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
Style Da’Vine Joy Randolph: Emmys Best Dressed (Duana) There could be no other. Like honestly, there could be no other. If you search my history back on this site, I’m pretty sure it’s a given. I love a bright colour, I love a snood (not to mention how much I love that intrepid red carpet dressers By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 12:39 pm
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper The Absence Of Abbott I realized fairly early on that the cast of Abbott Elementary weren’t overly present on the red carpet – though I did find out that Tyler James Williams, who wore Dolce & Gabbana, lives with his brothers, a fact that fascinated me more than it should have. Live with your By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 11:46 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Emmy Neutrals and Maya’s “Neutrals’’ What is happening that all the looks last night were kind of amazingly on point? Everything was hitting - good fits, good takes on the classics… almost like everyone knew the show was going to be good, and so they had to bring their stylists’ A-Game too? The basic black By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 10:50 am
Equality Issues The Emmys LGBTQ+ Representation Was Remarkably Unremarkable If you haven’t seen Baby Reindeer, I get it. The trailers are terrifying, and honestly, they don’t lie – the show is great, and ultimately satisfying, but it’s not easy, per se; there are genuine laughs but you pay for them, you know? One of the uncompromisingly bright By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 09:42 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Hacks – Nothing But Respect for the REAL Emmy Comedy LEST WE BE CONFUSED, the title is a joke… mostly. Hacks is the feel-good story of the television business right now. It’s firing on all cylinders – funny as f-ck, relevant, vulnerable, and nothing we’ve seen before, while also feeling like it’s a collection of super-familiar friends we By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 08:44 am
TV Updates Emmys: Nominations Mean Everything; Categories, Not So Much It’s kind of funny to me that awards show coverage always leads with “[PROJECT] gets a stunning [NUMBER] nods!” I get that it’s a shorthand for how well-regarded a show is, if every possible category landed a nomination. But it’s also indicative of past Emmy discourse, a By Duana • Jul 17, 2024 03:18 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession All The Ways To Feel About Darren Criss’s Brother I love a big reaction, from myself or others. “Understated is overrated” is my motto, even if I didn’t know it until just now. But I didn’t initially feel that way about Darren Criss’s baby name that came my way several times over the past 24 hours. By Duana • Jun 14, 2024 11:23 am
Style The Met Gala Joy of Being A Lot It was Taylor Russell’s first Met Gala. And Stray Kids’, and Tyla’s. All of whom had excellent first times out (especially Tyla!) – but let’s be real. The first time you go to the Met Gala, all you really want to do is stick the landing. Just make By Duana • May 07, 2024 11:45 am
Met Gala 2024 Met Gala Becomes One With The Earth Here’s a take I didn’t know I had until just now: I kind of like it when the themes are amorphous and mean everything and nothing. Yes, it’s fun to screech “dress on THEME” at people when they get it wrong, but some people are going to By Duana • May 07, 2024 08:51 am
Maple Leaf Show MY Work: NEAR OR FAR – Pride, Joy, and The Hard Part Of all the show business idioms we collectively overuse, probably the most annoying is “be careful what you wish for”. Why? Honestly, you’ve been wishing – and beyond that, sweating and grinding and revising when it’s not good enough, so then why do we need to bring insecurity into By Duana • Apr 09, 2024 01:47 pm
