Posts by Tess Lynch
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Talking Sex and the City With Special Guests Tanlines
This week we opened up the hermetically sealed doors of the HoodieDome and welcomed our first podcast guests, Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm of the band Tanlines, to talk about — what else? — Sex and the City. Specifically, we wanted to talk about the show’s peculiar place in the Golden Age of Television (as […]
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Afternoon Links: Billy Bob Thornton and Kathy Bates Are Coming to FX
Billy Bob Thornton has been cast as Lorne Malvo in FX’s Fargo miniseries, a character The Hollywood Reporter compares to Steve Buscemi’s Carl Showalter in the original film. FX’s plot and characters don’t hail from the 1996 Coen brothers masterpiece, save, thankfully, for that trademark “Minnesota nice.” Fargo marks Thornton’s first regular TV gig since […]
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Afternoon Links: Young Adults
Today was a big day for the young-adult genre. CBS Films bought the rights to Children of Paranoia, the first part of a trilogy about “a secret war that’s been waged for centuries via assassins,” and nabbed Battlestar Galactica‘s Mark Verheiden for the screenplay; meanwhile, Columbia Pictures has Erin Brokovich‘s Susannah Grant working on the […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Orange Is the New Black, Rating TV Theme Songs, and More
Appropriately, for a discussion of a show that is about hitting rock bottom and finding a way to thrive there, the Girls in Hoodies recorded this podcast from the plushly carpeted floor of the Grantland studio. Maybe it was our Pavlovian subconscious telling us that we were about to have some quality circle time or […]
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Eight TV Opening Sequences Better (and Worse) Than Orange Is the New Black’s
Today on the Girls in Hoodies podcast, Molly, Emily, and I talk about the greatness of Orange Is the New Black, which leads us, inevitably, to a discussion about opening credits. OITNB’s intro was not made with Netflix marathons in mind: fast-forwarding through it can seem like too much of a hassle (especially if you […]
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Afternoon Links: Deep Inside The Canyons
Michael Musto interviewed Bret Easton Ellis about The Canyons. There will be dirt! And dirt there was: perhaps it was the Adderall that made Lohan “sometimes bossy”; James Deen initially mistook the project for a porn; Musto questioned the merits of The Canyons versus The Way, Way Back; and, of course, Ellis’s hater magnet. For […]
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Afternoon Links: Look on This New Breaking Bad Trailer, Ye Methy, and Get AMPED
In the new teaser for the final season of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston’s Walter White recites Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias.” Go bleak or go home, that’s the dusty desert way. The new season premieres on August 11, so you have just enough time to get yourself to a mental place where you won’t kill yourself […]
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Angelina Jolie Named 2013’s Highest-Paid Actress Despite Not Releasing a Film Since 2011
Angelina Jolie, who last appeared onscreen in 2010’s The Tourist (remember? With Johnny Depp? With whom she shared so little chemistry that “a microscope and a search party could not discover any trace of” it?), has topped Forbes’s list of this year’s highest-paid actresses, ranking 41st overall (Oprah, Lady Gaga, Steven Spielberg, Beyoncé, and Madonna were […]
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Afternoon Links: Chris Harrison, Guardian of Love
With all of the discussion in the past week about Sex and the City (see: Emily Nussbaum’s piece in The New Yorker, which spawned this response and some ongoing discussion), it seems fitting to examine the host of our currently airing love-for-sale vehicles, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Above, Chris Harrison proves that he’s the […]
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Afternoon Links: Run Into Your Weekend With This Nicolas Cage Wicker Man Supercut
The 2006 remake of The Wicker Man: so bad, so weird, and with so many bees. Nicolas Cage called the movie “absurd,” which is an understatement, and said last year that he wanted to “take The Wicker Man to Japan, except this time he’s a ghost.” Maybe that’s because a ghost could beam itself to […]
