TV Updates The Girl From Plainville skirts a tricky edge Netflix was the first streaming platform to catch the true crime wave in a big way with Making A Murderer, and while docu-series have been their particular forte, but Hulu is rapidly carving a niche for dramatic serializations of true crime stories, starting with The Act and carrying on with By Sarah • Mar 03, 2022 02:56 pm
Weddings Sydney Sweeney is engaged Sydney Sweeney has had a big year. The White Lotus was one of the surprise television hits of 2021 and, of course, Euphoria has been the dominant television series of 2022 so far. She was hilarious and terrifying as Olivia in The White Lotus and terrifying and pathetic as Cassie By Lainey • Mar 03, 2022 10:45 am
TV Updates Michael Douglas to play renowned historical horndog Benjamin Franklin Michael Douglas was at the SAG Awards on Sunday, where he was twice nominated for The Kominsky Method, a show I do not believe exists, or that anyone has ever seen. It is an elaborate ruse perpetrated by Netflix, and you will simply not convince me otherwise. But a man By Sarah • Mar 02, 2022 12:26 pm
TV Updates The Euphoria Twitter Sideshow: “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name” *This is your official spoiler alert. There WILL be heavy plot reveals throughout so keep that in mind before reading this post!* Yesterday was the last Euphoria day of season two, and I am feeling all of the emotions. https://twitter.com/demielist/status/1497419852813848581?s=20&t=z7krD56UXeaCwDgc3R00eQ By Anastasia • Feb 28, 2022 08:41 am
TV Updates Three for Squid Game Two years ago, Parasite won the SAG Award for Best Ensemble, the Screen Actors’ equivalent of Best Picture, before going on to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Both at the SAGs and at the Oscars, though, no members of the Parasite cast were singled out for individual acting honours. By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 08:17 am
SAG Awards 2022 Intro for February 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, Jennifer Hudson wore a custom pink Vera Wang dress to the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night where she was nominated for Best Actress for her performance as Aretha Franklin in Respect. The night before, at the NAACP Image Awards, it was custom Christian Siriano: RESPECT the winner By Lainey • Feb 28, 2022 07:43 am
TV Updates Outfit of the Week: Caitriona Balfe’s Black Cloud Outlander season six premieres on March 6 and there was a red carpet event for the show last night in London. Series star Sam Heughan was there, along with most of the other cast members, but not Caitriona Balfe who, of course, is the series’ other lead. And some fans By Lainey • Feb 25, 2022 03:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Two competing Chippendales murder projects Today in Too Much True Crime news, there are TWO competing Chippendales murder projects out in the world. One is a movie starring Dev Patel, Seth Rogen, and Elle Fanning, and it comes from director Craig Gillespie. The other is a TV series for Hulu starring Kumail Nanjiani, Nicola Peltz, By Sarah • Feb 25, 2022 03:16 pm
TV Updates Quentin Taraninto is joining Justified Every time Quentin Tarantino talks about “retiring” after directing ten films, I roll my eyes because this dude is never going to retire. Just like Steven Soderbergh, he will “retire” and then keep right on working. Oh, maybe he’ll direct a nice, round ten original feature films, but he’ By Sarah • Feb 25, 2022 02:20 pm
TV Updates Selena Gomez: No Drama and More Coats When it was confirmed last week that Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes would host the Oscars, it was also reported that the Academy had extended an invitation to Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, aka the three leads of Only Murders in the Building, but couldn’t By Lainey • Feb 25, 2022 10:47 am
Books Andrew Garfield’s next moment Andrew Garfield is currently enjoying his relaxed and good-hair awards season, plus a victory lap for Spider-Man: No Way Home, but he will soon be back out promoting a new project, the true crime series, Under the Banner of Heaven. Based on Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name, By Sarah • Feb 24, 2022 12:22 pm
TV Updates Kogonada and Justin Chon team up for Pachinko Kogonada’s sophomore feature film, After Yang, isn’t the only project he has coming up. He is also, along with Justin Chon—Twilight supporting actor turned filmmaker—adapting Min Jin Lee’s best-selling novel, Pachinko, into a lavish limited series for Apple TV+. Together, Kogonada and Chon are producing By Sarah • Feb 24, 2022 10:37 am
TV Updates Intro for February 24, 2022 Dear Gossips, The first trailer for Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls was released week. Now she’s on the cover of Variety for a great interview with Ramin Setoodeh to promote her show and her growing empire. Watch Out For The Big Grrrls, premiering on Prime on By Lainey • Feb 24, 2022 08:56 am
TV Updates Bill Nighy is the new Bowie If you’re making a new adaptation of a film that stars David Bowie, who do you get to replace David Bowie? When illness kept Bowie out of Twin Peaks: The Return, David Lynch replaced him with a talking teapot, because, well, why not. It’s David Lynch, Twin Peaks, By Sarah • Feb 23, 2022 02:17 pm
TV Updates Hot Taika and Leading Man Rhys Darby (at last) Last month, we saw a teaser for Our Flag Means Death, the pirate comedy coming from David Jenkins and Taika Waititi. Now, we have a full trailer, and yes, I have been mainlining this for DAYS. The combination of pirate history and New Zealand humor, it feels like this was By Sarah • Feb 22, 2022 02:03 pm
TV Updates Euphoria Drama Continues Behind the Scenes Before Euphoria returned for its second season the party line from the cast was things are going to be darker and messier and have they ever. Anastasia’s been covering the Twitter reaction to this season’s hella chaotic storyline, which (along with the reach of its new home on By Cody • Feb 21, 2022 10:13 am
