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So far I like it! I like Sam being sort of sympathetic (I'm assuming losing her dad at a relatively young age is what set her on this path) while clearly not being ready to take responsibility for herself. I like the facets of the mom character (Ally Sheedy) -- believably flawed and even resentful at times dealing with her daughter, but honestly trying. I like the probation officer frankly telling her "I recommended you go to jail for 90 days but the judge said no" after the drunk driving incident. I liked the acknowledgement that dealing with her emotions is what Sam can't handle ... and the cute guy at AA being like "oh, yeah, of course, that's the worst part by far."
I do wonder how long they can keep up the quality and keep it interesting. I would imagine recovery in real life would be a lot of learning to cope with the difficulty and mundanity of every day life without turning to substances.
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9 hours ago, Hana Chan said:
've loved SR ever since I saw them on Broadway in Spamalot. Four times. They have an amazing set of pipes and I wish that they would do something that would involve singing in the future. But I do guess that after they came out as nonbinary that acting jobs are not as forthcoming as they had in the past. Which is a real shame, and at first I was excited that they would get to play a nonbinary character in a high profile show.
But then the show turned out to be awful and Che is the most obnoxious character of the bunch (though Miranda is currently beating them out for being gross). Which is a real shame because it's not taking advantage of SR's talents, and it's likely to tamp down on other opportunities to have characters who don't fit the usual gender norms featured so prominently.
This might be the worst part about all of this ... the first (one of the first?) high profile non-binary characters on TV and the writing portrays them not as a well-rounded, fully fleshed out person with needs, desires, cares and concerns, but someone who's entire job is to constantly talk about "wokeness" and is there to be cool, non-committal and to coax (in Miranda's case, somewhat aggressively) someone else along their sexual exploration journey. I can't imagine this is helpful to non-binary representation.
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@Winston Wolfe mentioned in the episode thread that Tony Geary and Kin Shriner decided to do a real fistfight for this 1981 scene (Scotty crashing Luke and Laura's wedding) and somebody lost a tooth. Best quality clip I could find --- start at 1:50 --- so we can all ponder which actor lost a tooth.
And just for fun, here's Scotty winning a fight with Luke the year prior (start at 13:27):
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7 hours ago, Winston Wolfe said:
Interesting bit of trivia - back when Scotty crashed L&L's first wedding, for some reason Kin Shriner and Tony Geary decided they should get into a real fistfight. IIRC correctly, I believe one of them actually lost a tooth in that brawl (Shriner, I think).
And the show let them? The entire HR department must have been on vacation that day.
I'm putting the clip of the Luke / Scotty wedding fight in the Ghosts of GH Past Viewing Party thread ... so we can all enjoy and take bets on who lost a tooth that day ...
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1 minute ago, GHScorpiosRule said:
All I know is that Laura showed up after he became Mayor, and after they defeated ("killed" Stavros), they both left Port Charles.
The conman/grifter change was after he and Geary decided that Luke was "trapped" and hated his life with Laura.
Hey, no shame in changing your plans if your wife turns up alive! -- it was just funny how it played out because Luke and Laura tried to make a go of it as mayor and first lady of Port Charles for a few weeks and then were like "yeah, no this sucks and we're bored!"
Darth Luke of Cynicism and Despair started in the late 90s / early 2000s, if I recall correctly.
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He was only mayor for about a month, when he realized he hated doing it and quit. Also, he initially ran for mayor so he could fire Robert as police commissioner (he was angry with Robert for an extremely stupid reason at the time). Which is kind of hilarious.
(He did legitimately help Robert save the world, though .... as did Laura, not that she ever got enough credit for that!)
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4 minutes ago, Desperado said:
I started watching GH in 1980. Who is Jennifer Smith again?
She was the daughter of the mobster, Frank Smith, Luke worked for in '79 and '80. Luke was supposed to marry Jennifer in '80, but that fell apart when Scott broke up their engagement party and punched Luke in front of everyone, basically revealing that Luke was actually obsessed with Laura. Luke and Laura ended up on the run through the summer of '80, because Frank now wanted to kill them.
(I don't actually remember this from 40 years ago, I watched some clips out of curiosity on YT).
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About halfway through, not sure if I love where this is going, and it's kind of a lot of tropes stacked onto each other (demon worship? ghosts? people being naturally "chosen" for a sinister place or event? found footage creepiness? maybe he's dreaming most of this? 90s nostalgia? this show has it all!!). Also, found footage is always tricky, because the plot contrivances required for the characters to Always Be Recording become silly.
However, Mamadou Athie is pretty great and sells this for me. Dina Shahibi is great, too, but she's of course trapped in the role of breathlessly gasping into the camera much of the time (which she handles with as much gravitas as possible, to her credit). I also enjoyed the acting between Matt McGorry and Martin Donovan in the scene where Virgil was trying to get info out of Dan's friend.
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On 1/19/2022 at 10:45 AM, Jillybean said:
This part of the article is the funniest:
"Are we supposed to like Che?
I guess? The show has all the characters talk about them as a “comedy prophet,” but the comedy on its face is like Nanette sent through Google Translate a few times, and their actions with Miranda imply they freely fuck around with whoever — especially privileged cis women, given the fan attention Che gets at the school fundraiser. That’s all well and good, but as a general rule, maybe don’t fuck around with your co-worker’s married friends?"-
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I understand Cynthia Nixon had a later in life realization of her sexual identity (which is great!) but she and Miranda were never similar people and what might've worked for Nixon doesn't work for this character. (Miranda, for instance, would never have pursued a career as uncertain as acting).
So while Miranda might well have realized later in life that she was not exclusively heterosexual, and that she no longer wanted to be married to Steve .... the way they are doing it is annoying. Miranda falling for an arrogant, over-forty pothead podcaster / comedian who doesn't answer text messages for months is eye-rolling. Miranda would find Che annoying and unserious, and, unlike Miranda's other famous opposites-attract relationship (Steve), Che doesn't seem to want to win over Miranda the way Steve did on SATC.
Now the writers could have written it as Miranda being simultaneously annoyed by but trying to understand her sexual attraction to Che, and using that attraction as a realization she is over Steve / bisexual and now open to explore with someone with whom she actually has something in common. There's a lot the writers could do with Che if they stopped trying so hard to make them seem "cool", but Che is not working as a romantic hero when they write them like this, and certainly doesn't make sense for Miranda.
I will say Girls did this much better, with the Peter Scolari character coming out late in life -- he agonized over leaving his marriage and losing the companionship and friendship of his wife, and when he finally made the leap he started dating a nice man who was temperamentally suited to him. That was actually quite lovely and complex, watching Scolari's character deal with coming out in his fifties, and the guilt of devastating a wife he still loved, and dating again for the first time in decades, and finding a sweet man on a similar journey. And he was only a guest star in a handful of Girls episodes!
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It's never a good sign when a show goes to the "wheeee we're all on hallucinogens!" well so early in its run.
However, Ginnifer Goodwin did finally get something fun to do -- Jodie's unhinged texting to her trainer and ripping the tree out of the ground were actually funny. Of course, her plot is destined to be stuck in this stagnant limbo forever unless Jodie has a drastic personality change ... she's too passive to have serious thoughts about leaving her awful husband or thinking about a career for herself, so flirting with her cute trainer as a distraction is pretty much her entire story.
The stuff with Amy trying to have a conference call in the same room as her kids, and later bringing the gross fig home to her son ... ok, that was cute and we're at least getting closer to some substance in this plot.
The Sarah stuff still is not working. Cancel the damn credit card if you don't want your ex using it. I also don't understand why she left her house and belongings and credit card to the ex she's also paying spousal support to. Leaving a high powered career like medicine can be a valid choice (especially for doctors / nurses after the last 2 years, not that this show seems to acknowledge the pandemic!), Sarah's decision to do this with no plan or apparent history of burnout or desire for a major career shift -- especially after her self-nullifying surrender of everything to the ex -- is actually insane.
How long has Colleen been dead?? Joking with Brian about all the food people keep bringing him and dragging him and his tiny daughter out to steal a tree seems wildly inappropriate.
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On 1/19/2022 at 8:44 AM, DanaK said:
Per Soap Opera Digest, several characters will pay tribute to Luke Spencer on Jan 21 that will include a few surprise guests, and which will kick off a new mystery
Just kidding ... I'm sure some viewers will care, but didn't they write Luke out of the show years ago? And let's be honest Luke's character was pretty fucked well before that exit. I haven't watched in forever at this point, but I thought Lucky and Lulu were gone and it's not like Luke kept up a good relationship with Tracy (is she still around? did Laura come back? would either of them care enough about their ex-husband at this point to have a whole story about him dying offscreen?).
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7 hours ago, T Summer said:
I have a lot of coily hair that resembles "Carrie's" hair in length and color. As it's dry, I don't wash it daily. If it's not looking it's best every curl the same low/no frizz and I have to go somewhere I put it up loosely and pull some strands out around my face to soften the look. Why can't the army of stylists on hand do something like that to Carrie's hair?
Yes, this would look cute on her! When they pull it back tight it (a) looks painful and I feel it in my own scalp and (b) reminds me of that Family Stone movie where that severe hair style was supposed to show her character was uptight and unlikeable.
i just feel like if you’ve been in an entire movie where this hair style was part of the joke, you shouldn’t allow it to be done to you! 😂
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2 hours ago, Hiyo said:
Interesting...
The Golden Girls may have dressed like a stereotype of grandmas but they had vibrant, fun social lives. Sounds like the SATC reboot ladies dress young but are not having much fun at all.
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21 hours ago, Shermie said:
It does bug me when doctors or lawyers (whether on tv or in real life) quit their jobs because they can’t handle the pressure. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. I just read an article about a lawyer who quit because the firm expected her to be available 24/7 and she wanted some family time. So she quit and became an artist. Now that’s all well and good, but what about the 8 years of education? What about the debt to pay for it? Why not put up a shingle and run your own little law office doing family law or estate law or whatever? Make it work somehow. Why totally quit what clearly was an interest for many years? Makes no sense. This show was the same. ER doctoring is too high pressure? Then downsize, open a family practice, take on only as many patients as you want. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
I think it’s hard to say how everyone should deal with burnout or the realization they’ve spent years and years working hard at something they no longer enjoy. Not everyone is meant to stay in the same profession all their life. There’s nothing wrong with a radical change if you think it through and plan for it.
The problem with the Maggie Q character is they laid no ground work to explain she burned out / had been unhappy for a while but was afraid to take the leap / was just waiting until the student loans were paid off, etc. She’s a type A person who often brags about being a surgeon, and her friends act like she’s never complained about the job much before, so it’s not believable that she suddenly wants out.
This might’ve worked better as an hour long drama with some humor. The sitcom jokes are stale and unfunny. There’s no effort or time to get the audience to really understand the emotions driving these women. Realizing you’re a bad mom, making a huge career change, facing mortality…. Interesting themes, but the show explores them in this shallow, uninteresting way.
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18 hours ago, SnazzyDaisy said:
When Carrie met her book publisher.
Why do they do this with SJP’s hair? Why??
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I thought in the original series Charlotte finally said she didn’t give blow jobs because she just didn’t enjoy it — which I thought was kind of nice, that she pushed back on being pressured by her date and her friends. But who knows, she might’ve changed her mind or enjoyed it more with Harry.
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44 minutes ago, cleo said:
I assume Luke comes back and is pissed about Robert and Holly even though dude you could have told them you were alive.
I don't hate Luke- he is usually entertaining. But he is also obnoxious/abusive.
Oh yeah, he's pissed! You should definitely watch the Luke / Robert confrontation on the dock when it comes up ... both actors do a good job with it.
In other news, I've started the '85 Asian Quarter saga (with much trepidation, as I'm afraid it will be stereotype city):
- There's a really nice moment when Anna is saying bye to Robert and goes to give him a friendly handshake and he, instead, gently kisses her on the forehead and gives her a meaningful look ... except she's back in 2-3 days instead of never seeing him again, so his "I'll never forget you!" face is hilarious in retrospect.
- Anna is damn lucky Robin's kidnapper politely deposited her at Robert's house, because Anna flails around unproductively for most of her kid's 2 or 3 day disappearance. (Robert and Robin seem to live 3 days of life in the time it takes Anna to live 2, so either the writers/editors goofed or Anna panicked herself right into a time warp).
- Love how when Robert starts to figure out Robin's his, he blurts out "tell me I'm right!" to Anna. He wants Robin to be his kid so bad, and that is literally all he cares about.
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Is it weird that one of my all time favorite scenes in Godfather I is Sonny just beating the absolute shit out of Connie's husband, and even biting him?? Quite frankly, given what happens later, Sonny should've killed the guy.
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I started watching as a kid after school probably around the time Duke and Anna married, so that was late '87 or in '88? And then watched pretty regularly through most of the '90s. With the magic of YT, I have now gone back and seen end of '79 through summer of '85. I've jumped around to see other clips, like the intro of child Robin, but in terms of trying to see the whole '80s saga, that's where I'm at.
Luke on the mountain is unintentionally hilarious for 2 reasons: (1) there's a scene where the nice man Luke stays with has a heart attack, and Luke staggers over to try and help but instead falls on the guy and accidentally flips a table onto him for good measure; (2) Luke has this absolutely ridiculous daydream/waking nightmare of how he'll lash out at Holly if she has to care for him as a paraplegic (this is his fucked up rationalization for why he'll let her believe he's dead unless and until he can walk again .... Luke is insane and has weird, limiting beliefs about the disabled). When Luke starts getting physical therapy, the therapist is a good and interesting character.
Rick and Lesley don't do a whole lot in '83, except move teenager Blackie (young John Stamos) and some kid named Mikey into their home, and Lesley has a gambling addiction for about two seconds.
ETA: Here's the clip where learning-to-walk-again Luke is so awful, annoying and self-pitying that he causes a man to have a heart attack and then flips an entire table onto said man.
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18 hours ago, cleo said:
Well I know some things but I don't know what I don't know lol. I knew/know:
- that Luke comes back, just didn't know the details
- Holly and Robert get married (she is pregnant?)- I don't know much about Robert's storylines at all, or him and Holly so I'm interested in this bc Robert is the best lol. Holly meh. She got a little more tolerable when separated from Luke. I have never seen people with less chemistry in my life.
But I don't know much else about what happens with Robert and Holly. [...]
That's pretty much all I knew when I watched -- that Robert and Holly would get together and Luke would return. My knowledge of the show was end of the 80s through the 90s etc., and later I went back to video clips of '79 or so out of curiosity and started watching from there.
1983 is a year it really pays to watch full episodes, because a lot happens, and it's all connected -- and I wouldn't dream of spoiling it for you!! Try not to skip too many scenes, just let the delightful insanity wash over you.
There's Luke's story, a mayoral race, the Susan Moore murder (important because it's Robert's first big case as Commissioner and it gives him and Holly something to talk about and you can watch their relationship grow), and of course the larger mystery that takes up most of the year. Also, the triangle with Celia Quartermaine, country boy Jimmy Lee, and Celia's uptight fiancee Grant -- Celia is annoying AF, but her story ties into the larger mystery so I'm sorry but you do have to pay attention to her, LOL.
What they did so much better in the 80s was plan out a yearlong story with compelling, short-term supporting characters played by excellent character actors ... and most of them did not wear out their welcome after the story ended or return from the dead again and again over the next 30 years. So you can have some fun guessing who might secretly be a baddie.
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It does seem odd that none of the ladies made “couple friends” with their spouses along the way, and shouldn’t Charlotte have already collected a bunch of mom friends over the years her kids were growing up? Making friends as you age is hard, but with the money at least Carrie and Charlotte have, they would have a more expanded social circle by now. They could get some mileage from Carrie feeling sad and awkward around the couples she befriended with Big, but it sounds like they rarely talk about the day to day of her married life.
The idea of Carrie moving back into her old apartment is so oddly depressing to me.
I loved that scene where Charlotte got drunk at lunch and horrified her old sorority sisters by talking about Trey’s problems in bed. Even when the show explored bad sex back in the day, it was fun.
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Yes, it’s left ambiguous whether Peter is gay and if his college friend is more than a friend. He could fear the friend will be taunted by Phil or he could not want the friend to see Peter being taunted — or he could simply think Phil is generally embarrassing.
I think it’s just a friend that Peter bonds with as a fellow intellect and passionate student. But Peter mentions the new friend to his mom in an offhand manner — he’s happy to have a friend, but loneliness doesn’t seem to gnaw at him like it does with the other characters. Peter will hold out for an actual connection based on shared interests, whereas Phil tries to force a possessive closeness with the brother he has little in common with.
One of the saddest little touches in the movie is when Phil makes the tiny desk and chair for George — like, he wants to connect but the obvious way (being pleasant to his brother’s wife and being happy for his brother) is utterly lost on him.
Another thing that struck me — Rose is fully accepting of Peter just as he is. She may worry that others will be cruel to him, but she never asks him to behave differently or hide parts of himself. This may further explain Peter’s fierce devotion.-
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Holy shit, well that ending certainly surprised me! Honestly, I have been pretty meh on some of Jane Campion's movies in the past (and also the series Top of the Lake), but this one was a slow burn that really paid off for me.
I agree with the read on Phil others have had, that he hated Rose because his brother's marriage made Phil even lonelier. Also, note how Phil stops calling George "fatso" -- George's marriage gives him more confidence and a higher social status than Phil (even though the dinner with the Governor went poorly, and Rose looked like a deer in headlights the whole time, George is more accepted into "polite" society with a wife). Phil also believes Rose is a gold digger, beneath the Burbank family, and less intelligent than himself ... though Phil prefers working all day on the ranch and rarely bathes, his family has money and points out that Phil studied the classics at one point.
That scene where George tears up at the idea he won't be so lonely anymore ... oof, Jesse Plemons really got me verklempt on that one. A huge part of the story is loneliness. Phil's loneliness (without Bronco, knowing society won't let him openly love who he loves) is part of why he's so hateful. George only seems to realize how painfully lonely he's been when he experiences happiness. Rose loves George but clearly feels isolated and insecure once she moves to the ranch. But Peter ... he loves his mother, but otherwise he seems mostly happy being a loner, and some people are just like that ... one more thing Phil didn't understand about Peter ...
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Episode Discussion II: The TFGH
in General Hospital
Sarah Brown Carly was this devious yet often self-destructive wrecking ball who probably had some complex psychological diagnoses (I think on some level she was disordered enough to actually believe "poor little me I'm a victim who's justified in taking everything I can get", and her lack of self-awareness almost made her worthy of pity at times). After a while I found her just plain exhausting ... but she was fascinating in a way. But smirky, shouty Carly who thinks she's hot shit because Sonny's (then Jax's) money and power set her up for life has never been interesting to me.
Now that I've gone back and watched early 80s Luke and Bobbie, these 90s scenes are extra good, because Luke was recognizing in Carly the very worst of his own and Bobbie's scheming, resentful-toward-the-world impulses back in the day -- but Carly didn't even have the justification of the horrific and impoverished childhood that warped young Luke's and Bobbie's minds.