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I thought it sucked that he was given the lead for a teen scene but then for some odd reason, Eve, Jennifer, and Dan played WAY more of a part of it than they should have.

My personal fan wank is that Chad died of natural causes (cancer? Maybe he needed an organ transplant that just didn't arrive in time?) when they were in grad school. I don't think it was something Elliot could have tried to prevent, like a car accident or a murder. I think Elliot dropped out due to her grief but finally went back to her PhD program after 15 years, hence her being a PhD candidate at 39 years old.

GH made the decision to kill off a premature baby on Christmas so this feels relatively tame to me to kill off a character who was 98 years old on Thanksgiving. I don't know, in real life I had a friend who died of an overdose when we were 27 years old the day after Thanksgiving so this just isn't going to bother me much. Death doesn't stop just because it's your birthday or a holiday.

I am praying this show adds a hot young bad boy. This show desperately needs it.

I will say that Stacey does a great job at selling the mother/son dynamic with this EJ.

Meanwhile it's following the same trajectory of the OC, right down to killing off a beloved character right before the last season of the show. I enjoy it because the writing is so bad yet everyone is just all in, although I think Chase Stokes might be over it, as he's 32 playing a 19-year old. Lol I am surprised that it wasn't Rafe they killed off due to the fact that Drew Starkey is set to become an indie darling.

It would be cool if Lulu sees the teen Rocco and realizes how much time she actually lost.

I really like Zac Tinker as Sonny and I wish they could have worked out a deal. Although this doesn't look like a long-term role. It does give him a bit of a toehold in the Ryan Murphy verse, so that's usually not a bad thing when it comes to career opportunities.

I got through episode 8 but I was spoiled. I really, really didn't mind them killing off JJ because at this point it was ridiculous how much luck they had, but I think it was dumb to introduce the idea of JJ being from a family line that he's never going to get to explore. Honestly, I'm more upset at the idea of Sarah getting pregnant and never expressing the idea of maybe not having this baby. I'm still angry about Roe vs. Wade, and if there's anyone in a position to consider having an abortion, it'd be Sarah. The whole "hey, it will all work out in the end" is rich coming from a group of kids that are in no way, shape, or form ready to settle down into a family life. I get that they're not intending this to be a pro-life storyline but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that neither Sarah nor Kiara even THOUGHT the word "abortion" here. Of course the baby will be a little girl and they'll call her JJ. I can see it now. Blech. I kept thinking this show regretted killing off Chip Esten so they were like, "What if we take Ward, but make him even more psycho and add the cold-bloodedness smartness of John B.'s dad?" Dude was so sketchy and skeevy the entire time that you never believed for a second he wasn't going to screw over the entire gang for helping him. I just don't think JJ's paternity retcon added anything at all, especially since they just killed him off anyway. I never really bought Kie and JJ as a romantic thing as Kie always read as "Lesbian" to me. That was before I even read that (no surprise) Madison was dating a woman. I haven't seen Madison in anything else so maybe she can pull off heterosexual vibes but she did not bring that to Kiara, especially in season 1. I was totally waiting for Kiara to admit to Sarah that she had a crush on her. LOL In any event, Jonas Pate has a new show starting up on Amazon Prime starring William Lipton from General Hospital, this time about a band. I'm curious to see if that show will be more "normal" or if they will also think they're starring in Breaking Bad.

I loved the foreshadowing where she mentions how some rich asshole bought up the at-the-time uninhabited small island where Elliot camped overnight with her friends. Then we learn that her family is selling the cranberry farm, presumably to the same rich asshole that later buys up the small island. I kind of wanted this to be a 2000's period piece, but you're right though- setting this "now" and Aubrey Plaza being from the 2040's meant the movie could mention all these little bits about the serious environmental disaster that she's clearly living in, like salmon no longer existing. (It also ties into the very clear insinuation that the idyllic environment where Elliot grew up becomes some big developed resort/rich people's playground by Aubrey's time.)

See, I think NAC can hit hard simply BECAUSE he doesn't fit the current Gen Z softboi mold. Nobody looks or acts like he does. The closest I can think of is Jacob Elordi in that they can both do the brooding hunk thing, but Jacob is shy in public and he seems to take himself almost too seriously. NAC is all sunny and stuff. Sometimes people come along that are different enough that they carve up a space, and you can go far with that. Anya Taylor Joy is a person I think came along at exactly the right time because there was really nobody that looked/acted like her and we needed a Scream Queen for more highbrow horror stuff that was becoming popular in the 2010's. She was extremely smart with the projects she picked. (Of course in her case, Anya could be picky because she came from a wealthy family; I think NAC comes from a more middle class background.)

I like the symbolism of Kat wearing her natural curly hair, as she's no longer pretending to be Abigail, who had pin-straight hair.

I wrote this about Maisy Stella in 2017 and I feel vindicated by this movie. She is damn good, and I am really glad that she came back to acting after doing the regular school kid thing.

I would have kept the Carrie montage ending to Beetlejuice 2, but I would have added Astrid rushing over to comfort her mother, as like an inverse of the Sue Snell and her mom scene.

NAC has officially joined the cast for the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" reboot.