Amanda Peet and Sarah Paulson shared a Golden Globes red carpet kiss — right on the mouth!
Peet and Paulson were posing together on the red carpet when the smooch took place. Paulson was rocking a gorgeous gold Marc Jacobs dress, and Peet went for a burgundy gown for the evening.
It looks like Paulson's girlfriend, Holland Taylor, was unable to attend the award's show tonight, so Peet stepped in, as she has done before.
Back in December, Paulson also brought Peet to the 22nd Annual Critics' Choice Awards.
"Marcia wasn’t available,” Peet said at the time, referencing Paulson's nomination for her role as Marcia Clark in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. "I’ll take it! I’m sloppy seconds."
Paulson won her first Golden Globe in the category of Best Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television. She took the opportunity to thank the real Marcia Clark for her contributions during the O.J. Simpson trial.
"And to the remarkable Marcia Clark: You are an inspiration to me," Paulson said. "If I could live my life with a fraction of your wit, integrity, and your unapologetic fierceness, I would be on the road to doing it right."
Do you think Amanda Peet and Sarah Paulson won the 2017 Golden Globes red carpet?
Jimmy Fallon probably just won the superlative of Greatest Awards Show Cold Open Ever with his 2017 Golden Globes introduction. It had everything: Evan Rachel Wood reprising her Westworld role, La La Land's opening musical number, Kit Harington pretending to be dead à la Jon Snow, and even Barb from Stranger Things rising from the depths of a pool. In short: this cold open was freaking amazing.
I mean, does it get any better than an introduction modeled on the amazing La La Land? Fallon made sure to hit on the film's many iconic moments, including the stuck-in-traffic opening number and the planetarium dance scene. He was joined by a ton of famous faces, including Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams, Rami Malek, the kids of Stranger Things, Tina Fey and his bro-in-arms, Justin Timberlake. Everyone came together to create a purer-than-the-driven-snow opening that left you buzzing with pure joy.
Maybe the best and most meme-able moment was Barb fulfilling all of our dreams and rising from the depths of the pool. It validated all of those fans who desperately wanted Barb to get her due and gave us perhaps the greatest GIF of 2017.
But how can you stop there? What about the absolutely brilliant moment when Timberlake appeared and whisked Fallon off his feet and into the stars? Watching those bros boogie down was the definition of charming.
It may have been short and sweet, but Fallon totally won us over with his introductory number. It may be worth revisiting repeatedly in the coming days, especially if you want to keep the Golden Globes good times going.
In her speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, Streep took time to honor Hollywood, foreigners, and the press, all of which she indicated were crucial to society and to the future of the political landscape. Her speech was appreciative of the different people who come together to make films and tell stories reflective of our contemporary American landscape. She honored other women. She spoke truth to power. She brought the whole damn house down.
Here is the full transcript of her speech, which you should print out and read every day for the rest of 2017.
I love you all. You'll have to forgive me. I lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read.
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You, and all of us in this room really, belong to the most vilified segment in society right now.
Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners, and the press. But who are we and what is Hollywood anyway? It's just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper's cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, and Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in Lon— no, Ireland, I do believe, and she's here nominated for playing a small-town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian, and Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So, Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if we kick 'em all out, we'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts (which are not the arts).
An actor's only job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. There were many, many, many powerful performances this year that did exactly that. Breathtaking, compassionate work. But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its hooks in my heart, not because it was good — there was nothing good about it — but it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out of my head because it wasn't in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life because it kind of gives everybody permission to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
OK, this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That's why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our Constitution. So, I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the committee to protect journalists because we're going to need them going forward and they'll need us to safeguard the truth.
One more thing. Once, when I was standing around on the set one day, whining about something — we were going to work through supper or the long hours — Tommy Lee Jones said to me, "Isn't it such a privilege, Meryl? To be an actor?" Yeah, it is, and we have to remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of empathy. We should all be very proud of the work Hollywood honors here tonight.
As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once: "Take your broken heart and make it into art." Thank you.
Two women dominated the 2017 Golden Globes tonight, and deservedly so: Tracee Ellis Ross and Viola Davis. Both actors are women of color and currently at the top of their game. Their Golden Globe wins cemented (for Ross) and confirmed (for Davis) that fact. What their wins also confirmed was that, for women of color in Hollywood, representation in meaningful projects is possible — and better still, it is worthy of universal recognition.
Ross, for her part, was not only a first-time Golden Globe nominee for her role in ABC's Black-ish, she was also the first black woman to win an award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy, in more than 30 years. That superlative is indicative of how desperately times have needed to change in the landscape of film and television. It should go without saying that a 30-year interim is too long a dry spell for women of color in television to get their due, especially when we have a more diverse television environment than ever before.
Davis accepted her Golden Globe and gave a speech that expressed the importance of representation and her role in that: "I believe that it's our responsibility to uphold what it is to be an American and what America is about and the true meaning of what it means to pursue the American dream. I think that America in and of itself has been an affirmation, but I think we've fallen short a lot...So, then, what does that say about us? And I think that, if you answer that question, I think that says it all."
Tracee Ellis Ross Golden Globes Win
Tracee Ellis Ross Golden Globes Win
Davis' words effectively answer the outrage that was the #OscarsSoWhite conversation in recent years. Where previous award seasons honored mostly white actors, these Golden Globes wins could be part of a rising tide toward equal awards favor.
The wins for Davis' and Ross' respective work are an important step forward. For women of color in particular and for all women working in film and television, these wins prove that representation matters. For women of color, it is a major step forward to see Davis and Ross' work validated and honored, especially when that work is telling stories so deeply connected to gender and race in America.
Congratulations on your respective wins, Ms. Ross and Ms. Davis. You are two immensely talented women who deserve nothing but praise and adulation for your work.
Let me start here by saying that I liked La La Land. I thought it was well written and an inspiring story. But when I saw it, I did not at all walk out of the theater thinking it was the award show sweeper it has become.
It won seven out of the 14 awards for movies in 2017! It won in every category it had a nomination.
And there were a ton of great movies this year, like Moonlight, Fences, Lion and Loving.
Also, I really thought this was going to be the year for diversity with all of these films bringing the truth of humanity to the screen. And, yes, Viola Davis won Best Supporting Actress for Fences and Moonlight won Best Drama, but La La Land was so dominant in the film category that no one else really stood a chance. And it's a film that features predominantly white actors — except John Legend, who is such a seasoned musical performer that I thought he stole the scene from Gosling a fair few times, yet he got no award show credit.
Well, La La Land did have a bit of an edge at the Globes because it was in the Musical or Comedy category, which means, for the most part, that it wasn't competing against expected big hitters like Fences and Manchester by the Sea.
In three out of the seven categories it won, La La Land's biggest competition was Florence Foster Jenkins and Deadpool. While those were also great films, La La Land is clearly the big winner in that matchup. Sorry, Ryan Reynolds.
I hope some good will come from La La Land's win. I hope we'll see more musicals like it cropping up. I hope the days of Gene Kelly and movies like Singing in the Rain will be reborn. I just don't think La La Land is the musical to trump all musicals.
I saw Hail, Caesar right around the time I saw La La Land, and they both share some similarities. Both are pictures of Hollywood, though in different time periods. And both have an all-star cast, participating in some beautiful song and dance numbers. But when I saw that musical number with Channing Tatum in Hail, Caesar, I thought, "Yes, yes! This is a musical number. This is musical performance."
And while I think, overall, La La Land surpassed Hail, Caesar, I do not think the musicality of La La Land came even close to that one minute of awe I felt watching Channing Tatum dancing in Hail, Caesar. It left me wanting more from Gosling and Stone.
It'll be interesting to see how things pan out at the Oscars this year when all of the films are pitted against one another rather than split between drama and comedy.
Were you obsessed with La La Land, or do you agree that other films were bigger standouts?
Betty White is the beloved spunky, sassy grandma we all had or wish we had. And for many of us, it all started with her endearing character from The Golden Girls, Rose, who was well-intentioned but dim-witted (and we mean that in the nicest way possible, of course).
And for those of us haven't watch an episode of The Golden Girls in a while but really, really want to, the best news has arrived: Every episode will be streaming on Hulu starting February 13. That's right, you can spend your Valentine's Day with the Girls.
In the meantime, let's celebrate with a few of our favorite Rose quotes.
"Like we say in St. Olaf — Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy."
"That moose not only raised little Yimminy, he put him through medical school."
"We weren't allowed to wear berets at my school, it was against the St. Olaf dress code. They did let me wear a paper cap, though. It was long and pointy."
"When I was growing up in Minnesota the doctor made house calls all the time, for us and the livestock. Worked out fine — until the doctor started drinking hog liniment and tried to neuter the Swenson brothers."
"Norwegians are notoriously bad at Spanish."
"Boy, I remember on the farm, when we'd get depressed, Grandma could always cheer us up. She'd take out her dentures and take a healthy swig of the aquarium and then hold a flashlight under a chin, so we could watch the goldfish swim from cheek to cheek. Boy, we could have watched them all day, but visiting hours were only from 10 to 4."
(When the girls are tired of St. Olaf stories, Rose tries this introduction)
"Back in that town whose name you're tired of hearing..."
(After a sleepless night because the roof is leaking, Dorothy sees Rose carrying a bucket and asks her if she had a leak in her room, too.) "No, Dorothy. I was just milking the cow I keep in my closet. Wow, with only three hours of sleep, I can be as b***** as you!"
"Oh, you bet I am! I eat raw cookie dough. And occasionally, I run through the sprinklers and don't wear a bathing cap. And at Christmas, I've been known to put away more than one eggnog."
Sophia: Well, forgive me. But my arthritis is [acting] up. My Social Security check was late. And I realized today I haven't showered with a man in 22 years!
Dorothy: Ma, Pop's been dead 27 years.
Sophia: What's your point?
Dorothy: Ma, what are you saying?
Rose: Isn't it obvious, Dorothy? She showered with a dead man for five years.
If you've been hoping the veterans were going to dominate Season 14 of Top Chef, you'd better think again.
Following Sam Talbot's exit, another veteran cheftestant got booted off — Amanda Baumgarten. The judges found the Chicago chef's duck dish boring in the elimination challenge.
So is she surprised she was told to pack her knives and go? And who's she rooting for? Here's what she had to say in our exclusive interview.
Amanda Baumgarten: It's never fun getting eliminated, but I had a feeling that it was my time to go.
SK: What was it like working with all the judges on the show? Who's the most intimidating?
AB: All the judges make me nervous, but Padma [Lakshmi] is by far the most intimidating. Her palate is so on point. Nothing gets past her.
SK: Which contestant do you think deserves to win? Or who are you rooting for?
AB: I think this season is all about girl power. I'm torn between Brooke [Williamson], Casey [Thompson], and Shirley [Chung]. I'm rooting for them all!
SK: Who did you consider your biggest competition?
AB: The female veterans!
SK: Was there anyone on the show you really clashed with? Who was it and why?
AB: I got along with everyone. We all really bonded with each other.
SK: What's one thing that happened behind the scenes viewers didn't get to see on the show?
AB: ...I don't think I can tell you. [Winks]
SK: Who do you think deserved to go home on last night’s episode?
AB: Like I said, I think it was my time to go.
SK: What was the best experience you had on the show?
AB: Getting to know and work with such a group of talented chefs was by far the best part of returning for another season. I'm really proud to call them my friends.
SK: What was the biggest challenge for you on the show?
AB: The clock...
SK: Who's your favorite Top Chef contestant of all time and why?
Remember when Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life came to a close and Rory revealed to Lorelai that she is pregnant? Those final four words definitely left fans wondering just who Rory's baby daddy is. Well, if you ask Milo Ventimiglia, he has no idea and seems like he couldn't care less because, well, he hasn't really thought about it.
Clearly, Ventimiglia isn't like every other fan who is probably attempting to conduct their very own DNA test somehow to figure out who the dad is stat. While chatting with Variety at the 2017 Golden Globes, he was asked who he thought the father of Rory's child is.
The actor who brings Jess Mariano to life gave quite the surprising answer and said, "I don't think it's any of the three guys at all." He added, "I don't know. You know what? I haven't really sat around and thought about it, wondered who it was. So, I'll be surprised as anyone else is."
Whoa. He doesn't think it's Jess, Logan or Dean? Admittedly, fans probably didn't suspect Dean, seeing as he is now married with children of his own. Also, Dean and Rory don't seem to have anything romantic going on like they did in previous seasons. As for the other two, Jess and Logan appeared to be the most likely candidates, in addition to Paul and Wookiee guy. Though, it has to be Logan, right?
Thanks to Ventimiglia's response, feel free to run wild with even more theories as to who it could be. Really, the This Is Us star could just be pulling fans' legs and adding to the speculation. Or, he very well has no idea because he hasn't been allowed inside Amy Sherman-Palladino's inner circle.
Whatever the case, the identity of Rory's baby daddy remains a mystery and will probably continue to be until new episodes (keep those fingers crossed) of Gilmore Girls pop up on Netflix
As for Ventimiglia, he'll be too busy channeling all of his energy into playing Jack Pearson. Really, who can blame him or be mad at him for that?
The best stars on Celebrity Apprentice are clever and driven — Leeza Gibbons is a great example. Other Celebrity Apprentice contestants are prone to drama, but they're also incredibly entertaining to watch.
Driven or dramatic, it takes all types to make this show succeed. What we can't stand is when somebody just can't be bothered to put in any effort or at least say something interesting. Such was the case with Eric Dickerson, who absolutely deserved his merciless termination at the hands of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Dickerson showed up late and had a very laid-back attitude. He contributed little to his team's project, instead letting his fellow contestants do all the hard work. Granted, the project wasn't the most interesting the show has ever had. It involved filming an infomercial and talk show about grape juice. Still, there was a lot at stake for Dickerson, who had the opportunity to earn serious money for his charity. Evidently, none of that mattered; he made it clear that he didn't want to be there and would be perfectly happy to go home.
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Not only did Dickerson act ambivalent about the show while putting together his team's infomercial (or rather, chilling while everybody else did all the hard work), he made the fatal mistake of actively telling Schwarzenegger that he didn't particularly care if he was fired. That is just not something you say on Celebrity Apprentice. Schwarzenegger was actually about to fire that week's project manager (Chael Sonnen), but he decided that a complete lack of drive was a much bigger problem than mere incompetence, so he sent Dickerson to the chopper.
Right before he delivered the always hilarious line, "You're terminated," to Dickerson, Schwarzenegger gave him some compelling food for thought: Even if he doesn't particularly enjoy being on a reality show, Dickerson should work hard so that he can earn money for a deserving charity. Yes, the money would go to some other charity if Dickerson didn't accomplish anything, but still, it would have been nice to see him try. Otherwise, what's the point?
Of course, Dickerson wasn't the only celebrity ready to head home. Snooki also bowed out way too early and was too willing to give up when the going got tough. But at least she made the show a little more entertaining, even if she was simply the love-to-hate contestant.
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Eric Dickerson video
We were not at all disappointed to see Dickerson and Snooki go home. They clearly do not belong in this competition. We're glad that other celebrities actually want to make something of this extraordinary opportunity.
Do you think Arnold Schwarzenegger made the right call? Comment and share your opinion below.
The Bachelor Season 21 just got awkward as the first round of group dates showcased an interesting side of Nick Viall.
Viall absolutely didn't seem to know what to do with himself, smooshed in between all of his lovely — and sexually competitive — ladies. He crumbled under the pressure. It ended more than awkwardly for the poor guy, who looked like he was lost most of the time.
Corinne is jealous and taking her shirt off. Liz is airing her dirty laundry with Nick in front of all the ladies. And he's already faux breaking up with six of them, only to experience their wrath. Whew!
We would imagine that in Week 2, Viall already has a pretty good idea of which women he's interested in and which he's just keeping around to make a good show. We can all see it.
For Sherlock fans, Series 4's second episode, "The Lying Detective," was the one they've been waiting for for years, because it sees Sherlock Holmes and John Watson finally share a hug.
The moment happened when Watson, played by Martin Freeman, broke down and confessed to Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock that he had been speaking to another woman behind his wife Mary's back (before her death in the previous episode.) Watson, riddled with guilt, was in need of comfort, and while many fans would have expected Sherlock to react in a completely different way (given the difficulty that he has previously shown with expressing feelings) he surprised us all by embracing his friend and colleague.
Sherlock hugs Watson
Sherlock hugs Watson
And the internet has gone crazy.
The episode of the hit BBC series drew in 6 million viewers, winning its time slot and beating competitor Endeavour's 5.1 million. Fans took to Twitter to share their joy over the emotional moment — and it's clear that a lot of people have been waiting for this for a long time.
This hug was much more than just a fleeting moment of emotion — it was also an important step in the development of Cumberbatch's character.
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reactions to Sherlock's hug 8
Could this moment be the breakthrough that Holmes needed to come to terms with his emotions? Does this mean he will be more willing to embrace his softer side? Could this new change in Holmes' attitude subsequently affect his approach to his work?
We'll have to wait and see how Series 4 plays out, but the new dynamic between the characters, coupled with through-the-roof ratings, could help ensure that the series makes it back for a fifth series.
However, it's possible that more main characters will be killed off, something Cumberbatch seemed to hint at during a recent interview.
"This new series goes to a place where it will be hard to follow on immediately," he explained. "We never say never on the show, but in the immediate future we all have things we want to crack on with, and we've made something very complete as it its."
What did you think of the hug between Sherlock and Watson? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
Good binge-worthy television series are as crucial to your survival during a Canadian winter as long johns and central heating. It's time to look forward to an exciting roster of new shows that appear to feature strong female characters — whether you're in the mood to laugh along with working moms as they try to juggle breast pumps and work calls or watch a dark comedy about a suburban real estate agent who just happens to be a cannibal.
Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée, the director of Wild and Dallas Buyers Club, worked with a stacked cast of Hollywood stars on Big Little Lies, including Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley and Zoë Kravitz. Set in Monterey, California, this dark, twisted dramedy centers around the lives of an unlikely cast of women. Kidman stars as an ex-corporate lawyer whose picture-perfect marriage isn't all it appears to be. Kravitz plays a yoga instructor and second wife to her older husband, and Woodley is a troubled single mother haunted by her past. Despite their obvious differences, the women appear to be connected by a tangled web of secrets, which comes to life in the aftermath of a murder. Tune into the first episode Feb. 1 on HBO Canada.
Workin' Moms
Working Moms
Working Moms
Comedian Catherine Reitman wants to get real about motherhood and the struggle to have it all in her new series Workin' Moms, a CBC comedy based on her actual life, which she stars in alongside her real-life husband. Reitman's show is inspired by own her experience with postpartum depression after giving birth to her first son and the moments of comedy she somehow managed to find in the challenging experience of returning to work shortly after giving birth. The new show asks the simple question: Can we really do it all? "All four characters are based on highly flawed aspects of myself," explained Reitman in an interview with ET Canada. "These are all real moments that I'm hoping our audience can relate to." We'll find out just how relatable this new series is when it premieres on CBC Jan. 10.
"Ready to take your life to a whole new level of wow?" asks a perky Drew Barrymore in a mock diet infomercial for her new show Santa Clarita Diet. Well, you can by eating whomever you want — but only if they deserve it of course. And did we mention the first month is free? Barrymore stars in this offbeat horror-inspired comedy about a suburban mom and real estate agent who experiences a little hiccup in her life when she joins the ranks of the undead and starts eating people. But despite being about cannibalism, Barrymore said, "There's a real optimism to the show." She added, “I don’t want to watch a show about a couple fighting and falling apart; I can’t handle it right now. It’s not heavy, but it’s not lacking in a sort of sweetness, if you will. But it’s also got bite and backbone and balls.” I'm intrigued — sign me up! The first episode premieres Feb. 3 on Netflix Canada.
Scandal Season 6
Scandal
Scandal
You really can't have too much of Kerry Washington as D.C. political fixer Olivia Pope, so thank God Olivia and her team of gladiators are returning to Netflix in Canada Jan. 20 for Season 6 with new episodes each week. Bust out the red wine, because it looks like things are going to get pretty intense this time around. We'll find out who won the presidential race; whether or not Olivia will reunite with Fitz, Jake or someone else entirely; and if Olivia will finally beat her father at his shady political games, or worse yet, become him.
Homeland Season 6
Homeland
Homeland
The sixth season of Homeland tackles incredibly timely and loaded topics, including Islamophobia and the fight against terrorism. Plus, there's a presidential race featuring a controversial female candidate. CIA officer Carrie Mathison returns to the United States from Berlin and takes on a new role this season: "Carrie's response to her experiences on the front lines was to disengage from the CIA," explained Claire Danes, who plays Carrie. "In this season she's created this law firm that advocates on behalf of wrongfully accused Muslim people." Wanna know more? Canadians can tune in Jan. 15 at 9 p.m. ET on Super Channel.
I don't know about you, but I am so ready for The Good Fight to premiere because it means I will finally have some badass Diane Lockhart goodness in my life. Haven't you missed her? The Good Fight is focusing on Diane's life post-Good Wife. After successfully retiring at the top of her game, Diane's world comes crashing down when a close friend ropes her, unwittingly, into a Ponzi scheme and she ends up losing her entire retirement fund. The subsequent battle for her life, credibility, and money will test her personal and professional relationships.
Basically, if you're not tuning in for The Good Fight, you better have a darn good reason not to. This show is poised to give you all the juicy, law-driven drama of The Good Wife but with the drama dial turned up to 11. You want strong women? You want courtroom antics? You want dapper lawyers in suits whipping out legal jargon on par with the sickest schoolyard burns? The Good Fight has it.
The Good Fight Trailer
The Good Fight Trailer
But in case those reasons alone aren't enough to pique your interest, here are the other essentials that you need to know to prep forThe Good Fight. Are you ready?
1. Sorry guys, Alicia Florrick won't return in The Good Fight
I know, guys. It's going to be sad knowing that we'll never see Alicia back on the small screen, but that doesn't mean she won't get alluded to from time to time. In the trailer for The Good Fight, Lucca mentions Alicia as "a woman I knew once"; expect for sly references in the series.
Even without Alicia on board, Diane is going to have two great women at her side: The Good Wife's Lucca (Cush Jumbo) is returning and they are joined by newcomer Maia (Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie). Both women are integral to Diane's fight against the man who stole her money and those who don't believe she can make a comeback.
3. Speaking of which, The Good Fight is super female-centric
Maia will be a great entry point for queer fans. Not only is she a smart, empowered woman, she is also a queer woman whose personal life will become a crucial part of the show.
5. Diane is definitely dropping an F-bomb (or two)
Yes! Praise be to The Good Fight gods who are letting Diane drop a big ol' F-bomb. Because The Good Fight will be airing on CBS All Access, the restrictions are a little bit looser on what we can hear come out of characters' mouths. Additionally, it would make sense, given the key plot point wherein Diane loses her retirement fund in a Ponzi scheme, that there would be some choice words to describe her situation.
You read that right: there's not only going to be F-bombs, there's be some sexy goodness on The Good Fight. Bless you, CBS All Access. We already get a peek of that in the trailer but fingers crossed the steaminess continues in full force during the show's first season.
7. The Good Fight is going to remain political, just like The Good Wife
The Good Fight was already in production when Donald Trump was elected President, which caused production to stop while the pilot was re-written to accommodate the new political outlook. As such, the pilot will include the election results and it will retain a sense of political subversiveness as the first season rolls out.
It's not just women — and queer women — that will be getting the spotlight. Characters of color are at the front and center in The Good Fight. Diane will be returning to work at a predominately African American law firm, as PEOPLE Magazine reports. Additionally, those pressing new political concerns about race under a Trump presidency will be dealt with by Lucca and the law firm's lead partner Robert Boseman (Delroy Lindo).
Yeah, yeah, so what if Alicia isn't coming back? We've got Carrie Preston, Jane Alexander, Denis O’Hare, John Benjamin Hickey, Rita Wilson, Michael Boatman and Matthew Perry all reprising their Good Wife roles. Additionally, Sarah Steele will return as regular Marissa Gold.
10. It is Diane's time to shine, despite beginning as a penniless woman
Watching Diane's rise and fall and subsequent second (much greater) rise from the ashes will make for compelling television. There aren't many shows right now focusing on women of a certain age rising professionally and personally like a phoenix from the ashes; Diane's narrative will focus squarely on such a topic and it's going to be so exciting to watch.
11. The Good Fight is going to feel timely, relevant, and real
Plain and simple, this may be a spinoff of The Good Wife, but The Good Fight will feature approximately zero percent stale material. There are so many great callbacks to the original, but this spinoff is truly in a league of its own. The world The Good Fight creates is going to feel more relevant and timely than ever before and if that's not reason enough to tune in, then buddy, I don't know what to tell you.
The show is the darkest of the dark, rivaling others like American Horror Story and Penny Dreadful. Fans are already hooked after tonight's premiere.
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taboo premiere reaction tweet 1
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From the gritty cinematography to the violent plot points, Taboo doesn't hold back from exploring the dark depths of humanity. But the premiere felt a little bit like it was just slapping us around with all of its doom and gloom.
Tom Hardy's character Delaney spends his time grunting in his gravelly voice, tearing out the throats of the people he hates using his teeth and having crazy visions that seem to suggest there's a darker taboo within Delaney... something witchy.
The show seems to pit Delaney against the others who would steal his land, but is that really going to keep us all going with intrigue for eight episodes?
There's got to be more. But I think exploring that is going to be half the fun of this new series.
I hope the show will further delve into Delaney's time in Africa and his mixed white and Native American heritage. Delaney's strange visions seem to point us right in the direction of discovery.
Otherwise, Delaney amounts to some unexplainable cannibal version of James Bond in the early 19th century — interesting to watch, but will we be stuck watching without ever feeling sure where our empathy belongs?
Surely the show is painting Delaney as the anti-hero. There is no doubt about that. There is also no doubt Hardy is a master of giving his villainous characters depth and soul. I'm confident he will weave it into Taboo, and I'm anxiously awaiting its arrival.
If you thought 2017 was off to a slow start, here's some news that should help buck up your year. According to a newly released synopsis by AMC, war is imminent on The Walking Dead. And, damn, it's about time.
Granted, Negan and his Saviors have only really been on the scene for just shy of one season, but the fact that he's such a royal jackhole who killed our favorite character at the start of this season (someone somewhere pour one out for Glenn) has basically made the series as of late feel as though it's operating in dog years — it's only been one season, but it feels like seven.
So excuse me for a minute while I praise Jesus for bringing us to this point: the precipice of "All Out War."
Let's get to the gritty details then, shall we? It's worth mentioning the fact that AMC also released three new photos along with the mysteriously generous synopsis for the second half of Season 7, but truth be told, there's nothing terribly special about the actual photos. Womp-womp.
Instead, let's dissect the surprisingly lengthy synopsis and speculate about what the hell is about to go down for Rick and friends.
The synopsis starts, "The first half of Season 7 saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group broken by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), forced to fall under his will and brutally convinced to live under his rules. The second half of the season will focus on preparing for war and gathering the supplies and numbers to take Negan down once and for all."
This is pretty straightforward and seems like a pretty clear sign that we could soon see one of the comic series' most iconic issues, "All Out War," come to life on screen. Of course, some of the players are different because in the comics Andrea is still alive and shacking up with Rick at this point (B-b-but, what about Michonne?!) and Daryl doesn't even exist. For shame.
The synopsis hints, "Rick’s group will find out yet again that the world isn’t what they thought it was. It’s much bigger than anything they’ve seen so far." And you know what "bigger world" sounds like code for, right? More people. I'm all for spicing things up with a new character from time to time, but for feck's sake I'm still referring to newbies this season as "that guy who wears the fake armor" and "the all-lady commune leader."
Listen, one measly episode devoted to King Ezekiel simply wasn't enough. I'll take watching a CGI tiger all day long if it means I get to hear Ezekiel wax poetic about how life can still be noble and kind in the zombocalypse more often. It looks like I could be getting my wish, since the synopsis states, "While they have a singular purpose — to defeat Negan — it won’t come easy. More importantly, victory will require more than Alexandria. They need the numbers of the Kingdom and the Hilltop, but, similar to how Rick felt, Ezekiel (Khary Payton) and Gregory (Xander Berkeley) do not want bloodshed. To convince them otherwise will take more than speeches." The longer it takes to convince Ezekiel, the more we'll see him around and I am here for it.
4. We're gonna see Rick and the gang kick it old school
Remember back in the OG days of The Walking Dead when the gang was still so scrappy and new? They would do things like fish bloated walkers out of drinking wells and other sorts of desperate yet inexplicably entertaining shenanigans. Is it just me, or does this line from the synopsis make you think we're going to see some of that old-school resourcefulness again? "The lengths Rick and the group will have to go to in order to find weapons, food and new fighters is nothing short of remarkable."
5. We're in for at least a few legitimate surprises
According to the synopsis, "We’ll see Rick and the group tested in ways we’ve never seen before." I mean, you think you've seen it all when you've watched the characters wear gut parkas and suffered through a guy's eyeball popping out of his head after being hit by a baseball bat. I fear to speculate over what new challenges the group may face.
"We'll see treachery from people we trust," the synopsis ominously teases. Well, shit. If I could go ahead and put my special request in now, could it not be Jesus? I was just really starting to like the guy. Other than that, everyone is fair game. Er, other than Michonne, Daryl, Sasha, Carol, Maggie, Morgan, Carl, Eugene, Rosita.... OK, fine — no one is allowed to make this prophecy come true. My tender heart can't take betrayal so soon after losing Glenn and Abe.
So foretelleth the synopsis: "Rick is confident as he will see his group and many others band together with the common goal of taking down Negan. But no amount of planning will prepare the group for all-out war with Negan and his army." All hail the return of savage Rick! And if I'm really being honest, I'm also pretty stoked to see how far the extent of Negan's sociopathic behavior will stretch during wartime.
We've seen a lot of romanticizing of President Obama in the final few days before Donald Trump's inauguration. Some of that is to be expected; Democrats and many Republicans are terrified of the implications of a Trump presidency. For some, even George W. Bush is starting to look like a mighty fine president in comparison to what lies ahead.
Also, there's just something charming about all those Obama-Biden memes and pictures of Obama hanging out with babies and toddlers. It's harder to imagine a cute picture of Trump with babies (although he did used to hang out with Grimace).
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And then there are the speeches. Barack Obama has always had the ability to transfix a crowd with the power of the spoken word. Such was the case yesterday, when he gave a farewell speech that had people on both sides of the aisle wishing for another eight years of Obama in the Oval Office.
The dread of a Trump presidency is leading some liberals to look at the entirety of the Obama presidency with rose-colored glasses. Former critics seem to have forgotten the very issues they took Obama to task for just a few short years ago. Not Samantha Bee — she's happy to remind us that, in some ways, a Trump presidency wouldn't look as different from an Obama presidency as we think.
Bee's chief example? Immigration. For all his talk of forcing Mexico to pay for a wall (talk that he has backpedaled a bit on in recent weeks), Trump's immigration policy is actually just an extension of what has already been happening these past few years. Although, to be fair, he would probably ramp it up.
Samantha Bee video
Samantha Bee video
During tonight's episode of Full Frontal, Bee reminded those who have been busy glorifying Obama that he definitely had his issues, and that in many ways, he has made it easier for Trump to take action via executive orders. She primarily focused on the issue of immigration, highlighting the many deportations that took place while Obama was in office.
Bee makes a good point. Yes, Democrats are bound to think fondly of Obama after he is no longer president, but remember: There were some real concerns about his presidency. If we regard politicians with rose-colored glasses, we're less likely to hold them accountable when they fall down on the job. Instead of wasting time with nostalgia, it's time to move forward and deal with a Trump presidency as best as we can.
Are you feeling nostalgic now that President Obama is about to leave the White House? Comment and share your opinion below.
There’s no question that Eileen Davidson has been a force in the soap world for decades. From her role as Kristen DiMera on Days of Our Lives to her current gig as Ashley Abbott on The Young and the Restless, there’s a reason fans tune in to see her storylines.
However, in recent years, Davidson’s character has been on the back burner and been relegated to less screen time than fans would like. Why would Y&R take a legacy character and relinquish her to background status?
“Here’s the problem: Eileen is a very powerful performer and there are very few men that she’s really worked well with over time — very few who can match her,” Sussman said. “And that’s going all the way back to 1982 when she first came to Y&R. I wrote her exit story on Days, so I know her power.”
“I don't completely agree, but... okay,” she said. “It's not the first time I've heard it. I used to get that from [Y&R co-creator] Bill Bell when I was in my 20s.”
Even if Bell was telling Davidson the same story decades ago, she was still at the forefront of Y&R’s storylines. Sussman promised “an unexpected soulmate story” for Davidson and it looks like it’s playing out with computer geek Ravi, played by actor Abhi Sinha.
The new romance hasn’t reached a boiling point, nor has it made her a central character again on Y&R. So what’s the real problem here?
It’s possible that Davidson’s other gig over on Bravo is affecting her Y&R job. Even though CBS cast her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-star Erika Girardi in a small role recently, it seems like the network is shirking away from the drama and girl fights that play out on the reality show.
That doesn’t seem to affect Davidson too much because she’s been open and honest about her personal struggles on RHOBH. She wants to be true to who she is in her personal life.
“I just try to be myself. Sometimes I take the high road, sometimes I don’t,” she said to TVInsider. “The thing that makes this reality gig so hard is that you are constantly voicing thoughts you’d normally let slide or keep private.”
Is her honesty keeping her from moving into a greater storyline on Y&R? It’s hard to say, but Davidson admits that she gets a variety of opinions about her time on Bravo.
“I’ve heard it all. ‘You shouldn’t be doing a soap opera.’ ‘You shouldn’t be doing reality TV.’ Everybody has an opinion, but, as time marches on, I’m still standing,” she laughed. “And there’s a lot to be said for that.”
For Davidson, doing it her way seems to be the best approach. Two jobs, staying in the spotlight and staying authentic works for her.
The point, as we learned on tonight's episode of Bringing Up Bates, is that whether you're a boy or a girl, no task is off limits. Every kid pitches in and if they have an interest in a certain task that would, in the past, have had a pesky gender label, it goes out the window. With 19 kids, there isn't time to worry about those silly gender expectations. It's teamwork, and teamwork in the Bates household means everyone pitches in equally.
It warmed my heart to see Erin Bates fostering Warden Bates' love of cooking during tonight's show.
"You know, if you get really good at this, you could be a chef one day," Erin told Warden as he got ready to serve the meal.
She told him all about Bobby Flay and explained that most famous chefs are men. (Annoying, but true.) Warden said he had no clue who Flay was, but that's beside the point. He still has plenty of time to learn.
And learning he is thanks to Erin's patient teaching.
In fact, Warden prepared it all, from setting the table to peeling the potatoes. Erin spent the whole time holding her new baby in her arms. She admitted she loves having Warden come over because he's such a big help.
It was Lawson, though, who explained to the cameras that in the Bates family, it's all about pitching in however you can.
"In a lot of households, the guys kind of do these things and the girls do these things," he said, gesturing with his hands. "But in our house, it's not really that way. It's all hands on deck."
Each season on Top Chef, some of the best rising chefs in the country are placed in high-pressure situations that test their skills, their knowledge, and their passion for cooking. Episode after episode, they are given time limits, mystery ingredients, and other insane challenges that test who is truly the best, all while Padma looks on, appearing to hover a few millimeters off of the ground.
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Honestly, it kind of reminds me a lot of my own kitchen, where my poor planning, two toddlers, lack of skill, and absentmindedness often result in food preparation tests that are on par with those of a cutthroat cooking competition. Here are just a few challenges I’ve weathered recently:
Make a quiche with the food in your fridge that has expired but still smells pretty okay.
Every Top Chef fan knows that time is of the essence. So when I saw that my bacon was starting to grey, but still smelled vaguely of bacon, I decided to step up to the literal plate. Sure, the bacon was two days beyond its BEST BY date, but perhaps that simply meant it was really, really good bacon instead of the best bacon. I paired it with some over-the-hill Parmesan (fuzzy green parts skillfully removed), some limp spinach, and a clinically depressed onion to create an extremely passable, totally edible quiche. Look for it on the brunch menu at Emeril Lagasse’s newest restaurant (though you won’t find it).
Prepare breakfast while holding a toddler who is screaming, “No breakfast!”
In the past, the Top Chef contestants have had to perform while blindfolded or with one hand behind their back. But that’s really nothing compared to Tuesday, when I had to prepare breakfast while holding a mid-tantrum 20-month-old. “Pancakes!” she screamed as I made waffles, deftly pouring batter onto the hot griddle with one hand. “Juice!” she screamed as I poured her milk and imagined Tom Colicchio curled in a ball and weeping. As the clock ran down to the exact minute I had to leave to get my older child to preschool, I realized I would never have time to plate my masterpiece. The judges were forced to eat plain waffles with their hands in their car seats.
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Do something–anything–with the three-pack of enormous watermelons you bought at Costco when you were hungry.
You should never go to the grocery store hungry. And you should never, evergo to Costco hungry. If you do, you might end up like me, staring down three watermelons in my kitchen as if they were live bombs, thirty minutes before friends arrive for dinner. How about an elegant watermelon salad, prepared with feta and mint, except without the feta and mint? How about I carve the largest watermelon into a basket and fill it with the smaller watermelons? How about instead of eating, our dinner guests experience food as art by smashing the melons against a blank canvas? Gail Simmonsloves experimental stuff.
Where did this eggplant come from, and where will it go?
How has Top Chef never had a challenge when each contestant is simply given an eggplant and told to make it taste good? Also, where did this eggplant in my kitchen come from? I vaguely remember picking it up at the grocery store in a sleep-deprived state, cradling it, and then gently patting it on its eggplant bum as I bounced it over to the cashier. And now I am stuck Googling “30-minute non-slimy eggplant dishes that don’t involve skill or thought.” Can I just fry them and then cover them in cheese and marinara sauce? Or should I gently place the eggplant in my Ergo and sing to it softly as I pack my knives and go?
The reality TV show is set to air on Arena on Sunday Feb. 26, and while we still have more than a month to wait, we have the trailer to keep us entertained for now. Here are six things we thought when watching it.
Real Housewives of Sydney trailer
Real Housewives of Sydney trailer
1. There isn't even any dialogue
Look, we know reality TV can be dramatic, but the trailer for RHOS is so intense that they didn't even bother to string together a storyline or any proper dialogue — which we can only imagine means screaming and catfights will fill the silence on the show.
2. Athena describes herself as a "spiritual goddess"
She may have chosen to market herself as a "spiritual goddess" (or the show did that for her), but if you're wondering who Athena X is, her real name is Athena Levendi. She spent her teenage years in Athens, Greece, and is married to an Australian Greek jewellery designer (she's also a jewellery designer) who owns and runs Levendi Jewellers.
The trailer is less than one minute and we've already got a glimpse into the seriously lavish lives of these women: Champagne, private yachts, helicopters and the prettiest dresses you have ever seen. Damn!
4. We already smell drama
Maybe it's just the death stares that all these women have perfected, but we already know this is going to be a series packed with drama.
According to an earlier report, after just two weeks of filming, all hell broke loose on the set with Athena threatening to leave the show after butting heads with Victoria Rees, and the ever-opinionated Lisa Oldfield has already referred to her castmates as a "malevolent bunch of molls."
Get ready people, it's coming, and in Oldfield's own words, it's going to make The Real Housewives of Melbourne look like a catwalk. Meow!
5. Who is Matty? Apart from being a self-made millionaire
We know the trailer doesn't tell you too much information about Persian-born Matty Samaei, but we think she's one to watch out for. Aside from her love of shopping, travelling and — you guessed it — socialising, Matty is also the owner of The Medispa by Matty.
Lisa Oldfield, who is married to former politician David Oldfield, is much more than her one-line bio lets on. She is also a successful businesswoman and television presenter.
In fact, she has a bone to pick with the show because of this.
Lisa Oldfield Instagram
Lisa Oldfield Instagram
Other ladies joining the cast are model Krissy Marsh; former Miss Australia Nicole O'Neil; actress, model and singer Melissa Tkautz; and interior decorator and beauty product owner, Victoria Rees.
Are you excited for The Real Housewives of Sydney? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
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