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On 3/25/2018 at 8:05 PM, chocolatine said:
I missed the Dinesh and Gilfoyle repartee.
They had to spend a lot of time setting up the plotlines for the season, so it mostly focused on Richard. Also in reality Kumail could have been deep into Oscar campaigning and wasn't as available for filming (I think he also has a few different projects lining up). I hope the lack of Dinesh and Gilfoyle isn't a trend, though.
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What a great episode, and that musical number was eons better than anything they put together for AS3. I'm a little sick of the choreographed lip synch numbers, but at least this one had decent music and a clever idea.
I was honestly surprised Kameron wasn't in the running for winning this week. I thought she did well in the challenge and I loved her runway look. I thought it was so pretty and it was an interesting look to see the muscle queen covered in butterflies.
11 hours ago, cousin oliver said:Oh, one more thing: what's a Halsey?
She's had a whole bunch of hit songs, although I probably still couldn't pick her out of a lineup. But what you really need to know her for is her speech at the Women's March this year:
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2 hours ago, Cosmic Muffin said:
It's Monday and I don't think the Whatcha Packin is up yet for Vanessa Vanji Mateo. I want more of here, where is this episode?
It was up yesterday. It just started after Untucked on VH1.com for me.
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17 hours ago, Chaos Theory said:
The one thing I don't understand is how and why things blew up with the guy (and I forget his name now) that he was living with before his killing spree. That is the one aspect of the story that seems odd to me. Andrew had everything he wanted but I guess he couldn't swallow his pride or maybe he couldn't accept that he wasn't getting more. Either way I don't need to like a character to understand them. As a matter of fact I tend to be better at understanding characters I don't like.
Maybe he wanted to genuinely be loved for who he was and be in a real relationship, hence his pursuit of David. Of course that could never happen because he didn't know who he was.
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So I think there are is a big narrative parallel between this season and the OJ season, in that both stories are about murderers but they both illuminate a deeper injustice. In the OJ case it was money and celebrity and a frenzied media and racism, but all of that has been covered endlessly since the trial. The injustice with Andrew and his victims was the inherent homophobia hindering so many aspects of the case. That's something this season really helped bring to the forefront and will hopefully be part of the story of these murders from now on.
And for a less weighty thought, did they ever explain the wound on Andrew's leg that we saw in the first episode? Also one of the articles mentioned some sort of stomach wound.
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11 hours ago, Sugar said:
I'm new to the show and not really sure where to pose this question, so please bear with me y'all. Would someone mind clarifying "tucking" for me? I tried looking it up online and found a few tutorials, so I get the mechanics, but I don't understand how some Queens (Trinity and Nina Bonina from S8 come to mind) can wear only a thong and teeny tiny patch covering the front and yet nothing shows. I've also seen some girls spread their legs during lip syncs while wearing butt floss, and it's like a Ken Doll - not even a bulge or bump. Can someone explain how they're able to achieve such a smooth and seamless surface down there?
Sorry if this is in the wrong place, I'm watching an episode now and can't stop thinking about it!I'm hardly an expert, but one trick drag queens use to smooth out the appearance of padding and muscles is wear multiple pairs of thick tights. There are some queens who perform with no tights, but I think they usually just walk around and don't do anything particularly acrobatic.
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I was spoiled from the beginning as far as Ben dropping out and Trixie winning (although I think I had heard it was between Trixie and Bebe), so I wasn't totally shocked. It was also anti-climatic to see Ben slay so much knowing she wasn't going to win. I do wonder what would have happened if Ben had stuck around. I think Trixie has been set up as the winner from the beginning due to her mainstream success plus being a World of Wonder darling, but that would have been a harder sale against Ben being so dominant throughout the season.
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14 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:
I read the postcards in the FBI reports and they were written versions of Andrew presenting only the most fabulous braggy depiction of his life.
Interesting. So basically primitive social media.
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10 hours ago, hoodooznoodooz said:
So how come Norman has this exquisite house with the lovely pool and gorgeous views, but then there's a big platform bed with two sad little lumpy twin mattresses on it?
I have no idea if that was accurate, but it sounds like Andrew didn't like having sex with him and as the decorator picked out a bed where they wouldn't be touching.
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On 2/23/2018 at 1:03 AM, Xazeal said:
I've been saying this for a while, but this episode sealed it for me: Trixie is our underdog winner, a direct response to the backlash Alaska received for being deemed too predictable and a bit arrogant. People expected the same from Trixie (I sure did) and they're deliberately giving us the opposite.
Trixie was realllly leaning into the "OMG I suck! I thought I would kill this! I'm having a breakdown!" stuff on social media this last week. Reposting memes, responding to a tweet by Kim Chi that said she was loving Aja and Ben with "I'M FUCKING TRYING OK"--it all just points to an underdog finalist/winner storyline to me.
I also think Kennedy should have been in the top two with Trixie. I didn't see a problem with her can, her outfit was my favorite of the looks, and her makeup was amazing.
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Not too surprising, but Bob the Drag Queen will be filling in for Katya on the Trixie and Katya Show. I think Trixie and Bob work well together so I'm looking forward to it.
http://www.newnownext.com/bob-the-drag-queen-trixie-and-katya-show/02/2018/
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12 minutes ago, txhorns79 said:
I viewed it more as the thought being that it wasn't worth the effort because all the police would do is take a report.
Also if they did seek out Andrew and arrest/charge him, that would just wrap Jeff up in more drama with him. He was an officer in the Navy who had to deal with homophobic meatheads for years--I can't imagine he saw Andrew as an actual threat.
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17 hours ago, Steph619 said:
I can't say I'm a big fan of the order the show Is going, backwards rather than forward, because I get kind of confused by the sequence of events. However, it's interesting that although they're going in reverse, Andrew Cunanan seems to get worse and scarier with each episode.
I think that's a really interesting point. Maybe it's because, in reverse order, the deaths look more pointless as they go on. It's not unheard of for celebrities to have dangerous stalkers, and Lee Miglin could be seen as someone who was a mark for robbery by a desperate person on the run. It's not justification but it offers some explanation for what happened to them. Jeff and David just...didn't like Andrew. That's all it took. They're all sad but the senselessness with these two is above and beyond.
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13 hours ago, stcroix said:
I know exactly what you mean. I used to really enjoy true crime novels. I loved how the detectives figured it all out, I especially liked Ann Rules writing. But I found myself feeling sick from it all after a few years. So many senseless killings, so many young people being senselessly tortured. I can't stand to think of it now after watching the show tonight! The older I get the more things like that are affecting me, along with becoming super soft hearted about animals being hurt :( But I'm going to watch this series. I've got to see what started the whole mess. If it's from an abusive childhood I'm going to be sick, I know. So many murderers were normal little innocent children who were abused by sick parents or other adults. Ugh... I hate to think about what's going on out there right now! :(
I liked Ann Rule too, and one thing she and I think this show do well when telling these stories is keep a lot of focus on the victims. I feel like especially the last two episodes Andrew was almost a side character, and our focus was with the Lee and David. It's one thing for a TV show to highlight an interesting, glamorous person like Gianni Versace, but they also showed two fairly average men as the unique humans they were. In the short time we saw Jeff he was shown as smart and interesting. And even with more tertiary characters to the story like Lee's wife and David's dad they are portrayed thoughtfully.
An obvious exception is the caretaker at the cemetery, but maybe that was a choice by the show since he wasn't targeted by Andrew, just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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On 1/11/2018 at 2:33 AM, bilgistic said:
The atmosphere reminded me of the first season of The Killing. It was either damp or absolutely raining buckets.
Yes! The dreariness made me wonder if German schools are on a different timeline than the US as we started on the first day of school but the weather looked more late fall.
And as a sidenote as someone who lived in Seattle for 7 years, the downpours in The Killing always bugged me. It almost never rains like that there, it's just always wet.
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I'm fine with Shangela winning, but I wasn't quite as impressed by her as the judges were. She did well with her Mariah, but the part was written really funny and I think any drag queen worth her salt would have killed with it. Also Raven pointed out on Fashion Photo Ruview that the bodysuit was right but Mariah hasn't worn long fringe like that. And I thought the giant ball was genius, but I've never seen an ornament that looked like her red spotted outfit. She was great in the lipsynch and the jumprope was a cute touch, though.
Milk should be ashamed of her portrayal of Celine. Talk about a dream character for a drag queen and she just totally blew it. Not one chest thump!
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6 minutes ago, caracas1914 said:
On Versace; in hindsight Its incredible now to think that a recognized fashion celebrity would live so publicly literally on a crowed Street on South Beach, I’m sure that was part of the residence’s appeal to him, sadly that wouldn’t probably happen again.
I watched one of the extras on FX and I think it was one of the producers who commented on the fact that when they were filming at the mansion it was jarring to see how central and basically public it is, with hundreds of people wandering by every day.
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On 12/21/2017 at 4:50 AM, ElectricBoogaloo said:
Kumail Nanijani's movie The Big Sick (which he wrote, starred in, and produced) has been nominated for several awards!
And now an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay! I had higher hopes for The Big Sick but I think it just lost steam and there were stronger contenders in some of the categories they had a shot at (supporting actress, comedy/musical at the Golden Globes).
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On 1/27/2018 at 5:52 AM, Corgi-ears said:
Trixie should have been eliminated from minute one when she glided into the workshop in rollerblades instead of rollerskates.
I think she was inspired by this Barbie, which came out in 1996. That's pretty solid roller blade territory.
I just want to wax poetic about Bendela's talent show number. It was funny, witty, a nod to burlesque, which I consider classically in the same universe as drag, skillful, creative, and incorporated the traditional drag technique of outfit reveals in a cool way. It made all the lipsynchs/high energy dances look tired in comparison, and everyone else was a distant second to me. I swear I'm not a giant Ben fangirl! She just really impressed me.
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On 12/12/2017 at 6:41 AM, Roseanna said:
It's true that unlike royal men, Margaret had less space in her private life. If she had stayed single and had affairs, they wouldn't have kept secret very long. And if she wanted children, she had to marry.
Sort of a random question, but have royals ever adopted? Like an actual orphan, not a relation from a family member who passed way or something.
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On 11/6/2017 at 3:40 PM, AllyB said:
I just watched both series over the last couple of weeks and the whole Chef Jeff story seems bizarrely prescient when watched after October 2017. Here in the present everyone is not just angry with the harassers and abusers but it feels like we also have no truck with the Tarantinos, Clooneys, Afflecks and Damons of the world who turned a blind eye to what they had to know was going on. It seems to me that if Ansari felt he didn't have much more story to tell about Dev's romantic life, that there is a whole wealth of story about the fallout from the Chef Jeff scandal.
(Also a bit weird that at present, Bourdain, is on the exact opposite side of the story as Chef Jeff due to his girlfriend being an alleged victim.)We'll see if he does that now that Louis CK is being taken down. They worked together and have the same management. He was even asked about some of the accusations against Louis CK a couple years ago and he declined to talk about it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/louis-cks-powerful-army-of-celebrity-enablers
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On 11/2/2017 at 6:19 AM, ElectricBoogaloo said:
Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova Chat About "The Trixie & Katya Show"
Will their show get its own forum here?
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I want to find out that El was being given math lessons while she was in the lab as it was deemed a "safe" subject that wouldn't make her too rebellious about her circumstances but kept her busy, so she enters the high school as a math genius even though she's behind in everything else.
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9 hours ago, bilgistic said:
In episode two, Nancy wears a claw clip in her hair when she goes to the party. I know this is a weird thing to fixate on. I was 10 on Halloween 1984, but I don't remember claw clips coming into popularity until years later...like a decade or so. I use a big claw clip daily. The mid- and late-1980s were all about banana clips. The early 1990s were about scrunchies, which are supposedly coming back, horror of horrors.
Lululemon is selling a scrunchie for $8. Jesus.
The one Nancy was wearing was a little more "late model," but I remember wearing claw clips around that time. They were usually more garish and bigger (and from Claire's of course) like these:
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S02.E09: Alone
in American Crime Story: S02 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace
LOL I get that song in my head every time I look at this thread!