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
TV Updates Jodie Foster will try to revive True Detective Hey remember True Detective? Remember how it was the best show on TV and then immediately the worst show on TV? Or, at least the most disappointing show on TV? Few series have had such a sharp freshman to sophomore season quality drop as True Detective. Quality-wise, it rebounded with By Sarah • May 27, 2022 03:22 pm
TV Updates But there’s no Val Kilmer The other big reveal from day one of Star Wars Celebration has nothing to do with Star Wars. It’s the teaser for Willow, a sequel series to the 1988 film of the same name. Back then, George Lucas hoped Willow would be as big as E.T.—it wasn’ By Sarah • May 27, 2022 02:41 pm
TV Updates Armie Hammer(’s family) is getting a true crime special This feels a little exploitative. ID and Discovery+ have unveiled their upcoming true crime slate, and it includes a special on the Hammer family, as in Armie Hammer’s family, and will explore “a dysfunctional dynasty with its male characters exhibiting all the devastating consequences of privilege gone wild.” I By Sarah • May 20, 2022 03:24 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, It has been a long ass week, the state of the world is depressing, and the Top Gun: Maverick press tour has been disappointingly normal, so let’s start the day with something totally silly. A trailer dropped yesterday for This Is Going To Hurt, a series starring By Sarah • May 20, 2022 09:09 am
TV Updates David Oyelowo is (finally) giving Bass Reeves his due Yellowstone is a self-sustaining television universe at this point, with the main series starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Reilly; the prequel, 1883, starring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill; another prequel coming with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren called 1932 (should be called Mosquito Coast 2: Yellowstone Mosquitos or something similar) By Sarah • May 19, 2022 02:46 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 19, 2022 Dear Gossips, It’s Thursday, which means that I’ve gone almost a whole week without talking about Heartstopper, so let’s fix that. If you haven’t watched it yet, you’re missing out on the sweetest television show to premiere this year. Heartstopper was released on Netflix exactly By Lainey • May 19, 2022 09:04 am
TV Updates Three A-Murderers! Sorry. That’s a really lame joke and probably no one under 40 gets it. Or maybe even under 50. Or maybe anyone at all. Or it’s already been done, which makes me even more of a loser, so I’ll just leave it there, not even embarrassed because By Lainey • May 18, 2022 10:52 am
TV Updates Bridgerton: The Ton goes for the Emmy Yvette Nicole Brown hosted Netflix’s FYSEE event for Bridgerton yesterday with cast members Charithra Chandran, Nicola Coughlan, and the breakout star of season two, Simone Ashley. Emmy nomination voting begins in a month and campaigning is well underway for consideration. Netflix is hoping that Bridgerton can be part of By Lainey • May 17, 2022 11:25 am
