Filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee has long considered how he’d wrap up the stories of “The Best Man” crew — Lance (Morris Chestnut), Shelby (Melissa De Sousa), Harper (Taye Diggs), Candace (Regina Hall), Quentin (Terrence Howard), Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), Jordan (Nia Long) and Murch (Harold Perrineau). And after two box-office blockbuster movies, the creator/executive producer/co-showrunner confirms that “The Best Man: The Final Chapters” is really the end.
“I don’t have any other story to tell with this friend group. I want to finish what I started,” Lee told Variety, as he prepared to debut the first footage from the limited series during the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival earlier this month.
“When the first ‘Best Man’ [came out in 1999], I definitely had no intention of doing a sequel, but if I did it was gonna be 10 years later, when they had a chance to live some life,” he says,...
“I don’t have any other story to tell with this friend group. I want to finish what I started,” Lee told Variety, as he prepared to debut the first footage from the limited series during the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival earlier this month.
“When the first ‘Best Man’ [came out in 1999], I definitely had no intention of doing a sequel, but if I did it was gonna be 10 years later, when they had a chance to live some life,” he says,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
“The Americans,” Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg’s previous show for FX, built tension according to a methodical pace. Its pleasures lay in a rigorous willingness to delay catharsis; Fields and Weisberg’s team of writers seemed actively to resist giving viewers quick and easy satisfaction, preferring to build scenes, episodes and arcs that stretched out according to their own rhythms.
And their follow-up series, “The Patient,” an FX production airing exclusively on Hulu, suggests that success has prompted them to lean so far into this method that they’ve lost balance. A languorous 10 episodes are spent telling a story that might have, in another era, made for a tidy 90-minute movie. The collision of Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson as, respectively, a therapist and the subject who kidnaps him, seems so hopelessly insoluble — with Gleeson’s character demanding a cure for his beyond-repair psyche — that many viewers will likely...
And their follow-up series, “The Patient,” an FX production airing exclusively on Hulu, suggests that success has prompted them to lean so far into this method that they’ve lost balance. A languorous 10 episodes are spent telling a story that might have, in another era, made for a tidy 90-minute movie. The collision of Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson as, respectively, a therapist and the subject who kidnaps him, seems so hopelessly insoluble — with Gleeson’s character demanding a cure for his beyond-repair psyche — that many viewers will likely...
- 8/22/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
There have been rumblings that Jenelle is joining Teen Mom: The Next Chapter. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Re/Westcom/StarMaxWorldwide
With the premiere of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter around the corner, viewers have been wondering whether Jenelle Evans will make a return to MTV.
The casts of Teen Mom Og and Teen Mom 2 will join forces for the new spinoff, The Next Chapter. The eight moms participating in the spinoff are Amber Portwood, Maci Bookout, Cheyenne Floyd, Catelynn Baltierra from Teen Mom Og, and from Teen Mom 2 are Briana DeJesus, Leah Messer, Ashley Jones, and Jade Cline.
Rumors have been swirling about Jenelle returning to the network that fired her in 2019 after her husband, David Eason, shot and killed their family dog, following a slew of other controversies.
As reported by Monsters and Critics, the trailer for Teen Mom: The Next Chapter (Tmtnc) has been released and teased an appearance by Jenelle.
With the premiere of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter around the corner, viewers have been wondering whether Jenelle Evans will make a return to MTV.
The casts of Teen Mom Og and Teen Mom 2 will join forces for the new spinoff, The Next Chapter. The eight moms participating in the spinoff are Amber Portwood, Maci Bookout, Cheyenne Floyd, Catelynn Baltierra from Teen Mom Og, and from Teen Mom 2 are Briana DeJesus, Leah Messer, Ashley Jones, and Jade Cline.
Rumors have been swirling about Jenelle returning to the network that fired her in 2019 after her husband, David Eason, shot and killed their family dog, following a slew of other controversies.
As reported by Monsters and Critics, the trailer for Teen Mom: The Next Chapter (Tmtnc) has been released and teased an appearance by Jenelle.
- 8/17/2022
- by Mona Wexler
- Monsters and Critics
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