TV Updates An ode to WandaVision’s mid-century kitchen I am, thus far, a bit frustrated with WandaVision. We are now three episodes in and the central conceit—Wanda and Vision are settling down in suburbia, but Something Is Wrong—has not advanced since episode one. Sure, things happen, but the things that happen are just reinforcing the central By Sarah • Jan 25, 2021 03:39 pm
TV Updates Bridgerton will be back! In today’s most unsurprising news, Bridgerton, one of Netflix’s biggest original hits of all time, has been renewed for a second season. https://twitter.com/bridgerton/status/1352277273752305665 As the first season followed the plot of the first book in Julia Quinn’s “Bridgerton” series, so to the By Sarah • Jan 22, 2021 12:17 pm
TV Updates Search Party tries something new Spoilers Search Party is a show that is constantly reinventing itself. In season one, it was a biting observational comedy about sh-tty Millennials, season two found the sh-tty Millennials starring in a crime drama, and season three lampooned legal dramas as the sh-tty Millennials were charged with one of the By Sarah • Jan 19, 2021 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jodie Turner-Smith’s “Goddess-Level Sh-t” Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson have been seen in New York a couple of times this week with their baby and her mother. He’s there shooting Dr Death, taking over the lead role in the series after Jamie Dornan dropped out over scheduling issues. And I think with Joshua By Lainey • Jan 19, 2021 01:27 pm
TV Updates Ethan Hawke is Oscar Isaac’s villain Ethan Hawke is a Gen X icon who has, like several of his Gen X peers, entered the “interesting character actor” phase of his career (see also: Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder). Even when I don’t love the end result of a particular film, Hawke’s recent performances are unfailingly By Sarah • Jan 18, 2021 12:52 pm
Succession “Sometimes It’s a Big Dick Competition” Well. Here we are, the last weekend of the Trump presidency. For four years, the world has watched a wealthy New York family led by an immoral patriarch try to ruin a nation. And one of the best shows on television during that time premiered at the midpoint of the By Lainey • Jan 15, 2021 10:59 am
Equality Issues Daniel Dae Kim: First Lead National Geographic announced yesterday that they’ve cast their two leads for the next series of its top-rated anthology, The Hot Zone. The Hot Zone: Anthrax is about the bioterror attacks that happened across the United States in the weeks following 9/11. The first series, The Hot Zone, starring By Lainey • Jan 14, 2021 03:25 pm
TV Updates Sex and the City: And I couldn’t help but wonder…why? I was on my couch Sunday afternoon re-watching Bob’s Burgers, when I felt my phone vibrate with a notification. Due to the dumpster fire that is the United States, I was hoping that it would be about something inconsequential. And The Hollywood Reporter delivered: I had read a couple By Violeta • Jan 11, 2021 01:01 pm
TV Updates Intro for January 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, What are you binge-watching this weekend? For me it’s going to be Martin Scorsese’s Pretend It’s A City, which follows Fran Lebowitz around her beloved New York City, a docuseries companion to Public Speaking, which just marked its tenth anniversary in November. Last April, just By Lainey • Jan 08, 2021 09:47 am
TV Updates Search Party is back! It feels VERY weird to write about anything else right now, let alone a trailer for a TV show, but you know, life goes on, I guess. I mean, armed insurrections stormed the US capitol yesterday, Congress had to be evacuated, someone died, and now…everything is normal again? Very By Sarah • Jan 07, 2021 01:36 pm
TV Updates The History of Swear Words: 2021’s first disappointment I had such hopes. The History of Swear Words looked like the right combination of interesting and funny, and while the full series is sort of interesting, it is not very funny. And worse, pursuit of jokes actually makes it less interesting. The series, directed by Christopher D’Elia—not By Sarah • Jan 07, 2021 11:40 am
TV Updates WandaVision’s song(s) WandaVision drops next week on Disney+, which will officially begin the Marvel era on the streaming platform (and then we’ll get to find out how much that is worth to new subscribers). Ahead of the premiere, Marvel released another trailer for the series, teasing Wanda Maximoff and Vision’s By Sarah • Jan 05, 2021 02:28 pm
Hook Ups Intro for January 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, It was about a year ago now that I started mentioning a Korean drama on Netflix called Crash Landing on You. The series premiered in mid-December and the obsession started from there; I’m not just talking about me – Crash Landing on You was a global smash hit By Lainey • Jan 05, 2021 09:57 am
TV Updates Pam and Tommy on Film Mick and Bianca Jagger, Johnny and June Carter Cash, Sonny and Cher, Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham, Kurt and Courtney… and Pam and Tommy. YES they belong on that list and I will fight about it all day: this was an iconic pairing in pop culture. The rock star and By Maria • Dec 17, 2020 01:05 pm
Music A Late 2020 Favorite: Netflix’s Song Exploder I first fell in love with the voice of Hrishikesh Hirway when he was a guest on the Gilmore Guys podcast. I remember I was on the treadmill of my local YMCA (you know this was a while ago, because I was in a gym...exercising!) when I heard this By Violeta • Dec 16, 2020 11:21 am
TV Updates My Favourite Things of 2020: Grand Army I love a dark drama. I’ll always pick a show that will leave me feeling sad over something that will lift me up. This has no correlation to my personality, so I wonder what that says about me? One series that fed my desire for darkness this year was By Cody • Dec 15, 2020 12:52 pm
