TV Updates Six Week Checkup, Pitch Edition Have you been wondering how you’re feeling about Pitch? A little bit, right? You enjoy watching it while it’s on, and you like it while you’re watching it, but you can’t exactly call it one of your favourite shows, even though you’d love to, right? By Duana • Nov 08, 2016 12:39 pm
TV Updates TV Review: Netflix’s The Crown The Crown is allegedly the most expensive TV show ever made— definitely the most expensive for Netflix to date—and its hefty price tag is obvious from the opening moments of the first episode. Every cent is up there on screen, with locations that take in the plains of South By Sarah • Nov 07, 2016 11:23 am
Xenu Smut Leah Remini: SJW (Scientology Justice Warrior) The first trailer for Leah Remini’s Scientology show is here – and it’s as crazy as an alien volcano explosion (or whatever Scientology is). The trailer is short but it includes a lot of accusations you’d know about if you watched Going Clear, like the practice of disconnection By Maria • Nov 02, 2016 04:17 pm
TV Updates To Float A Butterfly News of Mimi’s broken engagement is making headlines all over the place. First everyone was wondering if she got dumped. Then we heard about a big ass fight in Greece. And then we met Bryan Tanaka, her dancer/choreographer, who may have been why James Packer was getting so By Lainey • Oct 28, 2016 01:34 pm
TV Updates A slightly backwards Waco series In the gold rush of Peak TV, every network is scrambling for original scripted content, and Spike TV is the latest to throw their hat in the ring in the hopes of airing the next Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones. It was announced yesterday that Spike will air a By Sarah • Oct 27, 2016 11:07 am
TV Updates Road to Gilmore Girls: Trailer of Melancholy I love the way the fans are being treated with the Gilmore Girls revival. There is a treat every other week. It’s kind of ironic, because wild horses couldn’t drag these fans away. And this trailer delivers all the goods. Every face you wanted to see, right? There’ By Duana • Oct 25, 2016 01:34 pm
TV Updates You have to watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend We are immersed Peak TV, we all know it. There’s so many shows to watch. Westworld? Haven’t touched it. Atlanta? Not yet, dying to see it. Walking Dead? I’m 2 seasons behind and refuse to say I don’t watch it. Mr. Robot and Better Call Saul? By Maria • Oct 20, 2016 02:54 pm
TV Updates #everybodyhurts: This Is Us First up: there are spoilers ahead. It is hard to talk about this show without revealing plotlines because… well, there’s major spoilers below. You’ve been warned. We are three episodes into This Is Us, which Lainey has been writing about since May. The hype leading up to this By Maria • Oct 18, 2016 04:47 pm
TV Updates Big Little Lies: the first trailer If you’ve been reading this site for some time, you might remember that back in 2014 I kept nagging you to read a book called Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. The simple introduction to Big Little Lies is that it’s about the school run, mom alliances, the By Lainey • Oct 17, 2016 09:33 am
TV Updates TV Review: Luke Cage SPOILERS Mike Colter returns as Luke Cage, the stoic bartender we first met in Jessica Jones. Following the events of that show, Luke has retreated to Harlem, where his late wife’s last living relative, a barbershop proprietor known as Pop (Frankie Faison), has given Luke a job sweeping up By Sarah • Oct 13, 2016 02:26 pm
TV Updates Waiting to meet Milo Duana has been trying to get me to watch Gilmore Girls for a long time. I was sick all weekend and it was Thanksgiving in Canada so I started and have now finished the first season. While I’m not in love with it yet, I am in love with By Lainey • Oct 12, 2016 04:06 pm
TV Updates Kathleen & Duana watch Insecure Kathleen and I have been talking about Insecure and Issa Rae since way before it had a name. We were both fans of Awkward Black Girl and despaired at the false starts of getting this woman on our TV screens. So anticipation was high, and like nerds, we pressed play By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 12:42 pm
TV Updates Factual Evidence to support Crucible Cast Party (I don’t remember the Sprite. What am I forgetting?) The most recent episode of SNL was always going to be a stacked deck for musical theatre, song-and-Broadway nerds. Elsewhere you can see host Lin-Manuel Miranda do his ‘I hope I nail SNL hosting’ rap to the tune of My By Duana • Oct 11, 2016 11:08 am
TV Updates Nothing Like the Real Thing, Gilmore-Wise There are times when you think of yourself as cool, and then there are times when you have to abandon the pretense that you ever were. Yesterday I stood in line in an empty mall waiting to get coffee from a fictional coffee shop in a tea shop (that used By Duana • Oct 06, 2016 02:44 pm
TV Updates We’ve reached Peak Pontifex The Sopranos, The Wire, Game of Thrones… HBO is architect of what is now known as Peak TV. There are other brilliant shows on other great networks but HBO is expected to be A+ all the time, and don’t think they don’t know it. Case in point: the By Maria • Oct 04, 2016 11:25 am
TV Updates Intro for October 3, 2016 Dear Gossips, Tomorrow is a big day for arts and culture in Canada. Kim’s Convenience, the first Canadian television sitcom starring Asian actors, will premiere tomorrow on CBC at 9pm. The show is based on a celebrated play by Ins Choi about a Korean family and their convenience store. By Lainey • Oct 03, 2016 09:00 am
