Scandal The Times, they are…you get it Scandal Season 5 Episode 11 recap “Let’s make a president” “We…were working.” “We made a president together.” “WE did?” “You’re the work wife. Not me.” It’s hard to pin down when I became a politics buff, exactly, and I don’t know what the qualifications are By Duana • Feb 19, 2016 10:32 am
How To Get Away With Murder How Did We Get Here? How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 11 recap One of the things that’s most interesting about this show is the idea that maybe murder changes people, or maybe it doesn’t. I love this concept, and I love what the show does with flashbacks to help By Duana • Feb 19, 2016 10:28 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Ahead of the Curve Hi Duana, We're struggling with a name for our little guy due in March. When we started out, we were pretty set on Arlo or Wyatt, but we've had some difficulties and it's taken longer than we thought... and now those names seem super By Duana • Feb 17, 2016 04:53 pm
Music Hamilton at the Grammys Last night the opening number of Hamilton, “Alexander Hamilton”, was performed live from their home stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. If you know Hamilton, you squealed along at seeing it in ‘real life’, instead of just 15-second sound-ups in the 60 Minutes specials, and then checked to see if By Duana • Feb 16, 2016 11:04 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: More than Just Math Hey Duana, I have been debating whether or not to write in, or whether to just go with the flow and hope that a name fights its way to the top of our list on delivery-day. I've been tempted to ask family/friends their opinions, however I thought By Duana • Feb 15, 2016 01:48 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Stand Up And Be Counted The emails about what to name your child are great. The emails telling me what you did name your child are even better, and yes, I promise there’s a thick update of those coming sometime soon. But the stuff in the middle, the stuff I couldn’t predict, is By Duana • Feb 12, 2016 03:45 pm
Scandal Scandal Returns: The Rise of Jake Scandal Season 5 Episode 10 recap You know, when we left Scandal, there was a feeling that nothing could ever be the same. And, true to the show’s promise, nothing is. In fact they want to show you just how topsy-turvy everything is. Abby’s out of the loop, By Duana • Feb 12, 2016 10:31 am
How To Get Away With Murder How To Get Away With Murder returns How To Get Away With Murder Season 2 Episode 10 recap Let’s discuss Bonnie’s new eyeliner: good, right? Do you think it’s because they realize they’re going to have to shoot around her while she’s doing the Gilmore miniseries (I mean, I assume Paris Geller By Duana • Feb 12, 2016 10:11 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: About The List Hi Duana. I imagine that there is probably a significant backlog of emails from people who need help naming imminent babies, and I'm/we're not expecting, but I could use your advice. Long story short, we are reproductively 'challenged'. Both of us are individually By Duana • Feb 10, 2016 04:34 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: What am I Missing? I'm due with our first, a girl, mid-February. And we've kind of chosen a name? and been referring to the baby by it for months now, only I'm realizing that while my fella loves it I don't know that I do: Augustine. By Duana • Feb 08, 2016 03:52 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Gender-Neutral Doesn’t Exist Hey Duana, I have a son who's coming up on 10 years old who we named Rafferty, after an old-timey Australian actor called Chips Rafferty (we are Australian). Someone said to me recently that Rafferty would soon follow names like Riley and Rowan which were once boy names By Duana • Feb 05, 2016 04:33 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Can baby make Three? Hi Duana! As a long-time lurker, I never expected to be writing in. We have twins, a boy and a girl, and have spent the years since they were born swearing that we were DONE. (With much snark and vigor, I'm afraid.) And now - we are, somehow, By Duana • Feb 03, 2016 04:25 pm
TV Updates Shade in Stars Hollow The Netflix Gilmore Girls revival is happening – four 90-minute episodes, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall are being shot literally right now. Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino explained that they’ll be about “three women (Lorelai, Rory, and Emily) in transition”, because that mirrors the structure of the pilot. It will be about By Duana • Feb 03, 2016 11:11 am
TV Updates Grease: Live brings down the house Before yesterday at oh, 5PM, I barely remembered Grease: Live was going to be on TV. When I did, I was looking forward to some snark. Remember, I called Grease a shouted play with some songs in it. I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. Last night wasn’ By Duana • Feb 01, 2016 09:56 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: In Which I Expose My (former) Self Hi Duana, We’re expecting our second baby early February and are searching for a name. Gender is a surprise, and we’ve gone through the list of names we had for our first and don’t really like them anymore, so we’re back at square one. Our first By Duana • Jan 29, 2016 02:56 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Louis Tomlinson’s first son Let’s start off saying that I’m operating at a little bit of a Louis Tomlinson deficit, in that, like most people, Harry and Zayn were the only two One Directioners whose last names I could have sworn to at gunpoint, and if I were going to choose a By Duana • Jan 28, 2016 03:24 pm