TV Updates BTS + Disney Remember all those headlines a few weeks ago exaggerating and/or mischaracterising BTS’s “hiatus”? LOLOLOL. As I mentioned in my post about V at Paris Fashion Week, I was initially planning on writing a piece about the whole situation and how the media handled it but then shelved it By Lainey • Jul 12, 2022 11:33 am
TV Updates The Rez Dogs are back Here’s a spot of good news, Reservation Dogs returns for its second season on August 3. A trailer dropped this week, and though Bear’s crappy spirit guide is still around for comic relief, it looks like season two will drill down on the emotional fallout of Elora Danan By Sarah • Jul 08, 2022 01:32 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things 4 ends as it begins: bloated Spoilers The final two episodes of Stranger Things 4 dropped last week, rounding out the fourth season of this ever more bloated show. I went back and watched the first season, and it is amazing how quaint it seems now, with a relatively small band of four kids, three teens, By Sarah • Jul 07, 2022 02:58 pm
TV Updates Only Murders is cozier this time Only Murders in the Building returns less than a year after its breakout freshman season with a new mystery in the same locale: another resident of the elegant Arconia co-op has been murdered, and amateur investigative podcasters Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) are on the By Sarah • Jun 28, 2022 11:05 am
TV Updates What We Do in the Shadows is back! There is a lot of great TV happening this summer, including Lainey’s fave, Only Murders in the Building coming back next week. But while I enjoy Only Murders a lot, the show that brings me the most undiluted joy these days is What We Do in the Shadows. It By Sarah • Jun 24, 2022 12:44 pm
TV Updates Obi-Wan Kenobi is a missed opportunity Spoilers In my review of the first couple of episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mid-quel filler series killing time between the original and prequel trilogies of Star Wars, I called the whole of Star Wars storytelling “all flavor, no substance”. Obi-Wan Kenobi, despite a stellar cast and many exceptional production By Sarah • Jun 23, 2022 12:03 pm
TV Updates Intro for June 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Umbrella Academy is among the most popular series on Netflix. Season three premiered yesterday on Netflix and it’s the first time Elliot Page is promoting the show as who he really is. Elliot’s character, Viktor, transitions this season, in parallel with Elliot in real life, By Lainey • Jun 23, 2022 09:36 am
TV Updates Stranger Things is still running up that hill I make fun of the increasingly convoluted titles of the Mission: Impossible franchise all the time, but let’s be honest, Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2 is a mouthful, too. The “volume 1” and “volume 2” split of season four is assumed to be the result of Netflix seeking to By Sarah • Jun 22, 2022 01:56 pm
TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Issa Rae is in Cannes this week and yesterday spoke on a panel at the Cannes Lion festival, a marketing and advertising convention. Issa challenged the ad industry to promote diversity in their work and on their teams by confronting their biases and by also following up and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 09:24 am
TV Updates Bridgerton boys out and about It’s a Bridgerton reunion at Milan fashion week, as the duke and the viscount themselves, Regé-Jean Page and Jonathan Bailey, ended up at the Giorgio Armani show. This is very summer, very yacht-casual, very “attorneys on vacation”. Bailey is a little bit of a scroll down surprise, as I By Sarah • Jun 21, 2022 11:31 am
TV Updates D.B. Cooper is our guilt-free summer true crime When it comes to true crime, Netflix has a tendency toward the sensational that veers into tasteless. As a genre, true crime is loaded enough with the tension between genuine interest and prurient gawking, and too often, especially post-Tiger King, Netflix leans into the prurient with their docs. Well, here’ By Sarah • Jun 17, 2022 04:05 pm
TV Updates Quinta Brunson’s big year Emmy voting opened yesterday, and one of the shows expected to be a big player is Abbott Elementary, Quinta Brunson’s super charming sitcom “savior”—comedy has been sustaining better on network television than drama has, since the streaming revolution—that should be your must-watch show of the summer (if By Sarah • Jun 17, 2022 02:14 pm
TV Updates Just say Jon No HBO’s first Game of Thrones spin-off series, The House of the Dragon, is due later this summer, but HBO also has seven other potential GOT spin-offs in the works, including the latest, a SEQUEL series centered on Jon Snow, last seen heading into exile north of the wall. Jon By Sarah • Jun 17, 2022 11:34 am
TV Updates Only Murders (and real estate) Only Murders in the Building comes back for season two at the end of the month, and a new trailer dropped yesterday. OliMabel (the “Charles” is silent) are back to try and clear their names after being set up at the end of the last season. The mystery of season By Sarah • Jun 15, 2022 11:39 am
Quiveration Squid Game 2 is official After the success of Squid Game, which is Netflix’s most-watched series of all time, it’s been an unofficial fact that there would be a second season. Showrunner Hwang Dong-hyuk has been asked multiple times and he’s talked repeatedly about how he’s been thinking about the story By Lainey • Jun 13, 2022 01:29 pm
TV Updates Oh The Sandman is doomed When we got our first look at The Sandman, Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic of the same name, I was encouraged by how unsettling Tom Sturridge looks as the main character, Dream. Well, now we have a full trailer, and while I still love the look By Sarah • Jun 09, 2022 02:16 pm
