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Netflix's The Knight Before Christmas Could Get a Sequel


The Knight Before Christmas is probably the most anticipated film in Netflix‘s holiday movie arsenal, and it finally dropped today. If you already watched the Vanessa Hudgens-led rom-com, then you probably saw the end-credits scene in which Sir Cole’s brother, Geoffrey (played by Harry Jarvis), is approached by the same witch who transported Cole from 1334 to the present day. So does this mean we’re getting a
sequel? Well, the film’s director, Monika Mitchell, isn’t ruling it out.

If you haven’t seen the movie, though, here’s a quick recap: A science teacher, Brooke (Hudgens), meets a medieval knight named Sir Cole (Josh Whitehouse), who a witch has magically transported from medieval times to 2019. Flirty banter and baking ensue, and eventually they fall in love. During the credits, we see one last scene of the witch talking to Geoffrey while holding a shining medallion. This clearly means The Second Knight Before Christmas is coming, right?

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Well, maybe. “Of course I can see a sequel,” Mitchell tells Glamour. “I think Harry Jarvis is definitely involved because the [witch] is there to present him with yet another medallion. We don’t know who’s coming back through time. We don’t know if he’s gonna go visit his brother. We don’t know if Josh and Vanessa would come back and help him out. Maybe some other young lady comes back through time. We’ll have to see what the audience responds to.”

Audience, this is your cue: Start responding and get this sequel started. From Mitchell’s quote, a second movie probably wouldn’t focus on Brooke and Sir Cole again, but it could offer an update on where they are. For now, Hudgens is busy making a sequel to The Princess Switch, but fingers crossed both she and these knights in shining armor are down for some more time-traveling magic.

The Knight Before Christmas is now streaming on Netflix.



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Netflix's The Politician Review: It's a Hilarious Mix of Glee, Scream Queens, and, The Act


“I love to take bites out of the very confrontational nature of Payton and the over-confidence and the sort of lack of empathy and lack of regard for anyone else’s motives and feelings, because I’m very much not like that,” Platt tells Glamour about his character, who, at one point in the pilot, literally ponders whether or not he’s a sociopath. “It was delicious to play someone who is so headstrong and walks into a room and believes he’s the best person in the room.”

Boynton has similar feelings about playing the antagonistic Astrid. “She can be such a powerhouse and power presence, and I love those moments,” she says. “That happens mostly at her worst, and I love that part of her. I love playing Astrid at her most aggressive. She has such a presence and is not in the slightest afraid to take up space in the room.”

That aspect of The Politician is definitely refreshing. The female characters on the show—whether that’s Astrid, Dusty, or Georgina—aren’t concerned with being “likable.” They have elections to win, scams to execute, or mansions to iconically glide around. These women aren’t necessarily realistic, but they’re not idealized, either. They’re self-indulgent, over-the-top, occasionally villainous, and always entertaining. Think Chanel Oberlin from Scream Queens after 15 espresso shots.

Which, again, isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The Politician paints its characters boldly and with broad strokes. It’s satirical and cynical and, at times, a bit dark. That aforementioned tragic event is truly devastating—and while it’s given the reverence it deserves, the pilot moves quickly back to Payton and Astrid’s win-at-all-costs antics. There’s not a ton of emotional nuance and sensitivity in The Politician. Know that before going in.

Ben Platt as Payton in The Politician.

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There are, however, several parallels to another Murphy classic: Glee. Payton could easily be the younger brother of Rachel Berry, McKinley High School’s show-choir all-star who was determined to make it on Broadway. “Payton definitely has that blind Rachel Berry, I will get it by all means necessary [motto],” Platt says.

That being said, Glee was a polarizing show, and The Politician will undoubtedly be too. It currently has a 55 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so critics are pretty much down the middle. What ultimately will determine your taste for The Politician is your opinion on Ryan Murphy content. This isn’t one of his made-for-the-masses productions, like American Crime Story. His humor and brand are written all over this, in its most extreme forms. Personally, I loved it. Some will hate it. Regardless, I think you should give at least the pilot a whirl—if anything to see Gwyneth Paltrow prune flowers in full glam. I could watch nine hours of that alone.



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Netflix's Falling Inn Love Leans Into Being a Sappy Rom-Com—and You'll Love Every Minute


“[Movies like Falling Inn Love] are good water-cooler conversation,” she says. “They bring about these good conversations that just randomly happen and trickle out to other people.The word-of-mouth of it all makes you feel kind of cool. Like, ‘I knew about this before,’ or ‘I’m in the same conversation because I watched it too.'”

And if people do watch, they’ll find the movie subverts stereotypes despite being an unapologetic rom-com. Gabriela is a particularly refreshing character; instead of retreating or recoiling after her life in San Francisco implodes, she travels to the other side of the world. That side of the character really resonated with Milian when she read the script.

“In most rom-coms, it’s sometimes a girl who’s going back home to her old life; in this situation she’s not going to anything she’s ever known,” the actor says. “She’s going completely into the unknown.”

“Gabriela is a risk-taker,” she continues. “She didn’t let anything bring her down, and from the beginning of the script she was a go-getter. She’s self-sufficient. She’s realizing some of her dreams and how maybe everything is not landing where she’d like it to be. Sometimes, I think, life is about having these evolutions where you’re like, ‘No, I’m not OK with being stagnant and being in one place.'”

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At its core, Falling Inn Love isn’t meant to be taken seriously. From the far-fetched premise to Jake’s laughably palpable sex appeal—I found myself screaming, “Just take your shirt off!” several times—it has the DNA of your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie. Milian agrees, noting the only difference, really, is the season. Exhibit A: Jake and Gabriela cuddle and flirt over cold beers in this movie, not hot chocolate.

“I don’t know if there’s anything unlikable about rom-coms,” Milian says. “Keep showing the muscles on the guys. Give me more muscles. Give me more bickering. Give me more hot chocolate. I love it all. There’s nothing I wouldn’t take away from any romantic comedy.”

That said, Milan does want viewers take a lot away from Falling Inn Love. Nothing serious, of course, but she would like it to become a staple in people’s rom-com rituals. “I hope they like it enough they want to watch it over and over again,” she says. “I love making movies that become family traditions or something people go back to. I hope Falling Inn Love is that type of film.”



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People Think Netflix's New Show Ginny & Georgia Will Be the Next Gilmore Girls


Have you been missing the quick, clever, pop culture-tinged mother-daughter banter of the Gilmore Girls as much as we have? Well, it sounds like Netflix may have just found a suitable replacement for Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel): Ginny & Georgia.

Deadline reports that the streaming platform has ordered 10 episodes of a show called Ginny & Georgia, and it seems to have a lot of Gilmore Girls DNA, which makes us excited.

Here’s the gist on the story: It’s about 15-year-old Ginny Miller (Antonia Gentry) and her 30-year-old mother, Georgia (Brianne Howy). We’re already seeing the resemblance here, but Deadline also notes that the awkward teen often feels more mature than her mother, who is described as “irresistible and dynamic.” Sound familiar?

Not as familiar as the show’s next plot point: According to Deadline, Georgia, keen on giving Ginny a more stable life, relocates their family to a gorgeous New England town. It’s there where they navigate a new prestigious school and romances, both for mother and daughter.

So let’s recap: We have a great mother-daughter duo who aren’t super far apart in age (like the Gilmores), a New England setting (ahem, Stars Hollow), and a prestigious school (like Chilton). There’s even a local farm-to-table restaurant owner who sounds an awful lot like Luke. There are some differences, of course, including a younger brother for Ginny. But the parallels are undeniable. We bet Ginny and Georgia are big coffee fans, too.

People online are already having strong reactions to the show. “Soooo gilmore girls but with a twist?,” one Twitter user wrote. Another said, “Sounds like Gilmore girls but edgier.”

Ginny & Georgia is currently in production. We’ll have to wait until the show debuts in 2020 to find out how similar it actually is to Gilmore Girls, but color us intrigued.



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Everything We Know About Netflix's The Baby-Sitters Club Series


Long before they were trying to decide who was a Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, or Samantha in a friend group, many women of a certain age labeled themselves as Kristys, Dawns, Mary Annes, Staceys, or Claudias—all thanks to the massively popular The Baby-Sitters Club books by Ann M. Martin, the first of which was published in 1986. The books follow the lives of a group of young friends who start a baby-sitting service and all the ups and downs of their lives and business.

So today is a very happy day for fans of the novels as Netflix has just announced that it is turning them into a series starring Alicia Silverstone. With over 200 books currently in publication, the streaming platform will certainly not lack for source material for storylines.

No word yet how—if at all—this new series will nod to the 1995 film version of The Baby-Sitters Club, which starred Rachael Leigh Cook, Schuyler Fisk, Larisa Oleynik, Bre Blair, Stacy Linn Ramsower, Zelda Harris, and Tricia Joe in the lead roles.

A scene from the 1995 movie version of The Baby-Sitters Club

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While we don’t have a ton of details yet, here’s everything we know so far.

1. The release date. Netflix hasn’t announced the streaming date, but according to a press release the service has ordered 10 episodes.

2. The location. Just like the books, the show will take place in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut.

3. The cast. The actors playing Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill, and Dawn Schafer have not been announced. However, we do know that Alicia Silverstone will play Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, the mother of Kristy Thomas, and Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein will play her love interest, Watson Brewer.

Alicia Silverstone attends the 2018 Glamour Women Of The Year Awards
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People Are Freaking Out Over Netflix's New Thriller, Secret Obsession


Warning: Spoilers ahead.

Among the many great shows and movies that Netflix has released this summer, Secret Obsession might be the wildest ride.

The movie, which takes a page out of the Lifetime and You playbooks, tells the story of Jennifer (Brenda Song), who wakes up in the hospital after an attack and doesn’t remember who she’s married to. Luckily (lol!) her “husband,” Russell (Mike Vogel), is there to nurse her back to health in their mansion in the middle of freaking nowhere. But we soon learn that Russell is a totally nefarious stalker-type who has murdered Jennifer’s loved ones and is basically holding her captive.

She eventually figures out what is going on, as does a police detective played by former 24 president and current Allstate spokesman, Dennis Haysbert, and things get even more tense, violent, and dramatic.

People on social media had a lot to say as they discovered the drama over the weekend. They also had some questions. “Just watched #SecretObsession and all I can think of is, why TF he thought he can mess with Wendy Wu Homecoming Warrior, and get away with it?” one user wrote, referencing Song’s 2006 Disney movie. “Bitch brought down Yan-Lo, an ancient evil spirit; ain’t no basic white guy with photoshop skills gunna do a damn thing to her.”

Another thought the trailer gave away too much, writing, “#SecretObsession would have been so much better had the trailer not TOLD THE WHOLE STORY. Like I would have bought it all and been so surprised at the end but ?”

And seriously, that is a lot of eggs.

Flaws, plot holes, and a detective’s missing daughter who gets brought up once and then never again notwithstanding, we hope Secret Obsession is a sign that Netflix is going all in on the soapy psychodramas in much the same way they did rom-coms last year. The limit does not exist for how many of these movies we can (and will) watch.



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