Jacqueline Cutler

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Jacqueline Cutler

Every new mother knows the moment. You gaze into your baby’s eyes and, besotted as you are, a nagging feeling takes root: Doubt. No matter how competent you are, the realization hits that you don’t know what the hell you’re doing. All you know is you could use some help. For those who sniff at that worry–after all, we have been doing this for thousands of years–that’s the point of The Motherhood, hosted and created by Connie Britton.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jacqueline Cutler

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Galapagos – clouds settle on what looks like verdant mesas. Instead, they are active volcanoes, though not rumbling at the moment. On the black lava beach below, giant tortoises and land iguanas lumber past, ignoring one another. In the water, a small head bops. A penguin. It seems so unlikely here.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Jacqueline Cutler

A year and a half ago, they were children. Chronologically, they still are. Realistically, their childhoods ended 18 months ago, when terrorists slaughtered their families and laid waste to their homes. The kids tell their stories in The Children of October 7, premiering on April 23, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Paramount+ and airing the following day on MTV. “On October 7, 2023, the Hamas terrorist organization launched a deadly attack on Israel,” the film begins.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jacqueline Cutler

THE GALAPAGOS—A low rumble, a cross between muffled mooing and distant foghorns, pierces the heavy air. This is what it sounds like when giant tortoises mate. The song is bizarre yet magically compelling, like the Galapagos themselves. This archipelago in the South Pacific is home to 120-year-old giant tortoises, which look through people as if they have seen it all before—because they have. It’s also home to red sand beaches that look like Mars. And it’s home to penguins.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jacqueline Cutler

The Handmaid’s Tale is the best show you’re afraid of watching. That’s a pity, because it’s brilliant. Yet that’s also a completely understandable reaction. The series is set in the near future, when women have no rights, not over our bodies, our minds, or where we live and how. It dramatizes every violent crime and crushing inequality committed against women. Sure, it’s fiction, but it’s also terrifyingly real.