Disney bought Hulu, and the first result of this is adding Hulu content to Disney Plus. But Hulu is still its own thing, too, because you might have Hulu Live, and if you have that then you still need both apps. Otherwise, there’s a Hulu tile inside your Disney Plus app — but, if you don’t subscribe to Hulu, you won’t get all of Hulu, or maybe any of Hulu. It’s all so crystal clear!!! This is a lot of sound and fury to achieve something that Disney basically already had, which is, a price bundling of Disney Plus and Hulu. I suspect it will EVENTUALLY result in Disney Plus eating Hulu altogether, kind of like Discovery’s new Max gobbling up HBO Max, and that maybe Hulu Live will fold in too (or else they’ll abandon it). But hey, while we’re figuring all this out, might as well have a big party to celebrate this partial change. Here are some highlights, which we are able to embed thanks to Getty. Which means that if ads appear over the photos, that is Getty’s own monetizing and is appearing under their purview, not ours. Oh, and if the embeds don’t show up for you, then you can try clicking on the space where it should be and that OUGHT to open up the photo in a new, small browser window. ONWARD:
We begin with Queen Angela Bassett, who is now an ABC TV star, thanks to 911 moving over there. I can only assume that 911: Rob Lowe will follow suit when its FOX deal expires, which I think is the end of… whenever its next season airs? That one is secretly kind of funny, although I was watching the Bachelor-911 crossover yesterday and Jennifer Love Hewitt made me laugh like three separate times so maybe I’m just all in on this now as a way of grieving the loss of Station 19. ANYWAY. I guess I’m avoiding telling you that I don’t especially like Angela’s Safiyaa top, which looks like it used to be a tablecloth. Like, we’re talking five minutes ago. I blame some of this on the design maybe not traveling well? It looks crisper on the model, and I assume that’s because conditions are optimal and they’ve been fussed over by several stylists and probably a lot of tricks of the trade.
Quinta is in Oscar de la Renta here, and looks INCREDIBLE; it’s so cute. Oscar himself had a legacy of lovely florals, and I’m always pleased to see it when the current designers nod to that. Sheryl Lee Ralph is in something called Solgo Atelier, which looks pretty fab on her even though it also might want to be a blanket.
Tyler James Williams looks cozy. He loves that style of pant, and he’s not wrong. They work on him. I am on board here.
Awkwafina’s dress is by Peggy Hartanto, and it’s lovely. I think it’s a very interesting and effective use of sheers, because the workmanship throughout is very precise and eye-catching. It’s great.
Yara’s Salim Azzam dress means we’ve had a couple designers in here now that I don’t know very well, which is always a treat. The design on that is so neat that you barely even notice this is just… a really large shirt. I like it on her a lot. We’re on an upswing after Angela’s top.
Mandy Moore’s Rodarte feels like something we’ve seen before, possibly even on her. This is all maybe a little… severe?
Shrug. Her head looks great? Remember when she left Grey’s Anatomy, only to come back to Grey’s Anatomy immediately? Yeah. I kinda hope Meredith takes a break again in season 21.
That’s Logan Lerman, Jeremy Allen White, and Tom Hiddleston, and I assume this is the concept art for their supergroup.
Ooh, this Prabal Gurung on Dominique Thorne is one of my favorite things he’s done in a while.
Those massive, chunky, heeled mules did not need to come back to us. They’re like foot weights.
Here’s Jessica Betts, Nathan Fillion, and Niecy Nash; Nathan’s outfit is like when you get GREAT bread for a sandwich but then the filling is kinda meh.
Yeardley “Lisa Simpson” Smith looks AWESOME in that. I sincerely love the dress.
Julianne Hough evidently ran out of coverage. She used it all up on her top half and got stuck with underwhelming remnants over her legs. Perhaps Underwhelming Remnants could be the album title for the LL/JAW/Loki group, because all the songs on it will actually be B-sides their producer thought they should abandon.
“You’re photoshopping out the table, right? Yeah, you’re definitely photoshopping out the table.”
