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I have another one. The original Alfred Hitchcock Presents -- The Final Escape episode. I literally screamed at the last scene. My heart races just thinking about it.
I never saw the original but I did see the remake in the mid-80s and I still remember this episode. It freaked me out so much I think it's why I have no desire to be buried. Ever.
In Search Of's theme music and Leonard Nimoy's voice always kind of freaked me out.Glad I'm not alone in this. I was freaked out by it too.
Portions of Season 1 and 2 of American Horror Story scared the bejeebus out of me. Wouldn't watch the show live - - would only watch it off the DVR when it was bright and sunny out.
Still traumatized by what happened to Opie on Sons of Anarchy. Damn you, Kurt Sutter.
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The "Sylvia" two parter on Little House on the Prairie. On a show that was rampant with tertiary characters, I think these were the worst. Their sole purpose, as well as that of this plotline, was to have A Very Special Episode on rape and the dangers of mimes and masks. I hated the entire thing, from start to finish, and I still don't think I've recovered.
I hate it when any show brings on a baby/new kid in order to boost the ratings and/or supplant an existing kid that's getting older. Here's your sign, show - - it almost never works! Cases in point: Oliver on The Brady Bunch, Andrew on Family Ties, Nancy and Jenny on Little House on the Prairie. I'm sure the list can go on and on.
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I think someone alluded to this earlier, but do we dare think that Jax is smart enough to pull off a long con? Could he really be the biggest rat of all?
Sutter may think that Jax is smart enough but I vote the evidence says the contrary. In the beginning I would say that Jax seemed relatively intelligent but lately . . . maybe he's just too angry or maybe he's just so deep in that life. I don't know. I do think it would be an interesting twist if Jax was pulling a long con but it almost seems that if that was so, Sutter has tipped his hand a little too much. Meaning being that Jax has become OTT aggressive, violent and indifferent. It's hard to reconcile that this is the same guy that wanted out of all this just a few seasons ago.
Wow! So true! When you think about everything that has happened to that kid, he has to be dead inside. Either the little guy playing Abel hasn't learned how to emote or he is a genius thespian mirroring the nothingness that is Abel's life. He also looks like he could be Charlie Hunnam's son. At this point, the only people I care about are Thomas and Abel. I hope they get out alive.
I think the child is too young to be able to do anything other than repeat back a line or two. So in essence his wooden affect is perfect for playing a child that has probably had his conscious smothered.
Frankly all the Sons and their cronies should be throat punched a few dozen times for seeing what the kids (Abel, Thomas, et al.) are exposed to and thinking nothing of it. Sure, you can "worry" all you want and debate over whether the child saw anything but none of that truly matters if that's not a wake up call that The Life isn't advisable for children. I'm very disappointed that Nero didn't even say anything about it, not even a throwaway remark that he's upset the Whorehouse Beatdown went on in front of Abel. He seemed more concerned about the welfare of the toxic and resilient Gemma - - you know, the same Gemma who bitch slapped a chick with a skateboard a few seasons ago.
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One of the best, IMO, was a very short lived and seen by few show called I Married Dora. The show itself wasn't all that great but the last show had the two main characters at an airport with one saying "it's been cancelled", the other saying "the flight?" and the first saying "no, our series." Clever.
I also liked how Oz decided to end, basically a circular ending where some things change while others never do.
Worst? I hated how Sex and the City ended, with everyone paired up as if no one could be truly happy unless they were part of a couple and/or had children. Charlotte and Harry were getting their adopted baby, Miranda was stuck in Brooklyn with a husband, kid and mother-in-law suffering with dementia, Big realized Carrie was The One (how many years and partners later?) and even Samantha was in a committed relationship with Smith.
Best and worst - Beverly Hills, 90210 (original recipe). Best because the scene at Donna and David's wedding with the gang dancing was so fitting and yeah, Donna and David belonged together (I refuse to acknowledge the revisionist history on the remake where they split). And the show didn't bring back Gina Kincaid for the wedding - - hated her character with a passion. Worst because okay, it was sappy and other than Ohhhhhn-drea, NONE of the original gang returned. Where were the Walshes? Unacceptable! I also hated how they paired up Kelly and Dylan as some Twu Wuv Forever match. Negative. Kelly belonged with Brandon in the end.
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Friday is Pre-Code Heaven. Of special note is Clara Bow in Call Her Savage, that plot has everything and the kitchen sink in it - forbidden love, a wee bit of S&M, marital rape, mental breakdowns, and lots more. I adore Clara in her silent films, but this one has a special place in my heart. Downstairs is excellent as well for John Gilbert, Ladies They Talk About, all the Loretta Young films, and of course Warren Williams in Employee's Entrance is a treat.
Have to admit that Una Merkel is one of my all time fave character actresses, from Man Wanted with Kay Francis, and Day of Reckoning, Beauty For Sale, and even Destry Rides Again. I just love her and her so-thick-you-can-spread-it-on-toast accent.
Thank you for this heads up! I haven't seen Call Her Savage or Downstairs and will definitely be setting my DVR.
I've seen Employees Entrance before but being a fan of Warren William, will be recording it again. Plus it's certainly worth a re-viewing.
I like Harlow in her atypical role in Wife vs. Secretary; with her typical roles, a little goes a long way for me -- the foursome in Libeled Lady makes for the perfect amount of screen time. But Dinner at Eight is thoroughly entertaining. I think that's the Harlow litmus test; if you don't enjoy her in that, you'll just never like her. (Plus, you get Marie Dressler as a bonus.)
I am a fan of Harlow's but can understand those who don't care for her. I really love Red Headed Woman but I would definitely suggest viewing Dinner at Eight (which is spectacular) or Red Dust (which may be her best movie). I also really enjoy Bombshell, which is a campy/comedic take on Harlow's own life at the time. Plus you get to see Lee Tracy.
As the OP said, the major bonus with Dinner at Eight is the presence of Marie Dressler who stole every movie she was in and made each one gold. Her comedic timing was extraordinary and her faces - - she could say anything and everything with her eyes.
Ben's intro said that Melvyn and Joan made 4 movies together.
I may stand alone on this but I absolutely love Joan and Melvyn in They All Kissed the Bride. As the part was initially for Carole Lombard, the role (and the film) is definitely more screwball than Joan's normal fare and maybe that's why I enjoy her so much in it. It's not her usual genre and she seems to have a lot of fun with it. Plus, I think she looks absolutely gorgeous. I'm a fan of Melvyn's - - Ithink he was a greatly underrated actor - - and he and Joan play very well off each other here.
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And yet, and this is embarrassing to admit, since I hated history in high school, my knowledge of it wasn't great and it was her novels that had me learning a few historical facts and questioning them--learning more about them. I had a friend that called her stuff "good junk", a step or two above the Harlequin romances.
Also, don't most popular fiction authors have the same basic plot that they recycle over and over? I still enjoy the heck out of many of them, though.
Oh, I understand. I actually preferred DS' historical novels to her contemporary ones. I would say my favorites back when I read her books were Family Album and Jewels. I definitely had a thing for family saga type stories back in the day. So yeah, you could certainly learn historical facts from DS' books and there were a step or two above the Harlequin romances that used to be sold in the rotating racks in the grocery stores.
I guess that most popular fiction authors have similar styles if not plots. But it just seemed so much more obvious to me with DS. Her early books seemed to have more variety but as she got more and more popular and as the miniseries started get cranked out, it felt like she called it in.
I cannot get into Gone Girl. I've tried three times and it feels like talking to the most boring guy at the office.
I love mystery novels (although I loathe serial killer novels) but the tendency to build "romance" into the story lines usually makes me want to commit a crime myself.
Elizabeth George's fascination with crimes involving children has moved into creepy territory.
Ha ha! I love a good mystery too but I have to agree there are times I want to read a mystery that doesn't have some type of romance inserted into the mix.
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First, I am so relieved that I am not the only viewer who is saying "wait . . . whaaaaaaat?" while watching. I was beyond confused while watching last night and finally said to hell with it, just assume everyone is going to get shot or shot at because REASONS. No real explanation is needed when the special Sons snowflake known as Jax Teller is making decisions.
Composition Book of Man PainKadooz. This is brilliant. I have a horrible feeling that the series will end with a grown up dead-eyed Dexter wanna-be Abel reading this CBofMP as he helms the club. Ugh.
Jax must be a pretty convincing guy to get all these people to take him at his word as they do.
You forget that Jax wears the White Sneakers of Truth. It is a mystery why no one turns the tables on him seeing as how he appears to be the lowest common denominator in the room the majority of the time.
Jeez louise, at this point I'm half expecting Jax to pay his grocery bill by just gunning down everyone in the store.
Jax shouldn't need to make grocery runs if the Sons are picking up food from every wrong house and apartment they storm into and shoot up.
All that child needs is a clown costume and we've got Michael Myers II. Those are the deadest eyes ever to grace a young face.
Ha! Hilarious but so true. I did LOL over Gemma and Jax worrying about what Abel may have seen. Let's see . . . he was born a drug addicted baby to two drug addicts (one of whom kills people for shits and giggles), he was kidnapped and dragged to Ireland as an infant, lost two mothers - - one to a meat fork in her head by his grandmother - - and had countless upheavals that include a bomb at the TM Garage and the deaths of the majority of people in his vicinity. Not to mention being subjected to the porn business on a daily basis. What could go wrong?
If Abel DOESN'T grow up to become a serial killer, all these bitches in prison have ZERO argument about why their childhoods were so sucky.
Loved how Gemma told Abel his daddy was a good man (pains me to even type those words about Prince Jax) and then immediately panned to Jax and Company getting ready for their Tuesday night annihilation. Has no one else recognized that when Jax loses his cuts and dons black gloves, there's gonna be some killin'? To quote Whoopi Goldberg, you in danger, girl.
As far as the lady sheriff goes, unless there is an ad on Craiglist for underhanded sneaky cops on the take needed for Charming, no more bad cops! I hope she's getting dirt to take the Sons down although I hate that she's going to screw over Chibs.
Nero - - he is roundly and completely fucked. Everything Gemma touches gets poisoned. Not the Nero was the most stand up guy pre-Gemma and her killer vagina but he may have been able to walk a more straight line without her and the Sons coming to the picture.
As others have said, this season so far is pissing me off - - I just can't with these people and I just don't know -- but I'm in it for the long haul because I MUST see Gemma and Jax have their stupid asses handed to them.
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I think all reading is good reading so I'm on board with the annoyance over Pompous Pleasure Reading. Frankly I don't really care what a celebrity is reading unless it's something I would choose to read anyhow.
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ShannonL, don't forget that every Danielle Steel heroine must be incredibly beautiful - - but she doesn't know it. And she's still a doormat for her husband/boyfriend/SO at the start of the book.
I always used to say that DS basically had 3 plots that she recycled over and over, changing only the names, locations and/or era.
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Qoass, a friend just mentioned that book to me over the weekend and said it was an incredible read.
I've just started Goodnight June by Sarah Jio. So far so good - - but I believe all of SJ's books are.
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I am stunned at Affleck in the lead male role though. Wow did that Oscar pay in spades. First he gets to ruin the faltering but still possible to burgeon Superman franchise and now this? That or he can really blow the hell out of a lot of producer cock
I can buy Affleck in the role. I thought he did a great job in The Town and was strong in Argo. I can see him being Nick and playing someone the audience is unsure as to whether to believe he may have harmed his wife or not.
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And if they hadn't received the standard SAMCRO Lobotomy, they'd both realize that it's not a huge step from killing friends of members to killing members themselves; now that their leader has decided outright murder of friends of the club is an acceptable price to pay for furthering his own goals, NOBODY is safe. At this point, Jax doesn't care who dies in the name of avenging Tara. Others may love these victims more than Jax loved Tara and may decide to take their own revenge on SAMCRO and its members' families in retaliation, and Tara herself would have been horrified at all of this, but Jax seems oblivious.
Either Lin sees right through it, or Sutter thinks we're all idiots.
Interesting (and hypocritical) to me that Jax didn't seem nearly as concerned or worried about Tara while he was screwing around with Collette and while Tara was still alive . . . now she's dead (at his mother's hand, no less) and suddenly Jax is the great avenger. Maybe he should be most concerned about his children and protecting them from this shitstorm he's creating.
But no . . . he'll wait until something happens to one or both of them. Because that's what Jax does.
ETA: Seems most of the club live in their own homes. How on earth are the majority of them still alive? Jax is president and has no protection at his home at all times?
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Can we please have the BAU team from Criminal Minds show up? You know it's bad when Charming PD is asking Unser to be a consultant on shit.
I too was thinking this morning that Jax is becoming Manson-like. I can't imagine that not one other Son is questioning what he's doing. Not saying they would balk but not even a casual "What's up with Jax these days?" My man Chibs is clearly intelligent so you know he's got to be thinking it. And Bobby is no dope either. Surely they have to realize that what Jax is planning is severely detrimental to the club.
I realize that Jax didn't realize that Jury had a personal connection to one of those guys but as others have pointed out, how on earth is Lin going to believe that these two potheads managed to best 10 of his men on their own?
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I remember watching Death Penalty: Final Appeal when it initially aired and it made me as sad and angry watching the rerun. I couldn't believe that Jeffries didn't go to check out Tibbs' story about the letter until after he was executed. Tibbs had been saying for years he wrote a letter and was at the house to deliver it. Why couldn't Jeffries have searched the files a day or two earlier? And that said, if that letter was in the files, why wasn't it used at trial?
Just a sad, sad episode. Sad that an innocent man was executed. Sad that the girl's father believed he pointed to the guilty man only to find out he was wrong.
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Tig and Rat were freaking hilarious and Chibbs is still alive so there's that.
I'm not sure who confused me more - - Jax or Unser. No wait, Jax confuses me more. Unser is delusional and completely dickmatized by Gemma and acts accordingly. I can't understand Jax's actions at all. Is he trying to destroy not only the club but his entire family and Charming? Because it seems that's what is going to happen. He clearly has no guidance and no focus now and yet not one person is questioning anything he does? And Unser, Jax isn't dangerous because he's smart. He's dangerous because he's an idiot with a weapon and a temper.
Juice. Well, he's being Juice. Driving through downtown Charming with his driver side window down - - like there is no other way out of town besides the main drag? We get that he has a death wish. I'd rather Sutter went ahead and killed him off versus having him crying in a corner over and over.
Wendy has grown on me although she's nuts if she thinks Abel is going to trot off to pre-K like any other kid. She needs to grab those kids and GTFO of town.
Nero needs to do the same. It should be crystal clear what his future is staying with this gang of dangerous and misdirected thugs.
Gemma. As much as she still angers me, she didn't anger me as much as Jax this episode. Silver lining?
I do have to laugh over the fact that burying bodies, shooting up a gang dealing guns, chasing down someone in a vehicle, busting into a house, killing the occupants and setting them up for previous shoot ups, is just Tuesday for SAMCRO. I guess killing one person a day would be cutting back for this crew.
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Hope this isn't too far off topic but Canvas Network is giving a course on Laura Ingalls Wilder (taught by Pamela Smith Hill, the author of Laura Ingalls Wilder, A Writer's Life and the Annotated Pioneer Girl). It's called "Laura Ingalls Wilder: Exploring Her Work & Writing Life". It starts September 22--I'm already signed up and I figured since everyone here are fans of Laura, I'd pass it on.
Thank you, mybrainhurts. Signed up!
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I just finished Randy Susan Meyers' "Accidents of Marriage." Very good but very intense and emotionally draining.
I'm listening to V. C. Andrews' "If There Be Thorns" on audio - -I'm on a V.C. Andrews kick and am thoroughly enjoying listening and then writing snarky reviews.
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I love this show. It is so much better than RHONJ, there are no words.
I love Jackie and Ben. Their delusional grand behavior just makes my day. Has he really made that much money? They seem to be living a very expensive lifestyle. Does anyone remember why they moved to Melbourne?
I didn't think I would like Gina at the start but I do. She did look fantastic at Chyka's party.
Chyka seems to be the voice of reason on the show.
Andrea is an asshole, as another poster (or 20) noted. Why does she think so much of herself? She's not all that. She was definitely pissed at the editor/publisher. Maybe if she had decided to write about a book about vajayjays, as Lydia was supposedly going to do, everyone would have fallen all over her.
Is she definitely out for next season?
What will Lydia do without her asshole partner in crime?
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I disagree that Claire deserved to be punched in the stomach and kicked. She has her flaws - who doesn't? - and her smart mouth is about equally a handicap and an asset but first of all I am not sure she was manipulating Jack Randall. It looked to me more like she was trying to appeal to his better nature and maybe looking for something of her husband in him. And finding out the hard way there was no better nature to appeal to. And even had she been trying to manipulate him - good for her. This man had been trying to rape her on first aquaintance and had brutally whipped a young man who had become Claire's friend almost to death. Being manipulated is the least Jack deserves if there was any justice.
I think Claire was hoping to find something decent and redeemable in Black Jack. Part of it may be her nature but also largely because this is her husband's ancestor. He's likely been spoken of with a lot of reverence by Frank's family and Frank resembles him - - - how awful for her.
That said, I was horrified and gasped out loud when Jack punched her. So glad that Dougal rescued her.
I'm not shipping Dougal and Claire but I'm not shipping Claire and Jamie yet either. I lust over Jamie like nobody's business but there seems to be such an age difference to me - - maybe it's more so the fact that Claire is from 1945. Regardless, I haven't read the books and I'm hoping that the shipping part will really come after they marry. Maybe we the viewers will fall in love with Jamie and Claire as Claire herself likely falls in love with Jamie.
I am already panicked at what I'm going to do after the last two episodes end. Will this be back in the spring? Bueller? Bueller?
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Sex on two legs,, I'd let him smash the kitty.
EXACTLY. Now excuse me while I go in search of an extremely cold shower.
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Add me to this group. I can't understand 75% of what he says but I don't care. He can just stand around and be sexy and I'm in.
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Reading all of these insightful posts does make me wonder why Sutter chose to have Roosevelt be killed. So that Gemma had something on Juice? Because I can't figure it out.
No one mentions Roosevelt being murdered. It's all about Tara -- even the DA. And as others have pointed out, a Sheriff being killed would be a HUGE deal. The DA and surviving (ha! in Charming) PD would have Roosevelt's murder as the top priority, not Tara's. Does Charming even have any law enforcement left?
Someone needs to call John Douglas to jet out to Charming, give an FBI profile on Roosevelt's and Tara's murders and then arrest Gemma and Juice. Heck, arrest the rest of them too for being painfully stupid.
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It seems to me we are supposed to shrug off all the deaths and the torture murder of the Chinese guy. I watched that after show special with the incompetent moderator talking with Sutter and Katey Sagal and the way Sagal was talking about her character made me seriously question her sense of morality. Going by her Gemma is basically "misunderstood" and all about protecting her family. It was pretty disgusting to listen to.
In that case, all of SAMCRO is "misunderstood." They all believe in what they are doing, for whatever reasons but it doesn't change that they are all fairly despicable and morally bankrupt individuals. Even my beloved Chibs.
I think Opie was probably the most moral out of the entire jacked up group and look what SAMCRO did to his family and then to him. Jax has never been "normal" but I think he started going off the rails when Opie was killed and now he's just "fuck it" with everything. I feel horrible for Abel and Thomas because they are thoroughly screwed. I worry that Gemma will be last (wo)man standing, with those boys, and the cycle will just start all over again.
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Terry Dubrow: Botched Doctor
Terry Dubrow: Give Him An Orange Already
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S01.E10: Here's To Happy Endings
in The Real Housewives Of Melbourne [V]
Good Lord, Andrea is a major asshole. She bitches about expecting an apology from Gina-er but then when she gets it, she won't accept it. Why did she even bother with the pretense of meeting for coffee? So that she could go on and on about how right she is and how wronged she's been?
I thought I would like Lydia and Janet at the beginning of the season and thoroughly dislike Gina but my, how the tables have turned.
Lydia is a moron. Stop talking about how much your vajayjay gets used. I'm sure all that talking out of your ass must be tiring so STFU.
Janet is a shit stirrer who doesn't get called on it. In fact, she's given kadooz for owning something (or should I say, sunthin' per OC"s Gretchen).
I still like Jackie. Can't help it. She's delusional and a braggart but mainly harmless. I also can't help liking Ben for the same reasons although he seems a wee bit more grounded than Jackie.
Chyka and Gina are clearly the only fully sane ones in this group.
I look forward to the reunion and hopefully season 2. Much more interesting than the crap that's on RHONJ.