TV Updates The Goop Lab is mercenary and cynical snake oil I walked away from Gwyneth Paltrow’s first In Goop Health summit thinking it was a borderline snake oil convention, mostly harmless on the surface but with some predatory, potentially damaging undertones. The Goop Lab, however, is In Goop Health times a thousand. In Goop Health, it turns out, was By Sarah • Jan 28, 2020 01:45 pm
TV Updates Predictions for Drag Race Season 12 It’s that time of year again! There’s Christmas, New Year’s, and now the Ruveal for RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12! Can you believe it’s been a year since we were talking about how dry Adam Rippon was as a host? Can you also believe that By Prem • Jan 24, 2020 12:07 pm
TV Updates Who wants a Friends reunion? Friends ended like 15 years ago. And people have been talking about a reunion, not sure what that looks like, but that’s the question that keeps coming up over and over again. Part of that, even though no one wants to admit it, is that the show continues to By Lainey • Jan 16, 2020 11:59 am
TV Updates Toss a coin to The Witcher Spoilers Like Game of Thrones, Netflix’s big-budget fantasy adaptation The Witcher is based on a series of fantasy books, in this case by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski (there is also a series of very popular video games). The Witcher is a fantasy world full of monsters, sorcery, tits, ass, By Sarah • Jan 10, 2020 12:43 pm
TV Updates Where does Star Wars go next? The Mandalorian, Star Wars’ first live-action television show of the Disney era, got off to a strong start. The final episode aired during the last week of the year and amazingly for Star Wars, the show actually lived up to its hype. The Mandalorian is almost hilariously spare, with little By Sarah • Jan 09, 2020 04:42 pm
TV Updates Less Than 10 Days Until Sex Education Season 2 Note: Season 1 spoilers for Sex Education below. If you haven’t seen it, watch it! You have 9 days to catch up. It’s here! It’s finally here! I’ve waited for this day for almost a whole year. Netflix just released a new trailer for Sex Education By Prem • Jan 08, 2020 01:26 pm
TV Updates Intro for December 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’m so excited about Eddie Murphy’s return to Saturday Night Live this weekend, it’s almost pathetic. But I can’t be the only one. SNL is excited. And I wonder if they’re actually planning two shows – the main show, obviously, but also a show By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 09:15 am
TV Updates Watchmen: Save Me Daughter Spoilers Amazingly, incredibly, for a show that has SO much going on, last night Watchmen came to a satisfying conclusion. It’s almost a little TOO pat, the way everything ties off, but I’m not going to complain about Damon Lindelof tying off all his threads. If there is By Sarah • Dec 16, 2019 04:00 pm
TV Updates Little Fires Mystery Trailer When the first look for the film adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere was released, I wrote about my excitement for the project, particularly the book’s themes of perfectionism, artistry, privilege, post-partum depression, and estrangement. Author Celeste Ng is such an empathetic writer and explores all of those topics within By Maria • Dec 16, 2019 10:34 am
TV Updates Can Watchmen stick the landing? We have arrived at the final episode of Watchmen season one, which makes me incredibly nervous, because if you’re familiar with Damon Lindelof, then you know sticking the landing isn’t his strong suit. Even though the story is mostly in focus now, and we can see how things By Sarah • Dec 13, 2019 04:12 pm
TV Updates Fancy Cutting Edge We all know The Cutting Edge is perfect, but what if I told you there is a Netflix show that is basically just The Cutting Edge but for the Peak TV era? That means it’s The Cutting Edge, but with more explicit sex, plus drugs and INNER DARKNESS. That By Sarah • Dec 11, 2019 03:20 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: Causation is a two-way street Spoilers Watchmen’s penultimate episode, “A God Walks into Abar”, has a lot going on. It’s the entire history of Angela’s relationship with Cal/Doctor Manhattan, it explains how Adrian Veidt got to Europa, and where the Phillipses and Crookshankses came from, there is a time travel paradox, By Sarah • Dec 09, 2019 03:44 pm
TV Updates Golden Globe Nominations: Snubs and the End of An Era We’re doing more than one post today about the Golden Globe nominations but let’s start with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because this is their event. This is a group of 90 or so international journalists known for making odd choices – and not always bad. In the television By Lainey • Dec 09, 2019 10:45 am
TV Updates Intro for December 9, 2019 Dear Gossips, We’ve been saying for weeks that this looks like the most competitive Oscar race in years across all categories and as more and more film associations and critics’ boards announce their winners and nominations lists, so far, while there are certainly stronger contenders than others, there does By Lainey • Dec 09, 2019 08:37 am
TV Updates Watchmen: Angela’s next move There are only two episodes left of Watchmen, and everything is coming together, the puzzle is almost complete. The last dangling thread is what Adrian Veidt has to do with all this, and everything is else is pretty much down to who lives and who dies. As much as Watchmen By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 02:36 pm
TV Updates RuPaul in AJ and the Queen A new trailer for AJ and the Queen, a new Netflix series starring RuPaul was released last night. The premise of the show, according to its Netflix description: “While traveling across the country in a run-down RV, drag queen Ruby Red discovers an unlikely sidekick in AJ: a tough-talking 10-year-old By Prem • Dec 05, 2019 03:50 pm
