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Metro
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Fans annoyed ‘most ridiculous TV show ever' is getting another spin-off
It can be a pretty frustrating feeling to see one of your favourite series get cancelled just as it is about to hit its stride. Fans of shows such as Mindhunter, The OA and The Punisher still can't seem to get over their respective cancellations. But for Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone, which stars Kelly Reilly and Wes Bentley, that certainly does not seem to be the case. Following the Dutton family, who own the largest contiguous ranch in America, the show depicts their constant conflict with various groups, such as Native American tribes and the National park, who are seeking to encroach upon their land. Yet, despite being described by a critic at the Guardian as a 'bloated ranch-based soapy mess', a new series centred on Kayce Dutton has been greenlit at CBS. Titled 'Y: Marshalls', the spin-off will be written by Spencer Hudnut while Yellowstone mastermind Sheridan, who is known for writing season 1 of True Detective, will be an executive producer. Responding to the news, there was some mixed feedback to say the least. On X, @Brandi74950103 said: 'He was a really complex, conflicted character. If they do this right, it could be a great show.' However, @nikkibluvs responded by saying: 'How many does that make🙄🙄' Despite hundreds of thousands of cowboy fans over the world watching Yellowstone, it seems no one can agree whether it is good or not. Even on the Yellowstone section of Reddit – where you'd expect to find the series's most devout followers – people have labelled the it 'the most ridiculous TV show I've ever watched'. Dmick74 said: 'I watched the first season a couple years ago and I had a hard time believing that people were calling it a great show considering it's nothing more than a daytime soap opera with a bigger budget. It's ridiculous.' Reddragon105 also wrote: 'It might be the dumbest show I've watched in years. We powered through the first season waiting for it to get good and it was a straight up joke. 1883 1923 6666 The Madison 1944 Y: Marshalls* 'When season 2 started and Costner's colon cancer (which he had feet of intestines removed) was suddenly diagnosed as a blood clot by a horse vet, I turned it off for good.' Meanwhile, Massive-Device-1200 highlighted some of the most bizarre reoccurring themes such as that all people from California are 'evil, vegan, land buyers' and they 'must be shot or driven out or bullied… only true rangers can buy land'. Not everyone dislikes the Dutton family's misadventures, though. Dragonsmilk commented: 'Extremely popular soap opera for men with cowboys. No more, no less.' AuntieEvilops similarly echoed: 'It's a western soap opera. Folks shouldn't go in expecting anything more than that.' If fans can agree on one thing, it's that Yellowstone is divisive. But when it came to the show's finale in December last year, there was pretty much unanimous agreement that it wasa 'letdown that never should have happened'. More Trending The latest series was first said to be in the works at the network back in March, but CBS has now given the show a 13-episode order, according to Variety. There are plans for the series to begin shooting this summer to launch at midseason 2026. Luke Grimes will once again play Kayce, who is the youngest of the Dutton siblings and a former Navy SEAL. View More » Yellowstone is available to stream on Paramount Plus. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: David Beckham makes unexpected career move to launch his own chat show
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Newport Beach TV Fest: ‘Nobody Wants This' Star Adam Brody Set for TV Performance of the Year Award, Live ‘Awards Chatter' Podcast
Adam Brody is coming back to the O.C. — Newport Beach, specifically. The inaugural Newport Beach TV Fest will honor the alum of the beloved early-aughts teen drama series The O.C. with the fest's TV Performance of the Year Award (Actor) in recognition of his widely-acclaimed turn as a rabbi dating a gentile on Netflix's hit 2024 comedy series Nobody Wants This. More from The Hollywood Reporter Webby Awards 2025: Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Taika Waititi Among Winners 'Awards Chatter' Live Pod: Jason Isaacs on 'The White Lotus,' Lucius Malfoy and 'The OA' Demi Moore Recalls the Moment She "Knew" Mikey Madison Would Win Best Actress Oscar The award will be presented to Brody immediately following a live recording of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast — moderated by yours truly and featuring a career-retrospective conversation — which will kick off at 6pm on Friday, June 6, at Newport Beach's Lido Theater. 'We are thrilled to honor Adam Brody for his award-winning performance in Nobody Wants This,' Gregg Schwenk, CEO and executive director of the Newport Beach TV Fest, said in a statement. 'Adam's ability to bring charm, depth, and authenticity to his roles has made him a standout talent. And, with one of his first projects being The O.C., we're especially excited to celebrate his remarkable career with The Hollywood Reporter at our inaugural TV Fest.' For his work opposite Kristen Bell on Nobody Wants This, Brody, 45, has already been awarded the best actor in a comedy series Critics Choice Award and received corresponding SAG and Golden Globe award nominations. In the years between The O.C. and Nobody Wants This, he has also appeared on TV shows including Fleishman Is in Trouble, StartUp and The League, and in films including American Fiction, Shazam!, Ready or Not, The Kid Detective, Promising Young Woman, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking and Jennifer's Body. The Newport Beach TV Fest, an offshoot of the Newport Beach Film Festival, will be four-day celebration of television artistry. Running Thursday, June 5 through Sunday, June 8, it will feature screenings and events honoring both established and emerging talent. Tickets are available for purchase at Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'Yellowstone' and the Sprawling Dutton Family Tree, Explained The Cast of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' Then and Now A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
Yahoo
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Severance season 2 is losing its identity within its own mystery box'
Severance is one of the most talked-about TV shows of recent years. We're now halfway through the second season of the Apple TV+ series and we remain fascinated by its central conceit — that of employees at the shady company Lumon, who have "severed" their brains in order to keep their home life and work life entirely separate. Their "outies" live a normal life, while their "innies" exist only within the halls of Lumon. The first season aired way back in 2022 and ended on a hell of a cliffhanger. The severed employees weaponised a contingency system at Lumon in order for their innies to emerge at a time when their outies were supposed to be in control. All four of the central innies learned details about their outside life, with Mark (Adam Scott) revealing that his recently deceased wife could actually be alive and Helly (Britt Lower) discovering that she's actually the daughter of Lumon's CEO. There were mysteries aplenty. Note: This article contains some spoilers for Severance season 2, up until episode five. In a 2007 TED talk, filmmaker JJ Abrams introduced the concept of "mystery box" storytelling, discussing it in reference to Lost — his TV show with Damon Lindelof. In the talk, Abrams explains that "mystery is more important than knowledge" in telling a compelling story. Watch: JJ Abrams talks about "mystery box" storytelling The best part of two decades have passed since Abrams gave that speech and mystery box shows are everywhere. Think of popular programmes like Westworld, The OA, and Abrams' own series Fringe. They exist as delivery systems for their central mystery, with questions dominating the narrative. Successful mystery box shows, though, foreground characters alongside that mystery. Often, the answers are less important than the journey and, most significantly, the people on that journey. Read more: What Severance gets right about work wellbeing culture (Yahoo Finance, 6 min read) Severance was very much a "mystery box" show in its first season. We were driven throughout by a desire to know what was going on at Lumon. All we knew is that, in Mark's words, "the work is mysterious and important". Multiple mysteries emerged, from a room full of juvenile goats to Irving's (John Turturro) outie and his obsession with painting a dark corridor. Very few mysteries were explained in that first season. However, the storytelling was so intriguing that it was tough to care too much. After all, the innies we had grown to love were only just deciding to spread their wings and try to learn more about the work they were doing — as well as their outies' lives. Severance season 2 has, bizarrely, jammed an enormous spanner into that storytelling machine. All of the narrative momentum from that blockbuster finale episode has been arrested, starting an entirely new slow-burn fuse of story. All of the urgency has faded and, instead, we just have a load of new mysteries to solve. But the problem is that those mysteries aren't much fun any more. This is the essential conundrum of the mystery box. The thrill of a properly told mystery box story is that, by the time the truth is unveiled — if it even is — you are more invested in the characters and their journey than you are in getting answers. As long as you firmly believe, as a viewer, that the answers will be satisfying, then it's possible to put the mystery to one side. Read more: 'Severance' Creator Has 'Whole Vision Mapped Out' for Series, Which Could Include a Third Season (IndieWire, 6 min read) Increasingly, it feels as if Severance has no intention of providing satisfactory answers for its mysteries. It hopes instead to simply pile mystery upon mystery, like the sort of "yes and..." exercise you might do at a slightly tedious improv comedy group. But, most damningly, the characters now feel less important than the mysteries. Instead of the mystery being a crucible in which the characters are challenged, the actual people in the story now feel like mere pieces on a chessboard. The tail is wagging the dog, narratively speaking, and the mystery is all there is. And when that's the case, the eventual explanation has to be satisfying. The stakes are now very high. Read more: "Severance" and the important, mysterious job of speaking the language of work (Salon, 11 min read) Another side effect of this is that the essential satire at the core of the story has also fallen by the wayside in favour of the multi-layered mystery box. In the first season, the fact we didn't know what was happening at Lumon was a feature, not a bug. The entire point was that these people have fractured themselves to spend eight hours a day on work they don't quite understand or care about, just as so many of us do in our real lives. It's like the running joke in Friends about how none of the characters quite understand Chandler's job. In fact, his job in "statistical analysis and data reconfiguration" doesn't sound a million miles away from the "macrodata refinement" happening in Severance. Perhaps the Chandler we saw in that show was actually an outie? For fans who've waited three years to see Severance pay off its climactic cliffhanger, season 2 can't help but feel frustrating. Answers are in short supply and we just seem to get more and more questions each week. What exactly is going on with Gwendoline Christie and her weird goat cult? Why is there a teenage middle-manager at Lumon? What exactly is Harmony Cobel up to? Will Mark ever be reintegrated? It's entirely possible that we'll never get good answers to any of those questions. When it comes to Severance in its second season, the work is still mysterious, but it's starting to look less important with each week that goes by. Severance season 2 currently airs weekly every Friday on Apple TV+.
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
On my radar: Sharon Van Etten's cultural highlights
Born in New Jersey in 1981, singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten has released seven studio albums, including 2019's acclaimed Remind Me Tomorrow. In the mid-2010s she took some time away from music, studying to become a mental health therapist and starring in film and TV roles including The OA and Twin Peaks: The Return. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, musician Zeke Hutchins, and their son. Her latest album, Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, named after her new band, is out now on Jagjaguwar; they tour the UK in March. The Cure at the Hollywood Bowl My band and I got to see the Cure when we were in the writing process of this new record. They were obviously a huge influence on us when we were kids and through our creative lives. Watching Robert Smith on stage, you can just tell he still loves performing so much – it's a high bar he has set for us as artists. They did Plainsong, which was the song I walked down the aisle to, and being able to sing classic songs like Friday I'm in Love with my bandmates – there's a magic in that kind of performance. (dir Marielle Heller) As an actor, Amy Adams is so relatable and vulnerable, and really believable in every role I've seen her in. Here she plays a mother who, by 'choice', gives up her creative career to stay home with her child after daycare proves too expensive and unmanageable. It brings up conversations that I think couples have when they have a kid, how it changes the dynamic, even if you have a healthy relationship – sometimes you have to make hard choices. I feel lucky I'm in a relationship where my husband doesn't want me to give up that part of myself. , Disney+ I think anyone that has been a creative has worked in the service industry, to some degree – I was more of a barista. This show really captures the family dynamic that exists in any working environment, and the stress that comes with opening a restaurant and keeping it afloat. They brought in chefs and people that have worked in the industry to make it feel sometimes stressfully relatable. Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Jeremy Allen White's mother, isn't a regular character but she just commands the screen when she's on – especially in the episode Fishes, where they have a family husband and son are huge basketball fans, and we went on a family trip to the Final Four tournament in Phoenix, which we combined with a visit to Sedona. We went mountain biking, off-roading in a Jeep, and went to see Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and studio. There's a 'Sedona vortex', they call it: some kind of unique geological and energetic phenomenon which is believed to have an effect on physical and spiritual insight. I don't know if I had enough time to experience that myself, but our mountain bike guide swore it changed her life. Little Ripper, LA When I first moved to LA from New York, one of the things we talked about was that I needed a place to be able to walk to. LA is very spread out, so this was a haven for us. The couple [who run it] are from Australia, and they're really sweet. They employ a lot of musicians, and a coffee shop naturally brings together so many people – it's a neighbourhood hub. They bring so much to our little part of town. The Beauty of What Remains by Steve Leder A Jewish friend of mine recommended this book, written by a rabbi who goes to people's bedsides to be with them in their last days, and he finds words of peace for them and their family. My husband's father died this past year, and we'd been preparing for a long time, because he had dementia, but no matter how much you think you're prepared, you're not – it's not like there's a 'how to grieve' process. It's a really beautiful, uplifting book. I handed it directly to my partner after I read it, and he's reading it now.
The Guardian
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
On my radar: Sharon Van Etten's cultural highlights
Born in New Jersey in 1981, singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten has released seven studio albums, including 2019's acclaimed Remind Me Tomorrow. In the mid-2010s she took some time away from music, studying to become a mental health therapist and starring in film and TV roles including The OA and Twin Peaks: The Return. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, musician Zeke Hutchins, and their son. Her latest album, Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, named after her new band, is out now on Jagjaguwar; they tour the UK in March. The Cure at the Hollywood Bowl My band and I got to see the Cure when we were in the writing process of this new record. They were obviously a huge influence on us when we were kids and through our creative lives. Watching Robert Smith on stage, you can just tell he still loves performing so much – it's a high bar he has set for us as artists. They did Plainsong, which was the song I walked down the aisle to, and being able to sing classic songs like Friday I'm in Love with my bandmates – there's a magic in that kind of performance. Nightbitch (dir Marielle Heller) As an actor, Amy Adams is so relatable and vulnerable, and really believable in every role I've seen her in. Here she plays a mother who, by 'choice', gives up her creative career to stay home with her child after daycare proves too expensive and unmanageable. It brings up conversations that I think couples have when they have a kid, how it changes the dynamic, even if you have a healthy relationship – sometimes you have to make hard choices. I feel lucky I'm in a relationship where my husband doesn't want me to give up that part of myself. The Bear, Disney+ I think anyone that has been a creative has worked in the service industry, to some degree – I was more of a barista. This show really captures the family dynamic that exists in any working environment, and the stress that comes with opening a restaurant and keeping it afloat. They brought in chefs and people that have worked in the industry to make it feel sometimes stressfully relatable. Jamie Lee Curtis, who plays Jeremy Allen White's mother, isn't a regular character but she just commands the screen when she's on – especially in the episode Fishes, where they have a family dinner. Sedona, Arizona My husband and son are huge basketball fans, and we went on a family trip to the Final Four tournament in Phoenix, which we combined with a visit to Sedona. We went mountain biking, off-roading in a Jeep, and went to see Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and studio. There's a 'Sedona vortex', they call it: some kind of unique geological and energetic phenomenon which is believed to have an effect on physical and spiritual insight. I don't know if I had enough time to experience that myself, but our mountain bike guide swore it changed her life. Little Ripper, LA When I first moved to LA from New York, one of the things we talked about was that I needed a place to be able to walk to. LA is very spread out, so this was a haven for us. The couple [who run it] are from Australia, and they're really sweet. They employ a lot of musicians, and a coffee shop naturally brings together so many people – it's a neighbourhood hub. They bring so much to our little part of town. The Beauty of What Remains by Steve Leder A Jewish friend of mine recommended this book, written by a rabbi who goes to people's bedsides to be with them in their last days, and he finds words of peace for them and their family. My husband's father died this past year, and we'd been preparing for a long time, because he had dementia, but no matter how much you think you're prepared, you're not – it's not like there's a 'how to grieve' process. It's a really beautiful, uplifting book. I handed it directly to my partner after I read it, and he's reading it now.
