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
TV Updates Justin Timberlake promotes his wife Jessica Biel’s new show The Sinner premieres this week on USA. She’s been in New York working on the show and making as many press stops as she can to promote it. Justin Timberlake is also doing his part to promote it. Here’s what he posted on By Lainey • Aug 01, 2017 01:37 pm
TV Updates TV Avengers in New York The Netflix division of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Defenders, had a premiere in New York last night, for their upcoming team-up series which starts streaming later this month. Everyone turned out—except for Sigourney Weaver, who doesn’t need to—and my best-dressed prize goes to Mike Colter for By Sarah • Aug 01, 2017 12:11 pm
Quiveration New Reggie > Old Reggie No disrespect to Ross Butler, Riverdale’s OG Reggie, but he’s been replaced by Charles Melton for season two and, well, allow me to introduce Charles Melton: Worked at hollister. Wore flip flops. Spiked my hair. Sprayed cologne on clothes. 10 years later. In Hawaii. Shooting their campaign on By Kathleen • Aug 01, 2017 10:28 am
TV Updates #NoConfederate Last night during Game of Thrones, while Cersei unleashed her full cruelty and Jon Snow wondered exactly how Daenerys got her waves so even and perfect, the hashtag #NoConfederate trended #1 across the US, and #2 worldwide, for most of the 9 – 10 PM hour. It was the result of By Duana • Jul 31, 2017 02:03 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 31, 2017 Dear Gossips, I love Sundays right now. And it’s not just Game Of Thrones. It’s the combination of Game Of Thrones followed by Insecure. Also John Oliver came back last night. So, for me, it was two and a half hours of face-masking – two masks back to back By Lainey • Jul 31, 2017 09:15 am
TV Updates For Your Consideration: Nicole, Reese, and Alex Earlier this week, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Alexander Skarsgard were in Hollywood for a FYC Big Little Lies event in support of the show’s Emmy nominations. Casey Bloys, the head of HBO, confirmed earlier this week that they’re hoping to do a second season and Liane Moriarty, By Lainey • Jul 27, 2017 04:41 pm
TV Updates Channing Tatum’s WEIRD TV Show So here’s a surprise: Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a TV show and it’s a parody of a Romanian 1980s cop show. That’s a lot to digest. Let’s break it down. The trailer for Comrade Detective, an Amazon Prime show, was just released and it By Sarah • Jul 27, 2017 01:17 pm
TV Updates Mahershala Ali: True Detective The summer TCA—the biannual meeting of television critics and industry in which networks tout their wares—is going on right now, and one piece of news to come from the HBO presentation is that Mahershala Ali is locked in for the third season of True Detective. We’re all By Sarah • Jul 27, 2017 10:14 am
TV Updates Stranger Things wants to thrill us They couldn’t make it any clearer. The new Stranger Things season two trailer, unveiled at Comic-Con, features Michael Jackson’s Thriller, particularly Vincent Price’s creepy narration. The first season leaned on a Spielbergian tone, invoking Close Encounters and E.T. and Poltergeist, and playing on the real-world 1980s By Sarah • Jul 24, 2017 12:21 pm
