I am well known in certain circles as the person who watches basically everything that’s on TV. While everyone else is cord-cutting, I’m the one with every cable channel and Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon. The television is quite literally always on in my apartment—even when I’m working from home. (Right now, for example, my WFH…
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I don’t think I ever could have guessed I’d be so deeply invested in an Alabama special election, but this is 2017. So last night I settled in to watch the results in the race for Jeff Sessions’ vacated Senate seat between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore who has battled an onslaught of…
Read moreIt’s been nearly a week since The Washington Post first reported that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore had allegedly initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old and pursued relationships with other teen girls when he was in his 30s. On Tuesday, Ivanka Trump offered the sharpest White House criticism of Moore yet, telling the Associated Press,…
Read moreOn Thursday, the Washington Post reported allegations that Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate from Alabama, had initiated a sexual encounter with an Alabama woman when she was 14 and he was 32. Three other women, then between the ages of 16 and 18, also say that Moore pursued them. In response, the hashtag #MeAt14…
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The second season of This Is Us could easily be renamed This Is Us: Kevin or This Is Us: Kate, and so on. Each episode, one character gets their moment to shine—and on Tuesday’s, it was Rebecca’s turn. For Mandy Moore, it was a turning point in Rebecca’s journey: “I feel like she’s able to…
Read moreMandy Moore is currently on a whirlwind press tour for NBC’s This Is Us, America’s favorite form of catharsis, in which she plays the show’s matriarch, Rebecca Pearson. It’s a role that’s made Moore the most visible she’s been in years, and with that, unfortunately, comes online trolls. Moore brushed with a few of them…
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