(L to R) Brenda Vaccaro and Lorraine Bracco star in ‘Nonnas’.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lorraine Bracco and Brenda Vaccaro about their work on ‘Nonnas’, Bracco’s first reaction to the screenplay, working with the all-star cast, the rivalry between Bracco and Vaccaro’s characters, collaborating with director Stephen Chbosky and screenwriter Liz Maccie on set, and Bracco’s experience acting opposite Vince Vaughn.
You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews with Bracco and Vaccaro, Joe Manganiello, director Stephen Chbosky, and screenwriter Liz Maccie.
Moviefone: To begin with, Lorraine, what was your first reaction to the screenplay, the true story it is based on, and working with the rest of this incredible cast?
Loraine Bracco: So, when I read the script, I loved it. I cried. I laughed. I wanted to be in the movie. The cast, I mean, it goes without saying. I have admired these women my whole life. They made great movies, great characters, great choices, so it was exciting.
MF: Brenda, can you talk about why Antonella does not like Roberta when they first meet, and what was it fun playing out that rivalry with Loraine?
Brenda Vaccaro: Oh my God, yes, because we never knew where we were going with it. Do you know what I’m saying? You never knew because, I mean, she would insult me, and I’d insult her, and I’d go, “What did we just do? Okay, we’re on that horse, are we?” So, I never knew when she was going to throw something at me, which I loved. It was great to work with her.
MF: Loraine, what was it like working with director Stephen Chbosky on this project?
LB: Stephen never said cut. He was enjoying the two of us go at it. That gave us the freedom to have just as good a time as they did when Liz wrote it and when he said, “Hey honey, we’re going to do this.” Do you know what I mean? It really was a loving family.
MF: Brenda, what was your experience like collaborating with director Stephen Chbosky and his wife, screenwriter Liz Maccie on set?
BV: His wife, Liz, when she would visit the set, she’d say, “It’s great. I love it.” So, they were permissive. They were giving.
MF: Finally, Loraine, can you talk about Roberta’s connection to Joe, and what it was like for you to work with Vince Vaughn?
LB: Well, I was very nervous, to be truthful, because I’d never really made a comedy. I didn’t even know where to start. I would look at Vince and be like, “Oh, God, what am I doing?” He would just tell me to calm down and trust myself. Even during the read-through, I would just turn to him with panic, and he’s like, “Loraine, you’re doing great. Trust me. Just believe. Make your choices and go for it.” He was very giving that way and totally helped me create Roberta. The fact that I was his mom’s best friend made our relationship very loving and caring.
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What is the plot of ‘Nonnas’?
After losing his beloved mother, a man (Vince Vaughn) risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas (grandmothers) as the chefs.
Linda Cardellini will star in the ‘Friday the 13th’-based series ‘Crystal Lake.’
She’s playing the mother of serial killer Jason Voorhees.
The show has been through a tumultuous development process.
Looks like ‘Crystal Lake’ might finally have found its first camper. Or at least someone to cause real trouble for campers.
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Yes, after some issues in development (more on that below), Peacock’s series based on the original ‘Friday the 13th’ movie has reached the casting stage, and the first person has locked in their deal.
A scene from 1980’s ‘Friday the 13th’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
The exact plot details for the new show are being kept submerged right now, though with Cardellini’s casting as Pamela, it points to an origin story, setting the clock back to before the first movie.
Because let’s not forget that –– spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen the original ‘Friday the 13th (or indeed the first ‘Scream’ where this is one of Ghostface’s horror trivia questions) –– Pamela is the killer in that film, with Jason not taking up the violent mantle properly until the second.
Yet Deadline has dug up a potential detail or two: Pamela is believed to be a mother who had given up a singing career to raise a special needs child and takes a dark turn when she loses her son.
Jason famously is thought to have drowned at Camp Crystal Lake, where Pamela (played in the original by Betsy Palmer) goes on a murderous rampage among the camp counsellors.
A scene from 1980’s ‘Friday the 13th’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
‘Friday the 13th’ hasn’t always had the easiest ride behind the scenes, even for the movies.
The franchise became tangled in complex rights deals as it moved from Paramount to New Line and became locked in a years-long copyright dispute between the original movie’s director-producer Sean S. Cunningham and original screenwriter Victor Miller.
And likewise, ‘Crystal Lake’ has encountered its own hurdles.
After Miller emerged victorious in the wrangling over the rights, he was granted control over the script and original characters but not over the ‘Friday the 13th’ title nor the concept of an adult Jason or even his iconic hockey mask, which was only introduced in the third movie.
Undaunted, Miller began developing a series based on the concept with A24 and NBCUniversal, with the latter aiming to have the show on streaming service Peacock.
“I discovered ‘Friday the 13th’ in the pages of Famous Monsters magazine when I was 10 years old and I have been thinking about this story ever since. When it comes to horror, A24 raises the bar and pushes the envelope and I’m thrilled to be exploring the campgrounds of Crystal Lake under their banner. And NBCUniversal’s Susan Rovner is simply the best at what she does. It’s a pleasure and an honor to be working with her again.”
That feeling lasted for roughly a couple of years before Fuller pulled the eject cord and departed the project, taking to social media to explain why:
“Adapting classic horror is something I have some experience with. These shows require a vision that elevates and transforms, as well as delivers what audiences have come to expect, which is an ambitious and risky endeavor. It requires people to take the leap with me. I couldn’t be more proud of the work my co-showrunner Jim Danger Gray and I were able to accomplish with our brilliant writing staff. For reasons beyond our control, A24 has elected to go a different way with the material. We hope the final product will be something ‘Friday the 13th’ fans all over the world will enjoy.
It’s not the first time Fuller has left a show after agreeing to run it, but Peacock and the other companies switched over to Brad Caleb Kane, who worked on the upcoming ‘It’ prequel series ‘Welcome to Derry’ for Max) and will be credited as creator, writer, showrunner and executive producer here.
This was his own statement on landing the gig:
“Nothing defined my childhood more than growing up in the golden age of the slasher flick, and nothing’s defined the genre more than ‘Friday the 13th.’ I couldn’t be more excited for the opportunity to contribute a chapter to this iconic franchise, particularly with such fearless partners as Peacock and A24.”
Cardellini’s career has been eclectic; she’s known on the big screen for the likes of the ‘Scooby Doo’ live-action movies, and has appeared in everything from ‘Legally Blonde’ to ‘Brokeback Mountain.’
On the small screen, she’s been seen in shows such as ‘Dead to Me,’ ‘Bloodline,’ ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and spent several seasons as nurse Samantha Taggart on ‘ER.’
It’s too early to really guess when the show might arrive, but since casting is underway, there’s a good chance it’ll shoot this year for a potential 2026 launch.
A scene from 1980’s ‘Friday the 13th’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
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(L to R) Director David Gordon Green and Ben Stiller on the set of ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with director David Gordon Green and Ben Stiller about their work on ‘Nutcrackers’, how the unusual production came together, discovering the Janson siblings, Stiller’s experience working with Green and the kids, tone, choreographing the dance sequence, shooting on location, reading children’s stories, and making a family Christmas movie.
You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews with Green, Stiller, Linda Cardellini, Homer Janson, Ulysses Janson, Atlas Janson, and Arlo Janson.
Director David Gordon Green on the set of ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
Moviefone: To begin with, David, I understand that this production was done in an unusual way, can you talk about how this movie came together?
David Gordon Green: It all started a little bit backwards, where I met the cast before we had a script. These four kids were the sons of a friend of mine from film school that live on this farm where we filmed it and they’re ballet dancers, and so hanging out with them, I just thought there’s a movie here if we’re crazy enough to turn a camera on them. I got my buddy Leland (Douglas) to come and write a movie and our influences were the 80s movies we grew up on. Movies like ‘Overboard’, ‘Bad News Bears’ and ‘Six Pack’, this Kenny Rogers movie about orphaned kids was a big one for me, and ‘Uncle Buck’, which I think is a classic but somehow underappreciated. We wanted to lean into those tropes, the nostalgic flavor of those movies, and make a family Christmas movie that I could show to my kids.
Ben Stiller in ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: Ben, what was it like for you as a filmmaker yourself to work in that specific way with David on this movie?
Ben Stiller: Well, I’ve been a fan of his for a long time, and over the years we’ve tried to figure out something to do together. He is such a good filmmaker. He comes from the independent world. He can work in different genres. But he’s great with comedy and he loves movies. This guy loves movies. He loves making movies. I don’t know when the last time I was on a set with a director where they just literally said out of nowhere, “I love making movies.” But he did a couple days in, I was like, this is my guy. I love it. He was just so excited to capture these kids and this place and this world. He was coming from a very independent, organic place with this movie where he just wanted to make something that I think hearkens back to the world that he comes from with his first movies. He created such a fun atmosphere. As an actor, you just want to work with a filmmaker who has a point of view and has a voice and feels inspired, and that’s what it felt like on this one.
Director David Gordon Green on the set of ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: David, after making three ‘Halloween’ movies and an ‘Exorcist’ film, what was it like to make a family friendly Christmas movie?
DGG: It is fun because it’s a different set of challenges. How do you not lean into some of the vulgarity and the grotesqueness that gives me such a jolt in the filmmaking process, but this was leaning into different things and trying to find things that felt natural and authentic about childhood and things that made me laugh about this group, this ensemble, and then bringing Ben Stiller into the insanity. It was a different set of circumstances and honesty, it was cool. We shot it on 35 millimeter and really wanted it to be a bit of a flashback to that era of movies and put our modern day independent minded spin on it.
(L to R) Ben Stiller and director David Gordon Green on the set of ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: The movie is a comedy with dramatic moments. David, can you talk about striking the right tone for this film?
DGG: It wasn’t difficult once we landed Ben Stiller for the movie. I felt very comfortable with the dramatic gravity of the movie and the comedic opportunity of the movie. He’s one of the few actors in that niche that can play in both ranges so well, so we could lean one way and then feel like we’ve done the funny version of the scene, what happens if we play it in the serious emotional version of the scene? In the editing room, we got to make a lot of those decisions and figure out what our balance was. I was really trying to engineer something that parents and kids would each get something different out of and enjoy watching together.
Ben Stiller in ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: In addition to being a great actor, Ben is also an accomplished writer, director and producer. David, is it an added asset to have someone like him on set?
DGG: Yeah, it was valuable. He’s an actor I’ve always admired and a director I really admire. The choices he’s making these days, and it had been too long since the last time he was in front of the camera so for me, it was “Hey man, let’s do this. This is an opportunity to let loose and take all the pressure off because it’s not a big franchise.” There’s only so much preparation you can do because these kids have never acted before, been in front of a camera, and the animals are running lose all over their house. You can’t be in control. All you can do is put a camera in a place and start to play. So for both of us, it was a chance to really break the rules that the last several years of our professional careers had constructed these cages around us of discipline and this was just anarchy. What greater collaborator to do that, to step back into that world of anarchy than Ben Stiller?
(Far Right) Director David Gordon Green and the cast of ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: David, can you talk about working with the Janson siblings and what is it like directing actors who have never acted before?
DGG: A couple of them couldn’t read and they weren’t going to memorize their scripts in a traditional way, so we brought in an acting coach to give them the essence of a scene and help sculpt what that might be so that when Ben got to town, they would already have a formation of an idea. It wasn’t like “Hey, Arlo, you stand here and say this line.” It wasn’t memorized in that way, it was more like, here’s what the in and out of the scene must achieve, and then we do play to the nuances. Sometimes we’d play it funny, and the kids would be allowed to cuss and other times we’d say “Okay, keep it clean, and let’s do this one in a different style”. It was just playful. It was one 35-millimeter camera sitting on a tripod, and we just try to put it in a place where whoever was the hero of the scene, whether it was Ben or one of the kids or one of the pigs, let’s let them lead the way. Every day unfolded like that. You could have a plan for the day, but it was never going to work. You would always just have to evolve with the realities of this organism of the creative process on this movie. It was fun and liberating in a lot of ways because there weren’t the traditional rules that you have on a movie with either a studio behind you or the pressure of a franchise or these other things that we come face to face with as filmmakers. This was like, let’s just roll the dice and see if these kids are as cool as I think they are, and they exceeded all our expectations.
The cast of ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: Ben, what was your experience like working with the Jansons and acting opposite non-actors?
BS: I mean, that was one of the reasons I wanted to do the movie, just to have an experience where these kids weren’t going to have a pre-determined idea of what they’re supposed to do or be professionally trained in any way. I felt like if David was thinking that they would be great to be in this movie, then there must be something there and a reason for that. He was right. They just brought so much of their heart and their innocence and their humor to the process. So, every day, as I thought it might be, it was different. We didn’t know what would happen, and it was a little bit chaotic in a great way, and I think that was what David wanted to capture, the real-life moments, and make this film not feel like a cookie cutter movie for the holidays, but really feel like something that was unique and independent and organic. Every day was just fun. It flew by. The whole movie is very real. They are doing the ‘Nutcracker’ at the theater in Wilmington in less than a month. When we shot the movie last year, they were doing the ‘Nutcracker’, and I went to see them all dance, and these guys are amazing dancers. I mean, it’s all kind of real.
‘Nutcrackers’ premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: David, what was it like shooting the ‘Nutcracker’ dance sequence at the end of the film?
DGG: The kids were preparing to do the ‘Nutcracker’. They’re doing it again right now. They do it every year and so I had their ballet teacher choreograph the scene. I said here’s our version of the story. Can you choreograph something for us? They take ballet three times a week, so they know what they’re doing, and they have the discipline as dancers. I think that was a great attribute to them as actors is there was a little bit of if they have choreographers that they’re working for and the directors of the dance department that they acknowledge and admire, Ben and I could step into those shoes a little bit. They were receptive to the guidance and the sculpture that we were trying to create, and then that just got us ready for the dance sequence in the middle of the night on the street when it was 10 degrees outside, which was a very surreal experience for the entire town. It was a fun community to be making a movie in because there’s not a lot that has filmed in Wilmington, Ohio. It was funny, because we went back to the Murphy Theater where we filmed the movie, where they were going to put on their big dance performance at the end of the film and we played the movie for a crowd. So, it was fun realizing that a lot of people had no idea what we were doing. They were like “Oh, this is a real movie.” I think they thought it was some sort of weird performance art we were just doing on the streets of their town last year. It was cool to have this. They were always very supportive and a welcoming artistic community, so it was cool to be able to find that balance between the agricultural community, the artistic community, and see everybody enjoying a movie with one mindset. It was a beautiful experience.
‘Nutcrackers’ premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: David, in the film, you mention that the Murphy Theater is where actor John Ritter was married. Is that true?
DGG: It is the theater that John Ritter was married in. I was very proud to be able to work that nuance into it because I’m a big John Ritter fan. So, I love the fact that we could lean into that reality with our tour of the Murphy Theater.
Ben Stiller in ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: There is a scene in the movie where Ben’s character is reading bedtime stories to the kids and ends up retelling the plot of ‘First Blood’. David, was that an improvisation or was that in the script?
DGG: It was in the script and one of the funny aspects of that scene was our script supervisor, her first job was ‘Rambo III’, so we had a creative consultant there guiding us through some of the attributes of later in the franchise for the kids to know and put their spin on it. That was a fun sequence to film, and it was hard not to laugh every time because Ben had to play it seriously and it was hard for me and the kids not to crack up every time.
Director David Gordon Green on the set of ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: David, if you had to read a bedtime story to a child based on one of your movies, which one would it be?
DGG: That’s an interesting question because I’ve recently written a children’s book based on ‘Halloween’. That’s out now, and that was a very fun experiment because we were looking at that exact thing that you’re talking about and I thought that would be the one because it’s such a provocative, alluring thing for young readers and young minds. People talk about ‘Halloween’ and Michael Myers and my kids were always so curious about it, but I didn’t want to show them the movie, so I made the children’s book version of it for them. That would be a fun one. I would also do ‘Your Highness’. I think that would be a great one. Danny McBride and I have talked about that maybe it didn’t work financially or commercially as a big budget studio movie, but maybe as a strange, offbeat, animated show for kids would’ve been a better idea. I don’t know. Whenever we’re developing these projects, we’re thinking who is the audience? Sometimes, we say the audience is us and let’s see who joins the parade and other times, you want to engineer it specifically for old, young, male, female, or whatever. But that’s one of the cool things about a movie like ‘Nutcrackers’ is everyone’s invited. I wanted to make a movie that wasn’t necessarily engineered for kids, but I think kids are going to see a lot of themselves in it, crack themselves up and mom and dad are going to enjoy it just as much. ‘Your Highness’, in a weird way, I think one of our mistakes was making it R-rated because it was such silly obnoxiousness that I think if you would’ve been able to have nine-year-old’s go see that movie when it came out, and that might’ve triggered our own juvenile instincts a little differently.
The cast and crew of ‘Nutcrackers’ which premieres on Hulu November 29th. Photo: Hulu.
MF: Finally, David, what did you learn from making this movie and do you think it will change the way you make movies in the future?
DGG: What it did is it reinstated the confidence I have in my crew, the same crew that made ‘Nutcrackers’ made the ‘Halloween’ movies and the ‘Exorcist’ movie, and so we all needed a palate cleanser after having the experience of the pressure of a franchise on your shoulders. I have to say it’s nice to be making a movie in the shadows that I think people are going to love and I’m not worried about that. I also just love that we’re creating something new from the ground up that also has a nostalgic vibe to it, that feels familiar in a lot of ways to the movies I grew up on in the 80s. Everything I make triggers a lot of the child in me, and so whether that’s the allure of a Michael Myers or the silliness of a ‘Nutcrackers’, I just want to respond to my own inner 11-year-old. Whatever that kid in me is still saying with the possibilities of this industry is where I lean for the next film.
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What is the plot of ‘Nutcrackers’?
A workaholic, Mike (Ben Stiller) must travel to rural Ohio to look after his recently orphaned nephews.
The new season will also see the return of James Marsden (‘Disenchanted’) as Steve and Ben Wood, respectively.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Linda Cardellini, James Marsden, and series creator Liz Feldman about the third and final season of ‘Dead To Me,’ how they wanted to end the show, their character arcs, the challenges of playing two roles, and their favorite memories of shooting the series.
(L to R) Liz Feldman, James Marsdan, and Linda Cardellini discuss the third and final season of Netflix’s ‘Dead To Me.’
You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews with Cardellini, Marsden, and Feldman.
Moviefone: To begin with, Liz, was it always your plan to end the series after three seasons?
Liz Feldman: The truth is no. I didn’t necessarily know how I was going to end the series when I started the series. But about halfway through season two, this ending sort of came to me, because I was racking my brain, how do you bring closure to these characters? How do I bring this full circle?
This is how I decided to do it. I actually told Linda, basically that day that I thought of it, I said, “I think this is what I’m going to do.” I just explored the ideas that you see in season three, and I really went for it with the hope that I would bring closure, and a satisfying ending for the audience.
MF: Linda, when you start a new season, do you know your character’s arc for the entire season, or do you go script to script?
Linda Cardellini: I always ask a million questions. Liz knows, so she always tells me as much as she knows, which is really fun for us. That’s sort of our creative relationship. But then there are always things within the script that I did not imagine. There are always big turns and twists, but there are also these micro turns and twists all along that really surprise you as an actor and in your character.
There’s something in the season that happens. It happens to somebody else and it’s really happening. So, there’s a lot of things that happen that you can’t quite predict. There are smaller things and bigger things. I always know the bigger things, I think for the most part. But the smaller things still surprise me day to day. Sometimes she’ll say, “I’m not going to tell you this cause I want you to be surprised when you read it,” and then I know it’s something good.
MF: James, can you talk about the challenges of playing two separate characters on the same series?
James Marsden: Yes, it has been, but it’s been fun. I feel really honored that Liz believed in me to tackle this together, we do it together. The writing is such that it really does keep you buoyant, and it’s less scary when the writing’s really strong. I mean that. I think it’s, again, part of the fun about being an actor, is being able to transform yourself and play different characters with different personality traits. I think the more different they are, the easier it is to go the other direction.
But it is challenging, because you don’t want it to feel like a gimmick. You don’t want it to feel like a trick or anything. You want it to feel authentic and real. It’s really just looking at each of these characters as two separate people, almost like two separate projects. Like, who’s this individual completely, and then, who’s this individual completely.
MF: Finally, now that the series is ending, what is your favorite memory from the entire production?
LF: I mean, it’s nearly impossible to boil it down to just one. The truth is the gift that I will take with me, are the relationships, because I didn’t know these wonderful people before we started working together. Now I know them, but beyond knowing them, I love them and they are my friends. I will carry them with me for the rest of my life.
I think about the moments that we shared on set, too numerous to mention, very often at three o’clock in the morning, huddling over some hot tea, with big puffy coats, and looking at each other bleary-eyed, but just happy that we get to hang out. So, that’s what I will miss, and it’s what I’ll take with me.
JM: I love that. I feel the same way. It has been one giant beautiful moment from day one on this show. Anytime Liz, because she knows, you don’t have to put a nickel in me to make a fool of myself, I will do it in a heartbeat. So, anytime my character’s just being an absolute buffoon, I just love it.
I don’t know, as an actor, I love playing those types of characters where they think they’ve got it going on, but they don’t. I guess I like making fun of myself, and she allows me to. But that’s my own personal thing with the character. But the journey through this, these three seasons has just been so wonderfully rewarding. I have these beautiful friendships that have come out, that have sprung from this experience. That’s what I’ll take with me.
LC: My favorite memory? I mean, there’s so much, I don’t know. But I will say what I will miss. I will miss Jen and Judy. I will miss them. There is something about Jen and Judy that is obviously very Linda and Christina, but the writing, and the community, and the relationships that we have with each other are so special. Then just the way that you’ve written these two women and their friendship, I will just really miss playing that. I had such a good time doing that.
Netflix has renewed the the dark comedy starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini. Creator Liz Feldman announced the news at a panel with the cast Monday.
Season 2 will consist of 10 episodes and likely debut sometime in 2020.
The show centers on the unlikely friendship that develops between Applegate’s recently-widowed Jen and impulsive free spirit Judy after they meet at a grief group.
At the end of the first season [SPOILERS AHEAD], Jen learns that Judy accidentally killed Jen’s husband in a hit-and-run, abetted by her boyfriend Steve (James Marsden). The finale ends on a cliffhanger, with a dead Steve floating in the pool, seemingly at the hands of Jen.
Feldman told Entertainment Weekly that Season 2 will focus on “the further exploration of this friendship, and relationship, and now very complicated dynamic, or even more complicated dynamic between these two women.”
“What I wanted to do was create a situation where they’re forced together, and they need each other now in some ways more than they did at the beginning of season 1.”
Misery loves company, as the saying goes, and in Netflix’s black comedy “Dead to Me,” there’s plenty of both.
Christina Applegate stars as Jen, a sardonic widow whose husband recently died in a hit-and-run. She meets free spirit Judy (Cardellini), who is grieving her fiancé, at a support group. Despite their opposite personalities, they bond over wine and late night phone chats.
But after Judy moves into the guesthouse, Jen starts to realize her new BFF isn’t who she seems.
With Jen is acting as a “white wine vigilante” searching for the perpetrator of her husband’s hit-and-run,” it’s easy to guess what Jen’s “shocking secret” might be. Or not. Maybe this platonic love story has a happy ending.
The series is created by Liz Feldman (“2 Broke Girls”) and also stars James Marsden and Ed Asner.
Season 1 explored the troubled dynamics within the Rayburn family and ended with the revelation that John (Chandler) killed his own brother, Danny (Mendelsohn), and siblings Meg (Cardellini) and Kevin (Butz) helped cover it up. Season 2 followed the Rayburns as they fractured over the fallout of Danny’s death. In the finale — spoilers ahead! — Kevin committed murder, while John was seen driving away from the Keys, possibly for good.
As Variety noted, season 2 received mixed reviews, which may be why Netflix waited to order a third season. Season 3 is likely to stream sometime next summer.
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Beloved coming-of-age comedy “Freaks and Geeks” may have only lasted one season, but it still left us with tons of memorable moments and sarcastic gems that we’ll be quoting for eternity. The guys of the show were some of the best teen characters ever (we’re still crushing on Nick Andopolis today), but don’t count out the badass ladies of the show. Freaks or not, Lindsay Weir and Kim Kelly have been our imaginary best friends since the show premiered. Cue the Joan Jett and travel back to the 1980s Michigan suburbs to revisit 11 times the ladies of “Freaks and Geeks” were cooler than we’ll ever be.
Who’s your daddy? If you’re very lucky it’s both Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, like the kids in “Daddy’s Home.” The comedy comes out this Christmas, but the first trailer was (wisely) released just in time for Father’s Day, pitting a tough-guy divorced dad (Wahlberg) against a mild-mannered new stepfather (Farrell).
Linda Cardellini plays Wahlberg’s ex, with Farrell as her new husband. The trailer shows the dads competing for the kids’ affection — including bribing them with cash, which never fails. Things get increasingly out of hand, of course, in the manner of all hilarious man-child comedies, but at least this preview gives us a few shots of Wahlberg shirtless with slicked-back hair. (Shallow. Not sorry.) It doesn’t look like the “Freaks and Geeks” alum has much to do besides react to the two guys, but hopefully that’s just the deception of the trailer.
“Freaks and Geeks” fans, rejoice: The cast is slated to reunite at the upcoming TV Land Awards.
The beloved one-season wonder will receive the 15th Anniversary Award at the ceremony, with TV Land announcing in a press release that despite its short run from 1999-2000, the show “continues to find new fans every year.” One of the reasons for that, no doubt, is the stellar ensemble that creator Paul Feig and co. assembled (casting director Allison Jones snagged the series’s sole Emmy for her work), and TV Land revealed that almost every single main actor from the series will be present at the awards show.
In addition to that star-studded lineup, the awards will also feature a performance by Jennifer Hudson, who’s singing a song from hit show “Empire.” Other series and stars slated for honors at the ceremony include “Parenthood” (Fan Favorite Award), “The Wonder Years” (Impact Award), “Ally McBeal” (Groundbreaking Award), Betty White (Legend Award), Donny and Marie Osmond (Pop Culture Award), and a tribute to the late Joan Rivers.
The 2015 TV Land Awards, hosted by Terry Crews, tape this weekend. The show will air on TV Land, Nickelodeon, and NickMom on April 18 at 9 p.m.
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