SAG Awards 2023 The Jenna & Aubrey Show The next time I’m asked to give a bunch of young hopefuls advice, I am going to cut to the chase and give one two-pronged directive about how to succeed in this business: If you have a niche or a thing – like if you become popular for a particular By Duana • Feb 27, 2023 12:54 pm
SAG Awards 2023 SAG Points to Chastain You know what you can count on the SAG awards for, every single time? Great speeches. Why don’t they advertise themselves that way? I mean, it’s for the same reason the speeches are so good. They don’t need to advertise because this show is not for anyone By Duana • Feb 27, 2023 11:41 am
TV Updates Daisy Jones & The Six Have Arrived A hotly-anticipated trailer drops. You race to watch – and just as it fades up, a quick, silent prayer. I hope it’s good. The bigger and more beloved the projects, the bigger the stakes. So when it comes to the trailer for Daisy Jones & The Six – New York Times By Duana • Jan 25, 2023 02:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Are You There, God? Because We Are HERE Raise your hand if you thought this day might never come. Just me? No, I didn’t think so. It’s been at least a couple of years since we heard there would be an adaptation of Judy Blume’s seminal Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, and By Duana • Jan 12, 2023 02:09 pm
Golden Globes 2023 Jennifer Coolidge’s Golden Moment You know, she already started the night on a high, with her creative pronunciations of Kaylee Cuoco and ________________. You never quite know if she’s joking, and that makes her exciting to watch, because anything could happen. And you can tell that everyone feels it. Everyone loves her. Even Jerrod By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 02:54 pm
Golden Globes 2023 Colin Farrell: Irish Tabulation, Globes Edition Look, here was the best thing about the show last night. We all had …low expectations, right? This show just got out of being the TV equivalent of grounded, you wouldn’t think it would have been surprising, but people said a lot of fun stuff, and also a lot By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 01:37 pm
Golden Globes 2023 Ryan Murphy’s Golden Eye The tribute to Ryan Murphy was overwhelming, in so many ways. As Lainey said to me, when the room first welcomed him, “that entire room has worked with him” – it’s true that since each Ryan Murphy show is its own niche thing, he really has multiple audiences, and he By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 12:50 pm
Golden Globes 2023 The Bear Is A Kitten There is a dirty secret about The Bear. You know, the gritty show about the kitchen and the guy with dashed dreams running after his brother – it’s grimy and dark and desperate, but there is one fact about it that should get it kicked directly out of whatever we’ By Duana • Jan 11, 2023 10:10 am
Top Reads Best Dressed: Quinta Brunson and Abbott Elementary I’ve decided that the best thing about Sheryl Lee Ralph’s win last night is that it was all the things. It was unexpected – in a stacked category, she was not favoured to win, particularly, though I don’t think there’s anyone out there who doesn’t love By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 10:30 am
Emmy Awards 2022 The White (And Red, And Green, And Magenta) Lotuses… I need to start this post with an apology to Mare Winningham and Kaitlyn Dever, both of whom were in Dopesick, but who must have known, when they saw the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, that there was absolutely no chance they were getting By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 09:37 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Emmys High Point: Lizzo This tweet struck me tonight: I got close pic.twitter.com/btBymFMKQA — Henry Winkler (@hwinkler4real) September 13, 2022 First because who doesn’t love Henry Winkler, second because I’d bet money he wrote it himself – it’s not a good enough angle to be chosen by someone who cares By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 08:47 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Only UnderDogs In The Building If you haven’t met me (it’s been a minute) you are free to shout at me for not being a fan of Ted Lasso. It’s entirely personal, between me and sports and aw-shucks-ism, and I reserve the right to be into it in 12-15 years, but for By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 07:14 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Amanda Seyfried Left It With Lizzie You know what’s obnoxious about me? (How long do you have?) I’m a gloater. I can’t help it. Not when it’s going to hurt anyone else, or anything like that, but when Amanda Seyfried won the Emmy last night, I immediately smugged that I called it By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 06:04 am
Emmy Awards 2022 Kenan’s Easy Like Sunday Evening An ongoing theme of last night’s Emmys coverage is that there’s just more TV than even the most voracious among us can consume, so I won’t bother asking if anyone’s been watching How To with John Wilson – but that show is where I became aware of By Duana • Sep 13, 2022 05:16 am
Oscars 2022 Tropical Fruit Oscar Colours Beyoncé started it, of course. Obviously there’s much more discourse on that elsewhere, and obviously it’s not like anyone knew that ‘tennis ball’ was going to be the colour of the night. But leave it to this, the absolute hands-down weirdest Oscars ever to be the riot of By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 09:56 am
Oscars 2022 Ariana DeBose, Rita, and Anita Make History Do you ever wonder how Best Supporting Actress came to be the first award presented? I remember when I figured out that it was always a crowd-pleaser, because everyone in that category is largely there for having had a blast in a role that wasn’t about how pretty they By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 07:00 am
