Pop Culture Fix: Ellen Page Is Making a Video Game Comedy, Hoo Hoo! Just What I Needed!

Here’s a Pop Culture Fix if you’re capable of doing anything besides doom-scrolling Twitter right now! 

+ Ellen Page will star alongside Paris Berlec in a new “gaming comedy” called 1Up from BuzzFeed Studios (which will be BuzzFeed’s first feature film).

Berelc will portray a gamer who quits her college esports team due to sexism from her male counterparts. To keep her scholarship, she’s forced to assemble an all-female team and enlists the help of a coach — portrayed by Page — who has a gaming scandal in her past.

+ Lizzo’s “fly on Mike Pence’s head” costume is the only one we’ll be needing this year, thanks.

+ Kate McKinnon brings back her Hillary Clinton for SNL‘s Halloween episode.

+ Lana Parilla is joining Why Women Kill.

+ Shondaland has arrived on Netflix!

+ Lily Singh and Peter Dinklage will voice Hitpig and Pickles in the new animated film Hitpig. Hannah Gadsby will voice a supporting character.

+ This made me feel a teensy bit optimistic for some reason: The Connors falls to an all-time ratings low with its 2020 election episode. (Sorry, Sara Gilbert.)

+ Robyn, Queer Clubbing, the xx, and 6 More Influences on Romy’s Debut Solo Music.

+ 25 feel-good films you’ll want to watch again and again.

+ Garnet’s the star of Cartoon Network’s new anti-racism PSAs.

+ June Thomas chatted with Jane Lynch over at Slate about how she strikes “the perfect level of mean” with her characters and also on The Weakest Link.

+ Sandra Oh and Awkwafina will play sisters in a Will Ferrell-produced Netflix comedy about getting on a game show.

+ Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba on how far Hollywood hasn’t come.

+ The Haunting of Bly Manor guide to every single jump scare and creepy moment.

+ Gillian Anderson is FREAKING ME OUT in this The Crown trailer.