his mother a Cadillac.…
After all that, it seems that we might get a Sex and the City reboot after all? I’m sure this news pleases at least three people—Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon—but for the rest of us out there, I’m not so sure.
Something that’s nice to do for yourself and your loved ones during the holiday season is to put a “yule log” on the television and listen to its crackle. Watching a fireplace burn on television can be a suitable replacement for having an actual fireplace, if supplemented with a candle that smells like Douglas fir,…
If our entirely too-close reading The Drew Barrymore has proven anything it’s that its host, Drew Barrymore, is enthusiastic. Sometimes it’s to a frightening degree. In her own words, she loves everything. Her heart is the size of Venus. For our end-of-year review of a show that has brought at least two of us (Drew…
Tayshia Adams’s chaotic and quarantined season of The Bachelorette has ended—and boy, was it a ride. The second part of the finale opened with Ben’s return—Adams kissed him, for some unknown reason (which seemed to be unknown to her, as well). At the rose ceremony, Ivan and Zac C. were shocked to see Ben arrive—and not…
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