Nikki DeLoach Talks Taking the Reins
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Nikki DeLoach is one of our faves, and she’s back on Hallmark Channel Saturday with Taking the Reins, a brand-new Fall Harvest entry in which she not only stars, but also executive produced. I spoke with her last week about the project, and got a tease…
Previewing Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol “The Araf”
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] In the second episode of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, streaming Thursday on Peacock TV, Robert and Katherine begin a cat and mouse game to follow the designated clues while also dodging the CIA. They’re aided by Peter’s friend and fellow Mason, Bellamy (Tyrone Benskin), who…
Y: The Last Man “Karen and Benji” Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] This week, on episode 4 of Y: The Last Man, we take a break from Jennifer’s world and the Pentagon and pick up with some of the other characters. As we mentioned last week, women are creatively involved across the board, and “Karen and Benji” was…
George R. Olson Talks The SurrealEstate Season 1 Finale
[Warning: SPOILERS for the season finale.] Well that’s the first season of SurrealEstate in the books and I very much hope we get to go again because it’s been such a fun summer find. While we wait to find out about a second season, get comfortable and read on for…
Previewing SurrealEstate Season 1 Finale: “The House Always Wins”
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] We should have known the Donovan House wasn’t going to go away quietly. After trapping August and bouncing Luke across the driveway in the closing moments of last week’s episode, the mysterious Victorian with a mind of its own is soon host to the rest of…
Previewing The Morning Show Season 2
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Eighteen months into the coronavirus pandemic, it’s surreal that it’s both very recent history and still ongoing–we’re still very much in it. The Morning Show resumed filming during the pandemic, and it’s woven into the arc of the second season, first as a thing looming in…
Previewing Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] In the theatrical world, Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard, and screenwriters David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman teamed up for three film adaptations centered on Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist and modern-day Indiana Jones, who’s in it for the history, not the treasure. The DaVinci…
Rochelle Aytes Talks Redemption in Cherry Springs
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Sunday night on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Rochelle Aytes headlines a new mystery, Redemption in Cherry Springs, directed by Letia Clouson and written by Talia Gonzalez and John Bellina, about a journalist drawn into the murder case of an old friend. I spoke with Aytes this…
Previewing Y: The Last Man
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] While a dystopian drama might seem a little on the nose right now, FX on Hulu is going there Monday with the premiere of of the first three episodes of Y: The Last Man. Adapted by Eliza Clark from Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s 2002-2008…
Previewing SurrealEstate: “White Wedding”
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] This week, on the penultimate episode of SurrealEstate‘s first season, Susan multi-tasks as a bride-to-be’s maid of honor, a real estate agent scouting a killer property, and a gifted real estate agent scouting an actual would-be killer. When her childhood friend, Priya (Supinder Wraich), finds her…
Catching Up with Ted Lasso and Previewing Season 2
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] The not so dirty little secret about how I approach a new series is that I sometimes make a call based on the headspace I’m in at the time. It’s been a minute since I’ve picked up a show after the first season and then binge…
Interview: Henri Esteve on Grown-ish Season 3
An interview with Henri Esteve, who plays Javi on Freeform’s Grown-ish. He talks about his season three experience.
For All Mankind Season 2: Talking with Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Jodi Balfour, and Sonya Walger [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] One of the hooks of For All Mankind is that it’s very much a story about the women of NASA. In Season 2, we explore the journeys of the women in the program, either through their own service or through their family affiliations. Four of those…
Rosy McEwen Talks The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Season Finale [Exclusive]
[Warning: Spoilers for the season finale episodes.] How’s everyone after that finale? I will freely admit I got a little misty in episode eight as John told Sara why he loved her, and later that he wanted her despite what he might forfeit, and then at the end when he…
Rosy McEwen Talks The Alienist: Angel of Darkness [Exclusive]
Hands down, one of the best surprises of The Alienist: Angel of Darkness is that the serial killer this season has been front and center alongside the cast as a fully-formed character. We’ve watched Libby Hatch devolve from a prim, mild-mannered nurse to a woman in a rage hell-bent on…
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Relationship Recap: John and Sara
[Warning: Spoilers for “Belly of the Beast” and “Memento Mori”] If you’ve read me for a while (thank you!), you know two things — I lean way, way in on the characters I adore and I loathe love geometry arcs. So, I’m torn about where we are and where we…
Louriza Tronco Talks The Order Season 2 [Exclusive]
[Warning: Spoilers ahead for Season 2.] The Order’s second season is dark yet delightful entertainment on many levels, and one of its biggest sources of joy and snark is the sassy Gabrielle Dupres. Last season, she was assertive and deadly and fairly annoyed with the world. This season, she’s been…
Previewing Netflix’s Virgin River
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Full disclosure: I have a Netflix account for my Mom, but I’m not a regular viewer. If I get a heads up on something, I’ll go look for it, but I don’t have a wander across its offerings, which, as I understand it, is how most…
Final Thoughts From the Killjoys Team [Exclusive]
This is the day of the week I’d normally hit you up with a Killjoys preview, but now that we’ve put the series to bed and released Team Awesome Force into the wild, I have one more treat for you–some final thoughts excerpted from my conversations with the Killjoys folks….
Michelle Lovretta Talks Wrapping Up Killjoys [Exclusive]
[Warning: Spoilers for the series finale.] To quote Miss Jackson, “That’s the end?” Yes, friends, it is. And like I promised you, everything would be, was, and is alright. I went to the Killjoys source, series creator Michelle Lovretta, who wrote the last episode, to break down that delicious finale….
What They Said: Three Revealing Conversations from Survivor’s Remorse “Closure”
WARNING: Spoilers for Survivor’s Remorse “Closure” The latest episode of Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse featured conversations that showed characters really digging deep into their thoughts, emotions and motivations.
Two Takes: The Catch “The Knock-Off”
Who can you trust? If this episode of The Catch was any indication, the answer is just about nobody. Betrayal was running rampant as Felicity (Shivani Ghai) arose from the dead to seduce-con Margot, Gretchen (Maria Thayer, Gotham, The Mindy Project) played gold-hearted Alice 2.0 before swindling Ethan, Tessa jumped…
What They Said: Top 3 Quotable Moments from Preacher “El Valero”
Both Quincannon and Jesse refuse to give up on what they each think is rightfully theirs. While Jesse is struggling to face the consequences of his actions, Quincannon has laid his past demons to rest and is hellbent on moving forward and putting Annville on the map again. Despite a…
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from Supergirl “Worlds Finest”
Oh, Supergirl. That ending was cold. But I can’t hate on you because the latest episode has quickly become one of my favorites.
What They Said: Top 4 Quotable Moments from Black Sails “XXIII”
The dialogue in “XXIII” is phenomenal. It’s always a fun ride when Black Sails carries its viewers along without giving them the chance to catch their breath. When an episode moves at this unforgiving pace, there is no chance for a breather nor is there a respite from the information…
What Lucifer Said: Favorite quotes from Supernatural “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Supernatural episodes are almost always funny but thanks to the dialogue and a certain man speaking said dialogue, I laughed a lot during “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” You know, when I wasn’t busy fearing for Sam’s life or wondering what in the world was going on with Dean and…
What They Said: The Flash, “Legends Of Today” and Arrow, “Legends Of Yesterday”
Two nights of Arrow + The Flash = what more could we ask for?! I don’t know what it is about blending these shows, but I can’t help but feel that every time they come together, they somehow become greater than the sum of their parts. And that’s saying a lot…
What they Said: Top 4 Quotable Moments from Graceland “Little Bo Bleep”
Shoot outs. Fake outs. And long-awaited revelations. “Little Bo Bleep” was a jam-packed episode that wrapped up some loose ends and totally frayed others. Â It finally gave us one Sarkissian in jail and pulled back the curtain on Briggs’ master plan, but it also set up Jakes for a world…
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from Poldark “Part 4”
“What have I told you, I don’t require my wife to crochet and sip tea, but I do require her to remember she’s not a beast of burden.†No, I’m not talking about The Rolling Stones! I have to admit though, just for a second, the lyrics popped into my…
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