TV Updates Emmy drama is all about Succession and Sydney Sweeney Unlike the comedy category, where there was at least a little freshness, the drama categories at the Emmys broke down as expected. Ozark, Better Call Saul, Euphoria, Succession. Lots and LOTS of Succession, far and away the favorite to dominate the category. But! There is also Squid Game, and Yellowjackets, By Sarah • Jul 12, 2022 02:21 pm
TV Updates Squid Game: Emmy History! The Emmy nominations were just announced, and we’ll split our analysis over a few posts, including Sarah's Quinta Brunson piece before this, but let’s discuss history here because Squid Game just made history as the first non-English language series to be nominated for Outstanding Drama. But By Lainey • Jul 12, 2022 01:27 pm
TV Updates Quinta Brunson and Abbott Elementary are the Emmys feel-good story The Emmy nominations for 2022 have just been announced and they are mostly as expected. Let’s start with the comedy side of things, because this is where a fresh face emerges and gives the Emmys a shot in the arm. You know I have a problem with the Emmys, By Sarah • Jul 12, 2022 01:12 pm
TV Updates The Bachelorette…s It’s official—The Bachelorette is back on our screens Monday nights, and this time around, it’s in a way we’ve never seen before (I know they say that every season, but it’s legit this time). Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia are sharing the Bachelorette title and By Anastasia • Jul 12, 2022 12:08 pm
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
