TV Updates Intro for December 7, 2020 Dear Gossips, Solid Saturday Night Live episode this weekend hosted by the reliable and always game Jason Bateman… but in my mind, the reason for the extra jolt of energy is because Cecily Strong was back. As I mentioned on Friday in What Else?, it had to be Cecily to By Lainey • Dec 07, 2020 08:52 am
TV Updates A Different Royal Christmas For the British royal family, the tradition since 1988 has been for the Queen to gather with her family at Sandringham and on Christmas Day, they all walk to church together. That will not be happening this year because of COVID and it’s now been confirmed that Her Majesty By Lainey • Dec 03, 2020 03:30 pm
TV Updates Underrated Aubrey Plaza Gets Her Due The Internet has been thirsting for Aubrey Plaza since the release of Happiest Season last week, and for good reason. Her quippy wallflower doctor character Riley is exactly the kind of character that appeals to the social media generation. And yet, Aubrey still does not feel she’s worthy of By Joanna • Dec 03, 2020 02:22 pm
TV Updates Selena Gomez and Jimmy Butler? Selena Gomez has been in New York recently shooting a Hulu comedy series called Only Murders in the Building with Steve Martin and Martin Short. She’s also an executive producer, alongside Dan Fogelman, Jess Rosenthal who created a little show called This Is Us. It’s about three people By Lainey • Dec 03, 2020 10:52 am
TV Updates Hailee Steinfeld is the good Hawkeye One of my biggest disappointments with the MCU is Hawkeye. It started out promising—back in 2010, Jeremy Renner was one of the new rising stars, hot off The Hurt Locker, and his cameo in Thor seemed to nail the tone of the wise-cracking ace archer, Clint Barton. But then By Sarah • Dec 03, 2020 10:23 am
TV Updates Selena-lite So now that you know about how 13-year-old me had a Selena obsession, and how it turned into my Selena Problem, here is what I am thinking about the upcoming Netflix show Selena: The Series. I am skeptical. Now you may say, wait, didn’t you beg Lainey to write By Violeta • Dec 02, 2020 02:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Armie Hammer and the horse head Today in But Why news, it has been reported that Armie Hammer will star in a limited series called The Offer, about the making of The Godfather. This is not to be confused with Francis and The Godfather, a movie which will star Oscar Isaac and Jake Gyllenhaal and is By Sarah • Dec 02, 2020 10:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya: First Emmy…then Oscar? Months ago when we were talking about the Emmys, even after the nominations, most people considered Zendaya to be an underdog, considering the other women in the Lead Actress Drama category – Jennifer Aniston, Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, and more. She was the youngest and Euphoria, for which she was nominated, By Lainey • Dec 01, 2020 04:34 pm
TV Updates My Selena Problem (Lainey: introducing LaineyGossip’s newest contributor… Violeta! She lives by the word of our Queen, Beyoncé, she’s big on 90s and 2000s classic gossip, 30 Rock and the first two seasons of Arrested Development are her “everything”, and, as you’ll read below in her first piece, she is By Violeta • Dec 01, 2020 12:52 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 1, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday marked the deadline for this year’s Golden Globe submissions. Although the eligibility period for television runs until December 31 and for film it’s February 28, programs and movies that want to be in contention must have submitted by now. Typically, by now, in a non-pandemic By Lainey • Dec 01, 2020 08:58 am
TV Updates Netflix’s The Crown “Disclaimer” As you may have heard, the royals and royal supporters and royal reporters have been pearl-clutching over season four of The Crown, which is the season when Lady Diana Spencer joins the story. And it’s basically the most-talked about show on television right now, considering the series’ previous success, By Lainey • Nov 30, 2020 12:41 pm
TV Updates The Jedi arrives on The Mandalorian One of the big expectations for The Mandalorian season two was the arrival of Ahsoka Tano, a popular character from the animated series The Clone Wars. Well, that event transpired on Friday in the latest episode of The Mandalorian, “The Jedi”, as Ahsoka Tano shows up, dual white lightsabers in By Sarah • Nov 30, 2020 11:39 am
Top Reads Joss Whedon’s surprise exits Hello, it is I, your resident American correspondent, corresponding to you from America, on America’s second-greatest holiday: Thanksgiving, the day we stuff our faces with turkey so we don’t have to talk to each other. (The best holiday is July 4, because fireworks.) In honor of my homeland’ By Sarah • Nov 26, 2020 11:42 am
TV Updates On Pointe on Disney+ Knows What It’s Doing The other day I wrote about a show whose concept was so well-known I figured with help, eleven-year-olds could pitch it. In the trailer for Disney+’s new ballet documentary series, On Pointe, about the lives of dancers at the School of American Ballet in New York City, the ballet By Duana • Nov 25, 2020 03:43 pm
TV Updates The Crown: Missed Lesson Almost all of the coverage about season four of The Crown has been focused on the introduction of Princess Diana and Prince Charles and how their marriage was doomed, and the ways in which the British royal family failed their youngest and most popular member at the time. Over the By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 10:09 am
TV Updates Why Does Amazon’s The Wilds Hide Its Originality? I feel as though there’s an untapped market in the YouTube/TikTok community for making fun of trailers or network promos that have nothing to do with the actual series/films they’re supposed to be selling. I know that very occasionally, it’s justified because there’s a By Duana • Nov 23, 2020 03:27 pm
