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Nandini Balial

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As seen in: Medium, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo News, Slate, The Daily Beast, VICE, Flipboard, Yahoo Sports Canada, GQ, Harper's Bazaar and
Covers:  Film, television, mental health, literature, costume design, immigration, food
writer | bylines: Defector, Vulture, Ebert Voices, Daily Beast, Harper's Bazaar, Interview, Slate, Vice, The Week, GQ, et al. | she/her |

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Hulu’s Limp Sitcom “Not Suitable for Work” Is Hardly Suitable for Primetime

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By Nandini Balial Verified
| RogerEbert.com Verified
The hangout sitcom has a few, set-in-stone principles: an attractive, charming cast, struggling to balance the demands of work and love, wrangling an array of neuroses and errors of judgment. When their professional and personal worlds begin to overlap, the narrative ought to become funnier and deeper. Unfortunately, “Not Suitable for Work,” like creator Mindy Kaling’s previous sitcom offerings, offers too many cliches to result in anything other than mediocrity.
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"They're going to live on": Kathleen Felix-Hager on dressing Hacks

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By Nandini Balial Verified
| The A.V. Club Verified
HBO Max’s Hacks is over, but like Deborah Vance herself, it rides into the sunset with many claims to fame: introducing Hannah Einbinder to the masses, picking up award after award for its crackerjack writing and powerhouse performances, and building one of 21st-century TV’s most dazzling and thought-out array of costumes. The Emmy-winning work of costume designer Kathleen Felix-Hager informed so much about the backstage and onstage worlds occupied by Einbinder, Jean Smart, and their castmates.
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"They're going to live on": Kathleen Felix-Hager on dressing Hacks

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By Nandini Balial Verified
| Flipboard
1 day ago Over five seasons, the HBO comedy has explored what it means to succeed creatively. The first time we ever see Deborah Vance, she’s onstage at her Vegas residency, delivering desultory jokes about an unappealing lover while wearing a jacket so bedazzled, it seems to have its own energy field. The …
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