TV Updates Krysten Ritter at the Critics’ Choice Awards During the holidays Lainey started texting me, stressed out, because she was watching Jessica Jones, which is a very stressful show. One of the best things about Jessica Jones—THE best thing—is Krysten Ritter, who gave one of 2015’s best leading actress performances on television as Jessica. But By Sarah • Jan 18, 2016 08:06 am
TV Updates The return of Mulder & Scully The X-Files premiere was last night. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, and Chris Carter were all there in LA. The show starts on January 24. Will you watch? I’ve not been paying attention. A few days ago I remember seeing a headline that the first 12 minutes of the By Lainey • Jan 13, 2016 01:33 pm
TV Updates Nicole Kidman is Celeste Nicole Kidman attended the UNICEF Ball in Beverly Hills last night. If she’d been at the Globes on Sunday wearing this? It would have been my Best Dressed. Spectacular. Nicole’s in LA right now working on the HBO adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies. You read By Lainey • Jan 13, 2016 10:08 am
TV Updates Caitriona Balfe & Sam Heughan: TwiHard at Globes Once every few months, I get together for brunch with my friend Emily L and we talk about TV and movies. The first time she tried to get me to watch Outlander, I was like, um, I can’t with all these sappy voiceovers. She kept at it. And the By Lainey • Jan 11, 2016 03:51 am
TV Updates UnReal’s Most Shocking Season Ever Back in August, I reviewed season one of UnReal. At the time, I didn’t want to nag you because there’s a lot of good TV, and maybe you haven’t gotten to it yet. Maybe you are 6 episodes into Making A Murderer and just can’t squeeze By Maria • Jan 07, 2016 02:31 pm
TV Updates All JLO January The new and final season of American Idol premieres tomorrow. Jennifer Lopez, as you know, is a judge. On Thursday night, her new TV show, Shades Of Blue, debuts on NBC. At the end of the month, she kicks off her residency in Las Vegas. It’s an all JLO By Lainey • Jan 05, 2016 11:08 am
TV Updates Review: The Sherlock Victorian special MAYBE SPOILERS DEPENDING ON SENSITIVITY On New Year’s Day the BBC and PBS finally got their sh*t together and aired Sherlock at the same time, instead of making the US wait weeks for it, which is dumb and pointless in this day and age. It’s the one- By Sarah • Jan 04, 2016 12:27 pm
TV Updates Look at that smile Shanice Williams was born in 1993. I Love Your Smile came out in 1991. It’s not preposterous to suggest that that might have been where her name came from. But now, when you hear the name, Shanice Williams is going to be the first one you think of. Especially By Lainey • Dec 11, 2015 01:02 pm
Quiveration Double Idris I love it when I need to write about someone and they oblige me with new photos. Idris Elba was nominated for two Golden Globe awards this morning. And here he is looking FINE in blue leather today in London. So this post satisfies both the people who care about By Lainey • Dec 10, 2015 11:52 am
TV Updates Golden Globes TV Nominations 2016 The HFPA is such a curious and opaque entity, they kind of remind me of the Wizard of Oz. Some of the choices are traditional, rooted in logic (as much as logic applies to film & TV) and obvious, and some are whimsical and ephemeral – and the fact that they’ By Duana • Dec 10, 2015 10:52 am
TV Updates SAG Television – Good Acting Isn’t The Point I love the SAG awards because they don’t pretend to be about anything except the acting, and even then, only 50% of the time. Because some of the nominees are about the very best in acting this year, and others are about getting big stars to show up at By Duana • Dec 09, 2015 04:21 pm
TV Updates Jon Hamm before the last Globes The Golden Globe nominations will be announced tomorrow. And it’s the last time Jon Hamm’s Don Draper will be eligible for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama. He won in 2008 after the show’s debut season, was nominated 4 times after that, but By Lainey • Dec 09, 2015 11:19 am
TV Updates Jessica Jones sets a high bar for Marvel superheroines SPOILERS Now that you’ve had a chance to get through thirteen episodes of Jessica Jones on Netflix, let’s talk about this marvelous show (no pun intended). Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica, a one-time superhero who, when we first meet her, has been deeply traumatized. She’s not By Sarah • Dec 09, 2015 09:39 am
TV Updates Is the cute coming back? Finally had a chance last night to watch the full episode of Saturday Night Live with Ryan Gosling hosting. Last week I had some expectations. Then a few of you emailed and said it was sh-t. Sarah thought it was ok but not great. Because of this, because I By Lainey • Dec 08, 2015 02:33 pm
TV Updates Chris Hemsworth’s 2nd SNL As I mentioned earlier, I haven’t yet watched Ryan Gosling’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Sarah texted me just now to tell me that it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good and that she was disappointed it wasn’t better and that she looked forward to By Lainey • Dec 07, 2015 01:33 pm
TV Updates Ryan, Eva, and Justin Timberlake Ryan Gosling hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend. It’s still on the PVR, I’ve only watched the opening monologue so far and it was a bit about why he sounds like he’s from New York when he’s Canadian (a response perhaps to being called out by By Lainey • Dec 07, 2015 11:24 am
