Posts by Tess Lynch

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Mad Men, The Queen of Versailles, and Google Glass

    First off, a brief announcement: As you may have heard, the Grantland Network has been cloven in twain to better serve our listeners. You can now find the Girls in Hoodies podcast on the fresh and fabulous Grantland Pop Culture channel (SUBSCRIBE NOW!), while your athletics-oriented favorites such as the Jalen Rose Show and the […]

  • Survivor

    Survivor: Caramoan, Episode 11: Of Men and Mustaches

    One of the many benefits to the structure of Survivor is that as soon as things start to look predictable — when one alliance outnumbers the other, when someone loafs around excessively or goes out of his way to act obnoxiously — the whole tribe seems to hear a subconscious buzzer signaling Big Move Time. […]

  • Afternoon Links: Mergers, Murders, and Renewals

    Mergers and acquisitions: Ridley Scott’s Scott Free production company gets a first-look deal with AMC, DreamWorks purchases the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV for $33 million, and Shark Tank and America’s Got Talent smush to create the talent competition You’re Booked. Murders and executions: Some evil lady tried to poison Starbucks patrons by stocking a display shelf […]

  • TV Astrology

    Charting the Zodiac for The Sopranos, Mad Men … and South Park

    Astrology in fiction has a colorful history: Queen Elizabeth’s relationship with astronomer, occultist, and crystal-ball guy John Dee led to repeated hot debates among Shakespeare’s characters (Prospero; Romeo and Juliet; King Lear) about self-determination versus the fate dictated by natal charts; Sailor Moon hits the horoscope tip on the double, covering both Eastern and Western […]

  • Afternoon Links: The Hillary Clinton Biopic Gets a Director

    Rodham, the upcoming biopic about Hillary Clinton’s early years, has secured a director: James Ponsoldt, responsible for Sundance hits Smashed (2012) and The Spectacular Now (2013). All I really care about is that we’re now one step closer to the hot, young Bill Clinton casting reveal. Whoaaaaaaa, that sax is on fiiiiiiyeerrrrr. In other directing […]

  • Afternoon Links: Michael Arndt Writes Star Wars — Day 1

    Michael Arndt’s first day of writing Star Wars: Episode VII features some serious real talk: revisiting Toy Story 3, getting food delivered with a side of therapy, and making the blub-blub lip noise. The only difference between the creative process of a genius and the creative process of an idiot is that a genius puts […]

  • Afternoon Links: The Silver Linings Alternate Ending Gives Us Four Extra Minutes of Jersey Drama and Face Sucking

    Look, here’s this alternate ending from Silver Linings Playbook. Ideally, this scene would go on for another 15 minutes with De Niro straight-up murdering Ricky for wearing a Vikings shirt, then wiping the blood off his hands and digging into some braciole while Cooper and Lawrence suck on each other’s tongues in the La-Z-Boy.

  • Arrested Development

    Afternoon Links: The Amazing Arrested Development Sneak Peek Is Finally on the Internet

    The 15 new episodes of Arrested Development drop on May 26, but here’s a new two-minute clip to tide you over. It’s good to see that Lucille is as nurturing as ever, lovingly feeding Buster her secondhand smoke so he can carry it over to the window and set it free. Operation Hot Mother, commence.

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Hemlock Grove, Otherkin, and 50 Shades of Development Hell

    You’ll have to bear with us a little this week; mere hours before we were set to talk about Reese Witherspoon’s legal troubles for at least twice as long as our Hollywood Prospectus podcast buddies (rivals? RIVALS) did earlier this week, we were informed by Grantland writer and obscure reality specialist Tara Ariano that the […]

  • Survivor

    Survivor: Caramoan, Episode 11: Bow Down Before Lord Cochran!

    After last week’s crazy tribal council, there was a Grantland e-mail chain during which all of the office Survivor fans discussed Malcolm’s strategy of letting Stealth know that the Three Amigos (if I’m embarrassed to type that, why are they not embarrassed to refer to themselves as that?) were voting for Phillip. A good question […]

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