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Into the World of Blindspotting
Set Tour with Daveed Diggs & Rafael Casal
Dream with Friends
Rafael Casal talks his new 'Blindspotting' series, Daveed Diggs and being besties with Helen Hunt
S1 premiere party
Tribeca Screening Conversation with Rafael Casal, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Helen Hunt and Benjamin Earl Turner
60 second recap of the movie (which takes place before S1)
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Some new projects from Hamilton alumni!
Anthony Ramos is starring in the current season of In Treatment. He plays one of the four patients being treated by Uzo Aduba.
He's also starring in the movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In the Heights. He is playing the lead role of Usnavi (originally played by LMM in the Broadway production).
Jasmine Cephas-Jones is starring in the tv adaptation of Blindspotting (based on the movie of the same name written by Daveed Diggs). Bonus: her IRL fiancé aka Anthony Ramos has a cameo in the first episode!
She recently did an interview with InStyle where she discusses Hamilton, partying with Prince, and a bunch of other stuff:
Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial debut will be the movie adaptation of Jonathan Larson's musical tick, tick... BOOM!
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Christopher Scott choreographed the movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights!
He and director Jon Chu discuss the choreography (Emilio Dosal from S11 makes an appearance)
The actor playing Graffiti Pete teaches some of the choreography:
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Chris Scott and Jon Chu talk about the dancing in the movie:
Graffiti Pete teaches choreography from the opening number:
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The huge pros: the animation of the sea was gorgeous (both above and below), the Italian town was beautiful, and the friendships between the three kids felt very realistic.
The major con: it felt like one of those grab bag situations where someone pulled specific elements out of a bag (Italy, sea monsters, bike race) and had to come up with a story to incorporate all of them
There were a lot of Little Mermaid references that made me simultaneously think "awww" and "really?" But I liked that there weren't superheroes or any big save the world type stakes. The boys wanted a Vespa. Giulia wanted to beat the town jerk. The parents just wanted their kid to stay safe. Luca loved learning. Antonio wanted a home. All the love the different characters had for each other was what made the movie. Ha, and I loved that Luca's grandmother comes to town every weekend.
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1 hour ago, aghst said:
Half paying attention, how do high school kids go to some black tie event?
Douda invited them to be youth ambassadors at a gala to help win an Olympic bid in Chicago.
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Gymnastics
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Just now, choclatechip45 said:It's because Tim has a gold medal. The only person I can see them replacing Tim with is Sam Mikulak once he retires. I wish they would hire Bart, but he's been with ABC/ESPN since they had the Olympics in 88.
But his gold medal is for the team event so it's not any better than anyone else who was on the team with him. His individual medal was a bronze for pommel horse. Bart's individual medal was gold for parallel bars. Mitch Gaylord got a silver on vault and a bronze on rings and parallel bars so he's got more medals than Tim. Or let's bring James Hartung or Scott Johnson if NBC is so hung up on having a male gymnast from the 1984 team. Honestly, I don't understand why we need some old guys who competed in the Olympics almost 40 years ago as commentators.
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Gymnastics
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2 hours ago, Jeddah said:I mentioned it up thread, but it makes me so angry whenever Tim Daggett jokes that China’s going to want Morgan Hurd back. He’s said it more than once. It’s racist and so insensitive towards adoptees.
What I really don't understand is why NBC thinks they need Tim Daggett for gymnastics commentary. The man is almost 60 years old and retired over 30 years ago. There must be one other male gymnast who is capable of replacing him. It's not like his commentary is very useful or insightful. At least Nastia provides some technical critiques.
If we absolutely positively MUST have a male gymnast from the 1984 Olympic team to provide commentary for every televised gymnastics meet, can we swap Tim for Bart Conner?
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Where in the hell did Scarlet get that ratty looking wig she wore for the group performance? It looked like someone took a Party City wig and then coated it with baby oil for that extra greasy look.
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FIVE YEARS? How much MDMA did Miles have?
Yikes to that awful couple at the hotel. The gross things that people have to put up with when they are in any sort of customer service job. At least Ash had the support of the manager. Too many other bosses wouldn't have been nearly as supportive as he was.
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Gymnastics
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On 6/18/2021 at 6:46 PM, Lady Whistleup said:Ok one thing: is it too much to hope that the NBC team this Olympics won't be ridiculously racist towards the Chinese gymnasts? In a normal year they regularly botch the gymnasts' names, take pot shots about them being underage, and put down their routines in a rude, microaggressive way. In a pandemic year this kind of casual racism will be SO bad. Omg.
The really annoying thing about their names being pronounced incorrectly is (1) if you can take the time to learn how to pronounce all of those multisyllabic Russian and Romanian names, then surely you can learn how to pronounce names that are one syllable for the first name and one syllable for the last name and often have only three letters (2) at the maximum team size, there were still only seven people on each team so it's not like they were trying to memorize an obscene amount of names. Would it be THAT difficult to ask someone how to pronounce each name and then write it down phonetically? But of course passive aggressive racism is par for the course so I expect nothing less. Hopefully Terry Gannon's presence will help keep a lid on that kind of shit.
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6 hours ago, CeeBeeGee said:I love the UberEats commercials because they feature Jonathan Van Ness who made me howl with his Gay of Thrones series. SO effing hilarious. And I think Simone's funny in the ads as well.
Gay of Thrones was the best!
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First of all, thank you to the show for showing texts in a huge font on the screen. I hate when shows insist on using texting as a plot device but only show the phone screen with tiny font for half a second. I mean, I will rewind and then pause so I can read it but I get annoyed every time I have to do it.
Ugh, I knew this was how the whole Jemma/Jake/Kevin situation was going to play out. Again, JUST BREAK UP, especially when you aren't even trying to hide the fact that you are ignoring your boyfriend and making heart eyes at his best friend. I was rolling my eyes when she said speaking truth to power was different than dumping your boyfriend. No, not really. It just means have the guts to speak up and be honest. She didn't want to break up with Kevin because it would mean being honest about her feelings and being seen as the bad guy, and she didn't want to deal with that. I also hated that once Kevin found Jemma and Jake making out, they decided that it was okay for them to walk around the party holding hands like a couple. Just because you got caught doesn't make it okay.
The communal part of Keisha giving birth was lovely - she was surrounded by women who love her, which is always a beautiful thing. Hopefully she won't change her mind and decide to keep the baby. I was a little worried when she looked back at the adoptive mom holding the baby.
Emmett continues to be the worst. Even now that he knows his mom has cancer, it's still all about him and what will make HIM feel better instead of what will help her. Demanding that your mom come over for dinner when she's in the middle of treatment is selfish. If you really want to cook for her, why don't you offer to go to her house to make something? Or just drop something off in Tupperware so that she can eat it when she isn't puking her guts out. But noooooo, everything has to be on Emmett's terms. And he was still being salty about Suede, despite the fact that this man has been taking care of Jada. I couldn't believe he was being so fucking petty and jealous. But hey, I learned an important lesson from Emmett - apparently you're only allowed to eat pancakes if they're made by a woman!
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S4.E5: The Spook Who Sat by the Door
QuoteDouda, Roselyn and Marcus prepare for the gala; Kiesha goes into labor; Kevin and Jemma's relationship reaches a breaking point.
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Original air date: 6/20/21
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SEASON FINALE!
QuoteHope is forced to work with someone from her past; Kaleb and MG go on their first official superhero mission; Lizzie's plan to find Hope a rebound relationship takes an unexpected turn.
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Original air date: 6/24/21
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Hippie space Alaric was hilarious!
I love that this show always manages to surprise me with silly unexpected moments like Jed sneaking his way into the MG/Kaleb bro hug.
I liked that the Star Wars vision quest was used to help Hope, Lizzie, and Josie really confront each other about their pasts and the way they treated each other. Of course 11 year old kids don't have the emotional maturity to process everything that's happening, especially abandonment issues and deep seated trauma, but when you continue to bury it for years, you end up with all kinds of unintentional resentments and behavioral patterns so it was nice to see all three of them address their shared past and realize that none of them truly realized how much pain the others were in.
I found it both good and bad that Hope has finally resigned herself to becoming a Tribrid in order to defeat Malivore. I really appreciated that Lizzie and Josie both told her that she didn't have to and that they would help her. It reminded me of one of the ongoing themes of Buffy - that she was a stronger slayer because she wasn't alone and she had friends who helped her, which is what helped her stay alive longer than many past slayers.
This episode was a good reminder of how much better the show is when they focus on the friendships between the characters instead of the romantic entanglements. I loved that Kaleb knew he wasn't dealing with the real MG because he never would have left Jed behind.
On a shallow note, I loved that they brought back little Hope from The Originals.
On 6/18/2021 at 10:02 AM, Lady Calypso said:So confirmation that Lizzie was a Star Wars fan AND a ninja fan!
And Lord of the Rings! Gandalf4eva!
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Doorman: Password, or I'll shoot. Now!
Lizzie: G-A-N-D-A-L-F, the number four, E-V-A.
Hope: Gandalf forever? Really?Josie: Wow, I am so good at cleaning up your messes and supporting you. It's almost as if I was written to have no wants or needs of my own.
Lizzie: Don't make me unplug you.Ethan: There's an old Ric Saltzman that lives out on the rim.
Hope: And it didn't occur to you that General Alaric Saltzstar, and old Ric Saltzman might just be the same person?Josie: Ninjas in space? Seriously?
Alaric: Look, I'm really sorry about what you're going through. I can't help but feel a little responsible.
Dorian: Um, and you should because this is all your fault, Ric.Lizzie: You smell like feet.
Alaric: You know, I came to Mystic Falls to find the Star Sword. But then I got here and I realized that's a lot of work. Fomenting a revolution, that's a real drag, man. It's not all pew-pew-pew and heroic speeches. I mean, the insurgency seemed like a good idea when I started it. But, you know, it's only destined to become another form of government. So I'm just happier here, off the grid.
Lizzie: Since when do ninjas have guns?
Hope: I wrote a sequel to your story.
Lizzie: Is there anyone in this freaking galaxy who has not read my diary?Hope: Emma found me, and she told me to write my own story, one where I was the hero and we could all be friends.
Josie: Well, we're friends now, so why didn't you tell us?
Hope: Well, I didn't think that my unauthorized fanfic would be a part of this hallucination. Plus it's sad and embarrassing.
Josie: As embarrassing as Dak Romo?
Hope: Not even close.Jed: Okay, nobody panic. I got this.
Kaleb: I'm definitely panicked if we're relying on your reading comprehension skills.Jed: All right, let's go, MG. Time to kick your own ass.
Lizzie: Today was weird, right?
Hope: If you find ominous weird, yeah.
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On 6/18/2021 at 7:17 PM, possibilities said:
I didn't get that she was going into the back room, but if that's what she was doing, that's a lot less outrageous than doing it in the public part of the shop.
It was a grotty room with shelves of tools and cleaning supplies so I'm pretty sure they didn't allow any customers back there.
The shop was full of antiques and soft lighting. The back room where she was giving herself injections had fluorescent overhead lights.
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I hate team challenges under normal circumstances but I hate them even more when the teams aren't divided equally. As soon as I saw that Rachel's team had only three people but Canaan's team had four people, it was clear that it was unfair to have to do so much work on three separate frames.
Even without seeing the final designs, it was clear that Rachel was a great leader who made decisions and delegated but still gave her team the freedom to work independently and make their own decisions and come up with their own ideas. While I get the judges' complaint about the octopus not standing out, I rolled my eyes when Maurice said they had too much of an explanation about how they have spots to camouflage themselves. Really, Maurice? After you let Ron give a freaking monologue about the boots and the guitar and the bandwagon in the previous episode?
Rachel was also a good leader for stepping back several times to make sure that the three frames looked good together and that everything was lining up properly. Near the end, she stood a good distance away so that she could tell Sarah and Ron where there were spots that needed to be filled in. Overall, I think this was the best leadership we've seen from a team captain all season.
Canaan wasn't making a lot of decisions. I'm fine with recognizing your strengths and weaknesses and allowing your team members to fill in where your skill set isn't as good but it felt like he didn't have a lot of ideas so he let Melissa make a lot of suggestions.
The other major issue was that even with an extra person on the team, not a single person took a step back to see what the three frames looked like together. No one even thought to slide all three together to see what they looked like, which is why, as Maurice pointed out, they ended up covering some of the work they did.
I agreed with whichever judge said that covering most of the back frame with blue moss made it look a bit flat. And on top that, they didn't even fill it in all the way because there were big spots of chicken wire visible. I wish they had used some yellow or orange flowers to make some rays coming out of the sun because having a big yellow circle by itself wasn't very dynamic. I also agreed about the scale of that giant centipede. If they had made it smaller and put it on the front of the first frame, it would have made more sense.
Oh, Simon. I'm judging you for picking Canaan's team as the winner this week. Seriously? Rachel's team did a beautiful job. I thought their frames were far and away the better of the two.
Poor Melissa. How has she managed to be on the losing team every week so far? I really hate that there's a team challenge every week. I would much rather see individual challenges so that people would be in the bottom/up for elimination based on their own work.
Of all the floral fireworks, Antonio's purple one was by far my favorite. I know the other judges laughed when Simon started micromanaging where a few sprigs were but he was totally right. I didn't understand why there was a cluster of two purple and two orange all together at the bottom like that. Not everything has to be totally symmetric but those should have been spread out or something.
I also liked Melissa's baby's breath design. It was very simple but effective. I understood the effect she was going for with the amaranthus dripping down in her bigger one, but I just didn't like it as much.
I totally agreed with whichever judge said that Canaan's first design looked like a funeral spray. I was glad that he listened and made some changes.
Lufti's was fine but I agreed that he made a good decision to paint the stems of those longer pieces black. It wasn't 100% necessary but it did add to the firework illusion against the black background.
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S2.E4: Floralwork Show
QuoteA multi-layered group challenge brings stunning vistas to life on massive frames before the losing team designs fabulous floral firework displays.
Original air date: 6/17/21
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Ron is really lucky that this gift of gab aka his ability to babble descriptively saved his team because if you listen to what he actually said, it made no fucking sense at all. Jumping on the bandwagon was the idiom but he went straight to the literal wagon with musical notes painted on it, resulting in ugly cowboy boots and a guitar, neither of which have anything to do with the idiom itself. Same for the peacock - it was very lovely and Sarah did a great job with it, but WTF does a peacock have to do with jumping off the page? I was rolling my eyes when the judges praised them for putting buckets of flowers in the back of the wagon.
Melissa's team did a lovely job with the boat. I'm not a huge fan of spray painting plants, but turning those huge monstera leaves blue for the waves was a great idea from Lufti. But the jumping through hoops was just a bunch of flowers. As Simon pointed out, they could have at least looped one long strand through all the hoops to minimally tie the idiom with the structure.
Of the four carts, I thought Canaan's had the most impact and really showed us who he was for the first time. I agreed with the judges that Lufti's was very him. Of the bottom two, Melissa's did a better job showing her aesthetic/brand. Kiara's was pretty but it didn't really seem distinctive. Her concept was so odd too. I can tell you that of all the times I've stumbled out of a club in the wee hours of the morning, I've never thought gee, I wish there was a flower cart with a disco ball so I could buy a humongous bouquet of flowers.
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SEASON FINALE!
S1.E8: Grand Finale
QuoteThe final queens write their own verses to RuPaul’s “I'm a Winner, Baby” and compete to be crowned winner of the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under.
Special Guest: Olivia Newton-John
Original air date: 6/19/21
Blindspotting Season 1: All Episodes
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For anyone who didn't see the Blindspotting movie (which takes place before this episode), here's a 60 second recap: