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
Gorgessity Oprah Ultraviolets at the Golden Globes Okay, here’s a thought experiment: We’re always told that A-listers (or really, their stylists) confer with fashion houses before the major awards shows, securing looks their clients can wear at the myriad events awards season brings – and as we know, there’s a scramble to make sure the By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 01:56 pm
Golden Globes 2024 Emma Stone & The Gift for the Girl Who Has Everything Emma Stone won the Golden Globe last night for Poor Things, which could portend all kinds of interesting developments for the Oscars, but I’m not here to talk about that. It’s not that I don’t support the win – I do, and even for an accomplished and celebrated By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 12:56 pm
Hook Ups Ali Wong & Steven Yeun BEEF up When we were planning all our coverage last night, we talked about how some ensemble casts come in with high energy, feeling like it could be their night – like the Barbie group, who seemed to deflate a little bit more with each award bringing them closer to a shutout (I By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 10:56 am
TV Updates The Big Time Bear You know how it is when you fall in love, right? Not only does everything feel so wonderful and right, and not only do you want to introduce your new love to everyone in your life – your love seems relevant to every situation, right? If you’re part of the By Duana • Jan 08, 2024 08:24 am
Top Reads Judy Blume Knows Bullsh-t Judy Blume is 85 years old. On a press tour for the first time in almost ten years, for the movie Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, a hotly-anticipated adaptation of her uber-popular, formerly hyper-controversial book published over 50 years ago. This weekend, she was widely accused of By Duana • Apr 17, 2023 02:04 pm
TV Updates Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are The Americans again Is it your birthday? Congratulations. You’ve been given one of the amazing showbiz gifts we all long for. A unicorn, if you will – when art becomes life and everyone’s super happy about it. Last night the Paley Centre celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Americans, which seems both By Duana • Apr 13, 2023 02:45 pm
