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
TV Updates Woody Harrleson and Justin Theroux revisit Watergate Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux both starred in beloved HBO dramas, True Detective season one for Harrelson, and The Leftovers for Theroux. Now, they are both returning to HBO, to star together in a limited series called The White House Plumbers, about the two men who planned the Watergate break-in, By Sarah • Dec 05, 2019 03:32 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: Big Blue Surprise Spoilers As we approach the end of Watchmen, we’re getting into serious spoiler territory, so tap out now if you’re not caught up. Okay? If you don’t want to be spoiled, now is the time to get gone. Throughout Watchmen’s run, I’ve been wondering what By Sarah • Dec 02, 2019 03:07 pm
TV Updates Watchmen’s Two Faces Over six episodes of Watchmen, a pattern has emerged. There are two central story tenets, one grounded in the expanded world of the show, centering on Angela Abar and the thematic exploration of race in America. The other grows outs of the original graphic novel and revolves around the plot— By Sarah • Nov 29, 2019 10:40 am
TV Updates Disney’s last laugh When Disney+ launched a couple weeks ago, some people laughed because there were some technical issues, with people struggling to sign in or maintain a decent connection with the platform. Well who’s laughing now, because Disney’s stock closed yesterday at a record high. Now, this is not going By Sarah • Nov 27, 2019 11:15 am
TV Updates Intro for November 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, It was confirmed last week that Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough would not be returning to America’s Got Talent after one season of judging. The show renewed the male judges, Simon Cowell, Terry Crews, and Howie Mandel, but the two women were cut. Last night Variety reported By Lainey • Nov 27, 2019 09:09 am
TV Updates Revisiting The Crown: Princess Anne’s Most Unimpressed Faces Erin Doherty stars in the third season of The Crown as grown-up Princess Anne, and she is MAGNIFICENT. She is also, unfortunately, criminally underused. (They skipped the kidnapping attempt! HOW do you skip a princess foiling her own kidnapping attempt?!) But for the brief time Doherty is on screen, she By Sarah • Nov 26, 2019 03:52 pm
TV Updates Revisiting The Crown: Prince Charles’s Most Hangdog Faces In the third season of The Crown, Josh O’Connor steps in as grown-up Prince Charles. O’Connor gives a wonderful performance, capturing Charles’s awkwardness and latent vindictiveness, all while cultivating audience sympathy for Charles’s uneasy position in the family and spiky relationship with his mother. (Honestly, The By Sarah • Nov 26, 2019 03:22 pm
