The rivalry between Reese Witherspoon’s Madeline and Laura Dern’s Renata in the first season of Big Little Lies can only be described as epic, resulting in rival birthday-party and ice-skating events and public debates over ribald puppetry. But the two did wind up coming together at the end of the season to support…
Obsessive fandom is a regular, if unwelcome, part of the celebrity life, one that various famouses handle with varying degrees of grace or charm. Or, to put it another way: Some people punch photographers, and some people are Reese Witherspoon.
Reese Witherspoon is getting pretty serious about the streaming TV business, having already sold two shows to Apple’s needlessly mysterious streaming service, and now Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Hulu has given a straight-to-series order to her adaptation of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere. The…
This is it, friends. The moment they tried to warn us about has come to pass. We ignored irrefutable proof that Justin Bieber is a lizard person, that Nicolas Cage is an ageless vampire, and that Taylor Swift is an Illuminati clone secretly leading the Church of Satan. But now we have clear photographic evidence that…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kristen Wiig is set to star in You Think It, I’ll Say It, the first scripted comedy series from Apple. The show is inspired by an upcoming short story collection by Curtis Sittenfeld, and Apple has already given it a 10-episode order even though it doesn’t have a production studio…
Many of Hollywood’s most influential women have declared that time’s up for the serial abusers in their industry (and elsewhere), announcing an ambitious new anti-harassment initiative, per The New York Times.
This year’s female-focused HBO miniseries Big Little Lies was successful, to put it mildly. It was nominated for 16 Emmys and won eight, including Outstanding Limited Series, so it’s not surprising that the premium cable channel would want to return to that particular well. The only problem is that the seven-episode…
While you’d be forgiven for thinking that the story of a betrayed woman getting elaborate revenge on her cheating husband is a pretty common trope, some stories are more similar than others. And some, as though we needed reminding, can spur lawsuits.
Yes, there’s something to be said for escapism. Not every movie has to engage with the big issues of the day. Sometimes you’re more in the mood for a cinematic soufflé than a dry-rubbed onscreen steak. All that being said, however, if your idea of conflict is that three young filmmakers’ agents are getting them too…
Mindy Kaling’s The Mindy Project has scooped up a big-name guest star get for its upcoming final season, with Variety reporting that Kaling’s A Wrinkle In Time co-star, Reese Witherspoon, has signed on for an episode of the show. Kaling broke the news via Instagram, reflecting on the fact that Witherspoon is the only…
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are about to America’s Sweetheart the fuck out of a new drama series, centered on the world of morning network news. Deadline reports that Aniston—who hasn’t worked regularly in TV since Friends went off the air—and Witherspoon—who recently scored an Emmy nod for Big Little Lies…
Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time has already amassed a huge (and top-notch) cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Chris Pine will play the scientist parents of Meg Murry (newcomer Storm Reid), who sets off in search of her father when he goes missing. Along the way, she meets three cosmic beings—Mrs. Who, Mrs.…
Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have been a Hollywood power couple for more than 30 years, sticking together through the ups and downs of their respective careers. Amazingly, though, neither of them has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, the famed tourist attraction that invites California tourists to stomp all over…
The success of HBO’s Big Little Lies has kicked up renewed interest in the works of Australian author Liane Moriarty, whose 2014 novel served as the basis for the show’s star-studded portrait of domestic violence and sexual assault in smiling suburbia. Stars and executive producers Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon…
From the start of the series, the murder framing Big Little Lies—the intended draw—somehow became its least compelling element, in favor of exposing the intimate lives of this group of first-grade moms. Some of the things they turned out to be hiding were psychological, like Renata’s abject fear of failure. Some were…
The beautiful homes on display in Big Little Lies aren’t there by accident: Their perfect facades bely the varying levels of tempestuousness that reside in each. This week, as BLL deftly maneuvers all of its pieces in place for next week’s finale, the facades finally begin to crack, as Madeline, Celeste, and Renata…
Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon have been friends since 2014’s Wild, when Dern played the flashback-appearing mother of Witherspoon’s self-seeking globetrotter. While doing press together for HBO’s dark family dramedy Big Little Lies—where they play suburban moms waging an escalating cold war on each other—though,…
With this astonishing fifth episode of Big Little Lies, I keep thinking about all the reviews when it came out that called it trash: high-quality trash, but trash nonetheless. By this episode, this series is so far beyond that moniker it’s hard to believe it was ever associated with it in the first place. This week we…
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, March 19. All times are Eastern.
When I had my twins, I really struggled with the decision whether to stay home with them or not, knowing full well how fortunate I was to even be able to make that decision. I knew they were the only kids I would ever have, and their infancy was flying by at an alarming rate. On the other hand, could I really give up…
