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 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 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 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 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
TV Updates Intro for May 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, So they’re remaking Reality Bites. No, sorry, they’re “reframing” Reality Bites. As Sarah wrote yesterday in this space, it’s upfronts right now and the television landscape is chaotic as every outlet seems to have their own streaming service and trying to load up on as By Lainey • May 17, 2022 09:05 am
TV Updates One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others: Maddy & Cassie’s Best Fight Nomination It’s been quite a few Monday’s since I’ve written about Euphoria, so I’m happy to bring the tradition back. This time around, it’s for a nomination. Maddy and Cassie's fight has been nominated for Best Fight at the 2022 MTV Movie & TV By Anastasia • May 16, 2022 02:51 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 16, 2022 Dear Gossips, In recent times, much attention has been paid to how bonkers the film industry is, but don’t worry, the television industry is catastrophic, too. They’re just better at covering it because there’s so much freaking TV available all the time it can be hard to By Sarah • May 16, 2022 09:10 am
TV Updates The second Miss Francesca Bridgerton Here’s a piece of surprise Bridgerton news that maybe isn’t so surprising—the role of Francesca, quiet middle child of the Bridgerton clan, has been recast. Ruby Stokes plays Francesca in seasons one and two, albeit briefly, as Francesca is absent much of the time. In season one, By Sarah • May 13, 2022 03:42 pm
TV Updates Physical is back to annihilate us Physical is one of the best shows of 2021, but it’s also one of the darkest and bleakest things put on television under the banner of “comedy” in recent memory. The White Lotus and Severance and even Barry have their moments, but they also have enough laugh out loud By Sarah • May 13, 2022 11:31 am
TV Updates The Star Wars Style Show Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram, and Hayden Christensen are currently on the Obi-Wan Kenobi press tour – and bringing strong style game. But we’ll come back to that in a minute. Right now let’s talk, in the most non-expert way possible, about Star Wars. As Sarah always says, By Lainey • May 13, 2022 10:32 am
