#social-climbing tag

I Love LA Series-Premiere Recap: Sympathy Is a Knife

When I first moved to Los Angeles, everyone told me to give it "at least two years." They said that's how long it would take to find out whether I could live there. But to like it, let alone love it? Who knows! Everything was beautiful and nothing felt real. As a spinning Rachel Sennott put it in a bizarrely compelling 2020 video that's essentially a succinct thesis statement for the dissertation that is her 2025 HBO show: "Come on! It's L.A.! Haha! What?! It's L.A.!"

Television

fromIndependent

2 weeks ago

Chloe finds a hobby: I overcome my fear of birds as Samhradh the hawk swooshes past my head

Banishing her terrifying memory of a seagull stealing a Big Mac from her hand on O'Connell Street, Chloë McPolin dons some Barbour and heads west for falconry and the aristocratic life... Hobby comrades, I believe I've officially "come up" in the world. As you know, I have an insatiable urge to behave and dress as though I belong to the landed gentry. Naturally, this includes picking up a hobby that lets me hobnob with the rich and famous.

Fashion & style

Relationships

fromSlate Magazine

1 month ago

My Best Friend's Reaction to the "Celebrities" She Meets at Work Is Seriously Mortifying

Address a friend's constant celebrity-bragging with a compassionate, private conversation that sets boundaries, models other topics, and warns of possible professional risk.

Television

fromwww.ocregister.com

1 month ago

The Girlfriend' star says TV mom directing his sex scenes wasn't awkward. At all.

A wealthy mother's hostility toward her son's girlfriend escalates into deadly scheming, shown through alternating perspectives in a Prime Video psychological thriller.

Film

fromVulture

2 months ago

Lurker Is a Talented Mr. Ripley for the Instagram Era

An unsettling social-climbing thriller about fandom and fame, following Matthew's manipulative ascent into a pop star's inner circle driven by Pellerin's intense, awkward performance.

London music

fromVulture

3 months ago

The Gilded Age Recap: How to Buy a Duke

Bertha Russell is determined to orchestrate her daughter's marriage to the Duke of Buckingham despite financial setbacks.

fromThe New Yorker

4 months ago

"The Gilded Age" Is a Poor Man's Period Drama

Characterized by unexplored complexities, 'The Gilded Age' focuses more on social climbing than the multiple historical transformations taking place in the backdrop.