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Well, it looks like the teen scene is officially defunct again as I don't think Holly will be back. That has to be the most abrupt write-off I've ever seen. Here's hoping they get someone for Tate to play with, though, because I like his character and the actor playing him.

That explains so much about why Holly was so abruptly written off the show. I'm hoping Tate gets to stick around. I like him.

I'm going to admit I had a really hard time getting through this season, but I did like how they wrapped up the original incarnation of the show. Honestly, this could have worked as a series finale. I think he's hot but I do agree. JJ at least looks more believable as a teenager. I'm glad the show finally killed off Ward. There was just nowhere else they could have taken the character. I was disappointed and felt let down that they made John A such a dick. I really had to roll my eyes at Rafe being given a "good" female love interest. I like Drew Starkey though so I get why they're keeping Rafe around even though he's basically a serial killer. lol

I seriously, seriously, seriously loved that moment where Mary places her son's baby clothes and baby bottle in her sister's nursey. Those baby clothes and baby bottle were things that Mary had set aside not just for nostalgia, but probably for the grandchildren she was hoping her son would give her. Now that hope is gone along with her son, and so she's passing on those cherished items to her sister's baby. The sister knew that what Mary was doing, and knew just how special it was. Just beautiful.

Spencer is gone as well unless they recast. I can see Spencer being recast because of how wildly popular Sprina has been but it's going to be a lot to live up to. They've managed to have pretty good luck with Spencer actors (NB also found work in a Ryan Murphy show coincidentally) so maybe it will continue.

Someone hit the nail on the head when they said that Sami and Dan's EJ look like they could be siblings (the eyes and the mouth especially) so I can't really get into them as a couple. They really need to let go of Ejami. It's not fair to Dan F. for him to be basically be on standby for whenever Alison Sweeney comes back for a quick storyline.

Barbie kept the budget down because a lot of the set was an actual practical set instead of CGI. I thought that Lionsgate had a very smart approach when it came to making The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds. They didn't use any name stars aside from Pete Dinklage and Viola Davis, they filmed overseas in Europe to get that European feel for the Capitol instead of building a bunch of sets, and the promotion was mostly on TikTok and Instagram.

I kind of figured they were just doing Dawson casting with Barry Keoghan playing a 20-year old (and there were moments where you could really see his actual age) but then the flash forward happened. They chose to cast a guy in his 30's and make him look younger rather then try to make a 20-year old look believable as a 35-year old for one scene.

Yeah, I believe the date says something like 2021. I did like that wistful way Rosamund said, "I suppose you would be" when she notices that Oliver is all grown up, as a woman who lost both of her children in their early 20's. So repressed but sad.

It kind of felt pointless to even set up the group of guys if they were going to send them off through Christmas. I kind of wish they had at least kept one of the younger guys around through the end of the storyline.

EJ would have been 17 in 2014 if he had aged normally. I thought about this when he mentioned that he could sleep until noon when he was Holly's age. EJ's extreme SORAS will never stop being hilarious to me.

This show hasn't actually killed off a regular cast character in years where they weren't magically brought back. (I'm not counting characters who died in real life.) Why do you think everyone believes Abby is going to be magically resurrected?

The teen set that consists of exactly two teenagers? Lol

Do we really have to start a separate thread for Everett or can I just post about him here? Maybe we can change the title to reflect that Blake Berris has played both Everett and Nick Fallon?

I remember her from Nip/Tuck and the 90210 reboot that I followed for about three years until I realized that they were chickening out with the awesome gay storyline they had done with Trevor Donovan's character. She's good, but the character description sounds so blah. I really hope that's not what they're actually writing. My guess is that she's a woman from Xander's past. Does this mean the show has finally stopped forcing Stephanie to take over the Abigail role?

Man, I hope he makes his centennial. I still can't get over Betty White going just a few days shy of hers.

Kiddo82 said: Anne Hathaway is in basically the third stage of her career- first Disney ingenue, then hot young leading lady gunning for an Oscar, and now she's heading into what is usually the "Mom to a teenager" stage of her career. Which she is doing, but Elieen is a nice counterbalance to that type of role. Anne also seems to be embracing a lot of tv mini-series work, which is smart. Thomasin McKenzie has carved out a really interesting career since her breakout role with Leave No Trace. I can't wait to see her play Keri Strug.

I legitimately thought we were done with this trope but here we are: I'm assuming there's going to be some kind of twist, but please- can we please let the whole trope of having underage/barely legal girls obsessing over men twice their age die with the 1990's?

I legitimately thought we were done with this trope but here we are: I'm assuming there's going to be some kind of twist, but please- can we please let the whole trope of having underage/barely legal girls making eyes at men twice their age die with the 1990's? At least they didn't cast an actual teenager here. So that's an improvement over the Crush!

Anne Hathaway is in basically the third stage of her career- first Disney ingenue, then hot young leading lady gunning for an Oscar, and now she's heading into what is usually the "Mom to a teenager" stage of her career. Which she is doing, but Elieen is a nice counterbalance to that type of role. Anne also seems to be embracing a lot of tv mini-series work, which is smart.

Her bitterness about Barbie was not a good look for her, at all. I was a fan of hers (I really loved Trainwreck and enjoyed Snatched and I Feel Pretty) but I think her antics around that firmly pushed me off. Maybe take a cue from Anne Hathaway who was also supposed to play Barbie and move on? I don't think I'd like being around Reese Witherspoon, but I will say she's done a lot to make sure that women aren't just tossed aside as soon as they turn 40 and can't play the hot young love interest next to her middle aged male co-star. So there's that.

They did a homage to Save the Last Dance on SNL- and it made me wonder...would that plot be done today? Pretty much every contemporary modern romantic teen movie I've seen does not treat interracial dating as a big deal. Hell, even recent period movies set in the 80's or 90's take a "we don't see color at all!" approach. I could also see people not vibing with the stereotypical depiction of black women that veered towards being negative. (The sister is a teen mom, the ex-gf doesn't like seeing "one of the few good black men" going to a white girl.) Then there's the cultural appropriation question as well as centering a white girl in a black culture. I guess you could change Sarah to not being white, but at that point it's not really Save the Last Dance.

I did like the metaphor of the house by the lake being a metaphor for a gilded cage for Joe. It's beautiful but isolated as opposed to a more typical suburban area.

A lot of the conversation seems to be around the body language he does throughout the movie. He doesn't say all that much, but he conveys the emotional arrestment of being stuck at 13 quite well. You're watching a little boy in the body of a man and Melton nailed that. Gracie says at the end that her son Georgie made that up and I didn't think she was lying. At the final scene you're seeing her mask come off and the predator she really is. That's why Elizabeth is stunned- she realized that Gracie had been playing her the entire time with the fragile delicate act.

Supposedly this is what happens on US Big Brother, where there are a bunch of deals where contestants share prizes for guarantees of final 3's or whatever. No one really plays the game anymore.