I went through a strong phase of only watching criminal justice shows when I was in college. (I feel like maybe we all did?) No episode of CSI or Criminal Minds was safe around me — every fictional case felt like a test to be solved and a hint that my future could be in...
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Getty Images They say you should never meet your heroes, so I — an avid horror fan and, very specifically, longtime stan of Stu Macher — worried heading into my Zoom with Matthew Lillard that somehow I’d walk away disappointed. And, honestly, the actor and dad-of-three wasn’t exactly how I’d imagined him....
When I first came across Avery Woods on TikTok, it was through a reel of her toddler daughter Stevie recapping her day via a hilariously snarky voiceover. Of course, the real voice behind the voiceover was Woods herself, and that brand of funny, raw, all-too-relatable parenting quickly catapulted her to the upper echelons of social...
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Courtesy of Danielle Fishel As a millennial, I grew up watching Danielle Fishel star as everyone’s favorite girl next door in ABC’s Boy Meets World. My friends and I all felt like Topanga was one of us — that she was someone who you could actually sit in your room and flip...