Candice Frederick

Alanis Morissette performing onstage during the Jagged Little Pill tour in 1996.
Photograph by Epiphany Music/Alanis Morissette/Courtesy HBO
There was already a lot to unpack from Rolling Stone’s famous 1995 cover featuring singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette next to the words “Angry White Female.” She was a 21-year-old artist who was and remains beloved by myriad women for her bold rants, musings and love stories. And the magazine was a largely white- and male-run establishment that typicall...

Reneé Rapp, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Pauline Chalamet and Amrit Kaur in "The Sex Lives of College Girls."
Photograph by Jessica Brooks
At a time when a horny 10th grader proudly thirsts after a boy on “Never Have I Ever” and an entire high school student body indulges their erotic cravings on “Sex Education,” a show about carnally empowered girls at a university seems rather conventional. After all, this isn’t the ’90s when sex positivity often meant watching female students in shaky videos drun...

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 14: (L-R) Demi Singleton, Serena Williams, Will Smith, Venus Williams, Saniyya Sidney, and Aunjanue Ellis attend the 2021 AFI Fest Closing Night Premiere of Warner Bros. "King Richard" at TCL Chinese Theatre on November 14, 2021 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)
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Back in 2006, Essence magazine ran a cover story with Sean “Diddy” Combs and his off-again/on-again girlfriend, the late Kim Porter, mother of...

Prentice Penny, showrunner of HBO's "Insecure."
PHOTOS: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO; Getty Images. ILLUSTRATION: Isabella Carapella/HuffPost
As any “Insecure” superfan could attest, the road to success for heroine Issa Dee (series creator Issa Rae) has been long and riddled with disappointment, full of cases where she got overlooked in favor of a white face. But now, in the fifth and final season of the HBO comedy, Issa is reaping the benefits of years of effort as a thriving entrepreneur....

Linda Yvette Chavez and Marvin Bryan Lemus attend the premiere of Netflix's "Gentefied" Season 1 at Margo Albert Theatre on Feb. 20, 2020, in Los Angeles.
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This story contains spoilers.
“Gentefied” co-creator Marvin Lemus is on his own journey of identity just like the characters on his series. Both he and co-creator Linda Yvette Chavez are Chicano/Mexican American, but there is another part of his identity he’s been exploring. “Mexican Guatemalan American,” he ad...

Anyone who experiences financial anxiety might find themselves wincing throughout “The Shrink Next Door,” which dramatizes the toxic relationship between an opportunistic psychologist (the ever-charming Paul Rudd) and his super wealthy patient (a far-too-trusting Will Ferrell). Because it is, essentially, an eight-episode look at a nice person getting exploited for every dime he’s worth over the course of a few decades. And yet you can’t peel your eyes away.
Much of that is due to the chemist...

There is a lot simmering beneath the surface of “Yellowjackets,” Showtime’s intriguing new mystery series that explores the emotional, psychological and supernatural aftermath of a 25-year-old plane crash that left an entire high school female soccer team stranded in the wilderness for an unfathomable 19 months. It demands a lot of your focus due to the myriad characters and storylines you have to keep up with — and in two different timelines.
For that last reason, it could take multiple view...

To hear some fans of the OG Dexter series tell it, the fact that the titular serial killer (Michael C. Hall) gets away with massive amounts of bloodshed over the course of eight seasons by fleeing the eyes of the law to a secluded town in Oregon isn't the ending he deserved. It suggested that not even in the world of fiction can the perpetrator get justice. But the new revival series, Dexter: New Blood, tests audience even more with the question: Can Dexter actually be redeemed?
The answer is...

Rebecca Addelman has more proven that she can take on chaotic crime dramedies as a writer behind the excellent “Dead to Me.” But when it comes to “Guilty Party,” the new Paramount+ series she created starring Kate Beckinsale, she has totally fumbled the ball.
It’s not just that “Guilty Party” is bad (though it is). It’s entirely unfocused and Addelman and her writing team don’t seem to know what exactly they want the show to be. It starts off intriguing enough with a flawed protagonist named ...

Spoilers for Lamb ahead.
Several long months ago, Noomi Rapace couldn’t even fathom sitting on a Zoom session in New York City, chatting with someone about her experience working on the idiosyncratic new film, Lamb. That’s because she had sunk so deeply into her role as Maria—one half of a melancholy, flannel-wearing couple living on an outlying farm in Iceland whose life irrevocably changes with the birth of a human-lamb hybrid—that the actress was no longer detectable, even to those who kno...

The CBS series gives time to the people who need it most
You've got to appreciate this current phase of Queen Latifah's career where she is quite literally coasting on a procedural crime drama and quietly defying gender, body, and age standards that have historically been applied to action heroes. Initially, the idea that there would be a gender-bent version of a character that had already been race-bent in a tired 2014 film with Denzel Washington was exasperating. But by the end of the first...

Truth be told, there is no real reason for another iteration of the “Child’s Play” universe after a slew of films that range widely in quality from entertaining to ridiculous, dating back to the original 1988 offering. But USA and Syfy’s new series, “Chucky,” is actually pretty solid.
Much of that is because Don Mancini, the co-writer and mastermind behind the original “Child’s Play,” is the creator and showrunner of the new series. He also wrote and directed a few episodes, which is obvious ...

It is just days before the Tony Awards would celebrate Broadway’s eagerly anticipated return after going dark for 17 months, and Annaleigh Ashford, who earned the coveted award in 2015 for her performance in You Can’t Take It With You, is giddy with appreciation when we hop on a Zoom call together. That’s partly because the live ceremony, which aired on September 26, marked an IRL reunion with some of her thespian friends. It’s also because, even throughout the hellscape that was 2020 (and st...

It’s always fascinating to encounter someone like Lily Rabe, whose love for the horror genre has, in part, led to her nine-season tenure on American Horror Story, but readily admits that in actuality, even the slightest things freak her out. “Gosh, I’m up all night, I can’t sleep because of all the things I’m worrying about and scared of,” the actress says on a Zoom call from Los Angeles. “So, it’s definitely a love-hate relationship.” While seemingly a contradiction, it reflects a woman who ...

Watching a talking cat and a teenage girl navigate the wacky ramifications of spells that make unpalatable lima beans disappear or stop the school bully from spreading lies might not seem like a fun Friday night for those growing up in the TikTok era. But in 1996, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch was appointment viewing for 17 million households.
Starring Melissa Joan Hart, fresh off her star-making turn as the title character on Nickelodeon’s Clarissa Explains It All, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch ha...