Taylor Kitsch Gossip

A quick post about Taylor Kitsch because I know you’re out there, the Riggins faithful.  Taylor is in New York this week. Here he is leaving his hotel in a leather jacket on Tuesday and then yesterday, in LA, at the TV Academy screening of WACO for a For Your Consideration event. We are coming up on Emmy season. Full Story

I am still invested in Taylor Kitsch. Even though he can’t seem to catch a break professionally (despite promising trailers and decent reviews, Waco came and went rather quietly), I still care about Taylor Kitsch. Full Story

Waco, the miniseries, will premiere tomorrow night on Paramount Network (formerly Spike). Taylor Kitsch plays David Koresh and, as Sarah noted when she wrote about the trailer Full Story

A new trailer for the upcoming miniseries Waco has been released, and damn if this doesn’t really feel like the moment Taylor Kitsch breaks out at long last. Like the first trailer Full Story

Movies about gritty men with gritty jobs only get made when something terrible happens (see also: Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon), so you know going in that Only The Brave, a film about a group of wildfire-fighting “hotshots”, is going to have something terrible in it. The Granite Mountain Hotshots became the first municipal wildfire-fighting crew in US history, and the first half of Only The Brave details what it took for them to achieve that. Full Story

“Taylor Kitsch sucks at football,“ is the exact wording my friend Jen used in a text she sent me last night with a video of Taylor on Ellen, playing a game for charity that required him to throw footballs at targets. Full Story

We’ve been a little worried about Taylor Kitsch around the LaineyGossip offices. I wonder what the hell Full Story

There are certain celebrities who I will always refer to by the names of the characters they played on TV. The entire cast of Friday Night Lights falls into this category. Tim Riggins will forever be Tim Riggins – even when he doesn’t look that much like Tim Riggins anymore. Taylor Kitsch Full Story

A red band trailer for American Assassin, the hopeful launching pad for a new action franchise in the vein of Tom Clancy (the movie is based on the “Mitch Rapp” novels by Vince Flynn so it is a straight-up Clancy knock-off), has been released and I have not previously paid any attention to this movie, but now I have a series of questions. Full Story

As promised, we open this week’s episode of Show Your Work on the Big Little Lies series finale – our thoughts on why BLL felt so essential, on how to meet the resistance to it (here’s the Vulture article Duana quoted about the way the series was dismissed, mostly by men, for being about the trivial dramas of women), and on how this was Bonnie’s episode and Zoe Kravitz Full Story