TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen’s Gambit There is a certain type of character who appears in television shows, you know her when you see her: a lead character, pretty, almost always white, and the object of every other character’s fascination and sexual desire. She is interesting! So charming! A marvel! The show will insist this By Sarah • Oct 29, 2020 02:36 pm
TV Updates Shonda Invents Anna Today I’m wondering about writer Jessica Pressler. Every year or so, Jessica Pressler produces a piece for The Cut that becomes a cult thing in and of itself alongside its subject(s). Back in 2015, her article on “The Hustlers at Scores” was one of the best investigative essays By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 02:47 pm
TV Updates Selena for the Holidays Netflix for the last several years has been dominating the holiday season. Every December, there’s something – or multiple somethings – streaming on Netflix that go viral, that no one can stop talking about. And it’s not necessarily conventional “holiday” content either. Remember Making a Murderer? I feel like we By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 01:56 pm
TV Updates Oscar Isaac is the latest Marvel hire Yesterday, “Moon Knight” started trending on social media, which I figured was either something to do with Marvel, or NASA had announced the intention of forming a band of chivalrous knights to patrol the moon against possible moon monsters (anything feels possible these days). Fortunately, it was the former and By Sarah • Oct 27, 2020 11:37 am
TV Updates Intro for October 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, In 2017, Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko was released to critical acclaim, regarded as one of the best books of the year. Roxane Gay named it her favourite book of 2017. In August 2018, after a bidding war involving multiple outlets, Apple acquired the rights to adapt the By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 09:00 am
TV Updates Intro for October 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, How was Adele for you? She pulled in solid ratings for Saturday Night Live this past weekend – not a surprise since she was already trending well before the episode started. And right off the top, though she claimed she was nervous, she seemed comfortable and relaxed during the By Lainey • Oct 26, 2020 08:59 am
TV Updates Miracle Workers blesses 2020 with a third season Finally, 2020 has done something right and given us another season of a great show. Miracle Workers is a vastly underappreciated comedy series starring Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni, and Lolly Adefope. The first season is about a group of angels trying to save Earth from a By Sarah • Oct 23, 2020 01:37 pm
TV Updates Adele’s SNL Promo Adele is the host of this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, a surprise announcement to almost everyone when it was made after last week’s show. Of course that led to all kinds of speculation as to why Adele is hosting. She says it’s been a lifelong By Lainey • Oct 23, 2020 01:08 pm
TV Updates The Show For Our Girl Band Dreams If you’ve never wanted to be in a pop band with your friends, skip to the next. The rest of you know what I’m talking about. This is part of the reason why, in particular, for girls in the 90s, the Spice Girls were the sh-t. We By Lainey • Oct 23, 2020 12:09 pm
TV Updates GLOW actresses asked for better representation, and we won’t see it GLOW’s sudden cancellation due to COVID-19 means we won’t get to see the natural conclusion of the show, but now we are learning what else the cancellation is costing us. It turns out that in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the early summer, By Sarah • Oct 22, 2020 11:11 am
TV Updates HBO Says We Can Have a Little ‘Euphoria’ as a Treat Just as we Euphoria fans are coming down off the high of Zendaya winning the Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama, HBO announced Monday that they’re giving us two special episodes to help hold us over until the delayed second season — and the first one is a holiday By Cody • Oct 20, 2020 11:23 am
TV Updates Dominic West might play Prince Charles in The Crown Look, I’m not here to cheer for the end of anyone’s marriage, but can we admit the Dominic West scandal is a good old-fashioned celebrity scandal and gods, how I have MISSED those! The initial story was a one-eyebrow-raise event, but then that bonkers photocall By Sarah • Oct 20, 2020 09:10 am
TV Updates Saturday Night with Adele Not sure anyone could have predicted that Adele would be hosting Saturday Night Live this fall. Host and musical guest? Sure. But just host? And no album to promote? It would have seemed improbable. But that’s what’s happening, October 24, next weekend. About that album though… We’ve By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 09:29 am
TV Updates Binge Deaf U Immediately How do you get people to do stuff you want them to? More specifically, how do you get someone to watch or listen to something you’re obsessed with? Lainey tries to manipulate me. “It’s got this that and that, which you love!” Sasha tosses in small tidbits about By Duana • Oct 14, 2020 03:33 pm
TV Updates Diana drama! Previously, I wondered if The Crown season four would really get smutty and dive into the glamour and gossip of the Diana Years. Well, the teaser for season four is out, and it is all drama, all the time. This teaser is HEAVY on Diana, juxtaposing the “fairy tale” of By Sarah • Oct 14, 2020 02:30 pm
TV Updates WandaVision resumes Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn, and Teyonah Parris are back on set, filming the last episodes of WandaVision. Disney-Marvel has promised they will get this show to Disney+ by the end of the year, but as we can see, they still have some work to do. Given that, By Sarah • Oct 13, 2020 01:29 pm
