Lifestyle Duana Names: Style over comfort? Name question for Duana: I have always loved the name Zoe and would love to use it if this baby is a girl. However, I loathe popular/trendy names and I fear that Zoe is going to be the next Ava/Sophia/Isabella. Your thoughts/suggestions? ___ Well, there are two By Duana • Nov 07, 2013 12:52 pm
Masters of Sex When the cat’s away… Masters Of Sex Season 1 Episode 6 recap Oh, Libby. I knew there was a reason you were on this show and not an annoying, insipid actress but someone who had actual dramatic heft (Caitlin FitzGerald has been in everything), but this still made me sad. It’s sad from By Duana • Nov 05, 2013 11:14 am
Homeland Quick and Awful Homeland Season 3 Episode 6 recap. This episode of Homeland seems to require a very quick cutting to the chase and less rhetoric. So without further ado, these are the questions I have. How long has Carrie known she’s pregnant? We saw what looked like, to me, a month’ By Duana • Nov 04, 2013 10:22 am
Scandal What’s Your Blind Spot? Scandal Season 3 Episode 5 recap I started thinking about this as I began writing this article, and of course, just for irony, I don’t know. I don’t know what my blind spot is. I’m sure my friends or family could tell you, but I don’t By Duana • Nov 01, 2013 12:30 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Royal Copycat My husband and I are expecting our first kiddo in December. We don't know what we are having and are keeping it a grand surprise. We are planning on going in with 3 boy and 3 girl names and meeting the little one before finalizing. My question is By Duana • Oct 31, 2013 11:51 am
Vampire Diaries Vampire Diaries Catchup, Part the First Four episodes in, and we are beginning to see the shape of Mystic Falls and its surrounding university campuses. One of the reasons we decided to take this show in chunks a little bit more is because the crazy-twist play-by-play can be so exhausting that it’s hard to do By Duana • Oct 31, 2013 10:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews In Which I Defend My Beloveds. It has come to my attention that there is some unrest about the Veronica Mars movie. People - in my case, Sarah, who thought that the trailer looks “janky” and is being a good sport about this article - have had some critiques about it that center around the recent By Duana • Oct 30, 2013 09:39 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Perfect Name or Bust Hi Duana - this is actually a name nerd question - much like all the other questions you've received in this vein... having a terribly hard time finding a suitable name for a girl. I'm French Canadian, my husband is American (with Scandinavian roots) and we By Duana • Oct 29, 2013 11:11 am
Masters of Sex Mothers and Fathers Masters of Sex Season 1 Episode 5 recap. Well. Is anyone watching this show except me? Because it is just really satisfying. That sounds awful to say in the wake of this week’s deeply sad episode, but you get the idea. I just don’t know if people are By Duana • Oct 29, 2013 10:06 am
Homeland Teenagers on a F*ckfest (Sorry, Jacek, I had to) Homeland Season 3 Episode 5 recap Other than two very delicious uses of the F word this week, Homeland has now firmly constructed itself – this season, at least – as a show that might be smarter than you and is determined to keep you guessing. This By Duana • Oct 28, 2013 11:09 am
Scandal Cracks Show Scandal Season 3 Episode 4 recap I mean, on the one hand this was not the most incendiary episode of Scandal. By and large, we’ve seen more dramatic episodes with bigger punches to the gut. Instead, we got to see things unravel. Olivia’s weird OCD repetition of how By Duana • Oct 25, 2013 10:26 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: When a trend strikes over time Hi Duana, I'm due in a few months. I recently started watching Games of Thrones and love the character Aria. Her name is gorgeous, reminds me of the beautiful Las Vegas casino Aria: both lovely, strong, and memorable. Yesterday, I started watching Pretty Little Liars and one of By Duana • Oct 24, 2013 10:08 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Nothing fits – or does it? Hi Duana, We are hoping you can help us. We are expecting our second child and will not be finding out the gender. Boy's name is set. For girls, we are struggling between two right now. We both love Louisa. It sounds classic but fresh at the same By Duana • Oct 22, 2013 11:01 am
Masters of Sex She Knows What Feels Good Masters Of Sex Season 1 Episode 4 recap There’s an inclination to be whispery and respectful of certain people after their deaths, and I certainly think that’s mostly appropriate. But sometimes it precludes things that I really miss – like how funny Heath Ledger was when he asked of By Duana • Oct 22, 2013 10:35 am
Homeland Did They Get You? Homeland Season 3 Episode 4 recap They got me. In fact, a little Twitter scrolling before I watched the episode tipped me off to the twist, and I still didn’t see it coming in precisely the way that it did. Before we get serious here, can we just shout By Duana • Oct 21, 2013 10:27 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Matching or Scratching? Hi Duana, I love your baby name posts - but just haven't seen one that's going to help our clan name our third baby girl! Our eldest is Haven (and she was born long before the Alba baby - so don't even ask how By Duana • Oct 18, 2013 12:29 pm
