TV Updates Forever in 2025 is Still Timeless In all the press about new Netflix series Forever, the three converging timelines might be the least discussed element. The quintessential teen romance of 2025 is inspired by the Judy Blume novel published a literal fifty years ago – but also set in 2018, a time just far enough away from By Duana • May 12, 2025 02:28 pm
Met Gala 2025 Teyana Taylor and Guest Star Ego Nwodim: Met Gala 2025 Best Dressed (Duana) I have only one negative thing to say about Teyana Taylor’s ensemble last night, which is that we were very rarely able to see it head on: Most of the time, we saw her co-hosting the blue carpet, so we got the chains on the pants (which originally I By Duana • May 06, 2025 02:14 pm
Met Gala 2025 Oxblood, Sweat, and Relatively Few Tears We’re going to do proper Best Dressed anointments later in the day, but for my money, the people in this piece are the ones who really collectively killed it. I didn’t start out thinking the oxblood would be the key colour of the night, and I have to By Duana • May 06, 2025 01:22 pm
Met Gala 2025 Best (and a Worst) Of Both in Black & White Yes, it’s a very classic, stylish look. No, it is not the most original – as we can see by the fact that, first of all, there are myriad variations on this theme seen here, and second, that there are other looks we highlighted elsewhere that could, in theory, have By Duana • May 06, 2025 12:26 pm
Style The Met Gala’s Well-Suited Women With a Dandyism theme, suits and suiting are on everyone’s mind, and though “dress like the boys” isn’t a huge stretch on the theme, many of the women in this category might never get to wear pants to an event, depending on their stylist’s inclinations or whatever By Duana • May 06, 2025 08:04 am
Style Oscar Best Dressed: Bowen Yang (Duana) It wasn’t even hard. Bowen Yang was my Best Dressed before the show was halfway done – I wanted to wait to see if anyone was going to surprise me, but I knew it wasn’t even going to be close – because his look, which is custom Etro, fulfills what By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 01:44 pm
Oscars 2025 Chic, Smooth, and Soft – Velvet Is the Chill Carpet Choice Velvet trending on the carpet isn’t new, per se – it’s a great fabric that’s both reliable and forgiving. So it makes sense that it’s popular – what’s fun is thinking about the Venn diagram of the women who chose it. Isabella Rosselini is the easiest to By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 12:40 pm
Oscars 2025 Andrew Garfield is Just Playing, Now It’s the middle of the night as I write this, otherwise known as the middle of the workday, which as we all know is the traditional time for some gloating. Or so I thought: I was all set to talk about Andrew Garfield and remind you that while you By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 11:15 am
Top Reads The Most Exhausting Supporting Actor Competition The show’s overall pace was good, especially toward the beginning. And Robert Downey, Jr.’s introduction of the five nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category was incredibly skillful, in a move that nobody else was able to replicate quite as well. True, it necessitated RDJ acting like he By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 10:19 am
Ariana Grande Dear Old Wicked goes to the Big Show Because at this point, the Wicked cast are almost as familiar as your cousins, right? After the most epic and committed press cycle in recent history, we’ve committed every expression and interaction Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have ever had – not to memory, because they’re too numerous and By Duana • Mar 03, 2025 07:43 am
TV Updates BUFFY IS (apparently, actually, potentially) BACK?! I really didn’t expect good news this week, since the past few days/lifetime have been A Bit Unusual where world news is concerned – and, like everyone else, my resolve to be aware of/not obsessed by the news is pretty rusty. I need discipline. Which has come from By Duana • Feb 04, 2025 02:23 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Mahomes Family “Announces” Third Child’s Name Of course I understand why Lainey asked me to write about the Mahomes family’s baby names following the announcement of their third child’s name yesterday. What I don’t understand is why a headline I read when I was looking to verify details read: “Mahomes Family Baby Names By Duana • Jan 14, 2025 01:28 pm
Quiveration Golden Globes Men Made Their Looks Really Count Look, it’s not that I need to be right. Honestly, I don’t. It’s just that, if you say something for long enough, and have enough patience, you become right, without knowing it. I remember a time when people used to tell me that Colin Farrell was – well, By Duana • Jan 06, 2025 02:11 pm
Golden Globes 2025 Nobody Wants That at the Golden Globes Yes, yes, it’s technically ‘Nobody Want This’, I suppose, we’re all very clever. Except, of course, that everyone wanted this. Everyone. Nobody Wants This is a flawed but deeply charming show, and the second season has a lot of pressure to go either up or out – but this By Duana • Jan 06, 2025 11:41 am
Golden Globes 2025 Zoe & Demi: The Golden Globes Best Unscripted Speeches Zoe Saldaña has been in this business for a long, long time. So I think probably none of us realized what a big moment tonight might be for her. None of us, that is, except for Zoe Saldaña herself. She was clearly excited, because she brought her mom to the By Duana • Jan 06, 2025 09:19 am
Michelle Yeoh No One Mourns Wicked At the Golden Globes There’s no sense hiding it, the truth is right there. Like many other writers today, I went ahead and chose an article title that’s a Wicked pun. But I’m not sorry, for two reasons: One, it’s a MUSICAL based on a century-old campy story. There’s By Duana • Jan 06, 2025 08:42 am
