TV Updates The Nevers is not the next Game of Thrones HBO’s quest to replicate the success of Game of Thrones continues, as Westworld never reached the same highs—but hit many of the same lows—and His Dark Materials never really caught on (they insist that people watch it, but do they? No one talks about it). Next up By Sarah • Feb 03, 2021 04:20 pm
TV Updates The Golden Globes TV Nominations Are Embarrassing Look, the most generous-to-neutral observation that I can make about these nominations is that there are an awful lot of nominees whose names start with C. The category for Best Actress in a Drama includes Colman, Comer, and Corrin. You know who it doesn’t have? Coel. Yeah, I know By Duana • Feb 03, 2021 11:09 am
TV Updates Search Party and Facing Your Best-Worst Self SPOILERS When it began in 2016, Search Party was a social satire with a true-crime twist, as an aimless, self-absorbed Millennial made a nearly forgotten college acquaintance’s disappearance all about her. Dory Sief is the worst of all Millennial stereotypes: underemployed in Brooklyn, a bright kid who has not By Sarah • Feb 02, 2021 01:06 pm
TV Updates Ryan Coogler is bringing Wakanda to TV Yesterday, it was announced that Ryan Coogler’s production company, Proximity Media, has signed a five-year deal with Disney to produce shows for their television outlets, including Disney+. The deal also includes development “for Disney’s other outlets as well”, which could mean shows for Hulu, or maybe a docu-series By Sarah • Feb 02, 2021 12:06 pm
TV Updates Search Party’s crimes and punishments SPOILERS If you’re into dark comedy, Search Party remains hysterically funny, but season four dives into the possible karmic retribution Polly Danziger (Michaela Watkins) hinted at last season, which is genuinely upsetting psychological ground to cover. Immediately following their “not guilty” verdict in season three, Drew (John Reynolds) and By Sarah • Feb 01, 2021 04:25 pm
Relationship Assumption Megan & MGK: Getting Married? Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly were seen in New York yesterday and she was wearing a huge ring on that finger that looks like it could be of the engagement variety. So far there’s been no word on whether or not this is actually what it is but… By Lainey • Jan 29, 2021 12:20 pm
TV Updates Jodie Turner-Smith is an Elf The Witcher is one of the most popular original shows on Netflix (thanks to that audience metric that requires you only watch two minutes of a thing to count as a “view”), so it’s no surprise a prequel spin-off is coming. Described as a six-episode limited series, The Witcher: By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 03:05 pm
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
