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Saw the play when it was on Broadway and loved it. Really looking forward to seeing this.
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I have no patience for Derrick or Nebraska and their antics. I don't find it "fun drama", just tedious. I think producers severely overestimate how many viewers tune in for that nonsense.
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3 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:
I came to share. So sad. That’s so young omg. Did they finish the second Black Panther film?
I don't believe they were to start filming the second film until 2021.
I can't believe it. Heartbroken for his family and friends.
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On 8/22/2020 at 7:46 PM, magdalene said:
Watching this show I am impressed how well it juggles so many characters. Some of whom would never have been given the time of day elsewhere.
Anybody else like Garak? That actor is so good. I find the character very likable and what I like about him is all under the surface.
Garak is my favorite character. There are so many layers to him, and the actor is superb.
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Blue Bloods is among the CBS shows being renewed for next season:
CBS Renews 23 Total Series, Including NCIS, FBI, Blue Bloods and All Rise
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Loved every minute, and I totally cried. It was so cathartic to see the P&R gang during all this...the mood booster I needed.
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7 hours ago, jaimesommers said:
Where’s Rachel? Last week Eddie was partnered with the male cop and this episode was with her sergeant.
Not sure what the filming schedule is for this show, but Lauren Patten is currently performing in Jagged Little Pill on Broadway and it’s unlikely she’ll be available for awhile.
(Highly recommend, btw - her performance of You Oughta Know blows the doors off the place)
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I am so, so happy about this.
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And it’s been cancelled:
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9 hours ago, Racj82 said:
I knew this would be popular opinion but I don't agree. Showing the violence is just another form of exploitation to me.
In this movie we were put, basically, in the minds of all the people that had to deal with his madness. It's actually a more logical approach and it made his crimes hit harder when they would lean into his grizzly crimes in trial. I was surprised they made this choice but I didn't mind it.
People seem to have fond memories of the deliberate stranger but that one soft peddled Ted. The only time we live in his crimes to a fuller extent was the campus dorm murders. Even then, we only got the gist of half if what he did.
Also, after listening to podcasts of this man, I'm honestly thankful I didn't have to see his actual crimes. Vile puts it mildly.
I’m not saying they need to depict his crimes in graphic detail (I’m not looking for them to ‘Criminal Minds’ this), but I know multiple people who watched this this weekend who didn’t have any background on Ted Bundy and didn’t come away with any sort of real understanding of the true depth of his depravity. And the reality is - what he did was terrible. What he did was graphic. He raped, murdered, dismembered, and often had sex with the corpses of his victims. He truly was the definition of evil. People should be uncomfortable walking away from a film about him. If anything I felt the trial portions glossed over those facts, outside of the prosecutor’s opening statement - and you really hear minimal details of any other cases against him outside of the Florida sorority murders.
The people I know who watched this or want to watch it aren't true crime fans - they’re watching it because Zac Efron is in it. Most of them are in their 20s or 30s and were children when Bundy was on death row, if they were alive at all - the only references they know of him are the general ones that have permeated popular culture. Especially when they choose to cast someone like Zac Efron in the title role, who has a large fan following in a younger demographic that wasn’t even alive during a time Bundy was, I thought the filmmaker had more of a responsibility to avoid another Deliberate Stranger situation - I think too many people are still going to romanticize Bundy from this.
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I was actually very disappointed with this. Performances aside (I though Zac did a great job), I think the concept of having the film framed through the girlfriend’s eyes and avoiding any depiction of Ted’s crimes was a mistake. I know what they were going for - they wanted the audience to feel duped by him as well, like so many people were over the years - but the “twist” in the final (and completely fabricated) confrontation comes too little too late.
The film soft pedals a guy who committed heinous, brutal crimes, and for people who don’t have any prior knowledge of Bundy, the severity of what he did and how dangerous he was doesn’t come across at all. There was a great movie concept in here somewhere, but this didn’t deliver on it. They’d be better off watching the confession tapes doc, also on Netflix (and it surprised me the director whiffed this so bad since he made that as well).
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I just started watching last week. Binged the entire thing (repeatedly...I can’t believe I wasn’t watching before now), and now I’ve gotten my sister started doing the same. Hoping to get a few more converts amongst my friends this weekend - they’re always looking for show suggestions.
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I cannot believe the car story actually happened. We had to pause because we were laughing so hard.
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18 hours ago, izabella said:
I don't know much about autism. Can anyone help me understand why the patient was unable to say anything during surgery until her friend/boyfriend started quizzing her on bugs? Lim explained that she needed to speak sothey would know when they were touching the wrong places in her brain, and that if she didn't speak, she might end up not being able to. Was she unable to understand, or was she having trouble processing what Lim was saying? Why wasn't she able to say what the pictures were, but was able to talk bugs? Why was she just staring into space but not saying anything?
In high stress situations a lot of autistics can go into shutdown mode, and may have issues with situational mutism and be unable to verbalize what they are thinking. I try to explain it to friends as the equivalent of the "blue screen of death" when a computer is overloaded - everything just crashes. It's also one of the reasons she started stimming so much with her blankets - again, stimming is usually used as an overload release (whether positive or negative).
Even autistics that are typically very verbal may have issues with speaking during high stress situations - that's one issue I have when I'm in the middle of a shutdown. At that point, someone asking anything of me, or trying to elicit verbal responses from me, is not going to get anything coherent, because I'm basically concentrating on keeping myself together in the most basic sense possible at that point. One way to try to deescalate from something like that is to try to focus on something of particular interest as a distraction - in Lana's case, bugs. My friends and I have done movie quotes with one another sometimes to similar effect.
I had mixed feelings on the episode. I liked some of the details (the tinted glasses for Javi to help him with his light sensitivity, the stimming by both him and Lana, her inability to articulate in high stress), but there is still a lot of leaning on cliche and autism myths. I was happy to see them utilizing actually autistic actors for a change, though. Shame they can't hire Alex Plank on permanently as an autism consultant the way he did for The Bridge, because some of the interviews I've read with the person they do have consulting on the show (who of course isn't autistic themselves) have been cringeworthy.
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Loved the performances, and Bale deserves every accolade thrown his way, but the film overall I found to be scattershot and underwhelming. There were good ideas there but I don't think it fully coalesced into what it could be.
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Wasn’t sure where to put this, so posting here and in Small Talk - Scott Wilson has passed away:
https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2018/10/07/the-walking-dead-scott-wilson-dead-age-hershel/
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21 minutes ago, thebigboot said:
And cancelled.
Source? Last I’d read a few hours ago on Deadline, they were still discussing ways to potentially renew for a second season, including having Will Ferrell appear, as he’s an exec producer.
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11 minutes ago, Pamela said:
Cancelled. Not entirely unexpected, but it's still disappointing. Especially given how the season ended.
EW and TVLine have now pulled their articles about the show’s cancellation. Guess they jumped the gun? Still doesn’t bode well.
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Officially renewed!
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I have to wonder how the real life inspiration for Lou's character feels about all this, because Lou is one of the most insufferable, unlikable characters I've had to endure on a show. I really hope that they improve the writing for him next season, if this show gets one.
Aside from the absolutely asinine ignoring of reality (that they couldn't make the cuts being asked of them anyway due to the license agreement, etc.), almost all the adults in this show act like children. Lou yelling at the kids "this is a private conversation!" - well, perhaps go have it in private then, instead of a massive auditorium with your entire cast on stage! Vanessa not bothering to pick up when Lilette calls, bother with her new job that she's almost certainly lost at this point, and left her teenage daughter on her own while the rent is past due. Both Robbie's father and Gwen's father are useless. Can all these kids go live with Gwen's mother? She seems to be the only level headed one there.-
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Mom in the Media
in Mom [V]
Well, this will certainly make the upcoming season interesting...
Anna Faris Leaving Mom