Nashville Nashville Nashville Season 1 Episode 1 recap “If you ever get a facelift, I’m gonna leave you…just kidding.” This is something Rayna’s husband says to her, and man, there’s no line that encapsulates more what this show threatens over our heads, no? I am less delighted than By Duana • Oct 11, 2012 11:38 am
Homeland When Leaving Lebanon Homeland Season 2 Episode 2 recap I am writing this after a long weekend with family and turkey and contentment. I feel good – anything but cynical. So, though I sometimes have to check myself, I feel like I can ask with impunity … How great is Carrie for Saul’s career? By Duana • Oct 08, 2012 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pitch Perfect Is Perfectly Named Let me tell you a little something about joy. You may think you know joy, but you do not. Because you have not had a major motion picture written expressly for your own enjoyment, such that you might giggle and squeal and kick the back of your seat with recognition By Duana • Oct 04, 2012 01:01 pm
Mindy Kaling The Popularity of Mindy Kaling Are you going to watch The Mindy Project tonight? I read the pilot a few months ago, liked it fine, it didn’t bowl me over. When I watched the premiere, I thought the show did a great job of cycling the Mindy character through a million outfits, more amused By Duana • Oct 02, 2012 12:15 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Olive The Other Parents (Lainey: for those of you new to the site, Duana is a name snob - click here for a refresher - and thus is our go-to writer on the subject of celebrity - or anyone, really - baby-naming.) The time-lapse between the first email titled “Drew Barrymore Baby” and my By Duana • Oct 02, 2012 10:36 am
Homeland Revisited Homeland Season 2 episode 1 recap You can only do it once, what I just did. No matter how many seasons of a show there are, you can only once catch up so that you’re ready with the rest of the world. After that, you have to wait between By Duana • Oct 01, 2012 11:49 am
Parenthood Sons Of Anarchy and Parenthood so far Even though there’s a whisper going around that nobody’s watching the fall TV premieres and oh God, what does that mean, it’s actually early in the season and most shows haven’t got off the ground just yet. The ones that had early-September launches then need to By Duana • Sep 27, 2012 11:46 am
Homeland Homeland Turbowatch Part 5 – Episodes 9-12 Homeland Episodes 9-12 Oh, Isa. Oh ,Brody. This was a tough, tough four episodes to watch. Only 12 episodes to tell this story – and I completely understand why they went the way they did. Learning about Brody’s plans any earlier would have made us more and more sure that By Duana • Sep 25, 2012 11:22 am
Emmy Awards 2012 Best Emmys Booyah: Amy Poehler I mean, were you worried, in any way? Did you think maybe there would be a situation where you would have to be concerned for Amy Poehler? Let me set your mind at ease: there is not. I admit now that my Twitter pun of “Holy Poehler” is not that By Duana • Sep 24, 2012 01:54 pm
Emmy Awards 2012 Unexpectedly Awesome Elisabeth Moss at the Emmys It is not the kind of thing you could describe. There doesn’t seem, anyway, to be a way to describe “big-print black floral, think the early 90s, giant peplum” and make it sound good. Add to that some brand-new bleached hair, and it really sounds like a recipe for By Duana • Sep 24, 2012 01:26 pm
Bad Style Best Emmy Tolerance: Connie Britton with Hayden Panettiere Here’s what kills me about awards shows – the stars actually get to be responsible for their own appearances. They spend their workdays being manicured and groomed within an inch of their lives – I have seen wardrobe people adjust actresses’ camel toes – but on a big night like this, they By Duana • Sep 24, 2012 01:00 pm
Emmy Awards 2012 Best Emmys Consistency: Jon Hamm & Jennifer Westfeldt I received only one text last night opining that Jon Hamm looked a little puffy. While I concur that he wasn’t in full-on chiseled Don Draper form, I thought he looked fairly good. No matter how many times I look at him, I still suck in my breath a By Duana • Sep 24, 2012 12:40 pm
Emmy Awards 2012 Emmys orange but maybe red: Ginnifer Goodwin When did you first learn that the whole "red carpet endeavour" was a little more complicated than just some stars putting on a dress and going to a party? Years ago, right? You heard about the stylists and limo sequences and borrowing dresses and the whole thing and By Duana • Sep 24, 2012 12:13 pm
Emmy Awards 2012 On Emmy enunciation: Kerry Washington Let’s start with the part where I started worrying about my job security. Because when the absolutely fearless Joshua Malina started tweeting about the Emmys – calling Hayden Panetierre Connie Britton’s “Puppet”, and expressing sorrow that the In Memoriam montage did not include Chris Brown – well, I could hear By Duana • Sep 24, 2012 11:37 am
Dumbass Worst Undeserved Emmy Smugness – Jena Malone When you show up at an awards show and you are the first on the carpet because, regardless of roles recently landed, you’re not that important and haven’t been for some time? When you scheme and campaign for a high-profile role, and everyone knows that you wanted it, By Duana • Sep 24, 2012 10:09 am
Emmy Awards 2012 Best Undeserved Emmy Acceptance: Jon Cryer Look, nobody doesn’t like Duckie. We get it. He’s sweet, smart, funny - and that’s before we even get to the fact that he, by all accounts, kept showing up for work on Two and a Half Men even when the notion of “work” turned into an By Duana • Sep 24, 2012 09:57 am
