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She has some fairly noticeable blonde twists in there, though. So unless Sasha came across a Sally's Beauty Supply or they found a settlement with a stylist who does twists and locs, I dunno. However if they do a flashback and we get to see Sasha before the ZA happened where she is rocking her twists while doing firefighter stuff, then that'd be kinda cool.

Awww, thanks.

I guess it depends on how you define 'television' these days. When Community was cancelled from NBC it moved over to Yahoo for its last season. Also technically you don't need a TV to watch Netflix or Hulu original programming. They are considered streaming services so you just need a device capable to receiving them. Tons of people watch shows on tablets. So i guess content created to be streamed on the internet isn't that far removed from Netflix or Hulu. I feel bad for Peter MacNicol, but on the very slim chance this gives Dennis Haysbert a shot I'd be tickled pink. and finally, I think Constance Wu is great and should have gotten the nom. But if I had to kick off any of the other nominees to make room for her, Tracee would not be the one. She is brilliant as Bow and I thought she was overlooked last year. There are a couple on that list that i would jettison way before I'd get to Tracee.

Oh man, I love that casting news! I love the concept of his character even more:

The overall mythology of the series has gotten so convoluted and makes no sense. I loved the earlier books when she was a funny PI who simply solved murders by talking to the dead people. This whole Battle of the Gods things is so dreary and feels like it is being made up as she goes along.

Yeah, the show. Key got a couple of nominations -- he also got one for voice acting I think in another show. But the big one is for performance in Key & Peele. I could understand if he acted rings around Peele, but that simply isn't the case. Watching the show, it is clear the partnership feels almost symbiotic. I remember when it happened last year my knee-jerk reaction was "How do you pick Key without Peele?' So seeing Amy and Tina listed as one performer, it just struck me as odd consider Amy and Tina so equal in talent and performance they are essentially one entity. if this were writing, I'd understand since writing credit is a different animal. Can performance categories submit as a team? Maybe they can and people just do have always do it individually? Or maybe Peele simply chose not to submit himself.

I thought the same thing. They are in a performance category so how does this work? And if this works for them, then why not have both Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele as a duo for their category then? Honestly, Key doesn't work without Peele. And as much as I love KMK, I think Jordan Peele has gotten the shaft yet again. Also, for the umpty year in a row, I will never understand how Saturday Night Live is a Variety show, but the comedians are always lumped in with the comedy acting category. Anyway, I think this was the first time in a long time that I was sort of impressed by the Emmys. Sure they hang onto some things well beyond their sell by date (Downton Abbey, Modern Family) but totally impressed they recognized Aziz Ansari and Super thrilled for the Black-ish crew. Their Season 2 has been fantastic all around. I thought Tracee was overlooked last year so I am happy she was in this year. She is such a natural comedienne she makes it look effortless. Also happy for The Americans love, the continued Tituss Burgess and Andre Braugher recognition, Viola, Taraji, & Tatiana. Tickled by the Lemonade noms. Bummed by the lack of love for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend & Rachel Bloom. I'd totally kick Amy Schumer out of that category and replace her with Rachel. Kinda wish Dennis Haysbert had gotten a guest nod for Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He and Andre Braugher doing their level best to out dead-pan each other was brilliant. Not surprised bu the OINTB shut out. Season 3 was kinda bad.

I watched the first episode of Roadies and was so very massively underwhelmed. From the opening moments with Luke Wilson having sex with a barely old enough Asian nymphette (honestly this felt so uncomfortably fetishistic to have her giggle & parade around naked in front of people) to the caricature of the stalker groupie girl (who looks eerily like the Penny Lane character from Almost famous) everything about it feels stale and uninspired and well, bad. No desire at all to try it again. And glad i made the decision not to because I hear there is a sexual assault in Episode 3 that is played for laughs. Yuck.

Yeah, not only can these coporations be run out of apartments, but these global, multi-billion dollar corporations are all situated in very small towns.

I love that the commenters on i09 are totally dragging this show. i think there is a sizeable contingent of people who believe that the disaffected Sleepy Hollow ex-fans are just angry POC who are mad that they killed off a black female. But if I am not mistaken, i would gather that the i09 commentariat skews white male. Or at least it is definitely not a bunch of angry POC crying racism or Abbie Mills superfans. No these are the fans the show seems like it wants to attract post-Abbie. The latest news seems to even be alienating people who hadn't completely written it off after the finale. I've seen quite a few comments on twitter where people were like "well, I was going to give Season 4 a chance but this just sounds awful."

We did meet her mother last season who was rather snippy with Johnny. But my reading is that her mother still loves her (she keeps her supplied with Jax) she is just keeping it waaay on the down low so plausible deniability. I thought of this as well. He was a Warlord? I love it. I am enjoying learning more about Pree and think that just because he is back on Westerley doesn;t mean they aren't going to pull the trigger on him later. He presents as a bar owner full of sexiness and ennui, but he is badass obviously and I have an inkling haven't yet seen the full of it. This was my thought as well. it really felt like a, let's set up all our chess pieces on the board and make a few moves to get the feel of the opposition. I tend not to like these types of episodes but it is good to get it out of the way early on so we can get to the meat of the story.

During my most recent re-watch of Leverage, I always get a thrill out of the ending of 'The First David Job'. The team has really taken a beating by Sterling and are all apparently captured but they each get out of it. At the end Sterling marches triumphantly into their headquarters only for Hardison to appear on the big bank of flat screen monitors with a timer ticking down and he says "Get. Out. Of. My. House." and Boom!

I am doing a re-read of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Well, not the whole series, just the Nightwatch books. I just started with Guards! Guards! totally hysterical, Added bonus, I am listening to them on audio (already read em' twice) and the voice actor who does them, Stephen Briggs, is wonderful.

So apparently there is a change.org petition to get Jesse fired from Grey's. But then that was counter-pointed by another change.org petition to keep him. in the aftermath of this, Shonda tweeted: Heh.

Man, that hour went really fast. Hate the opening credits... sorry. I am not a fan of the cartoony look. But loved the pace and everything else. - Pree's expanded role in this was everything. Nice to see what he can do when he is not just handing out drinks with sage advice. From his calling everyone 'sweetie' to his "dying underwear" to his funny/convenient "marriage" to Johnny he was perfect. And so damned pretty!! - New girl Clara? is a fun addition. She feels like a continuation of the steampunk elements that the show dropped in here and there last season underneath all the hard science fiction stuff. Of course her gun-arm has a name and it liked Johnny! His milkshake brings all the AI girls to the yard! - Funny moment when we see inside D'Avin's head as he is fantasizing kissing Dutch, complete with the schmaltzy music and we cut to him humming it and dreaming with a stupid smile on his face while his doctor-torturers look upon him like "what the....?" - The "Black Root" seem to be, heh, mostly black guys. LOL - Khlyen is such an enigma. And so supremely hot in his long, sexy coats. Whatever he is doing, whatever game he is playing or whatever cards he is holding...it is like it is the longest of all long cons with life and death consequences. He always feels like he is several moves ahead of everyone. And I am here for it. I love a complicated ...villain? antagonist? anti-hero?.... whichever one it is, he is definitely it. - Dutch kinda looked like Rihanna in that wig/weird eye combo outfit she had on when they were rescuing Clara. - Oh my poor Fancy! Please still be on our side in some way. If it took him becoming a Level Six to increase his screen time, then so be it. - So glad they mentioned Pawter and Alvis. Good to know they'll still be around this season - And finally, one of Pree's aliases is Paris O'Malley. Ha!

I think it all depends on how she feels about her own identity, tbh. Some of it yes has to do with how people perceive her. But a lot has to do with how he chooses to identify and present. My roommate in college who was pale, sandy haired, freckled and light eyed and could easily pass as a white girl even though both her parents are black, but she was adamantly black. So she was always part of the black community. Her strong commitment to presenting as black made us forget sometimes that she didn't look black. I think it is easier for a biiracial person who is very light/near white to be accepted by the black community than it is for a biracial person who doesn't phenotypically look white to be accepted as white. Mainly because of the deeply entrenched one-drop rule and also because black folks are more cognizant of the ranges of skin hues within the black community and just are more accepting. Probably why Rachel Dolezal could front so easily. On a related note there is this very good documentary called Little White Lie about a woman named Lacey Schwartz who grew up believing she was white. Her mother knew she'd had an affair with a black man, but passed Lacey as her husband's child. The entire family kinda committed a conspiracy of ...delusional silence. Her somewhat tanner skin was attributed to her Sicilan grandfather. But Lacey discovered the truth and embraced her black roots. There was a point in the documentary when she goes to college at Georgetown fully identifying as a black woman and is embraced by the black students there. She talks about a sense of homecoming. It is very fascinating actually.

I have to agree with Orphan Black. I could barely manage three episodes this season. In retrospect I should have given up last season. First two seasons were fun as hell. I really wish it had just been about the clones and maybe just about their creators realizing they were too dangerous to be running about so they were trying to round them up and kill them all. That's it. The introduction of the male clones just about killed the show for me. It feels like they've lost control of the story. I watched about three episode of season 3 of Orange is the New Black and felt absolutely no desire to pick it up again. But then i thought maybe I'd just relegate S3 to oblivion and start fresh with four. Nope. Read too many spoilers. So bye bye OINTB.

See I thought his name was Panda and kept wondering if he was also a designer. I literally had no idea the song was titled Panda until much later.

Yeah, it wasn't like I was counting or anything. But it is one of those things where I was watching (i did watch live) and realized it wasn't, well, interesting really outside of Bey and the Prince stuff. And that I was just waiting for the Prince stuff. And then figuring out why it didn't feel interesting. It was because most the non-Prince acts seemed almost interchangeable. And then realizing that was because they were mostly male rappers. It wasn't necessarily a conscious thing like I was keeping score. More like a subconscious thing. I mean, Andra Day was there and she was a nominee and she's having a moment too she could've had a slot. So really just a lack that felt problematic to me after the fact.

He literally made me stand up in my own living room, waving a paper fan (metaphorically) saying Amen. That speech surprised the hell out of me seeming to come out of nowhere and spoken in such direct language. Hell yeah, indeed.

Between him preaching and and J.Hud, it was like church up in there. For like 10 minutes anyway. Seriously, like you said, I wasn't ready. That shit was some powerful truth and he looked damn mad. I think somebody on twitter said the first time he smiled all night was during the Sheila E. set. LOL. I actually just listened to him on the Denzel Washington is the greatest actor of all time period podcast a few days ago (it is such a fun podcast series, btw) and he is woke even when talking about Denzel. But also, somehow they got on the subject of Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone and Jesse just laid it out so succinctly. He went off, but he did it so elegantly. Anyway I highly recommend a listen. I did like them showcasing the new acts over there in the corner. Those two sisters on Bey's label were interesting. Nice to see some experimental and different music coming from black acts and not just rap, pop & R&B. That one talk-sing guy was... kinda strange. But overall the BET awards were interminable, filled mostly with male rap acts and Usher. Bey & opening was excellent. But really the only other female artist performing their own work was Alicia Keys. That is terrible. Also they only gave out like five awards and most of them were also male skewing. The Prince stuff was really the only reason to keep watching and I do admit they came through. From Bilal to Maxwell (Dayum!) to Janelle to Sheila they all did a great job. Even managed to get Jerome to put in an appearance -- no Morris tho.

Yeah, that was Bilal. Neo soul guy. I thought he got the voice just right. But yeah there is much more to come. Sheila E, Maxwell, etc. so I think they started low key and plan to get more hype. Not feeling all the rap stuff. I just don't get the newer rap groups these days. Yes, I am an old. The performances have been feeling a little male-centric.

Beyonce and Kendrick Lamarr were fan-fucking-tastic!!

Rip Bernie Worrell. Flashlight by PFunk is all him and one of the P-Funkiest jams ever!!!!!

She did a web series called The Misadventures of an Awkward Black girl It is a good little series. A little bit of cringe humor and some good personalities in her supporting cast. I could see this on par with Aziz Ansari's show. The web series was a very diverse comedy built around the foibles of an African American woman, but her blackness isn't the central issue. Some of the comedy uses racial referents but it isn't the central theme. She has an Indian best friend and later in the series a white boyfriend. Funny her name is Jaye and her boyfriend's name is also Jay and he is referred to as White Jay. I would say it is more workplace and relationship comedy with lots of 'observational' stuff thrown in. Why she had such a problem getting this on air baffles me.