TV Updates Intro for January 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, For weeks now I’ve been feeling like Yellowjackets has been closing in on me, with friends texting about it in group chats, threads showing up in my feed, the show seemed to be cornering me, like Omicron. I have not had COVID, and am determined to keep By Lainey • Jan 17, 2022 08:59 am
TV Updates Raylan Givens is BACK IT’S A FRIDAY MIRACLE!!!! Back in spring 2021, we heard that FX was adapting a new Elmore Leonard novel, City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, with a big, fat “maybe” on Timothy Olyphant’s return as the coolest cat on TV, Raylan Givens. Well, FX has given a greenlight By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 12:53 pm
TV Updates The Hype House Isn’t Ready For Celebrity Netflix’s show Hype House dropped on Friday, and in my first post about it, the big question was, “will it get any hype?” It ultimately worked against them in their bid for traditional celebrity status. The goal for almost all influencers is to get to a point where they By Anastasia • Jan 14, 2022 12:09 pm
TV Updates Uber’s garbage culture TV show Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a lot of modes, but my favorite might be “smiley but untrustworthy scumbag”. He doesn’t do it often, but every once in a while, you get a Don Jon or a Hesher out of him, and damn, I love it every time. So of course, By Sarah • Jan 14, 2022 11:23 am
TV Updates Degrassi Is Coming Back The Degrassi franchise is getting a reboot on HBO Max called Degrassi, and the Canadian teenager in me is screaming with joy. The next class of students arrives in 2023. A new Degrassi series is coming to HBO Max. pic.twitter.com/ROCMtvzwt1 — Actually HBO Max (@StreamOnMax) January 13, 2022 By Anastasia • Jan 14, 2022 10:45 am
TV Updates Aubrey Plaza to vacation at The White Lotus The White Lotus was one of the hippest shows of 2020. The internet was obsessed, I’ve met zero people in the real world who watch it, but the GIFs and the memes were everywhere last summer. A second season, to be set at a new fictional White Lotus resort, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 03:34 pm
TV Updates Lily James talks Pamela Anderson and privacy Lily James is on the cover of Net A Porter’s digital magazine this month—is it more accurate to say that she is the face of the digital magazine? There is no “cover”—to promote the upcoming Pam & Tommy series on Hulu. The interview, conducted by Eva Wiseman, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 10:37 am
TV Updates Anna Nicole Smith is headed to Netflix Netflix has gone in on true crime in a big way, premiering a new true crime series or documentary every month of 2021, though they saw diminishing returns over the course of the year in the genre. Now, they’re getting in on another current trend, documentaries reexamining famous women By Sarah • Jan 07, 2022 03:16 pm
Relationship Assumption Harry Styles prepares a roast? Harry Styles was photographed leaving the butcher’s yesterday in London. Is he making a roast? I’m assuming he and whoever he’s with is making the food because, in theory, if you’re going to get your own meat, you’re also cooking your own meat…right? Otherwise, By Lainey • Jan 06, 2022 01:28 pm
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 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 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 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
