The Gaslight Anthem are back with their first album in nearly a decade, History Books, out today, October 27th on their own Rich Mahogany Recordings via Thirty Tigers.
“None of us wanted to make a very somber or serious record showing how much we’ve matured,” singer Brian Fallon said in a statement about their follow-up to 2014’s Get Hurt. “We’ve all changed and grown and learned so much, but the overall mood was a feeling of excitement to be back together and making music that means something to us.”
In an interview with The Associated Press, Fallon explained how the title track — which features Bruce Springsteen — came together. After calling on Springsteen — who over the years became the artist’s friend, not just idol — for advice about potentially reuniting The Gaslight Anthem, the legend himself proposed a duet. “We didn’t want to make a record that felt sub-heart,...
“None of us wanted to make a very somber or serious record showing how much we’ve matured,” singer Brian Fallon said in a statement about their follow-up to 2014’s Get Hurt. “We’ve all changed and grown and learned so much, but the overall mood was a feeling of excitement to be back together and making music that means something to us.”
In an interview with The Associated Press, Fallon explained how the title track — which features Bruce Springsteen — came together. After calling on Springsteen — who over the years became the artist’s friend, not just idol — for advice about potentially reuniting The Gaslight Anthem, the legend himself proposed a duet. “We didn’t want to make a record that felt sub-heart,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
The Gaslight Anthem are back with “Little Fires,” a new look at their upcoming album History Books. Check out the single below.
The raucous new track finds the New Jersey band at their punk-pop best, as Brian Fallon barks out a tale of young love over a Replacements-style guitar melody. “I know, I know, I know you’ll be a part of me forever,” he sings, “But you know, you know, you know I’m not afraid of going out.”
“In the end we all burn little fires,” Fallon sighs.
History Books, The Gaslight Anthem’s first album since 2014’s Get Hurt, is out October 27th and features the previously released track “Positive Charge” and the Bruce Springsteen duet “History Books.” Pre-orders are ongoing.
Later this month, The Gaslight Anthem will embark on a US tour in support of History Books. Tickets are available here.
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The raucous new track finds the New Jersey band at their punk-pop best, as Brian Fallon barks out a tale of young love over a Replacements-style guitar melody. “I know, I know, I know you’ll be a part of me forever,” he sings, “But you know, you know, you know I’m not afraid of going out.”
“In the end we all burn little fires,” Fallon sighs.
History Books, The Gaslight Anthem’s first album since 2014’s Get Hurt, is out October 27th and features the previously released track “Positive Charge” and the Bruce Springsteen duet “History Books.” Pre-orders are ongoing.
Later this month, The Gaslight Anthem will embark on a US tour in support of History Books. Tickets are available here.
Get The Gaslight Anthem Tickets...
- 9/5/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
The Gaslight Anthem are emerging from a nearly decade-long recording hiatus on October 27 with the release of their sixth album, History Books. Bruce Springsteen joins them on the tittle track, which you can hear right now.
“When Bruce Springsteen said I should write a duet for us, I think my head exploded,” Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon says in a statement. “It will never get old to me that one of the greatest songwriters in the world, and one of my hero’s voices, will forever be captured in a...
“When Bruce Springsteen said I should write a duet for us, I think my head exploded,” Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon says in a statement. “It will never get old to me that one of the greatest songwriters in the world, and one of my hero’s voices, will forever be captured in a...
- 7/21/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The honest answer for why Hello Sunshine had such a prolific TV season is the pandemic.
“The timing has a lot to do with Covid because there was this moment where everything was quiet, but we were still working, so we were driving all these different things forward,” said Lauren Levy Neustadter, President of Film & TV of the media company co-founded by actress and mogul Reese Witherspoon. “When it was safe to go back and shoot, we had all of these shows that started production, and they all came together in a very similar window.”
Now the company has entered the 2023 Emmys season with not only one Television Movie contender and two Drama Series submissions but a whopping four Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series entrants — even more than some major networks. “From Scratch” (Netflix), “Daisy Jones and the Six” (Prime Video), “Tiny Beautiful Things” (Hulu), and “The Last Thing He Told Me...
“The timing has a lot to do with Covid because there was this moment where everything was quiet, but we were still working, so we were driving all these different things forward,” said Lauren Levy Neustadter, President of Film & TV of the media company co-founded by actress and mogul Reese Witherspoon. “When it was safe to go back and shoot, we had all of these shows that started production, and they all came together in a very similar window.”
Now the company has entered the 2023 Emmys season with not only one Television Movie contender and two Drama Series submissions but a whopping four Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series entrants — even more than some major networks. “From Scratch” (Netflix), “Daisy Jones and the Six” (Prime Video), “Tiny Beautiful Things” (Hulu), and “The Last Thing He Told Me...
- 6/26/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Cheryl Strayed’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” was the opposite of an obvious adaptation.
Composed of advice columns addressed to relationship aficionado, Sugar — an alias that Strayed took on through literary magazine “The Rumpus” — the Hulu adaptation weaves three timelines together of the life of Clare Pierce (played by Kathryn Hahn). Creatives across Hulu, ABC Signature and Hello Sunshine put their heads together to weave the letters and details of Strayed’s life into a reimagined version of Strayed who hadn’t hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, allowing Tigelaar to create what she calls one of her beloved “Little Families.” Tigelaar encouraged the team to think beyond the typical TV formula.
“With most pilots… by the end of the pilot, [Clare] has to unequivocally decide she is taking on this advice column… that’s ingrained in me from a storytelling perspective,” showrunner Liz Tigelaar told TheWrap. “It was really important to me...
Composed of advice columns addressed to relationship aficionado, Sugar — an alias that Strayed took on through literary magazine “The Rumpus” — the Hulu adaptation weaves three timelines together of the life of Clare Pierce (played by Kathryn Hahn). Creatives across Hulu, ABC Signature and Hello Sunshine put their heads together to weave the letters and details of Strayed’s life into a reimagined version of Strayed who hadn’t hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, allowing Tigelaar to create what she calls one of her beloved “Little Families.” Tigelaar encouraged the team to think beyond the typical TV formula.
“With most pilots… by the end of the pilot, [Clare] has to unequivocally decide she is taking on this advice column… that’s ingrained in me from a storytelling perspective,” showrunner Liz Tigelaar told TheWrap. “It was really important to me...
- 4/14/2023
- by Loree Seitz and Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Taylor Jenkins Reid has had quite the busy slate. As she prepared for the release and debut of her new book, Malibu Rising from Ballantine Books, news of future Reid projects quickly followed.
Amid the book’s publication last week, The Hollywood Reporter exclusively announced that it is also in development for a television series at Hulu with Little Fires Everywhere creator, showrunner and executive producer Liz Tigelaar and writer Amy Talkington, who will reteam for the adaptation. The potential series was bought preemptively by the Disney-owned streamer in advance of the book’s June 1 publication.
“Everything’s sort of happening at once. I’m ...
Amid the book’s publication last week, The Hollywood Reporter exclusively announced that it is also in development for a television series at Hulu with Little Fires Everywhere creator, showrunner and executive producer Liz Tigelaar and writer Amy Talkington, who will reteam for the adaptation. The potential series was bought preemptively by the Disney-owned streamer in advance of the book’s June 1 publication.
“Everything’s sort of happening at once. I’m ...
Taylor Jenkins Reid has had quite the busy slate. As she prepared for the release and debut of her new book, Malibu Rising from Ballantine Books, news of future Reid projects quickly followed.
Amid the book’s publication last week, The Hollywood Reporter exclusively announced that it is also in development for a television series at Hulu with Little Fires Everywhere creator, showrunner and executive producer Liz Tigelaar and writer Amy Talkington, who will reteam for the adaptation. The potential series was bought preemptively by the Disney-owned streamer in advance of the book’s June 1 publication.
“Everything’s sort of happening at once. I’m ...
Amid the book’s publication last week, The Hollywood Reporter exclusively announced that it is also in development for a television series at Hulu with Little Fires Everywhere creator, showrunner and executive producer Liz Tigelaar and writer Amy Talkington, who will reteam for the adaptation. The potential series was bought preemptively by the Disney-owned streamer in advance of the book’s June 1 publication.
“Everything’s sort of happening at once. I’m ...
Laverne Cox and Kerry Washington know all too well what it’s like to be “the first,” as well as the mix of pride, pressure and responsibility that comes with it. That’s why they’re working to ensure that they’re providing opportunities for underrepresented artists both on-screen and behind the scenes.
“All day Inauguration Day I was wearing my shirt that has [Vice President Kamala Harris’] face as a little girl, and it says, ‘The first, but not the last.’ Because that has to be the message,” Washington says. “The goal can’t be to be the only one in the room.”
Cox agrees: “The question for me has always been, ‘How do we keep the door open? How do we open a window? How do we just let the whole wall come down, so that more people can get in?’ That is the challenge of being a first something.”
Cox, who...
“All day Inauguration Day I was wearing my shirt that has [Vice President Kamala Harris’] face as a little girl, and it says, ‘The first, but not the last.’ Because that has to be the message,” Washington says. “The goal can’t be to be the only one in the room.”
Cox agrees: “The question for me has always been, ‘How do we keep the door open? How do we open a window? How do we just let the whole wall come down, so that more people can get in?’ That is the challenge of being a first something.”
Cox, who...
- 2/22/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
“It’s Like playing chess,” says Susanne Bier, director of the six part glossy thriller The Undoing, a twisty mystery based on the ‘grip lit’ novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. She’s talking about the delicate relationship with the audience it’s necessary to maintain when crafting a show packed with complicated characters full of secrets.
“It’s a very interesting, meticulous puzzle where you need to keep that precarious balance where you hold hands with the audience, but also hold back,” she explains. “I think the crucial thing is that you can’t cheat. There are rules about it. You don’t lie. You might do something which could be misleading, but is not really misleading or, you play with a borderline, but you never cross it. Because the point where you cross is when you lose the audience. So it’s about that game...
“It’s a very interesting, meticulous puzzle where you need to keep that precarious balance where you hold hands with the audience, but also hold back,” she explains. “I think the crucial thing is that you can’t cheat. There are rules about it. You don’t lie. You might do something which could be misleading, but is not really misleading or, you play with a borderline, but you never cross it. Because the point where you cross is when you lose the audience. So it’s about that game...
- 11/2/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
We like to watch the affluent fall. There’s a particular kind of pleasure derived from indulging in the aspirational lives of beautiful rich people then watching it all topple – never more so than in the latest glossy drama from TV overlord David E. Kelley, creator of shows including LA Law, Ally McBeal and more recently Mr Mercedes and Big Little Lies. It’s the latter of these that The Undoing most closely resembles, not least because it shares a star in Nicole Kidman, who also executive produces. Swap the beachy idyll of Monterey, California for the glamorous bustle of New York City and this is a similarly female-led story of violence, lies and the weight of privilege.
Based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Kidman plays the aptly named Grace, a highly successful therapist about to publish a book, married to perfect husband and...
Based on the 2014 novel You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Kidman plays the aptly named Grace, a highly successful therapist about to publish a book, married to perfect husband and...
- 10/26/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
It didn’t take long for Shannon Houston and Ashley C. Ford to become the ideal co-hosts for “Lovecraft Country Radio.” The podcast, designed as a companion to “Lovecraft Country,” is built on a foundation of trust and openness, particularly when the two discuss the most personal ways that the HBO series intersects with their own lives. They didn’t know each other personally before becoming partners in this joint venture, but there was a sense of familiarity that arrived in their first call together, away from any microphone.
“It was very clear to me at the end of that conversation, ‘I’m going to have a great time and this person is going to be a huge part of why.’ I just really like her mind. I like the way she represents herself. I like the way she talks about people. I love her spirit,” Ford told IndieWire. “If...
“It was very clear to me at the end of that conversation, ‘I’m going to have a great time and this person is going to be a huge part of why.’ I just really like her mind. I like the way she represents herself. I like the way she talks about people. I love her spirit,” Ford told IndieWire. “If...
- 10/12/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington have us experiencing a serious case of Fomo with their 2020 Emmys watch party. The Little Fires Everywhere stars came together to watch the virtual awards ceremony and decided to throw an impromptu New Year's Eve party since 2020 is officially Canceled. As Reese explained it, "We're ready for this year to be over." When host Jimmy Kimmel asked if it's possible to simply end the year, Reese said, pointing to her co-star, "Of course. We're Emmy nominated television producers." Fair enough. After Kerry and Reese finished their countdown, the stars told each other that they'd kiss but Covid-19 is still a...
- 9/21/2020
- E! Online
Kerry Washington is an Emmy winner at last! The actress known for her roles in “Scandal” and “Little Fires Everywhere” was honored during the Creative Arts Awards on Tuesday night, September 15, but it wasn’t in a category you might expect. Instead of a performance award, she took home Best Variety Special (Live) as a producer of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Good Times.'” Watch the online ceremony above.
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“Thank you for this amazing creative family. It’s such a brilliant team,” said Washington. And she’s not kidding. Other A-list stars are among the Emmy-winning producers of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience”: Will Ferrell, Jimmy Kimmel, Justin Theroux, celebrated TV director James Burrows, and of course Norman Lear, who at 98-years-old just broke his own record...
SEE2020 Creative Arts Emmy winners: Full list of winners in all 100 categories [Updating]
“Thank you for this amazing creative family. It’s such a brilliant team,” said Washington. And she’s not kidding. Other A-list stars are among the Emmy-winning producers of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience”: Will Ferrell, Jimmy Kimmel, Justin Theroux, celebrated TV director James Burrows, and of course Norman Lear, who at 98-years-old just broke his own record...
- 9/16/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery and Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
HBO has been familiar in the Outstanding Limited Series winners circle, last year triumphing overwhelmingly with Chernobyl, even though Netflix gave them a run for their money with When They See Us. This year the two will go head to head again, but HBO seems to have the magic touch here, and, if not them, it has been FX in past seasons, with Ryan Murphy fare, such as The People v. O.J. Simpson and The Assassination of Gianni Versace. This year FX is back with another formidable contender just to mix things up. Let’s look at the landscape and see which one gets the Pete’s Winner Pick stamp.
Little Fires Everywhere
Hulu
Yet another streamer invades this space with the female-driven limited series based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller. With Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington battling it out on screen as well as producing, it certainly doesn’t lack for star power,...
Little Fires Everywhere
Hulu
Yet another streamer invades this space with the female-driven limited series based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller. With Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington battling it out on screen as well as producing, it certainly doesn’t lack for star power,...
- 9/11/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Kerry Washington doubled her Emmy nomination haul in one fell swoop last month, grabbing four bids to bring her career total to eight. She’s still awaiting her first win, and this may finally be the year if our predictions pan out.
The actress’ quadruple nominations are across three programs, and three of them are for her work as an executive producer: She’s up for Best Variety Special (Live) for “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Good Times,'” Best TV Movie for “American Son,” Best Limited Series for “Little Fires Everywhere,” and Best Limited/TV Movie Actress for “Little Fires Everywhere.”
Washington is not expected to prevail for “American Son” (third in our odds) opposite favorite “Bad Education” or for either of her “Little Fires” bids against 26-time nominee “Watchmen” and star Regina King. Her best chance rests with Best Variety Special...
The actress’ quadruple nominations are across three programs, and three of them are for her work as an executive producer: She’s up for Best Variety Special (Live) for “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Good Times,'” Best TV Movie for “American Son,” Best Limited Series for “Little Fires Everywhere,” and Best Limited/TV Movie Actress for “Little Fires Everywhere.”
Washington is not expected to prevail for “American Son” (third in our odds) opposite favorite “Bad Education” or for either of her “Little Fires” bids against 26-time nominee “Watchmen” and star Regina King. Her best chance rests with Best Variety Special...
- 8/28/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
As the Black Lives Matter movement took hold of the U.S., Kerry Washington could not help but remember filming “Scandal” while she was pregnant. “It’s impossible to not worry about the Black men in my life out in the world. My cousins, my dad, my husband. That is the reality of loving a Black person in America, is you open yourself up to the vulnerability of the danger that Black people face every day,” Washington says on Tuesday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I think a lot about it because I remember begging Shonda [Rhimes] when I was pregnant, ‘couldn’t Olivia Pope be pregnant?’ Because I was like, ‘How are we going to hide this person inside me? I don’t even know how to do the Olivia Pope walk with a human being inside of me.’ And she was adamant that...
- 8/18/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
You’re probably already aware that Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett (“Mrs. America”), Olivia Colman (“The Crown”), Regina King (“Watchmen”) and Octavia Spencer (“Self Made”), among others, landed Emmy nominations on Tuesday, but there are a handful of other familiar faces that joined the ranks in less-publicized categories. Most of these winners will be announced at the Creative Arts Emmys in two separate virtual ceremonies on Sept. 12 and 13, a week before the primetime telecast on Sept. 20. Check out the complete list of nominations here.
In the Best Narrator category, “12 Years a Slave” stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (“The Elephant Queen”) and Lupita Nyong’o (“Serengeti”) reunite as competitors, the former of whom is a previous Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor nominee for “Dancing on the Edge,” while the latter is enjoying her maiden Emmy nomination six years after winning her first Oscar. Joining her as a first-time nominee is former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,...
In the Best Narrator category, “12 Years a Slave” stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (“The Elephant Queen”) and Lupita Nyong’o (“Serengeti”) reunite as competitors, the former of whom is a previous Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor nominee for “Dancing on the Edge,” while the latter is enjoying her maiden Emmy nomination six years after winning her first Oscar. Joining her as a first-time nominee is former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,...
- 7/31/2020
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
“We’re a show that’s grieving right now on multiple levels,” said Liz Tigelaar during the Little Fires Everywhere writers panel on the final day of Atx TV…from the Couch!.
She first paid tribute to fellow Little Fires executive producer and director Lynn Shelton, who passed away in May from complications of a previously unidentified blood disorder. “We’re grieving for Lynn Shelton, our executive producer, who directed four of the eight episodes, whom we tragically lost very suddenly. We’re grieving for her family, for her friends, for her colleagues, and for her films that we’re not going to get to see, all the work she was still yet to do,” said Tigelaar.
“We’re also grieving with the country for the life of George Floyd, all the black men and women who’ve been murdered simply for being black, said Tigelaar, turning her attention to current events.
She first paid tribute to fellow Little Fires executive producer and director Lynn Shelton, who passed away in May from complications of a previously unidentified blood disorder. “We’re grieving for Lynn Shelton, our executive producer, who directed four of the eight episodes, whom we tragically lost very suddenly. We’re grieving for her family, for her friends, for her colleagues, and for her films that we’re not going to get to see, all the work she was still yet to do,” said Tigelaar.
“We’re also grieving with the country for the life of George Floyd, all the black men and women who’ve been murdered simply for being black, said Tigelaar, turning her attention to current events.
- 6/7/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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Little Fires Everywhere has no shortage of plot twists. Between infidelity, adolescent obstacles, and heated custody battles, there's a lot going on. Perhaps the most surprising revelation, however, involves a cameo that never even came to fruition: in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Liz Tigelaar revealed the limited series almost featured a Dawson's Creek reunion. "I Don't Want to Wait" softly plays in the background.
"It was going to be too distracting for Jack and Pacey to be reunited."
As many viewers will already know, Joshua Jackson, who portrays patriarch Bill Richardson on Little Fires, famously played Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek. We've now just discovered that Tigelaar, who actually got her start as an assistant on the early-aughts teen drama, was also close to casting fellow alum Kerr Smith, who portrayed Jack McPhee, on Little Fires. Unfortunately, she decided against it. "I wanted...
Little Fires Everywhere has no shortage of plot twists. Between infidelity, adolescent obstacles, and heated custody battles, there's a lot going on. Perhaps the most surprising revelation, however, involves a cameo that never even came to fruition: in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Liz Tigelaar revealed the limited series almost featured a Dawson's Creek reunion. "I Don't Want to Wait" softly plays in the background.
"It was going to be too distracting for Jack and Pacey to be reunited."
As many viewers will already know, Joshua Jackson, who portrays patriarch Bill Richardson on Little Fires, famously played Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek. We've now just discovered that Tigelaar, who actually got her start as an assistant on the early-aughts teen drama, was also close to casting fellow alum Kerr Smith, who portrayed Jack McPhee, on Little Fires. Unfortunately, she decided against it. "I wanted...
- 4/22/2020
- by Kelsey Garcia
- Popsugar.com
Between the custody battle for baby May Ling, Lexie Richardson’s recent abortion and the truth about Mia’s relationship with Pearl, you might have completely forgotten that Little Fires Everywhere has been building toward a massive blaze at the Richardson house.
Fortunately, the Hulu drama revisited that disaster before Wednesday’s finale was over, revealing at last who was responsible for burning down Elena and Bill’s home. But I’m not sure which fire did more catastrophic damage: the literal flames that took down the house, or the explosive fight that threatened to ruin the Richardson family forever.
Fortunately, the Hulu drama revisited that disaster before Wednesday’s finale was over, revealing at last who was responsible for burning down Elena and Bill’s home. But I’m not sure which fire did more catastrophic damage: the literal flames that took down the house, or the explosive fight that threatened to ruin the Richardson family forever.
- 4/22/2020
- TVLine.com
If you think the Hemsworth brothers are the hottest thing from Australia, then you clearly haven't laid your eyes on Luke Bracey. The 30-year-old Australian actor is seriously steamy, and though he only appeared in one episode of Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere, he left quite an impression. In the series, he plays Elena's hot journalist ex-boyfriend, Jamie, who rocks wireframe glasses better than just about anyone. You also might recognize him as Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe: Retaliation, David Mason from The November Man, or Dawson Cole from The Best of Me. If his name still isn't ringing a bell, check out the gallery ahead for 40 sexy reasons why you should get to know him.
Related: We're Even More Obsessed With Little Fires Everywhere After Seeing These Cast Photos...
Related: We're Even More Obsessed With Little Fires Everywhere After Seeing These Cast Photos...
- 4/12/2020
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
The Performers | Bob Odenkirk and Jonathan Banks
The Show | Better Call Saul
More from TVLineTVLine's Performers of the Week (Tie): Tom Pelphrey and Jane LevyPerformer of the Week: Danai GuriraLittle Fires Everywhere's Tiffany Boone Talks Walking Kerry Washington's Walk, Dishes About Hunters' Gross-Out Scene
The Episode | “Bagman” (April 6, 2020)
The Performances | All you Saul fans out there hoping for more Jimmy-and-Mike scenes, well, you got your wish this week — and then some.
The motor-mouthed attorney and the gruff fixer spent Monday’s episode together on a grueling odyssey through the sun-scorched desert, trying to bring home Lalo’s $7 million...
The Show | Better Call Saul
More from TVLineTVLine's Performers of the Week (Tie): Tom Pelphrey and Jane LevyPerformer of the Week: Danai GuriraLittle Fires Everywhere's Tiffany Boone Talks Walking Kerry Washington's Walk, Dishes About Hunters' Gross-Out Scene
The Episode | “Bagman” (April 6, 2020)
The Performances | All you Saul fans out there hoping for more Jimmy-and-Mike scenes, well, you got your wish this week — and then some.
The motor-mouthed attorney and the gruff fixer spent Monday’s episode together on a grueling odyssey through the sun-scorched desert, trying to bring home Lalo’s $7 million...
- 4/11/2020
- TVLine.com
Culturally and aesthetically, the 1990s were pretty absurd. The decade began with the advent of the internet and ended with the fear that modern society itself would collapse with the start of a new century. Grunge was introduced, rap rivalries led to tremendous losses, third-wave feminism took hold, hair accessories got quirkier, and the president had a major sex scandal. And yet, the '90s were also really "normal."
Normal compared to what? Now? Well, yes, clearly, but looking back, it seemed as though society at the time placed greater importance on maintaining a veneer of stability and normalcy following the more drastic changes and events of the 1980s. In response, the decade was marked by pre-woke political correctness, inoffensive home decor, and a fashion sense that essentially set the blueprint for normcore. That placid suburbia of the '90s is exquisitely captured on Little Fires Everywhere.
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Normal compared to what? Now? Well, yes, clearly, but looking back, it seemed as though society at the time placed greater importance on maintaining a veneer of stability and normalcy following the more drastic changes and events of the 1980s. In response, the decade was marked by pre-woke political correctness, inoffensive home decor, and a fashion sense that essentially set the blueprint for normcore. That placid suburbia of the '90s is exquisitely captured on Little Fires Everywhere.
Related: Little Fires...
- 4/2/2020
- by Kelsey Garcia
- Popsugar.com
What do The Handmaid's Tale, Catch-22, High Fidelity, and Little Fires Everywhere have in common?
They're all critically acclaimed novels later adapted into Hulu original series.
Unfortunately, not all of these adaptations did their source material justice.
Hulu's Catch-22 was a miss because it failed to capture the spirit of Joseph Heller's novel. Hulu transformed a satire into a tragedy. In the process, it robbed the story of its uniqueness and its greatest epiphany.
The novel is famous for its absurdist humor. The TV series couldn't capture it onscreen -- not even when passages from the novel were said verbatim. The tone and the delivery were off. Whenever the series tried to be funny, it came off as bleak instead of bleakly funny.
Without nailing the comedic aspects, Hulu's Catch-22 became a slog to watch, and the conclusion, completely different from the novel's ending, was depressing.
After watching Catch-22...
They're all critically acclaimed novels later adapted into Hulu original series.
Unfortunately, not all of these adaptations did their source material justice.
Hulu's Catch-22 was a miss because it failed to capture the spirit of Joseph Heller's novel. Hulu transformed a satire into a tragedy. In the process, it robbed the story of its uniqueness and its greatest epiphany.
The novel is famous for its absurdist humor. The TV series couldn't capture it onscreen -- not even when passages from the novel were said verbatim. The tone and the delivery were off. Whenever the series tried to be funny, it came off as bleak instead of bleakly funny.
Without nailing the comedic aspects, Hulu's Catch-22 became a slog to watch, and the conclusion, completely different from the novel's ending, was depressing.
After watching Catch-22...
- 4/2/2020
- by Becca Newton
- TVfanatic
Joshua Jackson wasn’t allowed to see the scripts for all eight episodes of “Little Fires Everywhere” when he was first approached about playing Reese Witherspoon’s husband on the Hulu series.
They gave him the first seven. “Until I signed on the dotted line, they wouldn’t give me eight,” Jackson says on Thursday’s episode of “The Big Ticket,” Variety and iHeartRadio’s weekly podcast.
The adaptation of Celeste Ng’s novel of the same name stars Witherspoon as Elena Richardson, a well-off suburban mother of four and a small-town newspaper reporter in the 1990s who befriends her new mysterious tenant (Kerry Washington) and her teenaged daughter Pearl (Lexi Underwood). Jackson plays Bill, Elena’s attorney husband. As Elena digs into Mia’s past, all while trying to keep up the perfect home (or at least the appearance of one), Bill seems to have quietly faded from of...
They gave him the first seven. “Until I signed on the dotted line, they wouldn’t give me eight,” Jackson says on Thursday’s episode of “The Big Ticket,” Variety and iHeartRadio’s weekly podcast.
The adaptation of Celeste Ng’s novel of the same name stars Witherspoon as Elena Richardson, a well-off suburban mother of four and a small-town newspaper reporter in the 1990s who befriends her new mysterious tenant (Kerry Washington) and her teenaged daughter Pearl (Lexi Underwood). Jackson plays Bill, Elena’s attorney husband. As Elena digs into Mia’s past, all while trying to keep up the perfect home (or at least the appearance of one), Bill seems to have quietly faded from of...
- 4/2/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
These days it’s common to see Oscar-winning movie stars squaring off at the Emmys — winners of Best Movie/Limited Actress in the last decade alone have included Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Jessica Lange and Nicole Kidman — but this year’s battle looks like an especially close call, at least according to our early racetrack odds.
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Regina King has leading odds of 18/5 as of this writing for her role as a masked detective trying to unravel a conspiracy and protect her family in HBO’s “Watchmen.” She recently won an Oscar for her supporting role in “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018), but the Emmys are her home turf. By the time the motion picture academy honored her she had already won three Emmys out of four nominations, two for “American Crime” (Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actress...
SEEEmmy spotlight: Octavia Spencer commands ‘Self Made’ in a beautiful portrait of American self-determination
Regina King has leading odds of 18/5 as of this writing for her role as a masked detective trying to unravel a conspiracy and protect her family in HBO’s “Watchmen.” She recently won an Oscar for her supporting role in “If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018), but the Emmys are her home turf. By the time the motion picture academy honored her she had already won three Emmys out of four nominations, two for “American Crime” (Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actress...
- 4/1/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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- 3/26/2020
- by Liam Mathews
- TVGuide - Breaking News
The list of TV shows you can watch during self-quarantine is already plenty long… but Hulu has added another title, just in case.
The streamer’s new drama Little Fires Everywhere debuted late Tuesday night with three episodes; future installments will drop every Wednesday. Before you tell us what you thought of Episode 1, though, let’s recap what happens in the series premiere.
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The streamer’s new drama Little Fires Everywhere debuted late Tuesday night with three episodes; future installments will drop every Wednesday. Before you tell us what you thought of Episode 1, though, let’s recap what happens in the series premiere.
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- 3/18/2020
- TVLine.com
“She’s the bad guy here, not me,” Elena Richardson says of Mia Warren late in the new Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere. Elena — perfectly rich and blonde — cannot conceive of a story in which she is the villain. She considers herself a paragon of liberal virtue, someone who, for instance, proudly tells anyone who will listen that her daughter Lexie has an African-American boyfriend. How could she possibly be the bad guy?
The problem — for both Elena and, to a degree, for Little Fires Everywhere — is that Elena is the villain of her story,...
The problem — for both Elena and, to a degree, for Little Fires Everywhere — is that Elena is the villain of her story,...
- 3/16/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Here’s a situation that would challenge even Flack PR guru Robyn: Pop has cancelled the dramedy just shy of its Season 2 premiere.
Per our sister site Variety, the cable network also yanked Florida Girls, which it renewed for Season 2 in October 2019, and Best Intentions, a coming-of-age comedy from American Pie‘s Adam Herz. Best Intentions had not yet premiered on Pop.
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Per our sister site Variety, the cable network also yanked Florida Girls, which it renewed for Season 2 in October 2019, and Best Intentions, a coming-of-age comedy from American Pie‘s Adam Herz. Best Intentions had not yet premiered on Pop.
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- 3/5/2020
- TVLine.com
You could easily watch a few scenes from Little Fires Everywhere, with Reese Witherspoon starring as a tightly wound mom ruling over a rich suburb, and get fooled into thinking you’re watching a new season of Big Little Lies. But trust me: You’re not. Hulu’s adaptation, which debuts Wednesday, March 18 (I’ve seen the first three episodes) is a resounding disappointment, considering the star power behind it — a flat, formulaic melodrama that hits all the wrong notes. It’s almost a case study in a good book adaptation versus a bad one. Little Fires is like a...
- 3/4/2020
- TVLine.com
It takes until the third episode of “Little Fires Everywhere” for there to be a significant moment of peace. Izzy (Megan Stott), the youngest and most rebellious of four Richardson children, actually relents to her mother’s wishes and dresses like a “proper” teenager for a school dance. But when she walks downstairs, her shocked mother Elena (Reese Witherspoon) notices a tiny cut marring Izzy’s otherwise pristine appearance.
In just about any other scene of Hulu’s overwrought adaptation, this would be enough to start a fight — Elena would demand perfection, ordering her daughter upstairs to clean up, while Izzy would stubbornly defend the imperfection, mainly to infuriate her mother. The little cut would become a little fire, all to add more white-hot fuel to an already sensationalized inferno.
Instead, Elena takes Izzy upstairs and shows her how to shave her legs. That’s all. It’s a muted,...
In just about any other scene of Hulu’s overwrought adaptation, this would be enough to start a fight — Elena would demand perfection, ordering her daughter upstairs to clean up, while Izzy would stubbornly defend the imperfection, mainly to infuriate her mother. The little cut would become a little fire, all to add more white-hot fuel to an already sensationalized inferno.
Instead, Elena takes Izzy upstairs and shows her how to shave her legs. That’s all. It’s a muted,...
- 3/4/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Choosing what to watch can be overwhelming, and with each passing month, the number of options only grows. Fortunately, TV Guide's Reviews and Recommendations team will guide you through the complex question of what to stream and where to stream it. If you're looking for something to stream, here
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- 2/26/2020
- by Liam Mathews
- TVGuide - Breaking News
After years of being talked about, Kerry Washington is ready to steer the conversation herself. The 43-year-old actor and producer spent the better part of last decade playing the brilliant Olivia Pope on “Scandal,” Shonda Rhimes’ buzzy political drama that brought Washington into millions of homes. But as the series wound down, she kept a canny eye trained on her future, and how she could make a difference in her industry and the world beyond it.
“I had such a beautiful, collaborative relationship on ‘Scandal’ with Shonda, and I think that made me feel like, going forward in my career, I only wanted to work on projects where I felt I could be heard,” says Washington. Perched on a chair in the San Vicente Bungalows, a sleek new Los Angeles clubhouse that places palm tree stickers over visitors’ phone cameras lest they try to document anything within, Washington is keenly...
“I had such a beautiful, collaborative relationship on ‘Scandal’ with Shonda, and I think that made me feel like, going forward in my career, I only wanted to work on projects where I felt I could be heard,” says Washington. Perched on a chair in the San Vicente Bungalows, a sleek new Los Angeles clubhouse that places palm tree stickers over visitors’ phone cameras lest they try to document anything within, Washington is keenly...
- 2/18/2020
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
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