This week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds randomly became a soap opera parody? But at least there was kind of a reason for it? IDK, man, this season is all over the place in a very strange way

This week's great installment of Lanterns made me realize there's a new trend in TV lately—experimental third episodes that serve as a calling card for what the season wants to do thematically www.avclub.com/lanterns-epi...

Forget Myers-Briggs, love languages, and the Enneagram, the true personality test is which pro you would want to be paired with on Dancing with the Stars.

I ranked every episode of Adults season two!

‘Adults’ season two, ranked

This Gen Z sitcom is the perfect late-summer hangout comedy

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On this week's Heated Rivalry reheat, it's time for "Olympians," an episode that inspired me to do a deep-dive into Ilya's cultural identity crisis, Shane's embarrassing (and relatable) behavior, and Jacob Tierney's stellar direction

‘Heated Rivalry’ delivers an Olympic-sized identity crisis

Even the weakest episode of the season still serves up nuanced character work and impeccable direction

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Onslaught is pretty darn fun as a bloody 1970s John Carpenter homage, even if it doesn't deliver a particularly satisfying "final girl." My review for Decoding Everything!

‘Onslaught’ Is Pure Retro Mayhem

The grindhouse throwback evokes 1980s action classics without quite recapturing their magic

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On this week's Heated Rivalry reheat, it's time for "Olympians," an episode that inspired me to do a deep-dive into Ilya's cultural identity crisis, Shane's embarrassing (and relatable) behavior, and Jacob Tierney's stellar direction

‘Heated Rivalry’ delivers an Olympic-sized identity crisis

Even the weakest episode of the season still serves up nuanced character work and impeccable direction

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I would have started Adults a lot sooner if I knew Charlie Cox was in it.

Olivia Rodrigo is 23 years old and she’s doing more to vocally (and monetarily) support abortion rights and make progressive political engagement cool among her demographic than a lot of elected officials triple her age. Adore her!

I could really feel the old When Romance Met Comedy energy coursing through my veins while writing this month’s You’ve Got Rom-Com column on The Proposal and the sneakily toxic rom-coms of the late aughts

‘The Proposal’ and rom-coms that put women in their place

How misunderstanding the screwball comedy genre fueled an era of toxic rom-coms

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I could really feel the old When Romance Met Comedy energy coursing through my veins while writing this month’s You’ve Got Rom-Com column on The Proposal and the sneakily toxic rom-coms of the late aughts

‘The Proposal’ and rom-coms that put women in their place

How misunderstanding the screwball comedy genre fueled an era of toxic rom-coms

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I LOVED this week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds!! Such a great celebration of what the show can be at its best

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

An unexpected trend I've discovered writing Women of Action is how many female stars have to become the defacto auteurs of their own action vehicles to get them made, which was very much the case for Charlize Theron and Atomic Blonde (a movie that rules!)

I wrote about one of the best nights of my life: Seeing Dolly Parton's one-night-only show at SXSW in 2022

My night with Dolly

Honoring Dolly Parton by remembering her 2022 SXSW concert

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I’m winding down summer by reheating Heated Rivalry! Join me for weekly deep dives into the nuanced character work that made the show such a phenomenon

The ‘Heated Rivalry’ premiere is so much deeper than it’s given credit for

Let’s wind down the summer by reheating Heated Rivalry

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I’m winding down summer by reheating Heated Rivalry! Join me for weekly deep dives into the nuanced character work that made the show such a phenomenon

The ‘Heated Rivalry’ premiere is so much deeper than it’s given credit for

Let’s wind down the summer by reheating Heated Rivalry

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Time is strange because I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that we haven’t had a Halloween since Heated Rivalry came out.

I took an architecture boat tour here in Chicago and it was incredible. But it was also $50 for a 90-minute ride and it made me realize that $50 for an entire YEAR’S worth of my writing really is a steal for my paid subscribers! girlculture.substack.com

Needed something to take the edge off so I decided to wrap up the summer by reheating Heated Rivalry over on Girl Culture! Weekly retrospectives of each episode start this Sunday. (Also, “Rookies” gets richer every time I watch it!)

Sorry to be a hater of whimsy, but the puppet episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was simply too much for me

Wrote about one of my favorite, subtle throughlines of Spider-Man: Brand New Day

The lovely female mentorship of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

A character defined by his male mentors finally gets a new kind of role model

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Wrote about one of my favorite, subtle throughlines of Spider-Man: Brand New Day

The lovely female mentorship of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

A character defined by his male mentors finally gets a new kind of role model

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Rewatching No Way Home and is there a worse MCU hero than Doctor Strange? Dude absolutely sucks AND he’s not even fun to watch

Getting real “Evan Peters in Mare of Easttown” vibes from Scoot McNairy in Furious and it’s making me nervous.

I wrapped up my time on Sterling Point! I still can’t believe Grace from The Secret Life of the American Teenage is the auteur behind this project. But maybe the best person to reclaim the teen drama genre is someone who’s lived through the worst version of it and come out on the other side stronger

Every thought I had watching the rest of ‘Sterling Point’

An incredibly compelling debut season rounds out its run

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Hulu’s Furious comes from the three-parent home of Mindhunter, Killing Eve, and Unbelievable.

I wrapped up my time on Sterling Point! I still can’t believe Grace from The Secret Life of the American Teenage is the auteur behind this project. But maybe the best person to reclaim the teen drama genre is someone who’s lived through the worst version of it and come out on the other side stronger

Every thought I had watching the rest of ‘Sterling Point’

An incredibly compelling debut season rounds out its run

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Real sign of our culture that all the boys from Girls get to be more famous than the girls from Girls. Put Allison Williams and Zosia Mamet in the MCU, you cowards!

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Marvel has announced Christopher Abbott is joining the MCU as X-Men's Professor X. #D23

After hearing nothing but praise for Sterling Point, I decided to dive in and I'm absolutely delighted by this show! Here's my real-time experience of falling in love with it

Every thought I had watching ‘Sterling Point’

Prime Video continues to dominate the teen romance genre

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