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What do you think of the Dez Hansen character? Are they a genius critic or just another messy L.A. archetype? Let us know in the comments.

When the Barbie Oscars snubs happened, the LANewGirl account posted: "Dez Hansen says: 'The Academy chose toxic masculinity over plastic. We have to study this.'" LANewGirl 24 12 17 Episode 405 Dez Hansen XXX 4...

If you’ve been doom-scrolling through TikTok or X (formerly Twitter) lately, you’ve probably seen the split-screen edits: on one side, a clip of a glamorous, chaotic dinner party in Los Angeles; on the other, a talking head named breaking down exactly why that dinner party is a metaphor for late-stage capitalism. What do you think of the Dez Hansen character

When the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce discourse peaked, Dez posted a 45-second vertical video stitching together clips of Friday Night Lights and Reputation era interviews, concluding: "It’s not a romance. It’s a soft launch of the American pastoral myth. Next." Let us know in the comments

And no one does this better than Dez Hansen. Dez Hansen plays a fictionalized version of themself: a struggling pop culture podcaster who is too online for their own good but too brilliant to ignore. While the other characters are fighting about rent control or dating app algorithms, Dez is the one in the corner muttering about how the fight mirrors the third-act conflict in Bottoms (2023) or how the lighting in the kitchen is a direct homage to Euphoria .

Whether you’re here for the plot or the criticism, one thing is clear: In the crowded landscape of popular media, Dez Hansen has become the voice we didn’t know we needed.

This blurring of fiction and critic has made Dez Hansen a favorite among the "pop media literate" crowd—the same people who read every Vulture think-piece and can name three directors from A24’s slate. In an era where entertainment content is either pure fandom or cynical dunking, LANewGirl and Dez Hansen offer a third path: affectionate dissection .