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Pollock

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  1. Thank you very much! Well, that's a new one: I learned something watching this show!
  2. Well, I had never seen a real baby right at birth and I must say it was kind of disgusting (no offense for the beauty of life yadiyada). Was her color normal at birth? This baby girl looked super blue/grey to me, I was truly relieved when she cried, I really had two seconds of panic there even if I knew by the medias she was fine.
  3. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3038542/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_3 I think it was this one, given the glimpse we got of the set.
  4. She was in damage control mode in the bedroom with the two other members of her Rush cover band. "I should'nt have called her a whore, I'm a whore too" yadiyada. Or something like that. Like she didn't mean it as a insult because she's one too but being better at life, at least she owns it unlike LuAnn. As if I'm gonna believe that wasn't a bullshit scene... She realized quickly how the slut shaming would look like with a large portion of the fanbase of the show (women like me who think empowering women isn't just telling them to hire a white guy to be the face of their company while talking shit about my other female co-workers) and voilà, here come 5 minutes of her spining the shit out of her "epic" rant. Thanks Bravo.
  5. Boring episode. Again. I can't wait for next week though, the preview was juicy.
  6. Bravo's content is restricted outside the US so here's a youtube link for a trailer. Is that the same? I hope it is. This looked good until the last 30 secondes with those girls crying because Joe's going to jail. Broke my cold dark heart. Fuck this. I don't want to see little girls crying because their criminal father is serving his sentence. It may very well be the only non scripted part of this I really don't ever want to see, I'll skip those parts during the season. Bring on the dysfunctionals families and crazy Jersey harpys, bring on women fighting like a flock of seagulls around the last fish on earth, I'm all for it but really, no more children tears, I can't handle it.
  7. Awwwwwwwwwwww... I love him so much that it pains me to read that! Anyway, cool pilot. I haven't read Preacher since I was youngish and I'm really not anymore so maybe I have forgot most of it or embellished it with time but I didn't get the sense of WTF IS WRONG WITH ENNIS???? that I had reading the comic books (or everything he ever wrote... Damn, The Boys is seriously twisted shit! and his Punisher is brilliantly written). I don't know, I had fun watching it mostly but in my mind, the comic is superb and outrageous (in a good intelligent way behind all the outrageous) and it was just a little empty. I'm staying in of course but I'm cautious and will be managing my expectations from now on.
  8. I may be mistaken because I don't follow behind the scenes all that much but Isn't that the season Lucy Liu needed more time home because she had a child or something like that?
  9. I kinda wish this topic was named Bethenny Frankel: Skinny cow.
  10. Here's a white guy confirming the story https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-bethenny-frankel-adam-quinton?published=t Your reply to Sanna, again as I recall it, was essentially that since it is the white guys that get funded (by the white guys) … then why not find yourself a white guy to front the company. So a colleague/spokesperson that could represent Rubitection to investors … and better connect with them, by virtue of being “one of them.” Fitting the expected pattern in other words. What you were saying may have well intentioned and fell into the category of “it is what it is” advice. i.e. if the world “works” a certain way then go with the flow if you want to succeed. In this case if your primary objective as an entrepreneur to grow your business, and you need to get it funded to achieve that, then do what it takes. In the room I sensed a fair amount of disquiet as this dialog played out. And it came into the open when Content Strategist and founder of Urban Socialista Mary Pryor, took the mic to say that what you were offering was a recipe to sustain a flawed status quo – and that was unacceptable. Mary subsequently wrote forcefully in the Huffington Post about how your advice was “wrong headed” and not the way to empower women entrepreneurs.
  11. I didn't hate it as much I thought I would after reading all the comments here before watching but it's only because Leann is two seconds away from being Danielle Staub. It's like seeing her twin sister, especially in the TH. Same speech patterns, same menace in her voice, same agression behind a fake smile, even her settings being "the poor" one amongst a cast of seamingly wealthy people...
  12. I found it funny that she admits that her daughter's faith is annoying her more than anybody's and I think it's pretty realistic for parents to ask themselves that: where did they went wrong with her daughter that (in her mind) a well educated young woman could believe in such a magic thing? Exactly. And I actually understood her question to Jason about fornication. "As a believer, how do you reconcile religious precepts and that state of your life?" was the underlying question. And for the record, I'll drop my pants for Jason's smirk, especially when that smile goes in his eyes too. I found JDM even more beautiful with this glorious beard. Also, in real life he owns a candy store so in my book, he's even more perfect. I'm kind of hoping the last scene in this show is him and Alicia in the candy store, making children happy while Peter is in jail for solicitation. I'm a Lifetime movie sucker like that.
  13. During the diner with Daddy and Olivia, I thought it was a dream sequence, as if we were going to learn that he's (finally!) dead and she was dreaming about him. Then, realizing it was actually happenning, I thought I missed an episode. Reading here, I'm happy to see I'm not alone ! That was a sightly dull episode but I liked the reveal of Jake being the culprit and this exchange between Liv' and Mellie at the end : - It's very smart. - Thank you. - And well-written. - I wrote it myself. - And a total bore. - There was a ghostwriter. Bellamy Young delivery was awesome and really funny.
  14. Oh! So it's not just me! I wondered if I was getting paranoid!
  15. Thank you for your answer! Wow, I'm just amazed how efficient this is! I knew about Las Vegas of course, but I thought it was just another thing to get tourists like casinos and cheap outlets, not a real way of doing it elsewhere in the US.
  16. Oh ok thank you! If I get that correctly, the show is in charge of the paperwork and only disclose it after the filmed ceremony. So when they say "I do", technically, they still could opt-out just after because nothing legally binding has been signed? That's the window I would chose to bolt if I was truly disgusted by the sight of my new better half!
  17. Just a general question because I've been asking myself this since season 1 and never bothered to ask (I think but if I already asked, I can't remember the answer) : don't people in the US need to get and sign a licence to marry someone? Wouldn't they therefore know the name of their spouse before the wedding, even if they didn't met them? In France where I'm from, you have to do ton of paperwork before the wedding day (and you have to "publier les bans": make your intentions public on a wall outside city hall in case of someone opposing the wedding ("hey, I'm already married to this guy, he can't marry someone else! J'accuse!"). I'm guessing it's not the same in the US and probably depends on a State policy but still, it seems bizarre to me that they wouldn't have some kind of paperwork to do before the wedding.
  18. I think he mistook her for Becca at that moment.
  19. I bet now the twins will be born this week just for us to break this oath.
  20. It baffles me, really. I knew it was a big thing in America's recent history but I would have never suspected the extent of that fascination. It's really bizarre to me that the trial was live on tv. Is there some channels in the US where you can see different trials all day long or was OJ a exception due to his celebrity status? I assume the filming is a good thing because all parties can rely on it in case of an appeal maybe, seeing a person talk being better than just reading the transcript but I don't get why anybody would allow that to go on live tv. Has the defense any right to refuse that sort of thing? Anyway, thanks for this thread, it's interesting too read and it has me a little bit more excited for the Faye storyline because really I was asking myself why I should care about a 20 years old story I know nothing about! Thanks for the recommendation for the documentary LIMOM. Thank you Suomi for the books recommendation. I'll see if I can read some pages online before going further because if reading those boards, tons of comic books and Harry Potter in english isn't a problem anymore, a serious adult book is a whole other story!
  21. As a foreigner, I have of course heard of this case but never really got deeper than a few jokes or reference on tv shows I watch. Is there a good documentary that you all recommand for this case please? Like The Staircase or Making a Murderer ? A real good one? I'm not counting the Murphy's tv show which is coming a little bit later this year as a documentary. Maybe he will do a good job but I would prefer some things with actual footag, that kind of things! ETA: Grammar etc.
  22. I'm not as fond of the rat tails I must admit. If I want to squeeze his cheeks because he's too cute, I also want to cut those things real bad! Anyway, I love how his character evolved without betraying his spirit and his craziness. It's truly bizarre because he's sometimes shallow, selfish to the point of being almost assholish (I would be livid to be his neighbor for example) but I never want to slap some sense into him. It helps that Gael García Bernal suffers from the same syndrom as Joseph Morgan in the Originals: his chemistry is palpable with every other actor in the room. (such a hard cross to bear! Ha!) And most of it, the way Rodrigo talks about music, of all kind, resonates with me really much. His phobia of silence, of a World who wouldn't talk to him anymore, the thought of his head just filled with noises not making sense anymore, how frightning is that? The editor functions don't work today but here's a good summary of his character's awesomeness ! https://nkilkenny.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/screen-shot-2014-12-31-at-10-01-23-pm.png
  23. Punkypower posted in the All Episodes thread a link that might help you with that! http://mobwives.blogspot.fr/2016/01/mob-wives-karen-explains-dritas-set-up.html It seems Drita crossed Karen and Carla during the negotiations for their season 4 contract, caving even if she had agree to present a united front.
  24. Haïïï noooooo! I won't deny that the show is white for 95% of the cast (mirrorring, sadly, the real classical music world) but I refute vehemently whatever resemblance between Girls and Mozard in the Jungle. In my opinion, the women (and I use the term losely) in Girls are 20 something lazy asses who wear their history as an excuse for their shortcomings. I watched two seasons of that show, and I gave up when my hatred of those girls became more violent that my fondness for the writing and the elegance of the stage production. Haïlaï, the woman whose story we follow in Mozart in the Jungle is a hard working musician, ready to take on any job to make ends meet while perfecting her craft. Most of all, she's humble, willing to learn more and more and work harder and harder to accomplish her dream : being a part of one of the most exclusive and celebrated orchestra in the world. So except for her love life, she has a clear direction in life. Furthermore, it's not all about her story. It's a show about the family you can choose, the beauty of music, how hard professional musicians work from birth to death if they want to keep their job and except for the stars struggle make a living with their art, the necessary modern transition of this world dying of old age if it wants to survive. And also the real hero is Rodrigo, the crazy ass conductor of this orchestra. He's the cutest and most refreshing thing ever. Because he's there, Mozart in the Jungle is a feel good show. Really. You feel good watching it and the feeling stays after. You're totally entitled to your opinion, of course, I respect it and really, you have a good point about the blatant lack of diversity. This show clearly isn't for you but I would hate for anybody to be turned off by your assessement given how polarizing Girls is when I feel they are nothing alike except for location!
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