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
TV Updates Watchmen: The Lone Ranger Cometh Spoilers Somehow, Watchmen keeps getting better, which should be impossible given this show’s high standard from the jump. But building off last week’s stellar episode, the latest Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”, ups the ante again, giving us an episode full of answers, yes, but also the strongest thematic By Sarah • Nov 25, 2019 03:25 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: The truthers are right I really only have one pressing question after the last episode of Watchmen and that is: Is Wade okay?! We’re heading into the back half of Watchmen, and things are coming together, though Wade’s fate remains unclear. We might not get an answer to this question, as episode By Sarah • Nov 22, 2019 03:41 pm
TV Updates RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Finale Yesterday (at least in Canada) was the finale for the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. In many ways, the finale was satisfying. We got a lot of screen time with AJ Pritchard, who is HOT AF. I saw a lot of “flooded my basement” in comments about By Prem • Nov 22, 2019 01:24 pm
TV Updates Will Ferrell and the Cow Bell Will Ferrell is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend with musical guest King Princess. I can’t figure out what he’s promoting, if he’s promoting anything, or maybe he’s just cruising by for a visit for old times, to do Lorne a favour. Is it Succession? For By Lainey • Nov 22, 2019 12:01 pm
TV Updates The Crown cracks in season three In its third season, The Crown experiences a reset, with a new cast coming in to play the royal family at a later stage in life. The Queen, now played by Olivia Colman, is in her middle life, older and no wiser as she navigates a changing world. The transition By Sarah • Nov 21, 2019 04:21 pm
TV Updates Entertainment Self-Care: More Soft TV We stand on the cusp of the holiday season, when you might be looking to lock yourself in a linen closet for JUST A MOMENT’S PEACE, JANET, CHRIST. Which means you could probably use some soft TV to take the edge off in between holiday parties and family dinners. By Sarah • Nov 20, 2019 04:25 pm
TV Updates Intro for November 19, 2019 Dear Gossips, As you know if you’ve been visiting this site over the last year or more, Duana and I love Daisy Jones & The Six so much we dedicated two whole episodes of Show Your Work to the book and its author, Taylor Jenkins Reid. If you haven’ By Lainey • Nov 19, 2019 08:45 am
TV Updates Watchmen: New horrors to imagine THINGS. ARE. HAPPENING. An episode devoted to Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson) pulls together a few more threads on Watchmen, bringing us closer to the answers about Will’s grand conspiracy. This is the best episode of Watchmen yet, in no small part thanks to Nelson who gives us the By Sarah • Nov 18, 2019 04:08 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: What’s up with Looking Glass? A co-worker of mine shared a Watchmen theory this week that Looking Glass, the masked detective played by Tim Blake Nelson, could be a secret racist like (maybe) Judd. That sounds entirely logical to me, because through four episodes Tim Blake Nelson hasn’t done a whole lot, and you By Sarah • Nov 15, 2019 04:48 pm
