TV Updates Helen Hunt’s sneaky reinvention How do you remember Helen Hunt? She’ll always be Jamie Buchman from Mad About You or an Oscar winner for her great work in As Good as it Gets to me, but now she’s sneaking into the Emmy race with three possible shots at a directing nomination (her By Joanna • Jul 11, 2017 12:16 pm
TV Updates Intro for July 11, 2017 Dear Gossips, The Emmy Award nominations will be announced on Thursday. In the Best Drama Actress category, Elisabeth Moss is the lead contender for her work in The Handmaid’s Tale. The Crown’s Claire Foy is up there too. The name that’s missing from the list: Tatiana Maslany, By Lainey • Jul 11, 2017 09:25 am
TV Updates Blessed be the (Passion)fruit I’m SORRY. I HAD TO. I couldn’t stop myself. And you’ve just groaned. And I don’t blame you. But… it was too corny not to! We’re about a week away from the Emmy Award nominations. The Handmaid’s Tale is expected to be a major By Lainey • Jul 06, 2017 10:09 am
TV Updates The Gray Bits of Paradise After shutting down production in mid-June, the Bachelor in Paradise sexual misconduct investigation is complete, with the studio, DeMario Jackson, and Corinne Olympios speaking publicly about the incident. (For my earlier pieces on it, please click here and here.) DeMario did an interview with E! and talked at length about By Maria • Jun 30, 2017 10:23 am
TV Updates The Bachelorette: are we still having fun? I have repeatedly referred to my devotion to The Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise (never Bachelor in Paradise) as a guilty pleasure. I feel guilty because these shows have always been full of f-cked up, anti-feminist rhetoric, “the marriage plot”, and a significant lack of diversity. Plus, it’s a show where By Kathleen • Jun 28, 2017 05:15 pm
TV Updates GLOW: A 1980s feminist power ballad SPOILERS Inspired by the real-life “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” that was briefly popular in the 1980s, GLOW is not a biography, but a fictionalized behind-the-scenes comedy. Alison Brie stars as Ruth, a struggling actress who latches onto professional wrestling as her last best shot at making it. Betty Gilpin (Nurse By Sarah • Jun 28, 2017 10:08 am
TV Updates Alexis Bledel returns to The Handmaid’s Tale I had several emotions in a row when I read this headline today, telling us Alexis Bledel will be a series regular in Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale. My first thought was, yeah, no sh*t, she was great. Of course they should up her to series regular. By Duana • Jun 22, 2017 02:55 pm
TV Updates Don’t go back to the Wall For the first day of summer, a look into winter. A new trailer for the seventh season of Game of Thrones has been released, and at this point, I’m just ready for this sh*t to start. You could show me two and a half minutes of a dog By Sarah • Jun 21, 2017 03:33 pm
TV Updates Planet of the Apps: after two episodes Planet of the Apps is Apple’s first push into original TV content and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, will.i.am and author/motivational speaker, angel investor (think: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat) Gary Vaynerchuk. These four act as judges and then mentors/coaches to app developers. Yes, it’s very By Maria • Jun 19, 2017 11:14 am
TV Updates Key & Cobie are “Friends From College” You know what’s still low-key enough not to be a thing? Being obsessed with Keegan-Michael Key. Of course you love Key and Peele, and Jordan Peele is doing his own world-domination thing—but Key has this other thing. He’s trying to be liked, and not always good at By Duana • Jun 15, 2017 03:46 pm
TV Updates The Public Face Of Hidden Trauma Earlier this week, I wrote about the Bachelor in Paradise sexual misconduct allegations. Over the last few days, more sources have come out -- many former contestants and Bachelor rejects are just dying to get a headline – but there is not a flood of new information. Chris Harrison released a By Maria • Jun 15, 2017 11:09 am
TV Updates Do you miss Sandra Oh? In Shonda Rhimes’s book, Year Of Yes, she writes a lot about writing. She writes about where she writes (sometimes in the pantry), about how writing is never complete, about “laying track” for more writing. And she writes about the characters she’s written. The character she writes about By Lainey • Jun 13, 2017 01:34 pm
TV Updates The Reality of Consent As Rachel continues to charm on The Bachelorette, the franchise’s embarrassing cousin, Bachelor in Paradise, has halted filming because of an allegation of sexual misconduct. I am not a member of Bachelor Nation; I’ve watched one season of Bachelor in Paradise (BiP) and didn’t know who anyone By Maria • Jun 13, 2017 09:37 am
TV Updates Dating on TV, while black The Right Reasons™ is a term that has become so ubiquitous in The Bachelor universe, it's a punchline. On Monday night, we found out that DeMario was not on the show for The Right Reasons™ because he was f-cking some girl who thought she was his girlfriend days By Kathleen • Jun 01, 2017 12:24 pm
TV Updates FELICITY AND BEN, OMG Or Keri Russell and Scott Speedman, OMG. Keri Russell was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday but the only thing anyone cares about is BEN AND FELICITY. REUNITED. OMG. How many OMGs can I fit into this post? If you’ve been reading my writing By Kathleen • May 31, 2017 11:40 am
TV Updates Intro for May 30, 2017 Dear Gossips, I don’t watch The Bachelorette. Have never seen a single episode. But I’m going to try to write about The Bachelorette today. Or write about how people write about The Bachelorette. Because I got up this morning and it’s been post after post all over By Lainey • May 30, 2017 09:36 am
