This Week in Pop Culture: ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘True Detective’, and More
There have been a bunch of pop culture announcements, trailers, and news this week – let’s catch up, shall we?
News
- Godzilla actor Akira Takarada has died
- Pixar released a statement about Disney censoring LGBTQA+ content
- True Detective is getting 4th season with Barry Jenkins at the helm
- The Batman continues to dominate the box office
- Ted Lasso and the team celebrate Red Nose Day
- A visual history of House Targaryen is on the way
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Trailers:
Parallels – Disney+ March 23rd
Four teenage friends’ lives turn upside down by an experiment of the LHC, the world’s biggest particle collider.
The Flight Attendant Season 2 – HBOMax April 21st
Cassie Bowden (Kaley Cuoco) is living her best sober life in Los Angeles while moonlighting as a CIA asset in her spare time. But when an overseas assignment leads her to inadvertently witness a murder, she becomes entangled in another international intrigue.
Gaslit – Starz April 24th
Gaslit is a modern take on Watergate that focuses on the untold stories and forgotten characters of the scandal. The story will center on Martha Mitchell. A big personality with an even bigger mouth. Martha is a celebrity Arkansan socialite and wife to Nixon’s loyal Attorney General, John Mitchell, played by Sean Penn. Despite her party affiliation, she’s the first person to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon’s involvement in Watergate, causing both the Presidency and her personal life to unravel.
We Own This City – HBO April 25th
“We Own This City” focuses on the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work”
Candy – Hulu My 9th
Candy Montgomery is a 1980 housewife and mother who did everything right—good husband, two kids, nice house, even the careful planning and execution of transgressions—but when the pressure of conformity builds within her, her actions scream for just a bit of freedom. With deadly results.
