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
TV Updates Have you watched Russian Doll yet? It’s only eight, half-hour episodes. Extremely bingeable. Have you watched yet? In case you haven’t the in-depth, spoiler-laden review will be coming next week, giving more people a chance to see it. For now, let’s just talk about Russian Doll as an achievement in allegorical storytelling. The By Sarah • Feb 06, 2019 12:35 pm
TV Updates So Now What? Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the end of All Stars 4. Although the show ended prematurely, we can rest assured knowing that Manila Luzon would have won the crown if the show had continued. I know that in our hearts, she will always be America’s By Prem • Feb 04, 2019 04:05 pm
TV Updates The Manila Edit Potential Spoilers below! Tonight is another episode of All Stars 4, so let’s talk about Manila, because I clearly don’t do that enough. Earlier this week, I wrote about Team MoMo, and I also wrote another piece on Medium about Valentina’s elimination. While the Blackhole was more By Prem • Feb 01, 2019 03:23 pm
TV Updates Gina Linetti OUT! The latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine was one that tried to walk the difficult balance of funny and emotional. One of the best characters on the show, Gina Linetti, played by Chelsea Peretti, is leaving the precinct and decides to give everyone a “Gina moment” before she leaves. Split into By Prem • Feb 01, 2019 10:26 am
TV Updates Team MoMo and the Blackhole The latest episode of All Stars 4 was certainly something. The challenge was a HUGE step up from previous weeks. Not only did the queens have to come up with a themed club night, decide on décor, music, entertainment, and a signature cocktail, they also had to build the sets By Prem • Jan 29, 2019 03:20 pm
TV Updates #RentLive: What we were supposed to see Expectations were high. At least, *my* expectations for Rent: Live on Fox were almost as high as my inevitably maniacal range of emotions. Hysterics were expected. This is a groundbreaking musical about young people taken too soon by a senseless disease. It’s about the magic that can happen when By Kathleen • Jan 28, 2019 08:14 am
TV Updates Broad City Season 5 Kicks Off with Excellence I am so obsessed with Comedy Central’s Broad City that I have alerts on my phone for when new episodes air. If you haven’t seen the show, I’d highly recommend it. Broad City is about two women, Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobsen), living in New By Prem • Jan 25, 2019 03:46 pm
TV Updates The Season 11 Ruveal was a Trainwreck At noon yesterday, VH1 announced the new lineup of queens for the upcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race via YouTube livestream. If you haven’t watched it, do yourself a favour and don’t because that Season 11 Ruveal was a trainwreck. Here’s everything that went wrong: 1. By Prem • Jan 25, 2019 11:09 am
TV Updates Intro for January 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, PROGRAMMING NOTE – PLEASE READ: Rent: Live is happening on Sunday. Duana and Kathleen will be LIVEBLOGGING Rent right here, at LaineyGossip, throughout the show. Old school! The liveblog widget will appear on the main page of the site. So heads up, musical theatre nerds – join them here and By Lainey • Jan 25, 2019 09:01 am
