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 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
TV Updates A look at my favorite show of 2017 Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology series, Feud, is currently filming, which means set photos. Which means seeing Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange in costume as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, respectively. Super into how they look and the only way this could get better is if Judy Davis showed up By Sarah • Sep 30, 2016 12:16 pm
TV Updates SJP: Divorce & LBDs Sarah Jessica Parker was photographed at LAX yesterday, presumably to do more press for Divorce, premiering on HBO October 9. I just read a really great review of Divorce at Variety. And I don’t mean the show is great but the review itself, the way it's written, By Lainey • Sep 28, 2016 03:11 pm
TV Updates The Crown is Netflix’s next obsession Netflix is having a helluva year. Stranger Things dominated summer, though The Get Down was the better show— and a pretty incredible six hours of storytelling—Luke Cage premieres this Friday and is sure to inspire a thousand thinkpieces, and yesterday they released a trailer for their fall drama, The By Sarah • Sep 28, 2016 10:45 am
TV Updates Luke Cage, the hero we need “The world is ready for a bulletproof black man.” That’s what Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker said at Comic-Con in July. I would watch the show based on that statement alone but Netflix’s Luke Cage looks like it’s actually going to live up to the By Kathleen • Sep 27, 2016 12:37 pm
Xenu Circle the Thetan Wagons Back in 2013, Leah Remini was fresh out of Scientology, getting ready for a stint on Dancing with the Stars. At the time, I said it was a smart move – and aggressive. Leah Remini may have been privately scared of the implications of leaving the Church, but publicly she was By Maria • Sep 21, 2016 01:40 pm
TV Updates Team Miley How is Miley Cyrus doing on The Voice? That's the question of the season, isn't it? When it was first announced that Miley would be a coach on this season of The Voice, the response wasn't great. Let's just say The Voice By Kathleen • Sep 21, 2016 12:34 pm
TV Updates Why You Feel Gross About the JonBenet Shows I don’t know how it’s possible, but when I wrote about CBS's then-upcoming JonBenet miniseries, I didn’t know about the JonBenet specials on A&E, TLC, and Dateline, not to mention Dr. Phil’s 3-part interview with Burke Ramsey. Everyone wants to By Duana • Sep 21, 2016 10:36 am
