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1 hour ago, loki310 said:
I will say that you (I) just have to administer the shots at the same time. So one could do 10pm when you’re at home. So yeah, I don’t know why she was doing them at work. Lol
When she read the instructions, they said that injections had to be administered three times a day and the other medication had to be taken within a two hour window. Even if she did one injection in the morning and another in the evening after work, that still leaves one more that has to be done in the middle of the day aka when she's at work.
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S2 E3: Petal Your Wares
QuoteSaddled with a new team challenge, the contestants design horse jumping hurdles with floral elements before riding into a flower shop pop-up challenge that finds them creating stand-out signature bouquets.
Original air date: 6/17/21
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58 minutes ago, KaveDweller said:
But maybe if fans hire a helicopter to fly around LA with a sign about Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, NBC would do something.
OMG I remember when Angel was in danger of being cancelled so there was a donation campaign to raise money to hire one of those trucks with a big billboard and drive it around LA.
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On 6/7/2021 at 10:03 AM, possibilities said:
Why was she always trying to sneak her injections in the public areas of the store she worked in, though, instead of going to the bathroom to do it? How long does it take? Is she really going to "steal a moment" in front of customers, instead of just slipping away to the guaranteed private place for a couple of minutes?
To me it looked like she was going into the back room where only employees were allowed. I don't recall her trying to give herself injections out on the floor in front of customers. The only thing I specifically remember was when her alarm went off while she was talking to a customer and she asked another employee to come over and help them so that she could go into the back to do her injection.
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If I had been the guys who made those amazing dragons in the first challenge, there's no way I would have given up the golden brick. It's only the third week. All you have to do is be better than ONE other team. I had to laugh at the other brother being so clearly angry about the "decision" to use the golden brick. That is the kind of thing that a sibling would be exponentially more pissed about.
22 hours ago, Black Knight said:I had to roll my eyes at the teams who chose beige bricks for their buildings. You're just immediately shooting yourself in the foot with aesthetics with that color choice. Sure, IRL many buildings are that color, but this is Lego. You got to go with color. You're not trying to make a building fit in within a real city. And other teams will certainly choose color and make your color choice look boring as hell.
ITA - especially in this challenge where so many teams were making what were essentially big rectangles. It doesn't take any more time to use, say, red bricks than it does to use boring beige bricks. I get that the teams were concerned with structural integrity first and foremost but you can still do things like use color or alternate colors or SOMETHING so that you don't have a blah boring beige building.
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I had zero flower girls/children in my wedding. As cute as it is to see little girls all dressed up, when my aunt got married she had my sister and my cousin as the flower girls. They had just turned 4 so they were excited about wearing pretty dresses and flower crowns. They were fine at the rehearsal but when it came time for the actual wedding, they refused to walk down the aisle. I ended up having to walk with them the entire way. Neither of them remembered to throw any petals either.
8 minutes ago, Ceindreadh said:Flower girls are usually in addition to adult bridesmaids in UK/Irish weddings. Not instead of.
My entire experience with British weddings has been seeing pictures of Kate and Meghan with a gaggle of little girls as bridesmaids. In the United States, you usually have 1 maid of honor (usually the bride's sister or best friend), 1-5 bridesmaids (depending on how large the wedding is) who are around the bride's age (usually sisters, friends, cousins), and 1 flower girl.
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Ha, when they said the pattern challenge was a bridesmaid dress, I temporarily forgot that in England that means a little girl aka what we would call a flower girl in the United States (here a bridesmaid is a friend of the bride who is usually pretty close in age to the bride).
Rebecca's fabric choice of duchess satin had some pros and cons. On the one hand, it's a stiffer material which can be helpful for things like the poofy sleeves. But, like most other satin materials, it can show creases, wrinkles, seam holes if you rip the thread out, etc. Her dress have me a very Alice in Wonderland feel due to the light blue color with the white waistband.
Raph's purple taffeta dress was pretty good, but he definitely made a mistake sewing all three layers together in one go. I know he thought he was being efficient but that's why it bubbled up. I did feel bad about his issue with the button hole. If you've never tried making one of those bound button holes with that particular fabric before, you're just at the mercy of fate. It frayed and he didn't have a lot of choices at that point.
Serena's blue taffeta dress looked pretty good aside from the button hole issue. The floral lining was a cute choice. She was smart to realize her mistake, rip out the seams, and stitch in the ditch correctly. Congratulations on winning an amazing SIXTH pattern challenge!
I was laughing at the explanation for the transformation challenge. If you can afford to go to Coachella, you are buying outfits well in advance, not scrambling around the house for curtains to rip apart for a new outfit.
Although Rebecca's silver outfit looked like something that might be worn at a festival, it looked like the cheapest version of what someone might wear to a festival aka "I bought a garbage fast fashion top and skirt that barely cover my bits from the clearance rack at the back of Forever 21 for $5." I guess for that reason I should give it some points for realism? But it was just so cheap looking and not very well made in addition to being very simplistic in design. The top portion of the skirt was way too short!
Raph's outfit was very colorful. The top with the pailettes and sequins looked more like a 90s rave top than a festival outfit. I give him credit for making so many pieces though - he made a top, bike shorts, a headband, and a bag. Raph gets bonus points just because Patrick put on that crazy headband.
Serena's was by far the most realistic version of something I've seen. This was like a first year Burning Man outfit. Between the mermaid fabric, the laced up halter top, and the split side pants with the metallic party hearts hanging down the side, this had the right amount of shiny/sparkly vibe combined with the right amount of competent homemade craftiness.
Ooh, strapless evening dresses!
Raph's Kate Bush Wuthering Heights inspired dress was a very specific concept, but I wish he had chosen a different fabric. I liked the red color, but the lamé cheapened it a bit. I also didn't like how stiff the skirt was. The lace up bit in the back meant that he didn't have to fit it perfectly (I say this as someone who has bought a lot of Burning Man type costumes with a similar faux corsetry which allows you to customize the fit to a range of body sizes). I liked all the pleating but overall this was a very unflattering shape (and not just on this particular model - it would make even a size 00 runway model look like she had no waist). The big bows on each side of the hips didn't help in that regard.
I haaaaaaate neoprene, partly because it doesn't breathe well which means the poor model will be sweating like crazy, and partly because it's kind of a cheat to use since you don't have to be as precise with fitting it to the model due to its stretchiness. I also didn't like the big floral print which looked very dated to me. I liked the flounce and the godet train, but I wasn't crazy about the bodice. I think if she had used a different fabric/print, I would have liked it better overall, but using that big floral print made it lean more towards casual summer dress from the 90s.
Serena's Killing Eve inspired dress looked deceptively simple but I appreciate how much work it took to create all that volume. The fact that she put boning into the bodice which you could not see beneath that big ruffled top showed her attention to detail and her desire to make everything right. The bright yellow color was a very bold choice.
Awwww, I'm sad that they didn't keep the eliminated contestants holed up in a hotel nearby so that they could continue quarantining and be at the finale. I'm glad that they got them all to zoom in to watch. I've been rooting for Serena so I was excited that she won. Looking back at her overall record for the season, knowing that she came into the finale winning 5 pattern challenges, 2 transformation challenges, and 1 garment of the week shows how consistent she's been. Raph was pretty close behind with 4 pattern challenge wins and 3 garment of the week wins.
I always love seeing what everyone is up to now (thank you for reminding me that Cathryn's into Stormzy, show!).
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Simone Biles on gymnastics misconceptions:
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48 minutes ago, AntFTW said:
Also, one thing I thought about is the 22 people they exchanged for Fred... I don't know if all 22 people were marthas but if they were, I imagine that 22 marthas, or even 10 marthas, would have far more valuable intel than Fred would since Commanders seem to talk freely as if marthas were actual flies on the wall.
I can see that being a far better use of "assets" rather than using Fred.
I think that regardless of what their actual roles were in Gilead (martha, jezebel, etc), the fact that they were all in custody for being part of the resistance means that they will have some kind of useful information. They might not each have the big picture of the entire movement, but the small pieces of information that they each have could add up to a lot, whether it's intel about which commanders have been meeting together, the ins and outs of routines at specific homes/establishments, etc.
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53 minutes ago, Umbelina said:
This was one of the best lines of the show, ever.
The words, the setting, the inevitable end, all of it, just made this line perfection.
The fact that Fred insists he has rights simply because he's a man shows how much he has been drinking the Gilead Kool-Aid. Sure, he was cooperating in order to buy his freedom and avoid trial, but he was still a believer in their misogynist system.
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3 minutes ago, Umbelina said:
He THINKS he knows what Gilead is like, but he hasn't lived it, and he's never been a woman, so honestly? He doesn't know much, he kind of closes down at the horrors, wants to cap it, put it in a box, leave it behind and move forward.
That just isn't possible for June. Luke saying 'Well, now I know everything so we can move on." was an example of this.
No, dude, you don't know 1/20th of it, and how dare you decide when June, or any woman who lived in hell in Gilead should "move on?"
ITA - Luke thought that he understood what June had been through after hearing her very clinical testimony at Fred's pre-trial hearing. It's one thing to hear your wife say, "Mr. Waterford raped me while his wife held me down. This happened for three successive nights every month when I was ovulating. [Mrs. Waterford] ordered me to have sex with their driver, another violation of Gilead law that I could not refuse. Mr. Blaine and I had intercourse while Mrs. Waterford was in the room watching us the entire time." It's another thing completely to live through years of being violated while you're forced to pretend you aren't screaming inside.
Luke thinks that just because he heard her testimony, he gets what she went through, but despite all the Gilead refugees he's met, helped, and worked with since he got to Canada, he doesn't comprehend even a fraction of the pain, violation, humiliation, frustration, fear, and anger that June lived with for years while she was a handmaid. Obviously life wasn't easy for him once he got to Canada, but he wasn't tortured at the red center, forbidden to read, under constant threat of abuse/execution, etc. And obviously, it's a good thing that he didn't have to experience any of that, but June's been in Canada all of maybe a month and he's clearly ready for her to just get over her years of abuse and pep up. Unfortunately, trauma doesn't work like that.
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5 hours ago, dmc said:
They have been living in a barbaric world. I don't think it's feminist fantasy to see someone who stole your life pay. I am fairly certain if you talk to male victims, they probably have the same fantasies. Especially when the justice system fails them. June had every intention of letting the government try Fred. And they screwed her over. Not only did they screw her over, but they screwed her in the most callous way possible. June tells Tuello...the weakness of men in power she means him. She came to Canada expecting justice from men like Tuello and he basically again placed a male over the women hurt. It is what it is. Gilead is largely a place that places men over women and then she came to Canada to have the same. I can understand not condoning this but the fact that people cannot understand the rage of not being able to control your own body and having your child stolen from you
Exactly. How many times in real life have we seen a man attack or murder someone for revenge, whether it's an incel who perceived women as rejecting him or a man who went after the person who attacked/raped/murdered his wife/daughter? But when a female character seeks the same kind of vengeance, somehow it's a feminist fantasy? June and these women were raped and abused for years and they thought they were going to get some amount of legal justice when Fred was arrested. Tuello led June to believe that the trial would achieve just that, knowing that his plan all along was just to scare Fred into turning.
For many of the other handmaids, it didn't matter that Fred hadn't been their commander. He represented every commander in Gilead who had raped them five nights a week every month for years in the name of a ritual and then took their babies away in the name of repopulating Gilead, every commander who came to Jezebel's forcing them to pretend that they wanted to flirt and have sex with them so that they wouldn't be sent to the colonies, every commander who had his friends gang rape them. June and all of the handmaids knew that they would not see all of the shitbags in Gilead put on trial one by one. Fred was supposed to be the one who gave them all a moment of justice after years of abuse.
3 hours ago, tennisgurl said:Of course, I cant lie and say that I didn't at least get a lot of enjoyment out of Fred losing that smug smirk and increasingly freaking out as he realized how fucked he was and that his perfect little life was being pulled away. I am thrilled that he is just finally gone and off my screen after finally getting what was coming to him, even if it wasn't in the way that I wanted it to happen. Fred is such a dumbass and generally shitty excuse for a person, I am tickled that he is done and gone, especially as this show has a bad habit of keeping characters around way longer than they should. Of course when it comes down to it all he can do is scream "I'M A MAN!" and try to weakly manipulate Nick and Lawrence, who could not be any happier to watch him suffer, what a pathetic sack of crap. Serena is a much more interesting villain, I cant wait to see what terrible fate will befall her, hopefully it will be more karmic and less fanservice this time. Or god help me if they try to make her out to be sympathetic like the show has tried a few times, I hope that June letting lose and calling her out for being a shitty person means that she is going to very much get what is coming to her.
As much as I've wanted Fred and his smarmy arrogant smirk off my screen since S1, watching him lose his calm cool demeanor from the moment that Tuello informed him that he wasn't going to Geneva to his desperate pleas to Nick and June ("You are a good and kind woman, and you're a mother!") were actually much more satisfying to watch than his actual death.
Fred was definitely a what you see is what you get kind of villain because he was very obvious in his actions and his motivations. He wanted power and he enjoyed subjugating women so for all intents and purposes, he was pretty simple. Serena, on the other hand, is much smarter than Fred ever was and much more calculating. As great as it would be to have her karmic retribution be returning to Gilead and forced to be a handmaid, I think the most painful thing for her to endure would be having her child taken away from her so that's what I'm hoping we will see next season since we got robbed of Fred being put on trial. I wanted at least one of them to have to endure the punishment of the Gilead system they helped create.
2 hours ago, luckyroll3 said:Can't wait for Serena to get what's coming to her, especially after the way she was speaking to Tuello. Lady, you and your husband are in jail for war crimes...that you actually committed and admit to! Bitch, you don't get to demand shit from anyone.
I KNOW, RIGHT? He was in custody for raping and abusing multiple women, but Serena was out in the hallway demanding better wifi and that the interrogator address him as commander.
1 hour ago, EllaWycliffe said:I wasn't paying attention to details... was Moira in the killing squad? Rita? Or just Emily?
I only saw Emily. In the episode with Moira leading the survivors' group, Moira was clearly very anti-revenge. This week Rita told June and Moira that she wanted no part of dealing with Fred. Later when they were discussing his deal, Moira and Rita talked about him getting sent back to Gilead, being put on trial, and ending up in jail or the colonies. They said it would be a type of justice. Moira then said she didn't care about knowing what happened to him because she just wanted him gone because she had already spent too much of her life thinking about him. Based on all that, I think it's pretty safe to assume that Moira and Rita were not part of the no man's land particulation.
7 hours ago, Trillian said:When Fred kept calling Nick “son”, I was so expecting (and rather hoping that) he would reply “don’t call me son. I’m an officer and a lawyer and you’re under arrest you son of a bitch.”
I was shaking my head during that scene. He clearly thought that addressing Nick as "son" would remind Nick that Fred was his elder/superior and elicit an imaginary familial bond and loyalty that never existed. And once again, Fred is so incapable of reading the room that when it didn't work the first time, he just kept kicking that dead horse, continuing to call him "son" in a way that managed to make him sound equal parts desperate and insulting.
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SEASON FINALE!
S1.E6: The Garden of Champions
QuoteThe finalists race for Clipped Champion with an immersive garden challenge.
Original air date: 6/16/21
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21 hours ago, enoughcats said:
Michael Costello says Christie Tiegen bullied him until he was at the brink of suicide.
Leona Lewis said that Michael Costello was an unprofessional dick to her
QuoteI usually don’t speak on subjects like this. But honestly I feel that I have to say something as I’ve dealt with years of insecurity from it. I don’t condone any kind of bully behavior and I’m sorry for what Michael Costello went through. I wanted to share my experience in 2014. I was asked to take part in a fashion show to raise money for charity. Michael Costello was assigned as my designer. As an excited young woman, I flew all the way to New York and was so honored to work with him because I adored his dresses.
When I got to my fitting I was made to feel very awkward and uncomfortable as the dress was a sample size and he/his team clearly did not want to alter it to fit me. This came as a total surprise because weeks prior I was told that they would make the dress work for me. At the next fitting, the night before the show, with no explanation at all, Michael refused to turn up. He no longer wanted to dress me and he abandoned his commitments to me and the show which made me well aware that I wasn’t the body type required.
I was so embarrassed and deeply hurt. Because I didn’t look like a model size, I was not permitted to walk in his dress. I had to sit in the audience and was asked by press why I didn’t walk in the show. I remember having to come up with excuses as I was so humiliated by it all. I feel like I was made to look as though I pulled out and was being difficult and as an affect of those actions I suffered a lot, both personally and professionally. The most hurtful thing is that it was to raise money for charity, and this went against everything we were trying to do.
I was left with deep insecurities after this and I’ve had to work hard over the years to love my body. I’m so proud of how curves are celebrated today but back then it was a different story and there was hardly any representation for women who were not a standard small size. I know that his designs are catered to women of all sizes now, and I’m glad he saw the light over the years. We all make mistakes, I know I have, but at this time I feel that when people apologize (Chrissy) and show sincere remorse and rehabilitation for their actions, we should embrace them and not try and kick them when they’re down.
I’m not discounting Michael’s experience as that is an awful thing to go through and I wish him so much love and healing. I’m sure this will come as a shock as I never told him how this made me feel. But the pot calling the kettle black in this situation doesn’t sit right with me. Bullying comes in many different forms. We need love, we need accountability, we need forgiveness, none of us are perfect.
We are trying our best and learning. I’m sorry for anyone who has gone through any kind of bullying, I’m also sorry if I’ve ever hurt anyone without knowing it as I’m sure was the case with Michael.
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Jason Sudeikis & Kathryn Hahn on Variety's Actors on Actors series:
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Regé-Jean Page & Emma Corrin on Variety's Actors on Actors series:
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Chris Rock & Nicole Kidman on Variety's Actors on Actors series:
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Ewan McGregor and Pedro Pascal on Variety's Actors on Actors series:
Chris Rock & Nicole Kidman on Variety's Actors on Actors series:
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Kaley Cuoco and Elizabeth Olsen on Variety's Actors on Actors series:
Jason Sudeikis & Kathryn Hahn on Variety's Actors on Actors series:
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Kaley Cuoco and Elizabeth Olsen on Variety's Actors on Actors series:
Drag Race España
in RuPaul's Drag Race
S1.E4: Snatch Game
Original air date: 6/20/21