There’s something comforting about a 30-minute comedy that can make your heart soar while you’re innocently smiling and giggling throughout. Well, these are not those shows. While the cringe comedies ...

Discover some of the most cringe-worthy moments from 'The Office' and why those moments made the series so special. In Brian Baumgartner’s latest venture, An Oral History of The Office, the cast and ...

A laughing moment of embarrassment is a tough one to pull off, mainly because there is a psychological component to watching TV. Yes, there is more than just a serial relationship with your favorite ...

Earlier this year, American critics were somewhat gobsmacked when a show called Stath Lets Flats swept the BAFTAs, yanking prizes like Best Comedy Series from the likes of Fleabag and Derry Girls. How ...

The White Lotus thinks we’re all going to fall for the same trick twice. Much like its first season, HBO’s acclaimed comedy-drama begins with a corpse on the grounds of an idyllic resort property ...

It's a term that has entered the global, English-speaking lexicon as the Zoomer generation began to gain prominence on the internet and on social media in particular. To be 'cringe' is not just to ...

She’s not the only artist embracing cringe. Los Angeles-based writer K. Allado-McDowell’s new novel, Amor Cringe, is a love letter to cringe maximalism. Allado-McDowell set out to write the cringiest ...

When Gen Z isn’t busy trolling Millennials for their choice of jeans or carbon footprints, they’re hard at work bending and twisting the meaning of words you thought you once knew well. (Think sheesh ...

Early cringe culture was about empathy and secondhand embarrassment. Today, being “cringe” is a serious infraction. After spending years in that environment, our sense of cringe has been heightened to ...

“I hated that movie. The love scene was so cringe.” Suddenly, this use of “cringe” seems to be everywhere. And some quasi-scientific evidence shows it’s on the rise. According to Google’s Ngram Viewer ...

Credit: Zain bin Awais/Mashable Composite; Holger Scheibe/Cimmerian/via Getty Images "That blue umbrella is still stashed under my bed," Carletta says, recalling the fateful evening that she was ...