Rebecca Onion

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Senior Editor at Slate

Senior editor, @Slate, working on ideas, history, life, culture, &c. Ph.D, @AmStudies. [email protected]

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A supposed new summer trend for kids shows it’s getting weird out there.

6 days ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Family Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. All through elementary school, I attended not a single summer day camp. To use today’s parlance, we spent our summers “rotting.” We rambled around our little town to find friends who were free to hang out, visited the corner store to buy ice cream sandwiches, played board games if it was raining.
TV’s Most Fabulous Antihero Is on Netflix. She’s a Mom. She’s a Murderer. She’s Charismatic as Hell.

1 week ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Television This article contains spoilers for the third season of Ginny & Georgia. While people who only watch “prestige TV” are suffering through something of a June lull, seemingly everyone else is busy mainlining Ginny & Georgia, the Netflix dramedy about a young mother and her teenage daughter, which has been No. 1 on the streamer since its third season premiered last week.
Netflix’s No. 1 Show Used to Be Mocked. Now, With Its New Season, It’s … Good?

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Rebecca Onion

This article contains spoilers for the third season of Ginny & Georgia. While people who only watch “prestige TV” are suffering through something of a June lull, seemingly everyone else is busy mainlining Ginny & Georgia, the Netflix dramedy about a young mother and her teenage daughter, which has been No. 1 on the streamer since its third season premiered last week.
Home, Cooking: Chocolate Strawberry Danger Mousse

4 weeks ago | athensindependent.com | Rebecca Onion

This recipe is, apparently, something French people find out about simply from reading the back of their chocolate bars, but I was deep in Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table when I acquired the knowledge that you can make a nice—even fancy!—mousse dessert with only four very standard kitchen-staple ingredients.
Netflix’s Star-Studded New Show Is Like a Candy-Colored Take on The White Lotus

1 month ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Somebody still uses Edible Arrangements, and it’s Michaela Kell, the witchy billionaire’s wife played with swoony glee by Julianne Moore in Netflix’s star-studded new five-episode limited series Sirens. The series kicks off with Meghann Fahy’s Devon, a brash, hard-living Buffalo resident, coming home from a night in jail to find a comically large, bristling bouquet of melon and strawberries on toothpicks on her front step.
If You Want a Mix of Mystery, Social Satire, and Wealth Porn, Boy Do We Have a New Show for You

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Rebecca Onion

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysSomebody still uses Edible Arrangements, and it’s Michaela Kell, the witchy billionaire’s wife played with swoony glee by Julianne Moore in Netflix’s star-studded new five-episode limited series Sirens.
The Last of Us Season 2 has been a letdown since Joel’s death. Episode 6 makes it clear.

1 month ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Television This article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 6 of The Last of Us. Is it possible to mount a strong argument against the now-Joel-free version of HBO’s The Last of Us without being mean to Bella Ramsey? The online backlash against the casting of Ramsey to play Ellie, the young teenager who’s immune to the Cordyceps infection that has devastated the world, and who becomes like a daughter to Pedro Pascal’s grizzled survivor Joel, has been mounting for years.
Home, Cooking: Crisper-Clearing Green Cabbage Slaw With Dill

1 month ago | athensindependent.com | Rebecca Onion

We’re getting so close: Three weeks left of school; three weeks until the opening of the pool. (Actually, it’s three weeks and a day, and three weeks and two days, respectively; the child in this house insists on accuracy on these important matters.) And while some new offerings are filling in around the edges, we still have a few weeks until the full glory of local produce hits.
Unfortunately, You Have to Hand It to Trump on That “30 Dolls” Thing

1 month ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30,” President Donald Trump said on Wednesday in response to a reporter’s question about upcoming shortages of consumer goods.
Amazon’s New Epic Drama Brings an Award-Winning Book to Gruesome, Gorgeous Life

1 month ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Television The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Amazon Prime Video’s recent World War II miniseries, is traumatizing in multiple ways. One of those ways involves Jacob Elordi, the extremely tall Australian actor whose starring role in this has tricked some of his fans—who want to see him in a romantic historical drama and aren’t pacified by sneak peeks from the set of Wuthering Heights—into watching a show that is, to put it lightly, incredibly bleak.