Awards season is in full swing | Pop Recap #30

Happy Sunday everyone!! Awards season is in full swing and there’s new news from the Oscars to the Tonys. Let’s get into it…

🗞️ Making Headlines

The NAACP Image Awards aired last night on BET and CBS. The show honored people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature. Check out the full list of winners here.

She’ll be defying gravity at Radio City Music Hall next! Grammy, Tony and Emmy award winning actress Cynthia Erivo has been announced as the host for the 78th Annual Tony Awards. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 8.

In the midst of the excitement from Saturday Night Live’s star-studded 50th anniversary special that aired last week, the show has shared its guests for episodes airing in March. Comedian Shane Gillis will host the March 1 episode, with musical guest Tate McRae. Lady Gaga will pull double-duty on March 8.

More presenters for this year’s Oscars ceremony have been announced. They include Selena Gomez, Joe Alwyn, Ben Stiller, Sterling K. Brown, Willem Dafoe, Ana de Armas, Lily-Rose Depp, Goldie Hawn, Connie Nielsen and Oprah Winfrey.

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In this edition...

• 🎥 On Screen

• 🎭 On Stage

• 🎵 In Music

• 💗 Pick of the Week

🎥 On Screen

• Amazon Prime’s Jury Duty is returning for a second season that has already been filmed! The reality series’ first season followed Ronald Gladden’s wild journey through jury duty, where everyone around him was a paid actor. This time, someone will be deceived while on a corporate retreat in Los Angeles.

• A new 9-1-1 series set in Nashville has been ordered at ABC.

🎭 On Stage

• Jordan Fisher is set to take over the leading role of Christian in Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway in a limited run beginning April 15.

• Producers of the A-list packed production of All In have revealed the play will have a sequel. All Out is set to premiere next season on Broadway.

🎵 In Music

• The lineup for this year’s Roots Picnic in Philadelphia, PA has been revealed! D’Angelo with The Roots, Meek Mill, Lenny Kravitz, GloRilla, Miguel, Tems, Lotto and Kaytranada are among those headlining the festival taking place May 31-June 1.

• Blackpink will be in your area once again! The K-pop girl group has announced their 2025 World Tour. They will play stadiums in 10 cities beginning in July.

• Tate McRae has released her new album So Close To What.

• Benson Boone has announced his new single “Sorry I’m Here For Someone Else” will release this Friday, February 28.

💗 Pick of the Week

The White Lotus, Season 3

After what feels like an eternity, The White Lotus is finally back for Season 3. I have been hooked on this show ever since it first premiered in 2021. Each season takes viewers to a different White Lotus resort property and puts a spotlight on the various characters who vacation there. But there’s a twist…someone always ends up dying. It’s a reveal that is shared in the first scene of each season, but you never know exactly who it is until the very end. What I love about the show, however, is that it isn’t a whodunit and more of a character exploration where circumstances coincidentally lead to a death. The show isn’t designed for constantly theorizing about who will die, it’s simply not the core of the story. If you focus only on the mystery element, you’ll probably miss the overarching thematic elements that writer/director Mike White includes throughout the show, whether its examining class divides and racial privilege or exploring lust and greed. With that being said, Season 1’s death was gut wrenching, while Season 2’s ending was absolutely sensational. I’m curious to see where we are headed this time.

Season 3 takes viewers to Thailand, and while the series is an anthology with new casts each time, there’s once again a familiar face. Belinda from Season 1, played by Natasha Rothwell, is back and I can’t wait to see how her story plays out. Rounding out the cast are Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, Aimee Lou Wood, Walton Goggins, Nicholas Duvernay and Lalisa Manobal.

I’m really curious what the overarching theme of this season will be, because the first episode has already implied that things are gonna get weird. Nevertheless, I can’t help but recommend this show because it’s just too good.

New episodes of The White Lotus air Sundays on HBO.

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xx Kat