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
TV Updates JLo’s New York Halftime Jennifer Lopez was back home in New York last night for the premiere of her documentary, Halftime, to open the Tribeca Festival. I’ve read a few reviews today and most of them say the same thing – this is a celebration of JLo’s tenacity, there are few personal revelations, By Lainey • Jun 09, 2022 01:26 pm
TV Updates Zendaya’s TIME Vintage Earlier this week Zendaya and Andrew Garfield fangirled and fanboyed each other for Variety’s Actors on Actors series. You can imagine how the internet reacted, given how popular they each are individually and then when you add the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home on top of that, and By Lainey • Jun 09, 2022 11:21 am
TV Updates Jenna Ortega is Wednesday for a new generation Netflix is doing a marketing thing this week called “Geek Week”, which seems like an online, lesser version of Comic-Con in which the Netflix social media teams pretend everything is fine and like most of their co-workers weren’t recently laid off. It’s super dark! Not as dark: the By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 11:03 am
TV Updates Iman Vellani is an instant star in Ms. Marvel Ms. Marvel is a series with split personality, at least for the first two episodes premiering this Wednesday on Disney+. On one hand, it is shameless nostalgia on behalf of Marvel Studios, celebrating their own decade-plus of films in the MCU, and there is no denying that there's By Sarah • Jun 07, 2022 02:19 pm
TV Updates Barry delivers a Hall Of Fame chase scene and a horrifying public shootout Barry has more to offer than ever in its third season, though the deeper we get into the series, the darker it becomes, such that it is difficult to even call this a “comedy” anymore. But episode six, directed by series star and co-creator Bill Hader and written by the By Sarah • Jun 02, 2022 02:04 pm
Quiveration Sir! I must ACCOMPLISH things! Just about a year ago, we heard that Jon Bernthal—erstwhile star of no rom-coms, SOMEONE FIX THAT—would take on the role of Julian Kaye, the sex worker portrayed by Richard Gere in American Gigolo. Now, in what qualifies as a fast turnaround for Hollywood, we have a teaser By Sarah • Jun 02, 2022 11:03 am
TV Updates Obi-Wan: Two strengths, one weakness Spoilers Obi-Wan, the new Star Wars series that premiered its first two episodes last Friday, has two (2) inherent strengths and one (1) inherent weakness. The first strength is series star Ewan McGregor, reprising the role of young(er) Obi-Wan Kenobi that he played 20ish years ago in the prequel By Sarah • May 31, 2022 12:33 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things is officially Too Much Show The first two-thirds of Stranger Things season four—officially referred to as Stranger Things 4, Volume 1—dropped on Netflix on Friday. Did you make it through it already? I’m not going to lie, I had a jump via screeners and still struggled to finish all seven episodes over By Sarah • May 31, 2022 10:56 am
