The Hollywood Reporter – August 14, 2019

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Television

Collins’ first Top

Actors appearance since

April comes after he

posted on Aug. 4 reacting

to the mass shooting

in El Paso, Texas, writing,

“20 dead. You did

this, @RealDonaldTrump.”

The tweet earned

372,000 favorites. Lopez returns to Top TV

Personalities thanks in

large part to various photos

of his newborn son, who

was born in early July (his

third, following a daughter

in 2010 and a son in 2013).

In the tracking week,

Lopez earned 433,000

Instagram favorites.

After debuting at No. 1 on

Top Unscripted on July 17,

Wild ’N Out returns to the

top spot with a 6 percent

boost in overall social

media engagement in its

fifth week on the chart. The

long-running show, now

airing on VH1, kicked off its

14th season in early July.

“My dearest Evie, as

I write this, I cannot bring

myself to say goodbye

to you ... but this is not

a good bye,” Carson wrote

alongside a photo of her

Descendants character, Evie.

Descendants 3, the final

film in the Disney Channel

trilogy, aired Aug. 2.

THR’S SOCIAL CLIMBERS

A ranking of the week’s top actors, unscripted TV

and personalities based on social media engagement

across Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and more

Source: The week’s most active and talked-about entertainers on leading social networking sites Facebook, Google Plus, Instagram,

on a formula blending weekly additions of fans as well as cumulative Twitter and YouTube for the week ending Aug. 6. Rankings are based

weekly reactions and conversations, as tracked by MVP Index.

Data Compiled By

17 ↓ I 7 IKevin Hart

18 ↓ I 3 IBette Midler

19 ↑ I - ICheech Marin

20 ↓ I 9 ICaleb McLaughlin

21 ↓ I 18 IYara Shahidi

22 ↑ I - IMario Lopez

23 ↓ I 22 IRob Reiner

24 ↑ I - IEva Longoria

25 ↑ I - ISeth MacFarlane

3 ↑ I - IChina Anne Mcclain

4 ↑ I 6 IGeorge Takei

5 ↑ I - IChris Evans

6 ↑ I 25 IRicky Gervais

7 ↑ I 12 IDwayne Johnson

8 ↑ I 10 IDebby Ryan

9 ↓ I 5 IAlyssa Milano

10 ↑ I 17 IZendaya

11 ←→ I 11 IJason Momoa

12 ↑ I 14 IGabrielle Union

13 ↓ I 8 ITerry Crews

14 ↓ I 4 IGaten Matarazzo

15 ↑ I - IAnupam Kher

16 ↑ I - IMisha Collins

2 ↓ I 1 IAmerica’s Got Talent

3 ←→ I 3 IThe Bachelorette

4 ↑ I - IBachelor in Paradise

5 ←→ I 5 IAmerica’s Funniest ...

6 ↓ I 4 IQueer Eye

7 ↑ I 9 ILive PD

8 ↓ I 6 IBig Brother

9 ↑ I - IChrisley Knows Best

10 ↑ I - IKeeping ... Kardashians

1 ←→ I 1 IJennifer Lopez

2 ↑ I 13 ISofia Carson

1 ↑ I 2 IWild ’N Out

9 ↓ I 5 IAnthony Adams

10 ↓ I 4 IChris Hayes

1 ←→ I 1 IEllen DeGeneres

2 ←→ I 2 IJonathan Van Ness

3 ↑ I - IBear Grylls

4 ↓ I 3 IMike Huckabee

5 ↑ I - IJake Tapper

6 ←→ I 6 IBill Maher

7 ↑ I 9 IBobby Berk

8 ↑ I - IMario Lopez

Overall, the conversations
it starts aren’t as inter-
esting as those sparked
by HBO’s less-hyped
Years and Years, which, by
expertly weaving dystopian
and domestic elements,
exposes how superficial
Black Mirror has become.
The number of things it’s
tackling, from bioethics to
immigration to the erosion
of political discourse, is
astounding. The only show
this summer approaching
that level of topicality is the
bracing and clear-headed
final season of Orange Is
the New Black, which will
eventually get its due as the
defining Netflix original.
GOODMAN Years and Years
is astonishing, but I think
it will take a while for
people to find it because
it’s a show, like Euphoria,
with a lot of triggers. And
yes, Orange Is the New Black
has gone up and down but
finished strong. You’re
spot-on when you note
that it may be the defining
Netflix series — with the
caveat that you’re talking
about the Netflix of yore.
The streamer is now so big
that I’m not sure it cares
about having a defining
show so much as it cares
about having a defining
brand: volume. Anything
else catch your attention
this summer? I tried to like
Showtime’s Roger Ailes
drama The Loudest Voice,
but it’s just too on the nose.
But HBO’s Succession is
back, and from the first
batch of episodes sent to

critics, it looks like we’re in

for an excellent season.

FIENBERG Just as I feel like

The Handmaid’s Tale was

usurped by Years and Years,

which offers a nightmar-

ish scenario with a wider

variety of perspectives and

tones, The Loudest Voice

was, for me, usurped by

Succession. The former

is a triumph of latex, the

latter a triumph of writ-

ing, directing and acting.

(Its profane domestic

dysfunction pairs nicely

with HBO’s new Danny

McBride-created The

Righteous Gemstones.)

Other examples of the

history-as-illuminating-

cautionary-tale genre that

are better than The Loudest

Voi ce this summer include

FX’s mournful yet joyous

Pose and AMC’s chill-

ing upcoming The Terror:

Infamy, about Japanese

American internment

camps. On a totally differ-

ent note, I’d be remiss not

to mention IFC’s Sherman’s

Showcase and HBO’s A

Black Lady Sketch Show,

both of which continue a

recent resurgence of the

sketch format.

GOODMAN The sketch format

is alive and killing it! I’d

just like to close this convo

by saying for people who

might be thinking, “Those

are a lot of shows you two

mentioned and it’s stress-

ing me out”: Just relax and

make a list. No matter what

“season” we’re in with TV,

it’s always going to be a

marathon, not a sprint.

12 3

1 IFC’s

Sherman’s

Showcase

2 Democratic

candidate

Marianne

Williamson

3 HBO’s Years

and Years.