Grown Up Gossip & Internet Villainy
The Haunting of Hill House
Aside from 2018 being a great year for horror movies, it’s also a year we saw some phenomenal horror/thriller television programs! The Haunting of Hill House! Castle Rock! The Sinner! The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina! The Terror! The Alienist!
This was a year where horror television shows, much like horror movies, were given nuance and heart, meaning they could really dig into some of the deep-rooted fears of the human psyche.
Remember a couple of years ago when I wrote a blog making fun of the new ‘Riverdale’, saying that it sounded like a shitty teen drama version of ‘Twin Peaks’? Lololol, if only I had known just how invested I was going to get in this fucking show, but here we are!
However, I don’t feel bad about my ‘Riverdale’ love, because you know who else loves ‘Riverdale’? Literally everyone. Including teens, who gave the show basically every single award possible at last night’s Teen Choice Awards.
File this under: what the actual fuck? In case you haven’t heard, Bristol Palin, daughter of former Vice President nominee Sarah Palin, is joining the cast of Teen Mom OG…even though she wasn’t on the show ever before, and she isn’t currently a teen mom?
What’s even stupider if that MTV is paying her a whopping $250,000 to be on the show. That’s right, MTV is paying Bristol Palin $250k because she got knocked up as a teenager a goddamn decade ago! You know how much MTV paid me for getting knocked up at 27 and 30? NOTHING.
There is something very important you should know about me: no two televisions shows have defined my existence and shaped me as a person quite like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Golden Girls. IMHO, they’re two of the most perfectly made television shows in existence.
Am I a huge, die hard Buffy fan? Yes. Does that mean I’d love to see more Buffy? Meh, not really. The seasons the show had were amazing and the finale was legitimate television perfection. So, when I read that they were rebooting Buffy, well….I think you can imagine how I felt about it.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Scarlett Johannsson stepped down from her role in “Rub and Tug” because she realized her playing a trans man was in poor taste (not unlike when she played an Asian woman, but I digress). I wasn’t surprised that Scarlett got cast in the first place, because, let’s be real, actual trans people are heavily under-represented in the film industry and often don’t even get casted to play actual trans people.
However, we’re starting to see that change. At San Diego’s Comic-Con this past weekend, it was confirmed that 21-year-old trans activist and actress, Nicole Maines, would be joining the fourth season of CW’s Supergirl.
Listen, I know this is being posted a day late, but you should all be really impressed that I committed to blogging EVERY day until Christmas and have only been late like 3 or 4 times. But anyway, I would like to dedicate the 22nd day of this advent to one of my biggest surprises of the last year: My love of Riverdale, and more specifically Bughead.
When the premise of Riverdale first got released I literally wrote a blog dragging it because I thought it looked like a huge fucking joke, but here we are at the end of 2017 and the whole thing has me SHOOK because 1) I love it, and 2) I’ve found myself attracted to one of those weird twins from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
Remember just a few days ago when I made the HecklerSpray advent of the day a tribute to awesome horror movies of 2017 and said you’d definitely see Get Out and The Shape of Water get nominated for Golden Globes? Well, guess who was right?!
The Golden Globe nominations came out today and there are a fuck ton of movies I’ve never heard of, lots of shows I have heard of (my mom’s favorite “drinking wine alone” show, Big Little Lies, got nominated a bunch), and, SHOCKER, no nominations for Kevin Spacey. Let’s take a look at the nominees! (With my commentary, as per usual)
So, the second season of Stranger Things came out back in October and this season we got some great new characters, got a lot of fantastic team work across the board, and really got to see the gang engage in some in depth growth. None more interesting than that of Steve Harrington.
Steve was the rich, popular high school douche with a heart of gold in season one, and season two saw him become the babysitter hero we didn’t know we needed. Seriously. It was the season of Steve.
Remember back when Keeping Up With the Kardashians first started and they were a pretty relatable family? Like, they obviously had more money than a lot of people, but they were overall pretty normal? Well, if the spin-off Life of Kylie didn’t convince you that those days are long gone, than last night’s Kardashian Christmas Special sure as hell should have.
In the episode we watch Kim and Kris have some weirdo Christmas war that ends with Kris getting a fucking ice rink built in her backyard and inviting Nancy Kerrigan over to skate with her grandkids while she hands out Burberry scarves. I shit you not.
I honestly have no idea where to start with this one. At first I thought this was a joke, but given that Us Weekly is exclusively reporting it and Us Weekly is on Kris Jenner’s pay roll, I have to assume this is 100% truth. Not only is Kim Kardashian expecting another baby next year, but now little sis Kylie Jenner is too!
Kylie has only been dating rapper Travis Scott since April, and Us Weekly is reporting she’s already almost 4 months pregnant, so if that’s true, these two wasted no time. Kylie also JUST turned 20, so props to her for narrowly avoiding teen pregnancy!
