All of this makes “Trying” feel like that much more of an achievement, not to mention a welcome respite. The Apple TV+ comedy, debuting its Season 2 this week, revolves around Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall), two Camden residents on an extended journey to add to their family. The events of the first season eventually saw them approved by an adoption panel, and now begins the next stretch of the process....
After seeing the 2009 Broadway revival, which was directed by Arthur Laurents and featured translated Spanish lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, he had dreamed of doing the show. “I was so in love with the sound, the music, the characters, and the Shakespearean essence to it. And I just remember coming out of there and thinking that maybe one day I’d like to be in ‘West Side Story,’” Alvarez said during a recent phone interview....
Theatrical success also was key for Netflix’s new #1. “Where the Crawdads Sing.” Sony’s very successful adaptation of Delia Owens’ best seller opened mid-July with a domestic $90 million total. Theaters can’t live by comic book and other franchises alone; they need a resurgence of standalone successes in other genres. “Ticket” and “Crawdads” are also the kinds of projects that top streamers want to corral, with limited or no theatrical footprint....
The “Black Bird” actor revealed during the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast (via The Independent) that he auditioned for and ultimately turned down leading the “Star Wars” 2018 prequel film, “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” “I’ll be honest, I got on the Falcon,” Egerton explained, referencing the Millennium Falcon. “I was with Chewie. I was in the full costume. I felt like I got there, I did it, I lived it.” But something still felt off about playing the younger version of the beloved hero that Harrison Ford made famous....
“The early conversations were that it would be shot on film because of the time period, and because Adam’s a film guy,” said Banhazl, who shot Episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, and 10. “And we knew from the scripts that the show was going to be mixing in footage that we had shot, period footage that we had shot, real archival with photos. It was like a pop culture mixtape, pulling in from all these references from our collective memory....
If you’ve had your ear to the ground of social media, you might have heard a persistent rumble about Showtime’s new series “Yellowjackets.” Perhaps, you reckon, it’s a show that isn’t your style, but that fans will not stop yammering about. In reality, it’s a beautiful and brutal series, a rumination on survival and sacrifice and what we owe each other on a baseline level. It’s also about a girls championship soccer team that crash lands in the Canadian wilds and finds themselves forced to survive for 19 [nineteen!...
The point of this strained metaphor is two-fold: 1) I should eat dinner, and 2) when it comes to the vexing, 21st century dilemma of too many choices, I understand the annoyance of having another option tossed on the table. Yet here I am, asking you, dear readers, to consider one more TV show before year’s end. It’s one I was in no rush to revisit myself, after a first season that never really gelled and a delay that worked as an excuse to forget the potential within those initial hours....
