📰 06 Aug 2025

Back with the second RoL of the week! Paid subscribers got the exclusive Tuesday edition yesterday along with additional news and links Below the Fold today. We are experimenting with this link round-up newsletter a bit still, but lots of exciting things to come. Hopefully.

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• Weapons, the new movie from Zach Cregger, is still sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with 46 reviews.
• The new War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, has an abysmal 0% as it's being lambasted as a 90 minute Amazon commercial. Not to mention the incredible tagline: "It's worse than you think."
• Long Story Short, the new animated series from Bojack Horseman creator, picked up a season two renewal ahead of it's debut on Netflix.
• Wednesday also snagged a renewal for a third season from Netflix and has it's eyes set on a spin-off.
• Cry Wolf, an upcoming limited series from FX, added Brie Larson to the cast already featuring Olivia Colman.
• Scrubs got a series order from ABC for it's return with all three leads locked in.
• And Larry David is returning to HBO for a sketch series from famed producers... The Obamas.

Lots of buzz around Rose Byrne for her performance in this one, which feels like a culmination of the last few years of her career with Physical and Platonic. Really looking forward to this one.

⛳ Molly Shannon Boards Will Ferrell’s Netflix Golf Comedy, Ramy Youssef Exits /// THR

Ramy Youssef and Josh Rabinowitz, who were credited as co-creators and executive producers when Netflix picked up the series in May 2024, have departed the untitled show over creative differences

Golf seems to be having a moment right now. Happy Gilmore 2, Stick, and now this Will Ferrell comedy. I love Molly Shannon so it's awesome to see her come aboard, but a bit of a bummer to see Ramy Youssef exit. I'm not sure I can imagine how they imagined combining Ferrell's comedy style with Youssef's sensibilities to begin with, but I would've loved to find out.