Kate Hudson is Back in the Game in ‘Running Point’ Season 2
What a year for Kate Hudson who started off this one as an Academy Award nominee for her role in Song Sung Blue opposite Hugh Jackman. And there’s a distinct possibility an Emmy nomination could be in her future for Running Point, whose second season just dropped on Netflix. The new chapters in the comedy based on the Buss family ownership of the Los Angeles Lakers see Hudson settling more deeply into her character of Isla Gordon, the...
‘Balls Up’ Contending for the World Cup of Comedy
Put Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser and Molly Shannon together and what do you get? A very fun and funny feature romp now streaming on Prime, Balls Up. It’s the kind of chaotic, big-swing comedy that’s broad, unapologetically ridiculous, and surprisingly sharp when it wants to be. The film leans hard into its absurd premise of a condom company trying to become an official World Cup sponsor and is largely set in Brazil....
‘Euphoria’ Returns in a Season 3 Premiere That Reminds Us Why We Couldn’t Look Away
It’s been four years since we’ve been down that road, and now we have a five-year time jump. Yes, Euphoria storms back onto HBO with a premiere that is equal parts hypnotic and harrowing—an hour of television that doesn’t just pick up where it left off, but plunges deeper into the emotional wreckage its characters can’t seem to escape. Just the first scene along with Zendaya drving through the Mexico desert to the US border gets...
‘The Voice’ Brings Back OG Winners–and a Coach– in Battle of Champions
NBC’s The Voice delivered its most nostalgia-fueled—and genuinely thrilling—episode of the season on April 6 with its first-ever “Battle of Champions” all-star showdown that brought back six fan-favorite winners and finalists, and reinstated original coach CeeLo Green as a red-caped commissioner to decide their fate. For those who don’t remember, Green held court in one of the four red chairs with Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and...
‘Hacks’ Goes Back to Being “Profoundly Silly” in Fifth and Final Season
When we last saw Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance on Hacks, she was going through an existential crisis. The Emmy-winning comedy about the legendary stand-up and late night host and a prickly young writer who upended her life has spent five seasons threading the line between brutal honesty and big, cathartic laughs. Season 5 picks up in the aftermath of one of the show’s boldest swings yet: Vance confronting the premature reporting of her...
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