Media Manipulation No TV Phillipe Part 2 The other part of the pilot season game is the speculation: the leaked scripts, the rumours, the revisions in who's actually right for the part (one of my favourite TV business phrases is "we went another way", closely followed by "that (pointless production or script By Duana • Feb 24, 2012 03:22 pm
Julia Roberts Michelle & Julia When Lainey and I write in the same room, it's long periods of silence or typing broken by intermittent screeches. We yell about whatever has gotten us excited, and then we go back to work. So a few minutes ago a picture of Julia Roberts got me thinking. By Duana • Feb 24, 2012 01:12 pm
Dumbass “Style” and “Grace” This one time at work we were standing around, and there was a fashion magazine and Brendon picked it up and flipped through, probably trying to find some stupid shoes to mock, and instead he grew disgusted as he flipped faster. And then he went "these are all children! By Duana • Feb 24, 2012 12:15 pm
Smash Nice is boring Smash Season 1 Episode 3 recap The Monday night-Tuesday morning corridor is full of recaps for me and this morning the boy asked which shows I was working on. When I explained House of Lies and Smash air on the same night, he went "oh, so a show about By Duana • Feb 21, 2012 04:01 pm
House of Lies Shame. It’s a house of shame, obviously House of Lies Season 1 Episode 7 recap So this is TV. While movies historically have been used to tell stories about the fantastic, incredible people who existed only in our wishes or trumped-up, watercoloured memories, television was always supposed to show people watching who they were. Who they are. By Duana • Feb 21, 2012 01:33 pm
Vampire Diaries Elena is…one of those Vampire Diaries Season 3 Episode 15 recap This episode was called “All My Children”. It’s amusing to me primarily not just because Esther had five and planned to off them all, but in the way that the writers get to play with their character toys, pulling some in, putting By Duana • Feb 17, 2012 10:01 am
Smash Feverish Smash Smash Season 1 Episode 2 recap Welcome to the Smash review, slightly feverish edition. I say that because I am, and I hope you’ll excuse any typos, but also that’s how this week’s episode felt. A little bit manic, which isn’t surprising, given the break-neck speed By Duana • Feb 14, 2012 03:45 pm
House of Lies House of Boredom House of Lies Season 1 Episode 6 I did a terrible thing recently. I read some spoilers of this show, a couple of episodes on. So maybe this is why I found this episode so bland – it’s not where I know the show’s going. Or maybe it was By Duana • Feb 14, 2012 01:14 pm
BAFTA 2012 Worst BAFTA Eyeroll - Shailene Woodley (I should check whether I’ve done ‘worst eyeroll’ before. I feel like it’s becoming a popular category). Let’s discuss Ms. Woodley for a second. She landed on that most…average of teen shows The Secret Life Of The American Teenager. Do not try to tell me that By Duana • Feb 13, 2012 06:52 pm
BAFTA 2012 Best BAFTA Mystery: Kristen Wiig Are you KIDDING me with this? Are you joking about what Kristen Wiig wore to the BAFTAs? Please investigate below… She looks like a fairy princess Vanna White. And I can’t just accept this; I need to find some sort of conspiracy theory in it, apparently. Why is she By Duana • Feb 13, 2012 06:43 pm
BFFs Best Random Duo: Daniel Radcliffe & Octavia Spencer I cannot tell you how much these pictures make me laugh. This is what happens in Hollywood. You are Daniel Radcliffe, barely out of your teens, and you are there because Harry Potter, your stunningly successful magic franchise, is up for some final awards, none glamorous, and which will require By Duana • Feb 13, 2012 06:28 pm
BFFs Best Date to a British Awards Show: - Jon Hamm Do you think he’d be a good date? As soon as Lainey and I talked about the BAFTAs I got all panicky: “Where is she? Is she here?” And apparently, she wasn’t. She being Jennifer Westfeldt, who is absent as often as she’s with him. \I don’ By Duana • Feb 13, 2012 06:06 pm
Bad Style Worst BAFTA Wrapper: Christina Ricci This gold dress is the kind of thing that fits my mental description of the type of dress that should be called a ‘wrapper’. You know? “I threw on a wrapper and smoked a cigarillo.” Apparently the woman wearing my wrapper is a flapper . Anyway, it’s a whole lot By Duana • Feb 13, 2012 05:35 pm
Girlcrushes Notes on a superstar She loves her life. That’s obvious. She was so delighted with her producers and the adorable boyfriend who was sort of affably out of the whole thing. She screeched at her mum in her South London twang, and if you haven’t watched her 60 minutes interview with Anderson By Duana • Feb 13, 2012 12:19 pm
Dumbass Be Angry with the Academy I just want you to think about why it was okay. Why it was okay to have a man who beat a woman celebrated, not once but three times. So many people have to come together to make this happen. Dozens approve a lineup, more get to see it and By Duana • Feb 13, 2012 11:27 am
Bad Style Katy Perry at the Grammys 2012 What an awful dress. Really, with everything available to you, you choose this? What does this say about what you want to do with your Grammy night? Katy Perry never chooses a dress by accident so she must want this to do something. Some sort of Betty Draper In Repose By Duana • Feb 13, 2012 11:11 am
