TV Updates Barry is back and impressively better than ever After a pandemic-delayed three-year hiatus, Barry is finally back, with the premiere episode of season three airing last night on HBO. For a show that started out strong, somehow Barry keeps getting better, reaching new highs—and emotional lows—topping itself in ever more impressive ways. Series co-creators Bill Hader By Sarah • Apr 25, 2022 03:06 pm
TV Updates Whither Essex Serpent? The Essex Serpent, the period drama starring Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes and based on Sarah Perry’s novel, drops on Apple TV+ on May 13. That’s just a couple weeks away, and the premiere was held yesterday. It’s one of those events where everyone showed up dressed By Sarah • Apr 25, 2022 01:19 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, I am two-and-a-half episodes into Heartstopper and I had to force myself to slowwwwww down. Heartstopper is based on Alice Oseman’s graphic novel (they also scripted the series), a queer teen rom-com, a story about crushes and friendship and identity and rugby, lol, and it’s sweet By Lainey • Apr 25, 2022 09:03 am
TV Updates Joe Alwyn’s Next Level Conversations With Friends, the series based on Sally Rooney’s first book, will be released on May 15. Promotion for the show is now picking up. It’s been almost exactly two years since the Normal People came out, like just a few weeks into the pandemic in the west, By Lainey • Apr 20, 2022 12:47 pm
TV Updates Claire’s Cold Run It’s been almost two years since the end of Homeland, right? Claire Danes is coming back to TV soon – in less than a month, in fact. She’s starring in Apple’s upcoming The Essex Serpent, a six-episode series based on the book of the same name, alongside Tom By Lainey • Apr 19, 2022 01:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Amanda Seyfried in the lead? Like Maria, I haven’t yet started The Dropout, starring Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes. Mostly because I’m still catching up on so many other shows – like the other tech scammer show that’s on right now: WeCrashed, with Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto. And the thing with that By Lainey • Apr 13, 2022 12:59 pm
TV Updates Claire & Paul’s Very British Scandal Claire Foy and Paul Bettany are currently in New York promoting their new series – it’s already aired in the UK – which starts streaming on Amazon on April 22. A Very British Scandal is based on the true divorce story of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, a major tabloid By Lainey • Apr 13, 2022 10:32 am
TV Updates Stranger Things is just spooky New Girl Stranger Things’ penultimate season finally arrives this spring and summer after a pandemic delay in production. “Volume 1” drops on May 27, followed by “volume 2” on July 1. As much as Netflix’s “consume everything at once” binge model has permanently changed television—and audiences do like the convenience By Sarah • Apr 12, 2022 11:23 am
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
