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    Obsessed: "Stan" culture

    in Everything Else TV

    Wikipedia: Parasocial interaction

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    Parasocial interaction (PSI) refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their mediated encounters with performers in the mass media, particularly on television. Viewers or listeners come to consider media personalities as friends, despite having limited interactions with them. PSI is described as an illusionary experience, such that media audiences interact with personas (e.g., talk show hosts, celebrities, fictional characters, social media influencers) as if they are engaged in a reciprocal relationship with them. 

    I think about this a lot, especially these days, and when I see people passionately referring to/defending their favorite celebs as though they are on a first-name basis with them. I have never experienced it myself, so I'm kind of on the outside scratching my head. I would never assume I know anything about what any celeb is really like as an actual person, plus the whole 'never meet your heroes' rule of thumb. 

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    Off-Season Olympics Coverage

    in Sports

    What a lose/lose situation for so many involved. I only recently found out about the lack of vaccines in Japan—too much bad news to keep track of. I naively assumed they would be doing everything they could to ensure things happened safely.

    I’ve been watching the sport climbing US team qualifiers and some recent World Cup stuff. I got into watching it after stumbling on some mountaineering documentaries when I was sick a couple of years ago, and I was so excited that it would be part of the Olympics this year.

    My husband and I are not sports people, but we really love watching the olympics, even events with tons of matches like curling and table tennis. This summer, in lieu of traveling, we were going to take off work and just sit around and eat junk and booze it up and watch the games. Now I feel bad for even hoping they happen, since it seems it will only harm the local population. :/

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    Mare of Easttown Spoilers and Speculation

    in Mare Of Easttown

    1 minute ago, peachmangosteen said:

    They should have just called this a US remake of Happy Valley lol.

    I mean, there's this whole thing where you can sort of trace the 'Nordic Noir' DNA back to (I think) Forbrydelsen, which was the original/Danish version of The Killing. Then the US Killing, then Broadchurch (and the failed US Broadchurch) then a million tertiary shows like Marcella. "Troubled female detective battles crime and her own demons while grappling with motherhood, usually in a small town but not always." 

    While it's part of that club, Happy Valley does have its own very specific thing, a lot of which mirrors the setting of MoE. But ... that's just based on the one episode for me, and the spec about grandson's parents. 

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    Mare of Easttown Spoilers and Speculation

    in Mare Of Easttown

    3 minutes ago, peachmangosteen said:

    I figured this would be the story. Not sure whether I like how obvious and cliché it is but we'll see lol.

    ... and another Happy Valley parallel, except mom is dead and dad is in jail. Dad gets out of jail and wants to see his son, while grandma cop tries to keep him away.

    (Hollywood Reporter podcast also called out the Happy Valley parallels, so I guess I'm not ... never mind, probably still crazy regardless.)

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    S01.E07: Happy Sweet Sixteen, Jerk

    in Ginny & Georgia

    1 hour ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

    Well after reading the thread, people hate Hunter more than ever. LOL.  

    Aw, I don't think there's much actual Hunter hate. I think the tap-dancing just put some of us into an unwanted Glee flashback. Maybe just me. :)

    I don't think the writers served the Hunter character particularly well (honestly, they kind of f'd up the whole love triangle). I like the actor, though. And I like some stuff we see from Hunter in later episodes. 

    1 hour ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

    Poor Gen X.  

    I feel this. 

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    S01.E01: Miss Lady Hawk Herself

    in Mare Of Easttown

    4 minutes ago, meep.meep said:

    I thought that Erin is the girl who has been missing.  That they are using the now tiresome two timelines approach to story telling. 

    I don't think that's what's happening, no. Mare's daughter Siobhan was there to intervene in Erin's beatfown (before she wandered off), and she had the same haircut and (I'm pretty sure) clothes as we had seen her wearing in earlier scenes, which were 'present day'. 

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    Mare of Easttown Spoilers and Speculation

    in Mare Of Easttown

    12 minutes ago, paigow said:

    All of the denizens we have met

    What if they decide to break rule number one and not introduce the killer in the first episode? 

    Ok, you’re right, it’s probably Evan Peters.

    Edit: hold the phone. “The Night Of”, also HBO. Killer not introduced in first episode. IIRC. 

    S01.E01: Miss Lady Hawk Herself

    in Mare Of Easttown

    Ok, yeah, that was a lot of character setup, and slowly building dread once you realized poor Erin was a goner. 

    If the formula for this kind of show holds, whoever killed Erin is the same person who killed the girl who has been missing for a year. That’s if we’re going serial killer. We might not be. I could see the show doing some trope busting. But I don’t see it being Erin’s father, or her noxious baby daddy and lowlife girlfriend. I do hope they get arrested, though. 

    The Sheehan household’s dietary habits were something else. PB and Cheez Whiz for dinner. I mean, no judgement but yeah.

    I liked Siobhan and coveted her haircut. Actress reminds me of a young Brie Larsen. I’m not sure why she was quite so mean to Mare, though, regarding the ex’s engagement. I also lost track of how she ended up where she did (in the woods?) in order to intervene for Erin, but the fact that she was there and witnessed the beatdown will drag her right into the case. 

    Writer dude: get a haircut, please. The pandemic doesn’t appear to be happening in this universe. There’s no excuse. 

    There are quite a few parallels to Happy Valley, but I don’t want to derail the thread. Might make a new thread for comparisons. One big one is that Happy Valley’s lead character is raising her young grandson because her daughter (rather than son) died young. The dead daughter also appears to her, vision-like, the way the son did to Mare. And like Mare, HV’s lead knows everyone in town on a first name basis, criminals and victims alike, and is able to show sympathy for the addicts. (Ok, I’m stopping now, I guess that last one is a pretty basic cop trope.)

    Looking forward to the season. I’m starting to enjoy this “limited series” format a lot. Remember slogging through 26 (!) episodes of The Killing before we found out who killed Rosie Larsen?

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    S01.E01: Miss Lady Hawk Herself

    in Mare Of Easttown

    (Good grief. I just finally settled in to watch this, and I’m having a massive struggle trying to go into it completely blind/no expectations because “bleak cop drama with cynical, midlife female lead detective” has been my bread and butter show since ... The Killing, I guess. And one of my top ten all time shows is Happy Valley (UK), which this is already superficially reminding me of. Can’t stop comparing every single beat to some other show. Hopefully my brain will shut off soon.)

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    S01.E01: Miss Lady Hawk Herself

    in Mare Of Easttown

    35 minutes ago, monakane said:

    I'm from Philly and I noticed that too.  Some of the words were overexaggerated, but I'll give her a pass because it's Kate.

    (I kept trying to dig up material for the media thread last month, and I swear every article was about how hard she worked on the accent. HBO apparently didn't give the press much else to work with ahead of time.)

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    S01.E01: Pilot

    in Ginny & Georgia

    3 minutes ago, Slade347 said:

    Sara Waisglass, who plays Max, played a character on Degrassi (always comes back to Degrassi, lol) who has a brooding twin brother named Hunter. I wonder if that's leading to some of the confusion for some viewers?

    (Could be for some, but I haven't ever seen any of the Degrassis.)

    S01.E01: Pilot

    in Ginny & Georgia

    5 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

    Was anyone else as confused as I am about Abby and Max being different people?

    I started to answer in the negative, but then I realized I've watched the show so many times since it premiered. It's possible that when I was at the point of only having seen the pilot, I might have still had some of the teen girls mixed up.

    (That said, Abby and Max have very different features and styles of dress.)

    5 minutes ago, Ms Blue Jay said:

    A girl on the show kept wavering between saying Hunter was her twin

    This, however, is something I've done a lot and seen other people do. Marcus is Max's twin (the Caucasian hot boy). Hunter is the Asian hot boy.

    It's like they somehow gave the characters the wrong names. Even being an embarrassingly over-involved fan of this show, I still type Hunter when I mean Marcus and vice versa. 

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