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Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Laid' review: Oscar-nominated actor Stephanie Hsu, 'Girls' alum Zosia Mamet lead binge-worthy dark comedy
Starring Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All at Once actor Stephanie Hsu, and Girls alum Zosia Mamet, Laid is a binge-worthy new comedy (premiering March 24 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on W Network and StackTV in Canada). Created by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, who previously crafted Don't Trust the B— in Apartment 23, a dark premise leads to a lot of hilarity for Ruby (Hsu), a 33-year-old party planner. The show is an adaptation of the Australian series of the same name, but really leans into the elements of Ruby's flaws and awkwardness. And keep your eyes peeled for a number of impressive guest stars, including Finneas O'Connell and Canadian Simu Liu. Ruby is having a rough time coming to terms with the fact that her love life hasn't worked out as she anticipated, and she is still very single. But she's left trying to navigate particularly odd circumstances. Her former lovers start dying, in the exact order in which she dated, or hooked up with them. With her best friend and true crime lover, AJ, (Mamet) by her side, the pair have to run through Ruby's hook-up history, attempting to save her ex-lovers from their deadly future. It adds a new, grim flavour to the term "body count." In the midst of this, Rudy finds herself in a love triangle with Isaac (Tommy Martinez), who hired her to plan a party for his parents' anniversary, while also reconnecting with a partner from her past, Richie (Michael Angarano). Firstly, Hsu is a phenomenal lead for this comedic story. She expertly navigates the show's irony, sarcastic wit and dark humour. Paired with Mamet, it's an appealing duo for this story, particularly one that is set within an incredibly dreary premise. But Mamet and Hsu certainly keep the laughs coming. Filled with very specific pop culture references, which we appreciate, the show's creators Sally Bradford and Nahnatchka Khan handle the balancing act of grim outcomes and funny sex jokes with ease. At times Laid feels a bit too rushed, like we could have taken more time to dive deeper into Ruby's perspective. But there's something endearing about a show that puts an incredibly real and flawed woman at the centre of its story. And it's not just about her relationships with men, but that's used as a means to reflect on herself personally, and how self-involved she has been at times. Laid is a show screaming to be binged, because it is hysterical, but has that pulsating emotional undercurrent. And it is crafted in a way that makes it easy to watch, and keep watching — yes, even with all the death. I finished the show curious about how much more we could explore with these characters, if Laid is given more episodes.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Survivor 48': Where to watch in Canada, what time does it start, cast of 18 new castaways and more
The legendary reality TV competition show is back for Survivor 48, with 18 more new castaways competing in one of the most physically and mentally difficult shows in history. Whether you've been watching since the first season or have avoided the series in until now, it's never too late to join the Survivor fandom. Hosted by the legendary Jeff Probst, Survivor contests battle food deprivation, social politics and the obstacles of the environment to compete for the title of Sole Survivor. The winner of the show will go home with US$1 million. Here's everything you need to know about Survivor 48: Survivor 48 premieres on Wednesday, Feb. 26. The new season of Survivor airs at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT Survivor 48 will be on Global TV in Canada, CBS in the U.S. Canadians can stream the new season of Survivor on StackTV. In the U.S., the show will be on Paramount+ with a Showtime plan, and available the next day with any Paramount+ plan. Previous seasons of the show are available to watch on the same streaming platforms. Survivor has been filmed the in Mamanuca Islands in Fiji for the past 15 seasons, with previous locations including Malaysia, Australia, Kenya, French Polynesia, Thailand, Brazil, Panama, Vanuatu, Palau, Guatemala, Brazil, Samoa, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Gabon, Cook Islands, and the Philippines. For all 48 seasons of the show, Jeff Probst has been the host, and he's also an executive producer. Interestingly for Canadians, there is a castaway from Toronto included in Season 48. Here are all the 18 contestants for the season: Stephanie Berger: 38, tech product lead from New York Shauhin Davari: 38, debate professor from Costa Mesa, California Eva Erickson: 24, PhD candidate from Eagan, Minnesota, now living in Providence, Rhode Island Kyle Fraser: 31, attorney from Roanoke, Virginia, now lives in New York Mitch Guerra: 34, P.E. coach from Waco, Texas Saiounia 'Sai' Hughley: 30, marketing professional from Philadelphia, now lives in Simi Valley, California Joe Hunter: 45, fire captain from Southern California Kamilla Karthigesu: 31, Software engineer from Toronto, now living in Forster City, California David Kinne: 39, stunt performer in Southern California Thomas Krottinger: 34, music executive from The Woodlands, Texas, now in Los Angeles, California Kevin Leung: 34, finance manager in Northern California Cedrek McFadden: 46, surgeon in South Carolina Charity Nelms: 34, flight attendant from Monroe, Michigan, now living in St. Petersburg, Florida Justin Pioppi: 29, pizzeria manager from Massachusetts Bianca Roses: 33, PR consultant from West Orange, New Jersey, now living in Arlington, Virginia Chrissy Sarnowsky: 55, fire lieutenant from Chicago Star Toomey: 28, sales expert from Monrovia, Liberia, now living in Augusta, Georgia Mary Zheng: 31, substance abuse counsellor from Montgomery Village, Maryland, now lives in Philadelphia
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Doc' star Molly Parker said she wouldn't play a mother of a dead child anymore — this was the exception
For Canadian actor Molly Parker, leading the TV medical drama Doc (on Global in Canada Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. ET, streaming on StackTV), the show is full of different story elements to play with. It starts with her character Dr. Amy Larsen's amnesia, which also affects the relationships she has with her family and coworkers, after losing eight years of her memories, and of course the impact on her career. While that may seem like a lot to handle, Parker told Yahoo Canada hat she reminds herself that this story is based on a real person. An Italian doctor who lost 12 years of his life after a car accident. "Whenever I get too overwhelmed, I try to remember that there was actually a person who lived this, a version of it anyway," Parker said. "But as an actor, this is a dream part." "We're given access to all aspects of her personality and because she has changed, because her life has been defined by these two moments where she loses everything, and makes very different choices in those moments, or reacts to those situations very differently, we get to see her try on a lot of different ways of being in the world. That's fun." One especially heartbreaking point in the series is that Amy lost the memory of her young son's death, having to instantly be launched into that grief again. Interestingly, Parker had been particularly against playing a grieving mother, before Doc came along. "This thing of losing a child, I just shrink from it when I read it in scripts. I don't want to go there. I think I'd actually said, I'm not playing the mother of any more dead children, I'm not doing it anymore. And then this role came along," Parker said. "But what I will say is that ... this show is fun and propulsive, and it's a medical procedural, and it has all that kind of mystery going on, it also addresses themes that are so human, and grief is one of those themes." "And I think what we get to see is grief happening to her in a number of different ways. We get to go into the flashbacks and see what Amy doesn't remember, how she dealt with it the first time, and now she has this opportunity to have a different experience with it, horrible as it is, where everyone else has gone through it already. So in a way, there's these people around her who can help her, who weren't able to help her before because they were having their own grief. It's complex, it's beautiful, it's heartbreaking, and I just feel really grateful and lucky that I get this opportunity." After famously playing Alma Garret in the period drama Deadwood, from 2004 to 2006, there's a similarity between Alma and Amy, both women who are going through an evolution in their respective stories, and in many ways being reinvigorated in their lives. "For me, I think, just unconsciously, I always respond to characters who we meet in the moment when they lose everything," Parker said. "And Deadwood was that, Alma Garett, when we first meet her, her husband's killed, ... and it frees her, it gives her the opportunity to be reborn as her own human being." "But Amy, in losing her memory, is given an opportunity, not to do her life over, she's 50 years old, her life, a lot of it has happened already, but she is given an opportunity to relate to it differently, to see it differently." As we move into Episode 8 of Doc, we see continued exploration of Amy's relationship with Dr. Richard Miller, played by Scott Wolf. While the two were close, that friendship became more contentious, but those tougher times between them are what Amy has forgotten. Additionally, we know that Richard is trying to conceal the truth about the care of a patient named Bill Dixon, hoping that those memories never return for Amy. There's real complexity in this friendship that's an interesting exploration for Doc, including taking a particularly layered presentation of characters who may initially seem like villains. "I am interested in why people do the things they do, and so I feel our writers are really willing to investigate all those nooks and crannies," Parker said. "And at the end, I think it's actually a really big hearted show, it has a tremendous amount of compassion for all of its characters."
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'NCIS: Sydney' Season 2: Olivia Swann teases Mackey's 'relationship shift' with Todd Lasance's character JD
NCIS: Sydney is back for Season 2 (on Global in Canada and streaming on StackTV and Paramount+, on CBS in the U.S. and also streaming on Paramount+), starring Olivia Swann as Michelle Mackey, Todd Lasance as Jim "JD" Dempsey, Sean Sagar as DeShawn Jackson, Tuuli Narkle as Evie Cooper, Mavournee Hazel as Bluebird 'Blue' Gleeson, and William McInnes as Roy Penrose. As Swann teased NCIS: Sydney Season 2 strives to expand the world established in the first season of the hit show. "It's very exciting to see more of the team and how they work together," Swann told Yahoo Canada. "And how they deal with such crazy situations."Of course, one of the big questions for fans moving into the second season of the show was whether there is a potential romance on the horizon between Mackey and JD. Swann teased that there is a "shift" in their relationship in Season 2, but it may not be what fans expect. "We definitely see their relationship shift, I don't know if that's in the same sense that people are thinking, but we see a level of trust form, more so than we did in Season 1, and a level of vulnerability between the two of them," Swann said. "Which I think is one of my favourite things about the season, is how they become more comfortable with one another and kind of enjoy this company, whilst also working together and having their kind of big energies clash a little bit, and we also get to see what could maybe break that trust a little bit." An example of that vulnerability comes in the first episode of the season, when we see Mackey tell JD that she has a son, already establishing a growth and a different closeness in their relationship to start us off for Season 2. Throughout the first season, Mackey was positioned as this fiery and blunt badass, but what Swann particularly loves about working on NCIS: Sydney is how the show slowly and intentionally reveals more about its characters throughout the episodes. "I always love detail and I always love finding out more about the characters, but what I think the show does well is it really kind of slowly reveals stuff," Swann said. "I get impatient, ... but I think actually it's just so perfect how we have a little reveal here, and it's still maybe a secret, but then we go back to the case. ... There's just so much more of a payoff." "People come for the crime, but stay for the characters. ... It's the individuality of the voices that I think we have and how different the characters are, and how they mesh together and how they clash and blend. And I think that's really what this whole franchise is about, and especially with our show." But for Mackey specifically, Swann identified that the character is "completely opposite" to herself personally. "I get to kind of exist in this personality that is so not mine, and I do end up really, really loving characters like this, because they are women who are so fearless and unapologetic and not afraid to say things ... and ask for what they want, and not even ask, just take what they want," Swann highlighted. "I think that's really admirable and I always, especially with Mackey, I just constantly fall in love with her every episode, because there's something that I get to engage with that is new and exciting." For Swann, her personal wish playing Mackey is to always have more physical stunts to work on, but the actor stressed that in NCIS: Sydney Season 2 there's a focus on showing more of the characters "heart" throughout the rest of the Season. "This season we do see under her armour a little bit, which is also really compelling and really wonderful," Swann said. "And we see a slightly softer side to her, and that as well just adds to her outer badass-ery, which is so cool, but we get to see more of her heart, which I love." Only time will tell what NCIS: Sydney Season 2 has to offer, but we'll certainly be watching to find out. NCIS: Sydney Season 2 airs on Global in Canada, CBS in the U.S. on Fridays at 8:00 p.m. ET. Canadians can stream episodes on StackTV and will begin streaming on Paramount+ on Feb. 14. U.S. fans can stream the show on Paramount+.
