TV Updates Squid Game begins to end Between Stranger Things and Squid Game, it’s a big year for Netflix ending their biggest TV shows. Squid Game’s third and final season debuts on June 27, just two weeks away. The cast and series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk were in London yesterday to kick off the press tour. By Sarah • Jun 13, 2025 10:29 am
TV Updates Intro for December 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s eight days until Christmas and this year, on Christmas Day proper, Netflix is giving us what some might consider the most inappropriate – or perhaps appropriate – Christmas gift of all: greed. Or, rather, a series about greed that also happens to be the sequel to the most-watched By Lainey • Dec 17, 2024 09:38 am
TV Updates Let the Squid Game begin Two weeks until Squid Game returns and the Los Angeles premiere for season two was yesterday, bringing out series stars Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun, and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. Season two newcomers Yim Si-wan and Jo Yu-ri were also on hand. Not pictured: Lainey’s beloved Gong Yoo. You’re By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 11:01 am
Style Gentlemen outside at LACMA Men also attended the LACMA Gala, and I have divided them into two camps: men who tried, and men who showed up. Let’s start with the men who tried, led by…Taylor Zakhar Perez, in a white suit, sans shirt. This is a VERY good look on him. Next By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 12:00 pm
TV Updates Squid Game 2 and Double the Gong Yoo Earlier this week Deadline reported that David Fincher had landed on his next project: an English-language Squid Games series. Apparently he’ll be working on it through 2025 and it’s a spinoff from the original that takes place in South Korea, only this one will happen in America. Not By Lainey • Nov 01, 2024 11:53 am
TV Updates Squid Game returns Three years since its debut, Squid Game remains the biggest series on Netflix. Now, we have our first look at season two, coming on December 26. It looks as tense and upsetting as ever! Lee Jung-jae returns as Seong Gi-hun, who, despite winning the game in season one, decides to By Sarah • Sep 20, 2024 10:26 am
TV Updates Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae in The Acolyte I have long held that the Jedi are a bunch of killjoy nerds and the galaxy far, far away is better off without them, and finally, a piece of Star Wars media agrees with me. The Acolyte, a new series set in the Star Wars universe, takes place a century By Sarah • Jun 05, 2024 11:59 am
Emmy Awards 2022 The Year of Squid Game In 2021, the Emmys took place on September 19, just two days after Squid Game premiered on Netflix. Everyone was oblivious then, no one had any idea that Squid Game would go on to become the most-watched series in Netflix history and come to the Emmys a year later and By Lainey • Sep 13, 2022 10:04 am
TV Updates Lee Jung-jae: Squid Game, Emmys, and TIFF Voting for the Emmys begins next Friday, August 12 for ten days, concluding on August 22. Everyone is angling now to get their messaging out before TV Academy members make their choices. In the Outstanding Drama category, Succession is the presumed favourite, but I don’t think anyone wants to By Lainey • Aug 03, 2022 01:58 pm
Quiveration Squid Game 2 is official After the success of Squid Game, which is Netflix’s most-watched series of all time, it’s been an unofficial fact that there would be a second season. Showrunner Hwang Dong-hyuk has been asked multiple times and he’s talked repeatedly about how he’s been thinking about the story By Lainey • Jun 13, 2022 01:29 pm
TV Updates Alan Kim + Squid Game Remember the star of award season 2021? Award season is all about stars but last year, one little star made the biggest impression: Minari’s Alan Kim. Alan won the Critics Choice Award for Young Actor last year and… well… it’s been a minute since you’ve seen this By Lainey • Mar 14, 2022 12:24 pm
TV Updates Three for Squid Game Two years ago, Parasite won the SAG Award for Best Ensemble, the Screen Actors’ equivalent of Best Picture, before going on to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Both at the SAGs and at the Oscars, though, no members of the Parasite cast were singled out for individual acting honours. By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 08:17 am
