Picture it: 2018 has been a banner year for The Golden Girls! While the show's been popular since its 1985 debut, things really started to pick up for everyone's favorite Miami besties when Hulu started streaming the series in 2017. It's become so popular that now we can celebrate our love for the show with …
Something of a Catastrophe
Season 4 is a weird one, isn't it? So many of the plots are pretty nonsensical, but often the scripts and the jokes are still funny. I definitely feel like that's the case with the "Bang the Drum, Stanley" episode, although it turned out to be not one of my favorites. This episode is memorable …
National Coming Out Day and LGBTQ Moments on The Golden Girls
October 11 is National Coming Out Day and, in the course of my recent research, I've been thinking a lot about how The Golden Girls portrayed LGBTQ characters and issues over the years. The show tackled topics like coming out, AIDS, and learning to accept family members' sexuality, among others, with sensitivity and humor in …
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Golden Girls FunkO’s Cereal Review
First thing's first: shout out to Mike Denison for tweeting about this cereal because I wouldn't have known about it otherwise! I'm usually pretty well-informed about all The Golden Girls merch out there, and friends always send me links when they hear about things (thank you for being a friend, friends!). I haven't seen any …
Estelle by Starlight
After I wrote A Short History of Sophia's Purse I started doing research for an essay about the "72 Hours" episode of The Golden Girls. There are already some great articles out there about it, and Jim Colucci's chapter in Golden Girls Forever is particularly illuminating. In trying to write about just what makes that …
