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Get the NYT List of Best Shows of the 21st Century off My Desk (opens the original)
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If there’s one thing The New York Times loves to do, it’s get people mad. Remember when President Obama had to take to Twitter to declare that peas did not belong in guacamole?And so last week, the outlet published the “The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century,” and of course, chaos ensued. TV watchers around the globe ran to Substack, Reddit, X and my text messages to
FINALE GIRLS: The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Series Finale (opens the original)
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If Jeremiah Fisher can become one of Boston’s most successful chefs after knowing how to cook for two days and successfully (?) executing gazpacho recipe, you can certainly wade through our second piece of The Summer I Turned Pretty content in a row — yes, one year after it ended, and when no one is talking about it anymore! We needed that turn around the sun to collect ourselves after seeing Belly and Conrad finally smooch to Phoebe Bridgers’ “Scott Street.”<div class="captioned-image-con
The Summer Sylvia Plath Turned Pretty (opens the original)
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What if I told you, dear readers, that there are Belly Conklins for all those with eyes to see? Look no further than the summer of 1951, in which famed author/poet Sylvia Plath took a trip to Cape Cod with the Norton brothers.<img alt="" class="sizing-no
FINALE GIRLS: Mad Men's Season One Finale (opens the original)
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In the year 2000, Matthew Weiner was writing on a hit sitcom starring Ted Danson called Becker and having an existential crisis.“I was 35 years old,” he told NPR. “I had a job on a network sitcom. It was rated number nine, which means I was basically in major league baseball for my job — there’s 300 people in the country who have this job, and I had one. I had three children, and I was like ‘What is wrong with me? Why am I unhappy? Why is there so much going on in my head that I can’t express to
FINALE GIRLS: Gossip Girl's Season 3 Finale (opens the original)
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Gather ye ‘round, as today we come together to discuss a sacred text: Gossip Girl. Based on YA books by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl aired on The CW from 2007 to 2012. Voiced by Kristen Bell, our one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite changed television — and more importantly, how we talked about television online — forever. The show skyrocketed into the zeitgeist, catapulted by the entrance of blogging and texting culture. As Tumblr girls in the 2000s, this show
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