Is white joy apathy? Do you need to wear a bra at the office? Is Georgia McCann the next Cat Marnell? All these questions and more answered within.
ONLINE THINGS
We Lost Ask Jeeves and Gained Nipples at Work
The week in online, by Becca Schuh.
We’re losing things (Ask Jeeves) and gaining things (imaginary scenarios to be mad about). Plus a discussion about visible nipples in the office.
RIP Ask Jeeves :( I may not have used him/it since I was in middle school, but I always thought of him fondly and wished him the best.
A new incredible imaginary scenario dropped, and the people are riffing. The original tweet got deleted and/or the poster went private (I can’t imagine why), but luckily Know Your Meme (yes, it still exists) was on the case.
Okay, chat, let’s put it to the test. Has anyone ever said this to you? Have you ever heard anyone utter these words IRL? Sound off in the comments.
AI is mostly ruining searches, but we still have some gold left in the mines.
Chat, did you or did you not fantasize about wrapping your items in a sheet tacked onto the end of a stick? (I did.)
Somehow, people are having a debate about nipples showing at work? I love the lack of body shame, but with all due respect, as a person of Obvious Boob … just let this one go. It’s not fun or cool to have anyone thinking about your tits at work, I PROMISE.
PRESTIGE TV
Lizzy Caplan Joins Reneé Rapp on The Morning Show
This is the best news I’ve ever heard, period.
The Morning Show is the best worst show on television, and if you haven’t been watching it, you have plenty of time to catch up before season five begins airing in … late 2027. Hot tip for enjoying this show: Skip season one. Read Vulture’s recaps or just go into season two cold; it honestly doesn’t matter. Season one is a Me Too–plot bummer. The show was still finding its footing, attempting to be a classy prestige drama befitting its megawatt cast, aiming for big themes and moral seriousness. By the end of season four, Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) was being tortured in a Belarusian prison because of a plot engineered by the evil Celine Dumont (Marion Cotillard), and only Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) could save her. Do you like watching brilliant actresses doing the absolute most in service to frankly ridiculous material and surrounded by beautiful things, but you’re kind of over Ryan Murphy? This show is the solution to all your problems!
Plus there’s another season in the making that will star Aniston and Witherspoon as well as Lizzy Caplan and Reneé Rapp. To paraphrase a tweet I saw recently, “I had sex with a big group of guys in a cabana in WeHo on ketamine listening to Madonna, and it was less gay than this show.” But that’s not all. In the new season, Caplan will play Gwen, a “passionate and uncompromising Broadway theater director.” Per IMDb, a genius named Victoria Thomas is responsible for casting TMS. In my opinion, she should cast more things. Everything, ideally.
REALITY TV
Georgia McCann Is the Interesting Part of Next Gen NYC
In a cast of reality nepos, an NYC party girl steals the show.
You couldn’t pay me to watch Next Gen NYC, the Bravo show about Real Housewives’ spoiled children getting drunk and picking dumb fights and spending $14,000 on bottle service and $10,000 on rent. Well, you could, I suppose, but no one has yet offered to. That’s not the case for Brock Colyar, who recently spent time with these pedigreed Gen-Z nightmares. Colyar’s fave was the cast’s black sheep, Georgia McCann, a “Parker Posey–esque party girl” who understands that the show is work and that her job is to be messy.
To many young, proudly with-it New Yorkers, McCann was the castmate to root for on Next Gen. Many of us knew her from the post-pandemic party circuit. She was the organizer behind some of that era’s most talked-about ragers: notably, a Diplo set at Katz’s Deli and a particularly raunchy house party (called Club House Arrest) at Anna Delvey’s, where McCann climbed onto a speaker and flashed the crowd. She has in recent years lived in both Bushwick and Dimes Square. (Her castmates told me their favorite neighborhood is Meatpacking.) Unlike her co-stars, she wasn’t an influencer and doesn’t have especially interesting parents. Her mother and stepfather are attorneys in New York and did not appear in the show. “They walk the dog and make their own almond milk,” she told me. “They’re extremely private.” They did not encourage her to join the cast, but when production approached her, she thought, Why not? “I didn’t have summer plans. I don’t go to the Hamptons. I didn’t have enough money to pay for a trip to Europe,” she said. “Yeah, I guess I’ll be on reality TV.”
In the words of Posey as Mary, “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Click Your Way Out
The perks of Delta 360° membership are truly next level.
More words of wisdom from Ariana Madix.
I can’t wait to cry at The Sheep Detectives.
Charli XCX’s new single sounds like the 1975.
We’re not doing the trauma plot anymore, I guess!
Party Girl is free on YouTube. You can watch it anytime, and should.
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