TV Updates Love, Victor Switches Up the Formula Back when the trailer came out for Love, Victor, the spinoff TV show from Love, Simon, I wondered how the show’s creators planned to differentiate the show from the movie. Yesterday, the first season of the show was released on Hulu, and it’s not what I was expecting. By Prem • Jun 18, 2020 12:04 pm
Break Ups Too Hot To Handle: A Storm is Brewing Lainey has been posting frequently about Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’s relationship during quarantine. They’re among the many who have developed new relationships amidst a global pandemic. But there have also been many break-ups, like Jessie J and Channing Tatum or Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock. Circumstances By Prem • Jun 17, 2020 11:18 am
TV Updates Lemon, It’s Wednesday My apology to the first person on Twitter pointed out that “Quibi is a 30 Rock joke come to life” but it been said so many times, over so many months, by so many people, that I can’t find the original post. As Quibi continues to take hits (on By Maria • Jun 17, 2020 09:47 am
TV Updates Garcelle’s a Diamond in the Bravo Rough Over the last week, our site manager Emily and I have been talking offline about the Vanderpump Rules firing of Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute for their treatment of former cast-adjacent friend Faith, who slept with their castmate Jax Taylor while he was dating their friend Brittany (pronounced Brittaaaaaaattttnny). I’ By Maria • Jun 12, 2020 01:54 pm
TV Updates Cancelling copaganda Alongside demonstrations about police brutality is the curious case of “copaganda”, or Hollywood’s close, cozy relationship with policing as an institution—one that is overwhelming centered on white cops and always portrays police as the unquestioned good guys in every scenario—and how to move forward with cop shows By Sarah • Jun 11, 2020 11:54 am
Quiveration Omar and Ander get tested If you watch Elite, you know exactly who I’m talking about here because I’ve just referred to the names of the characters and not the actors. Omar on Elite is played by Omar Ayuso. Ander is played by Aron Piper. They are, spoiler alert, but not really, my By Lainey • Jun 04, 2020 01:31 pm
TV Updates At least Perry Mason still looks good There’s a lot going on right now, and it feels frivolous to write about the trailer for an HBO series—it IS frivolous—but I’ve run the gamut this past weekend from determined to uplifted to nervous to scared to panicked and now I’m idling on E. By Sarah • Jun 01, 2020 02:04 pm
TV Updates Steve Carell in Space Force When the trailer for Netflix’s new comedy series, Space Force, premiered a few weeks ago, I said that “reality IS satire now so this might as well be a documentary”. This turns out to be one of the biggest problems facing Space Force, that it is, intentionally or not, By Sarah • Jun 01, 2020 11:42 am
TV Updates Normal People is Sexy, Bookish Vindication First of all, let me be clear – here in Canada we’re still in the first sweaty, horny blush of consuming Normal People. We know the rest of you have had it for weeks and we were frustrated and jealous. Now the first two episodes have finally been released here By Duana • May 29, 2020 03:08 pm
TV Updates New Trailer for Love, Victor It’s been over two years since Love, Simon came out (get it?), a time when adult gay men all cried in the theatre because our collective mom, Jennifer Garner, told us all that we could all exhale. Let’s just re-watch this clip because I think we could all By Prem • May 28, 2020 10:25 am
Maple Leaf Intro for May 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we near the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Asian and Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States, big ups to Andrew Phung of Kim’s Convenience who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor last night! Congratulations Andrew! WHAT IS By Lainey • May 28, 2020 08:46 am
TV Updates Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas Two years after her not-comedy special Nanette made her a household name, Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas, a stand-up special/one-woman show/glorified Ted Talk/lecture—whatever you want to call it, she really does not care. Gadsby herself compares the arc of Douglas to a romantic comedy in By Sarah • May 27, 2020 10:06 am
Break Ups The End of Bughead I was going to write about Cole Sprouse yesterday because of these new pictures but then I ran out of time and it ended up working out because then Page Six reported that he and Lili Reinhart broke up and PEOPLE confirmed it and then E! News followed both of By Lainey • May 26, 2020 03:06 pm
TV Updates Taylor Swift, “Jack leopards & the dolphin club” A cover version of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” played during last night’s episode of Killing Eve. Taylor has said many times that she loves the show. And she’s friends with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. So, naturally, she was proud to have her song featured: VERY By Lainey • May 25, 2020 11:10 am
TV Updates Intro for May 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, Many of you have emailed over the last few weeks asking about our Normal People coverage since I wrote about the book so much last year. The show hasn’t aired yet in Canada but that changes this week. CBC Gem will air two episodes a week beginning By Lainey • May 25, 2020 09:48 am
Theatre Nerd SMASH, as it was meant to be I have no emotional reserves anymore so it could be that I’m just extra in general, but I got absolute goosebumps when I discovered that SMASH, the ridiculous, inexplicable television spectacle of 2012 which I and everyone else wrote about ad nauseum, which confounded an entire television-watching generation, like By Duana • May 22, 2020 03:25 pm
