‘The Last of Us’ is about to diverge from the game again in the season finale

Therese Odell

3 years ago

Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Mother Ru has some important words about the current anti-drag legislation that is infecting our politics for some goddamned reason. Our queens need all the support we can give them in this stupid and unwarranted culture war, so please get ready to vote these fuckers out of office.

“Hey, look over there! A classic distraction technique, distracting us away from the real issues that they were voted into office to focus on: jobs, healthcare, keeping our children safe from harm at their own school. But we know that bullies are incompetent at solving real issues. They look for easy targets so they can give the impression of being effective. They think our love, our light, our laughter and our joy are signs of weakness. But they’re wrong because that is our strength.

“Drag queens are the Marines of the queer movement. Don’t get it twisted and don’t be distracted. Register to vote so we can get these stunt queens out of office and put some smart people with real solutions into government. And by the way, a social media post has never been as powerful as a registered vote.”

HBO has released an image of Ellie’s mother in The Last of Us, who will appear in Sunday’s finale. I don’t usually post promotional images because … who cares? But this one is interesting because it suggests that Ellie’s immunity might be tied to her mother’s fate, and there’s speculation that we will learn how Marlene knew about Ellie and her immunity. Neither is shown in the game, so this would be another opportunity for the show to expand on the game’s narrative — and honestly, those have been my favorite moments on this show.

The Price is Right is leaving its iconic studio in Television City for the first time in over fifty years.

I know that Brett Goldstein knows his Muppets, and I can see Roy Kent as Oscar the Grouch, but Keely as Janice? Nope. Keely doesn’t give off that hippie vibe whatsoever. Keely is Annie Sue, duh.

Houston’s own CW weatherman, Adam Krueger, has been taking challenges from viewers to incorporate song and rap lyrics into his weather reports, and a Snoop Dogg challenge got Snoop’s attention:

The Office actors have a hard time not looking into the camera on other movies and shows now.

I know I’m not the only one who watches Netflix with the captions on. Good news: they’re making the caption size adjustable for those of us with old eyes.

Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and Vought International took note:

This International Women’s Day, Vought is proud to report that nearly 7% of our staff is female. From the genius minds in Crime Analtics to our CEO who never has a hair out of place, we value strong women. We’re even open to new she-roes joining The Seven, if Homelander approves! pic.twitter.com/Ty1W4pOABq

— Vought International (@VoughtIntl) March 8, 2023

Wha … what?

Not a joke! Not an imaginary story! It's for charity and should be coming out… Soon-ish? pic.twitter.com/73AGujnAf6

— Justin Decloux (@DeclouxJ) March 8, 2023

NBCUniversal better give the Saturday Night Live post-production editors anything they want because they are the only thing that makes that show watchable, most weeks.

Y’all. There’s definitely going to be a writers’ strike.

Just heard of a show at a major network where the showrunner – the SHOWRUNNER – is being told the production can’t afford to pay her or her assistant for the next two months because the star’s vacation schedule is eating into the budget. 1/2

— Bryan Cogman (@cogman_bryan) March 8, 2023

And there are so many obvious reasons why this is appalling and infuriating — but I'll focus on one: IT'S FUCKING STUPID. IT'S BAD BUSINESS. IT'S BAD CREATIVELY. YOUR. SHOW. WILL. SUFFER.

— Bryan Cogman (@cogman_bryan) March 8, 2023

And yes I deleted and edited that last tweet to fix a misuse of an apostrophe CUZ I'M GODDAMN WRITER.

— Bryan Cogman (@cogman_bryan) March 8, 2023

These craven fucks. They'll tell a powerhouse female show runner their "hands are tied" and "they totally get it she doesn't want to write" now. She wants to fucking write! And she wants to get PAID. FOR. IT.

— Bryan Cogman (@cogman_bryan) March 8, 2023

This isn’t about TV, but by now y’all have seen these Houston podcasters being rudely interrupted, right? Speaking as a mother, NEVER SAY “IT’S SO QUIET” BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE WILL FIX THAT REAL QUICK.

Shawn Kemp, you are 53 years old. You are too old to be doing drive-bys.

Renewals

Reacher appears to have been renewed for a third season on Prime Video.

In Development

Getting LOST, a documentary about LOST, is being made. Can’t wait.
Excellence: 8 Fights, a limited series about Muhammed Ali, is in the works at Peacock.
Wolf Hustle, A Black Woman On Wall Street is being adapted into a film at Apple.
Time of Essence, a documentary about Essence Magazine, has been set at OWN.
Good Girls Die Last is being adapted for TV.
Craig Gillespie has signed first-lookok deal with ITV.

Casting News

Sydney Sweeney and Julianne Moore have been cast in Echo Valley on Apple TV+.
Greg Kinnear is in the second half of You on Netflix.
Paul Walter Hauser has been cast in The Instigators at Apple TV+.
Daniel Brühl has been cast as Karl Lagerfeld in Kaiser Karl on Disney+.
Bassem Youssef is joining Lionness on Paramount+.
Paulina Chavez and Rose Portillo have joined Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day on Disney+.
Marsha Stephanie Blake, John Ortiz, Gabrielle Graham, and Tamsin Topolski have joined The Madness on Netflix.
E.L. Losada, Matt Oberg, Ryan Farrell, and Alexandra Siegel have been added to the cast of The Residence on Netflix.
Phil Dunster has joined Surface on Apple TV+.

Mark Your Calendars

Yellowjackets returns on Showtime on March 24.

Ted Lasso returns on Apple TV+ on March 15.

⚡ EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK⚡

Check out this exclusive look at Season 3 of #TedLasso, premiering March 15 on Apple TV+. Watch on the @AppleTV app on your VIZIO Smart TV. pic.twitter.com/rlY5E5GXJb

— VIZIO (@VIZIO) March 8, 2023

Blindspotting returns on Starz on April 14.

Murder Mystery 2 will premiere on Netflix on March 31.

Celebrity Prank Wars will premiere on E! on April 6.

Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head returns on Paramount+ on April 20.

Digman! will premiere on Comedy Central on March 22.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 returns on Pluto on May 6.

Hullraisers will premiere on IFC on April 5.

Seven Kings Must Die debuts on Netflix on April 14.

Monumental: Ellie Goulding at Kew Gardens will debut on Prime Video on March 31.

Wave Makers will premiere on Netflix soon.

Being Mary Tyler Moore will debut on HBO in May.
Keyshia Cole: This Is My Story will debut on Lifetime on June 24.

R.I.P.

Tom Jackson, A fan-favorite Queer Eye subject

it’s with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to a member of our Queer Eye family. Rest in peace, Tom Jackson pic.twitter.com/OiNpT3IneA

— Queer Eye (@QueerEye) March 9, 2023

Chaim Topol, Star of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway and in the film

Bert I. Gordon, B-movie director

WATCH THIS

Top Chef: For the 20th season of the Emmy-award-winning cooking series, they’re taking the series overseas to London for an all-star competition. Season premiere. 8 p.m., Bravo

You: The final five episodes drop. Season finale. Netflix

Poker Face: Season finale. Peacock

School Spirits: Maddie investigates her mysterious disappearance as she adjusts to high school in the afterlife in this new series. Paramount+

Late Night:

Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Jenna Ortega, Hannah Waddingham, TWICE
Late Night with Seth Meyers: Adam Driver, Adam Brody, Urian Hackney
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert:
Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Steven Spielberg & John Williams
The Late Late Show with James Corden: Milo Ventimiglia, Madelyn Cline, Tim Young
The Daily Show: Guest host Marlon Wayans
Watch What Happens Live: Ike Barinholtz, Padma Lakshmi