Good For You with Whitney Cummings Elizabeth Holmes is back, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Christmas and the Bad is the New Good
May 17, 2025
A sharp take on a Lifetime Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce holiday movie and the urge to watch it live. A riff on why deliberately bad, messy entertainment is winning and why hate-watching endures. A deep dive into Elizabeth Holmes resurfacing, Theranos' cultural fallout, and how blonde privilege and charisma shaped public forgiveness.
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Found A Lifetime Taylor Swift Christmas Movie
- Whitney discovered a Lifetime Christmas movie about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce and celebrated the quick, topical production.
- She compares it to a Tubi Amber Heard/Johnny Depp film rushed out before verdicts, admiring fast turnaround filmmaking.
Make Things Bad On Purpose
- Stop polishing stories to death; embrace bold, confusing, or low-fi ideas to capture attention.
- Whitney cites cult hits like Cocaine Bear and Showgirls as examples where over-editing would have ruined appeal.
Creators Replaced Hollywood's Outsider Stories
- The gatekeepers of storytelling have shifted; people now publish raw, real-life characters via podcasts and social media instead of Hollywood.
- Whitney argues platforms like Kill Tony and creators replacing scripted portrayals supply the 'real' stories previously fictionalized.