The Summer of Scam
The series “Inventing Anna” didn’t fascinate me as much as the real story. Moreover, the show was annoying at times. More than I care to elaborate. In order to make the characters interesting, many are just simply overdone. Jessica/Vivian, the reporter…
Don't Ask Him About Yeezys Right Now
If I have to die on any hill, the death will occur on Kanye West hill. You heard it here. It’s not even — have to, it’s I WANT TO. I chose it. I’m willing. This is my pick and I stand behind it. I put 15 years of extended pop-culture study…
The Rihanna Phenomenon
Before I dive into the op-ed about the Rihanna pregnancy announcement phenomenon, I want to summarize it in one sentence. A comment below the post of the photographer Miles Diggs who took the pictures and first announced it, read…
And Just Like That, We Still Hate It
This is my second piece on And Just Like That. Not sure I’ve ever covered the same subject twice, let alone twice in a row. Call it a hit piece. I can’t help it. I can’t do it once, I need to lash out this hatered in series. No, I don’t feel bad about it. Writing is a hard job. Writing television…
The Pain That Keeps on Giving
Here’s an unpopular opinion: You bonded with the original Sex & The City. It’s your favorite show. You feel like a New Yorker, you felt like the city is “so you” when you watched it. You visited New York for a few days, possibly weeks…
Why You Need An Expiration Date For People
Time is one of the concepts I think about, all the time. How it measures, what it tells us. Can’t think of a better teacher we could have in life, but time. If we understood its concept, instead of just passage of it…
The problematic message of Sex/Life
“This is a show about female desire - That’s the sentence I wrote at the top of everything - the first story document, the first outline, the first script for Sex/Life. It was an…
Life Is About Subtracting
I’ve never been a huge Coelho fan, I preferred my authors to be more problematic, dark, troubled; you know those who are both destructive and melodramatic in the same paragraph, forcing you to examine your existential vows…
The Kravis Effect
Given relationships are what I mostly wrote about for a decade now, I didn’t write one single article about it this year. Not for the lack of subjects or things to say; this year is nothing if not fruitful in matters of the heart.
See What Comes To You In Silence
There’s something poignant about the first half of September. A sort of melancholy interrupted with glimpses of a thrill. I’m convinced the last week of August and the first two weeks of September are a portal where everything vital happens to you.
Are You Forcing Creativity For Content?
I think we are all intricately connected in this pandemic. Connected in thought, feeling, and emotion. Everything I go through; the thought I have or a feeling that overcomes me, I find out with a quick scroll on my phone, many of you do, too.
I Meant a Good Reason
Did the lack of our social life for the past year make us look more intensely at the TV shows and movies for the references and inspiration we lacked in our lives? Yes, the sole purpose of entertainment is to raise questions we can implement in our own lives, but we didn’t discuss fiction with the same vigor as our real lives.
Are We Languishing?
Same as probably everyone on this planet, I was euphorically excited to get out of lockdown and start living again. Talking to people in person, touching people, and seeing their grimaces instead of just reading their messages, seemed like an actual, painful if not fulfilled - physical need.
The Oppression Olympics of Ginny & Georgia
“Love is parasitic, it’s painful, and it’s inconvenient” - this, mind you, came out of the mouth of a 16-year-old. Ginny & Georgia, Netflix. There is so much to unpack here. Ginny & Georgia is a post-me-too, post-racial awakening, post-new-wave feminism, post-inclusion, post-diversity, post-equality…
Oprah with Harry & Meghan: The Aftermath
I wrote a lot of pieces on Meghan & Harry. I discussed how their royal exit (Megxit) is actually a love story. I wrote about Meghan’s effect on women on International Women’s Day last year. I also wrote a column for Buro. Magazine about their Oprah’s Interview.
Normal People
You know those moments when people tell you to watch something and the sound of their voice drowns in usual, monotone programming recommendation noise? It stays in the back of your head, for that particular lie you keep telling yourself: "I'll watch it…
We Are Living in a Post-Truth Age
We are living in a post-truth age. People, I got nothing better than that. I have no articulate words. How does one even attempt to describe the stimulation we experienced the last few years, especially last year? Better wordsmiths than me have done it.
Bring Back (Manly) Men
I have a confession to make: I'm only doing this subject so I can have a picture of Harry Styles in my article. Literally, this post can blah-blah something, Harry Styles, the end, and it would make sense to exist in this space. Any space. Only his name without any content…
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