Hello and happy friday! Sorry for the pacific time drop, I wasn’t going to send one out today, but the TT audience doubled this week and I had to express my gratitude!!!!!! THANK YOU and welcome to all the new subscribers. I encourage you to binge my previous episodes and maybe share with a pal or two over your weekend hangs. Tell a friend to tell a friend! Take a break from bitching about your job (me to me) and discuss your favorite oscar nominee!
Mine is obviously Paul Mescal. I feel like I manifested it and couldn’t be happier for this bloke! It’s unbelievable that he scored an Emmy nomination for his first lead role in a TV series and now an Oscar nomination for his first lead role in a movie?!??!? He has NINE upcoming films and is on British Broadway. For less than 3 years on the scene that’s absolutely incredible! He was spotted celebrating at a pub in London (drunk cig in hand) with some lads including the HOT PRIEST FROM FLEABAG!!!!!!!!!! His sister shared the purest happiest photo of their family facetime finding out the big news and tweeted the below 😭
In addition to manifesting Paul, the rest of my noms were pretty on the money! 80% correct!!!!!!!!!!!! In my predictions episode I set out to challenge the Critics Association because they boldly claim to be the “most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations” despite having 0 official connection to the Academy. After tallying up both our nom lists, we scored pretty much the same. A tie! I had the foresight to recognize the oscar appeal in Triangle of Sadness, but they nailed Women Talking in Best Picture vs I had it in Director. I had a real feeling about Ana de Armas while their best actress category was a mess! (Including Margot Robbie??? For Babylon??? No way. I love her and I'm not even that delusional). The couple movies I missed I had included as alternates too. As Kim would say -
I’m doing pretty well watching all the buzzy, nominated films! I am brainstorming the best ways to review them all for you so more to come!
I had a pretty busy week at my j*b so I didn’t get much non Oscar reading/watching/listening done this week outside of TikTok, but it was an EVENTFUL week in the world of popular culture so here’s a few things you might’ve missed-
If you have not watched Aubrey Plaza SNL’s episode, WTF are you waiting for? It was the second most watched episode of the season - only 200K viewers behind Steve Martin and Martin Short’s epi. Considering football was on that night too? Pretty big deal IMO. Go off AP! The Black Lotus was my favorite skit.
It was an especially BIG WEEK for the cast of White Lotus! Italian actresses Beatrice Granno and Simona Tabasco became the latest faces for SKIMS!!!!!!! Absolute genius marketing move by the one and only Kimberly Kardashian. She might be making horcruxes, but the woman DOES NOT MISS. “Tutti indossono Skims” I DIEEEEEEEE. I might’ve spent an undisclosable amount of money in the Valentine's Day shop…..
Michael Imperioli was featured on Architectural Digest! I told you it was a big week for the WL cast! His apartment is somehow both nothing and everything I would imagine for Christopher Moltisanti
They’ve all been sitting front row at multiple Milan and Paris fashion week shows too. I truly LOVE this journey for them.
Alright really sticking with the HBO theme…. SUCCESSION IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!! MARCH 26!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TWO WEEKS AFTER THE OSCARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know we’ll be debriefing the epis every week!!!! I could honestly write a personal essay on the 1:33 second trailer.
I shall leave you with this objectively perfect photo of Apple Martin, daughter of my lord and savior Gwyneth Paltrow and king Coldplay Chris Martin. She made her fashun debut at the Chanel Show during Paris Fashion Week and just WOW. I remember when she was born!!!!!!! Now all grown up and redefining chic. ALL HAIL the QUEEN of the NEPO BABIES! Maybe I’ll start doing Nepo Baby of the week lol. She might win every week tho, the rest of them should be scared of her future power and status after this internet breaking debut. I plan to weigh in on the nepo baby discourse in an upcoming episode. You best believe I have some serious senior thesis level thoughts…. in defense of them. “I would not have a single aspiration in life if not for the existence of Nepo Babies. In this essay I will….”
Thank you thank you thank you again for subscribing and reading!!!! Time for a MESCAL negroni!
Ciao!