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So out of all the clips they could have shown for Anatomy of a Fall to represent it for Best Non-English Language film, they choose a scene spoken in English.

That's where I know her from!!! Thank you.

Not gonna lie, I actually enjoyed the schtick between Angela and Jared. Maybe because the opening monologue was so painful, it felt like a breath of fresh air. At the moment I really like how they are presenting the nominees with an image from their role in the movie.

This monologue makes me long for the days when we use to open these shows with a song and dance number.

Catch Me If You Claus was definitely my pick of the new Christmas movies this year. In fact, I would say it actually felt like a movie that could have had a legit theatrical release.

Made an effort to go to the cinema to see this before the hectic Christmas rush. And I didn't regret my decision to see this on the big screen. My thoughts were correct, seeing the songs visually helped improve the songs but they still weren't extremely memorable. I laughed at times, got emotional a couple of times and thoroughly enjoyed myself. While I may not rush out to the cinema to see it again, I will recommend it to people and happily rewatch at home. There were times when I saw Wilder's Wonka in Chalamet's Wonka. Just little looks or mannerisms for a fleeting second. I much preferred the parental background story in this one compared to Burton's version (and it didn't feel shoehorned in). The world also felt very Dahl-esque, something missing from Willy Wonka but that Burton succeeded in doing in his movie. While I won't be demanding Chalamet release an album any time soon, he at least managed to hold and tune and look like he was having fun singing and dancing. Hugh Grant was a comedic highlight for me, with Olivia Colman and her partner a close second. I did have to look up the significance of what happened to them at the end - even as a fan of Dahl's books - as I had no idea what the reveal signified.

I was doing so well until we got to Tim's quilt and then the dam wall burst. I'm happy that Lucy had the strength to leave Hawk. She does deserve to be desired, and she deserves to be able to live a life knowing she isn't the backup choice. Happy that Hawk was able to tell his daughter about Tim and be confident enough to be himself in public. Especially after he threw Tim under the bus to the M-Unit to prevent Tim getting too familiar with Hawk at work and exposing Hawk for who he is. Happy that Tim went out fighting. Both politically and personally. And I really liked that scene between Marcus and Jerome. I think it was important to show that contracting HIV didn't mean you deserve it or did something wrong, like so many people were saying in the 80s/90s and even still today. This would have to be among my top tv shows of the year, possibly the best. And I hope that they don't continue it, even as an anthology series.

Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome.

IMO I think if death wasn't an option, Dahl would have chosen Burton's version as the preferred one as it sticks closer to his story than the 1971 version, if we ignore the pointless dentist flashback of course. I'm one of those people who prefers Burton's Charlie over the WIlly Wonka version. A lot of it has to do with the use of Dahl's lyrics for the Oompa Loompa song, the fact that Charlie behaves himself during the tour justifying the reward. But I do think Gene Wilder was a better Willy Wonka than Johnny Depp. My perfect movie would be Gene Wilder in Tim Burton's version without the dentist. I'm interested in seeing Wonka, even if after listening to the soundtrack the songs are rather average but I can see how with good staging and choreography the songs could be lifted to realms of memorability. Chalamet surprised me with his singing voice, it's not amazing but he can hold a tune. Hopefully I can see this before Christmas.

That shot of Tim arriving at the house on Fire Island and knocking on the door was a great example of terrible greenscreen. I imagine throughout the series there has been a series of greenscreen moments, but that one was very very noticeable. Made even odder when they went to the effort to take Matt and Jonathan to a beach to frolic in, surely somewhere during that shoot they could have staged Jonathan standing somewhere with his back to the ocean to get a similar shot. Or maybe I just don't understand television production.

I was doing a casual stroll on Netflix with the search words 'gay' and 'lgbt', just to see if I missed anything new that's dropped in that category and both searches brought up Dead Boy Detectives, so I'm going to assume that they are sticking with the Doom Patrol canon.

I really like how this episode basically tied everything we discovered early on in the 1980s scenes into the past. The major family incident, why Tim cut off Hawk, how Tim's love turned into a strong dislike, why Lucy was warmer to Tim (in a way) in their phone conversation. It also helped make last episode not as random as it felt last week. I've been wondering what the exact moment was going to be where Tim said 'Enough is enough!' as indicated in the first episode. And I must say, I am firmly in Tim's camp. I too fell for Hawk's confession by the pool and then to see him the next morning back at square one I would have responded exactly the way Tim did. Well maybe not exactly, I feel there would have been a lot more yelling. As much pain as it caused Tim, at least his verbal attack at Hawk and saying he was done, was the kick up the butt Hawk needed to snap out of his downward spiral. I know this is going to be left field, but I'm getting a vibe that this show may pull an Atonement like ending. There is something about the 1980s scenes that feel a little too perfect for Hawk. I might need to go back and watch the first couple of episodes because I feel there is moment in the cafe where Hawk's visit may have gone one of two ways, and we are seeing the idealistic path that has only occurred in Hawk's mind. I of course will be wildly off course like I usually am with TV shows, so don't mind my flight of fancy. This episode also makes me want to rewatch the film Milk.

A similar moment happened in the mini-series The Man in an Orange Shirt. And yes at the moment in both stories I was annoyed at the action, but also understood exactly why the action took place. My annoyance is more from a nostalgic point of view, that the men the letters were addressed to didn't get to decide the outcome of the letters, and thus a memory gets destroyed (that could have been the final memory of the writer)

I'm guessing Hawk didn't know Lucy knew, until she confronted him about Tim in the episode.

It took me a while to realise we were having flashbacks within the flashback. The Tim one was obvious, but I didn't realise about Lucy's until halfway through the episode - even though I should have made the connection when they were talking about renovating the cabin. For some reason I initially thought the renovation was happening while Tim was there. It was only until make a baby with me that I realised that part of the episode was a flashback. Definitely a filler episode, but the ending definitely sets up that something major is going to happen with Jackson. I feel by the time the series ends I'm either going to wish we didn't spend so long in the 1950s OR wish we just stayed in the 1950s with brief pitstops in the 1980s. The story has already set up another convenient time jump. The first was shipping Tim off to war and now sending Tim to prison gives a reason for Hawk and Tim not to be in each other's lives for a long period of time. With the reveal at the end of the episode that Lucy knew about Tim for a long time and hence her concerned looks watching Hawk's interactions with Andrew (?) outside the window, I feel like the mother was just talking about her husband having heterosexual affairs - because she didn't see what was happening outside the window and was referring to her husband always working late as well, having no idea about her son in laws extracurricular activity with men.

I can't remember the line exactly, but when he spoke to Lucy I knew where his storyline was going to go. Probably because a similar moment just happened in the episode of The Gilded Age I just watched prior to viewing this episode. So is Leonard no longer required to be cured, now that his dad isn't a senator? With only 3 episodes left, I'm hoping for a bit of a time jump into the 60s with the next episode.

Marcus and Frankie continue to bring the feels, while Hawk continues to act in a way that makes me want to go all Rapunzel on him and hit him with a frypan whenever he opens his mouth. I doubt it will happen based on what we are seeing in the 80s, but I truly hope Tim finds someone willing to love him unconditionally at some point. I mean Hawk was happy to throw Lenny into conversion therapy (happy to see I was right in picking up that Lenny was a fellow traveler a couple of episodes back) to save his boss' career. It's like the only gay person Hawk truly cares about is himself and is now (1980s) realising how wrong that approach was. I know Hawk thought he was helping Tim, but man it was cold when Hawk told Tim he won't wait for him. Quick question about David Schine. While I've read up on him via Wikipedia (which is not conclusive for what happened in real life) from a show point of view, what is David's relationship with Cohn? I mean are we to assume it has gotten physical (and David is pretending it hasn't) or that David just sees it as a friendship to get out of army service and nothing has happened, and Cohn has unrequited attraction and David used it to his advantage?

So have jsut began to watch S7 and it's already started off on a bad note. I hate when shows end a season on a cliffhanger and then the next season begins with '2 weeks later' and solve the cliffhanger with a handwave. I admit I think I will miss the flashforward/flashback the series used in the past, mostly because it seems this season is just going to be drama instead of solving a mystery. At the moment, I'm glad they bought back Omar, because except for Ivan, I really am not invested in any other character's story.

Alright so we are halfway through the series, and I need to know. How does the story the show is presenting compare to the source material? I'm enjoying the story and thinking of reading the book once the series is done, but if the tv show strays too far from the book, I don't want to read the book.

Angels in America taught me that the answer is Meryl Steep. That opening scene was quite emotional and then to have the interviewer in Room M305 basically shrug his shoulder at the suicides the investigation has caused, was super cold. That's the exact thought I had. You can tell that Hawk is re-evaluating his past choices and what he could have had with Tim if he made different choices. It's kinda funny that at the start of the story it was Tim struggling with his identity but with each episode he embraces who is more and more, while Hawk is going in the opposite direction. Marcus' approach to his relationship with Frankie is almost a way of showing the audience what Hawk & Tim could have been if Hawk wasn't so arrogant with their relationship. She was so proud of herself for what she did, so I was really happy that Hawk was able to put her back in her place.

My gut says it's because if it doesn't happen now, The Rock will be too old to play Maui by the time real nostalgia kicks in.

Well, it doesn't look like they will be shying away from the gay scenes based on that trailer. And the trailer in general has maintained my interest in this series. Still can't believe we are getting a series about a Stuart monarch, who isn't Mary. Queen of Scots.

A photo of the soldier being hugged (from memory) by McCarthy. Perhaps at a private party. Not too sure, it was a pretty quick shot of the photo and I haven't rewatched it. If I was Hawk, I wouldn't launch an investigation based solely on the photo BUT it does offer a chance of scandal for McCarthy if it got out. Especially since him, Cohen and David are apparently referred to as Bonnie & Bonnie & Clyde. I'm predicting that Hawk is going to overplay his hand, give the photo to his senator who will then go after McCarthy. Resulting in McCarthy going after Hawk as revenge.

From McCarthy's Wikipedia page: In 1950, McCarthy assaulted journalist Drew Pearson in the cloakroom at the Sulgrave Club, reportedly kneeing him in the groin. McCarthy, who admitted the assault, claimed he merely "slapped" Pearson.[49] In 1952, using rumors collected by Pearson as well as other sources, Nevada publisher Hank Greenspun wrote that McCarthy was a frequent patron at the White Horse Inn, a Milwaukee gay bar, and cited his involvement with young men. Greenspun named some of McCarthy's alleged lovers, including Charles E. Davis, an ex-Communist and "confessed homosexual" who claimed that he had been hired by McCarthy to spy on U.S. diplomats in Switzerland.[50][51] McCarthy's FBI file also contains numerous allegations, including a 1952 letter from an Army lieutenant who said, "When I was in Washington some time ago, [McCarthy] picked me up at the bar in the Wardman [Hotel] and took me home, and while I was half-drunk he committed sodomy on me." J. Edgar Hoover conducted a perfunctory investigation of the Senator's alleged sexual assault; Hoover's approach was that "homosexuals are very bitter against Senator McCarthy for his attack upon those who are supposed to be in the Government."[52][53] Although some notable McCarthy biographers have rejected these rumors,[54] others have suggested that he may have been blackmailed. During the early 1950s, McCarthy launched a series of attacks on the CIA, claiming it had been infiltrated by communist agents. Allen Dulles, who suspected McCarthy was using information supplied by Hoover, refused to cooperate. According to the historian David Talbot, Dulles also compiled a "scandalous" intimate dossier on the Senator's personal life and used the homosexual stories to take him down.[55] In any event, McCarthy did not sue Greenspun for libel. (He was told that if the case went ahead he would be compelled to take the witness stand and to refute the charges made in the affidavit of the young man, which was the basis for Greenspun's story.) In 1953, he married Jean Fraser Kerr, a researcher in his office. In January 1957, McCarthy and his wife adopted an infant with the help of Roy Cohn's close friend Cardinal Spellman. They named the baby girl Tierney Elizabeth McCarthy.[56]' The author of the book appears to have done his research and is using historical information that exists that implies that McCarthy may have had moments with other men. Whether he did or not is up for debate but it's not like the book/show has made this aspect of McCarthy's life up by themselves.

This episode was a return to Loki S1, well I was at least captivated and enthralled like I was with S1. My main issue is that this episode really made episodes 2-5 feel like filler episodes (which they felt like when I first watched them). I could easily watch S1, then Ep 1 of S2 and jump to this episode and feel like I have not missed a single plot point. And as long as you've met Timely as the dude from the credit scene in Quantumania, I honestly think you could skip 2-5 and know what is happening in Ep 6. If this is the end of Loki as a series and a character then what an incredible note to end on.