This Valentine’s Day, there’s more trauma in the air than love for the Yellowjackets team. The series will return for its third season with a two-episode premiere on Feb. 14. The series picks up in the past as summer arrives after a particularly grueling winter in the wilderness. But even …
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Francophiles, adventurous TV viewers, and those prone to scoffing at streamer algorithms may remember the first time they came across The Bureau, a drama set within the General Directorate for External Security (in French, the DGSE). Actor-director Matthieu Kassovitz played Guillaume Debailly — code name: Malotru — a spy who’d …
Read More »'Yellowjackets' Will Return on Valentine's Day, With Hilary Swank Joining the Cast
Your favorite soccer team (no, not Ted Lasso) will return in the new year. Get ready for Season Three of Yellowjackets. Paramount + announced Tuesday that it will drop two episodes of the new season on Feb. 14 to subscribers with a Showtime plan. Joining the new season is Hilary …
Read More »'Three Women' Is a Foursome of Stories Where One Would Suffice
In adapting her nonfiction bestseller Three Women for television, author Lisa Taddeo has made the title something of a misnomer. To the trio she profiled in the book — housewife Lina (Betty Gilpin), withering under her husband’s sexual neglect; wealthy Sloane (DeWanda Wise), struggling with the boundaries of a polyamorous …
Read More »'A Gentleman in Moscow': Ewan McGregor Gets Stuck in a Four-Star Purgatory
Hotels are strange, contradictory, but often wonderful places. They are permanent structures primarily designed for temporary lodging. They can offer more luxurious furniture and amenities than you get at home, yet you’ll rarely sleep as well as you do in your own bed. Dreams in hotels tend to be weirder …
Read More »Showtime Sued By Estate of Tammy Wynette's Last Husband Over 'George and Tammy' Portrayal
The estate of Tammy Wynette’s fifth and final husband, George Richey, has sued Showtime and one of Wynette’s daughters over the “villainous” portrayal of Richey in the 2022 miniseries George and Tammy. Richey died in 2010, 12 years after Wynette’s 1998 death. A year after Richey died, Georgette Jones — …
Read More »'The Curse' Finale Is Bonkers and Deeply Frustrating
This post contains spoilers for the finale of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Early in the concluding episode of The Curse, “Green Queen,” Asher and Whitney’s Shabbat dinner turns into a debate about Cara’s well-publicized decision to quit the art world. Whitney, of course, is …
Read More »'The Curse': Nathan Fielder Proves He Can Hold His Own With Emma Stone
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. Prior to this week, The Curse allowed the many problems in the Seigel marriage, and in the production of Fliplanthropy, to gradually simmer. With the penultimate episode, “Young Hearts,” all aspects …
Read More »'The Curse': Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder Continue to Be the Worst
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, which is now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. “Down and Dirty” begins with the inevitable catastrophe that Whitney created by letting the expensive jeans store keep her credit card on file to pay for all the shoplifters. Of course, …
Read More »'The Curse' Recap: The Curse on Asher (and His Tiny Penis) May Be Real
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Curse, now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime. After a few midseason episodes that raised questions of whether this was all going somewhere interesting — or, at least, whether Fielder, Safdie, and company had enough to say to fill 10 hours …
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