Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan launches his campaign(s) Sebastian Stan has two films out this year, A Different Man and The Apprentice. Both have earned him the highest praise of his career so far, including the Silver Bear for acting at the Berlin International Film Festival for A Different Man. And despite the controversy surrounding it—threats of By Sarah • Sep 20, 2024 11:29 am
Award Season Campaigning Emmy Nominee Lewis Pullman Lewis Pullman is henceforth and forever to be known as Emmy Nominee Lewis Pullman. He’s been campaigning hard for Lessons in Chemistry, in which he plays sexy and lovable scientist Calvin Evans, so it’s not like he came out of nowhere for his nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor By Sarah • Jul 18, 2024 01:28 pm
TV Updates Shōgun is the Most In her post, previous to this one, about the Emmy nominations, Duana argued gently that maybe categories don’t matter, which is a conversation that’s been coming up a lot with respect to The Bear. On our Substack today, a member called Miss Mellie said they were tired of By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 03:51 pm
TV Updates Emmys: Nominations Mean Everything; Categories, Not So Much It’s kind of funny to me that awards show coverage always leads with “[PROJECT] gets a stunning [NUMBER] nods!” I get that it’s a shorthand for how well-regarded a show is, if every possible category landed a nomination. But it’s also indicative of past Emmy discourse, By Duana • Jul 17, 2024 03:18 pm
TV Updates Qualified Emmy love The Emmy nominations are here and are largely as expected (lots of The Bear, Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer), but there are a couple nice surprises, and one maybe not so much surprise and disappointingly met expectation. Let’s start with the good news. Reservation Dogs FINALLY got major Emmy nominations! By Sarah • Jul 17, 2024 02:04 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Emmy nominations will be announced today at 1130am ET/830am PT and we’ll have more posts about that later. For me personally, the Emmys storyline I care most about is Shōgun and how many nominations the series will receive. Shōgun is heavily predicted to lead the By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 09:32 am
TV Updates Mariko, Toranaga, and… Yabushige! Emmy nominations voting starts tomorrow so we’re down to the final stages of nominations campaigning and the most acclaimed series of 2024 is bringing out their MVPs. There was a Shōgun FYC event yesterday in LA with Lord Toranaga himself, Hiroyuki Sanada, making an appearance. Hiroyuki has been pretty By Lainey • Jun 12, 2024 01:18 pm
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston: For Your Consideration, Drama As mentioned in the site open, the Emmy nominations will be voted on starting in less than two weeks so it’s heavy campaigning for a final push, at least until after the nominations come out and those who are in the race pick it back up again. There was By Lainey • Jun 03, 2024 10:34 am
TV Updates Intro for May 21, 2024 Dear Gossips, Welcome back to those in Canada from the Victoria Day long weekend. And this coming weekend it’s a long weekend in the US, Memorial Day, so it’ll be interesting to see what surprises there are for us in gossip. After Memorial Day, Hollywood will be dialing By Lainey • May 21, 2024 09:32 am
TV Updates David Beckham: Honey, Spice, Emmy David Beckham has been in LA the last few days and yesterday stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! for an interview about his Netflix documentary, Beckham. We’ll get back to the doc in a minute, let’s start with the interview itself, because it’s a good one, he came By Lainey • May 09, 2024 12:16 pm
TV Updates Emma comes for Emmy Emma Stone won her second Best Actress Oscar last month for her performance in Poor Things. And now it’s Emmy season. I know, I know, it feels like it’s early to be talking about the Emmys because the Emmys just happened in January but that was only because By Lainey • Apr 25, 2024 12:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Predicting the Oppen-Oscars Usually, I format my Oscar predictions as favorite/upset/dark horse, but this year, even the most competitive categories are down to two competitors, not a wide-open field of possibility. Also, brace yourself for the Oppen-Oscars, as Oppenheimer is probably going to dominate the whole night. So this By Sarah • Mar 07, 2024 11:28 am
Gorgessity Ali and Ayo win everything Ali Wong and Ayo Edebiri have both swept this (seemingly interminable) award season and this weekend also gave us some of the best looks on the red carpet. I mean, if you want to be a stickler, technically there is one loss on Ayo’s page – she did not win By Lainey • Feb 26, 2024 12:19 pm
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, For the first time this weekend, a major award show streamed on Netflix. Prior to this year, the Screen Actors Awards were never broadcast on one of the big networks so you could say that Netflix was giving them their biggest platform. And for Netflix, this was their By Lainey • Feb 26, 2024 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Oppenheimer on Kimmel The SAG Awards are tomorrow night, streaming for the first time on Netflix. It’s the first major award show, I think, that we’re seeing on the platform, and I’m so curious about how it’s going to play out. For those of us who are television broadcast By Lainey • Feb 23, 2024 12:05 pm
Award Season Campaigning Emma is Bella and Fantasia’s First Let’s start with Fantasia Barrino because she has not missed once this entire award season, working with stylist Daniel Hawkins. Fantasia was at the BAFTAs last night as a first-time nominee for her performance in The Colour Purple and she made it count. I love the drama here. By Lainey • Feb 19, 2024 11:36 am
