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Guys, I just typed “Ginny and Georgia fanfiction” into google. It’s been at least 6-7 years since I wrote or read fanfic. Man, even with me knowing what they were doing from the jump, they still pushed my dormant Gilmore Girls buttons.

Now I’m really trying to figure out if I would have viewed things differently if Marla had been Martin instead, so to speak. It still doesn’t work for me, because watching a “bad guy” who is victimizing the helpless just run along unopposed isn’t really entertaining. If someone can think of a good example of the same exact kind of story where the protagonist was male, let me know. (These days I really loathe shows and movies that glorify organized or white-collar crime, so that probably already puts me into the wrong demo. But I’m still curious about the difference a gender swap would or wouldn’t make.)

Demián Bichir To Star In ‘Let the Right One In’ Showtime Drama Pilot From ‘Away’ Creator & Tomorrow Studios

I completely missed this 2019 stuff, but I was adamantly checked out of all news for quite a while until about Feb/March 2020 (for obvious and sundry reasons). It sucks that Silicon Valley sucked behind the scenes. I knew TJ Miller was an asshole and a lunatic (fake bomb threat, anyone?), but none of the rest of it. Here's hoping Martin Starr is a human being, but I suppose that might be naive ...

I hate that I keep coming up on the devil's advocacy side of apparent perv Middleditch, but the article doesn't really explain how Wetterlund (loved her char on SV by the way) 'tried to warn' anyone about Middleditch. She definitely called out TJ Miller, and accused the rest of the cast (without naming anyone) of enabling Miller's being a dickhead, but otherwise the only past commentary the article mentions from her is something about Middleditch being engaged in an open relationship. The bolded by me part seems to be the sum of "I tried to warn you". I mean, but also fuck Middleditch for bait-and-switching his wife into that setup. That's enough for me to be over him. I was already over TJ Miller. I'm old enough to remember when Sean Young first got labelled as 'difficult' by Hollywood, and was quite outspoken about it. It was pretty obvious she got blacklisted for it.

On the flip side, you're (consciously or unconsciously) downplaying it by using the phrase 'landed on her' versus 'landed with his face between her breasts'. Just keeping the playing field even.

YES. You had to carefully scrutinize Fosse's hairline and even that didn't always help. Neither did the title cards like: "88 Days till [Name of musical whose year of origin I don't know anyway]".

I like fractured-timeline narratives when it's done really cleanly. The Firefly episode "Out of Gas" was an episode where (in my opinion) it was done well. Haunting of Hill House was a little messier but overall used it to great effect. The Fosse/Verdon miniseries, on the other hand, left me absolutely baffled. That one seemed like it should have been linear. I dislike serial shows where the whole schtick is flashback/current/flashforward. (This is Us comes to mind.) I think I blame Lost for this.

...his awkwardness just happening to cause him to motorboat an attractive woman. A million other ways to make the banana peel joke didn’t have to involve a scene where even the actress refused to participate.

I watched this documentary about a thousand times during the start of the pandemic. Hard to watch the girls counting off the number of concussions they’d had. And I’ve watched that scene with Sherbs on slo-mo a few times trying to figure out why she had the one catastrophic fall. (Answer: people just didn’t move fast enough to catch her.) It’s crazy.

‘Tiger King’ Stands In The Way Of ‘Ginny & Georgia’ Breaking This Netflix Record As much as Netflix obfuscates their real “ratings”, I think it’s safe to say we’re getting a season 2.

Hah, yeah, that didn’t last long. Christie went stage-five clinger right out of the gate.

I keep seeing people on reddit refer to the potential third series as "Lazarus", so I dug a little. It seems like it came from a now-deleted tweet: This was supposedly tweeted by Matthew Graham in July, but the twitter account literally no longer exists.

Hot take on finishing season 1: I wanted Hannah to end up with Christie, merely because she seemed absolutely uninterested in being with Nathan any longer. And if she didn’t want to sleep with him before finding out about his dalliances, how were they ever going to have sex again after that? So when it looked like she was going to turn down Christie I was kind of bummed, because I thought there was some underlying message of “just stay together even if you’re miserable, because ... marriage”. Of course, it’s only season 1, that could still end up being the message in the end. And I don’t expect things will be smooth sailing with Christie for more than like, one episode anyway.

If that’s driving him nuts, point out that they had to put Henry Thomas in blue contacts to make it work. 🙂 (I don’t know the actual answer.)

Respectfully, that’s not the headline. “L.A. Goth nightclub known for rituals and secrecy has closed amid sexual misconduct claims.” The alleged Middleditch incident (per the article) was in 2019. There seems to have been a larger pattern of misconduct amongst the club’s management, hence: Middleditch is just the click-grabbing headline name, and the club does not appear to have closed “due” to him. It does suck if it turns out he’s yet another perv. The club itself sounds like NXIVM lite. Original non-Yahoo article here: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-03-21/cloak-and-dagger-goth-nightclub-closed-sexual-misconduct-claims

I’m pretty sure that in an alternate universe I spent years adapting CJ Cherryh’s Hugo-award-winning SciFi novel Cyteen into a television show.

This currently has two seasons available on Hulu (US), and a third has been confirmed. I just recently got into this. I’m almost through season one. Nicola Walker is fabulous as ever, in a role that’s slightly different from her usual types. I’ve mostly only seen Stephen Mangan in comedies, but he’s doing fantastic drama work here. And Anthony Stewart Head plays the estranged father in question. I expected this to be a bit more lightweight, a la the Good Wife or something else you’d see on US broadcast TV (dueling law firms and all that), but the family/infidelity themes hit hard, in my opinion. And the writing is way better than I expected.

I’m not a doctor, but I have read this theory (from doctors) and it’s the one I’m leaning towards for some cases. My MiL had a major reaction to dose 1 of Moderna. She also worked as a NP in group care facilities throughout the pandemic. Early on they were reusing masks. She could have gotten ill and 1) not noticed (she has the innate toughness of a career nurse), 2) not told us, 3) assumed it was something else.

As a "Cast in Other Roles" aside, I'm really enjoying The Split, where Nicola Walker gets to play a lawyer instead of a cop (or Gillian). Nicely layered family drama set against the backdrop of dueling divorce firms. At first I thought it was going to be a bit more lightweight than it's actually turned out to be. Good writing. Stephen Magnan (sp?), Anthony Stewart Head, other actors whose names I don't know off top of head. Two seasons available on Hulu US. I made a new thread for The Split over here.

I’ve still only seen the Whedon version, and at the time I was rolling my eyes at the “everyone comes back from the resurrection pits vicious and feral” trope.

Heh, yeah, I think he's going to survive this one, if this is the level of his heresy: I checked out the site and it looks like some sort of next-gen Gamergate bullshit pretending to be journalism. If anything, the site will get a massive (undeserved) boost by this, which is of course the name of the outrage game.

Because kids on TV are boring unless they’re written with unlikely 30-year-old dialogue coming out of their mouths. 🙂

I think he actually says “Don’t answer that, it’ll just depress me”, or words to that effect. Meaning, less about the question being rude and more about him not even wanting to know because she was already so much better than him. But the great thing about this show is that there’s a lot of room for interpretation by the viewer.

This didn't bother me as much on my first viewing, because the show had so much going on, and it had been so long since I'd watched any kind of soapy multi-generational thing. On second viewing, Ginny already has a bad attitude towards her mom from the pilot onwards, and they rarely share any scenes without Ginny having a major case of stinkface. NOW, there's the possibility that Ginny's attitude is earned because Georgia has been so flaky, jumping from man to man, failing to provide any sense of stability, etc. But they really can't do the 'Gilmore Girls' shoutout if we get almost ZERO scenes of Ginny and Georgia actually enjoying each other's company because Ginny is perpetually pissy.