TV Updates Selena, Steve, and Martin: Murders in Contention I know… I KNOW. We just got done with the Oscars and a tiresome award season that ended in the most exhaustingly controversial way. And now I’m hitting you up with more awards speculation and I’m sorry. But that’s what the focus is pivoting to now in By Lainey • Apr 11, 2022 12:06 pm
TV Updates Maya Erskine is Donald Glover’s new Mrs. Smith Hey, do you remember that Donald Glover has a television reboot of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in the works! He does! It was originally going to star Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, but then Waller-Bridge dropped out over “creative differences”. Now, in an interview with himself for Interview magazine, Glover has By Sarah • Apr 08, 2022 03:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake Returns to 8H Jake Gyllenhaal is currently promoting Ambulance, Michael Bay’s “small movie” - LOL, by Michael Bay standards, I guess that’s true. Jake was at the premiere the other night and this weekend he is returning to Studio 8H, the home of Saturday Night Live. Over the years, he’s By Lainey • Apr 06, 2022 12:23 pm
TV Updates Harrison Ford joins Roy Kent (and Jason Segel) on TV In his long and storied career, one thing Harrison Ford has not done much of is television. In fact, he hasn’t done any TV since Star Wars made him a Movie Star—except for an appearance on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles—but before he hit it big, when By Sarah • Apr 05, 2022 03:02 pm
TV Updates Ranking the best fashion of Bridgerton season two From the very first, Bridgerton established a strong aesthetic, particularly with its array of candy-colored gowns and dandy’s dapper suits. Season two is no different, bringing back the pastel frocks and patterned waistcoats, and introducing gowns with an Indian flare for the Sharma family. The clothes remain as eye-popping By Sarah • Apr 01, 2022 03:11 pm
Equality Issues Our Flag Means Death is a shot across the bow of queerbaiting Spoilers Our Flag Means Death is a Kiwi-quirky romp through pirate history, full of deliberate anachronisms and a mellower, more melancholic tone than one might expect of a “silly pirate show”. But it is also a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a show that starts as one thing, and becomes By Sarah • Apr 01, 2022 01:29 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton’s young queen (and Lady D) The Bridgerton spin-off focused on a young Queen Charlotte has found its lead, as India Amarteifio is set to play the queen before she was queen, when she was a princess betrothed to a man she’d never met. The series is written by Shonda Rhimes, who also serves as By Sarah • Apr 01, 2022 11:50 am
TV Updates Andrew Garfield goes for two After a protracted awards season, Andrew Garfield—and everyone else—has earned a little downtime, but he’ll get very little of it, as his next project, drama series Under the Banner of Heaven, debuts on Hulu in four weeks. A new trailer was released this week, and the first By Sarah • Mar 31, 2022 02:20 pm
TV Updates Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke in Moon Knight Somewhere in Moon Knight is a great two-hour movie. An action movie with psychological thriller trappings, dressed up in a superhero’s cape, that two-hour movie zips by, quick and fun and just different enough to feel fresh. In reality, though, Moon Knight is a six-hour television series starring Oscar By Sarah • Mar 30, 2022 01:36 pm
TV Updates Ranking the longing looks of Bridgerton Now that you’ve had a chance to see Bridgerton season two, and maybe reckon with how far they go with the love triangle and how they rushed the happy ending, we can spend a little time cataloging all the good stuff in the new season, such as: Kate and By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 03:27 pm
TV Updates Welcome back to the Arconia During the Oscars, the first teaser for season two of Only Murders in the Building dropped. I’ve never understood why the Oscars doesn’t feature more new trailers, like the Super Bowl, that seems like one way to gin up interest in viewing without insulting the people who actually By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 01:27 pm
TV Updates Simone Ashley: The New Bridgerton Breakout Hello are you there? Or are you mainlining Bridgerton? I know season two just dropped today on Netflix but in some parts of the world, today is over halfway over and it’s eight episodes, eight hours, it’s very possible that some of you are done. I say this By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 12:38 pm
TV Updates Justice for Duchess Margaret at last Back in 2018, Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw starred in A Very English Scandal, a three-part dark comedy about an MP who tries and fails to have a former (male) lover killed, and from there events spiral out of control. It’s a SPECTACULAR mini-series, if you haven’t seen By Sarah • Mar 24, 2022 02:09 pm
TV Updates JGL takes on an icon Joseph Gordon-Levitt is currently starring as former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on Super Pumped, which doesn’t seem to be making much of a dent amidst all the other shows about scammers and/or Big Tech bros airing right now. But that isn’t on JGL, he’s very good By Sarah • Mar 23, 2022 01:18 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton Season 2: Lots of yearning, but where’s the burning? When Bridgerton ended its first season, romantic hero and heroine Simon and Daphne were settling into marital bliss, a baby on the way. Daphne’s older brother, though, announced his intention to find a wife but to excise love from the proceedings. Season two catches up with Anthony, Viscount Bridgerton By Sarah • Mar 22, 2022 03:20 pm
TV Updates Christina Ricci is in Wednesday, but is not Wednesday Lest you have forgotten, consider this a reminder that Tim Burton is directing a new series for Netflix about Wednesday Addams. It’s called Wednesday, and it stars Jenna Ortega (something of a scream queen with films like X, Studio 666, Scream, and The Babysitter: Killer Queen under her belt) By Sarah • Mar 22, 2022 11:46 am
