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
Quiveration Diego & Gael: My SMAs Many of PEOPLE Magazine’s SMA’s come from Boston, but two of my Sexiest Men Alive Ever are Mexican-born, and they are Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. For many, Diego & Gael are our still-charming Matt & Damon who have known each other all of their lives, became By Violeta • Nov 18, 2024 02:45 pm
TV Updates Cameron Diaz is back (in action) It was almost two years ago that we saw Cameron Diaz on the set of her first film since 2014’s Annie. That film, made for Netflix and titled Back In Action, now has a teaser, showing off Diaz’s return to acting following a decade-long break in which she By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 12:25 pm
TV Updates Ali Wong + Frankie Quiñones = No Fools Yesterday I was so happy to learn that Ali Wong will be directing a one-hour special from Frankie Quiñones as part of Hulu’s “Hularious” banner: Frankie Quiñones is a stand-up comedian and actor who starred in Hulu’s This Fool, a show that was probably canceled because people like By Violeta • Nov 14, 2024 01:33 pm
TV Updates Gladiator Strangers I am cornily proud of that title because when I came up with it, it only applied to one story but now I realise that it actually works for two! Let me explain… In London last night, the Gladiator II premiere, with director Ridley Scott and cast members Denzel Washington, By Lainey • Nov 14, 2024 12:39 pm
TV Updates Intro for November 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, MAX, the network formerly known as HBO MAX, released a 2025 preview yesterday that included the first footage we’ve seen from the upcoming third season of The White Lotus. The full trailer with all the clips from all their shows can be seen here. Here are the By Lainey • Nov 12, 2024 09:03 am
TV Updates Squid Game 2 and Double the Gong Yoo Earlier this week Deadline reported that David Fincher had landed on his next project: an English-language Squid Games series. Apparently he’ll be working on it through 2025 and it’s a spinoff from the original that takes place in South Korea, only this one will happen in America. Not By Lainey • Nov 01, 2024 11:53 am
TV Updates Las Brujas: Narrative and Power in Agatha All Along With WandaVision, I understood its protagonist quickly and deeply. The show came out at a time when I was struggling with narratives—not only could I not make them, I was struggling to focus on them, make sense of them, understand them. This might not seem like a big deal, By Violeta • Oct 30, 2024 03:05 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 29, 2024 Dear Gossips, On the train to work this morning I watched a trailer for an upcoming new Netflix show starring Ted Danson, by showrunner Michael Schur (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation etc), called A Man on the Inside. It’s about a retiree who goes undercover at a retirement By Lainey • Oct 29, 2024 09:50 am
