Carly Lane-Perry
Senior TV editor @ Collider. Romance nerd @ Vulture. TCA member. Author of A REGENCY GUIDE TO MODERN LIFE from DK Books. She/her. Subscribe to my Kissing Books newsletter: kissing-books.ghost.io
- Hanging out at the Apple TV Press Day today (some arguably great shows incoming this year), but a personal highlight might just be Jennifer Garner having to explain the definition of “competency porn” to everyone
- Specifically, she used the example of Noah Wyle on The Pitt to explain why we all love watching characters who are good at doing things, which: agreed!
- Also got to ask a question for Vince Gilligan about the status of Pluribus Season 2 (it’s actively being written), and I wish I had a photo of the moment when the entire cast panel (Rhea, Karolina, Samba, and Carlos-Manuel) all leaned in intently for the answer
- Obviously, we all gasped at Benedict’s oblivious-man offer to Sophie, but I really enjoyed reading this piece about why, given the circumstances, saying yes wouldn’t have been the worst possible answer.
- All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again
- See also: weekly episode drops on streaming!
- The way I literally thought about resuming my Maiden Lane readthrough just yesterday
- Spoke briefly with Tom Hiddleston and Diego Calva about #TheNightManager Season 2 finale, Teddy's evolution from antagonist to surprising antihero, and what that ending sets up for Pine heading into a third season:
- Finished rereading Wuthering Heights in anticipation of Fennell's adaptation, and two things are abundantly clear
- The book is compellingly full of terrible people, but Catherine and Heathcliff are distinct in the sense that they should've just run off together instead of making their destructive relationship everyone else's problem
- What I keep coming back to, though, is Heathcliff's very specific burial request in light of a certain grave scene in Saltburn — so now I'm thoroughly unsurprised that Fennell wanted to adapt this
- Rolling out a few more interviews for #ThePitt Season 2 in the coming weeks, including my chat with Shabana Azeez and Fiona Dourif about that "Dr. J" TikTok account, McKay's potential new romance, and more from the first four episodes:
- Never mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college: 1. Women’s Lit 2. Sociology of Gender 3. Linguistics 4. Writing for TV and Film 5. Creative Writing: Fiction
- (In case you couldn’t tell, I was an English lit major with a creative writing concentration.)
- Spoke with Supriya Ganesh and Taylor Dearden about Mohan's patient healthcare crisis, Mel's deposition anxiety, the show's most (ahem) impressive prosthetic yet, and more from the first four episodes of #ThePitt Season 2:
- I profiled Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's return to the superhero genre with #WonderMan, how he's learned to push past his own acting nerves, why his current definition of success means turning off his phone and walking his new dog, and more:
