Weekend Watch — 12/16/22
"Kindred" the series + baking with opinionated grannies + wickedly talented Idina Menzel hits MSG...FINALLY!
Happy Friday, GALs! The weekend's here and you know what that means, right? Time to sit back, take a breath, and catch up with what’s on our watch list — LET’S GO!
Here are this week’s picks:
Which Way to the Stage (Disney +) — filmmaker Anne McCabe follows Tony award-winning actress and singer, Idina Menzel on a national tour over the course of 16 shows as she juggles the challenges of being a working mom with a grueling travel schedule, all while preparing finally to realize her dream: headlining a concert at Madison Square Garden in her hometown of New York City
Capote (Amazon Prime) — The late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman won the 2005 Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Truman Capote as he feverishly wrote: “In Cold Blood.” During his research for his book, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.
Baking It | Season 2 (Peacock) — Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler are back in this holiday competition series in which eight teams of two talented home bakers join Maya and Andy’s winter cabin for a celebration of culinary holiday traditions. The Opinionated Grannies — Nana Harriet, Grandma Anne, Gigi Sherri and Bubbe Norma — are all back as judges and they’re all funny as hell.
Kindred | Season 1 (Hulu) — This series is based on the highly acclaimed 1979 novel of the same name, by the celebrated sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler. A young Black woman and aspiring writer Dana James (Mallori Johnson) begins to settle in her new home, she finds herself being pulled back and forth in time, emerging at a nineteenth-century plantation and confronting secrets she never knew ran through her blood.
1923 (Paramount+) — Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford and Timothy Dolton star in this Yellowstone spinoff. 1923 focuses on the Dutton family's next two generations as they struggle to survive historic drought, lawlessness and Prohibition, and an epidemic of cattle theft; all battled beneath the cloud of Montana's great depression, which preceded the nation by almost a decade.
After reading your Weekend Watch email today, I clicked on the next message in my inbox and found this trove of goodies about Octavia Butler from Library of America -- an article about Butler, a video discussion with Kindred screenwriter/showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and links to several other related books and articles. Wanted to share in case other TueNighters are interested: https://email.loa.org/t/i-e-qidurhy-tikruduhdl-td/
If someone recommended this before, forgive me, but Bad Sisters on Apple TV is a must watch! Totally addictive and featuring my crush Daryl McCormack from Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.