Anne Helen Petersen
Whiskey With A Side Of Shopping: The Masculine Utopia Of Trunk Club
It’s tempting to think of Trunk Club as a well-marketed service for rich, busy dudes — a way to make clueless, frumpy men into well-dressed lazy ones. But is the masculinity that Trunk Club sells worth aspiring to?
Anne Helen Petersen
The Big Swinging Dicks Of "Entourage"
Entourage has always celebrated the pleasures of bro-ing out without consequences. So what makes the film feel so toxic?
Anne Helen Petersen
We Have Reached Peak Granny
Granny hair, granny panties, grannies all over popular media — what does the visibility of older women and the fashions associated with them suggest about our current cultural moment?
Anne Helen Petersen
How Hollywood Taught Rebel Wilson To Lie About Her Age
Rebel Wilson isn't the first Hollywood star to fabricate details of her past. But the reason she did so speaks volumes of the industry's logic concerning what sort of bodies should appear on-screen.
Anne Helen Petersen
Anna Kendrick Vs. The Hollywood Type Machine
We all know that the women who surround us contain multitudes. Kendrick powerfully suggests that celebrities can as well.
Anne Helen Petersen
In Praise Of Betty Draper, Difficult Woman
Mad Men’s Betty Draper has spent every day recovering from the quiet trauma of her deeply unfulfilling life. Here’s why we should celebrate her. Spoilers below.
Anne Helen Petersen
The Lessons We've Learned From Our Boomer Moms
What lessons have we internalized by watching our boomer moms figure out careers, love, and motherhood?
Anne Helen Petersen
"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" Has A Major Race Problem
The Netflix series, created by 30 Rock's Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, brought audiences a nuanced (and hilarious) black gay man, but its Asian-American and Native American characters are far from perfect, as are the jokes about them.
Anne Helen Petersen
How "The Jinx" Narratively Manipulated Its Viewers
The confusing timeline raises the question: How else did the narrative shift for our benefit?
Anne Helen Petersen
Nick Kroll's Walk In The Park
Comics work their whole careers to land their own successful, acclaimed, eponymous Comedy Central sketch show. But after three seasons, and with his show at its creative and commercial peak, Nick Kroll is leaving it all behind for destinations unknown — because he can.
Anne Helen Petersen
The Sly Capitalist Seduction Of "Fifty Shades Of Grey"
Beneath the BDSM trappings of Fifty Shades lies the fantasy that wealth will set us free. Warning: Spoilers!
Anne Helen Petersen
Why Teens Love YouTube's Grace Helbig
How YouTube's "awkward older sister" is ushering in a new era of female friendship and femininity.
Anne Helen Petersen
Marshawn Lynch And The Future Of Sports Celebrity
Lynch’s refusal to play by the accepted rules of sports has been been called the work of a “goon” or a “god.” But what if it instead heralds a new, negotiated mode of sports stardom?
Anne Helen Petersen
"Empire," "Jane The Virgin," And The Nonwhite Family Melodrama
One's an unprecedented hit and the other won The CW its first Golden Globe. But more importantly, Empire and Jane The Virgin are both doing some of the most unique and progressive work on television today.
Anne Helen Petersen
The Trouble With "It Girls"
We’ve used the term for nearly a century. But what does it tell us about the way we label women and their work?
Anne Helen Petersen
The True Tragedy Of "American Sniper"
What America’s most popular war movie says about our nation’s continued alienation from the front lines. Warning: Spoiler ahead.
Anne Helen Petersen
The Genius Of Taylor Swift's Girlfriend Collection
Swift has spent the last two years "making friendship fun." But her choice of Instagram girlfriends is also an incredibly savvy image maintenance strategy.
Anne Helen Petersen
Big Mother Is Watching You: The Track-Everything Revolution Is Here Whether You Want It Or Not
If you keep your fitness-related New Year's resolutions in 2015, it'll likely be thanks to the new wave of devices and apps that have taken monitoring things like newborn sleep patterns and blood oxygenation from geek hobby to mass-market juggernaut. But what happens when companies have access to the most mundane details about our bodies?
Anne Helen Petersen
49 Movies And TV Shows We Loved, Hated, And Couldn't Stop Writing About In 2014
From The Good Wife and Mad Men to Guardians of the Galaxy and Gone Girl, there were television shows and films that the staff of BuzzFeed Entertainment couldn't stop talking about this year. Let's get critical!
Jace Lacob
16 Rankings From 2014 That Deserve Another Look
From Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movies to Best Picture winners to Buffy characters and episodes, here are BuzzFeed Entertainment's rankings from 2014. Ironically, these are presented in no particular order.
Jaimie Etkin
