Still from Legion Next year will be the 17th annum of the superhero boom, a pop-culture phenomenon that has grown troublingly stale. Luckily, 2017 will bring us Legion, a remarkable superpowered TV narrative that — at least as far as we can tell from some footage shown at New York Comic-Con — feels wholly unlike anything else in the genre. We’ve known precious little about it, but we can rack up one more factoid today: The show will premiere on Wednesday, February 8, at 10 p.
Honestly, if the only part of Lena Dunham running for president were her non-sentient disembodied vagina, we could do a lot worse. And probably will! The Girls star and her showrunner Jenni Konner stopped by Late Night last night to address a number of salient topics, specifically whether or not Hannah’s vagina shot in Season Five’s “Hello Kitty” episode constitutes porn and thus would preclude her from one day becoming an elected official.
Lena Waithe does the Met Gala red carpet with intention. For last year’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” event, she wore a grand rainbow cape, and for this year’s “An Exploration of Camp,” her outfit is speaking just as loudly. Waithe arrived in a lavender pin-striped suit with “Black drag queens invented camp” written across the back. In an Instagram post of her look, Waithe provided the caption “I came to slay, bitch.
Spoilers ahead for the ending of Minx season one.
Minx has concluded its first season, fittingly, with a bang. The HBO Max show depicts the birth of the titular feminist nudie mag, full of big dongs and bigger ideas. The magazine is a tenuous alliance between veteran pornographer Doug (Jake Johnson) and feminist writer Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), who winds up roping her sister Shelly, played by Lennon Parham, into the venture.
Fox has given a script commitment to a modern spin on Les Misérables that will turn the story of Jean Valjean into a contemporary lawyer show. Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas is onboard as a producer, with a script written by Graham Norris. According to Deadline, it’ll be a prime-time soap about “a brilliant lawyer running a legal exoneration program who fights to evade the consequences of his own unjust conviction many years before.
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The marketing for Assassination Nation suggests an orgy of empowering ultraviolence: “You asked for it, America,” blare the posters, above an image of four young women in shiny red coats brandishing an assortment of deadly weapons. But is it a movie about empowerment, or annihilation? Sam Levinson’s film takes place in the small suburban enclave of Salem (literary allusion alert!), which “loses its motherfucking mind” and is plunged into chaos when a mysterious hacker starts stealing people’s private information and making it public.
The best reality TV brings a feeling I can only describe as “brain-smoothing.” When Scheana Shay explains that she couldn’t possibly make a fist because of her acrylic nails, I feel my brain getting the wrinkles ironed out of it. No more worries, no more thoughts, just spectacle. Since Scandoval broke, the best brain-smoothing on TV has been Vanderpump Rules. Frankly, that show has been leading the world in thought-obliterating technology since 2013, but this season really elevated the art.
Alexander Hodge has been quarantining in Los Angeles, where he’s nesting with his girlfriend. “We’re not not side by side for any portion of the day, really,” he says over the phone as he takes a walk alongside her. On the fourth season of Insecure, his character Andrew — a.k.a. Asian bae — gets promoted to Molly’s boyfriend. “There was a rumor while we were shooting season three that I was coming back,” he says.
The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap battle continues to rage on, with Drake releasing “Family Matters” on Friday, May 3, which was quickly followed by Lamar putting out “meet the grahams” at midnight. Instead of waiting for a rebuttal, Lamar doubled down with “Not Like Us” on Saturday night.
Parental advisory May 4, 2024 (1 a.m.): Are Kendrick and Drake just gonna keep dissing each other every week for the rest of our lives or what?