NBC and the Cinema Society Celebrated Everything We’ll Be Binge-Watching This Season
NBC and the Cinema Society Celebrated Everything We’ll Be Binge-Watching This Season
Seth Meyers
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Photo: Paul Bruinooge/PMCAfter a rollicking summer, there was only one mission on the minds of party guests last night at the newly opened Four Seasons on Manhattan’s Upper East Side: Get cozy. With caviar potato chips and gin martinis roaming the room, the Cinema Society and NBC had pulled out all the stops to celebrate the debut of the network’s all-new and cult-favorite shows we’ll be binge-watching soon enough.
Among the buzzy newcomers, there’s Sarayu Blue, whose new series, I Feel Bad, is perhaps the most anticipated of the lot. “I was madly in love with the project and just hopeful that the stars were going to align,” Blue, in a new Cushnie runway creation, told Vogue of her first on-screen leading role. “This character is so fully written, and complicated, and flawed, so I thought, Oh, there I am! She’s a disaster! And to get that call that I got the part, I think I almost died. The role wasn’t written Indian either, so it really was a win on so many levels that it was almost hard to believe, and it continues to be.”
Joining her were the NBC fixtures, too, including Seth Meyers, who arrived fresh from filming his hit late-night talk show. “We do our talk shows all summer, so this isn’t as much of a new beginning for us, but I’m just excited to be a viewer,” he told Vogue. “I loved watching television as a kid, but when the new fall season started, that meant you had to start going back to school, and I don’t have that anymore, so I can purely enjoy it.”
Like Meyers, there were many more guests eager to tune in, but for Mariska Hargitay, the Law & Order cornerstone, this year marks a personal milestone: season 20. “I have to make it the best ever and outdo everything I’ve done,” Hargitay told us, later mingling with guests like Saturday Night Live’s Heidi Gardner and Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. “We’re trying to surprise ourselves and think outside of the box, so my own personal goal is to live outside of this comfort zone . . . as an artist, it keeps me interested and fresh, and I love to rise to the challenge.”
