Must Watch This Weekend: Love Story, DTF: St. Louis
by Nora DominickBuzzFeedBuzzFeed StaffAs a Senior Talent Booker and Producer at BuzzFeed, you can typically catch me flailing about the buzziest TV shows and movies.
This week in Screen Time, we’ve got a Weekend Rec section with two shows you really need to add to your binge-watch list, namely Love Story, which wrapped its first season this week. I also dive into the BIG news about who will lead Bridgerton Season 5, including some of the best reactions from really excited fans, like me. Then, we’ve got what’s going on over on BuzzFeed Celeb’s YouTube channel, and I share the two TV episodes I’ve never been able to rewatch because they made me weep so hard the first time around.
Here's what the newsletter covered this week:
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DTF St. Louis — watch for: A show-stealing performance by Linda Cardellini
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Streaming on HBO Max; new episodes every Sunday
Starring Jason Bateman, David Harbour, and Linda Cardellini, DTF St. Louis is a new HBO limited series that follows a group of adults who are going through something many people experience: a midlife crisis. But when three of them fall into a love triangle, things get even more complicated. Especially when one of them ends up dead.
DTF St. Louis probably had one of my favorite first episodes of the year, that immediately hooked me. And from there, the show has continued to be a must-watch for me week after week. The show does a great job of blending hilarious comedy with really dark drama, basically the definition of a dark comedy series. While Bateman and Harbour are great in this, it’s Cardellini who steals the show. So much so, I think she’s a frontrunner for an Emmy nomination in the limited series category alongside Sarah Pidgeon (more on her next!). HBO always makes amazing limited series, and this one is no exception.
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Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette — watch for: Sarah Pidgeon's Emmy Award-worthy performance
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Streaming on Hulu and Disney+
The final episode of Love Story is now streaming, so it feels only right to once again highlight this show. If you’re someone that prefers a binge-watch over waiting weekly for episodes, then now is your time to catch up on a show that has mesmerized everyone. Created by Connor Hines (and executive produced by Ryan Murphy), Love Story follows the whirlwind romance and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. (Paul Anthony Kelly) and Carolyn Bessette (Sarah Pidgeon), who were one of the most high-profile celebrity couples of the late ‘90s. Over the course of nine episodes, the series charts JFK Jr. and Carolyn’s meeting and their early days, but also how much changed after their wedding, namely the press and paparazzi's critical obsession with Carolyn.
As the season has gone on, Pidgeon has proven time and time again why she’s one of the best up-and-coming actors right now. She’s a scene stealer. As Carolyn’s life deteriorates, Pidgeon has been able to handle it with so much nuance, leading into the tear-jerker of a season finale. Her transformation on screen has been incredible, and I cannot wait for her to be praised come awards season. If you finish the show and want to learn more about JFK Jr. and Carolyn, I recommend reading Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.
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Forbidden Fruits — watch for: A soon-to-be cult classic led brilliantly by Lili Reinhart
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In theaters now
Directed by Meredith Alloway and written by Alloway and Lily Houghton, Forbidden Fruits follows Apple (Lili Reinhart), who secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store where she works after hours. She's joined by her fellow "fruits" Cherry (Victoria Pedretti) and Fig (Alexandra Shipp). However, when new hire Pumpkin (Lola Tung) challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own secrets and poisons or succumb to, well, a bloody fate.
What can I say? I am a simple girl. I get a comedic horror movie with a bunch of female actors I adore? How can I not love it?! Led by a tremendous performance from Reinhart, I have no doubt this movie will become a cult favorite, similar to Jennifer’s Body. What this movie does best is how it can go from a cute friendship flick to full-on horror in a matter of seconds, and it’s thanks to a masterful first feature film directing job by Alloway, who leans on her all-star cast to make this movie really work on all levels.
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To celebrate the final season of Outlander, we had Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin, and John Bell, aka Brianna, Roger, and Ian, swing by for Buzz Bites. The show where they try American fast food items for the first time. In this episode, they tried several iconic items: Wendy’s chili cheese fries, Shake Shack’s cheese