I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on Lorde, Lyn Lapid, Just Stef, James Blake, Pen15, Snowpiercer, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow.
- GRAMMY® Award-winning multiplatinum artist LORDE releases her highly anticipated third studio album,Solar Power – listen HERE. The album is already garnering stellar reviews. Solar Power includes 12 tracks and is produced by Jack Antonoff who she collaborated with on her chart-topping last album, Melodrama. The artist will take to the stage today to headline the“GMA” Summer Concert Series,performing tracks from the album at their first in-person Central Park show in nearly two years. Then starting August 23rd, LORDE will join“The Late Late Show with James Corden” for a week-long residency during the show’s first week back from summer hiatus.
- After amassing over 4 million song views and 1 million likes on TikTok before officially releasing the song, singer and songwriter Lyn Lapid delivers her new fan favorite single “In My Mind” today—listen HERE! Dedicated to the “‘quiet kids’ such as [herself]”, Lyn first teased “In My Mind” on TikTok last week, and the video quickly garnered over 3 million views in just a few days with her fans lovingly dubbing the song the “quiet kids song.” “In My Mind” hinges on a jazz-y groove as Lyn adopts a fittingly smoky delivery. Her voice wraps around airy guitar and a steady beat, as it builds towards a swooning refrain and she reveals, “People say I’m quiet most of the time, If only you knew what goes on in my mind.” Once again, Lyn’s dynamic vocals and sharp songwriting instantly enchant listeners.
- After generating millions of streams on the original, first-generation Argentinian-American vocal dynamo Just Stef drops a showstopping Acoustic version of her debut single “Miss U Miss Me” today via The Heavy Group/Republic Records. Listen to “Miss U Miss Me (Acoustic)”—HERE. She also shared an accompanying performance video. Watch it—HERE. Backed by stripped and shimmering piano and soft strings, her raw vocal talents shine through, echoing on the instantly unforgettable hook. In the visual, she plays the piano as she sings into an old school freestanding microphone. The tight closeups capture her palpable emotion and showcase her undeniable energy.
- GRAMMY® Award-winning UK singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer James Blake released “Life Is Not The Same,” the second track from his forthcoming new album, Friends That Break Your Heart, due out September 10, 2021 – available for pre-order HERE, via Republic Records. The song is a collaboration with hit producer duo Take A Daytrip.
- Pack your bags and join your favorite middle-schoolers on vacation in the official trailer for the “Pen15” animated special which launches Friday, August 27thonly on Hulu.
- What will it take to survive? All aboard the most elite train in the world, as the epic journey continues with more secrets, plot twists, and reveals as Warner Bros Home Entertainment releases Snowpiercer: The Complete Second Seasonon Blu-ray and DVD on November 9, 2021. Strap yourself in for a thrilling ride with all 10 episodes from the second season, plus enjoy the captivating 21 minutes of extra features. Snowpiercer: The Complete Second Season is priced to own at $24.98 SRP for the DVD and $29.98 SRP for the Blu-ray, which includes a Digital. Snowpiercer: The Complete Second Season is also available to own on Digital via purchase from digital
- Your favorite Super Heroes are back, and this time, they’re out of this world! The fate of the universe is in their hands as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Sixth Season onBlu-ray and DVD on November 9, 2021. Buckle up for a wild ride with all 15 rollicking one-hour episodes from the sixth season, plus enjoy the epic extra content including several featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Sixth Season is priced to own at $24.98 SRP for the DVD ($29.98 in Canada) and $29.98 SRP for the Blu-ray ($39.99 in Canada), which includes a Digital Copy (U.S. Only). DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Sixth Season is also available to own on Digital via purchase from digital retailers.
The White Lotus:This show has not been the murder mystery that was set up in the first
scene.There may not even sure there was
an actual murder. I think the couple in the first scene just said someone
died.Since the show does not even seem
to be trying, I think the person who dies will be the old dude with the
cough.I actually thought he was going
to keel over after having sex with Stiffler’s mom.I might give a close second to Armand who has
already been close to OD’ing.
Reservation Dogs:This is another in a long line of shows where the main characters are
the least interesting characters.The rapping
twins are number one and two followed by the cop and the spiritual guide being
fourth.Then the doctor would round out
the top five.
Stargirl:So evil chick is going to recruit a new Evil Doers of America team?Cool.But the team she laid out did not seem that impressive.And what was with the kids at the start of
the episode?What happened to them?Are they just in that gem too?
Motherland: Fort Salem:That was a pretty good twist, I personally did not suspect anything
until she noticeably did not stomp her feet.But does she want to be captured?She was not muzzled and yet she did not try anything.That is pretty suspicious.
The Challenge: Spies, Lies, and
Allies: Poor Nam,
gets stuck with a head case last season and gets sent home off screen this season
without explanation sending everyone to the internet to figure out what happened.
It turns out that a bunch of people came down with COVID symptoms and
production got shut down after the first challenge and everyone had to quarantine
for ten more days.Then poor Nam was the
only one still positive and got sent home.Which begs the question why didn’t the show mandate vaccinations?Seems like a pretty simple solution especially
for a season where you are flying so many people to one spot from across the
globe.
Then
poor Michele, gets a strong partner who gets sent home, gets thrown in eliminations
thanks to a new twist and has to go against one of her few allies in the game, and
it seems like they are doing away with skulls this seasons so it seems likely
she will be thrown in a few more time because that is what sees like happens
whenever there are skull-less seasons. Shame, because she is already the most
entertaining new cast member since Nany.
In the Dark:Really, a blind chick an escape from a police station that easily?So now what?Back to Canada?Get caught again?Try and leverage the tape?
Titans:Well that was a stupid episode.Really Hawk, how do you get ambushed like that?And why not have Connor freeze the bomb?And if you are trying to lower your heartrate,
how about not having Lyla Garrity sit on your lap and start taking off her
clothes?That seems like the best way to
get your heartrate up.And why did they
need to bomb disabler to be at 0%?If I
am down to my last 100 heartbeats, I am fine with something that has a five
percent failure rate.But I will just call
it now, Red Hood is working with Scarecrow and he provided the cocktail that
Nightwing found.But is that some sort
of invincibility potion?Was Red Hood
thrown in the Lazarus Pit?Will it be
the same thing that brings back Wonder Girl who seems about as dead as Red Hood
going by the previews?
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on Tassia Zappia, Chelsea Cutler, Claire Rosinkranz, JP Cooper, Detainee 001, Back to Life, POV, and Buried.
- Earning critical acclaim and enchanting fans around the world, Melbourne singer songwriter Tassia Zappia shares a cheeky and catchy new single entitled “Like Ohh” via Republic Records. Listen to “Like Ohh”— HERE. Tassia comments about the new single, “During a writing trip to LA I met a new guy and we really hit it off. After I went back home to Australia, I just couldn't get him off my mind. “Like Ohh" is a sexy, playful song about craving a person knowing you may never see them again. I had the best time making this with my collaborators Lauren Christy, Jon Levine and Entente.”
- Platinum Certified singer, songwriter, and producer Chelsea Cutler drops her latest single, “You Can Have It,” from her highly anticipated sophomore album—listen HERE! “You Can Have It” illuminates another side of the songwriter, as delicately plucked acoustic guitar shifts into a head-nodding beat, and she delivers upbeat verses before a sun-kissed, soaring refrain,“Anything that you want, that I got, that’s for you.” Chelsea co-wrote the song withJames Alanand co-produced it withKevin WhiteofRice N’ Peas.
- Tallying hundreds of millions of streams and attracting universal acclaim from Billboard, Ones To Watch, EUPHORIA. Magazine, and more, Gen Z singer-songwriter Claire Rosinkranz only increases the momentum of her rapid rise by unveiling the music video for her latest single “Hotel” today. Watch the music video for “Hotel”—HERE. It is available on her tastemaker-praised sophomore EP, 6 Of A Billion – listen HERE!
- Acclaimed British singer and songwriter,JP Cooper, has dropped his uplifting new single “Call My Name”, today and announced his new album titledSHE, which will be released onOctober 15th. You can listen to “Call My Name” HERE and the video is also available to watch HERE.
- SHOWTIME Documentary Films today announced the new documentary featureDETAINEE 001, directed by Emmy®-winner Greg Barker (The Final Year, Sergio, Manhunt, Legion of Brothers). The film unpacks the mysteries surrounding the young American man, John Walker Lindh, found on the battlefield in Afghanistan alongside the people who were supposed to be his enemy. The story reveals how society views the “enemy from within” and the shifting allegiances during the war on terror.SHOWTIME willpremiereDETAINEE 001 on Friday, September 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The announcement was made by Vinnie Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming, Showtime Networks Inc. To watch and share the trailer, visit: https://youtu.be/aCk7P6voen0.
- SHOWTIME announced that the six-part second season of the critically acclaimed comedy series BACK TO LIFE, created by and starring Daisy Haggard (EPISODES,Breeders),will premiere on Monday, September 13 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with new episodes airing each week. All episodes of season two will be available on that day to stream and on demand for subscribers on SHOWTIME. From the producers of Fleabag, BACK TO LIFE follows Miri Matteson (Haggard) who, after 18 years behind bars, returns home and stumbles back into adult life in the coastal town she once knew. Miri continues to reconcile with her past while trying to assimilate and make a new life for herself post-incarceration.To watch and share the trailer, please visit: https://youtu.be/1nnVxjwmbtA.
- POV Shorts, the newest series from American Documentary, debuts its fourth season on September 6, 2021 on PBS and streaming online at POV.org. With 13 new short nonfiction films packed into seven unique episodes, POV Shorts continues to program innovative and diverse stories that capture longing for community and identity and difficult reconciliations with family history. In just its 3rd season, POV Shorts was named the ‘Best Short Form Series’ at the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards.
- SHOWTIME announced it will air BURIED, a four-part documentary series, about how one woman’s long-repressed memory of her childhood best friend’s murder sparked a national debate about the power and limitations of memory in the court of law. The legal thriller spotlights the reverberations of this first criminal case based on a recovered memory and analyzes how fallible and malleable the mind can be. SHOWTIME will release all four episodesto its subscribers at 12:01 a.m.on Sunday, October 10, prior to its on-air debut that night at 9 p.m. ET/PT. A co-production of MA Productions and Guendelman & Timor Productions, BURIED is executive produced by Yotam Guendelman (Shadow of Truth), Mika Timor (Coastal Road Killer), Maor Azran (Beauty and the Baker, The Amazing Race Israel) and Dan Adler (Noel) and written and directed by Guendelman and Ari Pines (Shadow of Truth, Coastal Road Killer). To watch and share the teaser, go to: https://youtu.be/MElWc1ACVvM.
Welcome to the 17th Annual Scooter Television Awards honoring show that aired a majority of their season between August 2020 and July 2021. Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2021 STA's:
Best Scripted Show: Loki
Best Comedy: The Flight Attendant
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show: The Mandalorian
Best Comic Book Adaptation: Loki
Best Period Show: Cruel Summer
Best Animated Show: Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.
Best Reality Show: The Challenge: All Stars
Best Remake, Reboot, or (non-comic
book) Adaptation: The Good Lord Bird
Best Miniseries: Mare of Easttown
Best Talk Show: Pardon the Interruption
Best New Show: The Flight Attendant
Guiltiest Guilty Pleasure: Cruel Summer
Worst Show I Made Though an Entire
Season Of: A Teacher
Best Hour of TV: Zoey’s Extraordinary Birthday (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist)
Best Half Hour of TV: Essential (Superstore)
Biggest Shocker: Lady Loki ushered in the multiverse in the MCU
Best Line: “Jeanette Turner, I hope you rot in hell.”- Kate (Cruel Summer)
Worst Idea: Manifest possibly being saved but not Zoey’s Wallis Extraordinary
Playlist
Worst Moment: Kate Mara acting like a teenage girl while telling a
co-worker she hooked up with a student
Biggest Disappointment: Every other episode of Lovecraft Country
Best Musical Moment: Zombie (Cruel Summer)
Best Karaoke: Don’t Stop Me Now (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist)
The White Lotus:There are fewer things I need to see in my life than seeing a dude go to
town on another dude’s backside.I get
everyone has their own fetish, but that just seems very unsanitary.Maybe I would be up for it is she showers
first, but even then it would have to be requested by someone way out of my league.Now I am having trouble remembering anything
else that happened this week,
Kevin Can Fork Himself:Great concept that just never worked and just fizzled out in the
end.But that is some sitcom level stretch
of reality for dude to hear the whole conversation in a closet on the other
side of the kitchen that is being taken place in the middle of the living
room.WandaVision did a much better job
weaving sitcom troupes into a drama even if the jokes on that show were not particularly
funny either.
The Chi:So did the mayor just bolt
town?He does not seem like a guy who
would take being blackmailed very lightly especially if that means giving up all
that power.Then after Ronnie getting
gunned down at the end of last season, the end of this season seemed very
subdued.It seemed a little weird they
lingered on Kevin at the end.I thought
something was going to happen, but it just went to the credits.
Black Monday:Ha, I knew it.The dead Lehman
Brother coming back and killing everyone one made little sense.Really, the more he kept on talking about
revenge, the more I became convinced it was not him.It ended up being the person I guessed back
in episode one and for the exact reason I guessed.I just did not see Tiff coming back and saving
every one even if I was suspicious that she died face down among a bunch of
lookalikes.
Flatbush Misdemeanor:This did not really feel like a finale, it seemed like it was more of a
penultimate episode and everything with everything going being resolved next
week.But that is it.I guess they better hope they get renewed.
Motherland: Fort Salem:What a weird reveal to learn Raelle mother was alive at the end of the
first season, wait until the second half of the second season to reunite them, and
kill the mother off seconds after reuniting.Although, is she dead?I am not
entirely sure what that black substance is and forget if Raelle got her inability
to die from her mother.
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on The Great, Dopesick, John Mellencamp, Bitchin': The Soundand Fury of Rick James, The Weeknd, Billie Eilish, Anthony Hamilton, Luz, Noah Kahan, The Chi, and other Hulu TCAannouncements.
- In season two of “The Great,” Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own—but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it’s nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn’t want to be. She’ll battle her court, her team, even her own mother (played by guest star Gillian Anderson) in a bid to bring the Enlightenment to Russia. Meanwhile, she’ll also battle her heart as Peter slowly transitions from a much-hated husband to a prisoner? Ally? Lover? Ultimately, Catherine will learn that to change a country, you must let it change you, that there is a fine line between idealism and delusion, and that becoming “Great” will ask more of her than she could have imagined.The series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge, Sacha Dhawan, Bayo Gbadamosi and Belinda Bromilow.
- From executive producer Danny Strong and starring and executive produced by Michael Keaton, “Dopesick”examines how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Big Pharma to a distressed Virginia mining community to the hallways of the DEA. Defying all the odds, heroes will emerge in an intense and thrilling ride to take down the craven corporate forces behind this national crisis and their allies. The limited series is inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy. The eight-episode series stars Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker, with Kaitlyn Dever and Rosario Dawson. Guest stars include Phillipa Soo and Jake McDorman.
- The first three episodes of "Wu-Tang: An American Saga” season two premiere September 8 on Hulu. New episodes stream Wednesdays.
- John Mellencamp launches the pre-order for the live album to accompany the upcoming documentaryThe Good Samaritan Tour 2000 out on August 27th. Pre-order The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 live album HERE and watch the trailer for the documentary HERE.The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 will also be streamed on Turner Classic Movie’s (TCM) YouTube channel August 27thwith Mellencamp appearing as a guest programmer on the network in September.
- SHOWTIME® has released a trailer for BITCHIN’: THE SOUND AND FURY OF RICK JAMES, directed by Emmy®-nominee Sacha Jenkins (WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN, BURN, MOTHERF*CKER, BURN!). BITCHIN’ is an intimate yet propulsive look at Rick James, one of rock, funk and R&B’s most legendary and often underappreciated figures. Featuring rare footage of James’ incredible live shows, never-before-seen home video, original interviews with legendary artists, collaborators and friends, and a treasure trove of recorded interviews with James (who died in 2004), the documentary presents a full picture of James’ dramatic rise and fall, focusing in on the “Punk-Funk” music he left behind. The film, which screened at the Tribeca Festival® in June, will premiere on Friday, September 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
- The Weeknd releases his much anticipated single “Take My Breath”, the first from his forthcoming album as announced in his GQ global cover story this week. The sonically-charged track exemplifies The Weeknd’s ability to consistently evolve his sound and his knack for story-telling through his music. The release is accompanied by a mesmerizing visual directed byCliqua - Watch the video HERE. Listen to “Take My Breath” HERE.
- Vevo, the world's leading music video network, announces the release of Billie Eilish’s Official Live Performance of “Male Fantasy” off her latest album, Happier Than Ever via Darkroom/Interscope Records. Vevo’s Official Live Performances are the result of close creative collaboration with artists and their teams, resulting in a series of very special exclusive performances. “Male Fantasy” follows the release of Billie’s previous Official Live Performance of “Your Power.”
- After teasing more music for the past year and building anticipation among fans worldwide,GRAMMY® Award-winning, multiplatinum singer, songwriter, producer, and actor, Anthony Hamilton returns with his anxiously awaited tenth full-length and first album in five years, Love Is The New Black., on September, 24th 2021. Billboardmade the exclusive announcement. It notably will be the flagship release under his own label My Music Box in partnership with BMG. Pre-order Love Is The New Black.—HERE.
- Irish artist Luz has today revealed her brand-new single ‘permanent +1’, out now via global artist services company Platoon. Listen now here. Recorded between Dublin and London with producer JMAC (Haux, Rosie Carney, Matilda Mann), the track is Luz’s fifth release, following previous singles ‘counting houses’, ‘we’ll be fine’, ‘i’m lonely’ and ‘the author,’ the latter of which has recently been featured in this year’s series of Love Island. Since being played on the show the track has doubled its daily streams, hitting Number 11 on Shazam’s charts, as well as re-entering the iTunes chart.
- Vermont singer and songwriter Noah Kahan drops his new fan-favorite track, “Animal,” from his upcoming album, I Was / I Am, out September 17th—listen HERE! “Animal” was chosen by Noah’s fans as his next single after he teased the song on socials. On the song, his falsetto soars over head-bobbing beats and handclaps as he sings, “Oh, sometimes I feel like an animal. Oh, I climb so high just to feel a fall and let it go. So, look me in the eyes, am I someone else?” Of the meaning behind the song, Noah says, “‘Animal’ is about dissociating from who you thought yourself to be. I wrote it with a friend of mine. He and I speak at length about mental health and what it’s like to live with depression, and I think this song is fundamentally about that everyday struggle.”
- More news out of Hulu's TCA's
Hulu Greenlights Comedy Series “This Fool”
“This Fool”centers on Julio Lopez, a self-described “punk-ass bitch” who still lives at home and goes out of his way to help everyone but himself. Inspired by the life and stand-up comedy of star and co-creator Chris Estrada, this cinematic half-hour comedy explores Julio’s work at a gang-rehabilitation non-profit and his quest to overcome his codependency issues with his family as he navigates working-class life in South Central Los Angeles.“This Fool” is written and executive produced by Chris Estrada, Pat Bishop, Jake Weisman and Matt Ingebretson. Jonathan Groff and Fred Armisen also serve as executive producers on the series. The series is produced by ABC Signature.
Hulu Expands Unscripted True Crime Collection With New Documentary “Dead Asleep” and Docuseries “Captive Audience”
“Dead Asleep”
In a ground-breaking new spin on the true-crime genre, the documentary film “Dead Asleep,” produced in association with Sky Crime, flips the traditional thriller narrative to explore a deeper and more troubling mystery: Did a remorseful Randy Herman Jr. really commit a brutal murder in his sleep, or was it a convenient cover story? Pulse Films has secured exclusive access to Herman and his family, the defense and prosecution attorneys, journalists who covered the case, forensic psychiatrists and world experts in violent parasomnia (sleep-walking) to give viewers an inside look at the shocking twists and turns of the controversial crime.A Pulse Films production, “Dead Asleep” is directed by award-winner Skye Borgman, who is also behind the critically acclaimed documentary “Abducted In Plain Sight” and recently worked with Pulse Films on their Oxygen special “The Case Died With Her.” For Pulse Films, executive producers include Marisa Clifford, Nelesh Dhand and Sunshine Jackson. For Sky U.K., Jack Oliver and Poppy Dixon will also serve as executive producers.
“Captive Audience”
In 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner mysteriously vanished on his way home from school. Nearly a decade later, his dramatic return to his family sparked ‘80s-era “stranger danger” warnings, legal reforms and one iconic Made-For-TV-Movie2, in which the family’s ordeal was transformed into a prime-time miniseries watched by 70 million Americans. When the credits rolled and the movie ended, it closed one tragic chapter of the family’s life but opened another. This limited documentary series explores the evolution of true-crime storytelling through the lens of one family’s 50-year journey and two brothers; one deemed a villain and the other a hero. It’s about how truth becomes story and story becomes truth—on TV, in the justice system and in our minds. “Captive Audience” is directed by Jessica Dimmock (Netflix’s “Flint Town” and “Unsolved Mysteries”) and produced by Wonderburst and High Five Content. It is executive produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Jen Casey and Andrew Jacobs, along with Mike Larocca, Todd Makurath, Nick Gilhool and Peter Rieveschl.
“Animaniacs” – Season Two Premiere, Friday, Nov. 5
Hellloooo, season two! Hulu, Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation have joined forces once again to bring you “Animaniacs.” This Emmy Award-winning animated series—and one of Hulu’s all-time most talked-about shows on social media—returns with 13 brand new episodes on Friday, Nov. 5. Yakko, Wakko and Dot return for an all-new season of this iconic, family-friendly series with something for everyone: pop culture parodies, musical showstoppers, takedowns of historical baddies and even some important safety tips. Join the Warners and Pinky and the Brain as they wreak havoc everywhere they go, from the Warner Bros. lot to an international beauty pageant, even all the way into outer space. Keep an eye out for season one favorites Starbox and Cindy, as well as some rejected Animaniacs characters that were left on the cutting room floor. Steven Spielberg returns as executive producer of the series, with Sam Register, president, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios. Amblin Television co-presidents, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, also serve as executive producers. Wellesley Wild serves as showrunner and executive producer. Gabe Swarr serves as co-executive producer. “Animaniacs” is produced by Amblin Television in association with Warner Bros. Animation.
“Baker’s Dozen” – Series Premiere, Thursday, Oct. 7
Passionate amateur bakers will go head-to-head with seasoned professionals in each episode of “Baker’s Dozen.” Join hosts Tamera Mowry-Housley (Emmy-award winning host of “The Real,” FOX’s “The Masked Singer” and Hallmark’s “Christmas Comes Twice”) and Bill Yosses (author and former White House Pastry Chef) for this fast-paced competition series that will determine the best baker of all! Which of the 13 bakers has what it takes to create the next viral baking sensation, win the golden rolling pin and take home the cash prize? “Baker’s Dozen” is executive produced by Sandy Varo Jarrell, Suzanne Rauscher, Justin Rae Barnes, Tara Seiner and Scott Mlodzinski for Bright Spot Content, an All3Media America company.
“The Next Thing You Eat” – Series Premiere, Thursday, Oct. 21
From chef David Chang and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville, “The Next Thing You Eat” is a six-episode docuseries that explores the seismic changes happening all around us and what they mean for the way we’ll eat in the future. Chang and a diverse cast of characters dive headfirst into what lies ahead, including everything from robots, to lab-grown fish, to insect farms, to artificial intelligence calling all the shots. Executive produced by the creators of the Emmy®-nominated “Ugly Delicious,” with showrunner Dominic Musacchio
“Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition” – Season Premiere, Thursday, Nov. 4
In “Taste the Nation,” award-winning host, executive producer and cookbook author Padma Lakshmi, who recently received her third Emmy nomination, takes audiences on a journey across America, exploring the rich and diverse food culture of various immigrant groups and seeking out the people who have so heavily shaped what American food is today.From indigenous communities to recent immigrant arrivals, Padma breaks bread with Americans across the nation to uncover the roots and relationship between our food, our humanity and our history—ultimately revealing stories that challenge notions of identity, belonging, and what it means to be American. “Taste the Nation” returns this fall for a special four-part “Holiday Edition,” where each episode will highlight unique traditions through the lens of different immigrant cultures and cities, like Korean New Year in Los Angeles and Cuban Christmas in Miami. “Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition” is executive produced by Padma Lakshmi along with Part2 Pictures’ David Shadrack Smith.
The White Lotus:So I guess they are just not going to acknowledge the death until the
final episode.They are not even going
to tease it except maybe the desk guy overdosing.Maybe the college chick kills her friend in a
jealous rage.Not that the show needs a
murder mystery (the death may not even be a murder, we just know someone died),
it is entertaining without it.The gay dad
storyline is hilarious.What point does
the dad take up the desk guy’s offer?
Kevin Can Fork Himself:So there was a shooting and that is all we know.But who shot who and did the one who got shot
die?The police was very vague and as learned
later in the episode, that is a ploy when the police do not know everything,
but they want the person they are interrogating they think they do.I am guessing Kevin did the shooting and gets
off because of the Castle Doctrine.If
he did die or go to jail, does the show drop the sitcom? They did have the
sitcom for the very first time without Kevin this week.Maybe they change the name to Neil Can Fork
Himself next season if Kevin did die or goes to jail.Though I guess if Kevin goes to prison, they
could do the sitcom whenever someone visits him.
The Chi:That was a cheesy start to the
show.Sure, when I was that age I probably
was doing the exact same thing to Jodeci, but at least I never filmed it.But man, the mayor gets shot and he is back
to being full evil beating a man (presumably) to death in his own house.Someone need to finish that guy off.
Black Monday:There goes my season long theory that the reverend’s daughter was the
one killing everyone.Though it is hard
to predict someone if you were told they were dead.The reverend’s daughter makes much more
sense, why exactly would Lenny kill the reverend.But now that I think about it, we never get actual
confirmation that Lenny killed anyone, all he did was creepily grab an axe on
his way out of the hospital. He could just be a huge misdirect.
Flatbush Misdemeanor:“You don’t need to yell and cuss, one would be fine.”Then admits he would not be mad if a guardian
slaps a teacher.Now that is quality
principaling. But that was an unexpected ending.That is one way to lose guardianship.
Motherland: Fort Salem:The episode’s title was “My 3 Dads” and all I wanted is to know how that
actually works.But I came out of the
episode more confused than when I first saw the title.But those were some incompetent body guards.
