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EW briefly chats with Sam. https://ew.com/tv/sam-reid-interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-preview-trailer/ S2 teaser

Brief, yet illuminating and delightful interview with Brett Goldstein. https://youtu.be/poQFkoDvZfg

I agree. I am very curious if Leanne Best submitted. She should have because if Sarah and Harriet got a nod for doing nothing memorable this season, Leanne certainly should have got one for her lovely turn in Mom City. Had James Lance not become a series regular I think he would have received another nomination if he submitted Sunflowers.

Image of a building front in San Diego ahead of Comic Con. Come on, Theatre des Vampires!

/Before I get to that, Zava is so clearly modeled on real-life PL (and other leagues) player/ And Jamie is modeled on other players. Roy is modeled after Roy Keane. This is known. /Ted taking WAY too long to move on from his marriage./ Which happens in real life especially when you're not the one who wanted the relationship to end. Why shouldn't the show - which deals in a myriad of real life problems - not tackle that? /Whether Rebecca likes Sam, and whether she is pregnant./ That was wrapped in season two; and the question is whether she can conceive, not whether she is pregnant. /Mean girl vibes with Shandy./ Yes, and Jamie and his lap dogs Isaac and Colin were doing the same thing in S1 and Nate to Colin in S2. But Shandy isn't meant to just be a "mean girl" it's to show that Keeley tried to do what Rebecca did for her (and what Ted did for Nate) ; give someone who people would underestimate a leg up. Unfortunately, Shandy doesn't have the same professionalism as Keeley. /Roy and Keely, or Keely and Jamie, and now maybe Roy and Jamie?/ If only! /Someone being secretly gay, and the show pretending like anyone else cares. Colin may care, but most of the world does not as long as he scores goals./ But people do care in the world and have negative reaction to athletes coming out. It may be getting better but do you honestly think that there aren't closeted athletes in the world? And those who would like to live openly but can't due to fear of reprisal and recrimination from fans? When you have fans who heckle, jeer straight players for poor plays or how fans heckle and hurl racist ephithets at players colour, do you really think an out player wouldn't suffer the same fate? /Favorite Julie Andrews character? Who knows more than Sound of Music and Mary Poppins?/ Musical fans; which since series one, it has been established enough of the characters are (Nate says having someone likely Keeley like you is S'Wonderful, which is from a George Gerswhin song; Dr. Sharon, high on pain meds singing "West Side Story" on Ted's answering machine, Ted using "Oklahoma" as a code word, Sam mentions Les Mis, and on and on and on. /Where has Nate been?/ Working for Rupert. /What has been the impact of Zava beyond some wins?/ The realization that the Greyhounds are enough - that teamwork is enough. Using a lone wolf, hot dog to win shiny trophies shouldn't be the goal for them. /What has Rupert been up to?/ Hoping that Nate brings West Ham some wins. /Where are the new Ted ideas?/ Have you reached the episode "Sunflowers" yet? /How is Trent doing in what is clearly an uncomfortable spot for him after being let go and writing a book (and looking for breaking news)?// What does that even mean? He was looking to end his career, which is why *he* told his boss that he revealed his source to Ted. He was looking for something deeper and for him it is following that team and writing about how Teds leadership is shaping them.

I loved that Cary's journey wasn't because someone cut him down to size, but instead was a personal realization that his values had become warped and he was complete indifferent to the realities of how other people have important things going on in their lives and he is not the center of the universe. That there a really important things to focus on outside of career. All of the scenes with Mackenzie was beautiful. Same with his scene with Curtis. It hurt me to watch but I loved that Curtis stood his ground and didn't try to assuage Cary's feelings. Cary caused great hurt to Curtis and his friends and needed to know that in no uncertain terms. And while Curtis let Cary know it won't be a year until he comes around, I appreciate that he didn't discount months. This wasn't something to easily come back from. Lovely that Cary is now making friends and at a time when he was in the space to accept it. Cary made his whole thing of not being effeminate or like "those gays" and now he potentially has a group he will feel more in sync with, albeit older. Lucas being an Aussie and Cary responding, "That's why he gets so much work." was hilarious. Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Dacre Montgomery, Murray Bartlett, hell even Max's TITANS had three regualars who were Aussie, not counting the biggies like the Hemsworth Bros, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Toni Colette, Ben Mendelson and Joel Edgerton stay booked and busy. I'm glad that Brooke's journey was what it was. There is more than one way to skin a cat, there is more than one way to do good; and if it's by being the worst to help a client, so be it. I just hope she learned to value Lance more and stay in that space. Lance is a good man. Glad it went out on a high, but would love to have seen the rise of Bad Boy Chase.

No more Brooke, Cary,ChaseDreams, Streeter, Lance, Curtis and more importantly,Lucas Lambert Moy! The cult Max comedy about the inner workings of Hollywood, will conclude June 29 with its season three finale. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the ending comes following multiple staff complaints about creators and showrunners Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider over the course of the production, though several insiders say that there is no causal connection between the complaints and the decision to end with season three. Multiple sources involved with The Other Two confirm Kelly and Schneider were the subject of complaints to human resources over behavior on set and in the writers room. These include allegations that Kelly verbally abused writers and overworked crew and claims that Schneider enabled his behavior. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-other-two-canceled-at-max-1235525619/

Lance's PR crew being his Puerto Rican crew/family killed me. And the duplicating of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN's terrible lighting was genius.

The writers makes the choices that work for them narratively and creatively and also not everyone are dialed up to the same notion of what constitutes abuse/harm. For example there are people who were angry/dismayed that Brendan Hunt said Jane and Beard's relationship isn't abusive. There are people who while in the moment are pained by someone who rides them hard the way Jamie's father did him or how many couches/bosses do but an individual can also appreciate how that experience shaped them. I have had horrible bosses whose behaviour could have been viewed as abusive but I can appreciate the tools and fortitude that experience gave me. There seems to be an insistence that media be aspirational and be virtuous instead of a reflection of the human condition and experience which isn't cut and dry and is filled with contradiction. And people transfer their ideals and worldview on this show and others and unfairly ding it when it doesn't line up with how they feel things should be.

As Ted suggests to Jamie -if hating his father isn't working for him he should try something different. Jamie was using his hurt and anger to prove something. He no longer needed it. Being afraid of his father was trapping him. Ted suggesting that Jamie forgive his father really was for him; not his father. He needed that peace. Ted didn't say mend fences. That isn't necessarily what forgiveness is about. It can also look like just laying that hurt aside. Jamie choose the next step to visit his dad. Phil Dunster doesn't even feel that Jamie reconciled with his father and everything is hunky-dory. He needed to trancend those feelings. No one said it is a catch-all for every situation but some people do decide that what works for *them* is forgiveness. .

Phil Dunster reads thirst tweets. https://youtu.be/iFTwcR-FbC4

I really enjoyed it. I thought Ezra was great fun, Sasha Calle was great but used all too sparingly. Keaton was never my favourite Batman and I didn't like the Burton films but really nice to see his Batman honoured in this way. Loved the cameos or "cameos".

Nothing can be the first TRANSFORMERS film - it had great heart, humour and action, but TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS is a more worthy successor to the franchise than the installments that preceded it. Anthony Ramos is great and I would love to see him in more films. He is made for action. The soundtrack is bananas! Just 90s hip-hop hits back to back. Of course the action is great. My only complaint is that I wish they spent more time with the Maximals, especially Optimus Primal. Loved that instead of Decepticons, the big bad were the Terrorcons. Scourge is a worthy opponent.

Trent Crimm bringing the heat! James Lance interview where he gives his headcanon that Trent had a crush on Ted. https://culturess.com/2023/06/08/absolutely-crush-ted-ted-lassos-james-lance-dives-deep-trent-crimm/

This show certainly knows online celebrity culture really well. They are completely dialed in. I think it's fascinating the way a girl/woman is put through the wringer when she dates a celebrity. The fan hate is off-the-wall. And they nailed that the quickest thing to turn a fan off is the celebrity being religious. I've seen fans turn on SUPERMAN & LOIS' Tyler Hoechlin during his TEEN WOLF years for posting innocuous religious thoughts. I forget what celebrity was in the hospital but Chris Pratt tweeted to him that he was praying for him and you would have thought he wished death on the person. Curtis had Cary's number. He knows him by now and knows that Cary only came to sit there and internally gloat at Curtis' show being critically panned. Cary's fall is going to be so delicious to

I don't think he was in the tree planting ep this season.

/Is something wrong with Anthony Head or with the character? It looked like he was limping./ I was wondering if it was his pronounced limp or if Darth Vader has a limp and he was channeling it. There are some fans who have said all season long that he looked frail and too thin. I hope ASH is well.

Still wrapped up in a blanket coughing.

TIL that Simu Liu's surname isn't pronounced "Lou". Cary is acting so ugly right now, it's killing me in how funny it is. The portrayal of a narcissistic actor who oversells their importance to an issue/representation is spot-on. And Cary void of any cultural curiosity to the extent he doesn't know any important queer figures outside of Harvey Milk and that was just because of the film. Yet, he gladly co-opts that history cribbing Billy Porter's Oscar tuxedo gown with the names of the notable figures he only learned because Curtis' friends put them in the mix. Chef's kiss. I have to say Cary is at least driven. He is not deterred. I wonder what his rock bottom would be. It has to come from Lucas because I think he's too far away for Curtis (who is so understanding) to reach.

I don't know whose idea it was to make the show go full on zany, but I salute them. People with blankets, Lance with a nightstand and lamp, people being guilted into coming to a multi-night play? Brilliant. I am glad they let that scene go along with minimal humour - and even then the "joke" of Brooke blaming Lance for not stopping her from quitting her job wasn't a joke - she really wants to assign blame to him for the choice she made. I read an interview with Josh Segarra who plays Lance and he says like Lance when he loves, he loves hard so that scene actually brought tears to my eyes because the only thing Lance is asking for is for her to consider him. That's it. He just wants to be supported the way he supports EVERYONE. Because he doesn't just big up Brooke, he fiercely loves and supports Cary and Chase as well. It would be so easy to let Lance just be the himbo but he has grown and for him to say that Brooke knows he would always come back, yet he makes the decision to end it takes real strength. And while I feel no sympathy for Brooke, I'm glad her argument with Lance wasn't something she easily shrugged off. And that led to such a great moment for Skeeter to be able to be a father figure. Cary is such a famewhore. The woman at the film set was right when she asked him what would come next after he and Lucas actually has sex (Cary running down the street with a large bottle of lube was too funny). He doesn't know him at all. I have a feeling when Lucas does allow himself to emerge he won't be someone Cary likes. I loved the smirk he gave when Cary asked him about the Tony nomination. I think he's very fame driven himself. The Cary and Brooke & Lance stuff was so great that I almost forgot all about Chase and Pam Snot and the allusions to Romeo + Juliet. And other than the jacket with the two long sleeves, Chase play fits were fantastic.

I read an interview with the showrunners and they pointed out something I didn't consider: each season the twins have to have a conflict. The first season it was generally pointed outward as they were trying to get their foot in the biz. Series 2 they were in competition with Chase and Pat. This time it's Curtis and Lance.

I watched the first episode and didn't return to it for easily a month later. I'm glad I returned to it. It's a great watch.

The actor who played Nathan is credited on IMDB as being in thjs.

I was hoping Streeter was on to Pat, but I guess I'm giving him too much credit. I love whenever Jimmy Fowlie turns up as Cameron. Brooke would do well to be friends with him because Cameron flits from one thing to another without a care (or a thought in his head). It's hilarious. But what really had me rolling with laugher was Cary in his "Pleasantville" storyline. One of the great things about this series is that it doesn't treat actors as virtuous and always right in chasing their artistic vision. Cary and his acting choices were to a detriment to the production (loved the director being diplomatic in his pushback). I cringed and laughed in equal measure each time he made his own choices. When he flung the papers in the air I screamed with laughter. Dana Delaney's Emily said "Go be a nightmare, Cary" and man took it to heart.

This episode was firing on all cylinders! I think a lot of people talking about "industry films" or "industry TV series" but this really is. It has its fingers on the pulse of what it going on in the industry. Cary and his self-tape issue being the latest big issue. Many actors want a return to in-person auditioning because there can be costs associated with self-tape, and the concern is that you never know if the casting director has even watched your tape after going through all of the trouble to make it. That could have been Cary's storyline all together, but I'm glad they broadened it out with Curtis/Cary storyline. Cary and Brooke are so self-destructive. Cary felt he had to diminish Curtis' achievement just because he felt bad. Isn't it a big enough win to watch Dylan O'Brien shower and urinate?! What more does he want? I want Lucas to score a new role every other episode. It's a brilliant concept that he's so method he lives these roles. A sexless Hallmark movie role is genius! I love how even more wacky the show is getting. The entire Brooke and plebians as ghost storyline was a riot.