MicheleinPhilly

I used to love reading these but now I hate them. They always come off as really bitter and petty. I usually end up thinking, "Thank goodness the Academy is expanding so rapidly so they can cancel out the idiots." 🙄

The problem that I see with this though is that Pam doesn't have an ounce of the charisma that Villanelle has. So for me her blossoming is just one big, time-wasting nothingburger. YMMV.

I have to watch every episode twice - once on DVR delay on Sunday night and again via streaming with closed captioning on Monday to get every little detail. The audio when it airs on BBC America always seems horribly garbled to me. Or maybe I'm just getting old. 👵

I'm still enjoying it although I'm not breathless with anticipation each Sunday night like I was for previous seasons. While I love Konstantin, I wish they wouldn't devote so much time to Pam's storyline. If it isn't connected to the larger narrative, I don't care. When they announced that this would be the final season, they indicated that they were exploring certain spin-off ideas. If this is the direction they're thinking of taking said spin-off, I think it will bomb spectacularly. I absolutely adored seeing Fiona and Jodie play off each other so extensively in this episode. It really did feel a bit like a season 1 episode with those 2. I know she has been nominated for each season previously but I REALLY hope Emmy voters don't forget about Fiona Shaw this year. I feel like Eve is "playing" Helene rather than having some long-awaited sexual awakening. But Helene is not gullible enough to fall for it. Does Eve think she will spill all based on a (hysterically awkward) bath and a kiss? I can't wait to see what form of torture Villanelle has in store for Helene when she realizes that she's gotten further with Eve than she has. 😉 Now that we're officially halfway through the season, they really do need to get the core four (or three if Konstantin is going to continue being the Assassin Professor) on the same page and in the same room.

THIS. We know it's going to happen based on the season trailer - get on it with it already. I don't really need to see Pam's evolution as an assassin. It's clear that Villanelle is still head over heels for Eve. I'll be curious to see how she justifies the betrayal of Eve throwing her in prison. Shades of season 2 when she explains to Gabriel that Eve stabbed her to show how much she cares about her?

https://lithub.com/its-an-honor-just-to-be-asian-sandra-oh-on-systemic-racism-in-hollywood/ A really lovely excerpt from a forthcoming book about Asians in pop culture.

I'm happy the Jesus stuff seems to be over and done with as that was becoming increasingly difficult to tolerate. This show doesn't work when they have the core four off doing their own things. While they're not together, at least for now Carolyn and Eve seem to be on parallel tracks. Curious to see how Konstantin will fit into all of this. I am absolutely LOVING the material they are giving Sandra Oh to work with after the debacle that was series 3. I hope they keep it up. And sexy, determined, somewhat confident Eve could get it. 😍

I'll sit with you. While I did have some quibbles with it, I was just so damn happy to have these ladies back in my life. I do hope that at some point we get some exposition on what happened in the ensuing months/years? following the end of season 3. Eve and Villanelle went from being sort of "okay" with each other on the bridge to Eve seemingly hating her guts. What's that all about? I thought Villanelle expecting Eve to come to her baptism and her disappointment when she didn't to be a nice callback to the Amsterdam pig murder in season 2. And of course, Hugo's appearance. But I don't recall Hugo being such a "rah-rah" MI6 defender. He always struck me as a posh git who was just biding his time until something more interesting came along. I'd be fine if we don't see him again. I love sassy Eve but of course, Eve being Eve I fully expect her to trip over her own feet a few times before she, Carolyn and Villanelle eventually join forces. I'm intrigued.

Airs 2/27 🤗

Lovely little interview with Oh and Comer. There is a detail mentioned that made me EXTREMELY happy: While I love this show desperately, the constant wait for them to end up in one another's orbit in each season has always frustrated the crap out of me.

I love Wanda but am "meh" on Amy. I'm a bit perplexed by the selection of Regina. I know and like her as an actress but her inclusion here seems very random. Does she have any hosting or comedic chops I'm not aware of? Overall though I'm delighted the Academy didn't go in the direction I thought they were.

Isn't this what the People's Choice Awards are for? 🙄

From The Hollywood Reporter: 🙄

I enjoyed this. It's not great television and certainly won't win any awards but it was a fine weekend binge to take me out of my head for a couple of days. I tend to avoid "The Woman", "The Girl" books like the plague these days after reading a few and realizing they all rely on the same tropes. They also like to throw in an M. Night Shymalamadingdong type twist at the end that is usually laughable so seeing a send-up was great fun for me. I wouldn't be mad if they made a second series but seeing as how this one worked because she was a lonely drunk, I don't know how they could replicate it.

I may have egg on my face in a few weeks based on what's in the trailer. 😂

I kept waiting for someone in the yoga class to follow her out and attempt to comfort her. When no one did, I was shattered. Her entire arc this season just broke my heart.

The only positive I took from this episode is that even though Carrie is (presumably) filthy rich, she still uses the public library.

I limited myself to 2 episodes a day so I wouldn't blow through the whole season in an afternoon. I also don't know if my heart would have been able to take any more than that. By the end I was a sobbing, hiccuping, hyperventilating mess. Bravo, Ricky. BRAVO.

I feel like they think a particular host will bring more eyeballs to the broadcast which is so silly. Every year I feel like they bend over backwards trying to appeal to people that wouldn't watch the Oscars no matter who is hosting or what films are nominated. I wish they would just focus on producing a good show that appeals to hardcore Oscar fans. I'm waiting for them to announce that a group of Tik-Tokers will be hosting. 🙄

Well you certainly gave it a lot more thought than I did so thanks for that. 🤣

She was seeking asylum. You have to be physically present in the United States in order to apply for asylum. Did she ever reveal how much money she paid to the mule to help her? If it was thousands of dollars, I'm wondering why she didn't just purchase plane tickets, claim she was visiting family in the U.S. and then apply for asylum at the airport. Not saying she wouldn't have been separated from her son anyway, but it seems a much less dangerous approach.

According to a headline on Primetimer's homepage, the Academy is talking to Pete Davidson as a possible host. In which case, it would be the first time in about 25 years that I have voluntarily skipped the Oscars. 🤮

Ugh. Talk about anticlimactic. When Dexter was at his full-on, manipulative best in that interview, I was actually feeling somewhat nervous and anxious but had full faith and confidence in his ability to finagle his way out of it. Did I want to see Dexter and son criss-crossing the country dispensing bad buys? No, not at all. But to have Angela, the shittiest of shitty cops and Iron Lake, the backwateriest of backwater towns, and the Caldwells, the douchiest of douchebags, be the things that finally brought him down??? Meh. Aside from the BHB ketamine ret-conning, we're supposed to believe that Kurt, who was 12 sheets to the wind and could barely stand up when he encountered Dexter that night, remembered anything, had a hunch about the incinerator, went to said incinerator, and squeezed his fat ass inside of it raking around to collect all of the hardware from his son's leg. And Angela's certainty that she had all of the evidence she needed to "nail" Dexter was laughable but par for the course. Remember how excited I was by the first episode? Gosh, I was naive. I'm not mad that he's dead, I'm mad that this is how we got there.

^^^^^THIS. I'm a member of a minority group but it doesn't comprise my entire identity as a human being. These characters seem to be nothing more than tools to pull the core 3 from their lily white, rich, cisgender, heterosexual bubbles while screaming at the audience, "See, we fixed it!" How incompetent of a showrunner do you have to be to not be able to come up with fully fleshed out minority characters that fit into the story organically in New York City in 2021/2022?