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
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper The sparkly dress moment at the Emmys Sparkly dresses had a moment at the Emmys. But they very specifically had a moment with women of a certain age, as Catherine O’Hara, Jennifer Aniston, Candice Bergen, Kristin Wiig, Janel Moloney, and Christine Baranski all wore gleaming gowns. And we can pretty much blame it all on Laura By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 10:12 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
Quiveration The Emmys of Well-Dressed Men When Sarah, Duana, and I were doing our wrap-up on Zoom last night, the consensus is that this was probably one of the most well-dressed award shows we’ve seen in a while. I mean, sure, there were some boring choices, but not so boring that it veered By Lainey • Sep 16, 2024 09:13 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- By Duana • Sep 16, 2024 08:44 am
Break Ups Bennifer… again?! Interrupting our Emmys coverage because this was the biggest gossip story to emerge out of the weekend and by tomorrow, who knows, something else might come up with these two drama queens so we might as well get it out the way now. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were seen By Lainey • Sep 16, 2024 08:22 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Is the tide turning against The Bear? I’ve been saying since practically day one that The Bear is not a comedy and should not be nominated as a comedy at the Emmys. After three seasons of increasingly stressful kitchen meltdowns and family get-togethers, people are pretty much universally wondering why The Bear is categorized as By Sarah • Sep 16, 2024 08:07 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper A Shōgun Record “Oh ye of little faith” – that was me the last few days, and especially since the Creative Arts Emmys, where Shōgun picked 14 Emmy wins. The series came into the Emmys with a record 25 nominations and my worry was that the Television Academy will honour it with the “tech” By Lainey • Sep 16, 2024 07:50 am
Emmy Awards 2024 Proper Intro for September 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, As Sarah, Duana, and I have said over the years, and we’ve been doing this for years, we’re never going to be the people who complain about award shows. We are award show junkies, and not just because it’s our job. Even when they’re By Lainey • Sep 16, 2024 07:27 am
What Else What Else? Programming note: We will be live chatting the Emmys on Sunday, September 15 starting at 7:30 PM ET. Join us! Michelle Williams at the Deauville Film Festival in France. I really like the black outfit. The gown sort of looks like a bathmat. (Go Fug Yourself) Is fall the By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Hyun Bin in Harbin South Korean filmmaker Woo Min-ho has a knack for thrillers, having previously made the spy thriller The Man Standing Next, Inside Men, and The Spies, though that film takes a more comedic approach to the genre. His latest film is another spy thriller, Harbin, which fictionalizes the 1909 assassination By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 03:17 pm
Top Reads Justin Timberlake “could have made a different decision” Justin Timberlake appeared in court in Sag Harbour today to plead guilty to a lesser charge of driving while impaired after making a deal with the prosecutors. He was ordered by the judge to pay a fine of $500; his drivers licence is suspended in New York state for 90 By Lainey • Sep 13, 2024 02:24 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 13, 2024 Now what did I say about Dave Grohl’s baby being the beginning of the story? The dominoes are starting to fall. Threads hasn’t made a huge cultural impact; it’s not at the point where it is a communication tool for rock stars to announce out-of-wedlock By Maria • Sep 13, 2024 02:01 pm
Music Outfit of the Week: Charli XCX in autumn brown Before Taylor Swift, there was Charli XCX. Kamala Harris + brat characterised the early days of the Vice President’s candidacy – a totally organic viral sensation originating from Charli’s spontaneous tweet: “kamala is brat”. MVP’s campaign immediately and astutely seized upon the moment on her social channels, and Gen By Lainey • Sep 13, 2024 01:33 pm
Reality TV Reality Recap: Chanel, Sunset, Shannon It was so strange seeing John Janssen in the audience on Watch What Happens Live last night, and even more strange to see him participating in the show, stuttering to answer how Shannon Beador disparaged him. He made all these claims that she turned his life into a public spectacle, By Stephanie • Sep 13, 2024 12:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Andrea Arnold’s Bird Andrea Arnold’s work is often concerned with animals, whether it’s the horse of Fish Tank, the turtle of American Honey, or the titular cow in Cow. In Bird, there are, yes, birds. But there are also horses, dogs, foxes, fish, and a patch of green thriving on the By Sarah • Sep 13, 2024 12:07 pm
