Posts by Tess Lynch
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Spring Breakers, Beyonce, and Real World
The Girls trade in their hoodies for ski masks this week for a chat about Spring Breakers. We all loved the film, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to talk about: its success as what director Harmony Korine has called a “pop poem,” the debatable empowerment/exploitation of its Disney-factory stars, Molly’s inexplicable fascination with […]
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Survivor: Caramoan, Episode 7: The Will of a Lion and Determination of a Gorilla in ‘Tubby Lunchbox’
My dad was dying to spoil this episode of Survivor for me from his sofa in Eastern Daylight Time, but I wouldn’t let him. Though I could intuit this was not going to be a curveball episode, I was still worried about my strange buddy Phillip Sheppard, whose days are clearly numbered. A fellow Grantlander […]
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Afternoon Links: Riff Raff Throws Down the 100-Yard Dash Gauntlet to James Franco
“It’s evident that nobody knows who the real Riff Raff is right now. Nobody knows. I don’t even know whadifadadada later on tonight. I probably be eating chicken nuggets or something.” —Riff Raff on Spring Breakers, kind of. Perhaps he could eat them with Dangeruss’s fork, his fork his fork his fork.
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Afternoon Links: E! Asks Us What Would Ryan Lochte Do? in New Extended Trailer
“You have to really put that infadence on the J [in jeah].” The trailer for What Would Ryan Lochte Do? has arrived.
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Afternoon Links: Oscar Season 2014 — Now More Interminable Than Ever
More time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions of screeners, before the taking of toast and tea: The 2014 Oscars are moving to March. “With the shift, the 2014 awards season calendar is shaping up to be an unusual one, with a frenetic January full of guild awards and then a […]
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Nostalgia Bites: Reliving the Birth of Reality TV With MTV’s Retro Real World Weekend
This weekend, to drum up enthusiasm for its 28th season, Real World: Portland, MTV ran a marathon of “retro” seasons: the first, New York; the third, San Francisco; and the 12th, Las Vegas, which I’m assuming was a nod to the fact that 2002 is vintage enough for most of MTV’s viewership. I tuned in […]
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Afternoon Links: ‘The 40 Hottest Women in Tech’ Is the Internet’s Most Hatest Listicle
Ah yes, the slideshow countdown list. The best thing the Internet has ever done for humanity. How groundbreaking of Complex magazine to list the 40 Hottest Women in tech with a cleavage-riddled parade of images accompanied by an intro blurb shaming “the patriarchy.” The author, Luke Winkie, responded to the predictable objections to his piece […]
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Afternoon Links: Spring Breakers vs. Girls VS. Spring Breakers vs. Disney VS. Gucci Mane vs. Sleep
You knew this was coming: It’s time for the Spring Breakers permutations to roll on in. Here we have “Disney’s Princess Spring Breakers” featuring Abby Elliot (“It means no worries for the rest of ya days, y’all”), and here is the Lena Dunham/Alien “Girls Gone Wild” mash-up. “When you really analyze this film you quickly […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Girls, Veronica Mars, and Horror TV
This week the Girls in Hoodies bid farewell to Girls‘s divisive second season. What are we to make of the show’s trajectory now that Hannah and Adam are “Together” again? How much responsibility do TV writers have to reassure us they’re not as dumb as their characters? Has Ray been the hero of Girls all […]
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Survivor: Caramoan — Fans vs. Favorites, ‘Operation Thunder Dome’
Last week’s Survivor was a little bit too crazy, so this week’s episode was all about getting everyone’s minds back in the game and off the Loco Hantz meltdown and sand-sullied rice. Life with Brandon was so hard that the favorites didn’t have time to strategize — everyone was just focused on staying alive and […]
