TV Updates Disney+’s Forky surprise Disney+ arrived with fanfare, technical problems, and its flagship series, The Mandalorian. But after The Mandalorian was over, I started digging into the various menus on Disney+ to see what else I might want to watch—the National Geographic “channel” is full of interesting stuff— and I found a short By Sarah • Nov 15, 2019 03:34 pm
TV Updates Sarah Michelle Gellar Doubles Chances of TV Return I’ll be honest – Sarah Michelle Gellar’s career is fascinating to me. In the past, I’ve had trouble understanding why she’s not much, much busier. But the announcement that she’s slated to star in a limited series called Sometimes I Lie, executive produced by Ellen Degeneres, By Duana • Nov 15, 2019 01:59 pm
Quiveration Sebastian Stan: Still Hot The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will be the first Marvel television show to hit Disney+ next fall. Well, it will be the first new Marvel television show, you can find The Inhumans on Disney+ now. Remember The Inhumans? No? That’s okay, no one does! I’m actually surprised By Sarah • Nov 15, 2019 11:25 am
TV Updates The Crown Cometh The Crown season 3 drops this Sunday on Netflix. Early reviews are really good. It’s not like I expect a drop in quality, not from one of the most lavish and meticulously crafted dramas on television. I just wonder whether or not the issues currently surrounding the real Windsors By Sarah • Nov 14, 2019 03:49 pm
TV Updates Quibi is still a thing: Nicole Richie edition Every time I see a new story about Quibi, I’m reminded that 1. It exists, kind of and 2. It isn’t quite anything yet. It hasn’t launched, but the money behind it has been busy acquiring talent and picking up shows with Chrissy Teigen, Zac Efron, Justin By Maria • Nov 13, 2019 10:11 am
TV Updates Disney+ launches with The Mandalorian Disney+ launched yesterday with much fanfare and crashing servers. People struggled to log on all day (my first attempt failed, but it was smooth sailing after attempt number two), and headlines screamed all day about how overwhelmed the service was with new users signing on. I am sure the struggle By Sarah • Nov 13, 2019 09:43 am
TV Updates Watchmen: The villain (probably) enters the scene Even though episode four, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own”, adds another new character to the Watchmen pile, several threads also start coming together. The cold open introduces a nice childless farming couple who live next door to a giant and mysterious clock that is under By Sarah • Nov 12, 2019 03:45 pm
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston: The People’s Icon I say this every year about the People’s Choice Awards – they don’t mean anything. And it’s comical how little they mean. Like it’s always been unclear who actually votes for them. And if you see the list, some of the categories and their winners are as By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 09:32 am
TV Updates Watchmen episode 4 preview Watchmen episode 4 preview In the last episode, Watchmen both brought us closer to the original graphic novel, and expanded the world of the show. Now that the show is not just about Angela Abar, but also Laurie Blake, the questions just keep mounting. We have to find out about By Sarah • Nov 08, 2019 02:41 pm
Quiveration Chris Evans joins Billy on the Street Billy on the Street is now on Netflix (not every episode, but a lot of them), and so host Billy Eichner took the streets of New York along with Chris Evans to shout at strangers about his new streaming home, and to do some marketing for Knives Out. Two things By Sarah • Nov 06, 2019 03:28 pm
TV Updates Watchmen piles it on There are many unanswered questions and mysterious premises in Watchmen, but one thing we can say for certain about this show is that it is super into Doctor Manhattan’s big blue dick. Last episode it was Adrian Veidt making his clone-slave hang dong in his play about Manhattan, and By Sarah • Nov 04, 2019 01:12 pm
TV Updates Watchmen: Who ARE these people? Watchmen, like Game of Thrones, invites theorizing. We’re two episodes in and this is already a richly detailed world, with big plot setups and seemingly minor background information that may or may not end up being relevant. Unlike Game of Thrones, however, book readers don’t really have an By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 03:10 pm
TV Updates Henry Cavill is unsexy in The Witcher Netflix’s attempt at creating their own Game of Thrones is the Henry Cavill fantasy drama, The Witcher. The first trailer left me a little cold, because while the visuals are good, Cavill is not the most engaging presence and they barely let him, the main character, speak. Now we By Sarah • Nov 01, 2019 10:47 am
TV Updates The Men of the Morning Apple TV+ launches on Friday and the big push the last few weeks has been behind The Morning Show produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon who should get most of the attention and they have. There are, however, other actors on the series like Steve Carrell (Steve’ By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 01:22 pm
TV Updates Modern Love: Not all romance is created equal Amazon’s new anthology Modern Love takes some of the most memorable essays from the New York Times column of the same name and adapts them into charming little vignettes about love in the big city. Or, well, most of them are charming. One is a straight up nightmare. We’ By Sarah • Oct 29, 2019 01:17 pm
TV Updates Jennifer & Reese’s first reviews Apple TV+ launches in a matter of days and, as you may have heard, the marquee release is The Morning Show, produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. They’ve been out here promoting the series hard – magazines, talk shows, Instagram, tonight is the premiere in New York By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 02:57 pm
