Sophie Gilbert

This article contains spoilers through Season 1 of  Severance. If you can remember all the way back to the very first episode of Severance, released a truly brain-wearying three years ago, it opens with a question, delivered through a tinny speaker […]

In the spring of 2009, Vice published a blog post, notorious even by its own standards, titled “Department of Oopsies!—We Hired a Grifter.” An employee had started chatting with the magazine’s new executive assistant, Kari Ferrell; after she reportedly began

Maybe it’s the time of year, but I’ve been thinking lately about Nora, the whirling, frantic heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, overspending on Christmas presents, quietly operating her household in ways that go unseen, twisting herself into knots

Anyone could be forgiven for struggling to remember which TV shows aired in 2024. Whereas 2023 gave audiences the final chapters of several beloved shows—Succession, Barry, Reservation Dogs—this year may have reminded them that Hollywood is still playing catch-up after

This article contains spoilers for Blink Twice. In August, Zoë Kravitz released her directorial debut, a vivid, trippy, darkly funny horror film set on a private island owned by a tech billionaire, Slater King (played by Channing Tatum). The movie’s

File this under something that should have been self-evident: When it came time for the artist known as Cher to finish her memoir, she discovered she had too much material. Where to even begin? Decades before Madonna had reinventions and

In Jilly Cooper’s world, men conquer, women sigh, the sun shines perpetually on pale-gold Cotswolds mansions with bluebells in bloom, and absolutely everyone is DTF, as the parlance goes. If Charles Dickens had been alive at the end of the

If you’re interested in modern beauty standards, the social value of femininity, and the fetishization of mothers in American culture, Hulu’s recent reality show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is a rich, chaotic product. I watched the entire series

A little over 12 years ago, Melania Trump logged on to Twitter, uploaded a picture of a cheery-looking beluga whale, and added the caption, “What is she thinking?” The tweet was classic Melania, which is to say that it was