Russian Doll Is a Brilliant, Surreal Show About Women in Power

Russian Doll, the new Netflix series that debuts Friday and stars Natasha Lyonne, is an ideal weekend binge. It’s eight episodes that clock in at under 30 minutes each, telling a self-contained story that is at once funny and twisted and scary. It’s a Groundhog Day–style premise, a story about

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Megan Abbott’s Cheerleading Mystery Dare Me Back Handsprings Over to USA Network

Of course it’s only a matter of time before Megan Abbott’s entire oeuvre gets the Big Little Lies treatment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the author’s 2012 dark cheerleading drama Dare Me stuck a full twisting layout over at USA, with the network having picked up the show to series.

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You Might Not Have Known Cazzie David Had a Pilot, But You’re Not Surprised It’s Headed to Amazon

Last time we checked in with Larry David’s daughter Cazzie David, she was writing her debut book, a collection of humor essays entitled No One Asked for This, exploring “the foibles of her own genetic makeup, existential crises, and the confusion of growing up female at the epicenter of 21st

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Glenn Close Feels Like She’s Fulfilling Her Aunt’s Acting Dream

Glenn Close is the front-runner in the Best Actress Oscar race for playing a wife whose writing talent is overlooked in favor of her award-winning husband’s. After picking up a SAG award for her role in The Wife on Sunday, Close spoke in the press room about what the movie,

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RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 4, Episode 7: We Have Thoughts

The dream team has returned! That’s right, your illustrious (but very busy) What the Tuck co-hosts Joel Kim Booster and Nicole Byer have reunited once again to discuss this week’s “Queens of Clubs” — and they’ve brought guest Drag Race commentator Brendan Scannell (UCB, Heathers, Bonding) with them! Did this

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Julie Klausner’s Fight for Gender Equality Through Vagina Jokes

Over the course of a three-season run on Hulu, Difficult People featured hundreds, if not thousands of jokes. Jokes about celebrities, jokes about New York, jokes about relationships, jokes about narcissist mothers. Hell, probably at least half of them were about Kevin Spacey. It’s because the show’s creator, Julie Klausner,

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Why Rent: Live Wasn’t Actually Live

On Sunday night, Fox had promised to air a live staging of Rent, but after a cast member was injured, the network decided to air footage from a dress rehearsal instead, up until the closing moments of the show. Brennin Hunt, the former X-Factor contestant and country singer who was

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The Real Housewives of Atlanta Recap: Fight Night

Maybe it’s because I’ve spent the last four hours watching WWE with my boyfriend, but this episode felt like an emotional Royal Rumble. (If you’re unfamiliar, the Royal Rumble is a WWE match in which 30 wresters enter the ring — one every 90 seconds — and are eliminated by

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