The premise of Netflix’s new thriller Secret Obsession, now streaming, is right in the title: A deranged stalker, Russell (Mike Vogel), forms an all-consuming fixation on Jennifer (Brenda Song). When Jennifer wakes up from a car accident with severe memory loss, Russell is there claiming to be her husband. Oddly, no one at the hospital…
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Gossip Girl left a hole in my heart when it went off the air seven years ago. The popular CW series epitomized one of my favorite sub-genres in entertainment: hot people running around with zero consequences. There hasn’t been a show to come around since then that’s hit quite the same spot for me…until now.…
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You is easily one of the creepiest new shows of 2019. The Netflix original—which first aired on Lifetime last fall—centers on a bookstore manager, Joe (Penn Badgley), who develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman named Beck (Elizabeth Lail). Joe’s fascination causes him to do some bonkers things, like stalk Beck and her friends, manipulate…
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It’s hard to forget when Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) was revealed as Gossip Girl‘s titular blogger in 2012—mostly because it made zero sense. Dan routinely sat and read Gossip Girl multiple times in his room by himself. Gnarly rumors concerning him and his inner circle ended up on the site. He’d even act genuinely shocked…
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Oh, Riverdale, you really messed with my emotions tonight. I’m moved, shook, and turned on all at once. Spoilers ahead, obviously. We start with Kevin sucking face with a random dude in the woods. He stumbles across Midge, who somehow survived being shot at point-blank range. Teen show logic, I guess? (Moose is alive, too.…
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