Baby and Bump Obsession Unlikely Naming Skills: Fox and Green So Megan Fox and Brian (Austin) Green’s son was born at the end of September and we’re just now hearing about it. Does it make you love them a little bit? It does, right? I have bad news – you might be about to love them more. If you’ By Duana • Oct 17, 2012 04:07 pm
BFFs Amy and Tina and the Golden Globes jokes How can you go wrong? I literally do not know anyone who was not delighted with the news that Poehler and Feyare going to host the often-completely-sleepy Golden Globe awards, although I’m sure you’re out there, whispering behind your hand and hoping you don’t get caught. Stay By Duana • Oct 16, 2012 12:18 pm
Homeland I Was Right Homeland Season 2 Episode 3 recap Herewith my ignorance on sleeper agents – are they not trained for certain situations like these? Is there really no further qualification for being the man on the inside beyond “He appears to be affable to the people we’re trying to infiltrate?” Some suspension By Duana • Oct 15, 2012 12:48 pm
Vampire Diaries Elena Drank Vampire Diaries Season 4 Episode 1 recap One of my favourite things that is going on on Twitter these days is the TV tweeting by Retta. You know, Donna on Parks & Recreation? Her tweets about Season 4 Buffy were endearing and hilarious, especially since you know what’s coming. By Duana • Oct 12, 2012 11:38 am
Media Manipulation The Foolproof Guide To Getting Your Own TV Show Via Tumblr Today’s lesson will be illustrated with the popular #hollywoodassistants tumblr. If you don’t know it, go study up. You’ll be all “oh I get what this is” and then you’ll click on one more page for fun and be sucked in for hours, but don’t By Duana • Oct 11, 2012 01:32 pm
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
