Posts by Tess Lynch

  • Afternoon Links: The Romeo Killer Gets Litigious

    Lifetime is being sued by a convicted killer on which it based one of its ripping yarns, Romeo Killer: The Christopher Porco Story, and now a New York Supreme Court judge has “issued an injunction that not only prevents the airing but also prohibits Lifetime from promoting the film.” Lifetime is mad, because they’re projected […]

  • Afternoon Links: James Franco Wants You To Be Quiet

    “We got the royale with cheese. Look at my shit! We got fried pickles. Look at this shit!” Every time you talk or text, Spider-Man kills Franco’s father.

  • Afternoon Links: Watch the Singing, Dancing, Reggae-ing Return of David Brent

    David Brent has emerged from a decade spent in relative seclusion — during which time I assume he hung out in pajamas, Googling himself and practicing his reggae performance techniques — to appear on Ricky Gervais’s new YouTube channel and pointing at people of various ethnicities and sexual orientations on Equality Street with Doc Brown […]

  • Bates Motel

    Bates Motel Preview: A Boy’s BFF Is His Mother

    Everybody wants to poke a finger into Psycho, trying to reimagine the creepy recipe that officially put calling your mom “Mother” out of style. Some of the prequels, sequels, and spin-offs (including 1987’s Bates Motel) were OK, some were bad, and all of them seemed to warn “Don’t mess with Hitchcock.” Something about the original […]

  • Afternoon Links: What the Hell, Let’s Give Every Cult TV Show Ever a Kickstarter Movie

    The Veronica Mars effect: Pushing Daisies‘s Bryan Fuller and Zachary Levi of Chuck are hmmm-ing about Kickstarting movie projects based on VM’s recent success. Joss Whedon, on the other hand, is kinda bizzay: “I’m booked up by Marvel for the next three years, and […] I haven’t even been able to get Dr. Horrible 2 […]

  • Afternoon Links: Even Ang Lee’s Headed to the Small Screen

    Happy Pi Day! Ang Lee’s next project, Tyrant, an FX drama pilot, tentatively begins production this summer. Lee will direct and executive produce, which is great news unless you’re “salty” Christopher Doyle, in whose opinion Life of Pi‘s cinematography was “a total fucking piece of shit.” He didn’t care for Lincoln, either, in case you […]

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Girls, Queens, and Adam Driver

    Even though we’re deep in blockbuster reality season — with American Idol, Survivor, and the just-wrapped The Bachelor all filling the airwaves with hypercompetitive, catfighting, backstabbing energy — the Girls in Hoodies would rather talk about the feel-good phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race, which may just be the most positive reality show on television. All the […]

  • Survivor, Episode 5: Probst Massage! Probst Massage! Probst Massage!

    Survivor has always been fascinating for its character studies: The social nature of the game, which doesn’t necessarily encourage but definitely allows for lying and manipulation, is one of the most gripping parts of the show. There are always two sides to each contestant: the person presented to the tribe, and the one revealed in […]

  • Afternoon Links: Check Out the Long-Lost Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Spin-off Game of Thrones

    Another show gets ninety-fived: It’s Game of Thrones’ turn to don the vintage shirt.

  • Afternoon Links: House of Cards Head Writer Beau Willimon Sheds Some Light on Underwood

    Why was House of Cards antihero Frank Underwood a Democrat? “If we had made Underwood a Republican, it might look as though we are trying to take cheap potshots and that the show has a political agenda. But the show doesn’t have a political agenda, so making him a Democrat has an ancillary benefit of hopefully […]

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