TV Updates Where is Ariana Grande Heading Next? I’ve made it clear that one of my life goals is to have a true, authentic celebrity-fan interaction (cue eyerolls from literally everyone else on this site). Yes, I fanboy. Yes, I’m basic. But realistically, if I were to actually meet a celebrity, I’m not certain that By Prem • Aug 01, 2019 09:15 am
TV Updates Kevin Hart is also joining Quibi Earlier, Prem wrote about Sasha Velour’s upcoming show on Quibi, the “bite-sized” streaming platform designed for quick hit entertainment. Whenever Quibi comes up in my social media, there’s a real air of condescension and thinly veiled contempt for it surrounding the news releases. But as Prem pointed out, By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 02:59 pm
TV Updates Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns to Appear on Quibi I love me some provocative, gender-bending art, and someone who consistently delivers that is Sasha Velour, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9. Yesterday, when Deadline announced that Sasha would executive produce an eight episode series on Quibi based on her insanely popular Brooklyn revue, Nightgowns, I was beyond By Prem • Jul 30, 2019 11:08 am
TV Updates Jodie Comer will kill her creator? Are you caught up yet on Killing Eve? As Duana wrote in her post following the Emmy nominations, we have a few weeks to do our homework, so that we can be informed on Emmy night when we’re yelling at the TV about who got robbed. Sandra Oh is By Lainey • Jul 29, 2019 03:46 pm
TV Updates Veronica Mars Season 4 Review I waited. I wanted to watch all the episodes at once, and without getting spoiled so I was incredibly flattered that there were people who wanted to hear my thoughts, and I thought I’d need to organize my ideas into categories and things. But it turns out there’s By Duana • Jul 29, 2019 03:00 pm
TV Updates Send Bucky To Space For the first time, a Marvel Hall H announcement at Comic-Con this past weekend included television shows. To appease their corporate overlord, Marvel is developing a bunch of limited series for Disney+ which, unlike previous Marvel TV offerings, will be fully integrated in the MCU. TV shows to this point By Sarah • Jul 23, 2019 03:56 pm
TV Updates Henry Cavill doesn’t talk Henry Cavill’s post-Superman career begins with a Netflix fantasy series, their moonshot at having their own Game of Thrones, The Witcher. It’s based on a book series but better known as a popular video game, though the television series would really rather you didn’t think of the By Sarah • Jul 23, 2019 09:57 am
TV Updates Loki Revisited Tom Hiddleston has really stepped back his public persona. Since The Swiftening, he is not as active on social media, and he is photographed much less often out and about. There has been a real change in how he approaches his celebrity. But he is still part of the Marvel By Sarah • Jul 22, 2019 10:26 am
TV Updates THAT article is now a Netflix series If you follow true crime, you probably know THAT article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape”, the one from ProPublica and The Marshall Project, about the serial rapist, the accused victim, and the badass lady detectives who finally tied it all together. If you haven’t read it, you should. It’ By Sarah • Jul 19, 2019 12:33 pm
TV Updates Gossip Girl for Instagram It was announced yesterday that Gossip Girl will be rebooted for HBO Max, the new streaming service that will feature Warner Bros content and, of course, HBO productions. Per IndieWire: The plot will take place eight years after the original series and will follow a new generation of New York By Lainey • Jul 18, 2019 09:50 am
TV Updates Murray Bauman is a great comedy crank Last season, we met a new character on Stranger Things named Murray Bauman. He’s the irascible, conspiracy-minded acquaintance of Hopper, who helped Nancy and Jonathan in a pinch. Murray returns this season to help Hopper and Joyce, and he seals his role as the perfect comedy crank. He is By Sarah • Jul 16, 2019 04:53 pm
TV Updates 2019 Emmy Award Nominations Hot take: Everything that is happening in entertainment culture is happening at the Emmys this year. Hotter take: these awards will be more important than the Oscars. Yeah, I said it. Here is my supporting evidence: First of all, the comedy between nomination presenters D’Arcy Carden and Ken Jeong By Duana • Jul 16, 2019 04:31 pm
TV Updates Kirsten Dunst is a businessman So this is what happened to Peggy Blumquist: she finally got out of Fargo only to crash land in Florida in the 90s. Kirsten Dunst returns to television, following her stellar performance in Fargo season two, with a new series on Showtime, On Becoming a God in Central Florida. That By Sarah • Jul 16, 2019 12:20 pm
TV Updates Ranking the Fight Scenes of Stranger Things 3 Stranger Things has always had fight scenes—usually of Steve Harrington getting his ass kicked—and decent action, but in season three, under the influence of 80s spy caper tropes, the action ratchets up a level to good old-fashioned bare-knuckle brawling. There are a lot of good fight scenes throughout By Sarah • Jul 15, 2019 03:20 pm
TV Updates The Most Eighties Lewks of Stranger Things 3 We can debate if Stranger Things is actually good or not—for every one good thing, like Robin, there is a bad thing, like Hopper’s descent into rageaholic assholery—but one thing Stranger Things always nails is its 1980s aesthetic. This year, being the Season Of The Mall, there By Sarah • Jul 12, 2019 01:43 pm
TV Updates In Praise of Steve Harrington SPOILERS WITHIN In season one of Stranger Things, Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) was a take on the classic 1980s movie bully—popular, good-looking, dating the girl the scrappy underdog hero liked, and a total asshole. By the end of that season, we learned that Steve isn’t quite the raging By Sarah • Jul 12, 2019 10:10 am
