For an impressive 12 seasons, Hart Hanson's sweet-and-scary procedural crime series "Bones" kept viewers on their toes with a colorful assortment of forensically baffling mysteries, terrifying villains, and unpredictable character arcs. That last quality might very well be key to the series' longevity. Yes, fans tuned in every week to see Bones (Emily Deschanel), Booth (David Boreanaz), and the Jeffersonian gang use their great big brains to crack an intriguing new case, but the who- and howdunnit elements were often secondary to the simple pleasure of watching characters viewers grew to love fall in love with each other.
The camaraderie was endearing in and of itself, but when workplace romances blossomed into full-blown relationships, the will-they-or-won't-they tension gave when to a when-will-they-put-a-ring-on-it anticipation. Given the show's healthy ratings, Hanson and his writers were never in a rush to get their characters to the altar. In some cases, they let things...
The camaraderie was endearing in and of itself, but when workplace romances blossomed into full-blown relationships, the will-they-or-won't-they tension gave when to a when-will-they-put-a-ring-on-it anticipation. Given the show's healthy ratings, Hanson and his writers were never in a rush to get their characters to the altar. In some cases, they let things...
- 2/16/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
"Bones" fans will surely recall that "Angela Montenegro" was not the birth name of the character played by actress Michaela Conlin. The origin of her true full birth name was one of the show's longest-running mysteries, and showrunner Hart Hanson and the "Bones" writers held onto that secret until the 10th season's 21st episode, "The Life in the Light," where it was revealed that "Angela" was actually born with a far more ... unusual name: Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons.
That delightfully unconventional name makes a little more sense when you remember that Billy F. Gibbons, the guitarist and lead singer of rock band Zz Top, played Angela's father on the show, and he was essentially playing a heightened version of himself. But the writers took things a step further and embedded a hidden reference into the relationship between Gibbons and Angela that only hardcore Zz Top fans would know.
The "Pearly Gates...
That delightfully unconventional name makes a little more sense when you remember that Billy F. Gibbons, the guitarist and lead singer of rock band Zz Top, played Angela's father on the show, and he was essentially playing a heightened version of himself. But the writers took things a step further and embedded a hidden reference into the relationship between Gibbons and Angela that only hardcore Zz Top fans would know.
The "Pearly Gates...
- 1/21/2024
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
ABC is passing on its pilots.
The network has passed on Anthony Anderson-fronted Public Defenders and Ellie Kemper-led Keeping It Together, which is a remake of British comedy Motherland, as well as dramas The Hurt Unit, starring Melissa George and Ben McKenzie, and Judgement starring Sex/Life’s Sarah Shahi.
ABC Signature is, however, planning to shop The Hurt Unit to other networks and platforms, while 20th Television will be shopping Public Defenders and Judgement.
The move comes as it still has decisions to make on series Home Economics and The Rookie: Feds as well as The Good Lawyer, which was a backdoor pilot spinoff of The Good Doctor.
Last month, ABC handed a series order to Drew Goddard’s pilot High Potential, starring Kaitlin Olson. The project, which is based on the popular French detective series Hip, was the clear front-runner all development season.
Related: 2023 ABC Pilots...
The network has passed on Anthony Anderson-fronted Public Defenders and Ellie Kemper-led Keeping It Together, which is a remake of British comedy Motherland, as well as dramas The Hurt Unit, starring Melissa George and Ben McKenzie, and Judgement starring Sex/Life’s Sarah Shahi.
ABC Signature is, however, planning to shop The Hurt Unit to other networks and platforms, while 20th Television will be shopping Public Defenders and Judgement.
The move comes as it still has decisions to make on series Home Economics and The Rookie: Feds as well as The Good Lawyer, which was a backdoor pilot spinoff of The Good Doctor.
Last month, ABC handed a series order to Drew Goddard’s pilot High Potential, starring Kaitlin Olson. The project, which is based on the popular French detective series Hip, was the clear front-runner all development season.
Related: 2023 ABC Pilots...
- 6/9/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Hours after NBC made decisions on the bulk of its bubble comedy fare, ABC has passed on nearly all of its remaining pilots.
The Disney-backed broadcaster has passed on dramas The Hurt Unit and Judgment as well as comedies Keeping It Together (formerly Drop-Off) and Public Defenders, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Of the four drama and two comedy pilots that ABC developed this season, only the Good Doctor spinoff, The Good Lawyer, remains in contention. (Kaitlin Olson drama High Potential was previously ordered to series.)
Also remaining on the bubble are comedy Home Economics (awaiting word on a fourth season) and The Rookie spinoff, Feds (awaiting word on season two). Sources say producers ABC Signature is expected to shop medical drama The Hurt Unit, which counts Ben McKenzie and Michelle Ortiz among its cast.
Reps for ABC declined comment.
The decisions come as options on the cast for pilots...
The Disney-backed broadcaster has passed on dramas The Hurt Unit and Judgment as well as comedies Keeping It Together (formerly Drop-Off) and Public Defenders, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Of the four drama and two comedy pilots that ABC developed this season, only the Good Doctor spinoff, The Good Lawyer, remains in contention. (Kaitlin Olson drama High Potential was previously ordered to series.)
Also remaining on the bubble are comedy Home Economics (awaiting word on a fourth season) and The Rookie spinoff, Feds (awaiting word on season two). Sources say producers ABC Signature is expected to shop medical drama The Hurt Unit, which counts Ben McKenzie and Michelle Ortiz among its cast.
Reps for ABC declined comment.
The decisions come as options on the cast for pilots...
- 6/9/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vmi Worldwide to handle worldwide sales.
Vmi Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to Verdi Productions’ Bryan Greenberg and Griffin Dunne opioid crisis thriller Junction out of the Cannes market.
Greenberg, whose acting credits include How to Make It In America, wrote and directed the story which tackles the crisis from the viewpoints of three people who must reckon with the consequences of their choices: the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, a doctor, and a patient.
The cast includes Sophia Bush, Ashley Madekwe, Ryan Eggold, Jamie Chung, Josh Peck, Michaela Conlin, Yara Martinez, Dascha Polanco, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Dash Mihok,...
Vmi Releasing has acquired North American distribution rights to Verdi Productions’ Bryan Greenberg and Griffin Dunne opioid crisis thriller Junction out of the Cannes market.
Greenberg, whose acting credits include How to Make It In America, wrote and directed the story which tackles the crisis from the viewpoints of three people who must reckon with the consequences of their choices: the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, a doctor, and a patient.
The cast includes Sophia Bush, Ashley Madekwe, Ryan Eggold, Jamie Chung, Josh Peck, Michaela Conlin, Yara Martinez, Dascha Polanco, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Dash Mihok,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
It was recently announced that ever-prolific online content factory Buzzfeed would begin using artificial intelligence technology to generate articles — so can A.I. screenwriting be far behind? Amid a surfeit of production company idents at the outset of “One True Loves,” the presence of Buzzfeed Studios’ logo brings that question to mind; the rigidly generic love story that ensues keeps it there. In fact, this adaptation of a 2016 bestseller by Taylor Jenkins Reid (“Daisy Jones & The Six”) was scripted by the author herself, in collaboration with her husband Alex. There’s scant evidence of personal investment, however, in this clean, anodyne drama of messy romantic conflicts, in which everyone from director Andy Fickman to stars Simu Liu, Phillipa Soo and Luke Bracey is working in strict get-the-job-done mode.
The bland proficiency on display throughout “One True Loves” is galling in a story that calls for ripe emotional excess, conceived...
The bland proficiency on display throughout “One True Loves” is galling in a story that calls for ripe emotional excess, conceived...
- 4/6/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Simu Liu may be starring in one of the biggest movies of 2023, but no one will mistake “One True Loves” for that honorific. But, somehow, this rom-com adaptation is more plastic than “Barbie.”
Liu leads “One True Loves,” the big screen adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2016 novel of the same name. Liu is Sam, a high school music teacher who finally lands the woman of his dreams, childhood crush Emma (Phillipa Soo). The only issue? Emma’s first husband Jesse (Luke Bracey) was presumed dead after a fatal helicopter crash, and miraculously is rescued four years later, proving to be alive and very ready to rekindle his relationship with Emma right before her wedding to Sam.
If the premise sounds like the stuff of beach reads, it is. The Reid cinematic universe is rapidly expanding, with Prime Video series “Daisy Jones & the Six” having gone viral and fans...
Liu leads “One True Loves,” the big screen adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2016 novel of the same name. Liu is Sam, a high school music teacher who finally lands the woman of his dreams, childhood crush Emma (Phillipa Soo). The only issue? Emma’s first husband Jesse (Luke Bracey) was presumed dead after a fatal helicopter crash, and miraculously is rescued four years later, proving to be alive and very ready to rekindle his relationship with Emma right before her wedding to Sam.
If the premise sounds like the stuff of beach reads, it is. The Reid cinematic universe is rapidly expanding, with Prime Video series “Daisy Jones & the Six” having gone viral and fans...
- 4/5/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Nancy Lenehan is set as a lead opposite Ellie Kemper in ABC’s Drop-Off (working title), a comedy pilot based on the British series Motherland, from writer Julieanne Smolinski, Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman Television, Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, Lionsgate and ABC Signature. Judy Greer, Karan Soni and Michaela Conlin also star.
Written by Smolinski, Drop-Off (wt) centers on Julia (Kemper), a working mom for whom nothing is working so she goes looking for her village. With the help of new friends Calvin (Soni) and Liz (Conlin), Julia discovers she just might succeed at balancing work and parenting from time to time. This is a comedy for anybody who’s dropped their kids at school, breathed a sigh of relief … then realized it’s Sunday.
Lenehan will play Marianne. Warm, loving, responsible, the kind of person who has rocks in her garden with platitudes chiseled on them,...
Written by Smolinski, Drop-Off (wt) centers on Julia (Kemper), a working mom for whom nothing is working so she goes looking for her village. With the help of new friends Calvin (Soni) and Liz (Conlin), Julia discovers she just might succeed at balancing work and parenting from time to time. This is a comedy for anybody who’s dropped their kids at school, breathed a sigh of relief … then realized it’s Sunday.
Lenehan will play Marianne. Warm, loving, responsible, the kind of person who has rocks in her garden with platitudes chiseled on them,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Reid Scott and François Arnaud are set as the male leads opposite Sarah Shahi in Judgement, ABC’s drama pilot from former Charmed showrunner Joey Falco and 20th Television.
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Written and executive produced by Falco, Judgement is a high-stakes legal soap that redefines the genre by playing out over two timelines. Fifteen years from now, a woman (Shahi) being vetted for a Supreme Court seat recounts her experience at a prominent D.C. law firm in 2023, where the only thing more controversial than the cases was her messy love life,...
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Written and executive produced by Falco, Judgement is a high-stakes legal soap that redefines the genre by playing out over two timelines. Fifteen years from now, a woman (Shahi) being vetted for a Supreme Court seat recounts her experience at a prominent D.C. law firm in 2023, where the only thing more controversial than the cases was her messy love life,...
- 3/15/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Michaela Conlin has been cast as a series regular opposite Ellie Kemper in ABC’s Drop-Off (working title), a comedy pilot based on the British series Motherland, from writer Julieanne Smolinski, Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman Television, Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, Lionsgate and ABC Signature. Judy Greer and Karan Soni also star.
Written by Smolinski, Drop-Off (wt) centers on Julia (Kemper), a working mom for whom nothing is working so she goes looking for her village. With the help of new friends Calvin (Soni) and Liz (Conlin), Julia discovers she just might succeed at balancing work and parenting from time to time. This is a comedy for anybody who’s dropped their kids at school, breathed a sigh of relief … then realized it’s Sunday.
Conlin’s Liz is another single mom at Julia’s (Kemper) kids’ school. She’s cool, doesn’t care. Unlike Calvin and Julia, Liz doesn’t like the inner circle of moms at their kids’ school and doesn’t want to be part of them. Liz lives a bit of an alternative lifestyle — there’s pretty much nothing in her apartment except a giant mattress on the floor — and her breezy disregard for the status quo is comforting to both Calvin and Julia.
Michael Showalter directs and executive produces alongside Smolinski, Kemper, Horgan, Mountford, Stacy Greenberg and Kira Carstensen for Merman Television, Paul Feig and Dan Magnante for Feigco Entertainment as well as Holly Walsh and Helen Serafinowicz.
Conlin will next be seen in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s adapted feature One True Loves, opposite Simu Liu. She also will be seen in the upcoming feature Junction, opposite Sophia Bush, Jamie Chung and Hill Harper. On television, she most recently appeared in Hulu’s Dollface opposite Kat Dennings, Brenda Song, and Shay Mitchell. Conlin is known for her role as Angela Montenegro in Fox’s Bones and also played a key recurring in Apple’s For All Mankind, among her other credits. Conlin is repped by Mosaic, APA and Joel McKuin.
Written by Smolinski, Drop-Off (wt) centers on Julia (Kemper), a working mom for whom nothing is working so she goes looking for her village. With the help of new friends Calvin (Soni) and Liz (Conlin), Julia discovers she just might succeed at balancing work and parenting from time to time. This is a comedy for anybody who’s dropped their kids at school, breathed a sigh of relief … then realized it’s Sunday.
Conlin’s Liz is another single mom at Julia’s (Kemper) kids’ school. She’s cool, doesn’t care. Unlike Calvin and Julia, Liz doesn’t like the inner circle of moms at their kids’ school and doesn’t want to be part of them. Liz lives a bit of an alternative lifestyle — there’s pretty much nothing in her apartment except a giant mattress on the floor — and her breezy disregard for the status quo is comforting to both Calvin and Julia.
Michael Showalter directs and executive produces alongside Smolinski, Kemper, Horgan, Mountford, Stacy Greenberg and Kira Carstensen for Merman Television, Paul Feig and Dan Magnante for Feigco Entertainment as well as Holly Walsh and Helen Serafinowicz.
Conlin will next be seen in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s adapted feature One True Loves, opposite Simu Liu. She also will be seen in the upcoming feature Junction, opposite Sophia Bush, Jamie Chung and Hill Harper. On television, she most recently appeared in Hulu’s Dollface opposite Kat Dennings, Brenda Song, and Shay Mitchell. Conlin is known for her role as Angela Montenegro in Fox’s Bones and also played a key recurring in Apple’s For All Mankind, among her other credits. Conlin is repped by Mosaic, APA and Joel McKuin.
- 3/15/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
"No matter what you do, you're going to break somebody's heart." The Avenue has revealed the trailer for the film One True Loves, a new romantic dramedy from filmmaker Andy Fickman. Based on the book of the same name, the film is one of these cliche, cheesy stories about a woman forced to decide between two men she loves deeply. Is there such a thing as more than one true love? Yet another modern movie trying to grapple with the question of monogamy and whether it's still relevant anymore. A woman is unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiance who has finally brought her back to life. The three people at the center are played by Phillipa Soo as Emma, Simu Liu as Sam, Luke Bracey as Jesse, with a supporting cast including Michaela Conlin, Tom Everett Scott, Gary Hudson, Oceana Matsumoto,...
- 2/15/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
If broadcast Pilot Season is any indicator, the Peak TV numbers are in for a rude awakening.
A decade ago, ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC collectively ordered an eye-popping 98 comedies and dramas during Pilot Season 2013. That figure, the most since THR began tracking overall volume in 2012, is now considered a relic of the past.
With the Covid-19 pandemic effectively wiping out Pilot Season 2020, the networks were forced to lean into the year-round programming strategy many had discussed but hadn’t really executed. Now, the shift is in full swing as the overall volume of pilots ordered across the five networks is likely to hit another low after they collectively picked up 35 comedies and dramas last season.
What’s more, the economic downturn has also prompted broadcasters to be more selective in how many scripts they buy and which among those will actually get made. Network executives — including new presidents at CBS,...
A decade ago, ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC collectively ordered an eye-popping 98 comedies and dramas during Pilot Season 2013. That figure, the most since THR began tracking overall volume in 2012, is now considered a relic of the past.
With the Covid-19 pandemic effectively wiping out Pilot Season 2020, the networks were forced to lean into the year-round programming strategy many had discussed but hadn’t really executed. Now, the shift is in full swing as the overall volume of pilots ordered across the five networks is likely to hit another low after they collectively picked up 35 comedies and dramas last season.
What’s more, the economic downturn has also prompted broadcasters to be more selective in how many scripts they buy and which among those will actually get made. Network executives — including new presidents at CBS,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Love it or hate it, it’s kind of impossible to escape “Yellowstone.” The Paramount Network Western series, co-created and written by Taylor Sheridan, is one of the most popular series currently on television (and is a primetime Emmy nominee for Best Production Design). The series follows the Duttons, a Montana ranching family led by patriarch John (Kevin Costner). Alongside his three children, he’ll do whatever he has to in order to maintain his family’s ranch.
Because of how ubiquitous the show, which just wrapped the first part of Season 5, has become, it’s a good time to look back and celebrate the episodes that made “Yellowstone” the series it is today.
Here are the 10 best episodes of “Yellowstone.”
10. “Daybreak”
This is the episode that started everything. On the one hand, “Daybreak” is a standard pilot. It introduces the Duttons and their central conflicts. On the other hand...
Because of how ubiquitous the show, which just wrapped the first part of Season 5, has become, it’s a good time to look back and celebrate the episodes that made “Yellowstone” the series it is today.
Here are the 10 best episodes of “Yellowstone.”
10. “Daybreak”
This is the episode that started everything. On the one hand, “Daybreak” is a standard pilot. It introduces the Duttons and their central conflicts. On the other hand...
- 1/12/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Not a lot’s happened so far on Season 5 of “Yellowstone.” The last five episodes have talked around some issues, but if you had to describe this season to someone it boils down to: John Dutton hates being governor; Beth has regrets; and the occasional cowboy thing.” But at the end of Sunday night’s episode, “Cigarettes, Whiskey, a Meadow and You,” we saw the wheels start to turn in the mind of John Dutton’s adopted eldest son Jamie (Wes Bentley) that makes me wonder: Is Jamie Dutton gonna murder someone again?
“Wait, Jamie murdered someone?” you ask. Don’t worry if you forgot, the series hasn’t exactly done anything to remind viewers of it. In Season 2 Jamie accidentally murdered New York Magazine journalist Sarah Nguyen (Michaela Conlin) and enlisted Rip (Cole Hauser) to make it look like Sarah just decided to go kayaking one day….in professional clothes apparently.
“Wait, Jamie murdered someone?” you ask. Don’t worry if you forgot, the series hasn’t exactly done anything to remind viewers of it. In Season 2 Jamie accidentally murdered New York Magazine journalist Sarah Nguyen (Michaela Conlin) and enlisted Rip (Cole Hauser) to make it look like Sarah just decided to go kayaking one day….in professional clothes apparently.
- 12/12/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Griffin Dunne (This Is Us), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Richard Benjamin (Michael Crichton’s Westworld), Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why) and James Norton (Little Women) will lead the cast of an as-yet-untitled comedy from writer-director Noah Pritzker (Quitters).
Others joining the ensemble include Eisa Davis (Mare of Easttown), Marcia Jean Kurtz (If Beale Street Could Talk), John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos), Lou Taylor Pucci (You), Echo Kellum (Grand Crew), Ian Owens (Shrill), Pedro Fontaine (Spider), Simon Van Buyten (Chaussée d’Amour), Nate Mann (Licorice Pizza), Zora Casebere (On the Rocks) and Rachel Zeiger-Haag (Monsterland).
The film from Play Book Productions and Pimienta Films—marking Pritzker’s follow-up to the 2015 dramedy, Quitters—will center on Dunne’s character, Peter Pearce. Overwhelmed by his pending divorce from Maria (Arquette) and the declining health of his father (Benjamin), Peter plans a getaway to Tulum, insistent he knows nothing of his sons’ (Heizer and...
Others joining the ensemble include Eisa Davis (Mare of Easttown), Marcia Jean Kurtz (If Beale Street Could Talk), John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos), Lou Taylor Pucci (You), Echo Kellum (Grand Crew), Ian Owens (Shrill), Pedro Fontaine (Spider), Simon Van Buyten (Chaussée d’Amour), Nate Mann (Licorice Pizza), Zora Casebere (On the Rocks) and Rachel Zeiger-Haag (Monsterland).
The film from Play Book Productions and Pimienta Films—marking Pritzker’s follow-up to the 2015 dramedy, Quitters—will center on Dunne’s character, Peter Pearce. Overwhelmed by his pending divorce from Maria (Arquette) and the declining health of his father (Benjamin), Peter plans a getaway to Tulum, insistent he knows nothing of his sons’ (Heizer and...
- 7/26/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Josh Peck and Kea Ho have joined the cast of “Junction,” an upcoming drama about the opioid crisis. The film is written and directed by Bryan Greenberg, who is best known for his work as an actor on “How to Make It in America” and “One Tree Hill.” “Junction” will be his feature directorial debut.
Peck and Ho join an ensemble that includes Griffin Dunne (“After Hours”), Sophia Bush (“Chicago P.D.”), Hilarie Burton (“One Tree Hill”), Jamie Chung (“Dexter: New Blood”), Michaela Conlin (“Bones”), Hill Harper (“The Good Doctor”) Ashley Madekwe (“Country Lines”), Ryan Eggold (“The Blacklist”), Dascha Polanco (“Orange Is the New Black”), Dash Mihok (“I Am Legend”), Geoff Stults (“Wedding Crashers”), Eddie Kaye Thomas (“American Pie”) and Hannah Dunne (“Marriage Story”).
Peck, whose credits include “The Wackness” and “Mean Creek,” will soon appear in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” Ho’s credits include “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
Peck and Ho join an ensemble that includes Griffin Dunne (“After Hours”), Sophia Bush (“Chicago P.D.”), Hilarie Burton (“One Tree Hill”), Jamie Chung (“Dexter: New Blood”), Michaela Conlin (“Bones”), Hill Harper (“The Good Doctor”) Ashley Madekwe (“Country Lines”), Ryan Eggold (“The Blacklist”), Dascha Polanco (“Orange Is the New Black”), Dash Mihok (“I Am Legend”), Geoff Stults (“Wedding Crashers”), Eddie Kaye Thomas (“American Pie”) and Hannah Dunne (“Marriage Story”).
Peck, whose credits include “The Wackness” and “Mean Creek,” will soon appear in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” Ho’s credits include “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
- 5/12/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Timeless alum Malcolm Barrett is trading the time machine for The Hug Machine.
The actor will star in the aforementioned CBS comedy pilot as Dan, a dad who gets a second chance to save both his marriage and his flailing rock career when his band unintentionally finds success in the raucous, cutthroat world of children’s music, our sister site Deadline reports.
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The actor will star in the aforementioned CBS comedy pilot as Dan, a dad who gets a second chance to save both his marriage and his flailing rock career when his band unintentionally finds success in the raucous, cutthroat world of children’s music, our sister site Deadline reports.
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- 4/8/2022
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Former Timeless star Malcolm Barrett has been tapped as the lead of the CBS comedy pilot The Hug Machine. Michaela Conlin and Allison Guinn also will star in the project, from Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist executive producer Sam Laybourne, Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone and CBS Studios.
Barrett was also recently cast in the Apple TV+ series The Changeling headlined by Lakeith Stanfield. He plays Patrice, the best friend of Lakeith’s character, in the project, created by Kelly Marcel.
2022 CBS Pilots & Series Orders
Written by Laybourne and directed by Taccone, in The Hug Machine a dad (Barrett) gets a second chance to save both his marriage and his flailing rock career when his band unintentionally finds success in the raucous, cutthroat world of children’s music.
Barrett’s Dan is a loving, unrealistic father of two. His obsession with music has alienated the people he cares most about, namely...
Barrett was also recently cast in the Apple TV+ series The Changeling headlined by Lakeith Stanfield. He plays Patrice, the best friend of Lakeith’s character, in the project, created by Kelly Marcel.
2022 CBS Pilots & Series Orders
Written by Laybourne and directed by Taccone, in The Hug Machine a dad (Barrett) gets a second chance to save both his marriage and his flailing rock career when his band unintentionally finds success in the raucous, cutthroat world of children’s music.
Barrett’s Dan is a loving, unrealistic father of two. His obsession with music has alienated the people he cares most about, namely...
- 4/8/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Michaela Conlin has joined the ensemble cast of the adaptation of One True Loves. The film stars Phllipa Soo, Simu Liu and Luke Bracey with Andy Fickman on board to direct. Taylor Jenkins Reid and Alex Jenkins Reid will adapt the script.
Based on the Jenkins novel, the story tells a moving love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who finally has brought her back to life.
Willie Kutner, Andy Fickman, Betsy Sullenger, Michael Jefferson and Sarah Finn are producing with Taylor Jenkins Reid, Alex Jenkins Reid and Adam Beasley executive producing. CAA Media Finance is representing the film’s North American distribution rights. Production is set to begin in the fall in Massachusetts.
Conlin is repped by APA, Mosaic and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Based on the Jenkins novel, the story tells a moving love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who finally has brought her back to life.
Willie Kutner, Andy Fickman, Betsy Sullenger, Michael Jefferson and Sarah Finn are producing with Taylor Jenkins Reid, Alex Jenkins Reid and Adam Beasley executive producing. CAA Media Finance is representing the film’s North American distribution rights. Production is set to begin in the fall in Massachusetts.
Conlin is repped by APA, Mosaic and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
- 9/29/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Michaela Conlin has been blessed with a professional acting career that has come with a good amount of stability. For more than a decade, she played Angela Montenegro in the popular series Bones. While some actors who play long-term roles often find themselves getting pigeonholed, that hasn’t been the case for Michaela. Since Bones ended in 2015, Michaela has been working hard to get other opportunities. In 2018, she had a recurring role in the TV series Yellowstone and the momentum didn’t stop there. In 2020 she appeared in the movie Bad Trip and she’s bringing that same energy into
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- 4/1/2021
- by Camille Moore
- TVovermind.com
Bad Trip is a new comedy classic from the minds of Eric Andre and Jackass co-creator Jeff Tremaine. The story follows Chris (Andre) and Bud (Lil Rey Howery) as they travel from Florida to New York to reunite Chris with the love of his life Maria (Michaela Conlin). Tiffany Haddish rounds out the cast as Trina, Chris’ sister, whose car is stolen for the trip. The movie co-stars a number of unwitting bystanders, called “marks” in the prank world, who find themselves appearing in scenes that seem perfectly natural until they become completely absurd. A mark’s response to the chaos created by the film crew is often kind and humane, with a few angry people sprinkled throughout. It’s their gentle reactions that make the movie special. Gone are the stand-alone prank vignettes of Jackass and The Eric Andre Show. Here the jokes land exceptionally well because the actors...
- 3/31/2021
- by Joshua Encinias
- The Film Stage
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show on Wssr-fm on March 26th, 2021, reviewing the new release “Bad Trip” streaming on Netflix beginning on Friday, March 26th.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Eric André portrays a loser named Chris, who with his best friend Bud (Lil Rei Howery) steals the car of Bud’s sister-in-prison Trina (Tiffany Haddish) to go to New York City so Chris ca visit the love of life (Michaela Conlin). So that’s the fictional movie part, but it also plays out in the real world around real people, with Eric André and his cast doing some incredibly bizarre and incredibly hilarious Candid Camera-style stunts.
“Bad Trip” is available to stream on Netflix beginning March 26th. Featuring Eric André, Lil Rei Lowery, Tiffany Haddish and Michaela Conlin. Story by Eric André, Kitao Sakurai, Kathryn Borel, Dan Curry and Jenna Park. Directed by Kitao Sakurai. Rated “R...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Eric André portrays a loser named Chris, who with his best friend Bud (Lil Rei Howery) steals the car of Bud’s sister-in-prison Trina (Tiffany Haddish) to go to New York City so Chris ca visit the love of life (Michaela Conlin). So that’s the fictional movie part, but it also plays out in the real world around real people, with Eric André and his cast doing some incredibly bizarre and incredibly hilarious Candid Camera-style stunts.
“Bad Trip” is available to stream on Netflix beginning March 26th. Featuring Eric André, Lil Rei Lowery, Tiffany Haddish and Michaela Conlin. Story by Eric André, Kitao Sakurai, Kathryn Borel, Dan Curry and Jenna Park. Directed by Kitao Sakurai. Rated “R...
- 3/27/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It makes a certain kind of sense that Bad Trip, Eric André’s entry into the Gonzo Comedy Hall of Fame (see: Jackass, Borat, Bad Grandpa), starts in Florida. Not that the other 49 states of this fine U.S. of A. don’t have their share of goofballs, chowderheads, numbskulls, fuck-ups and jag-offs; it’s just that this particular Southeastern one has a reputation for American eccentricity that results in eyes bugging out, jaws dropping and shit going very wrong. Those “Florida Man” headlines are well-earned.
And the “Florida Man...
And the “Florida Man...
- 3/26/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
More films with Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench is something that the world needs. They starred together in Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdul in 2017 and now they reunite in the Andy Goddard-directed Six Minutes To Midnight which will be released by IFC Films in theaters and on demand starting today.
Written by Izzard, Goddard and Celyn Jones, Six Minutes To Midnight is based on true events from 1939. The film follows teacher Thomas Miller (Izzard) who has taken a last-minute and controversial role teaching English to the daughters of high-ranking Nazis at the Augusta-Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast of England.
Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl (Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), the girls practice their English and learn how to represent the ideal of German womanhood.
When the body of a former teacher is discovered, it triggers a...
Written by Izzard, Goddard and Celyn Jones, Six Minutes To Midnight is based on true events from 1939. The film follows teacher Thomas Miller (Izzard) who has taken a last-minute and controversial role teaching English to the daughters of high-ranking Nazis at the Augusta-Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast of England.
Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl (Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), the girls practice their English and learn how to represent the ideal of German womanhood.
When the body of a former teacher is discovered, it triggers a...
- 3/26/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In the vein of films like Jackass and Bad Grandpa, the new (ahem) comedy Bad Trip, follows best friends Chris (Eric André) and Bud (Lil Rel Howery) as they travel haplessly from Florida to New York in a misguided quest to reunite Eric with Maria (Michaela Conlin), the supposed love of his life. Along the way, of course, the pair are shoe-horned into one awkward misadventure after another while Bud’s prison-escapee sister (Tiffany Haddish) relentlessly pursues them after she learns they have stolen her prized Pepto Bismol pink car for their odyssey.
There is little more to the plot than this, and the less the better as nothing of any substance is accomplished with what is present anyway. The film is rife with childish and often grotesque humor, such as André being raped at a zoo by a gorilla in front of horrified onlookers, or the pair getting their...
There is little more to the plot than this, and the less the better as nothing of any substance is accomplished with what is present anyway. The film is rife with childish and often grotesque humor, such as André being raped at a zoo by a gorilla in front of horrified onlookers, or the pair getting their...
- 3/26/2021
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
It only takes Eric André a couple of minutes to get naked in “Bad Trip,” and another half hour before he’s sodomized by a gorilla, which should give you a sense of how quickly this goofy hidden camera romp careens from zero to crazy and just keeps going. In director Kitao Sakurai’s quasi-scripted comedy, the comedian plays a klutzy reprobate who drives from Miami to New York in search of his high school crush, but the flimsy plot is little more than an excuse for André to screw with people up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
Anyone familiar with André’s aggressive ability to push people into cringe-inducing circumstances will find plenty of that anarchic spirit on display here, usually outpacing the story around it. But it’s also given proper context: André’s devious style and wit is matched by a bumbling turn by Lil Rel Howery as his best pal,...
Anyone familiar with André’s aggressive ability to push people into cringe-inducing circumstances will find plenty of that anarchic spirit on display here, usually outpacing the story around it. But it’s also given proper context: André’s devious style and wit is matched by a bumbling turn by Lil Rel Howery as his best pal,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It’s a romantic comedy cliché: Boy goes on outrageous quest to win back the girl of his dreams, an adventure fueled by derring-do and impassioned speeches that gain urgency as the violins swell. Onscreen, those manic you-complete-me moments make audiences swoon. But in reality, they’d look like “Bad Trip,” Directed by Kitao Sakurai and produced by “Jackass” co-creator Jeff Tremaine, “Bad Trip” hands lovelorn loser Chris a safe word (“popcorn”) and the keys to a hot pink Crown Victoria, and sets the comedian loose to terrorize unsuspecting bystanders along a northbound interstate from Florida to Manhattan, where he intends to profess his love to his middle school crush Maria (Michaela Conlin of “Bones”).
Riding shotgun is Lil Rey Howery as Chris’ best friend Bud, and on their trail storms a terrifyingly incognito Tiffany Haddish, tatted and volatile, posing as Bud’s older sister Trina, a sociopathic prison escapee...
Riding shotgun is Lil Rey Howery as Chris’ best friend Bud, and on their trail storms a terrifyingly incognito Tiffany Haddish, tatted and volatile, posing as Bud’s older sister Trina, a sociopathic prison escapee...
- 3/26/2021
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
The Eric Andre persona is best understood by his popular late-night Adult Swim series, succinctly titled The Eric Andre Show. In every episode Andre’s irreverent and self-destructive behavior leads him to trash his set, causing bodily harm, and torturing a slew of celebrities that range from Jimmy Kimmel to the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Andre is the equivalent of a magic mushrooms trip: wildly confusing, incoherent, sometimes causing one to burst at the seams with ecstatic comedic moments. Andre’s energy finds the perfect vessel in Bad Trip, his first starring role with a script he wrote with frequent collaborator and director Kitao Sakurai.
Enlisting shenanigan auteur Jeff Tremaine (the Jackass series) to assist behind the scenes, its opening credits start with a burst of destructive energy. Reminiscent of the Jackass movie title sequences, a late-for-work Andre rams through buildings and fences but with unsuspecting people in the middle of his chaos.
Enlisting shenanigan auteur Jeff Tremaine (the Jackass series) to assist behind the scenes, its opening credits start with a burst of destructive energy. Reminiscent of the Jackass movie title sequences, a late-for-work Andre rams through buildings and fences but with unsuspecting people in the middle of his chaos.
- 3/26/2021
- by Erik Nielsen
- The Film Stage
So, Spring Break has officially…sprung, I suppose. Time for a road trip, if only virtually for many of us. And that’s what this new streaming comedy adventure is all about. Well, mostly since it’s got a few unique twists. First, rather than making Florida the final destination, the “sunshine state” is the starting point. Plus we’re dealing with a couple of thirty-something slackers, not frisky high-schoolers or “single and ready to mingle” collegians. Oh, and here’s a biggie: it’s all improvised, though the four actors are working from an outline as sort of a “plot map” similar to the Christopher Guest “mockumentaries” or HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. Wait a sec, I said just four actors. Correct, because this is also a “prank” film, a new comedy designation popularized by the TV and feature film work of Johnny Knoxville (Bad Grandpa) and Sasha Baron...
- 3/26/2021
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stars: Eric André, Lil Rel Howery, Tiffany Haddish, Anthony J. James, Michaela Conlin, Adam Meir, Charles Green, Cory DeMeyers | Written by Eric André, Kathryn Borel, Dan Curry, Jenna Park, Kitao Sakurai | Directed by Kitao Sakurai
Part scripted buddy-comedy road movie and part prank show, Bad Trip follows hot on the heels of the Impractical Jokers movie, mixing well-plotted laughs with the kind of comedy that only comes from the sheer terror of being in the middle of a well-planned prank… But then what else would you expect from Jeff Tremaine, both a star and a producer on only king of the prank shows Jackass, but also the Johnny Knoxville starring “Jackass Presents” movie Bad Grandpa – a film which is an obvious inspiration for this outing!
What I’d expect is a good movie. Bad Trip is Not a good movie. There’s a very good reason this is now – thanks...
Part scripted buddy-comedy road movie and part prank show, Bad Trip follows hot on the heels of the Impractical Jokers movie, mixing well-plotted laughs with the kind of comedy that only comes from the sheer terror of being in the middle of a well-planned prank… But then what else would you expect from Jeff Tremaine, both a star and a producer on only king of the prank shows Jackass, but also the Johnny Knoxville starring “Jackass Presents” movie Bad Grandpa – a film which is an obvious inspiration for this outing!
What I’d expect is a good movie. Bad Trip is Not a good movie. There’s a very good reason this is now – thanks...
- 3/22/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Scheduled to have its world premiere a year ago at SXSW, Eric André’s latest project will finally arrive on Netflix this month, after the streamer acquired the hidden camera comedy from MGM. Following André and Lil Rel Howery’s East Coast trip with some semblance of a story, fans of the comedian likely know what they’re signing up for, and hopefully this recipe of scripted-meets-pranks delivers.
Also starring Tiffany Haddish and Michaela Conlin, Netflix has dropped the new trailer, which teases the fun to be had. Produced by Jackass whiz Jeff Tremaine, it’ll ideally be a fitting warm-up before the fourth entry of that series arrives later this year.
“The buddy comedy is essentially a love story,” Andre told NY Times. “Two buddies go on the road and one falls in love, but the love interest is a red flag. The real love is by the protagonist...
Also starring Tiffany Haddish and Michaela Conlin, Netflix has dropped the new trailer, which teases the fun to be had. Produced by Jackass whiz Jeff Tremaine, it’ll ideally be a fitting warm-up before the fourth entry of that series arrives later this year.
“The buddy comedy is essentially a love story,” Andre told NY Times. “Two buddies go on the road and one falls in love, but the love interest is a red flag. The real love is by the protagonist...
- 3/3/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Bad Trip" is a new comedy feature directed by Kitao Sakurai, starring Eric André, Lil Rel Howery, Michaela Conlin and Tiffany Hadish, streaming March 26, 2021 on Netflix:
"...two best friends take a road trip from Florida to New York City so one of them can declare his love for his high school crush, all the while being chased by the other's criminal sister, whose car they have stolen for the trip..."
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"...two best friends take a road trip from Florida to New York City so one of them can declare his love for his high school crush, all the while being chased by the other's criminal sister, whose car they have stolen for the trip..."
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- 3/3/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Netflix is mad with movies in 2021, as evidenced by a round-up trailer the streaming giant dropped on us Tuesday morning.
Featured in the montage — and accompanied by shout-outs from cast members — are the threequels To All The Boys: Always and Forever and The Kissing Booth 3. There’s also plenty of “movie star” power on hand, via intro hosts Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson (who star in the thriller Red Notice), Halle Berry (touting her directorial debut, Bruised) and others.
More from TVLineWhat's New on Netflix in January!Bridgerton Is Netflix's Fifth-Largest PremiereLincoln Lawyer Series Lands at Netflix, Starring...
Featured in the montage — and accompanied by shout-outs from cast members — are the threequels To All The Boys: Always and Forever and The Kissing Booth 3. There’s also plenty of “movie star” power on hand, via intro hosts Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson (who star in the thriller Red Notice), Halle Berry (touting her directorial debut, Bruised) and others.
More from TVLineWhat's New on Netflix in January!Bridgerton Is Netflix's Fifth-Largest PremiereLincoln Lawyer Series Lands at Netflix, Starring...
- 1/12/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Condor is on the move: The action-thriller, which previously aired on AT&T’s now-defunct Audience Network, will shift to Epix for Season 2, debuting in late 2021. A Season 1 catch-up marathon will air on the premium cabler in early March.
Based on the novel Six Days of the Condor, the series follows CIA analyst Joe Turner (played by Max Irons), who stumbles onto a plan that threatens the lives of millions. In the upcoming season, “shocking events back home force Joe Turner to face the demons of his past and return to the CIA’s tight-knit Virginia community to find a Russian traitor,...
Based on the novel Six Days of the Condor, the series follows CIA analyst Joe Turner (played by Max Irons), who stumbles onto a plan that threatens the lives of millions. In the upcoming season, “shocking events back home force Joe Turner to face the demons of his past and return to the CIA’s tight-knit Virginia community to find a Russian traitor,...
- 12/17/2020
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Michaela Conlin is set for a key supporting role in the upcoming second season of For All Mankind, Apple’s alt-history Space Race drama from Ronald D. Moore and Sony Pictures Television. Recently renewed for a third season, the second season will make its global premiere on Apple TV+ on February 19, 2021.
For All Mankind explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. The series presents an aspirational world where NASA astronauts, engineers and their families find themselves in the center of extraordinary events seen through the prism of an alternate history timeline — a world in which the Ussr beats the US to the moon.
Season 2 picks up a decade later in 1983. It’s the height of the Cold War and tensions between the United States and the Ussr are at their peak. Ronald Reagan is President and the greater ambitions of science and space...
For All Mankind explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. The series presents an aspirational world where NASA astronauts, engineers and their families find themselves in the center of extraordinary events seen through the prism of an alternate history timeline — a world in which the Ussr beats the US to the moon.
Season 2 picks up a decade later in 1983. It’s the height of the Cold War and tensions between the United States and the Ussr are at their peak. Ronald Reagan is President and the greater ambitions of science and space...
- 12/16/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to the Eric Andre-Lil Rel Howery hidden-camera prank comedy “Bad Trip” from MGM’s Orion Pictures.
The deal was announced Wednesday, nearly a month after “Bad Trip” was released briefly through Amazon Prime Video, then withdrawn. “Bad Trip,” which was originally supposed to debut at the SXSW Film Festival before it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, was available for long enough on April 17 to be placed on the download site Pirate Bay.
The movie comes from “Jackass” producer Jeff Tremaine. “Bad Trip” follows two best friends on a cross-country road trip full of pranks, pulling its real-life audience into the action. Tiffany Haddish and Michaela Conlin also star.
The film is directed by Kitao Sakurai, who worked with Andre previously on his Adult Swim series “The Eric Andre Show,” and produced by David Bernad (“The Mule”), Andre, Ruben Fleischer (“Venom”) and Tremaine. Orion...
The deal was announced Wednesday, nearly a month after “Bad Trip” was released briefly through Amazon Prime Video, then withdrawn. “Bad Trip,” which was originally supposed to debut at the SXSW Film Festival before it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, was available for long enough on April 17 to be placed on the download site Pirate Bay.
The movie comes from “Jackass” producer Jeff Tremaine. “Bad Trip” follows two best friends on a cross-country road trip full of pranks, pulling its real-life audience into the action. Tiffany Haddish and Michaela Conlin also star.
The film is directed by Kitao Sakurai, who worked with Andre previously on his Adult Swim series “The Eric Andre Show,” and produced by David Bernad (“The Mule”), Andre, Ruben Fleischer (“Venom”) and Tremaine. Orion...
- 5/13/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Eric André Show Ep and director Kitao Sakurai’s next movie Bad Trip from Orion Pictures/Bron Creative will now open on April 24, 2020. Pic was originally dated for Oct. 25, 2019 nationwide.
Eric André, Tiffany Haddish, Michaela Conlin and Lil Rel Howery of Uncle Drew and Get Out also stars.
The hidden camera comedy from a producer of Jackass and Bad Grandpa follows two best friends as they go on a cross-country road trip and pull zany inventive pranks, while pulling its real-life audience into the mayhem. Pic is from the minds of Dan Curry, Kitao Sakurai, and André, who also produces with Jeff Tremaine, Dave Bernard, and Ruben Fleischer.
Conlin, who is a new addition to the project, plays Maria. She’s Chris’ (André’s) high school crush. Conlin has a recurring arc in Alan Ball’s HBO series Here, Now as well as Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount Network series Yellowstone.
Eric André, Tiffany Haddish, Michaela Conlin and Lil Rel Howery of Uncle Drew and Get Out also stars.
The hidden camera comedy from a producer of Jackass and Bad Grandpa follows two best friends as they go on a cross-country road trip and pull zany inventive pranks, while pulling its real-life audience into the mayhem. Pic is from the minds of Dan Curry, Kitao Sakurai, and André, who also produces with Jeff Tremaine, Dave Bernard, and Ruben Fleischer.
Conlin, who is a new addition to the project, plays Maria. She’s Chris’ (André’s) high school crush. Conlin has a recurring arc in Alan Ball’s HBO series Here, Now as well as Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount Network series Yellowstone.
- 10/14/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Something bad is coming... but not until the next episode of Yellowstone.
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Yellowstone Season 2 Episode 8
Despite the fact that last week’s episode, “Resurrection Day,” ended with the apparent salvation of Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley), longtime viewers of Yellowstone should have known that everything wasn’t going to be okay. And while this week’s episode, “Behind Us Only Grey,” doesn’t necessarily do anything to utterly destroy this faulty belief, it spends a lot of time laying the groundwork for an explosive, violent and disparaging end to the show’s second season.
Sure, Jamie is attempting to recover himself after murdering the reporter Sarah (Michaela Conlin), and yes, Beth (Kelly Reilly) has been saved from further violations and certain death, but the siblings’ psychological and physical scars are on full display throughout the episode. What’s more, despite patriarch John’s...
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Yellowstone Season 2 Episode 8
Despite the fact that last week’s episode, “Resurrection Day,” ended with the apparent salvation of Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley), longtime viewers of Yellowstone should have known that everything wasn’t going to be okay. And while this week’s episode, “Behind Us Only Grey,” doesn’t necessarily do anything to utterly destroy this faulty belief, it spends a lot of time laying the groundwork for an explosive, violent and disparaging end to the show’s second season.
Sure, Jamie is attempting to recover himself after murdering the reporter Sarah (Michaela Conlin), and yes, Beth (Kelly Reilly) has been saved from further violations and certain death, but the siblings’ psychological and physical scars are on full display throughout the episode. What’s more, despite patriarch John’s...
- 8/15/2019
- Den of Geek
Yellowstone season 2 swings for the most jagged and ill-made fences.
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With the second season premiere of Succession looming on HBO this weekend and Billions on a break over at Showtime, the latest episode of Paramount’s own take on the popular “obscenely rich and deplorable families” genre firmly made its case. As strong (and weak) as the Duttons, their allies, and their enemies may seem, everyone in this program amounts to the same thing: caricatures of unforgivable violence and mayhem that, no matter how much audiences are pushed to empathize with them, are wholly beyond salvation.
Consider an otherwise tender moment between siblings Jamie (Wes Bentley) and Beth (Kelly Reilly) in the first five minutes of “Resurrection Day.”
“You know what's so dangerous about you?" she says. "You justify every act before you commit them. You're consumed with the world's perception of you.
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With the second season premiere of Succession looming on HBO this weekend and Billions on a break over at Showtime, the latest episode of Paramount’s own take on the popular “obscenely rich and deplorable families” genre firmly made its case. As strong (and weak) as the Duttons, their allies, and their enemies may seem, everyone in this program amounts to the same thing: caricatures of unforgivable violence and mayhem that, no matter how much audiences are pushed to empathize with them, are wholly beyond salvation.
Consider an otherwise tender moment between siblings Jamie (Wes Bentley) and Beth (Kelly Reilly) in the first five minutes of “Resurrection Day.”
“You know what's so dangerous about you?" she says. "You justify every act before you commit them. You're consumed with the world's perception of you.
- 8/8/2019
- Den of Geek
John’s past sins as a domineering father continue to punish the Dutton children on Yellowstone season 2.
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Yellowstone Season 2 Episode 6
“You want to be me someday? Then become something that can help me protect this place,” a younger, less grizzled John Dutton tells his son Jamie after revealing that he applied to Harvard University on the boy’s behalf. “A lawyer.”
When Jamie, who balks at the chance to live and study in a place that’s as “far away” as Boston, points out that his father doesn’t respect lawyers, John rebuffs him. “Then become one that I can… Lawyers are the swords of this century. Words are weapons now. I need you to learn how to use them.”
As mildly touching as this exchange between a father and his son is, the opening of this week’s episode of Yellowstone,...
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This Yellowstone review contains spoilers.
Yellowstone Season 2 Episode 6
“You want to be me someday? Then become something that can help me protect this place,” a younger, less grizzled John Dutton tells his son Jamie after revealing that he applied to Harvard University on the boy’s behalf. “A lawyer.”
When Jamie, who balks at the chance to live and study in a place that’s as “far away” as Boston, points out that his father doesn’t respect lawyers, John rebuffs him. “Then become one that I can… Lawyers are the swords of this century. Words are weapons now. I need you to learn how to use them.”
As mildly touching as this exchange between a father and his son is, the opening of this week’s episode of Yellowstone,...
- 8/1/2019
- Den of Geek
Mosaic has hired veteran manager Tiffany Kuzon. She is coming from Primary Wave Entertainment where she was one of the company’s top talent managers.
“Historically, Mosaic has been built within but every once in awhile someone from outside gets our attention,” Mosaic principal Jimmy Miller said. “Tiffany is one of those people, and we are very excited for her to join us.”
Kuzon started her career as an agent at UTA before becoming a manager at Evolution Entertainment two decades ago. She transitioned to Primary Wave following the company’s 2014 acquisition of Evolution.
Kuzon’s clients include Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory), Madelaine Petsch (RIiverdale), Marisol Nichols (Riverdale), Liv Hewson (Santa Clarita Diet), Michaela Conlin (Yellowstone), Ryan Mcpartlin (La’s Finest), Jonathan Bennett (Cake Wars), Davi Santos (Tell Me a Story), Shaun Sipos (Krypton), Noah Harpster (One Mississippi), Sarah Desjardin (Impulse), Jesse Garcia (From Dusk Till Dawn), Alexis Denisof,...
“Historically, Mosaic has been built within but every once in awhile someone from outside gets our attention,” Mosaic principal Jimmy Miller said. “Tiffany is one of those people, and we are very excited for her to join us.”
Kuzon started her career as an agent at UTA before becoming a manager at Evolution Entertainment two decades ago. She transitioned to Primary Wave following the company’s 2014 acquisition of Evolution.
Kuzon’s clients include Mayim Bialik (The Big Bang Theory), Madelaine Petsch (RIiverdale), Marisol Nichols (Riverdale), Liv Hewson (Santa Clarita Diet), Michaela Conlin (Yellowstone), Ryan Mcpartlin (La’s Finest), Jonathan Bennett (Cake Wars), Davi Santos (Tell Me a Story), Shaun Sipos (Krypton), Noah Harpster (One Mississippi), Sarah Desjardin (Impulse), Jesse Garcia (From Dusk Till Dawn), Alexis Denisof,...
- 8/15/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Michaela Conlin is still around if you were wondering. Even if you weren’t the up and coming actress has kept her personal life on the down low as much as possible and can be assumed to be still around since she’s popped up in TV and in films in the last several years. She hasn’t been up to much lately to be honest since her most recent appearance was on Here and Now. To be quite honest she hasn’t done as much with her career as many other actors and hasn’t managed to put herself out in the spotlight in
So What is Michaela Conlin Up to These Days?...
So What is Michaela Conlin Up to These Days?...
- 5/27/2018
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Starring world-renowned actor and Oscar-winner Kevin Costner, who serves in the lead role, Yellowstone is written and directed by critically-acclaimed, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan.
The trailer gives us a much better look at what to expect from the series, and it's a family at war with each other as they fight everyone who wants to take away from them what they've fought hard to sustain -- the largest contiguous ranch in the United States.
Yellowstone stars Costner as John Dutton, who controls the ranch, which is under constant attack by those it borders -- land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.
Now a grandfather who would rather spend his time making up for past mistakes, he's instead forced into new sins that he fears more than anything he's ever done as he hopes to keep the life he loves from disintegrating before his eyes.
It is...
The trailer gives us a much better look at what to expect from the series, and it's a family at war with each other as they fight everyone who wants to take away from them what they've fought hard to sustain -- the largest contiguous ranch in the United States.
Yellowstone stars Costner as John Dutton, who controls the ranch, which is under constant attack by those it borders -- land developers, an Indian reservation, and America’s first National Park.
Now a grandfather who would rather spend his time making up for past mistakes, he's instead forced into new sins that he fears more than anything he's ever done as he hopes to keep the life he loves from disintegrating before his eyes.
It is...
- 4/26/2018
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Former Bones star Michaela Conlin is set for a recurring role in Yellowstone, Paramount Network's straight-to-series period drama set to premiere in 2018. Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton (Costner), who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. It’s under constant attack by those it borders — land developers, an Indian reservation and America's first National Park. Conlin will play Sarah Nguyin, a journalist for The New York Times…...
- 11/3/2017
- Deadline TV
After 12 seasons, Bones went out with a bang last week. Recently, creator Hart Hanson spoke with Deadline about the Fox series finale.The long-running crime drama followed the partnership between Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel), a part-time novelist and a highly-skilled forensic anthropologist, and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). The cast also included Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Eric Millegan, Tamara Taylor, Michaela Conlin, John Francis Daley, Patricia Belcher, and David Greenman.Read More…...
- 4/5/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Bones aired its series finale last night after 12 seasons. But what about a revival? Recently, creator Hart Hanson spoke with Deadline about a possible reunion for the Fox TV series.The long-running crime drama followed the partnership between Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel), a part-time novelist and a highly-skilled forensic anthropologist, and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). The cast also included Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Eric Millegan, Tamara Taylor, Michaela Conlin, John Francis Daley, Patricia Belcher, and David Greenman.Read More…...
- 3/30/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Network: FoxEpisodes: 246 (hour)Seasons: 12TV show dates: September 13, 2005 -- March 28, 2017Series status: EndedPerformers include: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Eric Millegan, Tamara Taylor, Michaela Conlin, John Francis Daley, Patricia Belcher, and David Greenman.TV show description: Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is a part-time novelist and a highly-skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, DC.When the standard methods of identifying a body aren't enough, law enforcement agencies call on Brennan for her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. About the only one who can keep up with Brennan's intelligence and laser focus is a member of the FBI's Homicide unit, Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). A former sniper, street-smart Booth doesn't trust scientists or their methods...
- 3/29/2017
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Are you a fan of Bones? After 12 seasons, the long-running Fox TV series is finally coming to an end. But do you think the show is ending too soon? Would you have watched a 13th season?The crime drama stars Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, Tj Thyne, John Boyd, Eric Millegan, Eddie McClintock, Stephen Fry, Ryan O’Neal, Sara Rue, and Sunnie Pelant.Read More…...
- 3/29/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
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It's time to bid farewell to Bones. Recently, creator Hart Hanson spoke with TVInsider about the end of the Fox series.The long-running crime drama ends its 12th and final season tonight, March 28th, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. The cast includes David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, Tamara Taylor, Tj Thyne, and John Boyd.Read More…...
- 3/29/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Bones said goodbye after 12 seasons on Tuesday night, with a series finale that paid tribute to the brilliant mind of Dr. Temperance Brennan, by showing what life would be like without it.
In the aftermath of the bombing at the Jeffersonian, Brennan (Emily Deschanel) thankfully survives -- as do Booth (David Boreanaz), Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) and Angela (Michaela Conlin) -- but she knows immediately that something’s wrong. Unable to remember what she was doing prior to the explosion or recall what the team was working on, Brennan tearfully insists to Booth that “something is wrong with me.”
And she’s right. Once the foursome escapes the rubble of the Medico-Legal Lab, Cam (Tamara Taylor) informs the forensic anthropologist that she has a contusion on her corpus callosum, the nerves that join the two hemispheres of the brain. Essentially, the brilliant scientist has lost her ability to process complex information, a devastating...
In the aftermath of the bombing at the Jeffersonian, Brennan (Emily Deschanel) thankfully survives -- as do Booth (David Boreanaz), Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) and Angela (Michaela Conlin) -- but she knows immediately that something’s wrong. Unable to remember what she was doing prior to the explosion or recall what the team was working on, Brennan tearfully insists to Booth that “something is wrong with me.”
And she’s right. Once the foursome escapes the rubble of the Medico-Legal Lab, Cam (Tamara Taylor) informs the forensic anthropologist that she has a contusion on her corpus callosum, the nerves that join the two hemispheres of the brain. Essentially, the brilliant scientist has lost her ability to process complex information, a devastating...
- 3/29/2017
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