Sports Travis Kelce, Actor Deadline broke the news yesterday that Travis Kelce has been cast in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming new series Grotesquerie. Ryan surprise-announced that the show was happening at the end of February with this teaser: Nope. Pass. I do not f-ck with kind of scary ass content, thank you. That, however, By Lainey • May 08, 2024 10:50 am
TV Updates The Acolyte Don’t Say “Skywalker” Challenge May 4th, also known as Star Wars Day because “may the fourth be with you” and all that, fell over the weekend, and I totally blanked on it. Star Wars as a narrative universe has so consistently failed to do anything interesting since its reemergence under Disney that I have By Sarah • May 08, 2024 09:24 am
TV Updates Benedict Cumberbatch is back It seems like we haven’t seen Benedict Cumberbatch for a while, which isn’t true—Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness came out in 2022, and he was in two of Wes Anderson’s Oscar-winning Roald Dahl shorts last year, as well as Jeymes Samuel’s The Book By Sarah • May 03, 2024 01:04 pm
TV Updates John Mulaney is in LA The Netflix Is A Joke comedy festival kicks off this weekend and one of the centerpiece events is a six-part live special called John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A., hosted by John Mulaney. Every year comedians bitch about this fest, particularly how it’s organized, and yet, a By Sarah • May 03, 2024 12:08 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 1, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was feverish on and off yesterday, tried to stay in bed as much as I could, and when I was awake, much of that time was spent binge-finishing the second half of Queen of Tears and sobbing my way through this cold. The series has now ended By Lainey • May 01, 2024 09:53 am
TV Updates Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai in Shōgun James Clavell’s epic Shōgun, the third volume of his “Asian Saga” series of novels depicting the conflicts between eastern and western civilizations over hundreds of years, was a monster hit after it was published in 1975. It spawned a 1980 TV miniseries starring Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, and Yoko By Sarah • Apr 25, 2024 02:19 pm
TV Updates Emma comes for Emmy Emma Stone won her second Best Actress Oscar last month for her performance in Poor Things. And now it’s Emmy season. I know, I know, it feels like it’s early to be talking about the Emmys because the Emmys just happened in January but that was only because By Lainey • Apr 25, 2024 12:04 pm
TV Updates The Radical Empathy of Baby Reindeer It’s been nearly two weeks since Baby Reindeer premiered on Netflix and it has understandably become a top-watched show and has dominated conversations online. The seven-part miniseries is an adaptation of Richard Gadd’s award-winning one man play. It chronicles the true story of how he, depicted as a By Stephanie • Apr 23, 2024 03:11 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s time to talk about AI again! This is going to be an ongoing and ever-evolving conversation, but this week a couple things happened that clearly illustrate the pitfalls of engaging with AI in the entertainment space. First, beloved indie studio A24 used AI to generate some By Sarah • Apr 19, 2024 09:07 am
TV Updates Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough in Under the Bridge Another term for a destructive cycle is a whirlpool, something with so much centrifugal force it pulls everything in its proximity downward, into destruction. A whirlpool sits at the heart of Under the Bridge, an adaptation of Rebecca Godfrey’s haunting book about the 1997 murder of teenager Reena Virk By Sarah • Apr 18, 2024 10:01 am
TV Updates A new season of Lily Gladstone Lily Gladstone was one of the best parts of the award season that just was. It was the way she met the moment with grace and generosity, how she carried her responsibility with respect but also with joy. And of course her fashion! Now that she’s wrapped up her By Lainey • Apr 16, 2024 12:47 pm
TV Updates Conan’s big week Yesterday, Conan O’Brien was feted at the Paley Museum in New York at a PaleyLive event celebrating his “life after late-night TV”. And earlier this week, he made his return to The Tonight Show after his short stint hosting in the early 2010s. He got a hero’s welcome By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 01:43 pm
TV Updates Polo and Chicken with Harry & Meghan It was announced yesterday, via Deadline, that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are working on two new non-fiction series for Netflix. This is part of their deal that they signed with the platform back in 2020 and it’s a bit of a flex, this news, because last year, when By Lainey • Apr 12, 2024 12:25 pm
TV Updates Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins in Fallout If The Last of Us was too goddamned depressing for you but you still want to watch a post-apocalyptic video game adaptation, then boy, do I have the series for you! Fallout is a fantastic adaptation of the role-playing video game series, capturing the spirit of the game while still By Sarah • Apr 12, 2024 11:35 am
TV Updates Dear Readers, A trailer at last! Finally! After much teasing, a proper trailer for Bridgerton’s third season has arrived, and at nearly three minutes, Netflix is making the most of it. It is full of Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington, determined to marry because she can no longer stand living under her mother’s roof By Sarah • Apr 11, 2024 11:54 am
TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Sympathizer premiere happened in Hollywood yesterday with Robert Downey Jr and Sandra Oh as the most high-profile cast members in attendance. This series is a major priority for HBO, an ambitious project, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. And the By Lainey • Apr 10, 2024 10:02 am
