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It’s been an Eternity since we’ve had a romantic comedy like this.

Eternity, a fantasy rom-com from A24, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September before opening in theaters in November.

Hailing from director David Freyne, with a script by Freyne and Pat Cunnane, Eternity stars Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, and Callum Turner in a scenario that seems a bit like The Lobster meets Defending Your Life. The trailer is out now:

Here’s everything you need to know about this love triangle with a twist.

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Eternity is set in a retrofuturist purgatory that resembles New York’s Twa Hotel, where recently deceased souls wait to depart for where they’ll spend the rest of time. It follows three people who are faced with the most consequential decision of their (after)lives.

Here’s the official description: “In an afterlife where...

‘Eternity” is a new fantasy ‘rom-com’, directed by David Freyne, starring Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, John Early and Olga Merediz, with distribution Tba:

“…after death, everybody gets one week to choose where to spend eternity. For ‘Joan’, ‘Larry’ and ‘Luke’, it's really a question of who to spend it with.

“Now, Joan must choose between her first love who got away or the man she built her life with…”

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A24 has released the first official trailer for their upcoming fantasy romantic comedy Eternity, which stars Marvel fan favorite Elizabeth Olsen as a woman named Joan who must decide whether to spend the afterlife with her longtime husband Larry (Miles Teller), who she built her life with, or her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), who died in a war when she was young.

The film's synopsis reads, "In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive."

With the likes of Olsen, Teller and Turner leading the cast, Eternity should be one of the buzziest titles set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month, and could be in for a solid box office run in the Fall.

A24 has released the trailer for its romantic comedy ‘Eternity’ ahead of its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie centres in an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity. Elizabeth Olsen plays Joan, a woman faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

Directed by David Freyne, Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick), Callum Turner (Fantastic Beasts), Olga Merediz (Encanto), John Early (Search Party) and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) also star.

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The movie hits U.S. cinemas in November.

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La nueva película de David Freyne propone una comedia romántica en el más allá. © A24

A24 ha desvelado el primer tráiler y póster de la película Eternity, dirigida por David Freyne (Dating Amber).

Ambientada en un limbo donde las almas disponen de una semana para decidir dónde pasar la eternidad, Eternity sigue a Joan (Elizabeth Olsen), quien se enfrenta a la elección imposible entre el hombre con el que pasó su vida (Miles Teller) y su primer amor (Callum Turner), que murió joven y ha esperado décadas a que ella llegara.

El reparto de la rom-com, que tendrá su estreno mundial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto, está encabezado por Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller y Callum Turner. Completan el reparto John Early (Search Party), Olga Merediz (En un barrio de Nueva York) y Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Los que se quedan).

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Elizabeth Olsen's newest film sees supernatural and romance uniquely combine as the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Scarlet Witch actor casts a spell on multiple men. The upcoming A24 thriller, Eternity, drops its first trailer as Olsen, Callum Turner and Miles Teller look for love in the afterlife.

A24 released the Eternity trailer on Jul. 29, starting with Teller's Larry on a train gradually realizing that he's in the afterlife when he spots some unusual passengers. When he famiiarizes himself with his new surroundings, he reunites with the woman he built his life with, Joan (Olsen), before they died. However, as Joan gets reacquainted with Larry, she soon runs into Luke (Turner), her first love who got away, leading to a divine love triangle full of conflicting emotions.

Helmed by David Freyne, Eternity sees the souls in the afterlife given one week to decide where they want to spend their lives in the great beyond.

In the A24 film Eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is a woman of her word. When she married her husband Larry (Miles Teller), the phrase “till death do us part” meant something to her. It meant something to her first husband Luke (Callum Turner), too, but his life being claimed while he was away at war assured it was a short-lived agreement. What Joan didn’t anticipate, however, was that her promise to both men would extend to the afterlife.

In the latest Eternity trailer, Larry arrives at the junction, essentially...

The trailer for the upcoming A24 rom-com Eternity has arrived and it puts Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, and Callum Turner into a love triangle in the afterlife.

In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Teller) and her first love (Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

Also starring in the movie, directed by David Freyne, are John Early, Olga Merediz, and Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

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Eternity doesn’t have an official release date yet, but A24 says the film will hit theaters in November 2025.

It was recently announced that Elizabeth will be starring in a new vampire movie with Kristen Stewart, and no, it’s not a Twilight film!

You die and end up in heaven, forced to choose which of your two dead husbands to spend eternity with. In A24’s Eternity, it’s Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision) who is given the unenviable task of picking to spend her afterlife with either Miles Teller (The Gorge) or Callum Turner (Masters of the Air).

The romantic comedy with a twist also stars John Early, Olga Merediz, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. David Freyne directs and co-wrote the screenplay with Pat Cunnane.

“In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive,” reads A24’s synopsis.

Eternity will premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival before opening in theaters in November 2025.

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This past weekend's San Diego Comic-Con was one of the worst in recent memory for news (most studios release their trailers before the event), but there are still lots of interesting tidbits floating around for fans of the MCU and Dcu.

We'll start this roundup with a new social post from Superman director James Gunn. The horrifying Mr. Handsome—who acted as Lex Luthor's slave in his pocket universe—has intrigued fans, with some speculating that he might be a White Martian, for example.

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"A lot has happened in a week! You died! I died! I've just been reunited with both of my dead husbands. And I have to pick where to spend eternity?!" Yep, that sounds like quite the conundrum. A24 has unveiled the first official trailer for an afterlife romantic comedy called Eternity, made by filmmaker David Freyne. This will premiere at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival this fall before it hits theaters later in the year. In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend their eternity, Joan is faced with an impossible choice – deciding between the man she spent her life with (Larry), and her first love, a man who died young in a war and has waited decades for her to arrive there. Adorable. Starring Miles Teller, Callum Turner, and Elizabeth Olsen as the lovers trio. Along with John Early, Betty Buckley, and the delightful Oscar winner Da'Vine Joy Randolph.

A trailer has been revealed for Eternity. This upcoming film is an A24 movie described as a fantasy comedy. It takes place in an afterlife where newly formed souls get one week to decide where to spend eternity. This leaves one spirit woman, Joan, in a sticky situation as she has to choose between her long-term partner and first love.

Joan is played by WandaVision's Elizabeth Olsen. Her two potential soul-mates are Callum Turner and Miles Teller, with a supporting cast that includes Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Betty Buckley, John Early, and Jeff Sanca. The movie is directed by David Freyne and is set for release this fall.

Now, A24 has revealed the first full trailer for Eternity. The film starts with Teller's Larry on a train to the afterlife, faced with a young boy in a dapper suit. Larry meets with Anna, his "afterlife coordinator," who explains to...

Imagine spending the rest of reality's existence with one person. It would have to be someone beyond special, whom you could ride with through good and bad, and never get completely sick of even millennia. Choosing the person is exactly the dilemma facing Elizabeth Olsen in the upcoming rom-com Eternity. Before the film heads to the Toronto International Film Festival in September, A24 released the first trailer highlighting her predicament as she's stuck between not one, but two potential partners to share forever with. Both of her prospects are also high-flying stars, with one being Top Gun: Maverick's Miles Teller and the other, Masters of the Air's Callum Turner.

In the trailer, the gates of the afterlife open up, revealing a reality where everyone gets to choose where they want to spend eternity after their death and with whom. Larry (Teller) arrives shortly after his demise, and, once he learns the ropes,...

Ready to spend some time with “Eternity?”

A24’s latest high-concept romantic comedy, which stars Elizabeth Olsen as a woman who, while in the afterlife, must choose between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died when they were young and has been waiting decades to see her again. The movie is premiering at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, before arriving in theaters in November. But you can watch the trailer right now, above.

Written by Pat Cunnane, “Eternity” appeared on the Black List of best unproduced screenplays back in 2022. In 2024, David Freyne was hired to direct (he also contributed to the script and has a writing credit). It was filmed last year, with Da’Vine Joy Randolph, John Early and Olga Merediz added to the cast.

The afterlife is always a fun setting for a movie, particularly a romance – things like “Defending Your Life,...

A24 this morning debuted the first trailer for Eternity, a romantic comedy starring Elizabeth Olsen (His Three Daughters), Miles Teller (The Gorge), and Callum Turner (Masters of the Air), which is slated to hit theaters this November after world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.

Directed by David Freyne, the film is set in an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity. Our protagonist, Joan (Olsen), is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Teller) and her first love (Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.

Oscar nominees Trevor White and Tim White produced under their Star Thrower Entertainment banner. In addition to directing, Freyne co-wrote alongside Pat Cunnane, whose original script appeared on the 2022 Black List. We were first to report on the project, which also stars John Early, Olga Merediz, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph,...

Elizabeth Olsen has a big decision ahead of her in the trailer for the A24 feature Eternity.

Miles Teller and Callum Turner also star in the romantic comedy from director David Freyne. The movie is set to premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival ahead of its theatrical release in November. John Early, Olga Merediz and Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph round out the cast.

Eternity is set in an afterlife where souls are granted one week to pick where they will spend eternity. After she dies, Joan (Olsen) must choose between Larry (Teller), with whom she shared her life, and her first love, Luke (Turner), who died many years ago.

“A lot has happened in a week,” a confused Olsen tells Teller in the trailer. “You died. I died. I’ve just been reunited with both of my dead husbands, and I have to pick where to spend eternity.

‘Eternity” is a new Vancouver-lensed ‘rom-com’, directed by David Freyne, starring Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, John Early and Olga Merediz, with distribution Tba:

“…after death, everybody gets one week to choose where to spend eternity. For ‘Joan’, ‘Larry’ and ‘Luke’, it's really a question of who to spend it with.

“Now, Joan must choose between her first love who got away or the man she built her life with…”

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The section dedicated to dedicated to works by first and second-time filmmakers, Toronto International Film Festival have announced the twenty-three films in the Discovery Programme. The section will open with John Early‘s Maddie’s Secret. Among the film items we’ve been tracking we find the likes of Lucía Alenar Iglesias‘ Forastera – a project that was part of the 2021 Cannes Cinéfondation Residence and was the winner of the Prix Arte Kino Intl prize, this is set during holidays in Majorca de Cata, this is about a woman whose vacation is dramatically disrupted by the death of her grandmother.…...

Comedy actor and writer John Early has added director to his resume as he brings his first feature, Maddie’s Secret, to open the Toronto Film Festival Discovery sidebar for first-time and emerging filmmakers.

The film about Maddie, a Food Network content creator trying not to allow her dark past to pierce her perfect veneer, stars many of Early’s colleagues in the L.A. stand-up comedy scene, including Kate Berlant, Vanessa Bayer and Connor O’Malley.

In all, Discovery programmers have assembled 23 world premieres for their 25th edition. Also booked into the Toronto section is director Nadia Latif’s The Man in My Basement, which plays with the horror genre and stars Corey Hawkins as an African American man about to lose his family’s home, until a white businessman (Willem Dafoe) offers to rent his basement to clear his debts in a deal he chose not to refuse, but should have.

The Man in My Basement, the first feature from Nadia Latif, starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe, has been announced as part of the Discovery lineup at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.

TIFF released the Discovery lineup this morning. Other high-profile titles include Cato Kusters’ Julian, produced by Michiel and Lukas Dhont, Maddie’s Secret, the debut feature from cult comedian John Early, and Egghead Republic from Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja. Scroll down for the full lineup.

The 2025 Discovery selection was programmed by Dorota Lech, Jason Anderson, Kelly Boutsalis, Diana Cadavid, Robyn Citizen, June Kim, and Jason Ryle.

The programme will screen 23 World Premieres, with titles from over 30 countries, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Serbia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

The Discovery programme has, over the years, debuted projects from filmmakers like Ildikó Enyedi, Alfonso Cuarón, Julie Dash, Jean-Marc Vallée, Christopher Nolan,...

Twenty-three world premieres representing more than 30 countries have been selected for the Discovery programme at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, among them the directing debut of US alternative comedian John Early and three films from the UK.

Discovery showcases the first or second features by directors from around the world, with past participants having included Alfonso Cuarón, Julie Dash, Jean-Marc Vallée, Christopher Nolan, Yorgos and Barry Jenkins.

Early’s satire about content culture, Maddie’s Secret, is the opening night film in this year’s Discovery section, and one of only two US titles in the line-up.

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“Maddie’s Secret,” the directorial debut of comedian John Early, will open the Discovery program at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. This section of the annual festival (celebrating its 50th year in 2025) premieres the first and second feature films from new directors. Every film in the section will have its world premiere at TIFF this September.

On the opening night, Early’s film “Maddie’s Secret” will screen, a satire of the current “content culture” that dominates the internet. The comedian has appeared in a number of films and television shows, though “Maddie’s Secret” marks his first movie in the director’s chair. Fellow comics Vanessa Bayer, Kate Berlant and Connor O’Malley also appear in the film.

Another entry in the section, “The Man in My Basement” stars Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe. Directed by Nadia Latif, the thriller adapts Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name. Latif...

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Peacock has not released an official statement explaining its decision; however, Deadline, which broke the news, reports that the series was unable to draw as much attention as other shows from the same creators. Also, its streaming numbers paled against expectations. Many fans would, however, argue that...

Another day, another under-appreciated comedy gem gets tossed to the wayside by its streaming home. That's right, the Stephanie Hsu-starring (and executive-produced!) comedy series, Laid, has been canceled after a single season on Peacock. The show was a hit with critics (including our own Greg Archer) and fans who tuned in — gaining it a 93% on the Tomatometer, which seems a big low, all things considered. Unfortunately, praise was not enough to convince Peacock to give the series another season, which is a shame for anyone who watched the show.

The news, which was first reported by Deadline, comes at a time when fewer and fewer comedy series are getting the green light. Laid followed Hsu's Ruby Yao as she —over the course of the series' 8 episodes — realized that all of her former lovers were dying in unusual ways, forcing her to confront her past (and subsequent sex partners) in order to move forward.

Peacock has canceled “Laid” after one season.

The series starred Stephanie Hsu as Ruby Yao, a woman who learns that her former sexual partners have begun dying off in the order in which she slept with them. With the help of her best friend and roommate Aj (Zosia Mamet), she works to figure out what’s causing the deaths and works to warn the ones who are still living.

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In an interview with Variety, co-showrunner Nahnatchka Khan indicated that she’d begun planning ideas for a potential second season, as Season 1 concluded with a cliffhanger: the reappearance...

It seems that Laid is as dead as one of Ruby’s ex-lovers: Peacock has cancelled the twisted romantic comedy starring Stephanie Hsu after one season, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Warning: This article contains Spoilers for Laid!

Peacock’s dark comedy, Laid, includes a cast of comedians and actors featuring Oscar-nominee Stephanie Hsu. The show follows a 33-year-old woman named Ruby Yao, who discovers that her exes are starting to die. She works alongside her best friend, Aj, and her ex, Richie, to figure out why the characters she slept with are dropping dead in hilarious and absurd ways. At the same time, she tries to navigate her feelings for her new party-planning client, Isaac.

Laid thrives off the fact that the characters, especially Ruby, are deeply flawed and make reckless decisions. This debaucherous show includes a wild and unruly premise through which Ruby can process her past and grow. At the same time, the people around her also become better versions of themselves. Ultimately, the cast of predominantly established actors and comedians does an excellent job getting the audience...

Peacock’s new dark comedy Laid stars the ensemble cast of Stephanie Hsu, Zosia Mamet, Tommy Martinez and Michael Angarano.

Hsu portrays Ruby, a somewhat selfish woman in her 30s who works as an event coordinator, and Zosia Mamet portrays her best friend Aj, who has an intense fascination with true crime. Aj is the one to point out the trend of Ruby’s former partners dying, which makes the premise of the show. Isaac (Tommy Martinez) starts out as one of Ruby’s clients, but he soon gets dragged into the chaos of Ruby’s wake. Michael Angarano’s Richie returns to Ruby’s life as a staple in helping her figure out her past.

Several well-known guest stars also play key figures in Ruby’s sex timeline, including Finneas O’Connell,...

“Laid” follows Stephanie Hsu’s Ruby as she comes to the grim realization that a growing number of her ex-partners have become victim to various maladies — all of which have resulted in death.

But instead of sex-shaming, co-showrunners Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna (“Son of Zorn”) used the outlandish premise — which originated from an Australian format — as an opportunity for Ruby to reflect on her behavior during each relationship, serving as a jumping off point for some internal growth.

“From the beginning, we, the writers, Peacock and Stephanie, wanted this to be sex positive, not at all shaming, not at all judgmental,” Bradford McKenna told TheWrap. “In having to go back and look at all these guys and girls, it’s not so much, ‘Who were they and what happened?’ but ‘Who was I when I was with them?'”

As Ruby and her best friend and roommate Aj...

Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for “Laid.”

“I don’t know anything about love,” laments Stephanie Hsu’s character Ruby at the conclusion of Peacock’s new romantic comedy series “Laid.” The eight-episode season dropped in its entirety on December 19 and follows’s Hsu’s Ruby as she realizes everyone she’s ever slept with, including Michael Angarano, pro wrestler Ettore “Big E” Ewin and, inexplicably, John Early, are dying.

Ruby goes on a journey to find out why this is happening and, in the process, find herself amidst her past conquests, with the help of her best friend and roommate, Aj, played by Zosia Mamet, who puts her true crime obsessive skills to good work tracking down Ruby’s exes and figuring out a timeline: “I wanted to do something for the person I love most. And that’s you.”

It’s a grand gesture for the ages,...

The co-creators of Laid explain why the cameos from familiar faces like Barbie actors and Marvel stars are more than just mere cameos. Developed by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, and based on the Australian series of the same name, Laid debuted on Peacock in December. It stars Stephanie Hsu, known for her Oscar-nominated performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, as Ruby. Once all of her former sex partners start dying off, often in strange ways, Ruby and her roommate Aj (Zosia Mamet) try to solve the mystery of what's going on.

In an interview with Screen Rant's Grant Hermanns, Khan and McKenna talk about why some of the guest appearances from the likes of Shang-Chi and Barbie star Simu Liu are more than just cameos. In the quotes below, McKenna talks about how the eight-episode series approached Ruby's sex timeline and was able to bring notable actors through that process.

Peacock’s comedy Laid, starring Stephanie Hsu, Zosia Mamet, Michael Angarano, Tommy Martinez, Andre Hyland, Ryan Pinkston and more, explores what would happen if a mysterious curse fell upon one’s ex romantic partners. Ruby (Hsu), with the help of her best friend Aj (Mamet), realizes that all of past sexual partners are somehow dying in gruesome ways.

This brings her and Aj to try and track down those who are still alive, and played by guest stars such as Finneas, John Early, Simu Liu & Philippe Francesca Reale, Kate Berlant, Brandon Perea, Alexandra Shipp and more, to warn them of what is happening. Aj also hopes to get to the bottom of why this is happening.

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Spoiler Alert: This post contains light spoilers for Laid on Peacock.

Peacock’s Laid, from executive producers and co-showrunners Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, presents quite a messy premise.

Stephanie Hsu’s main character Ruby, a professional party coordinator, discovers with the help of her best friend Aj (Zosia Mamet) that all the people she has ever had sex with are dying — in the order that she slept with them. Aj helps Ruby set out on a quest to warn all her past partners of this mysterious phenomenon, which Ruby does not want to keep happening, and in the process, the two friends discover more about themselves. Add innocent and sensitive Isaac (Tommy Martinez) and Ruby’s rough-around-the-edges ex-boyfriend Richie (Michael Angarano) to the mix, and comedic chaos ensues.

“It’s a love story of chosen family, and when you’re looking for love in a romantic way, you...

Ruby Yao (Stephanie Hsu), the protagonist of the Peacock comedy “Laid,” is variously described as “selfish,” “a nightmare,” “the worst person I have ever met” and belonging “in jail.” Hsu’s performance and Ruby’s characterization as a whole are indeed intensely off-putting, in ways both intentional and not. But Ruby’s karmic comeuppance in this series, adapted by sitcom veterans Nahnatchka Khan (“Fresh off the Boat”) and Sally Bradford McKenna (“The Goldbergs”) from an Australian show of the same name, doesn’t affect her directly. Instead, everyone she’s ever slept with starts to die — often in outlandish ways, always in the order she had sex with them.

This morbid premise evokes the late, great “Lovesick.” But unlike that British series, in which the hero’s Sti leads him to revisit past relationships, the heightened stakes of “Laid” present a tonal hurdle the eight-episode season proves unable to surmount.

The press materials for Peacock’s “Laid” call it “a f*cked up rom-com where the answer to, ‘Why can’t I find love, is there something wrong with me?’ is a resounding ‘Yes. There is. The problem is definitely you.'”

That dramatic irony hovers over the series, which has plenty of entertaining kernels — mysterious deaths, female friendship, and something called a “blowjob overlay” — but spends a lot of time on the uncomfortable reality of a person who is the problem and refuses to do the requisite work to get better.

“Laid” comes from co-showrunners Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, based on the Australian series from Marieke Hardy and Kirsty Fisher. Ruby (Stephanie Hsu) is your average beleaguered millennial woman looking for love, except for one thing: Her exes start mysteriously dying. Along with best friend and true-crime fanatic A.J. (Zosia Mamet) — from whom she’s keeping...

The ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Oscar nominee stars in new original rom-com murder mystery series.

Ruby Yao is a single woman looking for love and leaving behind a body count… literally. Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All At Once”) stars in the brand-new Peacock Original series “Laid,” premiering this Thursday, Dec. 19. The new comedy series from the creative team behind “Don't Trust the B—— in Apartment 23,” and “Fresh Off the Boat” follows the 33-year-old Ruby, who finds herself at the center of a murder mystery after her exes start dying in mysterious ways. Half raunchy rom-com, half whodunit, the eight-episode “Laid” Season 1 will be available all at once— binge the whole season with a subscription to Peacock!

How to watch ‘Laid’ When: Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 at 3:01 a.m. Et Where: Peacock Stream: Watch with a subscription to Peacock. From anywhere: Watch with a subscription to a Vpn.

In Peacock’s new dark comedy series Laid, Stephanie Hsu stars as a woman who finds out that her former lovers are dying in unusual ways, and, in order to fix it, she must go back through her sex timeline to confront her past.

Michael Angarano, John Early and Brandon Perea are among her character’s love interests, as well as a surprise onscreen face: Finneas O’Connell, the musical superstar and 10-time Grammy winner for his work with sister Billie Eilish.

At the show’s Los Angeles premiere on Monday, co-showrunner Nahnatchka Khan told The Hollywood Reporter that the idea to bring Finneas onto the show was pitched by the series’ casting directors after the star had previously acted in projects including Glee, Modern Family and Bad Teacher.

“I thought he was just a full musician, and they were like, ‘He’s great,'” Khan continued. “So he read it,...

The home stretch before Christmas has arrived, but there are plenty of new shows arriving on streamers this month to either binge before the end of the year.

Those in the mood for mystery can dive into No Good Deed on Netflix Dec. 12 or Laid on Peacock Dec. 19. The former is from Dead To Me creator Liz Feldman, and the latter stars Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet with a touch more comedy.

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There’s a fabulous reunion happening behind the scenes of Peacock’s hilarious new comedy, Laid. Michael Angarano, who plays one of the former lovers of the show’s main character, the bewitched and bothered Ruby (Stephanie Hsu), has reunited with a former Will & Grace pal. That’s Laid executive producer and co-showrunner Sally Bradford McKenna, the Emmy-nominated writer and producer who penned 14 episodes of Will & Grace from 2001 and 2006. In a recent interview with MovieWeb, Angarano reflected on starring as young Elliot, Jack McFarland’s (Seam Hayes) son on the hit show, noting:

“Oh man, that show was majorly influential on my life… definitely, obviously, my career. It had just such great reach and people to this day talk about that show… [they] see me on that show and that character. But seeing those actors just at their level of professionalism and creativity, and just how generous they were with each other…...

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No Good Deed is a dark comedy mystery thriller drama series created by Liz Feldman. The Netflix series revolves around three families competing to buy the same 1920s Spanish-style villa, believing it would solve all of their problems. However, they don’t know that the house and its owners have their own deeply hidden dark secrets. No Good Deed stars Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Linda Cardellini, O-t Fagbenle, Abbi Jacobson, Denis Leary, Poppy Liu, Teyonah Parris, and Luke Wilson. So, if you loved the dark comedy, a thrilling mystery, and compelling characters in No Good Deed, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Dead to Me is a dark comedy crime thriller drama series created by Liz Feldman. The Netflix series follows Jen, a sardonic woman who recently lost...