‘Reservation Dogs’ Review: Sterlin Harjo’s Brilliant Indigenous Teens Comedy Returns For A Confident Second Season

Emily Longeretta In May, Kaley Cuoco said that she felt “the plane has landed” on “The Flight Attendant,” seemingly telling viewers that the HBO Max series would not be returning for a third season.“You’d think after 30 years in this business, I’d learned how to talk in interviews. But no, I still run my mouth. It hadn’t even aired yet,” she tells Variety in a new interview.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAMC Networks has renewed the Emmy-nominated short-form series “Cooper’s Bar” for a second season, while Acorn TV — AMC Networks’ streamer devoted to British and international fare — has given a Season 2 renewal to “Harry Wild,” starring and executive produced by Jane Seymour.Both pickups were announced Wednesday during AMC Networks’ portion of the Television Critics Assn. press tour.

Big Sky will be returning for season three this fall and there’s a new title!

Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts” will be returning for a second season on the platform. Robin Roberts, a co-anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” hosts and executive produces the series.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterRebel Wilson is getting ready to serve as the star of “Double Fault,” a tennis comedy in development at Paramount Players.Jim and Brian Kehoe, the brothers who wrote the 2019 high school comedy “Blockers,” are in talks to pen the screenplay. The logline is being kept under wraps.“Double Fault” will be produced by Wilson and Todd Garner (“Senior Year”), with Brad Jenkel (“The Matador”) on board as executive producer.Wilson recently starred in Netflix’s teen comedy “Senior Year,” in which she played a 37-year-old who wakes up from a coma and returns to high school to get her diploma.In Variety’s review of “Senior Year,” Dennis Harvey praised Wilson as “a naturally gifted comedian” who pulls together the movie “through sheer force of personality and riffing performance chops.” Prior to “Senior Year,” Wilson hadn’t starred in a movie since 2019’s “Isn’t It Romantic,” a romantic comedy that parodies stereotypical Hollywood meet-cutes.

Tony Gilroy has been working on the new Lucasfilm and Disney+ live-action series “Andor” for over three years. The prequel to Gareth Edwards “Rogue One” follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) during the five years before the events of that particular film.

As summer begins the slow wind down over the next month, television has plenty of offerings to keep viewers glued to their screens. With an extremely strong slate so far this year, it’s been difficult to keep up with all of the buzzed-about shows and cult favorites that have left people talking long after the respective finales and August doesn’t appear to offer much of a reprieve.

which continues to rear its head), but Harjo and directors Erica Tremblay and Danis Goulét capture its vibrant, often messy life, making the question of leaving home or staying just as complex here as it was in the first season. Season 2 further explores why someone would leave, why someone would stay, and why they might not have a choice either way. The seventh generation philosophy (an Indigenous concept that’s unfortunately been hijacked by cleaning product marketing) guides both the people of Okern, and the show’s storytelling.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The Flash” will end with its upcoming ninth season at The CW.Production on Season 9 of the beloved DC series is set to begin in September, with the final season slated to debut in 2023. The season will consist of 13 episodes.“Nine seasons! Nine years of saving Central City while taking audiences on an emotional journey full of heart, humor, and spectacle,” said series executive producer and showrunner Eric Wallace. “And now Barry Allen has reached the starting gate for his last race.

Kate Aurthur editorLast week, more than 400 TV creators and showrunners — all of them women — sent letters to top executives at Hollywood studios demanding that specific safety protocols be put in place for pregnant employees in states where abortion has been outlawed, or soon will be. Now, letters of support signed by 594 men — including J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Greg Berlanti, Donald Glover, Aaron Sorkin, David E.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThere’s a desperate restlessness at the heart of the first, fantastic season of “Reservation Dogs.” Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi’s FX series, which premiered last August, kept a watchful eye out for the strange, and strangely beautiful, moments woven into each hazy day for four best friends reeling from the sudden death of their fifth. It took no time at all to understand Bear (D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai), Elora (Devery Jacobs), Cheese (Lane Factor) and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), nor to slip into the show’s world where the banal could meet the surreal at any given moment.The same holds true in Season 2, which opens just hours after Elora’s not only skipped town with laconic bully Jackie (Elva Guerra) and all their money, but has also left a furious, confused Bear behind.

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EXCLUSIVE: Legacies alum Ben Levin and Kim Rhodes (Supernatural) have joined the upcoming third season of CW’s Kung Fu in heavily recurring roles.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFox has given a straight-to-series order to the comedy “Animal Control,” Variety has confirmed.As the title suggests, the show is a single-camera workplace comedy about a group of animal control workers. It hails from writers and executive producers Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg, and Dan Sterling. Fisher and Greenberg previously were two of the co-creators of the Fox comedy series “The Moodys,” while Sterling has worked on Fox shows like “King of the Hill” and “The Last Man on Earth.” Fox Entertainment Studios will produce.Greenberg is repped by UTA and Greenberg Glusker LLP.

Paramount+ has picked up the missing person docuseries Never Seen Again for a second season, with the next debut set for Tuesday.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw dropped by SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” to discuss her new Apple TV+ drama “Surface”, and during the conversation she dropped a few hints about the upcoming second season of “Loki”.

EXCLUSIVE: The forthcoming third season of the BBC’s critical hit comedy series Ladhood will be its last, as creator Liam Williams waves goodbye to the coming-of-age story.

“Schitt’s Creek” star Annie Murphy had an inspired idea for her life post the beloved Canadian sitcom—dive into something completely different, and the dark genre-bending comedic series, “Kevin Can F**K Himself,” is very different and kind of ingenious. Created by and executive produced by Valerie Armstrong (“Lodge 49,” “SEAL Team”)—with Rashida Jones and Will McCormack executive producing as well—“Kevin Can F**K Himself” was born from a brilliant and inventive idea that’s a little bit like, “Everybody Loves Raymond” can f*ck himself.

EXCLUSIVE: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs), Abby Quinn (Knock at the Cabin) and Pardis Saremi (Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem) have signed on to star alongside Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk and Fred Hechinger in Hell of a Summer—the contemporary horror-comedy from 30West that Wolfhard and Bryk are directing, in their feature debut.

Season 3 of Apple TV+’s animated comedy Central Park will premiere Sept. 9. It will feature original cast member Kristen Bell who is rejoining the series as a new character, Abby, Paige’s (Katherine Hahn) little sister. (first-look image above)