Strip Law centers on Lincoln Gumb (Adam Scott), a down-on-his-luck lawyer who was recently fired from his family firm by his dead mother's former law partner, Steve Nichols (Keith David). Gumb's new firm, which is staffed by his wayward teenage niece Irene Gumb (Aimee Garcia) and a disbarred old eccentric named Glem Blorchman (Stephen Root), is on the verge of going out of business because Gumb's unflashy lawyering style can't keep the attention of Vegas's overstimulated judges and juries.
After all, he turned author Rachel Reid's beloved but niche-interest Game Changers books into a modestly budgeted six-episode season for Canadian streamer Crave, which became an overnight global sensation. That it's also one of the most acclaimed & widely discussed queer series ever? It's nothing short of a miracle on ice!
There is an allure about him. There's a warmth to him, and something new about him, but also it's the timing. The backlash of her open relationship with John is really starting to take on a new shape, and I think he's a sort of exciting escape from it too.
At the same time, the narrator is taken with her new colleague, Vlad, who is married to fellow professor Cynthia. One day, the narrator and her adult daughter, Sid, follow John's car and see him meeting with Cynthia at the school. Believing that they're having an affair, the narrator resolves to act on her obsession with Vlad.
The 22-year-old actor won the Outstanding Lead Performer in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Program category at last night's (2 March) Children's and Family Emmy Awards for his role as queer teen Charlie Spring in Netflix series Heartstopper. Joe Locke beat his Heartstopper co-star Kit Connor to the award, as well as Time Bandits star Lisa Kudrow, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew actor Jude Law, Goosebumps: The Vanishing star David Schwimmer, Malory Towers actress Danya Griver and The Primrose Railway Children actor Nina Toussaint-White.
Martin Scorsese is heading back to Vegas. The director of Goodfellas and Casino will serve as executive producer for a new Netflix series set in Las Vegas from Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien. The series is currently untitled (probably because the title Casino was already taken), but here's the official description:
"I think that he does know that he's gone. Eventually, he knows that he's not there anymore. So far it's a small part of the second season. We have to see what the one-off thing that they're planning on doing with the Punisher, that should be interesting to see."
