The last thing Carrie Coon needed was a sun tan
Yes… it is a quiet news day. Why do you ask…?
In promotion for the upcoming third season of HBO’s The Gilded Age, star Carrie Coon was profiled by THR about moving straight from the set of season three of The White Lotus onto the set of the period drama.
There was 48 hours in-between filming on both sets. I thought this was an interesting insight into one of the challenges here one might not really think about:
“I could not get a tan,” she says from her home in Pound Ridge, New York, where she lives with her husband, playwright Tracy Letts, and their two young children. “I stayed inside all day, I only ventured out to the beach to swim in the evening, and even then I did it with long pants and long sleeves.”
I’ve spent much of this week catching up on The Gilded Age - a show I kinda liked in the first season, but never returned to for season two. After smashing through the eight episodes, I’ve been bothering friends and family by insisting that ‘we luncheon’.
The show is tremendously silly and not especially great. Plots are so light as to be barely noticed. And scenes move so briskly - I doubt we are ever in the same location for more than two minutes at a time. But it delights me so much.
The show had trouble breaking out when it first launched. It’s one of those very quiet HBO shows that just bubble along for a few seasons, then are quietly extinguished. With Emmy nominations for season 2, I sense that the show is building in awareness. I fear that the only way the show will get to a season 4 is with Emmy nominations this year.
Until then, I’m available to luncheon.
Free Pretty Summer
Just a heads-up for Australians reading the newsletter - if you have Foxtel, the first season of Prime Video show The Summer I Turned Pretty is going to be free to access on demand from 24 June to 22 July.
What’s a bit more interesting to me is that the show will also be broadcast on Foxtel’s linear Showcase channel (with double episodes 7:30pm & 8:30pm on Tuesday nights). I haven’t really seen that for current-ish Prime Video shows. One assumes it is promotion at Prime to on-board viewers of the show ahead of the season three launch of the show July 16.
I’m surprised we don’t see more of this sort of cross-promotional collaboration between content delivery partners like this.
News Desk
When David Lynch died, he was two years into writing and developing a new limited TV series. His longtime producer Sabrina Sutherland says it was “probably the best thing he ever did.” Which is always the case for any production that is never made. Read: Deadline
As per Deadline, “Ampere Analysis and Enders Analysis have both suggested it is now a matter of when, not if, Netflix strikes more aggregator-style deals after the agreement in France.” The rest of the article is more putting the cart before the horse business about how revolutionary its deal with TF1 is. This despite having no real awareness of the commercial terms of the deal. Or if the deal will even work out to be in the best interests of either TF1 or Netflix. People are very excited over this - and I get it, but lets keep some perspective.
The Golden Girls co-producers Marsha Posner Williams and Jim Valley appeared on a panel chat where the conversation turned towards the hatred between stars Bea Arthur and Betty White. The c-word was dropped quite a bit through the panel chat. It’s a must-read over at THR.
Nintendo-produced Switch 2 games are selling well, but not so much games made by third-party publishers. Read: Polygon
Trailer Park
Catalog debuts July 17 on Netflix.
A recently widowed workaholic clumsily navigates life with his kids, guided by his late wife's online tips. Can he ace this crash course in parenthood?
Wall To Wall debuts July 18 on Netflix.
A man who poured his life savings into a new apartment discovers its walls are full of disturbing noises, hostile neighbors and unsettling secrets.
That’s the newsletter for today.
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