Jen Chaney

Washington, D.C.

TV Critic @Vulture. Reviews movies/TV on @WTOP. Wrote the book on Clueless. Prev bylines: NYT, WashPost, etc. Nostalgist with standards. [email protected]

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Articles

The Cognitive Dissonance of Watching And Just Like That…

3 weeks ago | tvguide.com | Jen Chaney

There's a scene 15 minutes into the most recent episode of And Just Like That… that finds Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) sitting in her office at Human Rights Watch, where she works as a lawyer. The monitor on her desk is showing C-SPAN, but Miranda is not paying any attention to it. Instead she's staring at her phone, watching an episode of Bi-Bingo, a fictional, bisexually-focused knock-off of Love Island, and yelling at the vapid contestants inside her tiny screen.
In ‘Who Knew,’ Barry Diller comes out — but mostly talks business

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Jen Chaney

In ‘Who Knew,’ Barry Diller comes out — but mostly talks business (washingtonpost.com) In ‘Who Knew,’ Barry Diller comes out — but mostly talks business By Jen Chaney 2025052112305000 In the preface to his autobiography, "Who Knew," media mogul Barry Diller swears he is finally going to tell the full, unedited truth about his life. "When I was young, in the United States of the 1960s, I was far too afraid," he writes.
The Four Seasons Is Probably Not Your Thing

1 month ago | vulture.com | Jen Chaney

The Netflix comedy The Four Seasons stars (mostly) actors who are in their 50s, playing characters who are in their 50s, in a show whose target demographic is (I assume) people in their 50s.
The 14 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

2 months ago | vulture.com | Jen Chaney |Savannah Salazar

Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Clockwise from top: The Last of Us, Warfare, Hacks, and Drop. The theme of this week is a Jamie Lee Curtis special: trauma. Almost every title here has its characters wheeling and dealing in some nightmarish struggle.
How The Pitt’s Guest Actors Performed the Worst Day of Their Lives

2 months ago | vulture.com | Jen Chaney

From left: Devon Gummersall, Samantha Sloyan and Brandon Keener, and Jennifer Christopher in guest roles in The Pitt. Jennifer Christopher has done dozens and dozens of guest-acting stints on TV shows over the years: The Mentalist, How to Get Away With Murder, The OA. But her experience on The Pitt was unlike any she had before.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Won’t Give You a Happy Ending: Review

2 months ago | vulture.com | Jen Chaney

In The Handmaid’s Tale’s final season, June (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) put the saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to the test. The Handmaid’s Tale debuted on April 26, 2017, the 97th day of Donald Trump’s first presidential term and, coincidentally, First Lady Melania Trump’s 47th birthday.
‘The White Lotus’ Finale Themes and Easter Eggs Explained

2 months ago | vulture.com | Jen Chaney |Jackson McHenry

On The White Lotus, book titles are always worth keeping an eye on. For more on The White Lotus, sign up for The White Lotus Club, our subscriber-exclusive newsletter obsessing over, dissecting, and debating everything about season three. Spoilers ahead for The White Lotus season-three finale, “Amor Fati.” Is a season of The White Lotus actually a season of The White Lotus if there are no moody montages of splashing sea water or significant book titles planted in poolside scenes?
Let’s Read Into That White Lotus Finale

2 months ago | gossipbucket.com | Jen Chaney |Jackson McHenry

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The Pitt’s Taylor Dearden on Dr. Mel Skills, Langdon Mentor

Mar 29, 2025 | vulture.com | Jen Chaney

This week’s episode of The Pitt confirms something we’ve suspected for a while now: Dr. Melissa “Mel” King was born to be an emergency-room doctor. As injured victim after injured victim floods the ER following the mass shooting at PittFest, the second-year resident moves from one seriously wounded patient to the next with measured compassion and a rapid pace.
Conan O’Brien Accepts the Mark Twain Prize With ‘Unceasing Silliness’

Mar 24, 2025 | vulture.com | Jen Chaney

These are the full remarks made by Conan O’Brien upon receiving the 2025 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday, March 23, 2025. The award is given annually to comedians whose work has had a profound impact on the public and popular culture. This year’s ceremony was the first major, splashy event held at the John F.