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  1. Drake’s interview…I have no words. And it’s really hard when my sympathy for him is tainted with knowing he went on to repeat the cycle and this is all he had to say about it. His poor dad though. He knew something was up and tried to stop it.
  2. Well, the movie tried to make Truman’s “buddy” sympathetic, but it didn’t work for me. And miss me with his outrage that “In Cold Blood” was going to be the title. Dude, you broke into a family’s home and murdered them all, I think the title is pretty accurate. I don’t know whether to be impressed or disgusted that Truman kept playing him to get the story. You didn’t miss a thing with the rest of Feud. Although I never knew that he actually did a TV interview completely blotto.
  3. The one part I loved in season two was when Clark finally grew a spine and called Lana and Chloe out on their bullshit. If he had just put an end to that whole stupid love triangle right then and there, it would have been brilliant. But alas, all it took was Wolf Girl Love Interest to get fridged and he went crawling back to Lana. Again. You know what would have been great? If Chloe had been let in on the secret along with Pete instead of dragging it out for another two seasons. It would have been great to see the three of them be a real team. And/or have her and Clark be a real couple for a while. Either way would have been better than having Chloe keep acting a nosy, spiteful Nice Girl for as long as she did. Yeah, I don’t like pre-secret Chloe, sue me.
  4. Angus’ bitch mother in The Holdovers. I understand that his father’s mental illness and breakdown was traumatic, but that doesn’t give her an excuse to basically abandon Angus for her new rich jerkass husband. Leaving him alone at the school during Christmas so that she could go on a honeymoon was bad enough, but she was clearly eager for an excuse to send him to military school. During the Vietnam War no less!
  5. In my defense, I watched it for entertainment value not historical accuracy. *beat* And for the fine Mr. Cavill.
  6. Woo-hoo! Pages for each season! Same, although what happened with both is enough to break my heart. I honestly put up with all this season’s both Lana and non-Lana nonsense just for the measly scraps of Superman Easter eggs. And just to look at the gorgeous Tom Welling for an hour.
  7. For what it’s worth, with all the novels coming out about Clytemnestra, odds are that one will get optioned so that we’ll finally see him get killed off the way he’s supposed to it a movie, lol. Anyway, I finally watched Capote last night after the snooze fest that was Feud. While I still wish that Heath Ledger won the Oscar that year, I’m glad Philip Seymour Hoffman won too. This Capote was still a social climbing two-faced egomaniac, but it was hard not to pity him for the emotional toll it took “researching” In Cold Blood, by which I mean, getting sucked into the lives of the murderers. Maybe Capote was kinder than I am, because I didn’t feel sorry for them at all. At the end of the day, they murdered a whole family for a lousy fifty bucks. Then again, he was an absolutely petty bitch to Harper Lee about her success with TKAM. “I don’t see what all the fuss was about.” Damn, Ryan Murphy should’ve focused more about him and Nell/Harper, not his Gay Best Friend pseudo-marriage with Babe Paley!
  8. I never realized just how messed up those On-Air Dares were. Or some of those All That sketches, particularly in the later reboot season… Yes, and in a few years Amanda finally gets her shit together enough to come forward and say he molested her, I will not be the least bit surprised. This is chilling to watch, but I can’t stop.
  9. Well, this show got me to finally watch Capote. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, may he rest in peace, did a much better job humanizing Capote; he was still a social climbing egomaniac, but there was enough humanity for the experience of writing In Cold Blood and getting sucked into the killers’ orbit that clearly rattled him. And if you connect the two shows, that was what caused him to switch off whatever modicum of decency he had left and turn into the self-destructive parasite we saw in Feud.
  10. The Tudors: You could already consider the real Katherine Howard an idiot just for cheating on Henry VIII knowing full well what happened to her predecessor, but at least the real one had the excuse that Henry was an old fat man by this point and she was a young girl basically served up to him on a silver platter by her family, so yeah marriage to him wasn’t exactly pleasant. But thanks to the showrunners and/or Jonathan Rhys-Meyers refusing to make Henry fat and gross, Katherine just comes off as an even bigger idiot for cheating so gleefully and thinking she could get away with it. The only flimsy excuse she has for sympathy is maybe realizing that she’s nothing more than a baby-making machine to Henry and was cheating on her with Anne of Cleves** but that doesn’t really help. In fairness, she’s not the only stupid one in this storyline. Thomas Culpepper was a predator and a rapist who just wanted Katherine as another notch in his belt despite knowing how risky it would be. And when finally got, he denies it, but is dumb enough to admit to “intending to do ill with the Queen” as if that would actually save him instead of sealing his doom. But perhaps the biggest idiot of all was Francis Dereham, who thought it would be a bright idea to blackmail Katherine into taking him into her staff, then basically get drunk and sexually harass her and her maids and stupidly brag about how close he was to the Queen and how close they’d be after the king was dead. How could he not think that would come back to bite him in the ass?! What a MORON. **This of course was bullshit since again real Henry was fat and gross, which was why Anne of Cleves probably agreed to the divorce so quickly and no doubt thanked God every night that she didn’t have to share a bed with him anymore!
  11. Hey, that one wasn’t so bad! That was at least accurate! The corny NBC/Hallmark/whatever miniseries were part of my childhood!
  12. Finally rented it and it was as great as everyone said it was. Glad it got Best Adapted Screenplay but I wish it got more. Well, Monk admitted he hadn’t read the whole book, he just read excerpts and judged it based on his own biases. And Issa’s character was right to call him out on his pretentiousness. He was right about the racist hypocrisies of the white dominated publishing industry but he had no right to trash her for benefitting from it. She did work hard on it while he wrote his book as a joke. Also you don’t shouldn’t judge others for their reading tastes, even if you think they’re crap.
  13. Oh shit, REALLY?! The same guy that's half responsible for the GOT mess?! UGH, explains so much! Never trust those guys with ANY adaptation! Yeah, I think they cast a Brad lookalike on purpose because this version had them be cousins.
  14. The only time Orlando really seemed like Paris was when he was clinging to Hector’s leg after Menelaus beat the shit out of him. No disrespect to Orlando, it’s not his fault the writers butchered The Iliad. Sean Bean and Peter O’Toole were indeed the best parts of the movie. I’d argue that Achilles is seen as a tragic hero or antihero in the original text, but not like this. Seriously, my kingdom for a movie adaptation of Song of Achilles—we’d still get a sympathetic Achilles and a more accurate story!
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