TV Updates Intro for January 7, 2025 Dear Gossips, I watch two dating shows at opposite times of the year. In the summer it’s Love Island USA and those of us who have been devoted to the American version of the series were rewarded this past summer when season six became pretty much the most popular By Lainey • Jan 07, 2025 09:10 am
TV Updates Toranaga and Hot Rabbi The Golden Globes first time nominees luncheon took place yesterday in LA and among the attendees, Hiroyuki Sanada for his performance as Toranaga-sama in Shōgun. He is the reigning Emmy Drama Actor winner, but since Shōgun was only released last February, the series has yet to contend at the Globes, By Lainey • Dec 18, 2024 10:38 am
TV Updates Maybe just don’t go to the White Lotus Since it debuted in 2021, The White Lotus has become one of the most scathing comedy-dramas on TV, an unrelenting, pernicious takedown of entitled white people vacation culture from Mike White, filmmaker and Survivor season 37 runner-up. The trailer for the highly anticipated third season is here, teasing a February By Sarah • Dec 17, 2024 12:04 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s eight days until Christmas and this year, on Christmas Day proper, Netflix is giving us what some might consider the most inappropriate – or perhaps appropriate – Christmas gift of all: greed. Or, rather, a series about greed that also happens to be the sequel to the most-watched By Lainey • Dec 17, 2024 09:38 am
TV Updates Intro for December 16, 2024 Dear Gossips, I spent the last few days recovering from a scheduled procedure, staying off screens, and burning through several audiobooks – the first being Jenny Holiday’s Canadian Boyfriend. Sarah posted about this back in September and it’s been talked about all over the chats over on our Substack, By Lainey • Dec 16, 2024 09:28 am
TV Updates Let the Squid Game begin Two weeks until Squid Game returns and the Los Angeles premiere for season two was yesterday, bringing out series stars Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun, and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. Season two newcomers Yim Si-wan and Jo Yu-ri were also on hand. Not pictured: Lainey’s beloved Gong Yoo. You’re By Sarah • Dec 13, 2024 11:01 am
TV Updates Intro for December 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations were announced yesterday, and on Thursday, it’s the Critics Choice Association’s turn to announce the film nominees for their 2024 honors (I am a voting member of the CCA). Something is different for the CCAs this year, though, which is a category By Sarah • Dec 10, 2024 09:10 am
TV Updates Jack and Saoirse do the awards Saoirse Ronan did not receive a Golden Globe nomination today, not for her performance in The Outrun and not for her performance in Blitz. That does not mean, however, that she won’t hear her name called when Critics Choice makes their nominations announcement tomorrow. Interestingly enough, Critics Choice announced By Lainey • Dec 09, 2024 01:40 pm
TV Updates Lorne Michaels’ night out Technically, it’s the Natural History Museum Gala in New York, but Lorne Michaels is usually there, and so is an SNL-heavy crowd. This year was no different, with Lorne Michaels, Colin Jost, and Scarlett Johansson showing up with basically the entire cast of SNL in tow, plus veteran SNL By Sarah • Dec 06, 2024 12:19 pm
TV Updates Award Season Jake? Jake Gyllenhaal had two pretty big wins this year. Road House, despite Sarah’s hesitations about it prior to the release, turned out to be a good movie (you can read her review here) and at the time became Amazon’s biggest streaming debut. Presumed Innocent was also well received By Lainey • Dec 03, 2024 01:29 pm
TV Updates Intro for November 27, 2024 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, to mark the one month countdown to the release, Netflix dropped the official trailer for Squid Game season two. As Sarah wrote back in September after an early preview was shared, “it looks as intense and as upsetting as ever!” There’s also a new poster, which By Lainey • Nov 27, 2024 10:01 am
TV Updates Zahn McClarnon at the White House Dark Winds, a crime series starring Zahn McClarnon, has become a little show that could over the last couple of years, thanks in no small part to the show becoming available on Netflix, where many new fans have discovered it. Not a lot of ink spills on behalf of Dark By Sarah • Nov 25, 2024 12:04 pm
Sports Polo: Succession on horseback? And I was just saying the other day that we’d yet to see a trailer for Polo, the docuseries about the sport produced by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Polo starts streaming on Netflix on December 10 and here it is, a preview of what to expect from the By Lainey • Nov 22, 2024 10:55 am
TV Updates Monster Charlie A couple months ago we learned that Charlie Hunnam will star in the third season of Ryan Murphy’s extremely popular Netflix anthology series Monster, which fictionalizes the crimes of some of America’s most notorious killers. We now have our first look at Hunnam gussied up as Ed Gein, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 10:27 am
TV Updates Intro for November 20, 2024 Dear Gossips, As noted in What Else? earlier this week, there’s a lot going on in Vancouver lately. The Grey Cup just happened this past weekend; Taylor Swift will be there for three shows to close out The Eras Tour in early December. The city will host the Invictus By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 09:23 am
TV Updates Jimmy O. Yang in Interior Chinatown There is a moment in the first episode of Interior Chinatown in which the protagonist, Willis Wu goes “not far” to talk with a detective, and it turns out to be a kind of beach party situation like you’d see in an alcohol commercial. Indeed, “Deep Watr” hard seltzer By Sarah • Nov 19, 2024 11:13 am
