TV Updates Watchmen introduces the closet skeletons Spoilers The second episode of Watchmen, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”, deepens our understanding of this alternate America, while setting up the mystery of the show: Who is Will, and, Who is Angela, really? Building off the first episode, “Horsemanship” is also directed by Nicole Kassell, and it answers a By Sarah • Oct 28, 2019 02:24 pm
TV Updates Anticipating Watchmen In the wake of Game of Thrones, we’re all looking for the next Game of Thrones. I don’t think there will ever be a television show as culturally dominant as GOT again, but we’ve got some contenders for your new weekly obsession. Succession is all family drama By Sarah • Oct 25, 2019 03:58 pm
TV Updates Will & Grace cast gone rogue? Remember when The Good Wife ended and many of us obsessed over the split screen goodbye scene between Julianna Marguiles and Archie Panjabi? That feud didn’t come out of nowhere – the two characters spent three seasons on the phone because the actresses wouldn’t appear in a scene together. By Maria • Oct 25, 2019 01:23 pm
TV Updates Double the Paul Rudd, double the fun Living With Yourself, the Paul Rudd Netflix show, exists on a continuum between Russian Doll and Maniac. Living With Yourself is high concept and has some strong quirks, but it’s not as openly weird as Maniac. And it’s a show that uses its high concept to examine an By Sarah • Oct 24, 2019 03:09 pm
TV Updates Celebrities in MY Drag Race? It’s More Likely Than You Think! If you didn’t already have enough Drag Race content, you’re in luck because Deadline announced a new addition to the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise yesterday. A new miniseries, RuPaul’s Celebrity Drag Race, has been greenlit by VH1 and will air sometime in 2020. When All Stars By Prem • Oct 23, 2019 12:02 pm
TV Updates Award Season Zendaya Law Roach, whose work has given us so much life the last few years, was named InStyle’s Stylist of the Year at last night’s InStyle Awards. Zendaya was there to present to him. And, well, with their partnership, he could win Stylist of the Year every year. You’ By Lainey • Oct 22, 2019 03:38 pm
TV Updates Watch Watchmen for Regina King (at first) A groundbreaking graphic novel in the 1980s, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen remains today one of the most influential pieces of 20th century speculative fiction. A deconstruction of superhero comics and the geopolitics of the Cold War, Watchmen is a kind of adaptation holy grail. Its rich iconography and By Sarah • Oct 22, 2019 12:52 pm
TV Updates Mid-life Crisis Crown The Crown season three is dropping at an interesting time. Peter Morgan, Netflix, everyone involved with The Crown could not have known that, of course, but as it happens, The Crown arrives at an existential crisis at the same moment that the British royal family is knee-deep in another kind By Sarah • Oct 21, 2019 01:28 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan’s Documentary: The Work There is so much to cover after Harry & Megan: An African Journey aired last night in the UK on ITV I’m doing it in two separate posts. As you’ve probably seen, the British tabloids are in a frenzy about what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s comments By Lainey • Oct 21, 2019 09:38 am
TV Updates Phoebe & Taylor’s SNL The season premiere of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Woody Harrelson, wasn’t great. In fact, the whole episode was embarrassing, except for Aidy Bryant cracking up when a crew member came in at the wrong time. So, as I wrote last week, it was going to be interesting to By Lainey • Oct 07, 2019 01:57 pm
TV Updates Taylor Swift can see Taylor Swift is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They keep lubing up her fans by posting throwbacks of her previous appearances on Twitter. And here’s the promo she shot with this week’s host, Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 🎉 Phoebe Waller-Bridge hosts the show this weekend with musical By Lainey • Oct 04, 2019 12:46 pm
TV Updates Outfit of the Week: January Jones Back when Mad Men was a factor at award shows and its cast regularly appearing on all the award show carpets, January Jones would be one we would consistently wait for. And she was consistently one of the best dressed – at the Emmys, at the Globes, at the SAGs, January By Lainey • Sep 27, 2019 02:08 pm
TV Updates Bill Hader is asked the Gillis Question I have to be honest, I am baffled that we are discussing Shane Gillis’s firing from SNL as if it is some kind of moral or free speech issue. 1) Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences, no one is arresting Gillis for what he said but By Sarah • Sep 25, 2019 03:09 pm
TV Updates The Crown gets on with it Season three of The Crown is coming in November, and there is now a teaser to show off Olivia Colman in action as Queen Elizabeth II. We’ve already seen a photo of Colman suited up as QEII, but now we can hear her accent and see some of her By Sarah • Sep 20, 2019 01:52 pm
TV Updates A Late Week of Lilly Singh This week marked the debut for A Little Late with Lilly Singh, the former YouTuber, replacing Last Call with Carson Daly, which occupied the slot since 2002. Lilly’s show is fresh and original. She upholds some of the popular late night traditions, like the monologue, but she puts a By Prem • Sep 20, 2019 11:26 am
TV Updates Paul Rudd’s Prestige A year ago we learned about Paul Rudd’s Netflix series in which he would play a dual role, and I said it sounded like “The Prestige but with no magic and plus comedy”. We now have a trailer for Rudd’s show, Living With Yourself, and holy hell, IT By Sarah • Sep 17, 2019 03:42 pm
