• IndieWire details on Ava DuVernay's DC superheroes project The New Gods
• Deadline One Day at a Time, cancelled by Netflix which shoulda known better, will continue on Pop TV (which did a great job with Schitt's Creek!)
• / Film an intriguing sounding new sci-fi project for Reese Witherspoon called Pyros
• IndieWire Slovenia's first LGBT film Consequences
After the jump The Boys, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and our current fascination with Euphoria as its first season ends...
• Broadway World Baz Lurhmann's Elvis biopic has a release date already: October 1st, 2021
• Slate a fascinating piece on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood being about violence itself and the appetite the movies have for it
• / Film everything I've read about the new superhero show The Boys suggests I would loathe it (it's reportedly extremely gorey, cruel, and nihilistic. But it figures that the only scene Amazon asked them to cut was a sexual scene and not a violent one. American media is still soooo disturbing when it comes to how disturbed they are by sex while every second of violence they can see they cheer on.
Euphoria Season Finale Tonight!
Are you watching this HBO show? You absolutely should be. It's the first show where I've genuinedly cared about and worried for the mental health of every character since, like, my so-called life. Zendaya for Best Actress 2020 at the Emmys. Also it's visually inventive and stunning in a way too few TV shows and movies aspire to be.
• New Now Next on the rare opportunity of seeing a cis/trans relationship on TV
• NYT a piece about the show's savvy but ultimately conservative view of online sexuality
• Shadow and Act a ranking of the characters "from worst to not worst" haha... mostly spot on with the weird exception of Fezco being nearly #1 of not-worst. Love the character and the performance (Angus Cloud) but he sells hard drugs... to high schoolers. How is he not in the bottom four?