Olivia Truffaut-Wong

In real life, Bobbi Althoff is far from the self-assured, sarcastic interviewer she plays on her podcast. When she signs on to our Zoom meeting with an iced coffee in hand, she seems nervous as she settles in, giving me a shy smile and wave. This is her first time doing a real magazine interview since her cringe-inducing conversation with Drake went viral.

For some, “American Born Chinese” is a derogatory reference to Chinese Americans who were born in the U.S. It’s a term used to connote hierarchy in Chinese immigrant households and dismiss the connection that first or second generation children have to their Chinese roots and culture. But in the new Disney+ series American Born Chinese, based on Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel o...

“A Brush with Death, A New Life of Philanthropy: How Joe Goldberg Escaped Killer Love Quinn.” This is how the fictional version of the Cut covered Joe’s return to New York City in the final moments of You season 4, giving him a complete image rehabilitation thanks to his girlfriend, Kate (Charlotte Ritchie), and her millions. “I subscribe, that’s one reason,” showrunner Sera Gamble said when asked why You is just so obsessed with us...

Depending on which tier of millennial to which you belong, you know Rachel Bilson either as the iconic SoCal popular girl with a heart of gold on The O.C., Summer Roberts, or the fish-out-of-water Dr. Zoe Hart of Hart of Dixie.

Haley Lu Richardson is too humble to call herself an expert. But after crocheting for 19 years (her mother taught her when she was 8), there’s no denying she has mastered the skill of hooking yarn together and weaving patterns that turn into sweaters, hats, and scarves. “I can pretty much crochet anything,” she tells me as we settle in over Zoom. Richardson, who stars in the new season of The White Lotus, has agreed to crochet with me during our conversation. She works on her current project ...

When Arden Cho moved to Los Angeles with a couple hundred dollars in her pocket in 2007, she didn’t anticipate one day being at the center of a conversation about equal pay in Hollywood. In fact, the Korean American actor thought she’d be lucky if she got just a few roles. “At the time, I was like, Okay, I can either sit back and complain about the lack of Asian American presence in media forever or I can take a shot and hope that maybe I’ll get to be on TV once or twice.”

In this op-ed, writer Olivia Truffaut-Wong unpacks Ginny & Georgia season 2 and its patient, smart exploration of mental health and mental illness. Spoilers for the series ahead.

Tell Me Lies might seem like a young woman’s sexual fantasy of a college relationship. After all, the first time Lucy (Grace Van Patten) and Stephen (Jackson White) hook up, he goes down on her and easily brings her to orgasm, her first from oral, and their relationship only gets hotter from there. But not all sex in the show is actually hot. In fact, the most impactful sex scene in Tell Me Lies has nothing to do with the leading will-they-won’t-they couple, and it mi...

On Twitter, Swift described the video as depicting “my nightmare scenarios and intrusive thoughts.” Those include watching her imagined adult children fight about their inheritance, being a larger-than-life “monster” who takes up too much space with her friends, and stepping on a scale ...

Kate Keller (Tavi Gevinson) has always been one of Gossip Girl’s more morally questionable characters. But the high school teacher-turned-Gossip Girl mastermind herself has finally reached full villain status.

A new campaign ad from Katie Darling, a Democrat running for Congress in Louisiana, starts off normally enough. There are shots of her daughter walking in the woods, chickens running around the family’s farm, and her husband driving with a visibly pregnant Darling in the passenger seat. It soon becomes clear they aren’t just heading to a checkup. Darling is running for office and about to give birth on-camera.

“One Flew Over the Cuck’s Nest" is Gossip Girl in its purest form.
Gossip Girl has officially returned. After an uneven first season, the HBO Max reboot has finally found its footing. And never has that been more clear than in this week’s episode, “One Flew Over the Cuck’s Nest," which has everything: a lavish party, recreational drug use, sex, scandal, comedy, and a Charli XCX cameo. It’s Gossip Girl in its purest form.

In the teen-movie canon, the revenge film reigns supreme. Watching characters (usually women) take down their high-school enemies — the purest form of petty wish fulfillment — brings a sense of euphoria for the viewer, and rooting for a bad character’s demise without feeling any guilt is a unique cinematic pleasure. But with Do Revenge, a new addition to the teen-revenge genre, comes Gen Z’s answer to the question: What if vengeance is not so black and white?

Superheroes: they’re not all they’re cracked up to be. This is, at its core, the basic premise of Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys and Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, two of the most subversive superhero shows on television. Though vastly different, when they premiered in 2019 both offered a diverse alternative superhero team to the overwhelmingly white and male Avengers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But neither honored that diversity — until now.

Never tell Florence Pugh what to do with her dating life — or her nipples.