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
TV Updates Why You Don’t Want To Watch Quiet On Set (TW for coercion, harassment, sexual/mental abuse, and large doses of gaslighting.) Most people who know me weren’t surprised that I watched Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV - it’s a safe bet that I would, and that I would tell them all about it. By Duana • Mar 25, 2024 11:30 am
Oscars 2024 Duana’s Best Dressed: Emily Blunt Yeah, I said it. And I mean it. Hear me out – hear me out, I said! Some Best Dressed-s are obvious, and some take a minute. When I thought about all the outfits, the one I kept coming back to (before we saw Vanity Fair, because WHHYYYY were all the By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 03:15 pm
Top Reads Sunday Service At The Church Of Kenergy Let me start off this post of unbridled joy with a bit of crabbiness. Indulge me, we haven’t slept, it’s been a long night, and that’s before detours down any of several Kate Middleton wormholes. However: I saw more than one hot take on the Ryan Gosling By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 02:39 pm
Oscars 2024 Far, Far Away From A Barbie World By now, the sting of the snub is gone away – nobody, not one person or hopeful 8 year old child, believed the throwaway ‘Best Picture’ nomination for Barbie was going to be anything more than a cute clip montage. The acting nods – I don’t agree with it, but there’ By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 12:56 pm
Oscars 2024 What Does A Lapel Pin Say? The Artists4Ceasefire pins worn at the Oscars last night actually debuted at (or before) the Grammy Awards, and are representative of a group of artists petitioning Joe Biden to ask for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, after the 30,000 lives lost and over 70,000 injured in Gaza and By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 11:05 am
Oscars 2024 Cord Jefferson Is Our New King When I say ‘our’, here, I am of course referring to screenwriters. TV writers, more precisely. Oh, and internet writers. Let me back up for a little biography. You already know that Cord Jefferson won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for American Fiction, and that, as he has mentioned By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 08:25 am
Oscars 2024 Congrats to Robert Downey Jr … I suppose? So this is one of those wins that wasn’t a surprise, but that everyone was generally on board for, right? Robert Downey, Jr. has won all the awards leading up to this one, he’s universally acknowledged to have been excellent in the role, so this win should have By Duana • Mar 11, 2024 05:36 am
Gorgessity Selena Gomez: Emmys Best Dressed (Duana) I can’t say for sure that I know what song lyrics Selena Gomez had in her head while she was getting ready for the Emmy Awards, but if I had to guess, I’d bet it all on one line: “You know you that bitch when you cause all By Duana • Jan 16, 2024 01:19 pm
Emmy Awards 2024 Emmys Slink and Shimmy There are some shows where I really want the performer, or performers, to win awards and get recognized. Then there are some where I don’t. For example, I was really happy tonight that viewers who don’t know her might have learned Natasha Lyonne’s vibe a bit, when By Duana • Jan 16, 2024 11:07 am
Emmy Awards 2024 For Niecy, Winning Is A Very Big Deal/Dress Just when you thought you’d heard every possible way to do a great acceptance speech, along comes Niecy Nash Betts, who won for her role in Dahmer, rhyming off Evan Peters and Ryan Murphy, and then goes… “And you know who I want to thank? I want to thank By Duana • Jan 16, 2024 07:48 am
