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Rewatch Diaries

Notes from the shows and films I have watched more times than I can count, and what each rewatch teaches me about friendship, ambition and home.

Promotional portrait of the four stars of the UPN sitcom Girlfriends in black dresses against a red damask wall.
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5 Lessons About Adult Friendship I Learned From Rewatching Girlfriends

Rewatching Girlfriends taught me five lessons about adult friendship, from loving flawed friends to grieving the ones who drift away.

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On Screen · Rewatch Diaries
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A scene from Living Single: a woman in a black shirt mid-conversation in the warm, art-filled brownstone living room.
On Screen · Rewatch Diaries

What Living Single Taught Me About Running an Indie Magazine

I rewatched Living Single for comfort and found a business plan: what Khadijah James and Flavor magazine taught me about running an indie magazine.

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Janine Teagues talking to Barbara Howard in the teachers lounge in Abbott Elementary
On Screen · Rewatch Diaries

My Prescription for a Really Bad Day: 5 Comfort TV Episodes

My prescription for an embarrassingly bad day: five comfort TV episodes, a few honorable mentions and the bad-day TV rules I actually follow.

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Four friends laughing and taking a selfie together in a sunny garden courtyard.
On Screen · Rewatch Diaries

The Black Sitcoms That Made Friendship Look So Good

Living Single, Girlfriends, A Different World, Martin, Half & Half, Insecure and Harlem: the Black sitcoms that made adult friendship look so good.

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