Romance isn't dead, but brands sure are trying!
On Andrew Garfield's Chicken Shop Date
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Juergen Teller shot a new Loewe campaign. I’m tired of pretending that his shoots are avant-garde or any kind of critical analysis of celebrity culture. It’s a Loewe campaign! The call is coming from inside the house. And the call is ugly.
The Anonymous is the best new TV show you aren’t watching. It aired its season finale on the USA Network on Monday evening. I’ve been watching it on Hulu but it also airs on Peacock (it’s a week behind, however).
The winner of the series was crowned and I won’t spoil who it was, but I was pleased with the outcome. The cast included some TV icons:Big Brother winner Xavier Prather. Nina Twine, Daughter of Sandra Diaz-Twine, two-time Survivor winner. Nina has also been on Survivor: Australia twice. Fyre Festival dick sucker Andy King.
The show is like The Traitors meets The Circle. Players spend all of their time together in a compound, except for when they have to hide their identities in a chat room. Whoever hides their identity best each week becomes The Anonymous and gets to eliminate someone from the game. The rules are less nebulous than The Traitors. And it’s fun to see how someone attempts to disguise their online personality to people who are living with their IRL personality.
Romance isn't dead, but brands sure are trying!
The latest episode of Chicken Shop Date, Amelia Dimoldenberg’s interview series, features Andrew Garfield. It’s been the internet’s fascination for a week now, thanks to a long-running flirtation between the two that began in 2022 on the British GQ’s Men of the Year red carpet and continued last year at the Golden Globes.
Amelia: “We must stop meeting like this.”
Andrew: “I only ever want to see you.”
Their interactions are flirty but also hilarious because they’re British and most British celebrities are naturally funny for some reason. Garfield has yet to be in a real rom com, but he’s living out one in front of our very eyes. No matter what happens between them, one thing is certain, it’s become the internet’s latest content machine. In lieu of Chappell Roan releasing a front-facing TikTok this past week, every website you know has written up something on the flirty banter between Garfield and Dimoldenberg.
Unfortunately, it has brought out the absolute worst part of the internet. And I’m not even talking about the stupid tweet that accused their relationship of having a problematic age gap.
No, I’m talking about the BRANDS. Everything online is content. We are all content creators. And so of course, the brands were quick to chime in on this budding romance.
