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‘Big Mistakes’ review: Dan Levy’s crime comedy gifts us with wild sibling hijinks

‘Big Mistakes’ review: Dan Levy’s crime comedy gifts us with wild sibling hijinks

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With Schitt’s Creek, Dan Levy and Eugene Levy crafted the sweet story of the ridiculously lovable Rose family, who begin the series at their lowest point — freshly broke and awful to everyone around them — before embarking on the road to redemption. SEE ALSO: ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 review: It should be great. Instead, it’s gross. In his newest project, Big Mistakes, Dan Levy and co-creator Rachel Sennott turn the tables on that redemptive arc, delivering a much darker tale of a family that’s just beginning its own downward spiral. What’s Big Mistakes about? Taylor Ortega and Dan Levy in “Big Mistakes.” Credit: Spencer Pazer / Netflix The family in question is the New Jersey-based Morellis. Mother and hardware store owner Linda (Laurie Metcalf) is preparing to run for mayor of their small town, with the help of her peppy, annoyingly put-together daughter Natalie (Abby Quinn). Her other two children are… messier. Pastor Nicky (Levy) is hiding his boyfriend Tareq (Jacob Gutierrez) from his congregation, and school teacher Morgan (Taylor Ortega) has grown tired of …

Dan Levy Considered Schitt’s Creek Sequel Before Catherine O’Hara Died

Dan Levy Considered Schitt’s Creek Sequel Before Catherine O’Hara Died

Published by Daniella Wilson

Dan Levy knows there’s no Schitt’s Creek without Catherine O’Hara. During a recent interview on CBS News Sunday Morning, the Emmy-winning actor, producer and showrunner visited Goodwood — the small town in Ontario, Canada, where Schitt’s Creek was filmed — for the first time since the sitcom wrapped in 2020. While standing outside the store that was once called Rose Apothecary, the fictional boutique his character David Rose owned, CBS News’ Anthony Mason asked if there was any chance for a sequel series. “No. Not now,” Levy replied. “You can’t.” The Big Mistakes co-creator added that at one point, he was “thinking about” a follow-up to Schitt’s Creek. However, that was before O’Hara died on Jan. 30 at age 71 from a pulmonary embolism, with rectal cancer as the underlying cause. The actress played David’s mom and eccentric soap opera star, Moira Rose, on the show for six seasons. “It’s tough. It’s tough being back. I didn’t think that I’d have quite an emotional reaction,” Levy told Mason as he struggled to hold back tears. He added that …

Dan Levy addresses possibility of Schitt’s Creek sequel without Catherine O’Hara

Dan Levy addresses possibility of Schitt’s Creek sequel without Catherine O’Hara

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Dan Levy has shot down the possibility of a Schitt’s Creek sequel after the death of his former co-star Catherine O’Hara. Levy, the show’s co-creator, had previously that fan speculation had inspired him to consider a potential revival of the Emmy-winning comedy series after it aired from 2015 to 2020. But after O’Hara — who played flamboyant matriarch Moira Rose on the Canadian sitcom — died from a pulmonary embolism in January at age 71, Levy said there is no way that the show could return without her. “No. We can’t,” Levy, 42, said in an interview with CBS News published Sunday. “I was thinking about it. Yeah. It’s tough. It’s tough going back.” He told the broadcaster that it was “awe-inspiring” to work with the comedian on the show. Dan Levy said he is not interested in doing a ‘Schitt’s …

The Winter Verdict by Dan Buzzetta

The Winter Verdict by Dan Buzzetta

Published by Jenni Sidey

There is something irresistibly compelling about a protagonist who trades a corner office at a powerhouse law firm for a wooden shingle above a small-town art gallery. Tom Berte, the sharp-witted, deeply human attorney at the center of The Winter Verdict by Dan Buzzetta, is exactly that kind of character. He is a man who chose peace over prestige, family over fame, and a morning ski commute over a Manhattan subway ride. But in the world of the Tom Berte Legal Thrillers, tranquility is always temporary, and the past has a way of following you uphill. This second installment in the series picks up with Tom settled into life in Castle Ridge, a picturesque ski town nestled in the mountains of central New York. His small general practice handles everything from real estate closings to pro bono work for veterans. His wife Brooke runs a family counseling center, and their three-year-old daughter Aneilia fills their slopeside cabin with laughter and hide-and-seek games with Bentley, the family’s rescue dog. For readers who followed Tom’s harrowing journey …

Dan Hurley Might Be the NCAA’s Most Inspiring Coach

Dan Hurley Might Be the NCAA’s Most Inspiring Coach

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Dan Hurley era at the University of Connecticut was first announced in March 2018, but it officially started with a win over Syracuse in October of that year. The underdog Huskies won a close game against their rival at Madison Square Garden and Hurley, previously at tiny Wagner College and a prep school in Newark, was aggressively pumped. The resulting video is the first time Hurley went viral for his intensity. As the buzzer sounded, one of his players gave him a chest bump so aggressive ribs could have been bruised. Hurley let out a primal scream. Then, instantly relaxed, he calmly shook the Syracuse coach’s hand in the postgame line. It was an announcement of character as much as it was the trumpeting of a big win. Connecticut, meet Dan Hurley. This is your new coach, and he’s a different kind of dude. Now in his eighth year as head coach of UConn, Dan Hurley is the same overeager maniac that he was after his first big win as Huskies coach. Immediately after …

Dan Simmons obituary | Books

Dan Simmons obituary | Books

Published by Sam Flores

Dan Simmons, who has died aged 77, was a versatile, prolific and genre-stretching writer whose work embraced the definition of SF as speculative, rather than simply science, fiction. In fact, before he wrote the four massive space opera novels that became known as the Hyperion Cantos, he had already made his name as a writer of horror. His first novel, Song of Kali (1985), won the World Fantasy award; his next, Carrion Comfort (1989), won the Bram Stoker, Locus and British Fantasy awards. Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion were originally one novel. Divided into two, each won a Locus award, while Hyperion also captured a Hugo, and Fall of Hyperion the British Science Fiction Association prize. His two Endymion novels, again originally one book (1996), finished the Hyperion series. Later in his career he moved to a series of hard-boiled thrillers and stand-alone books that merged historical themes with genre touches, most notably in The Terror (2007), based on the ill-fated John Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, spiced up with a supernatural monster. …

In Defense of Algebra | Dan Rockmore

In Defense of Algebra | Dan Rockmore

Published by José Betancourt

In his autobiography Charles Darwin recalls intending to study mathematics at Cambridge only to discover that “the work was repugnant to me, chiefly from my not being able to see any meaning in the early steps in algebra” (presumably not helped by the “very dull man” who was his summer tutor). Winston Churchill, too, found mathematics a “heavy journey.” “When I plunged in, I was soon out of my depth,” he writes in My Early Life (1930). “We were arrived in an ‘Alice-in-Wonderland’ world, at the portals of which stood ‘A Quadratic Equation’”—that classic algebraic proving ground—beyond which were “further dim chambers lighted by sullen, sulphurous fires…reputed to contain a dragon called the ‘Differential Calculus.’” He credits a teacher at his boarding school with convincing him that mathematics “was not a hopeless bog of nonsense, and that there were meanings and rhythms behind the comical hieroglyphics; and that I was not incapable of catching glimpses of some of these.” For many, the mention of algebra summons only unhappy memories of confused encounters with inscrutable equations. …

Call The Midwife’s Helen George sports sultry leather look for loved-up evening with beau Dan Innes

Call The Midwife’s Helen George sports sultry leather look for loved-up evening with beau Dan Innes

Published by Daniella Wilson

Helen George enjoyed a star-studded date night with her beau, Dan Innes, on Thursday evening. Pictured at the Ham Yard Hotel in London, the couple – who confirmed their romance in January 2025 – got dressed up for a private screening of Call The Midwife‘s season 15 finale. Stepping out in leather high-waisted trousers and a plunging satin top, Helen, 41, beamed as she cuddled up to Dan, a real estate consultant whom she reportedly met on the A-list dating app, Raya.  © PA Images via Getty ImagesHelen George and Dan Innes pictured at the screening of the series 15 finale of Call the Midwife Putting on an equally stylish display, Dan, 51, was seen alongside Helen in an ink blue suede jacket, which he teamed with a classic black tee and tailored trousers. Flanked by Helen’s co-stars, the couple were joined by Victoria Yeates, Miriam Margolyes, Renee Bailey, Stephen McGann, and Natalie Quarry.  Shedding some light on Thursday’s screening, Call The Midwife‘s official Instagram account has since shared photos from the event, including one …

Dan Bongino Walks Back Through the FBI-Podcaster Revolving Door

Dan Bongino Walks Back Through the FBI-Podcaster Revolving Door

Published by Sam Flores

It was Bongino’s first order of business, though, to address his critics. “Listen, that Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal,” he said in 2023. “Please do not let that story go.” He took a less conspiratorial tone after joining the FBI, somberly acknowledging in a Fox News interview that the official account, no matter how unspectacular, was the one he now believed. Epstein really had killed himself, leaving no sprawling Democrat-orchestrated cover-up to speak of—and, along with Patel, disappointing a sprawling set of fellow right-wing media personalities. “You sat in the front row with your popcorn, ankle biting,” Bongino said on Monday, “throwing this popcorn at the ring at two guys in there sparring away, fighting for this country while you did shit.” “The Epstein case, the other things we had to deal with,” he said, without going into much more detail. “There is no decision you’re going to make that is going to make everybody happy, and you have to deal with it.” Just look at the release of the Epstein files, he …