TV Updates Shea Coulee Calls Last Week’s Drag Race Challenge “Tone Deaf” Last week’s episode of Drag Race was really good, a sign that the show might be starting to return back to its true form. The main challenge was to act in one of two parodies, based on Black Panther and Get Out. Watching the episode the first time around, By Prem • Mar 12, 2019 03:35 pm
TV Updates The Business of Being Busy Busy Philipps has a lot of schlep. She works hard! In addition to her Friday SXSW panel with Clique Media Group’s Hillary Kerr, she was a part of a Follies show, and hosted a live edition of her talk show Busy Tonight for some VIPs at the NBCUComcast SXSW By Joanna • Mar 11, 2019 04:33 pm
TV Updates The Snapchat Network and Taylor Swift The Black List is “an annual survey of [300] Hollywood executives’ favourite unproduced screenplays". According to Deadline, “since its inception by feature development executive Franklin Leonard the survey has yielded north of 400 Black List scripts. Of that batch, those produced continued on to earn $26B+ at the global By Lainey • Mar 11, 2019 12:23 pm
TV Updates LMM on B99 On yesterday’s episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Lin-Manuel Miranda guest starred as Amy Santiago’s brother. If you recall, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was cancelled this summer and then saved in 31 hours, partly thanks to the swell of support from celebrities including LMM. I guess his guest appearance is a way By Prem • Mar 08, 2019 12:22 pm
TV Updates OH CANADA! Drag Race Season 11 *Spoilers below* *Monique voice* America, I am exhausted. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus) on Feb 27, 2019 at 1:55pm PST I feel like I’m still recovering from All Stars 4 and we’re already full swing into a new season. Plus, By Prem • Mar 01, 2019 03:14 pm
TV Updates Brooklyn Nine-Nine Tackles #MeToo On Wednesday, Sarah wrote about Emma Thompson’s open letter and how her decision to quit Luck because of John Lasseter was privileged because she had the means and the resources to support herself and find work afterward. It was, however, an important step because by being the first person By Prem • Mar 01, 2019 03:00 pm
TV Updates Leaving Neverland premieres this weekend After Sundance, many of you emailed for commentary about Leaving Neverland, the new documentary directed by Dan Reed that “explores the separate but parallel experiences of James ‘Jimmy’ Safechuck and Wade Robson” with Michael Jackson, alleging that he sexually abused them as children. I’ve not written about it because By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 10:30 am
TV Updates Idris Elba’s comedy series Did you remember that Idris Elba made a comedy series for Netflix? I kinda forgot, then Lainey emailed me about the trailer for Turn Up Charlie and was like, Oh yeaaaaah, Idris Elba made a comedy series for Netflix. We’re living in Andy Warhol’s future, where everyone is By Sarah • Feb 28, 2019 03:07 pm
TV Updates Welcome Back to West Beverly High The video teaser I’m posting below is only 10 seconds long. It has exactly zero familiar faces in it. So how, exactly, is it so satisfying? Kathleen and I were talking this weekend about songs that get stuck in your DNA. Mostly Christmas carols or hymns – and pop songs By Duana • Feb 28, 2019 12:14 pm
TV Updates Housewives gone wild In terms of entertainment news, the farthest you can get from the Oscars is reality TV. And that’s where I am living right now, in the muck of confessionals and C-list Twitter feuds. Not that I’m complaining, I love it! Over the last week, a very late 80s/ By Maria • Feb 26, 2019 03:51 pm
TV Updates Fosse/Verdon is coming for all the awards During the Oscars, FX dropped a new trailer for Fosse/Verdon, the engineered-to-win-ALL-the-awards drama they have coming later in the spring. Sam Rockwell went into the Oscars the reigning Best Supporting Actor and a back-to-back nominee on the night. Now he’s being set up to win an Emmy. It’ By Sarah • Feb 26, 2019 01:53 pm
TV Updates Veep’s final bow and the return of the JLD It’s finally here! HBO has released our first glimpse of Veep’s farewell season, which promises its loveable mix of vulgarity, governmental hijinks, and Selina’s ragtag group of idiots who often stumble ass backwards into political success. This time around, Selina (the one and only Julia Louis-Dreyfus, also By Joanna • Feb 20, 2019 02:09 pm
TV Updates Predictions for the Finale of All Stars 4 Tonight is the grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4. Let’s talk winners. The final challenge this episode is like the end of every Drag Race season: it looks like the queens will have to add their own verse to RuPaul’s song, "Super Queen& By Prem • Feb 15, 2019 03:51 pm
TV Updates The Big Mouth Valentine’s Day Special: Is Nick Trans? If you’re looking to watch something other than predictable and cliched rom-coms this Valentine’s day, try Big Mouth’s Valentine’s Day Special which was released on Netflix last week. If you haven’t heard of Big Mouth, it’s an underrated show that gets lumped into the By Prem • Feb 14, 2019 12:54 pm
TV Updates Entertainment Self-Care: Slow TV Last month we kicked off a new feature we’re calling “entertainment self-care”, the things we’re watching to unwind from the nightmare dystopia we call reality. The first installment covered super-soft TV, and this time we’re going to talk about Slow TV. I found this category by accident By Sarah • Feb 12, 2019 04:22 pm
TV Updates Exploring Russian Doll’s labyrinth of trauma You have now had two entire weekends to watch Russian Doll, so the spoiler-gloves are off. If you still haven’t seen it, stick with the spoiler-free review, but if you have, let’s dig into the show’s serpentine coil of story and allegory. This show’s repeating-day structure By Sarah • Feb 12, 2019 01:32 pm
