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Let’s Marry Harry begins with an intentionally ridiculous premise: Harry Jowsey meets 20 potential fiancées and is expected to finish the experiment with a wife. By the finale, however, his choice comes down to two relationships that work for very different reasons. Dannelle Davidson offers Harry an easy, affectionate connection that develops early, while Amber…
Married at First Sight usually asks couples to keep testing their marriages until Decision Day, even when the answer already seems obvious. Nick Uhlenhuth and Courteney Landis do not make it that far in Season 20. During Episode 14, with roughly two weeks remaining in the experiment, the Seattle couple agrees to end the marriage…
Married at First Sight Season 20 has given viewers plenty of reasons to distrust a seemingly stable marriage, but Michelle Le and Cameron Mitchell have remained the Seattle season’s clearest success story through the first 15 episodes. Their conversations about money, Cameron’s Portland-based coaching career, family plans and commitment have created real friction without producing…
The Challenge: Cutthroat Season 42 Episode 2 sends Reilly Smedley home after a chaotic elimination against Deb Chubb, but the result quickly created a second controversy. Reilly had teammates shouting instructions from above while she tried to solve the arena, and Cara Maria Sorbello became the person viewers most strongly associated with that guidance. Cara…
The Challenge: Cutthroat Season 42 wastes little time showing how badly a team format can punish the wrong person. Episode 2 leaves Team Blue in chaos after Cara Maria Sorbello and Anna Leigh Wilson separately contribute to disqualifications during the daily challenge, yet rookie Reilly Smedley is the woman who ultimately lands in elimination against…
Six episodes into Project Runway Season 22, Jeffrey Kelly Abess has one of the strangest records in the competition. He nearly went home before the season had properly begun, rebounded into the top group immediately afterward, and has since come within reach of a challenge victory several times without actually winning one. Episode 6 makes…
Project Runway Season 22 arrived promising its biggest competition ever, with a record 22 designers entering the workroom. Six episodes later, however, one of the season’s biggest talking points is not a particular dress or designer. It is the speed at which the cast has been disappearing. Ten of the original 22 designers were effectively…
Project Runway Season 22 Episode 6 arrives with a noticeably different judging table. Heidi Klum and Law Roach remain, while model Winnie Harlow and actress Nina Dobrev join them for “The Devil’s in the Details,” but Tyra Banks is nowhere to be seen. Given how prominently Tyra was promoted before the season and how much…
Project Runway Season 22 has repeatedly experimented with rules that allow contestants to influence one another’s fate, but Episode 6 introduces one of the season’s most controversial variations yet. After the designers create red-carpet gowns for Heidi Klum to wear to The Devil Wears Prada 2 premiere, Christian Siriano reveals that the winner will receive…
Project Runway Season 22 Episode 6, “The Devil’s in the Details,” turns one of the season’s challenges into a red-carpet reveal that had actually been hidden in public for months. The remaining designers are asked to create a gown for Heidi Klum to wear to the world premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2, an…
Don’t Say Good Luck is based on a true story, but Sophie Birenbaum is not simply screenwriter Laura Hankin under a different name. The movie grows from a striking event in Hankin’s adolescence: she landed the lead in her high school musical while her mother Deborah’s cancer was returning and worsening. Deborah later died, and…
Tires Season 3 does not end like a comedy preparing to close the garage for good. Phil steps away from Valley Forge, Shane and Will inherit greater responsibility, Lucy’s pregnancy suddenly puts fatherhood in Shane’s future, and a larger tire company arrives with an offer that quickly starts sounding more like a threat. There is…
