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During its celebrated eight-season run, critics and audiences alike were certainly high on Showtime's Weeds. Starring Mary-Louise Parker in one of her most acclaimed performances, along with Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Perkins, and Kevin Nealon in supporting turns, this darkly comedic series from Weeds 4.20, which is now in development. With the announcement of this decade-later continuation, we asked ourselves, "What is the Weeds cast doing now?" Let's take a look and find out! Mary-Louise Parker (Nancy Botwin) As Nancy Botwin, a PTA soccer mom who maintains her upper-middle-class lifestyle by...

‘Amplifying Black Voices in Hollywood’ Debuts DMD Speaker Series A focus on topics ranging from lack of Black representation on writing staffs to the distorted perspectives of TV crime dramas. The program on Friday, Feb. 19, is the first in the 2021 speakers series. (Image courtesy of the Department of Digital Media and Design). Copy Link UConn’s Digital Media & Design Department will host the inaugural event in its Diverse Perspectives in Digital Media & Design: 2021 Speaker Series with “Amplifying Black Voices in Hollywood” on Friday, Feb. 19 from 1 to 8 p.m....

In 2003’s The Corporation, B.C. filmmakers Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott warned us that if the modern corporation was put through a psychological assessment, it’d be diagnosed a psychopath. In 2020, they returned with a sequel that admits an awful truth: the psychopaths won. The New Corporation recaps the ensuing years of economic collapses and global decay, even incorporating COVID-19 into its narrative as both a technical obstacle to be worked through and the inevitable result of corporate disregard for public health. (And yes, this anti-corporate exposé counts Rogers and Bell among...

GLEN WELDON, HOST: "Lupin" - or if you want to get technical, "Lupin" - is a smart and twisty French series that's new to Netflix. It's about a young Parisian man named Assane who molds his life on classic French tales about a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise named Arsene Lupin AISHA HARRIS, BYLINE: There's more to it, of course. Assane is the son of a Senegalese immigrant who died after being accused of a crime. We soon learn that what's really driving Assane's intricately plotted criminal adventures is a desire for revenge. I'm Aisha Harris. WELDON: And I'm Glen Weldon. An...