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Forgot to ask: Is Norma still on the City Council? I meant to do a refresher re-watch before the season started, but things got away from me.
When Norma ruined her relationship with Christine and George, Christine used her connection with the mayor to make sure Norma lost her position with the City Council.
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They've also basically dropped the plot thread of Scarlett's formerly crippling stage fright, since she doesn't seem to have a problem with being on stage with her two crazy exes.
I don't think that was dropped AT ALL, but a plot that was naturally resolved over the whole series.
2:08 Was booed off stage at Luke's concert. She never completely got over this incident.
2:19 She has an onstage meltdown.
2:20 Decides to give up performing.
3:04 Refuses to sing onstage with Zoey at the Blue Bird because she still has PTSD
3:07 She reluctantly performs with Terrance at the Blue Bird
3:09 Terrance shames her into performing with the exes at Winterfest
3:14 Is now officially on board with the performing again
As you can see, they spaced out this storyline pretty evenly throughout the series. Season 2 was all about bringing her down, while season 3 was all about gradually raising her back up again (that was kind of the point to the whole homeless man arc), which is why I completely disagree with the idea that it was dropped.
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He has the same day player status as Laura, and neither of them have a contract with the show.
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It's very rare for an actor to have recurring roles on competing networks.No it isn't, it happens all the time.
Heck, it has even happened on this show. Michiel Huisman (Liam) juggled three shows in the same year: Nashville, Orphan Black and Game of Thrones. All of different networks.
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When Rayna played to "Jeff is bad with women" card to Benton, it was pretty much all over for Jeff, especially given their last meeting.
When Sadie first appeared on this show, all sorts of red flags popped up about her potential to cause trouble for everyone else. First it was her antics with Rayna and her making goo-goo eyes with Luke, and now she's likely to make the Avery/Juliette happiness very brief. I don't like her or her erratic storyline. The show already has too many characters. I would not complain if the writers would just hook up Sadie and Luke and let them ride off into the sunset together. They've already hinted at a relationship between the two but left that loose end flapping around in the wind just as they've done with so many other Sadie details.I personally don't think any of that counts as her being shady, and if these loose ends never gets resolved it was because they were probably never storyline in the first place.
- I know people were suspicious of her selling the wedding gown photo, but if she was going to do it, why jokingly say it to Rayna's face?
- Sadie and Luke only had one scene together, and that was him comforting her about her boyfriend, which was the writers laying more groundwork for the abuse storyline.
- Laura Benanti said in an interview that even though people are tweeting her for Sadie to "stay away from Avery", it is actually possible for a man and woman can just friends. Seems more like the audience are too suspicious, not the character itself.
As someone said. when she was introduced she was 20. By underage I assume they mean less than the legal drinking age of 21.I specifically remember this dialogue when Layla was first introduced:
Juliette: What is she, like, twelve?
Jeff: She's nineteen, actually. The tweens love her.
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My guess is that this Christina is written as Jeff's Hail Mary pass. We already know that Rayna destroys him in front of the board members and that he is desperate for young girls to buy Edgehill records (most of the people who attended Christina concerts were young girls). Given Jeff's complete failure at everything, I wouldn't be surprised if this storyline signals the official end to Jeff.
Or this could be there take on what happened Jessica Simpson. She tried to reinvent herself as a country artist but no one bought it (literally and figuratively).
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It was pretty low for Bev to ask what has Deacon done for her lately, given that he paid for her treatment when she had her psychotic breakdown many years ago. It is also unbelievable that she'd doubt that he's help her out again if it was the other way around with her being the one who needed a liver. On the other hand, I thought her asking why she'd have to save him from a problem he himself caused was realistic, because that was the exact same thing my sister said to my brother when he needed her for something (no where nearly as big as a transplant, but they aren't talking anymore).
This continues to be the most disjointed, non-sensical show I've ever watched on television. It's a fricking druggie's dreamscape. People float in and out of contact with one another, timelines make no sense, basic biological facts are ignored (blood-typing), the realities of human psychology and development are stomped on, characters and situations show up and then disappear (Juliette's Patsy Cline movie, and her friendship with Noah, Scarlett's homeless singing friend - poof, they're gone).I can't say I'd agree. This wasn't my favorite episode, but I thought it was very coherent with a clear running theme (families being there for each-other). The same goes for the entire season, where all the main characters are given one clear arc, like Rayna losing herself to her growing fame and Ruke, Scarlet getting the nerve to perform again, Juliet's pregnancy, Gunner's son, and so on. I think it is perfectly okay for characters like Noah and Terry is come and go because they only existed to service the stories of the main characters.
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Based on the interview Jack did with thebacklot after the pilot aired, Connor coming from an accepting family was something they figured out early on. Pete most likely wanted to avoid the whole "tomented homosexual" cliche (though he is currently tomented, it has nothing to do with him being gay).
TheBacklot: You talked a little bit about kind of doing some work on just Connor’s relationship past. What do you know about his family life and where this guy comes from?
Jack Falahee: Yeah. We’ve definitely all been thinking about that. That was something very early on. I remember when we arrived in Philadelphia, Pete had each of us individually sit down with him and Michael Offer, the director of the pilot. You jump head first into shooting the pilot and he really wanted it to feel like it was a collaborative process in developing a little bit about the character’s backstory, to better serve us as the actors going into it. That was one thing we actually discussed— since Connor’s a young gay man, I think it’s important to consider what sort of family life he’s come from.
Pete was very firm in saying that Connor comes from a family that’s very accepting and has always accepted him for who he was. And it was a probably a family where it wasn’t necessary for Connor to come out. That’s my take on it, but I think that he definitely comes from a supportive family, an affluent family, a successful family, an academic family. But, yeah, that’s something that’s been considered, and it would be very cool to me to see the Walshes pop up here or there.
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I wonder though about his expressed desire to cover domestic violence, though, as in the child abuse he suffered at home. He has mentioned in other interviews that he was beaten, CPS was involved and that his parents still don't believe that they abused him. He also seems to respect his parents even in hindsight.
I have to say that as important an issue child abuse is to bring attention to, I'm wary of how a show like this would handle it in a way that wouldn't completely turn me off to either of the parents. It's one thing to see a strict, demanding but ultimately loving mother who fiercely protects her kids and a father who is a gentler character who wants something better for his family.
I get Eddie's being disappointed that his show isn't nearly as autobiographical as originally pitched by ABC, but it was kinda naive to expect a rare show like this to potentially paint the whole community in such a way, especially a subject as touchy as child beating. I don't know the exact stats, but Eddie sees it as something that is common in all FOB families (heck, my own Viet dad believed in using curtain rods to discipline his kids). In this day in age, people find that kind of thing indefensible, yet Eddie wrote a salon article titled "In Defense of Chinese Dads". I can completely understand why the network and every writer in the writer's room would instantly quash the idea.
In her Ted talk about the dangers of the single story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said that stereotypes are dangerous not because they aren't true, but because they don't tell the whole story. What do you do in the case of Fresh Off The Boat, which in this case is literally the single story? People already analyze every incident in this show as a reflection of the broader community. Black viewers are already disappointed that the only overtly racist character was a black kid, and when testing the pilot, the report came back that white people were feeling persecuted. What kind of hell-storm will happen once they introduce child beating into the mix?
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There was a bit of drama regarding the name. While in development, ABC originally named the show "Far East Orlando" (likely because someone at the studio knew that the term FOB would be problematic), but Eddie campaigned heavily to have the show named after his memoirs.
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It's pointless and the average person on the street does not know a thing about what makes a good picture.
Social media is what got Keith the win. Without that I think Will had the win.
I agree/disagree with this, because Will usually ranked higher than Keith in the social media scores. To me this kind of proves that notion of an average person can not pick out a model because the fans generally didn't care that he is far too tall.
As for the Keith, he was was my pre-show pick due to him having (imo) the most modelling potential, so yay to that. Top Model history has proven time and time again that potential always matters more than performance, so I think he'll do fine. If this was a fair competition, then Lennox would be the winner, but not don't that would lead to some SJW complaints about another white winning the comp.
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How ridiculous that Will does really well at the shoot and nails it, while Keith totally struggles (almost as much as Adam, who was DRUNK on the set!), yet both get perfect scores?! I mean, we know Tyra is desperate for a guy to win, but that just totall smacked of favoritism!
The client would likely only care about the shot that best sells the brand, and not about which reality show contestant performed best on the day. Also, the only reason why both Keith and Adam struggled was mostly because the running-towards-the-camera idea just wasn't a workable set-up, hence the reason why every dude after Adam ended up doing the jumping shot instead.
Reality, maybe, but hardly a fair competition.
This is exactly the reason why I won't to too upset if/when Keith wins. Sure he has a boring personality and often doesn't bring it to photoshoots, but Top Model history has proven that potential has always mattered more than performance when in come to which contestant make it as a model.
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If it was for a film that isn't currently sitting at zero on metacritic, then I could accept the Quinto and co's rejection of Not Cool could be due to bias. But given the scathing reviews from everyone who wasn't friends with Shane, it seems like Quinto was the only person on that table with any sense to not want this film on their resume. Besides, him taking his name off the film really isn't any different from the many other people who we saw reject the project out of sheer disgust, from the actors who refused to audition or the tattoo parlor owner who didn't want her shop name in the credits.
Also, it doesn't seem like Quinto was ever a fan of Shane's work (and Shane could sense this despite their limited interactions), and I get the sense that if it was completely up to him, he wouldn't have chosen Shane for this project.
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I'm pretty sure there was. Members of the SD Army were DMing it to each other, "allegedly."
Not just allegedly. Here an articles about how Shane's fans were posting some answers on his facebook page.
Starz filmmaking competition ‘The Chair’ torpedoed by social media
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As much as it pains me to do so, I have to agree with Shane that Anna had producer connections before joining the show and making her movie.
Yes, Shane has a larger fanbase, but Anna already knew Neal & Co. One could argue that she shouldn't have been able to participate on that alone.
To me, Shane still doesn't get it.
1. How could Anna's connection with Zach and Neal be considered an advantage when they have no say in who wins? He also leaves out that he himself was working on a seperate product with Chris Moore before being selected for the Chair, so this whole thing about producer connections is a non-issue.
2. I can't believe he is trying to play the victim just because a couple of producers hated his film and decided to campaign and promote the other person.
3. Shane always talked about how his audience consists of mostly teens (even mentioning that in the test screening episode that their opinions on his film mattered most) so the producers reiterating this isn't them insulting an entire age-group, but more about how Shane's narrow focus ended up hurting the end-product. Entertainment aimed towards kids doesn't have to be juvenile.
S03.E04: Unbreak-Able
in Bates Motel [V]
This conversation is just like the previous dialogue between Norma and Dylan.
Dylan: “You’ll say anything to get your own way!”
Norma: “My own way!? I have never gotten my own way ever.
Put me on the side that doesn't think Norma is all that manipulative. Sure, she's a bit crazy, but she's sincere in her craziness. She tries to control the situation, but is frequently in over her head. Based on Vera's acting choice, for me it has always been clear which parts were Norma being manipulative/controlling and which part were her being honest.