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WEEK IN WOMEN: Anya Taylor-Joy gets LUCKY – Brandy McDonnell reports

July 7, 2026July 7, 2026 Brandy McDonnell anya taylor joy, Apple TV+, hello sunshine, limited series, lucky, reese witherspoon

Lucky, the much anticipated limited drama series starring Golden Globe Award winner, Screen Actors Guild Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Anya Taylor-Joy is coming this summer to Apple TV. Taylor-Joy also serves as executive producer. With a star-studded ensemble cast that also includes Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Drew Starkey, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Fichtner, Lucky will make its global debut on Apple TV with the first two episodes on Wednesday, July 15, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through Aug. 19. When a multi-million-dollar heist goes sideways, con artist Lucky (Taylor-Joy) is forced to go on the run. Pursued by both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss, Lucky must fight for her life — and a way out.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Laura Kittrell’s LEGALLY BLONDE prequel ELLE premiers on Prime in 240 countries – Brandy McDonnell reports

June 26, 2026June 27, 2026 Brandy McDonnell elle, hello sunshine, laura kittrell, legally blonde, Lexi Minetree, Prime Video, reese witherspoon

Created by Laura Kittrell, the prequel to the “Legally Blonde” movies will follow a younger version of Elle Woods, the beloved cinematic character famously originated by Reese Witherspoon. Ahead of the series’ debut, Prime Video has already ordered a second season. In the first season, the show follows the title character as a high school student, revealing the life experiences that shaped her into the iconic young woman audiences came to know and love in the first “Legally Blonde” film. Elle is co-showrun and executive produced by Kittrell and Caroline Dries. Witherspoon, Lauren Neustadter, and Marc Platt and Amanda Brown also serve as executive producers. Jason Moore (“Pitch Perfect”) directed the first two episodes of the first season and also serves as an executive producer.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Anya Taylor-Joy’s LUCKY Comes to Apple TV+ – Brandy McDonnell reports

March 3, 2025March 9, 2025 Brandy McDonnell anya taylor joy, Apple TV+, hello sunshine, lucky, reese witherspoon, reese's book club, the week in women, twiw

Apple TV+ will expand its award-winning original series lineup with Lucky, a new limited drama set to star Golden Globe Award winner, SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Anya Taylor-Joy, who will also serve as executive producer. For Taylor-Joy, Lucky will mark her return to a streaming series after her breakout in Netflix’s 2020 drama “The Queen’s Gambit.” Additionally, Apple teamed up with Taylor-Joy for the high-action, genre-bending recently released original film The Gorge.

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s SURFACE (Season 2) debutes on Apple TV+ – Brandy McDonnell reports

February 14, 2025February 14, 2025 Brandy McDonnell Apple TV+, brandy mcdonnell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, reese witherspoon, series, Surface, twiw, Veronica West, week in women

Season 2 of the globally acclaimed psychological thriller Surface, starring and executive produced by Gugu Mbatha-Raw premieres globally on Apple TV+ on Feb. 21. Created by Veronica West, the first season debuted in 2022 and was set in high-end San Francisco. “Surface” stars Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show) as Sophie, a woman who has suffered a traumatic head injury that has left her with extreme memory loss, believed to be a result of a suicide attempt. In the freshman season, Sophie embarked on a quest to put the pieces of her life back together with the help of her husband and friends, and she started to question whether or not the truth she was being told was in fact the truth she had lived.

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YOU’RE CORDIALLY INVITED – Review by Susan Granger

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 Susan Granger amazon, Geraldine viswanathan, Nick Stoller, reese witherspoon, will ferrell, You’re Cordially Invited

For years, studio strategy included releasing a star-studded romantic comedy for Valetine’s Day weekend. But Amazon’s Will Ferrell/Reese Witherspoon You’re Cordially Invited is a dismal mess. Written and directed by Nick Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), it’s simply one of the world’s worst wedding comedies, despite memorable turns from some of the cast.

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THE MORNING SHOW Season 3 – Review by Susan Granger

July 17, 2024July 20, 2024 Susan Granger Charlotte Stoudt, drama series, emmys, jennifer aniston, Jon Hamm, reese witherspoon, The Morning Show

With 16 Emmy nominations, The Morning Show has finally become a major contender in the 2024 Drama Series race as showrunner Charlotte Stoudt catapulted it into the modern-day media crisis era with its 10-episode third season. New York City-based anchorwomen Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) are now on very different paths. What will become of compelling former UBA CEO Cory Ellison (Billy Crudup) who over-leveraged the company but was fired because of his questionable romantic relationship with Bradley? And will there be a place for Bradley’s now-ex, NBN anchor Laura Peterson (Julianna Margulies)?

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WEEK IN WOMEN: Aniston/Witherspoon’s MORNING SHOW sets Season Three Premiere – Brandy McDonnell reports

August 12, 2023August 13, 2023 Brandy McDonnell Apple TV+, Billy Crudup, Charlotte Stoudt, Greta Lee, jennifer aniston, Jon Hamm, julianna margulies, Karen Pittman, mark duplass, Mimi Leder, Nestor Carbonell, nicole beharie, Nicole Beharie and Julianna Margulies, reese witherspoon, The Morning Show, the week in women, twiw

Apple TV+ will premiere next month the highly anticipated third season of The Morning Show, starring and executive produced by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. In Season 3, the future of the network is thrown into question and loyalties are pushed to the brink when a tech titan takes an interest in UBA. Unexpected alliances form, private truths are weaponized, and everyone is forced to confront their core values both in and out of the newsroom. The Emmy-, SAG- and Critics Choice Award-winning drama, which has already received an early renewal for Season 4, is directed and executive produced by Mimi Leder.

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING – Review by Martha K Baker

July 18, 2022July 21, 2022 Martha K. Baker (Archived Contributor) Daisy Edgar-Jones, Delia Owens, lucy alibar, olivia newman, reese witherspoon, Taylor Swift, Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing includes sex, shells, and snots and the Piggly Wiggly. It’s the story of a determined woman, shot and written by same. Director Olivia Newman handily flips the plots, back and forth, through the Sixties in the South, placing nature front and center to tell this story of Kya, a natural naturalist.

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING – Review by Susan Granger

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Susan Granger Daisy Edgar-Jones, Delia Owens, lucy alibar, olivia newman, reese witherspoon, Taylor Swift, Where the Crawdads Sing

It’s a courtroom drama/murder mystery/ coming-of-age saga/ romance. Unfortunately, as adapted by Luci Alibar, directed by Olivia Newman, photographed by Polly Morgan and produced by Reese Witherspoon, it’s become disappointingly banal, evoking memories of sappy Nicholas Sparks’ novels – with an original song “Carolina,” written and performed by Taylor Swift.

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WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING – Review by T. J. Callahan

July 12, 2022July 16, 2022 T. J. Callahan Daisy Edgar-Jones, Delia Owens, lucy alibar, olivia newman, reese witherspoon, Taylor Swift, Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing is based on the wildly popular novel set in the 1950’s and 60’s that tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself in the rural swampland of North Carolina. Known as the Marsh Girl around the nearby town, she haunts the community in more ways than one. This largely female helmed production has all the elements of a fulfilling summer fling.

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