“I don’t need to receive any amusement or enjoyment,” Carmen “Carmy” Barzotto said as The Bear’s second season finale hurtled toward its conclusion. “And I’m completely fine with that.” Locked in his restaurant’s walk-in refrigerator, the chef, played by Jeremy Allen White, seemed poised to cut everything but work from his life. It was a self-flagellating tantrum even as Carmy’s restaurant enjoyed its triumphant friends and family opening, but according to White, Carmy will remain true to that vow of asceticism, as the show’s third season will spend the majority of its time in the kitchen.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen our friends from the restaurant formerly known as The Original Beef of Chicagoland. (Or “The Berf,” if you’re feeling nasty.) FX dropped the acclaimed show’s second season in one big Hulu binge on June 22, then made us wait until November before confirming its return for season three.
The network announced that White, Ayo Edebiri (Carmy’s fellow chef, Sydney Adamu), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (the newly be-suited Richard “Richie” Jerimovich) will indeed return to the series, but has provided few other details so far. But on an episode of the Just for Variety podcast released Saturday, White offered an intriguing peek at what viewers can expect.
“I think they’ve written a couple scripts,” White told interviewer Marc Malkin of the show, but “I have not read any.”
“I do know in January I’m going to spend a fair amount of time getting together with some chefs,” White said. “And I know that I’m going to start putting together [the titular restaurant’s] menu with different chefs and cooking and just trying to get prepared to do more of that stuff on camera.”
Much of the second season dealt with the nuts and bolts work of remodeling a restaurant, along with personal side plots fleshing out other characters’ lives, the dysfunction of the Barzotto family, and Carmy’s attempts to escape that dysfunction with girlfriend Claire (Molly Gordon). White acknowledges that “for the second season, so much of it was about putting the restaurant together, so there wasn’t much cooking,” a state of affairs that might have caused White-like Carmy, per his refrigerated rant—to lose his fine dining edge.
“We all did a lot of preparation before the first season,” White told Malkin, a rigorous training he also detailed to Vanity Fair last year. “I went to culinary school, and I spent a lot of time in restaurants and stuff.”
“But now, in the third season, I think we’re going to go back to that functioning kitchen atmosphere that we had in the first,” White said. Some might pause at his use of “functioning” given his character’s opening-night meltdown, Sydney’s back alley vomit session, and Josh’s (Alex Moffat) service-shift crack session, but, sure, I see what he means.
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that season 3 of FX/Hulu’s The Bearwill commence production in late February-early March.
We caught up with this year’s The Bear Emmy nominee/Golden Globe Best Actor Comedy TV series winner Jeremy Allen White aka young chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto on The Bear. White stars in the new A24 movie, The Iron Claw, as wrestler Kerry Von Erich aka “The Texas Tornado”. The movie about the tragedy-stricken wrestling Von Erich family opens on Dec. 22. At a time when the middle of the country needs more movies, here’s a sports drama that plays straight to the heartland.
‘The Iron Claw,’ Starring Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White.
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When we last saw Carmy last on The Bear, he was locked in a walk-in fridge during the restaurant’s ‘Friends and Family’ night, an interlude which Allen tells us he “hopes” the character escapes from in season 3. FX/Hulu recently announced a season 3 of the 13-Emmy nominated series.
While Allen still has yet to see scripts, he’s hoping for a season 3 chockful of guest stars, one that rivals season 2 episode 6’s “Fishes” which saw a ton of noted TV and movie stars playing Carmy’s family members, i.e. Jon Bernthal (as Mikey, Carmy’s dead brother), Bob Odenkirk as Uncle Lee, Sarah Paulson as Cousin Michelle, John Mulaney as Cousin Michelle’s partner Stevie, Gillian Jacobs as Richie’s then-wife Tiffany, and Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna Berzatto, Mikey and Carmy’s alcoholic mother, as well as Carmy’s sister Natalie Berzatto (Abby Elliott), Uncle Jimmy (Oliver Platt), and Neil (Matty Matheson).
The New York City native would love to see a season 3 episode where “we can get as many (guest stars) to come back for one day” ala “Fishes”. Allen tells us he would love to see Olivia Coleman’s Chef Terry come back. She was last seen in season 2’s “Forks” as the proprietor of one of the finest restaurants in the world where Richie (Ebon Moss-Bacharach), temporarily works. Allen said he also loved to see Curtis return as Momma Donna. Allen’s dream guest stars include Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and Emmy winner John Turturro.
Allen stars in The Iron Claw with Zac Efron (Kevin Von Erich), Harris Dickinson (David Von Erich), and Stanley Simons (Mike Von Erich) as the true-life fraternal family of wrestlers who were pressured by their domineering father and former wrestling legend Fritz (Holt McCallany) to succeed at all costs during the 1980s. Allen’s Kerry was a one-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion and four-time WCWA World Heavyweight Champion. Director Sean Durkin, who also wrote the movie, grew up in the UK as a die-hard U.S. wrestling fan; the Von Erichs’ fate an eerie resemblance of those in his own family.
The Bear was created by Christopher Storer, and also stars Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce and Liza Colón-Zayas. Matty Matheson was upped for season 2, while Edwin Lee Gibson, Corey Hendrix, Platt, Bernthal, José Cervantes, Richard Esteras, Carmen Christopher, Chris Witaske, Joel McHale, Curtis, Gillian Jacobs, Robert Townsend, Molly Gordon, Alex Moffat, Ricky Staffieri, Mitra Jouhari and Maura Kidwell recur.
The Emmys may now be nearly five months away, but members of the Television Academy are still in the midst of filling out their final ballots, resolved to stick to the established voting calendar even as the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes have thrown the actual ceremony’s timeline into chaos. This weekend marks the final push, as voters’ deadline to submit will come Monday night.
We’ve been analyzing and assessing all of this year’s big races for a very long time; front-runners have emerged in virtually every category, snubs and surprises have been dissected, and strategies around next cycle’s Emmys are already in full swing. But before voting wraps, the Awards Insider team has a few outside-the-box ideas for Television Academy members stalling on making their picks. Below are a handful of nominees that are starting to look like long shots when it comes to actually pulling off a win, but which still deserve serious consideration—any or all of them pulling off an upset will add some much-needed excitement to the most drawn-out Emmy season in recent memory. So listen up, voters!
Bill Hader, Barry (directing for a comedy series)
Hader has won two Emmys for his lead performance in Barry, but the Television Academy has yet to recognize the multihyphenate for what’s emerged as his most surprising and audacious contribution to the HBO series: his direction. Over time, the Saturday Night Live alum took more and more control behind the camera of his pitch-black comedy, going from helming the pilot to directing the majority of season three and then, most impressively, the entirety of the fourth and final season. As Barry got darker, its aesthetic ambition turned bolder, with Hader’s instincts as a filmmaker brought to the fore—genius tracking shots, impeccable comic timing, dizzying action sequences. At this point it feels like a long shot to say he’ll win a category that’s been dominated of late by lighter fare like Hacks and Ted Lasso. But Hader has pushed the medium forward here, and deserves to be honored accordingly. —David Canfield
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us (lead actor in a drama series)
Depending on how much you believe the Roy family could split their own votes, Pascal may not be that much of an underdog. But his work as Joel on The Last of Us is undeniably quieter than anything on Succession too, with the actor often just offering grimaces or the flicker of a smile when large-scale chaos is erupting around him. But Pascal becomes so much more than just the gruff caretaker as the relationship between Joel and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie evolves over the course of the season. Glimpses of his old life—humor, tenderness, a willingness to put up with terrible jokes—shine through his determination, right up until the finale’s bloody hospital shoot-out that becomes more heartbreaking than heroic. Also Emmy-nominated this year for hosting Saturday Night Live and narrating a CNN docuseries, Pascal had no trouble showing voters his range this year—but they only had to watch him on The Last of Us to see so much of what he can do. —Katey Rich
Young Mazino, Beef (supporting actor in a limited series or movie)
Beef isn’t exactly an underdog in the limited-series race, but the supporting-actor competition, with seven nominees, is very crowded. Black Bird’s Paul Walter Hauser is still expected to come out on top, and it would be a deserved win. But I’d like to give a last-minute shout-out to Young Mazino’s breakout performance as Paul, the younger brother of Steven Yeun’s Danny. Mazino has the charisma to capture audiences’ attention in any scene, but he also has to display the character’s fragility as he goes on a journey that includes being catfished and having an affair with a married woman (Ali Wong). He makes even the most rage-filled scene feel grounded, and is an exciting new discovery who holds his own opposite veteran actors Yeun and Wong. —Rebecca Ford
The Traitors (casting for a reality program)
We’re not usually encouraged to think about casting for reality TV—these housewives are actually friends in real life, of course, and these people were all chosen for their ability to survive on a desert island. But the meta-reality-TV nature of The Traitors was one of its many joys, bringing together fresh-faced contestants and veterans of reality franchises like Summer House, The Bachelor, and Real Housewives. In the beginning, the newcomers are starstruck by the experienced reality contestants, who enter Alan Cumming’s Scottish castle with the confidence that they already know how to play the game. But twists, of course, are in store. The Traitors deserved far more attention in the Emmys’ reality-TV categories, but honoring the casting team led by Erin Tomasello and Jazzy Collins would be an excellent way to give the show its due. —K.R.
Jury Duty (casting for a comedy series)
Jury Duty was such a surprise with its four Emmy nominations this season. The Amazon Freevee series, which was something like a documentary mixed with improv and scripts, could have been too unorthodox to be accepted by the TV Academy. It’s up for comedy series (which it won’t win) and supporting actor for James Marsden (who could win), but I’d really love to see it grab a win in this casting category. The series had to find actors who could seem like very real people, and they also had to be light on their feet and incredible at improv. Since a scene would change depending on what the show’s unsuspecting lead, Ronald Gladden, did in any given moment, these actors had to be versatile at all times. Some were so dedicated that they’d stay in character all day long, just to make sure they never gave away the secret of the show. —R.F.
Dominique Fishback, Swarm (lead actress in a limited series or movie)
Let’s get this out of the way: Any nominee for best actress in a limited series would be a deserving winner, from Kathryn Hahn and her soulful work on Tiny Beautiful Things to Lizzy Caplan and her invigorating takeover of Fleishman Is in Trouble. The category will likely come down to two more powerhouse performances: Jessica Chastain’s in George & Tammy—which already won her a SAG Award—and Ali Wong’s in Beef, with the latter show being the front-runner to win best limited series. But I hope the nomination isn’t just the reward for Dominique Fishback, whose tour de force in Swarm was the most undeniable performance of the year for me. The actor had to veer between slapstick and horror, heartbreak and cruelty, and connect all those dots in Janine Nabers and Donald Glover’s bold portrait of a serial killer. She did that with seeming ease, leaving a terrifying—if poignant—impression that felt impossible to shake. —D.C.
Love Is Blind (structured reality program)
This is the third year that Love Is Blind has been nominated in the structured-reality category, though it has never won. Seeing as it’s my personal guilty pleasure show, let me take this opportunity to say that voters should really consider it for a win. Yes, Queer Eye is motivational and feel-good and boasts impressive production value, but it has also won the past five years in a row. Netflix’s Love Is Blind has revitalized the dating reality show with its unique premise and colorful characters. It may not make you feel good, but it feels so good to feel so bad for these people. —R.F.
Dan Trachtenberg, Prey (directing for a limited series or movie)
Trachtenberg did what for years has seemed impossible—he directed a TV movie and got an Emmy nomination for it. As David Canfieldhas explained, the TV-movie category has been a bit of a wasteland at the Emmys lately, with so much of the buzz going over to limited series; given that TV movies and limited series are often lumped together at the Emmys, the movies rarely stand a chance. But this year Trachtenberg is nominated as a director, holding his own against the folks behind Beef, Fleishman Is in Trouble, and Dahmer. As he explained recently on the Little Gold Men podcast, it was a long journey to get his bold idea for the Predator series to the screen, and we’d love to see him rewarded for it. —K.R.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear (supporting actor in a comedy series)
Playing the striving, insecure, eternally put-upon Richie, Moss-Bachrach doesn’t give the most outwardly comedic performance in this category—that has to belong to gonzo Marsden playing himself on Jury Duty—or the most tragicomic, given the two nominees from Barry. But he might be the best at capturing that balance that’s present in so many modern comedy nominees, handling Richie’s quick wit (“Any of you incel, QAnon, 4chan, Snyder-cut motherfuckers wanna get out of line now?”) and the heartbreak he shares with his “cousin” Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) over the loss of their beloved Michael (Jon Bernthal). Richie’s emotional journey gets even deeper in the more recently aired season two, which would make a win for him here even more appropriate: comic relief, with depths never entirely out of sight. —K.R.
Survivor (reality competition program)
It’s more than a minor miracle that Survivor returned to this category in 2023. It’s the venerable CBS show’s first nomination there in 17 years, cited for both its 43rd and 44th seasons. When Emmy voters move on, they rarely look back—so how in the world did this happen? Survivor is the rare example of a long-running broadcast network staple determined to innovate and stay fresh. The results are not always successful—overload of producer interference, say—but there’s a reason why the show is still on and finding new fans. In the years since CBS issued a mandate to make each season’s ensemble of strangers more diverse, Survivor has boasted the most fascinating, dynamic casts on reality television, culminating with a gay Puerto Rican salon owner—and total Survivor mastermind—running away with a triumphant victory in the most recent season. For one of TV’s oldest and most famous social experiments, that’s award-worthy progress. —D.C.
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As Emmy voters prepare to submit their ballots later this month, the Television Critics Association just provided a good blueprint for shaking things up a bit this year.
The organization honored Succession for both program of the year, its top award recognizing exceptional cultural import, and outstanding achievement in drama, its equivalent to the Emmys’ top drama-series prize. The Bear continued its hot streak by winning on the comedy side, as well as taking the new program category. But elsewhere, the TCA eschewed obvious front-runners by recognizing shows and performers that are very much in the conversation—which is to say, Emmy-nominated—but haven’t exactly gotten their big awards moment yet.
Most thrillingly, Rhea Seehorn won the individual-achievement-in-drama award. Notably, the TCAs do not differentiate between lead or supporting, and also combine nominees into a genderless performer category. This means that the Better Call Saul scene-stealer was up against both prime Emmy competitors in supporting actress as well as all those Roy siblings on Succession. It’s her highest-profile win with any awards group to date, a visibility boost that can hopefully increase her chances when it comes to her last Emmys stand for Saul’s final season.
Over in comedy’s performer race, the front-runners—including The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White and Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson—were similarly beaten out in a welcome upset for Natasha Lyonne. The Poker Face star is the only above-the-line Emmy nominee for her Peacock breakout procedural, and she’s in a competitive Emmy race that also includes Dead to Me’s Christina Applegate and Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega. But her wonderfully funny and grounding performance stands apart, and may stand a shot as a fresher option for the Television Academy.
Elsewhere, Jury Duty—nominated by the TCA for achievement in comedy and James Marsden’s performance—eked out a win for, of all things, reality program, for which the Emmys did not consider it eligible. I Think You Should Leave’s win in variety programming here tells a similar story, since the Tim Robinson sketch comedy competes instead as a short-form series with the Television Academy. At least both parties wound up agreeing on Beef’s classification as a limited series, after some initial categorization confusion. The Netflix dark comedy, starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, won the top race with TCAs this week, and is positioned as a strong favorite for the Emmys—whenever the broadcast may finally air.
All of which is to say—maybe it’s worth paying a bit more attention to these results, with so much of the usual phase two campaign apparatus MIA, due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. Voters could do worse than look at these results for some inspiration.
Full winners list:
Program of the Year:Succession
Outstanding New Program:The Bear
Outstanding Achievement in Comedy:The Bear
Outstanding Achievement in Drama:Succession
Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries, or Specials:Beef
Individual Achievement in Comedy: Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face
Individual Achievement in Drama: Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul
Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk, or Sketch:I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson
Outstanding Achievement in Family Programming:Ms. Marvel
Outstanding Achievement in Children’s Programming:Bluey
Outstanding Achievement in Reality:Jury Duty
Outstanding Achievement in News and Information:The U.S. and the Holocaust
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White and Addison Timlin’s romance blossomed after a nearly lifelong friendship. The pair first met around 2004 during their freshman year of high school while attending the same performing arts high school in New York City. While the couple fell in love at first sight, they didn’t date at the time. They did, however, become inseparable. Their connection would turn sour, however, when Timlin decided to transfer schools when she was 15, triggering a dramatic fight fueled by teenage angst.
They finally struck up an official romance in 2016. The stars made their relationship Instagram official with a candid snap of the two relaxing side by side. “Welcome to Instagram to my ride or die guy,” Timlin captioned an image posted on Oct. 3, 2016. After that, the 31-year-old actor began sharing many cute moments and sweet throwbacks with her then-beau on social media.
The couple announced they were expecting their first child together on Timlin’s 27th birthday, June 29, 2018. She shared the exciting news in a sweet selfie, revealing her baby bump cradled by White. “We made a baby and my heart is bursting at the seams,” Timlin captioned the image on Instagram. “Today is my birthday but my wish already came true. This is 27 and the best is yet to come ❤️.”
A year after their nuptials, White and Timlin welcomed another baby, becoming a family of four. Their second daughter, Dolores Wild White, was born on Dec. 12, 2020. “Dolores Wild White — born 12/12/2020, just in time to save the year. She is the answer to 1000 prayers and we are in love with her,” Timlin wrote on Instagram following Dolores’s birth, adding a heartfelt shout-out to the doctors and medical staff who worked together to safely deliver their daughter amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Timlin concluded: “Thank you Ezer for your patience and wisdom — you’re the best big sister ever and finally to my husband, you are everything. We did it baby.” Johnson is both daughters’ godmother.
White and Timlin ultimately broke up, filing for divorce in May 2023. POPSUGAR obtained the divorce filing. Neither has since publicly addressed their split, though Timlin called herself a “single mother” in an Instagram post on Mother’s Day.
As many expected, the 75th Emmy Awards have been postponed due to the ongoing actors and writers strikes.
The show, originally slated for Monday, September 18, has now been officially postponed. (Variety first reported the news.) Rumors have circulated that the awards ceremony was likely to move to either a November or January broadcast, with the Television Academy hoping for the former and network Fox preferring the latter option. According to Deadline, it’s now expected that the Emmys will move to January, giving the industry more time to resolve its conflicts, and the official date will likely be announced in August. Vanity Fair has reached out to the Television Academy for comment.
When the WGA strike began in early May, questions immediately began to crop up about what might happen if the work stoppage continued into the fall. The MTV Awards had to pivot, ditching the red carpet and in-person speeches after talent as well as host Drew Barrymore refused to attend and striking writers could not be enlisted to write the show. The Tony Awards found a way to go on without writers after reaching a unique deal with the WGA.
But already the Emmys seemed in a more precarious position as a show that depends so deeply on writers for a scripted broadcast, and as a show that specifically honors writers in several categories. When the SAG-AFTRA strike officially began on July 13, it felt as if it was the final nail in the coffin for the Emmys to keep their original date.
The telecast, which will air on Fox, is completely dependent on stars attending as both nominees and presenters. But SAG-AFTRA’s strike rules are very clear when it comes to awards shows: Striking actors can’t even attend. The option of holding a press conference and skipping the broadcast was not seriously considered, in part because of the significance of this ceremony marking the Emmys’ 75th anniversary.
The SAG-AFTRA strike was announced just after the Emmy nominations were, which has created a unique situation for nominees leading up to voting. All acting nominees are prohibited from doing any press about their projects, including for their most recent nominations. These interviews and FYC events (which they are also prohibited from attending) are usually a major staple of awards season; without them, there’s been a strange vacuum in coverage of the nominees this season.
But voting for Emmy winners is still slated to take place from August 17 to 28. That’s because the Television Academy has decided shaking up the calendar at this late stage could unfairly benefit or hurt some contenders. For an illustration, then, on just how unusual this moment is: In a few weeks, the Academy will cast Emmy ballots for projects like The Bear season one, whose results won’t be announced until, it seems, January—the same month that FX/Hulu’s hit show will probably start picking up major awards at the Golden Globes and various guild awards for its second season. That this was Hollywood’s best option says it all about this confusing, paralyzing moment for the industry.
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It’s been a great year for television, and the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards are celebrating a number of fan favourites, including HBO’s Succession and The Last of Us.
Actor Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy chairman Frank Scherma announced the Emmy nominations on Wednesday, though the mood was more sombre than usual amid the ongoing writers strike. An actors strike may also be looming, with Hollywood’s largest union representing about 160,000 actors currently demanding better compensation for streaming productions and protections from the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Succession, a satirical dramedy about a family of one-percenters fighting to control a media conglomerate, walked away with the most nominations for the show’s highly anticipated final season. Stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin scored Best Actor nods. Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy, is already a well-positioned frontrunner to score the Best Actress win.
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The show leads all nominees with a whopping 27 in total. The Last of Us was close behind with 24, while The White Lotus received 23.
The Last of Us and The White Lotus, two additional HBO productions, received several nominations, proving once again that streaming remains king in the television space.
2023 Emmy Awards nominees for lead actor, actress in a drama series announced
Popular duo Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey of The Last of Us received Best Actor and Actress nominations for their emotional portrayal of trauma-bonded apocalypse survivors. (Ramsey identifies as nonbinary and uses any pronouns)
Jennifer Coolidge, who won the Emmy last year for Outstanding Actress in a Limited or Series or Movie, is nominated alongside The White Lotus co-stars Aubrey Plaza and Meghann Fahy.
Christina Applegate, who in February hinted she would retire from acting as a result of her multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis, received a nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy for Dead to Me.
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Barry, The Bear, Ted Lasso, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Abbott Elementary all earned several nominations as well.
(Find a complete list of the nominees in the major categories, below.)
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Best Drama Series
Andor Better Call Saul The Crown House of the Dragon The Last of Us Succession The White Lotus Yellowjackets
Best Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary Barry The Bear Jury Duty The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Only Murders in the Building Ted Lasso Wednesday
Lead Actor, Drama
Jeff Bridges, The Old Man Brian Cox, Succession Kieran Culkin, Succession Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us Jeremy Strong, Succession
Lead Actress, Drama
Sharon Horgan, Bad Sisters Melanie Lynskey, Yellowjackets Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us Keri Russell, The Diplomat Sarah Snook, Succession
Lead Actor, Comedy
Bill Hader, Barry Jason Segel, Shrinking Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
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Lead Actress, Comedy
Christina Applegate, Dead to Me Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face Jenna Ortega, Wednesday
Supporting Actor, Drama
F. Murray Abraham, The White Lotus Nicholas Braun, Succession Michael Imperioli, The White Lotus Theo James, The White Lotus Matthew Macfadyen, Succession Alan Ruck, Succession Will Sharpe, The White Lotus Alexander Skarsgård, Succession
Supporting Actress, Drama
J. Smith-Cameron, Succession Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown Meghann Fahy, The White Lotus Sabrina Impacciatore, The White Lotus Aubrey Plaza, The White Lotus Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul Simona Tabasco, The White Lotus
Supporting Actor, Comedy
Anthony Carrigan, Barry Phil Dunster, Ted Lasso Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso James Marsden, Jury Duty Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary Henry Winkler, Barry
Supporting Actress, Comedy
Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Ayo Edebiri, The Bear Janelle James, Abbott Elementary Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary Juno Temple, Ted Lasso Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso Jessica Williams, Shrinking
Murray Bartlett, The Last of Us James Cromwell, Succession Lamar Johnson, The Last of Us Arian Moayed, Succession Nick Offerman, The Last of Us Keivonn Montreal Woodard, The Last of Us
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Guest Actress, Drama
Hiam Abbass, Succession Cherry Jones, Succession Melanie Lynskey, The Last of Us Storm Reid, The Last of Us Anna Torv, The Last of Us Harriet Walter, Succession
Guest Actor, Comedy
Jon Bernthal, The Bear Luke Kirby, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Nathan Lane, Only Murders in the Building Pedro Pascal, Saturday Night Live Oliver Platt, The Bear Sam Richardson, Ted Lasso
Guest Actress, Comedy
Becky Ann Baker, Ted Lasso Quinta Brunson, Saturday Night Live Taraji P. Henson, Abbott Elementary Judith Light, Poker Face Sarah Niles, Ted Lasso Harriet Walter, Ted Lasso
Variety Talk Series
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Jimmy Kimmel Live! Late Night with Seth Meyers The Late Show with Stephen Colbert The Problem With Jon Stewart
Best Competition Series
The Amazing Race Ru Paul’s Drag Race Survivor Top Chef The Voice
Best Limited or Anthology Series
Beef Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Daisy Jones and the Six Fleishman Is in Trouble Obi-Wan Kenobi
Lead Actor, Limited Series or Movie
Taron Egerton, Black Bird Kumail Nanjiani, Welcome the Chippendales Evan Peters, Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Daniel Radcliffe, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Michael Shannon, George & Tammy Steven Yeun, Beef
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Lead Actress, Limited Series or Movie
Lizzy Caplan, Fleishman Is in Trouble Jessica Chastain, George & Tammy Dominique Fishback, Swarm Kathryn Hahn, Tiny Beautiful Things Riley Keough, Daisy Jones and the Six Ali Wong, Beef
Supporting Actor, Limited Series or Movie
Murray Bartlett, Welcome to Chippendales Paul Walter Hauser, Black Bird Richard Jenkins, Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Joseph Lee, Beef Ray Liotta, Black Bird Young Mazino, Beef Jesse Plemons, Love & Death
Supporting Actress, Limited Series or Movie
Annaleigh Ashford, Welcome to Chippendales Maria Bello, Beef Claire Danes, Fleishman Is in Trouble Juliette Lewis, Welcome to Chippendales Camila Morrone, Daisy Jones & The Six Nicey Nash-Betts, Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Merritt Wever, Tiny Beautiful Things
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The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
“I frigging get home, get Uber Eats, and go to bed,” Matty Matheson, a real-life chef and culinary consultant on The Bear, says of his mid-production eating habits, a far cry from the fine dining his show depicts. “We try to eat out as a group every once or twice a week to stay level. You would think that it’s this glamorous thing, but you’re torched by the end of the night.”
He does, however, admit to a newfound appreciation for hot dogs, which he doesn’t dress with ketchup anymore. “Even though I own a burger shop, I’m definitely more of a hot dog person than a burger person now,” Matheson tells Vanity Fair. “Gene & Jude’s in Chicago, I love their hot dogs so much. They have a long line, but it’s worth it. Being in Chicago for three to almost four months a year now, for the last two years, I’ve turned into a big glizzy boy.”
Despite being a renowned Canadian restaurateur, Matheson plays one of the only characters who is not in the kitchen to cook. He stars as handyman Neil Fak, the type of character who wears a suit to the restaurant’s opening but still keeps a screwdriver in his lapel just in case. Matheson is also a coproducer and culinary lead alongside show creator Christopher Storer’s sister Courtney. Together, the pair advise Storer and showrunner Joanna Calo on everything from the build of The Bear’s kitchen to its menu. “We’re building a real restaurant,” Matheson explains. “Designing a kitchen, what do we need? Nice plans, this, that. The kitchen is set up to cook that food too,” he adds. “We could go in there, and, if we really could have fire and gas, we would have the right equipment to execute the menu that we wrote.”
Their dynamic often echoes—and inspires—that of The Bear’s two lead characters. “We’re doing what Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) are doing,” Matheson says. He and Courtney will hash out menu ideas in front of Storer and Calo in order to both generate menu items and demonstrate the cadence with which chefs speak to one another. “The synergy needs to be really going,” Matheson says of crafting a menu that reflects its executive chefs. “We really wanted to think about, Where does Sydney come from? What are her technique-driven ideas? What is her heritage—what are the flavors? Carmy, what are his flavors, his lineage, and culinary sense? And how do you take those ideas and who they are and create a culinary voice for each of those characters?”
Chasing the authenticity of an actual restaurant is sometimes at odds with the constraints of making a TV show, Matheson concedes. Sometimes they’re doing something, and me and Coco are stressed out, and Chris is like, ‘Look at the frame. We literally are not seeing it.’ If it’s not in the shot, it literally doesn’t exist,” he says, adding, “We only know how to do it the real way, the hard way. A lot of people are like, ‘It’s just for TV, it doesn’t have to be so precise.’ No, because the actors are going to have to move, and if they’re making the Feast of the Seven Fishes, they have to turn around and the equipment needs to be there.”
That brings us to the season’s starry sixth episode, a very Berzatto Christmas that introduces family members played by Jamie Lee Curtis,Bob Odenkirk,Sarah Paulson,Gillian Jacobs, and John Mulaney. Matheson smiles when recalling the original cast members mixing with the new arrivals, all crammed under one roof. “Jamie Lee’s getting in there with the garlic butter all over her hands,” he laughs. “She just came up and kissed me on the cheek right away. It was truly chaos.”
Lionel Boyce, who stars on hit series The Bear as the endearing pastry chef Marcus, had been to Copenhagen before. He actually went out there to train before he began filming the show’s first season, spending two weeks observing the kitchen at bakery Hart Bageri. “That’s my hometown. That’s what I tell people,” he jokes with Vanity Fair.
But his return to the Danish city for The Bear’s second season came under very different circumstances. He would be starring in his own stand-alone episode, “Honeydew”—the fourth episode of the second season, and the show’s first real attempt at a departure episode. The rest of the cast would not appear in most of it, and it would be the first helmed by an outside director, Ramy Youssef.
For a beloved series, an episode like this can be an incredible risk. Because “Honeydew” is visually divergent from the main series, it could alienate viewers. And in it, there’s none of the chaotic energy familiar from The Beef/Bear’s kitchen, with the staff running around and yelling at each other.
But the episode also allows the show to mature and grow, and follow Marcus on a journey that brings him back a changed chef and man. Boyce gets to display his range, working opposite guest star Will Poulter. The experience left him changed as well. “Carrying a whole episode is completely different than showing up, saying a couple lines and walking away,” he says. “It was a lot more things that I had to pay attention to and notice. I think it definitely helped me in a lot of ways, where now I feel more informed. Even going back to playing the part within the larger stories, more thoughts are now on my mind that I didn’t consider before.”
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When Boyce first read the script for the fourth episode, which sees Marcus sent to Copenhagen to live on a boat and train under a prestigious pastry chef (played by Poulter), he was nervous that he wouldn’t have the rest of his cast (Jeremy Allen White,Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ayo Edebiri) to lean on. But then he considered how this sojourn would help Marcus develop as a character. “It was great because it helped form where Marcus is going for the rest of the season, and solidified his arc to me,” he says. “It also made me look at all of the previous things in a different light, because…it allowed me to discover a little bit more of his backstory.”
Boyce had talked to The Bear showrunners Christopher Storer and Joanna Calo about Marcus’s backstory and knew some of it, like the fact that he had worked at McDonald’s for a while. But in this episode, Marcus reveals much more about how he got to where he is, including his past as a college football player and how he ended up at The Beef. “I never really knew,” he says. “You make your own ideas, but then it was just, ‘Oh, okay, this is how he fell into the bread and his relationship with Mikey [Jon Bernthal] and all those things,’” he says.
Marcus starts out shaky in the kitchen in Copenhagen, clumsily trying again and again to assemble fine-dining desserts. Poulter’s character is strict but never cruel. Because of Poulter’s schedule (the actor is known for Dopesick, Midsommar, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, among other projects), Boyce says, they filmed their scenes together in a kitchen in Chicago. “He is like the other side of Carmy. You immediately see the history, and you can play out how their interactions were when they’re younger,” says Boyce of Poulter’s Luca, who knew Carmy as a young chef. He adds that Poulter, who had practiced in kitchens before filming, helped Boyce approach aspects of his own character in a different way when the two have a heart-to-heart in the kitchen.
“He’s like, ‘I think this is the first time Luca’s shared this side of him to somebody.’ I knew Marcus was opening up in a way that he hadn’t to anybody at all inside the kitchen,” says Boyce.
How to create something beautiful and delicious out of panic and mayhem? That’s the sticky question at the heart of The Bear’s second season—one that applies equally well to the task faced by the writers of this FX/Hulu show.
The first season was a surprise hit last summer; even if you didn’t watch The Bear, you couldn’t avoid the “Yes Chef!” memes that haunted social media for months. The manic, sweet-hearted series initially revolved around Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a hot-shit chef drowning in grief and debt after inheriting his late brother’s old-school Chicago sandwich spot. White was mesmerizing as the emotionally wounded wunderkind struggling with self-loathing and family baggage. But just as his character yearned to escape the culinary cult of personality and build a new restaurant full of strong supporting players, the series itself had an incredible ensemble cast just waiting to break out of bit-part jail and get some time in the spotlight.
That mass breakout is achieved in season two, and it mostly works. (There are some spoilers for the 10-episode second season, now streaming in full, ahead.) Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) has moved to center stage as head chef and creative partner of The Bear, the fine-dining restaurant she and Carmy are trying to conjure out of their rundown old sandwich shop. Determined to nab a Michelin star, she spends days sampling Chicago’s finest food, getting advice from local chefs, and perfecting dishes. Carmy’s sister Natalie (Abby Elliott) gets sucked into service on the business side of things, where she finally gets to shine. Meanwhile, line cooks Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) and Ebra (Edwin Lee Gibson) enroll in culinary school so that they can play a more active role in the new restaurant kitchen, while Carmy sends aspiring pastry chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce) to Denmark to learn from a desert master. Workers who once had a gig now have a purpose.
The search for inspiration simmers throughout this season. One lovely episode focuses on Marcus’s creative journey in Copenhagen. His new mentor, Luca (played by Will Poulter) tells him that at a certain point, being a great chef is “less about skill and more about being open”— to the world and other people. Marcus puts that advice into action as he drifts through the city, soaking up sights and tastes that he will later transform into new treats for The Bear. Later in the season, Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) similarly undergoes a conversion experience while “staging” in a high-end restaurant, where everyone around him takes pride in the tiniest of tasks. “Every day here is the freaking Super Bowl,” his guide tells him. “I don’t need you to drink the kool aid, Richie. I just need you to respect me, I need you to respect the diners, and I need you to respect yourself.” Respect is a concept Richie understands, and by the end of his stint there, he is shouting things like, “Micro basil, fuck yeah!”
The Bear’s self-improvement theme occasionally veers dangerously close to Ted Lasso territory, with regular hits of heartwarming uplift and teamwork. Sometimes that connection feels literal: Sydney’s bible this season is a leadership guide by real-life sports coach Mike Krzyzewski, who offers gems like “surround yourself with good people” and “learn how to listen.”
Luckily, Richie is to The Bear as Roy Kent was to early Ted Lasso—someone who can puncture any scene that threatens to grow too cloying or sentimental. And he’s always reliable for gags based on obnoxious white male overconfidence. When he insists that there’s no mold in the ceiling, you know it will only be a few moments until the ceiling collapses, leaving Richie coated in moldy dust. But he also admits when he’s wrong, and with every episode, his stubborn machismo peels away a bit further, revealing a melancholy character who is trapped in his old ways, scared of being left behind.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach lives for the chaos on The Bear. “For me personally, it’s more fun to shoot the stuff where everyone’s together—under the gun, yelling, sweating on each other with things sizzling all around,” he tells Vanity Fair.
His character, Richie Jerimovich, is often at the center of that chaos. The loud and passionate manager of the eatery can be quick to anger, often leading to heated arguments with every other member of the staff.
But as we chat the day before the second season of the hit series debuts, Moss-Bachrach describes this new chapter as “a departure” from what they did in season one. “This is deeper. This is getting into some of the more true stuff,” he says.
So yes, there will be chaotic scenes in the kitchen as the staff of The Beef—played by Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, and Abby Elliott—guts and attempts to relaunch the restaurant as The Bear. But the season will also dive deeper into each character’s own journeys and backstories in a way that expands on the first season.
We’ll learn more about Richie’s life outside of the restaurant, including his living situation and his strained relationship with ex-wife and young daughter. And while Moss-Bachrach may not love when his character is on his own, the actor gets a showcase in the seventh episode when Richie goes off on a solo adventure—and performs a scene opposite a surprise Oscar-winning guest actor that is sure to get viewers talking. [Spoiler alert: The actor is named below].
Though he’s careful not to spoil anything—even though the show premieres in just one day—Moss-Bachrach reveals the pressure that comes with following up a hit season, what surprised him about Richie, and what it was like to do a scene opposite a very famous guest star.
Vanity Fair:The second season drops tomorrow. Does this feel different than it did the day before the first season was unveiled?
Ebon Moss-Bachrach: It feels so different from last season. Last time, nobody had heard of anything. We were just this little show that we kind of made in this COVID bubble. And it went out there with very little publicity or fanfare, and through word of mouth and goodwill it became this beautiful, really loved show. And now, obviously, everyone likes it and I’m freaked out.
Second seasons are scary when the first one was such a giant hit.
I think so. I’ve seen some nice reviews, so that gives me confidence. But the season is a departure from last season, and I think it’s really good. I think it grows a lot, but you also don’t want to be all of a sudden on a different show.
Tell me about it being a departure. When you first started reading the scripts, how did it feel different to you?
To me, it’s a softer season. Whereas the first season was an introduction to this restaurant and this place of work, and all the components that are there, the second season—I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say we’re creating something new to do that everyone needs to look within a little bit and see what it is they want to make new and where they fit in. You’re delving a bit deeper into everybody. Just in a very practical way, everyone is spending less time together.
In the first episode, Richie is already having this crisis about what his purpose is. What’s your take on why he’s feeling that way?
We see him and he’s in the basement — that’s no accident. He’s looking at old pictures and he’s digging through the detritus and the memories of this old institution. Richie fought very hard in the first season to preserve something, and I think he lost. And so when we find him, he needs The Beef, and he needs The Bear, and he needs these people because he doesn’t really have anywhere else to be. But he doesn’t know how he fits in.
Are you hungry? The trailer for season two of FX’s critically acclaimed series The Bear just dropped, and it’s filled with both mouthwatering meals and a whole lot of delicious restaurant drama.
“This is coming from a place of wanting to start fresh and clean,” says Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) at the top of the trailer. After shutting down his rough-and-ready sandwich shop, The Beef, at the end of season one, Carmy and his crew—including sous-chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), “cuz” Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and sister Sugar (Abby Elliott)—have big dreams for their new restaurant, The Bear. “This is going to be a destination spot,” says Sydney.
But according to the trailer for season two, creating one from scratch may be harder than it looks. “It’s gonna take six months to open,” Sugar says as Richie and his gang get to work on rehabilitating the space. Over in the kitchen, Sydney and Carmy take The Bear’s notorious frenetic energy and infuse it straight into their cooking. “Still thinking chaos menu?” Sydney asks Carmy as they come up with new recipes for the restaurant. “Yeah, chaos menu but thoughtful,” says Carmy, before promptly spitting out one of the new recipes.
Sydney and Carmy aren’t the only Beef alums trying to step up their game, as veteran line cooks Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Gibson) and Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) get sent back to culinary school. Even Richie is trying to level up at the new restaurant, declaring himself “the supervisor.” (“Supervisor of what?” asks Lionel Boyce’s pastry chef, Marcus.) Unlike Richie, Sydney is certainly in a position of power as a chef at The Bear, but she finds it difficult to exert her authority when looking to hire new staff. “When can I talk to the chef?” asks a potential employee during a job interview shown in the trailer. “You are,” replies Sydney, before giving him a withering look.
Outside of the restaurant, things are heating up for Carmy as well. In the trailer, we get our first glimpse at season two addition Molly Gordon, whose still-unknown character seems to have something of a history with the troubled chef. “How has your life been, Berzatto?” Gordon’s character asks after bumping into Carmy in a supermarket. Could Carmy have to juggle opening a new restaurant and reigniting an old flame? You’ll have to wait and see when season two of The Bear serves up all 10 of its episodes exclusively on Hulu on June 22.
God love ‘em, the Gemstones’ prayers have finally been answered. Season three of The Righteous Gemstones returns to HBO on June 18, and, in a page straight out of Succession, Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson), and Kelvin (Adam DeVine) Gemstone finally have control of the family’s televangelist church made world-famous by their father, Dr. Eli Gemstone (John Goodman). But, running a megachurch is not as easy as it seems, and, from the looks of it, the Gemstone children may not be cut out for the gig. Pray for them. —Chris Murphy
The Walking Dead: Dead City
June 18 (AMC)
The universe of The Walking Dead expands once again with this sequel series, which picks up two years after the end of The Walking Dead and finds former enemies Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) traveling in a postapocalyptic Manhattan. It’s the fourth spin-off from the smash-hit AMC series, which wrapped its 11th and final season in November 2022. None of the follow-up series have become as huge as the original, but AMC clearly remains very much in the zombie business. —K.R.
Secret Invasion
June 21 (Disney+)
“We don’t know who’s a friend, who’s the enemy,” Samuel L. Jackson told Anthony Breznican for Vanity Fair’sfirst look at his upcoming Marvel series, which follows Jackson’s former S.H.I.E.L.D. director, Nick Fury, as he uncovers a conspiracy to quietly install double agents into positions of power around the world. He’s joined by Emilia Clarke as an alien radical named G’iah, Olivia Colman as a British intelligence agent who has a past with Fury, and a few familiar faces from the MCU, namely Martin Freeman (as CIA agent Everett K. Ross) and Cobie Smulders (as Fury’s steadfast ally, Maria Hill). Maybe it’s not a new Avengers movie, but Secret Invasion seems just as starry. —H.B.
The Bear
June 22 (FX)
Order up. The Bear—the high-octane kitchen series that premiered on FX last summer and quickly became the network’s most-watched half-hour show of all time—serves up a new 10-episode season two on June 22. After shutting down his restaurant, The Beef, Jeremy Allen White’s chef Carmy and his kitchen crew consisting of his “cousin” Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), sous-chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri), pastry chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce), and veteran line cook Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) are preparing to open Carmy’s new restaurant, The Bear. Along with the new restaurant, there are a few new faces, with Better Call Saul’sBob Odenkirk and Booksmart’sMolly Gordon both joining The Bear for season two. “It’s not a reopening, it’s a rebirth,” reads the caption on a teaser trailer for The Bear’s second season. Yes, chef. —C.M.
The Bachelorette
June 26 (ABC)
While many of us are still feeling the hangover of a particularly brutal season of The Bachelor, a new season for love is here with Charity Lawson, a 27-year-old Georgia native who was sent packing after hometowns by Zach Shallcross, calling the shots. She becomes only the fifth Black lead in franchise history, following in the footsteps of Matt James,Rachel Lindsay, Tayshia Adams, and Michelle Young—a welcome addition after yet another season where a contestant’s racist past was exposed. Here’s hoping that the exit of controversial longtime creator Mike Fleiss, and Lawson’s career as a child and family therapist bring fresh life to a wilting rose. —S.W.
The Witcherseason three
June 29 (Netflix)
Geralt (Henry Cavill) and Ciri (Freya Allan) are going into hiding as the new season of Netflix’s fantasy epic begins, a journey that promises equal parts discovery and treachery—and lands them in a position of putting everything on the line. Robbie Amell and Meng’er Zhang join the cast as an elven fighter and a human huntress, respectively. —D.C.
And Just Like That…Season Two
June (Max)
Now that the death of Big and a realignment of friend groups has been taken care of, maybe the second season of Max’s Sex and the City continuation can relax and have fun. Maybe we might even get a more episodic format, with each installment centered on a particular theme—you know, like SATC used to be. Though creator Michael Patrick King and producer/star Sarah Jessica Parker have been careful to note that AJLT is not trying to directly mimic the style of their previous hit, this is a different set of shoes altogether. So, perhaps that will be the real narrative of this sophomore run of episodes: audiences learning to embrace what’s different about the series, while its creative team finds a way to make it all fit. —R.L.
The Horror of Dolores Roach
July 7 (Prime Video)
From play to podcast to TV series: That’s the unlikely journey of The Horror of Dolores Roach, which began its life as a one-woman show starring Daphne Rubin-Vega, who reprised the role for the Gimlet Media podcast version. The play and podcast’s creator Aaron Mark will serve as co-showrunner for the series, which stars One Day at a Time alum Justina Machado as a woman returning to her Washington Heights neighborhood after being released from prison. As the description for the podcast went, it’s “a macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism, and survival of the fittest.” —K.R.
The Real Housewives of New YorkCity
July 16 (Bravo)
RHONY has gotten a rebrand. After 13 seasons, Bravo has done away with original Real Housewives of New York cast members like Luann de Lesepps,Sonja Morgan, and Ramona Singer in favor of a fresh crop of ladies ready to take on the Big Apple. Bravo’s updated RHONY cast includes Sai De Silva,Ubah Hassan,Jessel Taank,Brynn Whitfield, Erin Dana Lichy, and former J.Crew president and creative director Jenna Lyons. Season 14 of Real Housewives of New York will premiere on Bravo on July 16 because, after all, there’s nothing like summer in the city. Until then, we’ll have to wait and see whether the new cast will fill the RHONY OGs’ big and fabulous shoes. —C.M.
The Afterparty
July 14 (Apple TV+)
The only thing juicier than an afterparty is what mischief happens next. Even more murder is afoot in season two of this comedic whodunnit, which deliciously recounts the same crime from a different character’s perspective in each episode. The sophomore installment reunites returning cast members Tiffany Haddish,Sam Richardson, and ZoëChao with a—ahem—murderers’ row of new performers including John Cho, Paul Walter Hauser, Anna Konkle, Ken Jeong, Poppy Liu, Zach Woods, Vivian Wu, and Elizabeth Perkins as an unlucky set of soon-to-be interrogated wedding guests. Let the theorizing begin! —S.W.
Praise Petey
July 21 (Freeform)
Annie Murphy as an It girl whose glamorous life comes crashing down? Sounds a lot like Schitt’s Creek, only, this time, Murphy is voicing the animated Petey, who decides to lean into modernizing her dad’s small-town cult. From former Saturday Night Live head writer Anna Drezen, Praise Petey promises comedy for the Gen Z set. John Cho,Kiersey Clemons, and Christine Baranski also star. —N.J.
They Cloned Tyrone
July 21 (Netflix)
Is it a comedy, a conspiracy thriller, a stylish sci-fi-action-mystery-Blaxploitation-throwback? Juel Taylor’s directorial debut looks like all of the above. “Blaxploitation films always represented movies that let us express ourselves, and we could just look snazzy and do cool shit,” star John Boyega recently told EW of the high-concept project. ”It didn’t matter if we knew kung fu. It just all made sense with the music, with the vibes. I’m just proud to, at least, be a part of something that pays homage to that.” Trust his costars Teyonah Parris and Jamie Foxx to nail the vibe too. —H.B.
Minxseason two
July 21 (Starz)
Axed from HBO Max in dramatic fashion last year, the 1970s workplace comedy has found a new life on Starz, with Ophelia Lovibond and Jake Johnson returning as Joyce and Doug, the pair of unlikely collaborators behind a feminist porn magazine. In season two, the magazine Minx has become a hit, which, for our heroes, “brings more money, fame, and temptation than either of them know how to handle,” per Starz. With the recent Party Down revival, Starz is hopefully well-positioned to promote another smart comedy and treat Minx better than its first home did. —K.R.
Twisted Metal
July 27 (Peacock)
Did you spend the winter of 1995 watching your brother shoot napalm-laced ice cream cones at a souped-up Corvette driven by a ghost? If so, you too may find yourself intrigued by Peacock’s adaptation of the classic Playstation game, which casts Anthony Mackie as an everyman (he’s literally named John Doe) on a quest that, if the original is any blueprint, will mostly serve as an excuse for stylized vehicular mayhem. Yes, the clown who drives a killer ice cream truck is there too—and, this time, he’s voiced by Will Arnett. —H.B.
Breedersseason four
July (FX)
The fourth season of FX’s dark comedy series follows a tense finale in which Ava (Eve Prenelle) finally stood up to her father, while our weary married antiheroes Paul (Martin Freeman) and Ally (Daisy Haggard) don’t split up, exactly, but plan to move forward with a dynamic that may not be fixable, and a lot of pain in the rearview. How will they all pick up the pieces? Hopefully, the premiere lays out the road map. —D.C.
Heartstopperseason two
August 3 (Netflix)
Get ready for a summer of love. Netflix’s hit queer coming-of-age romance Heartstopper returns to the streaming platform on August 3. Based on the New York Times best-selling graphic novel series by Alice Oseman,Heartstopper follows Charlie (Joe Locke) a recently out teen at a British all-boys school, Nick (Kit Connor) a closeted rugby player coming to terms with his sexuality, and their budding romance. With a 100% average Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes, there’s clearly many Heartstopper fans interested in seeing what the next step is in Charlie and Nick’s romantic journey. —C.M.
Red, White & Royal Blue
August 11 (Prime Video)
Speaking of Heartstopper,The Royal We meets Netflix’s hit queer romance in Matthew Lopez’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s Young Adult bestseller, a sweetly silly rom-com that pairs America’s First Son with the heir to the British crown. Sure, the premise is implausible, but McQuiston’s charming banter was enough to sell it in novel form. Presumably, young cuties Taylor Zakhar Pérez and Nicholas Galitzine will be able to do the same on the small screen. Plus: Uma Thurman as the first female POTUS! —H.B.
Reservation Dogsseason two
Summer Date TBD (FX)
At the end of season two, the titular Dogs—Indigenous teens Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs), Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis), and Cheese (Lane Factor)—have made their long-awaited sojourn to California, a dream they often discussed while living on the Muscogee Nation Reservation in Oklahoma. But, while the last season ended with a sense of resolution, showrunner Sterlin Harjo has teased “some darkness coming” in season three for the group, whose bond was cemented after the tragic loss of their fifth friend just before the show’s start. —S.W.
What We Do in the Shadowsseason five
Summer Date TBD (FX)
Renewed last year for a fifth and sixth season, the vampire comedy returns with a major vote of confidence from its network, and a major cliff-hanger to wrap up: At the end of the last season, human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) had asked to be turned into a vampire. The season ended with several other resets, like Baby Colin’s (Mark Proksch) reversion back to regular adult Colin and the end of Nadja’s (Natasia Demetriou) nightclub dream. But, for vampire characters who have been alive for hundreds of years, there’s clearly time for many more adventures. —K.R.
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In case you missed it, the less important version of the Oscars was last night! The Golden Globes were three and a half arduous hours of acceptance speeches and praise for what felt like the same three movies and shows. If you didn’t get to see the entire awards ceremony, don’t worry. I sure did. Let me catch you up.
For starters: Austin Butler. No surprise here, Butler won best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture for Elvis. I mean, with a voice permanently stuck in Elvis’ cadence, you’d hope he gets his recognition.
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There were several awards given to the cast of Abbott Elementary, but the real award of the night goes to Tyler James Williams’ power pantsuit. Quinta Brunson’s mid-speech shoutout to a front-row Brad Pitt will forever live in my memory.
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We’ve all learned that what makes these shows bearable is inviting Jennifer Coolidge and handing her the mic. After warning the crowd that pronunciation wasn’t her strongsuit, the White Lotus favorite stole the show with quite the tearjerker.
With equally iconic speeches from herself and creator, Mike White, Coolidge credits White for getting her neighbors to speak to her again and giving her life even though he killed her off in the show. Similarly, Mike White called out the audience for “passing on” White Lotus originally.
What a year it was for streaming TV shows. Hopeful nominees like Jenna Ortega (Wednesday), Evan Peters (Dahmer), Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building), and Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) were notable names in the crowd. Both Jeremy Allen White and Evan Peters received their first ever Golden Globe.
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Movies like The Fabelman’s, The Banshees of Inisherin, and Everything, Everywhere, All At Once took home multiple awards. My personal favorite speeches came from Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, who spoke about second chances in the industry. Yeoh even threatened physical violence when the music turned on to usher her off stage.
And with the season opener of Awards Season behind us, it’s time to buckle up. We’re just getting started.
As 2022 winds down, it’s time to look back on the best TV series that have graced the small screen since January. They’ve made us laugh, cry, and even see the world through a different perspective. TV is no longer something we throw on in the background while making dinner — these days, it’s more a form of high art. Many shows require our full attention, serving the same level of engaging drama once reserved for the movie theater.
But let’s be honest — it’s a bit of a weird time for television right now. The past decade has seen an exponential rise in streamable content, with production studios heaving millions of dollars into big budget series without thinking about the consequences. Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and other major streamers are all competing for viewers, similar to the days of cable ratings. And yet, the shiny veneer of these streaming services’ Golden Age is beginning to wear just a bit — just because you have thousands of shows at your fingertips doesn’t mean that all are worth watching.
That being said, there have been some exceptional TV shows released this year. Leaning away from the conventions of the standard half-hour comedy and hour-long drama, the best TV shows of 2022 create their own rules. Several of them don’t define themselves by a single genre — there are comedies that are grounded by genuine emotion, and dramas that are woven with sharp humor. If you haven’t seen these shows yet, we recommend you give them a watch.
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Halloween is fast-approaching, and it’s just the right time to start thinking about what you’re going to dress up as. And when you’re tired of going as the usual suspects — witches, werewolves, and ghosts — you have to think outside of the box. When looking for inspiration, there’s no better place to start than TV. Whether it’s a buzzy new Netflix show or an established series that released a new season this year, there are plenty of options for finding a costume.
Quite a few popular shows this year chronicled the lives of real people, including Inventing Anna and Pam and Tommy. While it might have been kind of random to dress up as the subjects of these shows before, their popularity has created a cultural conversation around their lives. If you wear large, black-rimmed glasses and speak in a vague European accent, people are most likely going to make the Anna Delvey connection.
Below, we’ve rounded up the best Halloween costumes from TV series that were released in 2022. There are options for those who are single, those who are coupled up, and even those who are looking for a clever group costume idea. Some are easy to assemble, while some require you to go all out. Either way, you’ll have a cool costume that is neither cliché nor obscure. Since these looks are pulled from acclaimed, popular series, people will definitely recognize who you’re dressed up as — and they’ll appreciate that you didn’t just grab a cape and call it a day.
The Best Halloween Costume Ideas From 2022 TV Shows
Need inspiration for your trick or treat ensemble? Here are some fun ideas from recent TV hits that will make you a stand out at a Halloween party.
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