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
TV Updates I Spoke Too Soon: Sex Education’s Gay Representation is Bad I binged the rest of Sex Education this weekend. It’s an amazing show. Sex Education manages to strike the incredibly fine balance between comedy and intrigue. It’s a balance that makes the show feel lighthearted, but still enticing, enough to keep clicking the “Next Episode” button. When I By Prem • Jan 22, 2019 03:57 pm
TV Updates Connie Britton’s Bad Blind Dates!? We live in a time where revealing truths horrify us daily, so I’m just going to lay it on the line: Sometimes Canadians have to do some shady sh-t to watch what we need to see. And we don’t need any judgment about it, okay? See, Handmaid’s By Duana • Jan 14, 2019 03:43 pm
TV Updates Intro for January 14, 2019 Dear Gossips, Best presenters last night at the Critics’ Choice Awards? Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy. Catherine should also be considered one of the night’s best dressed. That suit was magnificent. Catherine and Eugene were there celebrating Schitt’s Creek with the entire team. They made history: As By Lainey • Jan 14, 2019 08:19 am
TV Updates Playing the Game: RPDR Elimination Strategies “For the first time in Drag Race Herstory, All Star rules are suspended.” RuPaul dropped that bomb on us last week when he previewed clips of tonight’s episode. I can’t wait, especially because the drag roast is one of my favourite challenges. But what do we think the By Prem • Jan 11, 2019 02:43 pm
TV Updates Brooklyn Nine-Nine Does Not Hoot Around *SPOILERS* Season 6 of Brooklyn Nine Nine premiered yesterday after a dramatic cancellation by Fox. It found a new home on NBC after the flood of support from both celebrities and fans on Twitter. I know this is a retroactive outrage but who makes these decisions? “This show that we By Prem • Jan 11, 2019 10:02 am
TV Updates Natasha Lyonne over and over In 2017 we learned of a Netflix project coming from Amy Poehler, Natasha Lyonne, and Leslye Headland. It had no title, we just knew Lyonne would star as a woman named Nadia, trapped at an “inescapable party”. “What makes it so inescapable,” I wondered. “…is she lost in time and By Sarah • Jan 10, 2019 12:47 pm
TV Updates Intro for January 10, 2019 Dear Gossips, Yesterday Sarah kicked off her new Entertainment Self-Care series with a post on what she calls “super soft TV”. You know what’s become entertainment self-care for me? The Masked Singer. Like I said last week , it’s batsh-t. I know. And, yes, the judges …even Ken Jeong, By Lainey • Jan 10, 2019 09:08 am
