Spartan Girl

Ha. They’ll probably just double down.

There’s talk that they’re going back to Fox.

Loved how Emily lampshaded it to Lorelei in A Year in the Life: “Go back to your beloved town with its carnies and misfits and they can all console you and tell you how perfect you are.”

Noooooo!

Read it in less than a day, and do I have thoughts: In short, it wrecked me just as much as Mockingjay.

Yup. I have nothing against Mikey, but Demi Moore was robbed. If the Oscars wanted a surprise Best Actress win, why couldn’t it at least been Cynthia?

I’m almost afraid they’ll water it down because it’s the most brutal one yet. After I finished it, I felt like I needed a drink.

Having just watched the movie I wholeheartedly agree. Not to mention the fact that My only takeaway from that weird, weird movie is that Ani needs to pawn that diamond ring and use the money to get therapy and some self-respect.

I just watched it. Look, I don’t begrudge Mikey Madison her Oscar, but she didn’t blow me away. I kept waiting to see what made this movie so special that it won all the Oscars. It’s a good subversion of Pretty Woman I guess, but I’m with everyone else here in not liking it that much.

The same applies to Lorelei. Sure, she had to work a little harder than Rory, but she had the same entitled immature attitude. The whole world revolves around her and Rory, and she couldn’t be bothered to think about anyone else for more than five minutes at a time—bless you, Max Medina.

Gilmore Girls: Another rare moment when Rory and Lorelei both got spectacularly told off: It annoyed me that Lorelei had the condescending audacity to claim that Rory didn’t break up a marriage. Yes, Dean was equally guilty—and I like to think Lindsay’s mom gave him a verbal smack down too—but that doesn’t absolve Rory by a long shot. So yeah, good for Lindsay’s mom for being the one Stars Hollow resident not to mindlessly worship the Gilmore Girls and call them out on their crap.

Wells Jennifer did have an air of confidence that Shue didn’t. One of my favorite Marty and Jennifer moments is in the first movie, when Jennifer is encouraging Marty to send in his audition tape, reminding him of that famous Doc Brown advice: “If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.” And while Marty is reciting it, some girls in their 80s workout leotards pass by, and Marty is kind of eyeballing them…and Jennifer, without missing a beat and making a fuss, just turns Marty’s head back to her and playfully says, “That’s good advice, Marty.” Let’s hear it for secure love interests!

Six kids is a lot, but it was sweet when they all joined James on stage.

Honestly, it feels like both Jake and Michael put Amy on a pedestal. Maybe it should be understandable that Michael never got over her, but again I ask why would you still be pining over someone that treated you like crap then left you?

The hosts are good but why Morgan Wallen? Why do they keep inviting back the assholes?

And only to appease their own conscience, not the well-being of others as they so sanctimoniously claimed. Case in point:

Fair point, but Nora has only known Amy as the cold ex-wife/mother that hurt both Michael and Katie, and it’s understandable that she’s see Amy as using her condition for a do-over…and she’s not entirely wrong. OTOH maybe Gina is getting a little tired of a friendship that has become one-sided over the years. She’s always been the one to support Amy with all her troubles, yet the one time she actually needs her, Amy’s too wrapped up in herself to notice.

But it bothered me that Katie’s family was basically a nonentity while Katie was presented as an imperfect victim, which was more than enough for pukes like Jamie’s supporter to say that she deserved what she got. So Katie’s friend turned out to be right in her fear that the murderer would get more attention than the victim. I’d be disappointed if I was actually surprised.

Yup this episode was brutal. Especially when Briony trying to stress the serious consequences of Jamie’s actions, repeating that he took Katie’s life violently and yet he still wasn’t having it, playing the victim and calling Katie a bitch. It was sickening.

She still didn’t deserve to be stabbed to death over it. The cruel irony of the cops assuring Katie’s friend that she wouldn’t be overshadowed by her killer…and yet that’s exactly what happens.

I’d have felt sorrier for Richard if he just told Amy the truth in the last episode instead of gaslighting her. Honestly, Nora was right to rip Amy a new one. Just because she doesn’t remember the awful way she treated her family doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. And Michael, do you really want another go if the only reason Amy loves you again is because of a brain injury? I don’t know if I’m coming back next season.

Buckle up. That’s all I have to say. I mean, I knew it was going to be bad, since it’s Haymitch’s story and he winds up an alcoholic mess, but Jesus…

Reading Sunrise on the Reaping. Just when I think the Hunger Games books couldn't get any more brutal, Suzanne Collins takes it as a personal challenge...

I preferred Claudia too. Unfortunately she couldn’t reprise the role because her mom got sick, which is understandable. (And can the mods please merge the two threads so I can stop feeling like an idiot for making a duplicate one? 😳😳😳)

Ah. Ok.