The Gilded Age is returning for a third season on HBO!
03.12.2023 - 20:41 / metroweekly.com
Fargo franchise is what gardeners would call a volunteer tree: sprung from a robust film, it has most certainly taken on a life of its own.Five seasons in, it has become the inimitable vision of writer Noah Hawley and his murderously affectionate take on the American Midwest. A witty, mischievous raconteur, Hawley delivers his (usually) cop-based yarns through ordinary lives that end up being anything but.
The tone is often seductively folksy, right up until the blood starts spurting.And although Hawley is certainly here to entertain, his stories are a conversation. If he calls them “true,” it’s more about home truths than true crime.
Somewhere behind the fun, there lurks the question of who we — as Americans — think we are.If season four of Fargo had a slight wobble, season five comes back largely on track, going modern-noir on a housewife who isn’t quite who or what she seems. If this premise has been done before, Hawley puts his usual signature on the twists and turns, sprinkling the adventure with amusing provocations on so-called feminine and masculine ideals as they surface across a Midwestern microcosm.Despite a high action-per-minute ratio, there continues his familiar penchant for a kind of theatrical pacing and dialogue.
People don’t talk quite like this in real life, but the artifice is part of the telling: it pulls you up just enough so you can savor the dynamics in play.Part of the great appeal of the series is the emphasis on the ensemble cast with its cool assemblages of quality actors bringing the stories to life. But it’s not just about the leads — every character brings the goods, even the guy behind the cash register.It’s the same reason so many old films remain classics — attention to detail lifts the
.The Gilded Age is returning for a third season on HBO!
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Spoilers ahead! Do not watch until you have seen episode 8 of “Julia.” “Julia” might put a strong focus on the food, but it’s a show that also has a lot more on its mind. The Max comedy series takes on a wide range of 1960s-era social issues, including feminism, homosexuality, civil rights and the anti-war movement. “Julia” wraps up its second season Thursday with an eventful finale that includes filming an ambitious crustacean segment — in the “Lobster a l’Americaine” episode.
The 10th season of The Masked Singer has come to a close, and the last four stars were officially unmasked after a winner was selected.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Noah Kahan is Zooming to us right from the heart of Vermont’s stick season, where things are looking cloudy with a chance of multi-platinum. Now, if you happen to know what that “seasonal” reference actually is, you are probably (a) an 80-year-old New Englander who grew up with that term as a euphemism for the dog days of late fall, or (b) one of the millions of people that have taken to the music of Kahan, who spent 2023 becoming a nearly stealth superstar.
Rachel Leviss, formerly known as Raquel, is opening up about Vanderpump Rules.
Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have teased what to expect from the show’s final season.Ahead of filming on the fifth season in January, the Duffer Brothers detailed how the final episodes share some similarities with the first season – now the whole gang is back in Hawkins.“This season – it’s like season one on steroids,” Matt Duffer told the Guardian. “It’s the biggest it’s ever been in terms of scale, but it has been really fun, because everyone’s back together in Hawkins: the boys and Eleven interacting more in line with how it was in season one.“And yes, there may be spin-offs, but the story of Eleven and Dustin and Lucas and Hopper, their stories are done here.”Elsewhere in the interview, Matt and Ross explained how they had been rewatching shows from the past 30 years for tips on “how to land the plane safely”.“Endings of shows are like opening a restaurant in terms of the success-failure rate – there’s an 80 per cent failure rate, I’d say,” Matt said.
Love is Blind has been renewed for Season 7 at Netflix.
shady, Bible-thumping Sheriff Roy Tillman, who rules over his North Dakota roost through fear and loathing in Season 5 of “Fargo.”But Kennedy, who’s worked on four seasons of the FX anthology series, said she wasn’t as surprised by the odd request as you might expect.“Every year I say to [series creator] Noah Hawley, ‘Write me a challenge,’ and he does come through for me,” Kennedy told The Post. “And this season there were several challenges in the makeup room.”Among those was creating Sheriff Roy’s nipple rings, first seen by viewers as he lies “in moist repose” in an outdoor hot tub on his ranch (he’s connected to a local militia) and then again when he’s bare-chested and in bed with his wife.
Through word of mouth and critical praise (and a lot of pandemic-era binge-watching, Canadian sitcom “Letterkenny” gradually became one of the most popular comedies on TV. But after 11 seasons and 7 specials, Crave‘s hit series comes to an end.
Ethan Shanfeld Apparently still hard at work on the sixth “Song of Ice and Fire” novel “The Winds of Winter,” George R.R. Martin took to his blog to recap his recent trip to London, which included meeting his book publisher, the team behind his Westeros-set stage adaptation and the writers of “House of the Dragon,” who screened the first two episodes of Season 2 for the “Game of Thrones” author. “The highlight of the trip … had to be the sneak preview that [showrunner] Ryan [Condal] gave me of the first two episodes of ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 2.
Valerie Wu Intern Reality dance competition series “So You Think You Can Dance” has been renewed for Season 18 at Fox. The show will return on March 4, 2024 with an all-new documentary style format along with new judges Alison Holker and Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Holker was formerly a contestant on the series, and was married to the late Stephen “tWitch” Boss, who was himself a contestant and judge on the series.
Paramount+ has slotted Thursday, February 8, 2024 for the Season 2 premiere of Halo, based on the widely popular and long-running Xbox game franchise. The streamer also unveiled the first-look teaser trailer during its panel today at CCXP in São Paolo, Brazil, with cast members Pablo Schreiber and Joseph Morgan, along with showrunner David Wiener and executive producer Kiki Wolfkill.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Reacher” has been renewed for Season 3 at Amazon‘s Prime Video. The announcement was made during the Prime Video panel at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil. The news comes ahead of the Season 2 premiere of the action series, which is due to debut on Dec.
While you have names like Weiss and Benioff (“Game Of Thrones”), the Duffer Brothers (“Stranger Things”), and Noah Hawley (“Fargo”), there aren’t that many writers/directors/showrunner auteurs in television. However, one recent pair to surface is Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the creators of “Westworld.” In the middle of their run on HBO’s “Westworld,” the pair signed a lucrative deal with Amazon Studios.
Season two of Prime Video’s adrenaline-fueled action series “Reacher” hasn’t even aired yet—not til December 15—but no matter, Amazon Studios is already moving forward with a third season. Today, from the set of season three, Prime Video announced the early “Reacher” renewal at Amazon’s CCXP panel in São Paulo, Brazil.
Chicago Fire is coming back soon, One Chicago family!
Jon Hamm is opening up about his NSFW scene.
EXCLUSIVE: After working with Noah Hawley on the fifth season of his Emmy-winning drama Fargo, which just debuted last week, David Rysdahl has solidified his place in his FX family with a series regular role in his Alien prequel series, Deadline can exclusively reveal.
EXCLUSIVE: Timothy Olyphant is reuniting with Noah Hawley and FX, signing on for a major role in the upcoming Alien series. Olyphant, who recurred on Season 4 of Hawley’s FX anthology series Fargo, is set to star opposite Sydney Chandler in Hawley‘s prequel to the Alien franchise, sources tell Deadline.
Jon Hamm is confirming some major speculation!