The best comfort TV of 2018 (so far)

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Helplessness and anger are all too familiar in 2018, but sometimes the best self-care is to take a break from reality and indulge in some comfort TV. 

It is our balm against the relentless news cycle, our safety blanket at the end of a long day – and it pairs well with an actual blanket too. Here are 10 shows from the past six months that helped us get through, well, the past six months.

Queer Eye

Netflix’s Queer Eye reboot was the runaway hit of the winter, the show that achieved what so much media has strived for since the Trump presidency: to bring people together in divisive times. The new Fab Five are aspirationally empathetic and intersectional, and the people whom they meet and transform end up bettered ways they could never have imagined — as do we as an audience. Read more…

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RuPaul accepts Hollywood star with the fabulousness of a thousand queens

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RuPaul Charles is many things — if not everything: a two-time Emmy winner, a trailblazing talent, an icon of the LGBTQ community, a self-love guru, and the world’s most beloved drag queen. 

And now, he’s officially a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the first drag queen to ever achieve that honor.

“As a kid we’d come up here — they’d drop me off right here on Hollywood Boulevard — so I could look at all the stars and dream that one day, I could be one of the stars,” he said during the ceremony celebrating his arrival. 

“This is absolutely the most important moment in my professional career.” Read more…

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