Let me take you back 11 years, to 2008, when Taylor Swift appeared on The Ellen Show and publicly dragged her then most recent ex, Joe Jonas. You definitely remember this: It was November, and Swift’s second studio album, Fearless, was about to drop. On that LP is a song inspired by Jonas called “Forever…
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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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The final season of Game of Thrones is fast approaching—mark your calendars for April 14. One thing that the series has delivered on since it premiered in 2011 has been the twists and turns in the story arcs of your favorite characters. These can get so extreme, it has inspired plenty of impassioned fan theories…
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Last weekend, Tucker Carlson woke up to world of pain. A researcher at Media Matters had dug up hours of his call-ins to a radio show called Bubba The Love Sponge. You can dig into all his deeply offensive opinions elsewhere, but here’s a lowlight reel, as summed up in the Washington Post: he implied…
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Another woman—and a bisexual woman of color, at that—is breaking into the boys’ club of late night television. NBC is filling Carson Daly’s old time slot (1:35 A.M.) with a brand-new show hosted by YouTube star Lilly Singh called A Little Late with Lilly. According to Variety, the show will debut in September and feature…
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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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