Ming-Na Wen’s post about her difficult relationship with her mother has kicked up a lot of conversation

Ming-Na Wen posted about her difficult relationship with her mother and it has kicked up a lot of conversation. I think part of it (let me put on my Lauren Dern in Marriage Story blazer) is the way we talk about mothers in pop culture – they are infallible, hard working, underappreciated and all-knowing. 

Moms are the Reba singing “a single mom who works two jobs…” meme. Dads are hit and miss and when someone talks about a thorny relationship with their father, it’s not dissected in the same way it is when someone has a difficult relationship with their mother.

Amy Odell, chakra-blocker #1 at Goop HQ (no bone broth for you, Amy!), posted about Vogue World and I agree with her in that I don’t really get it. It’s very “gowns, beautiful gowns”. The vibe is slightly off? That said, I appreciate a spectacle with music, costumes and sets because this is the kind of live event media used to spend money on pretty regularly. 

As media budgets continue to be slashed, Vogue is not instituting austerity measures, which we are so used to seeing on the creative side. The “spectacle” is always the first thing cut. Also, I am working on the assumption that the creative teams are being compensated and there would be hundreds of hair stylists, lighting techs, dressers, and makeup artists at a big show where they can make a lot of connections. 

So Will Arnett is from Toronto and I know the SmartLess trio is feuding. 

Ariana Grande has gone back to brunette, just as the Wicked: For Good press tour kicks off. She has been so intentional about her aesthetic so I think it’s quite a purposeful move. If she shows up with bangs we know she and SpongeBob are curtains.

Erin Foster and Nobody Wants This co-showrunner Jenni Konner (of Girls) sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter and went into a lot of detail about disagreements in the writers’ room. This explains a lot of the storytelling decisions. And SPOILER ALERT… SPOILER… by the end of season two, Noah and Joanne are exhausted. They are exhausting. Even removing the religious aspect, they don’t work as a couple (they don’t have the same values, don’t enjoy the same things, don’t have any emotional intimacy besides constantly talking each other down from a crisis). The most interesting part of the season is the revelation that Noah is a paint-by-numbers good boyfriend and it lasted for one episode. I would not be surprised if season three has new showrunners.