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Selin Karadağ is a teenage would-be writer who arrives at Harvard in 1995 ready to meet challenging, meaningful people and live a challenging, meaningful life — one “unmarred by laziness, cowardice, and conformity” and ideally full of interesting love affairs and art-making. Over the course of the next year, she is greeted, like all freshmen, by a constant fluctuation of banalities and revelations. Certain aspects of campus life are immutable: Literature professors won’t ever say “what books really meant”; football players always sit together in the dining hall; in-class crushes conveniently avoid mentioning their girlfriends. [Read More]

My greatest wish for these people is that they one day attend a party where not one single person gets accidentally murdered. Hey, remember parties? For us normals, a party is this thing when a lot of people come together for general frivolity and merriment, and usually there is music and sometimes cake. For the teens on Elite, Netflix’s Spanish horny, murder-y high school show, parties are a whole other beast. [Read More]

Emily In Paris Scents & Sensibility Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily In Paris Scents & Sensibility Season 2 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Emily’s curls are hair-sprayed to the hilt to watch Alfie and Gabriel play soccer. [Read More]

Our Younger withdrawal just got a little more manageable. Netflix debuted the first trailer for its upcoming rom-com series Emily in Paris, which stars Lily Collins (daughter of the “In the Air Tonight” maestro) as a very fashionable marketing executive who gets the job of a lifetime in the French capital. “I’m kind of the American point of view,” the tells a skeptical Parisian after insisting that she feels like “Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! [Read More]

Of all the trash Househusbands on Real Housewives of Potomac, Ray Huger is far from the most trash, because Michael Darby exists. Sure, Huger seems to have an aversion to telling his wife “I love you,” but Ray and Karen have a spicier love life than we give them credit for. On the November 8 episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, La Grand Dame put on her best readers to play a zhuzhed-up version of two truths and a lie with Cohen and guest Dulcé Sloan, and she started it off with a doozy: “Ray and I have role-played in the bedroom to spice things up. [Read More]

Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. Yellowjackets. Aside from “Why’s everything so expensive?” the biggest complaint of the streaming era may be “Why’s everything so dark?” The budgets of television shows have skyrocketed in recent years, so why is it often such a struggle to watch them on most people’s screens? It turns out that a number of factors — from the artistic choices (whether they pay off or not) of film and TV makers to the varying technology used to watch their work at home — make it hard to pinpoint exactly why certain scenes don’t always look clear. [Read More]

Margot Robbie actually considered this shit. When James Franco’s Spring Breakers character Alien — a cornrowed, tattooed, Riff Raff look-alike — was the hottest Halloween costume in fall 2012, even the Wolf of Wall Street star wanted to be Alien for Halloween. Robbie, apparently a perfectionist, finessed her way into getting in touch with Franco to make sure her Alien costume would be the night’s best. In GQ Style’s oral history of indie studio A24 (the studio behind Spring Breakers and Moonlight, among many other films we enjoy), Franco detailed Robbie’s costume question: [Read More]

This guy. Update, April 25: Morgan Wallen’s litigious fans have decided to settle it on the streets. Brandi Burcham’s class-action lawsuit against the country singer for canceling his concert just before going onstage was voluntarily dismissed on April 25, according to documents obtained by Vulture. Although mandatory court is the celebrity hot spot, Wallen gets to cancel those appearances too. Original story follows. Morgan Wallen has squandered so many chances at being a functional public figure at this point, sane minds wonder if it’s all a piece of extended performance art … until you actually listen to his music (on his new album, he rhymes “find a bunch of logs” with “catch a bunch of hogs”). [Read More]

God, there’s just something about watching Cher knock men down a peg. She just turned 75, and it still hasn’t gotten old. Perhaps that’s why, in addition to single-handedly legitimizing Auto-Tune and being the only Kennedy Center honoree famous for straddling naval artillery, Cher has made an entire acting career out of playing determined and dominant women. Directors put her in the proverbial ring with Republican judges, hitmen, Nicolas Cage, and literal Satan. [Read More]

*Taylor Swift voice* This is exhausting. Welp, it’s been a chaotic morning in the Taylor Swift extended cinematic universe. Taylor Swift dropped her new music video for “You Need to Calm Down” at exactly 8:15 a.m. ET, and it was brimming with Easter eggs and metaphors that demand critical analysis — right now, we’ve got a team on the floor decoding everything in the video (it’s just me). Directed by Drew Kirsch and Taylor herself, the video features a deluge of (mostly queer) celebrity cameos: Ellen DeGeneres, Ryan Reynolds, Bobby Berk, Billy Porter, Ciara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Justin Mikita, Adam Lambert, Todrick Hall, Hayley Kiyoko, Adam Rippon, Chester Lockhart, Dexter Mayfield, Hannah Hart, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, and RuPaul. [Read More]