Jan 12
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It’s pretty weird to be writing a column this patently absurd on this day, in this week, in this month, in this…
Jan 5
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Hi, folks! It’s been a while. (It has not been anything resembling a while.) If the hiatus betwixt the end of…
Dec 23
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The Bachelor franchise loves the word “most.” Also: shocking, history. Every season, we’re told that such-and-such…
Dec 22
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Chris Harrison is a messy bitch who lives for drama. He didn’t even make it through the introduction to this, the…
Dec 16
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Tayshia Adams came here to eat food and break hearts, and she’s all out of food. (Actually, she’s not, there’s kind…
Dec 14
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I don’t have a single bad thing to say about A Recipe For Seduction, the KFC-produced Lifetime Christmas movie…
Dec 9
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[Note: This recap includes a general discussion of suicide.]
Dec 2
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Let’s dispense with this right away.
Nov 30
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I began recapping The Great British Baking Show for my fellow Americans in the year for which the term “dumpster fire
Nov 25
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I made this point last week, and I stand by it this week: Tayshia is a god-tier Bachelorette. In the seventh week of…
Nov 23
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Nine weeks ago, I wrote that based on the quality of this year’s contestants, I truly believed that we were on the…
Nov 18
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Ahhhhh, that’s the stuff. That’s The Bachelorette of yore. The sturm und drang of Clare’s mini-season was wild, but…
Nov 16
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I love Dessert Week on The Great British Baking Show because it implies that all the other weeks are not dessert…
Nov 11
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The nation—nay, the world—has breathed a collective sigh of relief. Could it be that the worst is behind us? Is that…
Nov 9
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Welcome to 1980s Week on The Great British Baking Show, celebrating a decade that more than half the bakers have no…
Nov 6
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This week’s episode of The Bachelorette will never die. It is a time capsule. It, like Late-Night Steve Kornacki…
Nov 2
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It’s Japanese Week on The Great British Baking Show, and who better to explain Japanese pastries to the global…
Oct 28
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Oct 26
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It’s Pastry Week on The Great British Baking Show, and across the pond, “pastry” means pie dough, “tart” means pie,…
Oct 21
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Forgive me, a loathsome millennial, for starting this story in such a fashion, but the situation demands it: this…