Tatiana Maslany The Best Emmy Nominations In Forever (*Asterisk) It just f-cking figures, doesn’t it? In a year when the Emmy nominations are incredibly exciting, current (fewer than ever nominations for shows that have been on the air for eons, or for tired who-watches-that? network sitcoms), and most importantly, reflective of what people actually watch, there probably won’ By Duana • Jul 28, 2020 03:09 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: We Want A Sexy Name. Yes, I Said That Dear Duana, Thank you so much for years and years of interesting insights and name inspo! Despite being a long-time fan-girl (I've gifted 'The Name Therapist' to every knocked-up friend), I'm actually disappointed to need your counsel. Mostly because my request will expose me By Duana • Jul 22, 2020 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews HBO’s Showbiz Kids is Chillingly Subtle Here’s the thing about supposedly ‘niche’ interests or fascinations – they never seem all that niche, which is probably just a trickle-down effect of the internet and everyone knowing about everything. But my reaction to hearing about HBO’s documentary Showbiz Kids was to immediately message all my friends, who By Duana • Jul 20, 2020 03:29 pm
TV Updates Tyra Banks on DWTS – The Ultimate ‘Yes But No’ I’ve never watched Dancing With The Stars. In truth, I tapped out of competitive reality series after Anderson Cooper left The Mole, but it’s more because I’m disorganized than anything else, and half the attraction of week-to-week shows is being able to talk about them online or By Duana • Jul 17, 2020 03:23 pm
TV Updates Loving ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ is Absolutely Right Even though 2020 (and Twitter) keeps showing us that there are infinite ways to be an asshole online, a very grown woman saying, “I’m nervous about the upcoming Netflix series The Baby-Sitters Club” was absolutely going to be a contender for the prize. So I didn’t. I waited By Duana • Jul 10, 2020 03:30 pm
Amazingness TikTok Star Julian Bass VFXed His Way Into Disney’s Heart You didn’t think I’d be able to do it, did you? You didn’t think I’d be able to post anything that wasn’t about Hamilton today. But you’d be wrong, because I am intensely focused on distracting myself until my family’s agreed-upon showtime tonight, By Duana • Jul 03, 2020 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews #Hamilfilm Teaser Delivers On The Promise If you don’t know by now that Hamilton will drop on Disney+ on Friday, July 3rd, I assume it’s because you don’t need that information – which is fine, I get it. For those who do know, who have known, though… The anticipation for the #Hamilfilm is intense, By Duana • Jun 29, 2020 01:18 pm
TV Updates Homecoming Is For Right Now Every time I’m on a Zoom call, in an effort to counteract the general awkwardness that is people who are often having their only human interaction for the week, there’s some small talk about what people are watching – that happens regardless of whether it’s a TV industry By Duana • Jun 26, 2020 04:03 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Sometimes More Is More Duana, Please, please help us! I have a c section scheduled one month from today, and we cannot figure out a name. We already have a daughter, Margot, and we think her name is absolutely perfect. We had several other beautiful girl names picked out but of course we are By Duana • Jun 24, 2020 04:01 pm
TV Updates Soaps Return with ‘Sexy’ Spousal Stand-Ins Look, joy comes in unexpected places, and life holds many surprises, and in the midst of our pandemic/revolution/global reckoning, the one sentence I didn’t expect to say was “I might have to start watching The Bold And The Beautiful”. I’ve never been a soap watcher, and By Duana • Jun 19, 2020 01:55 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: We Need A Win Duana- HELP! I'm 35 weeks this weekend with our first baby girl and I'm second-guessing not so privately but definitely solo on our choice. My husband and I spoke before getting pregnant about loving the name Winnie. It took us a while to have a successful By Duana • Jun 17, 2020 03:53 pm
Joss Whedon Whitewashed Casting Apologies – and an innovator I’m cranky and I’m officially over retroactive creative decisions – the ‘clarifications’ people make, years or decades after the fact, about what creatives wanted to do in the name of inclusiveness or diversity, but couldn’t, because of The Pressures. Specifically, I’m referring to the headlines running around By Duana • Jun 15, 2020 02:09 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How Hollywood Can – And Must – Change Anti-Black Racism On Set Thank you so much for your comments and thoughts on our last episode featuring Kathleen Newman-Bremang, ‘Working While Black’. We’re glad it resonated with so many of you, and we intend to continue doing the work of unpacking and dismantling the embedded policies, procedures, and assumptions that have fueled By Duana • Jun 11, 2020 02:19 pm
Dumbass JK Rowling isn’t just Transphobic – she’s a Troll Let me raise my hand as one of those who was shocked by JK Rowling’s tweets on Saturday evening. Not because of her transphobic views, which erase, diminish, and harm the trans community – though it’s important to be clear that they do, especially since Rowling has such an By Duana • Jun 08, 2020 01:56 pm
Equality Issues Dick Wolf Fires Writer. This Is News It shouldn’t be news. ‘Man [or woman] behaves abominably, loses job as a result’ is a narrative we know very well – one that’s been playing out in fast-forward over the last few days, a cold comfort relative to the atrocities we’re seeing every single time we open By Duana • Jun 05, 2020 03:23 pm
Mad Men Mad Men, Imperfect but Prescient Mad Men is leaving Netflix next week, on June 9. I knew this, and Lainey and I talked about me commenting on it, earlier this month. Then, of course, after the death of George Floyd, trying to find something to say about a show that was accurately criticized for focusing By Duana • Jun 03, 2020 03:44 pm
