When
Betty opened back in season one, viewers were treated to a B-roll cut of Kirt (Nina Moran) skateboarding her way through New York City. From the first two minutes of the series, viewers were made aware of the fact that
Betty like its predecessor is a very NYC production. In the first episode of season two, viewers are once again unceremoniously dropped into the middle of the city. We get gorgeous pre-war Brooklyn brownstones as the backdrop to a scene in which Indigo (Ajani Russell) is talking to her mom… but she’s wearing a mask under her chin. Because this time around it’s a very different New York. This time, when Camille (Rachelle Vinberg) grabs her ’board and the rest of the girls and tries to get some killer footage of their skills, she rides past George Floyd and BLM posters adhered to fences. And like Indigo, Camille and the rest of the crew are all wearing masks. Though the characters’ handling of COVID-19 throughout the season is a bit inconsistent (i.
Grace Gummer joins the
Lucifer season 5 part 2 has a trailer.
Emily in Paris season 2 is now in production.
IMDb TV orders new original shows.
Law and Order is getting yet another spin-off.
Deadline is reporting that
Michael Rapaport, an actor I don’t think I’ve seen in anything in a very long time, will star in a TV series about the “rise, fall and subsequent rise of famous shoe designer and entrepreneur Steve Madden.” Madden “took his company, which makes ?his eponymous shoe brand, from the fledgling startup he founded thirty years ago with a mere $1,100 to a global juggernaut,” but also ended up with a “criminal conviction and a prison sentence after his financial affairs got entangled with the brokerage house Stratton Oakmont, co-founded by Madden’s childhood friend Danny Porush.” Part of this story was actually covered in the Martin Scorsese movie