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]

Articles

Home, Cooking: Crisper-Clearing Green Cabbage Slaw With Dill

5 days 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 week 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 week 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.
Miss Bridgerton? Netflix’s New Hit Rom-Com Will Scratch That Itch and More.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Netflix’s first Canadian original series is doing something totally new. It’s not just that North of North takes place in spring—the tundra flooded with bright light, the opposite of the dark, claustrophobic vision of polar-horror fare like True Detective: Night Country or 30 Days of Night.
Netflix’s New No. 1 Show Is Getting Compared to Yellowstone. That’s Not Quite Right.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Television At first glance, Ransom Canyon, Netflix’s splashy new series about three “ranching dynasties” fighting against outside forces to hold on to their land and their Texan way of life, may seem a tad familiar. After all, there’s an entire extended universe of popular shows revolving around another ranching family, created by none other than Taylor Sheridan, arguably one of the most successful TV impresarios around these days.
Yellowstone’s prequel ends with a divisive mess. It’s classic Taylor Sheridan.

1 month ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

A British aristocrat betrothed to a fellow toff meets a dashing young American veteran on safari in 1923. She falls in love with him and breaks her engagement; he gets over his lingering post-traumatic stress disorder from World War I, with the help of her love.
Is This Really How Yellowstone’s Big Prequel Ends?

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Rebecca Onion

1 hour agoThe second season may be over, but you can still obsess over the Yellowstone prequel's backdrops. Well, that’s a wrap on the season two of 1923. Similar to the first installment of the Yellowstone prequel, the second season also features sweeping landscapes and old Western backdrops. Throughout the …
The Ending of Yellowstone Prequel 1923 Is Proving Divisive. I’ll Never Forget It.

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 TakeawaysA British aristocrat betrothed to a fellow toff meets a dashing young American veteran on safari in 1923. She falls in love with him and breaks her engagement; he gets over his lingering post-traumatic stress disorder from World War I, with the help of her love.
Michelle Williams’ New Show Is About Dying. It’s Also Sexy as Hell.

1 month ago | slate.com | Lizzie O’Leary |Rebecca Onion

Skip to the content An Authentic Academic Feel Television In Sex Reviews, writers offer a sober critical assessment of the sex scenes in new films and television series. This installment contains spoilers for Dying for Sex. The premise of the FX limited series Dying for Sex may or may not sound erotic to you: Molly, a fortysomething New Yorker played by Michelle Williams, finds out that the breast cancer she treated years ago has returned, and it’s Stage 4.
What an ER Doctor Who’s Worked Multiple Mass Shootings Thinks of Those Episodes of The Pitt

1 month ago | slate.com | Rebecca Onion

Skip to the content Wants to Get Stuff Locked In Television This article contains spoilers for Episodes 12 and 13 of The Pitt. This week, on Episode 13 of Max’s hospital drama The Pitt, Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) and the rest of the emergency room’s staff were in their second hour of treating the victims of a mass shooting at a music festival.