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By: Emma Gray & Claire Fallon
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 Claire Fallon and Emma Gray obsessively analyze our cultural obsessions, from fashion trends to books to the buzziest scripted TV shows.

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  • 'The Hunting Wives' Is A Sexy Soap For Our Hypocritical Political Moment

    'The Hunting Wives' Is A Sexy Soap For Our Hypocritical Political Moment
    Aug 2 2025
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    “The Hunting Wives” is one of those rare shows where nothing makes much sense, but it still somehow works. Thanks to her very middling husband, coastal liberal Sophie O’Neill (Brittany Snow) gets dropped into the gun-toting world of East Texas socialites, led by Queen Bee Margo Banks (Malin Åkerman). Longing glances are exc…
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    13 mins
  • ‘Too Much’ Is The Right Amount, Plus A Little More

    ‘Too Much’ Is The Right Amount, Plus A Little More
    Jul 25 2025
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    Titling your new Netflix rom-com series “Too Much” is the sort of move that comes off as either a provocation or an easy set-up. It’s as if co-creator Lena Dunham is inviting critics to assess whether her show and her heroine are, indeed, too much. And given the decade-plus of fevered discourse around her last semi-autobiogr…
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    15 mins
  • We Finally Saw 'Materialists'...

    We Finally Saw 'Materialists'...
    Jul 18 2025
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    Pedro Pascal + Dakota Johnson + Chris Evans + love triangle + New York City + an exploration of modern dating should = pure joy. Unfortunately, the math behind Celine Song’s sophomore feature, “Materialists,” simply doesn’t add up.

    You know things aren’t going great when you watch a movie and can’t stop mentally cataloguing each …
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    12 mins
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