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Man, the rabid gameboys are going to freak the fuck out when they see all the gay.
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On 1/13/2023 at 5:44 AM, dttruman said:
I am not a lawyer, but I have over 40 years of experience watching Perry Mason, but doesn't that disclaimer at the beginning cover that?
It doesn't, as far as I know. Long story short, someone I know who got a job on a show about 20 years ago tried to include my real name in a list of (fictional) high school students on a bus as a nice little shout-out to me, and he got blocked by Legal at the network, and he had to ADR the scene afterwards with a list of network-approved fake names.
(P.S.: The show was Dawson's Creek. I coulda been a somebody! A somebody like Glenn Coco.)
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On 1/6/2023 at 1:44 PM, Joimiaroxeu said:
Cosgrove quoting from the Statue of Liberty was corny. How many times has that cliche been used on this show?
That was dumb as hell, but that rack focus on the actual Statue of Liberty immediately afterwards was fucking embarrassing.
(And I hope I'm using "rack focus" correctly to describe that shot -- it's been a while since I've felt compelled to comment on lousy, insulting camerawork.)
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On 1/11/2023 at 7:48 PM, Bill1978 said:
Honestly, it's probably the main reason I love the Globes (apart from drunken acceptance speeches). Remember when The Martian was deemed a comedy or that The Tourist was considered worthy enough for nominations?
Christ, I'm old enough to remember the Pia Zadora mess in 1981. The Globes have always been an entertaining joke of an awards show.
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Wow. Benson's howl at The Rape Tree was certainly...a choice.
55 minutes ago, The Wild Sow said:There’s a person whose last name is Churlish??
And another character tonight was named Clem Shirk. I mean, I know there are legal considerations when naming fictional characters on TV shows, but are they now just going for the most ridiculous names possible so they don't get sued?
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I wonder what was behind the business decision to run a big ad for the World Cup in the middle of an episode about a rapist soccer player.
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48 minutes ago, Chickabiddy said:
The secret to my rabid enjoyment is I just assume it is the same genre as The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window.
100%, absolutely. Though the satire/humor isn't anywhere near as broad in this series as it was in Kristen Bell's, this is absolutely a send-up in the same vein.
50 minutes ago, Chickabiddy said:That whole scene was comedy gold…without even trying.
It was brilliant. The only thing it was missing was copious amounts of white wine (although conspicuous day-drinking might have pushed that scene over the top -- I loved that the gallery owner said, "I'll get you some water!" instead).
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I love that these morons blew all that money on a security system, and their passcode is 1-2-3-4.
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On 10/18/2022 at 1:38 PM, qtpye said:
This almost feels more like a parody than a retelling of actual events.
Having seen more of the episodes: Yes! Yes, this show is a parody. A pretty nasty parody of exceptionally wealthy and privileged East Coast assholes, but a parody nonetheless. And it's pretty fucking fabulous.
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10 hours ago, Kiki620 said:
As a viewer, am I supposed to not like the couple? Because I don't find either of them likable. Dad's a hot head and Mom's a wannabe artist and a wannabe socialite.
And the kids are pains in the ass, and Mitch and Mo are boundary-violating assholes, and the cops are incompetent morons, and Mia Farrow is fucking batshit crazy....
I'm pretty damn sure we're not supposed to find any of the characters likeable at all. I'm also pretty sure that that's the point -- the 'Watcher' of the title isn't the evil, here: It's everybody else. It's, like, the only way this series makes sense to me at the moment.
And, I should add: I think this series is pretty fucking fabulous -- at least at the moment. If they fail to stick the landing, which is always a possibility in a Ryan Murphy show, then I'll be wondering why I wasted so much time on it all.
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QuoteI wish Netflix had given this story to Mike Flanagan. I think he could a better job with a story about vague creepy threats resulting in paranoid and obsessive behavior by the victims.
Oooh! Excellent call. I'd love to see that take on this story, too.
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On 10/5/2022 at 2:46 AM, Racj82 said:
I know you said this was silly nit but come on. They were trying to set a mood. It also really really doesn't matter.
I know, I know. It's just one of those little things that bug, and there are always -- always -- some things, little or big, that bug in a Ryan Murphy series. Especially in a Ryan Murphy series.
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37 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
Now that you mention it, there is no way none of those kids at that party would not have leaked to someone that the missing girl was at the party.
Gossip in a small town should have solved this thing long ago. I mean, did they just think it was normal for another young girl to disappear every so often? And where are the other bodies????
I completely agree, but if the young girls disappearing were all young girls of color, I doubt the local police would have prioritized any of their cases.
However, if they'd been missing white girls, the cable news networks would have had round-the-clock, wall-to-wall coverage of the disappearances for months.
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I'm about to pick a pretty silly little nit, but it does sort of reflect the way this series has modified facts for dramatic license: There was not a total eclipse of the sun the day Gacy was executed. In the Midwest (and I was in Kohler, Wisconsin, that day), it was a very partial one -- no more than a third was covered by the moon. Also, Gacy was executed the night before the eclipse happened, which I remember because we all did celebratory shots at the time of said execution.
I have no idea if Dahmer was Baptist-baptized on the same day as that eclipse, and I have no desire to look it up, but yeah: This show has fudged a lot of the facts.
By the way, does anyone else think that opening sequence means that Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan are doing a series about Gacy next?
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On 9/23/2022 at 5:21 AM, pertho said:
The Devil works hard, but Hollywood's war propaganda trivialising war crimes and people's suffering works harder.
We should support Ukraine, but this is a fucking weird way to do it.Other Media
I'm only three minutes in to this episode, and I already think it's disgusting. Using Bucha as a plot point? Dick Wolf needs to...just stop. This is wretched.
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On 8/5/2022 at 5:18 PM, stormy weather said:
At this point I really have no idea who could go next, but I'm tired of production keeping on queens for drama (I'm talking to you, Fiercalicious, Kimmy and at this point Jada) instead of talent.
Well, with Snatch Game happening next week, I think it'll become a lot more obvious who the remaining filler queens are, but I can't see either Fiercalicious or Kimmy doing well in that challenge, and I'd be willing to bet both end up in the bottom.
Gisèle, Bombae, Vivian, and Irma Gerd are my favorites right now (the last mainly because of her drag name, Ermahgerd!), but Boom Boom's definitely a strong contender. I can't see the other three lasting much longer.
And since we're talking about how busted the faces have been looking, can we also talk wigs? It might be because I'm coming into this season straight off of the All-Winners All Stars, but my Christ, these wigs are fucking tragic.
Edited to add: I'm definitely aware of how the money available to the United States drag queens allows them to heighten their looks, and how the money available to Canada's queens is a whole hell of a lot less. Still, hairspray is pretty cheap, and flyaways are incredibly visible on hi-def TVs. Can't Production help with that shit?
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On 6/12/2022 at 11:22 PM, txhorns79 said:
I still think the Betty storyline is the strongest amongst the three. To me, it took a huge amount of strength for Betty to make herself so vulnerable by going into rehab. I can't even imagine going into that environment as such a prominent person and putting all your demons out there for strangers to hear about.
And plus: She grew up in an era where "difficult" women just disappeared into mental institutions, and stayed there for the rest of their lives, quite often for what we now know to be post-partum depression (like, oh, say, my great-grandmother). I can easily imagine that the terror of being permanently institutionalized would have sent Betty Ford into a spiral.
And yep, Betty Ford's storyline is manifestly the strongest of the three. I don't think it's because of the writing -- the writing on this show is depressingly and uniformly awful, all across the timelines -- but rather because of Michelle Pfeiffer's performance. I think tastemakers have been sleeping on how good an actress she is for years.
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13 minutes ago, methodwriter85 said:
I generally couldn't stand his Hollywood fairytale series but damn David Corenswet really, really, really did it for me.
David Corenswet? Oh, yes, indeedy. But Jake Picking? Oh, my holy God, Ryan Murphy, get this guy a regular TV gig RIGHT NOW.
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On 5/30/2022 at 7:51 PM, MMEButterfly said:
The added alcohol really did some in too early.
Two of my mother's friends from high school ended up accidentally drowning in the bathtub (y'know, like Whitney Houston) because they mixed overly prescribed prescription drugs with wine.
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18 minutes ago, nomodrama said:My thoughts watching that were that I would have had to start stacking furniture because I never would have been able to climb a bed sheet. I couldn't climb a rope in gym class to save my life when I was in high school.
WHY IN HELL DID THEY MAKE US TRY TO DO THIS? Just to humiliate us in front of our peers who actually could climb ropes? Why was climbing ropes considered a skill we needed to learn?
Obviously, I still have issues. And this season of Stranger Things has unexpectedly dredged up a lot of them.
24 minutes ago, Quilt Fairy said:My god, the kid playing Mike is one unattractive kid.
Finn Wolfhard has both unnaturally perfect cheekbones and an unnaturally perfect jawline. Despite the fact that he otherwise looks like a scarecrow, his face is gorgeous, and he will make very much more money than the rest of us as a model.
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On 5/27/2022 at 11:24 AM, MagicEyes said:
There is something very wrong with everyone in this family.
I thought the first episode captured that nicely with that creepy-ass family dinner, with all of the Loving Cup bullshit. Just...gross.
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I know it's a TV show and everything, but there is no way in hell Nancy has the upper-body strength to climb that bedsheet.
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6 hours ago, festivus said:
I say if you want to really get the 80s look right you don't copy teen movies from then. Low budget horror movies show what we really looked like.
Bingo.
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47 minutes ago, BlackberryJam said:
I always feel like this show is portraying the 80s from the POV of someone who learned about the 80s from watching TV and not from someone who actually grew up in the 80s. It’s frustrating.
Agreed, especially given this show's reported budget-per-episode. They've got the money to get it right, and they just...don't. Ever.
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in The Last Of Us
This episode was kind of astonishing, and I agree with all of those above me that it should win all of the awards (though it won't). Definitely not something I was expecting from an adaptation of a video game -- especially a zombie video game.
That said: Of course The Gays are going to be the ones to preserve art, and music, and fashion, and fine dining, and gracious living, even in the teeth of an apocalypse, while The Straights immediately abandon everything -- including a fundamental sense of humanity, as evinced by the mass grave of the uninfected -- in favor of basic survival. I feel like I should be offended by that, but the performances from Offerman and Bartlett sold me so completely on their story that I don't really care.