Gorgessity Hoyeon covers Vogue! Hoyeon Jung, the breakout star of Squid Game, covers the February issue of Vogue. This is a surprise but not a surprise… Not a surprise because Hoyeon started her career as a model, and worked in New York for a few years, right up until she had her last callback By Lainey • Jan 05, 2022 01:09 pm
TV Updates Dear The Bachelor, I’m Bored. Last night was the premiere of The Bachelor, this season’s lead is Clayton Echard who is a former football player and was a contestant on Michelle Young’s season that LITERALLY JUST FINISHED AIRING TWO WEEKS AGO. It’s the franchise’s fourth show in just six months. We By Anastasia • Jan 04, 2022 01:23 pm
TV Updates Keanu in the White City? There is movement at last on the long-gestating adaptation of Erik Larson’s book, The Devil in the White City, produced by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. This is, indeed, GREAT news to kick off 2022, as true crime aficionados have been waiting for this adaptation since DiCaprio acquired the By Sarah • Jan 04, 2022 11:46 am
TV Updates Miley’s First NYE Miley Cyrus’s New Year’s Eve special on NBC was about building a new annual institution with a performer who will likely be an entertainment institution. Miley is almost 30 years old now, which is a trip in and of itself, and like so many other female popstars before By Lainey • Jan 04, 2022 10:15 am
TV Updates Intro for December 29, 2021 Dear Gossips, It was Duana who got me into Cheer, not surprisingly. This is a series that checks all her boxes – student-athlete-entertainers at a small college, a demanding, work-obsessed coach, and a production team that knew exactly how to tell the story. Cheer is Show Your Work all around, we By Lainey • Dec 29, 2021 09:16 am
TV Updates Wheel of Time never quite turns After the three-episode premiere of Wheel of Time, I was looking for some immediate issues to get resolved over the rest of the first season. Guess what? They don’t get resolved! Wheel of Time instead turns into a frustrating series that is intermittently compelling, but much of the time By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 02:38 pm
TV Updates Hawkeye is the low stakes hangout Marvel needs Hawkeye wrapped up yesterday, and it ended as it began—fun, light, not super invested in the larger lore of the MCU. Sure, we have a new Hawkeye in Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), and Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) is off to reinvent herself as something more like a hero, and By Sarah • Dec 23, 2021 11:09 am
TV Updates Insecure: Preparing for Goodbye What a time. It still seems unreal, but HBO’s Insecure is actually coming to an end with the series finale airing December 26. No one's prayer worked. The more the show winds down (or Wine’s down 😉), I’m realizing exactly why it’s my favourite show. By Melayna • Dec 21, 2021 10:37 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, As Sarah covered in yesterday’s open, the Spider-Man: No Way Home box office has been a big story – and relief – in Hollywood the last few days; considering the pandemic, and the fact that there’s been no shortage of Marvel superhero content this year (with WandaVision, Falcon By Lainey • Dec 21, 2021 08:47 am
TV Updates Amanda Seyfried gets her blood up There are multiple projects about Theranos founder and alleged fraudster Elizabeth Holmes in the works, including a film based on John Carreyrou’s book, Bad Blood, from Adam McKay and Jennifer Lawrence. But the first project out of the gate is The Dropout, Hulu’s limited series about the Theranos By Sarah • Dec 16, 2021 12:11 pm
TV Updates Succession: What’s love got to do with it? Now that we’ve all Googled “what is a holding company” we can celebrate and mourn this brilliant season finale. There are two pivotal moments that happened last week that were overshadowed by the pool scene: Kendall’s publicist mentioning a podcast on Roy scandals, including the drowning of a By Maria • Dec 13, 2021 03:18 pm
TV Updates See the show that broke up Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Last week, Adam McKay blamed a casting decision for his new HBO series about the Lakers as the reason for his falling out with Will Ferrell. Now that series, titled Winning Time, has a trailer, and, well, John C. Reilly looks f-cking amazing in it as Dr. Jerry Buss, owner By Sarah • Dec 10, 2021 03:06 pm
Style Lewis Hamilton and the Season Finale I’m in no rush for the weekend to go by any faster… but I am also very much looking forward to Sunday. It’s the season finale of Succession, and after what happened on the penultimate episode of this season, well, I think we all want to know how By Lainey • Dec 10, 2021 01:35 pm
TV Updates SJP: A Red Carpet Carrie Bradshaw And Just Like That… The first two episodes are now available on HBO Max and on Crave in Canada. For many people, it’s been one of the most highly anticipated television premieres of the year, considering the past popularity of Sex and the City, and the drama behind the By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 10:24 am
Amazingness Intro for December 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, I didn’t even realise it last week when I posted about Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience and their back-to-back re-enactments of an episode each of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes that it was counterprogramming against NBC’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 09:06 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Critics Choice Awards television nominations were announced yesterday. In the comedy category, it was really great to see that Reservation Dogs will be competing for Best Comedy Series alongside Ted Lasso, Only Murders in the Building, Insecure, Hacks, The Other Two, and What We Do In The By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:01 am
