TV Updates Three women who rule Netflix, who can’t stop-won’t stop making new things to put in our eyeballs, announced yet another new show yesterday. It has no title, as yet, but it is co-created and produced by Amy Poehler, Natasha Lyonne, and Leslye Headland. Lyonne will star, and the pilot episode is written By Sarah • Sep 21, 2017 10:40 am
Break Ups Her name is Gina Torres Here’s the headline of a Page Six article that made me yell expletives at my phone yesterday: “Laurence Fishburne’s wife spotted kissing a different man.” Laurence Fishburne is (was?) married to an experienced actress who has appeared in countless movies and television shows over her 30-year career. She’ By Kathleen • Sep 20, 2017 03:45 pm
Quiveration The cast of Riverdale is really pretty We knew this. There may be murder mysteries on murder mysteries and secrets on secrets in Riverdale but if there’s one thing we’ve always known for sure, it’s that the entire cast is really f-cking good-looking. The kids of Riverdale are featured in Entertainment Weekly's By Kathleen • Sep 14, 2017 04:09 pm
Xenu Smut Leah Remini’s anti-Sci Emmy Leah Remini’s show, Scientology and the Aftermath, won the Emmy for Outstanding Information Series at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday. I’m not sure the Outstanding Information Series Emmy winner ordinarily generates a lot of headlines. The reason it’s generating headlines, of course, is because Leah Remini By Lainey • Sep 12, 2017 03:59 pm
TV Updates Intro for September 12, 2017 Dear Gossips, I wasn’t ready for the Game Of Thrones season 7 finale 3 weeks ago. I was definitely not ready for the Insecure season 2 finale this weekend. GoT S7 could have used another episode, if not two, because it felt like too much of a race. And By Lainey • Sep 12, 2017 09:08 am
TV Updates Death and Grief Haunt Twin Peaks Twin Peaks: The Return is a lot of things— frustrating, sublime, confounding, profound, subliminal, meandering, extra-narrative—and while it eschews linear storytelling and finite plot points, it offers rich themes, including expounding on the original series’ depiction of evil as an exterior force and people as conduits that let it By Sarah • Sep 06, 2017 09:55 am
TV Updates Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Magic School Bus It’s week one of our Show Your Work hiatus, and already Lainey and I have sent a dozen articles back and forth that could have been included or that might be fodder for Season 2. If we were doing an episode today, Lin-Manuel Miranda singing the new theme song By Duana • Sep 05, 2017 03:41 pm
TV Updates Bughead’s Jen Lindley That headline might mean nothing to you. If you’re young enough to know what ‘Bughead’ is, you’re probably too young to remember Jen Lindley and if you’re old enough to remember Jen, you’re probably wondering what the f-ck a Bughead is. Let me explain. Riverdale’s By Kathleen • Aug 31, 2017 10:55 am
TV Updates Ryan Gosling’s season premiere It was confirmed last night on SNL Weekend Update: Summer Edition that Ryan Gosling will host the season premiere of Saturday Night Live with musical guest Jay-Z on September 30th, a week before the release of the highly anticipated Blade Runner 2049. Also starring the aforementioned Jared Leto but, really, By Lainey • Aug 25, 2017 03:46 pm
TV Updates This Is Our Emotional Reckoning We’ve reviewed This Is Us twice on Lainey Gossip – I did the first three episodes here and Duana wrote about it in the spring. I stand by my season one review; my perspective on the emotional shallowness of the plot twists and the underwritten characters hasn’t changed. But By Maria • Aug 24, 2017 03:52 pm
TV Updates Tiffany Haddish is the best guest A few weeks ago, Tiffany Haddish went on Kimmel to promote Girls Trip and everyone fell in love with her. Then they saw Girls Trip and became obsessed with her. Last night she was on with Colbert. And, I mean, at the end of this year, when everyone puts together By Lainey • Aug 16, 2017 12:08 pm
TV Updates Mindy Kaling on her pregnancy Mindy Kaling is pregnant. But she hasn’t confirmed it herself. E! was the first to report the news last month and Duana discussed the peculiar wording of the announcement on Show Your Work since it was immediately followed by “don’t worry, she’ll still be able to meet By Lainey • Aug 15, 2017 11:50 am
TV Updates Intro for August 15, 2017 Dear Gossips, The Emmys are 5 weeks away. Emmy voting began yesterday and ends August 28th so this, right now, is when campaigning is at its most intense. As previously reported, they’re now spending as much on Emmy campaigns as the Oscars and it’s an especially competitive year By Lainey • Aug 15, 2017 09:37 am
Quiveration Hot for Skeet I don’t know if I could call someone “Skeet” to their face without laughing and/or making an asshole face. That said, I’m trying to decide if I should develop a Skeet Ulrich problem. Because I recently binged Riverdale. And even though I was aware that Skeet was By Lainey • Aug 11, 2017 01:53 pm
TV Updates Issa gets more Insecure OK but first… what did you think of Sunday night’s episode? With Sterling K Brown, come on! You know what I love about Sterling’s guest appearance? Aside from the obvious, which is that he’s Sterling K Brown and he was the one who told Issa Rae that By Lainey • Aug 09, 2017 01:49 pm
TV Updates The Bachelorette’s bad decision Rachel Lindsay’s journey to find love finally came to an end last night. My expectations for this season were naively high. They came crashing down when the show cast a racist sociopath to date a black woman while living in a house with black men and subsequently had no By Kathleen • Aug 08, 2017 11:34 am
