Chloe Harvey

Wonderland • 30th March 2023

David Jonsson Talks Origins & Rye Lane for WONDERLAND

For a 16-year-old David Jonsson growing up in East London, an acting career was not always the plan. Jonsson (a self-proclaimed introvert) surprised both himself and his mum when he told her he wanted to become an actor. “Well stop shouting about it then,” she replied. “Go and do it.” 10 years later, Jonsson’s acting resume is the reflection of a man dedicated to his craft.

Man About Town • 1st November 2023

FABIEN FRANKLE for Man About Town

Premiering in August, with billboards and fanfare littered across the globe, House of the Dragon hit our screens to rave reviews, promising to launch many cast members – including Fabien Frankel – into stardom.

Wonderland • 12th July 2022

DARYL McCORMACK for Wonderland

CH: Your character, Leo Grande, is really fleshed out as well. What did you think about him? DM: There’s a level of sensitivity to Leo that I also have. Leo has given his life to his vocation. That sensitivity was something that Sophie [Hyde] was looking for in the actor who plays Leo.

Man About Town • 16th February 2022

ELIAS KACAVAS for Man About Town

Full disclosure, Kacavas gets around 15 minutes of screentime in Euphoria. But no one can deny the screentime packs a punch. Young Cal’s storyline follows a typical high school heartthrob and star wrestler. Cal’s got the talent. He’s got the girl, the best friend. Except it turns out he’s in love with his best friend? Then his girlfriend gets pregnant. It’s a heartbreaking whirlwind of an opening sequence.

The Slice • 24th November 2021

Fleabag, Guilt, and Beautiful Grief

“I just want to cry,” Fleabag retorts, breaking her vow of silence, “all the time.” Cry for who, though, it is not clear. Her mother? Boo? Herself? The only certainty as two almost-strangers share a secret cigarette is that these quiet, beautiful moments of shared loss are as integral to Fleabag as breaking the forth wall and “using sex to deflect from the screaming void inside an empty heart.”

Matriarch • 19th December 2021

Struggling to Shop Sustainably this Christmas? You're Not Alone.

We all know that Christmas is the season of giving. But with all that giving seems to come a lot of receiving, and shopping, and wrapping, and unboxing, and packaging, and shipping. In other words, a lot of CO2 emissions...

House Beautiful Marketplace • 25th November 2021

House Beautiful Product Copy

Composed over 1000 SEO friendly product copy assets for House Beautiful Marketplace. Drop me a line if you'd like to know more. (My magnum opus has to be the linked Cersei Candle Holders - aptly named and written by me, definitely not inspired by A Song of Ice and Fire.)

Cosmopolitan • 30th March 2021

Is it natural to grieve over lost possessions?

Floating in the North Sea, I recall a feeling of tranquillity as I watched a golden sunset glint across the waves. I was ice swimming with friends, a sport that reaps benefits like living longer and combatting depression. As I’d spent most of 2020 enduring the stress of job hunting in a pandemic, the icy plunge felt like a needed change of pace. For a moment, everything was right in the world. That was, until the most precious thing I owned sank to the sea floor - never to be seen again.

CHECK-OUT • 11th February 2021

Married to the ‘70s: why the internet can’t let go of the orange-tinged love train —

Remember the skate-boarding-cranberry-juice-sipping man listening to Fleetwood Mac in October 2020? Or the pastel-tinted-roller-skating madness in May? If you don’t, get yourself on TikTok and prepare to wave goodbye to the hours of the day.

31st January 2021

We three Dings: how a small-town burger bar beat the pandemic odds

** Unpublished Article ** The terms 'pop-up restaurant' and 'small town in the north-east of England' are rarely used together to describe a successful business venture. Throw a pandemic-induced lockdown into the mixture and success appears even less likely. But for Ding, a pop-up burger bar in Hartlepool, success was part of the recipe.

The Slice • 15th December 2020

Review – ‘Ratched’ is Pretty but Poorly Paced

At first, it was easy to pick up hints of American Horror Story: Asylum from the show; perhaps it was the returning cast members and the 1940s hospital setting, maybe just the Murphy-esque nature of it all. However, this feeling quickly disappeared as Ratched shifted from mysterious to downright bizarre.

14th October 2020

Storms ahead for dementia research

** Unpublished Article - shortlisted for The Economist Internship 2020 ** One unsuspecting night in June 1993, a Scarborough hotel tumbled down into the sea below. The contents of Holbeck Hall spilled out across the rocky cliff-side, together with all the memories the hotel had housed. “I knew everything in it,” said the hotel’s owner, Joan Turner, “I’ve lost my dream.” Turner’s loss was palpable but the insidious process of coastal erosion that swept Holbeck Hall away took decades to reach this destructive point.

Femie Magazine • 18th August 2020

Waiting Under the Same Sky

Femie Magazine • 14th July 2020

Exercise, Productivity, and Me: A Quarantine Diary

WhatCulture • 23rd April 2020

10 Video Game Worlds to Get Lost in During Lockdown

Medium • 9th July 2020

A Love Story of Technology and Isolation

This dystopian outlook is a little too Black Mirror. It’s drowned in hyperbole and resistant to change. It’s true that — at their worst — mobile phones conjure the image of fearful waters in which catfish and worse predators swim. However, where isolation is concerned, this so-called malady of technology is actually a tonic.

Screen Queens • 8th May 2020

Mental Health in Teen Drama

Thinking back to Jamie Brittain’s previous words, I agree that there is some light in Skins. It’s the kind of light you get when you’re finally over a dark part of life. For many adults, adolescence was dark, and Skins doesn’t shy away from that fact. But when sensitive subjects like eating disorders, drug use, and mental illness are offered up for teenage viewing, it would do well to glamorise them as little as possible.

Screen Queens • 21st February 2020

Thomasin’s Liberation in ‘The Witch’

Without question, this is a horror film: a baby is devoured; a mother’s breast is mutilated by a raven; danger lurks in the woods. That’s why it’s surprising to learn that inspiration was partially drawn from fairy tales. For centuries, such stories have been a popular way to teach children moral codes; in other ways, these tales behave as transformative devices where daily life is reimagined as magical, not mundane. Too often are their dark origins forgotten.

The Stray • 20th November 2017

Cultural Afterlives: Blade Runner & the Steelworks

The connection between a local landmark and the cultural giant that is Blade Runner has been a regional topic of small-talk since the eighties; my hometown even petitioned to build a statue in Scott’s honour. Though the steelworks no longer function, there is a beauty in that darkness.

The Stray • 3rd November 2017

World Building: The Harry Potter Effect

Giants like Game of Thrones and Star Wars are multibillion dollar worlds, with Harry Potter reigning as king, worth $6.6 billion. Conversely, Pratchett once claimed to be ‘allergic’ to Hollywood, so perhaps it’s an author’s disdain for the film industry that that prevents a collision of universes. Of course, there is also time to consider.