This week:
- Hacks is finally back to save us.
- Dream casting The White Lotus Season 4.
- The surprising celebrity feud that’s now over.
- Everyone needs to support Noah Wyle and The Pitt.
- This movie can’t be real…
Who Should Check in to The White Lotus?
The White Lotus finale aired, and everyone has thoughts and questions. Please, tell me more about your quibbles with this season and it being slow. You’re so cool, not liking this thing everyone else is obsessed over. Do you, like, smoke cigarettes and take your coffee black? (I’m so uncool that those are my go-to references for what would be cool.)
The producers and HBO are already thinking about Season 4. Therefore, so are we. This week, beyond suspecting that I should never let my father offer to make my family pina coladas again, the biggest question on my mind has been who should be cast in Season 4.
I’ve spent more time than I care to admit thinking about this cast list. Each person came to me like a deranged, pop-culture-pilled epiphany. I’d be on the subway: Calista Flockhart! Mid bite of the pizza I bought for dinner even though I’m on a diet: Michaela Watkins!! Having a conversation with a friend about who would be good on The White Lotus and they said Allison Williams: Allison Williams!
So, without knowing what the setting or theme of Season 4 will be, here is my random list of who I think would be great on the show:
Calista Flockhart
Taylor Schilling
Justina Machado
Rob Delaney
Molly Gordon
Allison Williams
Alison Tolman
Dan Stevens
Patricia Clarkson
Jack Reynor
Raul Castillo
Susan Kelechi-Watson
Michaela Watkins
Ncuti Gatwa
Laura Benanti
Andrew Barth Feldman
Erika Alexander
Jay Ellis
Catriona Balfe
Constance Wu
Abby Elliott
Manny Jacinto
HBO, I accept Venmo and Paypal, should you need my services as a casting consultant.
Peace Has Been Restored
There is a day in every gay man’s life where one of his elders has to sit him down and tell him the devastating, confusing news: Madonna and Elton John hated each other.
It didn’t make sense! It was so upsetting. The entire Pride Flag rainbow would blur in front of their eyes as they struggled to process the news.
This week, however, progress was made! In separate social media posts, the pop stars declared a truce.
Elton John responds to Madonna. https://t.co/NUS2VlUm6r pic.twitter.com/q8kyVho1M4
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 7, 2025
If Madonna and Elton John can find peace, maybe there’s hope for the rest of us.
A Prince Among Men
I hope you’ve been watching The Pitt. It is genuinely the most exciting new drama series I’ve watched in years. The season finale aired this week, so star Noah Wyle, who is also a producer and writer on the show, has been doing his dutiful press. But this tidbit about how he asked people to not be scrolling phones on the set and even started a library to help with that ask is just so charming.
Noah Wyle started a little set library for #ThePitt cause cell phones weren’t allowed and I think this is the hottest thing I’ve ever read??? https://t.co/AsEnymQPKX pic.twitter.com/HVfGNm8zIN
— Olivia Truffaut-Wong (@iWatchiAm) April 9, 2025
You Have to Be Kidding
Every day “this is like a 30 Rock joke” becomes less of a joke and more of our daily existence.
A ‘HERSHEY’S’ chocolate movie starring Alexandra Daddario & Finn Wittrock is in the works.Mark Waters (“Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday”) will direct. pic.twitter.com/p3zRnJbJgP
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) April 8, 2025
What to see this week:
Drop: Meghann Fahy makes everything worth watching. (Now in theaters)
Warfare: The most nerve-rattling war movie in years. (Now in theaters)
Your Friends & Neighbors: Jon Hamm is back on TV! Yay! (Now on Apple TV+)
What to skip this week:
G20: Even Viola Davis makes bad movies sometimes. (Now on Prime Video)
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