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  • The Relic of Reboots: Sophie Turner and the Eternal Tomb Raider Economy

    The Relic of Reboots: Sophie Turner and the Eternal Tomb Raider Economy

    On September 3, 2025, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed what had already been whispered across every fan forum and Variety sidebar: Sophie Turner will strap on the dual pistols of Lara Croft for a new live-action Tomb Raider series on Prime Video. Created and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge—who will co-showrun with Chad Hodge, with Jonathan Van

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  • From a Mountain of Solitude to a Lifetime of Yes: The Love Story I Didn’t See Coming

    From a Mountain of Solitude to a Lifetime of Yes: The Love Story I Didn’t See Coming

    One year ago today, I stood on a mountain in Hawaiʻi with the wind in my face and the Pacific unrolling itself in that impossible blue. It was the kind of view that makes your chest go quiet—the kind that feels like an answer without words. I had come there alone. I was traveling alone.

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  • When the Dog Who Saved Me Needs Saving Too

    When the Dog Who Saved Me Needs Saving Too

    There are few relationships as pure and transformative as the one between a person and their dog. Daisy isn’t just my pet. She isn’t just company. Daisy is the love of my life—the reason I kept breathing on nights when I didn’t think I could. She has been my anchor, my laughter, my comforter, my

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  • Rudy Giuliani and the Post-Motorcade Fragility of Heroes

    Rudy Giuliani and the Post-Motorcade Fragility of Heroes

    On August 30–31, 2025, Rudy Giuliani once again managed to headline America’s surrealist carnival, though this time not with a press conference at a landscaping company or a leaked deposition. Instead, at 81 years old, the former mayor of New York City found himself in a New Hampshire trauma center, nursing a fractured thoracic vertebra

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  • Prestige TV, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Firehose

    Prestige TV, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Firehose

    By 2025, prestige television no longer means anything. It’s like calling water wet, or calling Marvel “cinema” just to rile up Scorsese. Prestige used to be rarefied air—The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men. Now it’s practically background radiation, humming behind every streaming app. Prestige has metastasized. Every show arrives pre-packaged as “prestige,” the way cereal

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  • Big Brother, Small Man: The Rylie Jeffries Eviction Tour

    Big Brother, Small Man: The Rylie Jeffries Eviction Tour

    When Rylie Jeffries was evicted from Big Brother Season 27, he didn’t walk out of the house so much as stumble into a reality that had been waiting to eat him alive. On the inside, he was the cowboy-hat-wearing bull rider with a showmance and a storyline. On the outside, he was suddenly the subject

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  • The Soundtrack of Survival: Thirteen Artists Who Speak To Me

    The Soundtrack of Survival: Thirteen Artists Who Speak To Me

    Growing up queer, biracial, abandoned, and too often invisible, I didn’t have a roadmap. What I had were songs—other people’s stories sung like confessions, shouted like rebellion, whispered like prayers. These artists didn’t just entertain me; they saved me. They gave me language for my own sadness, resilience for my own survival, and proof that

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  • The Ten Commandments of Horror TV: A Bloody, Bingeable Bible

    The Ten Commandments of Horror TV: A Bloody, Bingeable Bible

    The history of horror television is a cemetery of failed pilots and half-rotted seasons, a graveyard where shows are buried alive by executives only to claw their way out later as streaming “discoveries.” For every cult resurrection, there are dozens of forgotten corpses—remember Harper’s Island? Exactly. Yet from this restless afterlife, ten shows have not

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  • Mass Shootings, Manufactured Scapegoats, and America’s Favorite Ritual

    Mass Shootings, Manufactured Scapegoats, and America’s Favorite Ritual

    On August 27, 2025, the stained-glass windows of Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis shattered under the hail of gunfire from a 23-year-old named Robin Westman. By the time the shooting ended, two children—aged 8 and 10—were dead, and seventeen others, mostly kids and elderly parishioners, were injured. Westman barricaded exits, terrorized a congregation mid-Mass, and

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  • Katrina at 20: America Remembers, Forgets, and Repackages

    Katrina at 20: America Remembers, Forgets, and Repackages

    Twenty years later, America still doesn’t know how to talk about Hurricane Katrina. Not because there’s nothing left to say, but because the event itself was already so saturated in meaning that everything since feels like a remix. The anniversary observances in New Orleans this August were equal parts solemnity and stagecraft—brass-band second lines echoing

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