Ever since Gossip Girl went off the air in 2012, people have been waiting for it to come back. We are in the era of reboots, after all, and a show like Gossip Girl—with its soapy twists and diehard fan base—is ripe for revisiting. In February 2019 news broke that The CW was having “discussions”…
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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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I generally feel about the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) the way I feel about gender reveal parties: I get why people are into it, I’ll go if I’m invited, and I always root for a girl. So after I saw on Twitter there’s a “women got this” moment in the climactic battle of Avengers: Endgame,…
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Junior high is, for me at least, a time worth forgetting. That formative, cringe-inducing time was filled with angst, cliques, and a whole lot of acne. So watching Hulu‘s PEN15, a coming-of-age comedy following two seventh grade girls in the year 2000, was a mixed experience: The rush of seeing the early aughts return, the…
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What the film does well is highlight both the experiences that girls all over the world have in common and the terrible, particular difficulties and threats that a girl like Nasro faces. How much of girlhood is a shared experience? Being a girl is always difficult. It’s a strange rite of passage, and being a…
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Kate Middleton went on an official trip to Northern Ireland last week and along the way, she stopped to chat with a little girl who seemed enamored that she was talking to a real-life duchess. In an adorable moment that’s now surfacing from the trip, the Duchess of Cambridge told her what she loves most…
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