“My name is Dua Lipa, or as some people call me, Dula Peep,” the first time host said at the top of her Saturday Night Live monologue, referencing the iconic Wendy Williams-ism turned nickname. She then pointed out her “cool” parents in the audience who “love to party,” telling a story of bumping into them while she was out with her friends at the club at three o’clock in the morning.
Big Rock. The Dwayne Johnson coming-of-age comedy series Young Rock has finally assembled its neat little pile of smaller Rocks. In a statement, NBC revealed who will play the wrestler-turned-actor through the ages in the upcoming series, which is set to premiere sometime in 2021. Adrian Groulx will play the Rock at age 10, a.k.a. “Dewey,” a.k.a. Baby Rock: “Honest, headstrong, impressionable and bold.” Honest as a rock.
Hot Pursuit. The opening moments of Hot Pursuit are so scarily good that for about two minutes I thought I might be in the presence of a masterpiece. In these scenes, through a quick succession of cuts, we see a young girl growing up in the back of her father’s cop car, playing with handcuffs and a radar gun, learning about police scanner codes, even getting a ride to her prom.
Los Espookys was always meant to be a bilingual show. As co-creators Julio Torres and Ana Fabrega designed it, the oddball HBO comedy moves between America and a fictional South or Latin American country, with characters who speak English, Spanish, slang combinations thereof, and sometimes even mystical whooshing noises. It’s an especially distinctive choice onscreen: Every line of dialogue is subtitled, whether in English (if characters are speaking Spanish), Spanish (if they’re speaking English), or both (if they are doing some mystical whooshing).
This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Netflix spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year promoting individual movies and TV shows on the service. But now the company has decided to invest significant resources into marketing something far more general: Netflix itself.
Earlier this month, the streamer kicked off its first-ever global brand campaign, a 27-country promotional effort built around the tagline “One Story Away.
Angelique Midthunder cast the final season’s guest roles with a mix of actors — some veterans; some untested; some with Hollywood experience; some local to Oklahoma, where the series was shot — to help Reservation Dogs paint a genuine, idiosyncratic portrait of midwestern Native life. When Elora Danan (Devery Jacobs) first spies on her estranged father in the penultimate episode of Reservation Dogs, she’s surprised to see he makes regular stops at the weed dispensary and enjoys a morning joint while driving.
Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. Your survey forms await. Yes, yes, your eyeballs are glued to the latest season of Love Is Blind, but for many of us, a few episodes a week are not enough. What if you could access a show’s whole season, perhaps even including the finale, before everyone else — before final edits or decisions were made on how the show would be presented on Netflix?
Unless you were recently launched into outer space and are currently flying too close to the sun and/or moon, you are likely aware that we are experiencing a rare total eclipse of the sun this afternoon. This momentous occasion has temporarily made “Total Eclipse of the Heart” the most popular song in America, 34 years after it first became a top-40 smash.
People with a lot of time on their hands and/or an unhealthy obsession with ’80s artifacts may have used this occasion as an excuse to revisit the video for Bonnie Tyler’s melodramatic power ballad, which enjoyed regular rotation back in the day on MTV and Friday Night Videos.
Bruce Willis and daughter Scout Willis; The Heeler Family. After spending the past year calling all of our favorite celebrities “mother” and “daddy,” it’s finally the appropriate time to shout out the famous fathers on our feeds. Actor Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia earlier this year, was honored by his wife Emma Heming Willis and his ex-wife Demi Moore on Instagram. “Father’s Day is a time I get to reflect on my deep appreciation and respect I have for Bruce as I watch him father our little ones,” wrote Heming Willis.
Following his recent apology video, Shane Dawson is now under fire by the family of Willow Smith for a resurfaced clip that showed Dawson pretending to masturbate to a poster of then-11-year-old Smith. “To Shane Dawson … I’m done with the excuses,” Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow’s mother, tweeted. Jaden Smith, Willow’s brother, also addressed the video on Twitter. “SHANE DAWSON I AM DISGUSTED BY YOU. YOU SEXUALIZING AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO HAPPENS TO BE MY SISTER!