Lifestyle Duana Names: Texas Names Duana, We are in the process of naming our fist child, a boy. We are from Texas and like Southern names, but do not want him to sound like he grew up in a trailer park (no offense to anyone out there) We aren't fans of the name By Duana • Nov 13, 2013 10:25 am
BFFs Certain Friends Are Gross When Lainey asks me to write a Julia Roberts article I tend to know what I’m doing. Find the most obnoxious comments, squee as I (legitimately) find the most positive spin on them, a winsome wink and a nod at the reader, job done. But this Marie Claire article By Duana • Nov 12, 2013 02:02 pm
Masters of Sex Isn’t it A-n-a-e-s-t-h-e-s-i-a? Masters Of Sex Season 1 Episode 7 recap. So. Suppose I told you I was watching this show, um, not on broadcast channels. As such, sometimes there are, er, anomalies. To cut to the chase, this is the first time I’ve seen the credit sequence, and I don’t By Duana • Nov 12, 2013 10:04 am
Homeland Women & Babies Homeland Season 3 Episode 7 recap So now we know. This was the whole plan. Get Javani to the US, under Saul’s control, send him back as a double agent working for the US. The only problem was the vicious bloodshed and incidental implication of Quinn as random CIA-type By Duana • Nov 11, 2013 11:13 am
Scandal Who these people are Scandal Season 3 Episode 6 recap How’d you feel about that episode of Scandal? I mean, it wasn’t the most incendiary by any means. No senators with their pants down, no bombshells of information, no drunken Melly, and only one homicide. It seems like a quiet few days By Duana • Nov 08, 2013 12:27 pm
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
