Books Riley and Suki are Daisy and Karen Duana and I loved Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & The Six …hard. We wrote it about it on the site, we talked about it on Show Your Work, and we even talked to Taylor about it on the podcast. That was back in 2019 and at the time, By Lainey • Oct 18, 2021 12:02 pm
TV Updates Succession: The bad people we love I’ve never understood the opinion that unlikable characters in books, movies, and on TV shows are a bad thing. Every six months or so, a debate will pop up about a show and whether or not a character is likable, redeemable, or can “teach” the audience anything. I hate By Maria • Oct 15, 2021 11:16 am
TV Updates Our number one boy is back It’s been a very long wait but finally, finally!, Succession Sunday is upon us. As we march towards the Roy vs. Roy battle, let’s check in on where we left everyone, what they’ve been doing, and where I think they’re going. The cast has been doing By Maria • Oct 13, 2021 03:59 pm
TV Updates Kathryn Hahn gets her own Marvel thing The Year of Kathryn Hahn continues as she will be returning to the MCU as Agatha Harkness, this time in an Agatha-centric spin-off series. It will be written and produced by Jac Schaeffer, the showrunner of WandaVision (Marvel has this thing where they want to call the people running their By Sarah • Oct 08, 2021 12:47 pm
TV Updates Kim or Kanye: Who’s Hosting SNL? We don’t do much Kardashian coverage at this site, but we do talk a lot here and on the Show Your Work podcast about Saturday Night Live because whether or not you complain about “it’s just not funny anymore”, there is one thing that never changes about SNL: By Lainey • Oct 08, 2021 12:24 pm
TV Updates Squid Game: The Tonight Show and the Subtitle Debate Squid Game is the biggest show in the world, a surprise hit for Netflix, and an even bigger win for the South Korean entertainment system. For many, this is their introduction to the storytelling and production value happening in SK which is just as sophisticated as what they’re doing By Lainey • Oct 07, 2021 03:36 pm
Gorgessity Tessa’s robe and rumoured boyfriend Tessa Thompson and Ed Harris were shooting scenes for Westworld yesterday in New York. While she was blocking out the scene, and waiting to roll, she had on a grey robe. I mean, the white outfit she’s wearing here, with her hair tied back and long like that, it’ By Lainey • Oct 07, 2021 12:08 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 6, 2021 Dear Gossips, One of our main storylines this week: everyone wants a piece of Squid Game. Four members of the cast will appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tonight and while this has yet to be confirmed, it reportedly will be Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Jung Ho-yeon, and By Lainey • Oct 06, 2021 09:25 am
TV Updates Squid Game Has Taken Over TikTok My title kind of speaks for itself, but I mean, who's surprised? Squid Game is the talk of the town. Lainey has been writing about the series’ huge debut on Netflix, and more specifically, how Netflix’s investment in South Korean programming over the last several years that By Anastasia • Oct 05, 2021 01:00 pm
TV Updates Where be the dragons? The Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, is due next year, and we now have a teaser by which to judge it. Yep, that’s Westeros all right! There’s the Red Keep, and the Iron Throne, though it has been reimagined for an era centuries before By Sarah • Oct 05, 2021 11:45 am
TV Updates Intro for October 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, A week ago in this space I wrote about Squid Game and how it was the #1 show in the world on Netflix, including in North America, even though it wasn’t being talked about, at the time, in North America like a #1 show. In the days By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 08:58 am
TV Updates Cowboy Bebop evades Netflix knows what the people want, and that is a trailer for Cowboy Bebop starring John Cho. So, of course, we did not get that during their “Tudum” fan event on Saturday. Why bury Cowboy Bebop, one of their biggest projects coming this year, amidst the content avalanche of the By Sarah • Sep 29, 2021 02:37 pm
TV Updates A New Bachelor Host Is In Town Bachelor Nation has finally been given a permanent host. Former NFL quarterback, Jesse Palmer, will now be the face of the nation, and I don’t think it’s a face that accurately depicts the franchise’s promise for change. If I’m being honest, the NFL quarterback part doesn’ By Anastasia • Sep 29, 2021 10:20 am
TV Updates The Sandman cometh One of the most tortured projects stuck in development hell is The Sandman, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s classic comic. Efforts to adapt The Sandman began in the 1990s, when the comic was not only a hit, but also reshaping the look and feel of comics. Along with comics By Sarah • Sep 28, 2021 12:33 pm
TV Updates Intro for September 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, Sarah wrote yesterday about Netflix’s virtual fan event, Tudum, that took place over the weekend. Her coverage will continue today with pieces on Chris Hemsworth’s Extraction sequel and more. As she noted in her Bridgerton post, the season two preview was one of the biggest highlights By Lainey • Sep 28, 2021 08:51 am
TV Updates Stranger Things Dream Home Netflix’s “Tudum” preview continues with a new teaser for Stranger Things season four, which is now titled Stranger Things 4 in the style of a movie franchise. The teaser shows off the “Creel House”, an obviously haunted Victorian mansion in the woods. It’s my dream home! When can By Sarah • Sep 27, 2021 04:40 pm
