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NotMySekrit2Tell

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  1. That was realistic to me. In the real world, we just had De Niro and DiCaprio getting acclaim and awards for playing real people decades younger. Not long ago, sixtysomething Gary Oldman played Herman Mankiewicz, who also died in his mid-fifties (and was around 40 when he was writing Citizen Kane). Popular white guys still get a lot of leeway when it comes to casting, and I think even more when it's a stage performance without closeups. I am loving this final season. I didn't have high hopes after the season with Maria Sofia, but after a couple of so-so episodes at the start, this has felt like the old days. Jeff pretending to stand up for Susie in the movie line was his funniest minute on the show in years.
  2. Question for anyone who's watched every day: Did we see much reaction to Gatlin-Holt's death? He was a massive fail of a character, but in the world of the show, he's supposed to have been working at the hospital as a doctor for a while now, he had a long relationship with Maxie, he knew her family. In the episodes I've seen, the only people really talking about him are people involved in the criminal plot. I do remember hospital characters talking about how he hasn't shown up for shifts and isn't returning phone messages, but nothing beyond that. Is his murder public knowledge in PC yet?
  3. I was a huge Sexis booster back in the day. I wouldn't want that relationship rekindled 20+ years later, and it would never happen, but that scene Thursday showed they've still got it. Nobody wakes up Mo like NLG. I know they tape out of order, but I wonder how long the Maxie recast will be around when she comes back. I haven't enjoyed watching KSt for years, so I'll take any break I can get. Our Flea was ineptly investigating before Sam was ever a gleam in Brian Frons's eye. 😀 It cracked me up when Sasha told Cody that Felicia was a great private investigator. I was thinking, "If she's so great at it, why isn't she still doing that instead on her new plot-point career?"
  4. I think Deadline just made a mistake in listing Kelly Monaco with survivors as his longtime love. I had heard that Miller moved to Texas last year with a girlfriend, which obviously wouldn't have been her. Also, weren't his fans mad at her for some comments she made at a fan event over the summer that "threw Billy under the bus"? What I'd read was that she said she went along with him in pushing for "Dream" to continue instead of "JaSam," and she regretted having done it.
  5. Maxie's third child is Bailey. She had her with Peter/Heinrich after a very, very long pregnancy. It seemed she was pregnant for a year and a half, but the COVID shutdown might have been part of the reason. I guess Bailey isn't on much because she's in the awkward range. She's two, so not a baby (like Ace, who's on all the time) and yet not old enough to be played by a kid who can take direction.
  6. The Michael/Sonny scene yesterday was more of the same. Michael now "always suspected" Sonny might have something else going on besides coffee importing, but he didn't know the full truth until he was in high school. They're really going hard on the retcon, although I don't know why. Are there are a lot of new, younger GH viewers [insert laughter] who would find this revised version more palatable? Michael wasn't even in high school yet when he took the bullet to the head, was he? Whatever, I was like Annie Wilkes, yelling, "That's not what happened!" I think it's the actress, not the character. They like Sofia M. because she does "suffering" well, like Rebecca Herbst, and she's glamorous enough to be believable as a model. If they didn't like her so much, Sasha would have been gone long ago. There have been several good spots to write her out, and she's not exactly the most connected character on canvas.
  7. I don't know whether it was a retcon or the replacement writers not knowing the history, but that scene of Michael and Kristina was weird. She said M must have realized by 10 years old that his father wasn't a coffee importer, and then he said something about Dad always keeping his business hidden from his kids. That's not how I remember it. Wasn't there a scene where Tamara Braun explained to the little red-haired Michael that Daddy and Jason have to kill people sometimes but they're still good people, like soldiers in the armed forces? Then, wasn't Michael always very aware and pleased about being part of a mob family, even trying to order someone killed once? I thought what really enraged them was when she showed up and made a scene while they were interviewing someone, but I have a hard time keeping up with this stupid story. The more screen time Molly gets, the worse a character she is. All I really notice different recently is the hair going lighter again. I think she just looks how she looks now.
  8. The scene with Che's set was a promising idea. Artists let's go with "performers," re: Che, mine their personal lives for their material. We see it in popular music as well, sometimes controversially: Bob Dylan's many songs about his wife when they were getting divorced (one song literally named "Sara"), Joni Mitchell and her famous ex-boyfriends, Justin's "Cry Me a River" song about Britney, Taylor Swift and her famous ex-boyfriends, the woman from The Chicks and her "Gaslighter" song about her actor ex-husband, etc. So, of course, Miranda was going to provide Che's fresh material; it wasn't going to be a set about video games or working at the vet. But the scene didn't work. It came off both unpleasant and half-assed. Obviously, the comedy being funnier would have counted for a lot by itself. The way we should have been feeling as viewers is "This is brutal for Miranda to sit through, but I have to admit, if I were in a club watching this and didn't know who the other person in the relationship was, I'd be rolling on the floor." But we already knew AJLT's writers cannot create a funny stand-up set, and they're like 0-for-7 on that now. Then, also, Che and Miranda hadn't had any interactions since their break-up (not that I'm complaining), and the whole time the club scene was going on, I was confused about whether Che knew Miranda was present or was looking right at her in that tiny club (until they discussed it outside). This would have been a great story beat if the whole Che/Miranda story had been building to it, and if they'd made it a parallel within the same episode to Kathy's request that Carrie not use her and Aidan's sons for material.
  9. Before Curtis, what other characters have been temporarily paralyzed? I can think of Jax (shot by Alcazar) and Sonny (Jerry). Nik too? Or was that "unable to talk"?
  10. With all of Curtis's angsting about his paralysis, my new nickname for him is "Million-Dollar Manbaby."
  11. I didn't know Harley Kozak had done soaps. I mainly remember her from Parenthood, the late-'80s movie with Steve Martin and an incredible ensemble cast. She was Steve's younger sister (Dianne Wiest was his older one), married to Rick Moranis. She switched to "Harley Jane Kozak" later...I guess for the obvious reason that you hear "Harley" by itself and think of a guy. And a motorcycle. Or a guy on a motorcycle.
  12. I always liked Big more than Aidan in SATC, but I'm not making too much of Carrie's what-ifing. It's consistent with her character...which I can't say about everything that's been done on AJLT. She always wanted what she didn't have, second-guessed herself, and had reactions that were too extreme when something was still in early days and was going really well (or the opposite—at the slightest sign of trouble). The story with Charlotte and her outfit was dumb. As numerous people here have said, she just needed a different belt of the same color. She acted as though the one she had on was the only one in New York City. I liked Miranda's story with the jealous interns. This character seemed more like OG Miranda. Anthony and Giuseppe...I don't know what that's about. Middle-aged gay male wish fulfillment?
  13. What's with all the ageist shit being flung at Ned in the dialogue lately? No, Eddie Maine isn't a big rock star with a lot of young fans anymore, but Ned didn't give up music because he was getting too old for it, did he? WK is only a few years older than Mo. When Olivia said "How many grandfathers did you see in those dive bars?" I was thinking I don't see many grandfathers running around getting in gunfights with other mobsters either, but everyone accepts that as normal.
  14. Sometimes it's wish fulfillment in a "Monkey's Paw" way. The wishes are granted in a horrifying way that makes you regret wishing.
  15. Lily's song was very "Denise Huxtable." Remember when she wrote and recited for Clair and Cliff that maudlin poem about how no one understands her and she walks alone?
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