Drama The dads enter the toxic mom chat The first gossip scandal of 2026 keeps giving and we’re currently on day three, and a dad has entered the chat. To recap, briefly: Ashley Tisdale wrote a piece for The Cut about how she quit her toxic mom group. She did not name names, but the internet immediately By Lainey • Jan 07, 2026 12:53 pm
TV Updates Existential horror with Dr. Death Dr. Death is horrifying in all its forms, from the ProPublica expose to the podcast to the streaming series starring Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin, and Joshua Jackson as Christopher Duntsch, the eponymous “Dr. Death”. Dr. Death streamed on Peacock in 2021 and garnered three Critics Choice Awards nominations—had it By Sarah • Dec 01, 2023 03:44 pm
Emmy Awards 2021 Emmys Good: Cedric’s Open and the Ever-changing Backdrop The show was uneven. There were some good bits, but there were too many bits. And Sarah and Duana will be following with posts about what the Emmys got wrong. In this post, we’re starting with the Emmys’ good start – which was Cedric the Entertainer doing an Emmys version By Lainey • Sep 20, 2021 08:10 am
Douchebags Mandy Moore’s Silver Landings Mandy Moore has a new album coming out this week called Silver Landings. This is a great time for her, the last few years, and now, with the success of This Is Us, she’s been able to leverage some of her accumulated capital into her music. And I don’ By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 02:54 pm
Emmy Awards 2019 Mandy Moore and The Hot Pink Ladies at the Emmys It’s impossible to deny that Mandy Moore is having a comeback within her comeback, right? The success and attention of This Is Us seems to have launched a whole new aspect of her personality. Am I wrong? I look at shots like this: And I think, this isn’t By Duana • Sep 23, 2019 05:22 am
Gossip Nostalgia A Star on the Walk to Remember Mandy Moore received her star on the Walk of Fame yesterday. Her This Is Us costars were there to celebrate with her. But another costar made a surprise appearance: Shane West aka Landon Carter from A Walk to Remember. Look, that movie was my WHOLE SH-T for a year. That By Lainey • Mar 26, 2019 04:14 pm
Douchebags Intro for February 14, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’m not saying this to be smug… but …didn’t we always know that Ryan Adams was a douchebag? From way back in 2008, when he and Mandy Moore first broke up. At the time, supposedly, he couldn’t handle all the attention. So he released a By Lainey • Feb 14, 2019 09:03 am
TV Updates The Pearson problems This Is Us premiered last night. We are now in season three of the show I have hailed as the best drama on network television. I think that’s still true but it’s going to have to fix some major problems that have plagued the show since episode one By Kathleen • Sep 26, 2018 02:53 pm
Emmy Awards 2018 Mandy Moore: This Is Us at the Emmys At last year’s Emmys, Mandy Moore was my Worst Dressed. This year is an improvement. Her custom Rodarte still feels like something Kate Hudson would wear but I don’t hate it. She looks GREAT so there’s that. Last year, Mandy Moore was “snubbed” for a Best Actress By Kathleen • Sep 18, 2018 04:37 am
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Mandy in blue leather The idea of this is better than the execution. There’s maybe too much going on? I like the sleeves. A lot. But the sleeves are not getting their moment because of everything that’s happening across the chest. All that ruching and the knot off to the side and By Lainey • Aug 14, 2018 12:57 pm
Style Mandy makes moves When you think of Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris, as I know you do often, the first celeb name that comes to mind probably isn’t Mandy Moore. She’s not a fashion It girl whose only purpose in the ecosystem of Hollywood is to fill out the front By Kathleen • Jul 05, 2018 12:40 pm
TV Updates This Is Upfronts Have you missed these titles? After NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation yesterday, the push to the fall premiere of Season 3 of This Is Us has officially started. We have a whole summer to prepare for ALL THE FEELINGS. I almost forgot about the feelings. By now, you know I love By Kathleen • May 15, 2018 02:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Amandla’s revolution In February, when the Parkland students were first mobilizing in their fight for gun control, a bunch of pieces like this one for Mashable titled “Of course the 'Hunger Games' generation knows how to use the media in the fight against guns,” were popping up. The point was By Kathleen • Mar 29, 2018 04:31 pm
TV Updates This Is Us gets married God, I love a good wedding episode. The season two finale of This Is Us aptly titled The Wedding aired last night and it was a very good wedding episode. Ending this chapter with Toby and Kate’s nuptials was the obvious conclusion to a season that has been frustrating By Kathleen • Mar 14, 2018 09:48 am
TV Updates This Is Us wins Why do we do this to ourselves? If you’re a crier like me, the Super Bowl episode of This Is Us was not fun to watch. It was good television – if you like emotional network TV dramas –but enjoyable? Gratifying? I mean, is sobbing into your laptop fun? Then By Kathleen • Feb 06, 2018 11:24 am
Golden Globes 2018 Sterling K. Brown reclaims his time at the Globes Remember how the Emmys did Sterling K. Brown? I’m still shaking a clenched fist in the sky at no one in particular whispering “how dare they” because of how the Emmys wronged Sterling K. Brown last year. To recap, SKB was played off after a criminally short amount of By Kathleen • Jan 08, 2018 03:42 am
