We’re only about two months away from the premiere of season 3 of Issa Rae’s stellar show Insecure. HBO released the teaser on Sunday, which features Rae’s namesake protagonist breaking out her rapping alter-ego, Mirror Bitch. SOON.
This is a sobering Dirt Bag because there isn’t much gossip (I went online after a 24-hour hiatus and everything is about Tom Petty, even the news that’s not really about Tom Petty, RIP), and because, well, stars are just like us: they too occasionally do an appropriate thing when faced with heart-melting levels of…
An Us Weekly item, which refers to Rob Kardashian as “The Arthur George sock designer,” confirmed on Wednesday that Rob filed a lawsuit against his former fiancée Blac Chyna, alleging assault, battery, and vandalism.
Issa Rae is on a roll, obviously. Two days after the second season of her critically-acclaimed HBO show Insecure wrapped, the actress and showrunner announced she had landed a CoverGirl partnership, which includes an ad campaign.
Lawrence: Why a sweater in the middle of Los Angeles, in weather warm enough for Issa to be wearing a sundress?
Couples in real life don’t often get a shot at a relationship post-mortem. When they do, the conversation turns out awkward and resentful by design, though if you’re lucky it’s also reflective and full of perspective—it is, after all, a discussion about the end of a love that didn’t work—hence the title of Insecure’s…
In the beginning of Insecure’s Season 2 premiere last night, Molly sits across from her therapist and says with assurance, “I feel like I’m exactly where I should be in my career.” Because as disgruntled as Molly has been in the dating department, work is supposed to be a reliable, fulfilling escape for her, away from…
Bosco is the kind of young creative so many aspire to become. As a musician, the Atlanta-based singer and songwriter has released her songs without fear of experimentation, most notably on her 2015 EP Boy and Girls in the Yard, her 2016 collaboration with ATL DJ Speakerfoxxx, both excellent. (You might also have heard…
On Insecure, Issa Rae’s HBO comedy about black life and dating in Los Angeles, Yvonne Orji plays Molly, an ambitious, single lawyer with a hole in her heart like everyone else. The first season saw Molly warily dipping into the dating pool with little success and surviving a fractured friendship, while Season 2 finds…
Fuck Game of Thrones. This is all the prestige television I need.
I leave you with this very sweet Instagram video of Jay Ellis—who also plays a nice guy, Lawrence, on Issa Rae’s HBO series Insecure—going on and on about how much he loves Michaela Coel, the creator and star of Neflix’s Chewing Gum. But, like, really loves her.
At the start of Sunday night’s Insecure Season 1 finale, Issa has lost both her boyfriend and her best friend. By the end of an especially blue episode, the sense of normalcy she’s grasping for only returns in parts, and we’re all left crushed.
One Saturday night, at the Bell House in Brooklyn, Issa Rae stood in front of a room full of black people and told stories about ratchet rap. An extension of her RATCHETPIECE Theater video series, the show served as an homage to the rap songs essential to her youth. It took place two weeks before the premiere of her…
In a move that provide more evidence that Issa Rae’s Insecure might be the best new comedy of the fall television season, HBO has just released the show’s pilot—set to premiere October 9—on HBO Go, HBO Now, and HBO On Demand. And with that, it looks like I have at least half an hour of my weekend planned!
The first trailer for Issa Rae’s HBO series Insecure is finally here, after enduring the treacherous Hollywood pilot cycle. The show, a worthy follow-up to her popular web series The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl, premieres this fall.
Zoe Kazan has replaced Lisa Joyce as the lead in Max, Lena Dunham’s 1960s comedy pilot for HBO about a feminist magazine writer named Maxine Woodruff. Joyce left the lead to focus on her role in another upcoming HBO comedy — Issa Rae’s Insecure.
In the two years since Issa Rae landed a deal with HBO, her show, Insecure, had seemingly got stuck in pre-production purgatory. Good news, though: the cable network has ordered the half-hour comedy to series.
Issa Rae and her fans are playing the waiting game with her TV career, and much of the delay has to do with Hollywood’s cluelessness. In a new profile for The New York Times, Rae talked about the status of her HBO pilot and her struggles getting projects heard in the thick of whiteness.
