TV Updates Comedy comebacks Jury Duty was an unexpected delight in 2023, a comedy about one of the nicest people alive dealing with one of the weirdest groups of people centered on a small claims trial. What’s amazing about Jury Duty is that it holds up, even knowing the trick—the whole trial By Sarah • Feb 27, 2026 03:45 pm
TV Updates How To Fight Trauma With Trauma… From Belfast What do we think about show titles starting with “How To…” these days? On the one hand, there’s a lot of goodwill towards them since How To Get Away With Murder, or How To Train Your Dragon, or How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, or most prosaically, By Duana • Feb 26, 2026 01:37 pm
TV Updates Gen Z P&P Is Here We just got done fighting about Wuthering Heights and now it’s time to fight about Pride and Prejudice as Dolly Alderton’s adaptation for Netflix has a first-look teaser to be picked apart and judged. Are you ready to rumble!!! The teaser is just that, a very brief cinematic By Sarah • Feb 24, 2026 12:02 pm
TV Updates Nicolas Cage in (live) action as Spider-Noir As questions about the future of superhero franchises continue to permeate the pop culture consciousness, one franchise that just keeps trucking is the Spider-Verse, the vividly animated films featuring Shameik Moore as the voice of Miles Morales, an alternate universe Spider-Man. The first film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, won an By Sarah • Feb 13, 2026 01:54 pm
TV Updates Love Story on the red carpet Sarah posted yesterday about the trailer for Love Story that dropped earlier this week and her main point was that she didn’t hate it. Neither did I. In fact I was very encouraged by it. There’s a shot of Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette where she’s drinking By Lainey • Feb 04, 2026 01:19 pm
TV Updates JFK Jr and Carolyn’s Love Story We watched on tenterhooks as the latest installment in Ryan Murphy’s “American Story” franchise was filmed in New York last year, and now we have an official trailer by which to judge the renamed Love Story, centered on the ill-fated romance and marriage of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and By Sarah • Feb 03, 2026 11:22 am
TV Updates Alex, Marcello, and the SNL cast Alexander Skarsgård is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend for the first time and it’s the 1000th episode. The show commemorates seasons but not usually episode counts so it’s a standard Saturday but maybe they’ll give it a little something extra. Alex has been on an unhinged By Lainey • Jan 28, 2026 12:47 pm
TV Updates Sophie Turner flexes as Lara Croft Four months ago Sophie Turner was announced as the latest actress to play video game heroine Lara Croft in a new Tomb Raider series developed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yesterday, Prime Video, which is producing the new adaptation as a series, dropped a first-look photo of Turner done up as Lara, By Sarah • Jan 16, 2026 11:34 am
TV Updates Spinning the Ryan Murphy wheel again Oh boy, it’s time for another round of my favorite game, How Long Can I Watch Ryan Murphy’s New TV Show?! The last time I played I made it through four episodes of All’s Fair, and now it’s time to try Ryan Murphy’s latest series, By Sarah • Jan 15, 2026 11:53 am
Maple Leaf Heated Rivalry at all the parties Hollywood is now fully operational, back to business in the first week of January, and it’s award season with the Golden Globes happening on Sunday, which every year means that almost everyone is in town, because even if they’re not contending for awards, they’re there to network, By Lainey • Jan 09, 2026 11:22 am
Maple Leaf Hudson and Connor: A frenzy on both coasts It was impossible to know and/or predict what Heated Rivalry would become – and is still becoming. A Canadian production, made on muuuucchhh less money than an American counterpart would have done, starring two unknown actors in a gay hockey romance, as smutty as its source material is THE pop By Lainey • Jan 08, 2026 01:24 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things: Watchable Nostalgia Bait The final season of Netflix's Stranger Things is still watchable despite its empty narrative and excruciating exposition-driven plot By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 02:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Pitt crew at the CCAs Let The Pitt’s reign begin, after winning multiple Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series, The Pitt picked up more trophies at the Critics Choice Awards. Noah Wyle won Best Actor in a Drama Series, Katherine LaNasa won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and the show itself won Best By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 12:44 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, I don’t want to sound smug or anything – but actually I do – but for the last few weeks, and several times already this week, I’ve been posting about how Heated Rivalry has yet to peak. One reason is because there are still people who haven’t By Lainey • Dec 18, 2025 09:31 am
TV Updates More Horny Gay Hockey There is more that is terrible than there is good right now. And they say that when that happens, we should hold onto what’s good. What’s good in pop culture at the moment is Heated Rivalry. It is the hottest new series of the season, the most successful By Lainey • Dec 15, 2025 12:28 pm
TV Updates Here comes The Pitt Just Friday I mentioned how I am waiting patiently for promo for The Pitt season two, and lo, a Christmas miracle occurred, as HBO dropped the first 90 seconds of the first episode of season two. Behold: Dr. Robby! Put your helmet on! An emergency medicine physician riding a motorcycle By Sarah • Dec 15, 2025 10:48 am