Netflix classifies its new series Firefly Lane — in which Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke play lifelong friends — as a "premium soap." Neither term is quite right. "Premium" is not usually a word associated with cheesy dissolve cuts and distractingly bad wigs. And "soap" — well, any true soap opera is confident enough in its soapiness that it doesn't need to hide behind labels like "premium." Instead, think of Firefly Lane (premiering Wednesday) as an overlong PG-13 Hallmark movie boosted (a bit) by a pair of premium actresses. Read More...
This post contains spoilers from season 2 of 13 Reasons Why. Season 1 of 13 Reasons Why was the story of Hannah Baker’s death. Season 2 was the story of letting her go. And if there is a third season, well, Hannah Baker — and more specifically, Katherine Langford — won’t be returning. Which means that, while all of the characters within the fictional world of 13 Reasons were saying goodbye to Hannah during season two, Langford was doing the same. Read More...
Having played a hard-drinking, sexually rapacious Mrs. Robinson on Broadway in the recent production of ”The Graduate,” Kathleen Turner is ready to take on another classic hard-drinking, sexually voracious character. She’ll star as Martha in ”Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” next March, marking the first Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s classic drama in nearly 30 years, since the 1976 production directed by Albee himself. Turner, of course, is stepping into a role created on Broadway by Uta Hagen and made famous in the 1966 movie version by Elizabeth Taylor, in an Oscar-winning performance opposite her real-life husband Richard Burton. Read More...
