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
TV Updates Joshua and Jodie together still…again…? Here are Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith out in LA yesterday. They’re holding hands and at one point stop to kiss. Joshua and Jodie have been dating since at least last fall. Kathleen first posted about them back in November 2018 and at that point, for weeks, people had By Lainey • Jul 11, 2019 11:39 am
Douchebags Aziz Ansari returns Eighteen months after an allegation of sexual misconduct threatened to ruin his career—not really, of course, because no one except for Harvey Weinstein has been ruined but people are always so worried about the hardships of men—Aziz Ansari returns to television with a new Netflix stand-up special, Right By Sarah • Jul 11, 2019 10:08 am
TV Updates Stranger Things 3 Breakout: Maya Hawke SPOILERS WITHIN Every season of Stranger Things has given us a breakout star among the kid-cast. The first season, it was Millie Bobby Brown. The second season, Joe Keery leveled up Steve Harrington and became everyone’s favorite dad friend. In the third season, the breakout is unquestionably Maya Hawke, By Sarah • Jul 10, 2019 04:22 pm
TV Updates Mindy Kaling Beats Everyone, Again I mean, at this point it shouldn’t really be news. Mindy Kaling has made an entire career out of subverting expectations, doing what couldn’t be done, and arching an eyebrow at you when she’s asked “how she did it”, before coldly asking “why would you think I By Duana • Jul 10, 2019 03:41 pm
TV Updates North American Love Island Preface: I AM SO IN LOVE WITH CASHEL! Like for real. I would do anything for him. With him. To him. An actual footage of me watching the show: When I was thought about what I wanted to write for the Love Island CBS premiere, I thought that any comparison By Prem • Jul 10, 2019 10:48 am
TV Updates Will Meghan McCain leave The View? Since beginning her controversial tenure at the The View two years ago, Meghan McCain has consistently made headlines. Often conflating her identity to being a Republican with a current libertarian politic and personal enemy to Donald Trump, roundtable discussions and interviews have more and more become about Meghan herself as By Melayna • Jul 05, 2019 12:48 pm
TV Updates Drag Race, Eh? Grab your toques, Raptors jerseys, and free healthcare because RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming to Canada! Just as you were getting sick of corporations changing their social media icons to rainbow logos, Mama RuPaul came to save Pride Month with the announcement that the Drag Race family would be By Prem • Jun 28, 2019 11:52 am
TV Updates GLOW’s Vegas residency GLOW is one of those shows I fear gets lost in the noise of Too Much TV. It’s an OUTSTANDING show, but it’s one of many outstanding shows, and it’s on Netflix, a platform that does not treat all their children the same (especially as seasons roll By Sarah • Jun 19, 2019 10:13 am
TV Updates Love Island Update: That’s the Reason? When I ended my article on Friday about Love Island, I said that there was a chance that we may never know the real reason why Sherif Lanre was kicked out of the Love Island villa. Turns out, we only had to wait two days because over the weekend, Sherif By Prem • Jun 17, 2019 02:43 pm
