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I thought that was a little over the top in disbelief. It would be one thing if we had more reason to believe the crew would do that to Chet, than them simply cheering at the party when Jeremy said Rachel was snubbing him [Chet] – the head of the network (? at least, I think that's Brad) is there, who’s going to do the passive-aggressive nonsense of pretending they think Chet means to shoot the actual actors’ toes on the red carpet? – and during the episode, it became a real sincere question for me, why any of these actor-contestants would continue to believe any word that fell from Rachel’s lips, even if she told them turds were brown.
Also, I don’t know if this accounts for some folks’ registering of differences, but I felt like they did something special with lighting, makeup, or similar to make Freddie Stroma look particularly young (and thus, I guess, vulnerable) in this episode. Which they might very well do nothing with next season – just thought it was interesting.
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Answer: yes, 4 times a bridesmaid, never a bride. I think I suffer from "too bland and boring in the anecdote department" - seriously, one year my group was on fire, and then just my luck, some grandmotherly type self-deprecatingly said she must be "the most boring person who's ever been in the contestant pool", so I couldn't even use that tactic. It got so bad that the last time the contestant coordinator said she recognized me and I frankly didn't know what to say, unsure whether or not it would do more harm or good to say airily "well, that would be because I've paraded past you since it was in-persons in the Milford Plaza. You haven't bitten the lure for the past decade", so I just smiled mysteriously and said nothing (either way, whichever way I go would traditionally be the wrong tack to take).
I keep trying to convince my father to try out for Sports Jeopardy though. He decimates those "sports trivia" books, and probably has the anecdote area covered also, as he's actually played myriads of sports over the years, lol.
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In my mind, as someone who had my first child without the father present more than 10 years after the timeframe of this show, Mary wouldn't have had much if any social support in having a baby without the father around. So I'm guessing she followed Sadie back to Charlie in an attempt at finding a family for her baby. Does that make sense? Mary did still at least try to suggest that they have the baby in a hospital. But you're right, queenanne, they left out a lot of details.
Good point, and that could be what they were going for; I was just expecting/hoping to find some kind of plot point where "straight Mary" would rat out the Manson Gang, now that she's gotten a taste of a stable/better life. I guess that's not in particular possible historically, but I was hoping that someone had sense, left, and realized straight jobs were preferable to peripatetic lifestyles. Mary certainly looked as if she were realizing it when they showed up on the doorstep, heh.
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What happened to that very large plot point where it seemed like Sadie was nuts, as not only did Mary not fling her arms around Sadie and burst into happy tears upon the sight of her; but that Mary, in fact, looked nothing short of dismayed that the bill had come due, and she was actually required to give up her "good, straight job" and follow them into the wilderness? Since that point Mary has seemed nothing but serene and happy-clappy to be back with the little troupe of dingbats.
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I dunno what they're trying to sell with Jeremy or what the original game plan was (and color me disappointed and surprised that Madison is "just a girl who didn't say no" - that wasn't what they were selling either, there is literally no point to having her basically say she wants to be Quinn, if she's just a babe in the woods), but I do believe that the show is trying to sell me "flawed fake Prince Charming manque Adam, becomes *real* Prince Charming over the course of the season and his travails". I don't know how to square this with him having sex with Anna (though, are we sure that was Adam and not, say, sleazy host?), but there's nothing that says he hasn't stopped receiving BJ's from Grace, and is just too proud to correct that interpretation.
Also color me confused as one of the people who thinks/agrees, if Adam is desperate enough to leap on Everlasting Winery, it really makes the stakes bland and weird if all of a sudden, he's simultaneously got enough independent money to fairy-tale expat with Rachel for an indefinite amount of time.
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Maybe they don't realize how bad they will be until they get there? Or they just like having fun? Or more likely, their agent thought it was a good idea.
Meredith Vieira, whoa. She is either incredibly confident in herself, incredibly good at these games, or an incredibly quick thinker. Or all 3. I've never seen anyone give responses as quickly and surely as she did. She may not have been the most entertaining person on this show, but she was one of the best players for many of the games.
Shouldn't Vieira be good, though? I mean, in addition to her primary profession, she hosted one of the syndicated "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"'s. It's almost like she's tailor made for the task.
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Some of these are quite alarming, so read at your own risk...
Sakamoto family murders, by assassins from the Aum Shinrikyo religious movement
Conrad family murders, by man who did it for fun (not quite entire family; 10 year old girl survived by playing dead)
Robison family murders, by disgruntled former employee of one of the parents
Setagaya family murders, still unsolved but most likely a stranger
Villisca axe murders, still unsolved but most likely a stranger
[my keywords: mass murder of family by stranger, home invasion family murders,
Another one from 2007 (East Coaster here):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire,_Connecticut,_home_invasion_murders
The father lived but I'm calling it for the category anyway, as the stranger-murderers clearly intended to kill him and he wasn't able to save any other family member.
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So, Cameron manages to keep Mutiny afloat by selling her prized game and using Joe to sabotage WestCo's conference (not sure if Joe knew, or he was telling Sara the truth about being set-up.) But I doubt she'll consider it a victory since now both John and Tom have left. To her credit, I don't think she can really do much about John (nor do I blame him for needing to find something more steady), but the break-up with Tom was bound to happen. I do think she cared about him on some levels, but she was always going to put work ahead of him, which is fine, but clearly isn't something he's good with. More importantly though, I do think it's true that she really does have feelings for Joe still. It ain't healthy, but clearly Cameron isn't about healthy or normal relationships.
Meanwhile, Joe is probably already divorced now, since Sara clearly knows he still has feelings for Cameron and he did a crap job at denying it. Again though, this is no surprise. Joe in any kind of relationship, was bound to end poorly. Of course, I wonder what his fate will be because of this and Jacob thinking he sabotaged him.
I really hope they have an idea for Gordon's story, because all of his scenes were a waste. I'm sure there was some kind of underlining theme going on there, but I was just bored.
Highlight of the episode was easily John Bosworth charming the video game company. I really hope he lands on his feet, but I certainly hope he doesn't go anywhere (if this show somehow gets renewed, despite probably having lower ratings then probably reruns of past AMC shows.)
I'm irritated now because the writers bothered with setting up that SARA was the problem in her relationships. I fully believed Daddy Cromwell and was expecting some exciting meltdown on the part of Sara that would function as payoff.
But, surprise!! Sara ain't the problem and is completely logical in her attitudes towards relationships, the problem is... Joe isn't over Cameron. (Shocker!)
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Maybe I've lived in Los Angeles too long but I can totally see someone doing a cubicle-themed restaurant if there hasn't been one already.
Lord no, who would want to go there "to relax", after spending all day sitting in one already??
I wish they could swap Trenton for Darlene, which is funny because Carly Chaikin was one of the very best parts of Suburgatory, but for me here, it’s like Esmail said “Get me a Kat Dennings Type – only charmless.” Seriously, not feeling Darlene at all.
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Amy said all the adults were frozen. I take that to mean all the people in WP at the end are new. Group C. They don't know anything about what is outside.
Group B people are either dead (from the HY revolution) or refrozen.
If “the adults are all frozen”, I’d call the frozen adults in question, “Group C, and remnants of Group B”. Unless the First Gen were supposed to be unfrozen Group C, which I didn’t get from the story. I state this because from the bird’s eye view of a fortysomething, all the people roaming around in Ben’s World looked frightfully, appallingly young. I didn’t see anyone that would have been considered an older “adult”, which suggests no one unfroze “Group C”.
As for the rest, I vote that Creepy Teacher didn’t think she DESERVED the Ark, thus she didn’t run to the Ark.
It seems like whenever someone had to veer away from the books they didn’t know what to do. I’m ashamed for him if they’re going to tell us that M. Night conceptualized that stuff.
Firstly it doesn’t look like anyone ever committed to Ben and Amy as a real couple, yet they didn’t ‘not-commit’ to it either, which has me confused when they’re acting like “A Love Story We Are Supposed to Root For”, as opposed to “Secret Members of a Clinical, Utterly Creepy When It’s Teens Being Discussed, and Not At All Romantic Breeding Initiative”, the latter of which makes me not give a damn about Amy (and, frankly, the Amy actress makes Ben’s portrayer seem like Melissa Leo in the acting department). Beverly makes no sense. Turncoat Heroine Pam makes no sense, except as a reward for Melissa Leo’s status as a trooper and MVP. I like the idea posted by the people who think this is not the first time they tried integrating Ethan which thus explains Beverly, but explain it to us, geez. This creative team seems to suffer from severe “Since we have read the books, we will assume the entire audience has, and thus will understand all the backstory from it exists by osmosis, without us stating or using it”.
Secondly, in order to tell the story with Hitler-Haired Youth taking over in a manner that is both good and convincing, we need HHY to have been an actual present character in conflict with Ben in earlier episodes, indicating that he will be a player in the future. “We’re the First Gen.” *jabs thumb at chest and throws chin high in air*, in Episode 9, won’t cut it. I was all with Arlene “well… bully for you??” I thought we were just meandering around with Amy and Ben’s facsimile of a sham of a love story. “Antagonist who appears from out of nowhere, almost literally, in the eleventh hour, and not only that, but becomes the Ultimate Antagonist, undefeatable”, is universally-acknowledged horrible writing, done only for a "Gotcha!".
Thirdly, the plotting and setup where she has to pretend to be a successfully brainwashed zombie, hamstrung Kate like nobody’s business, allowing her to leak or show no particular FBI-related skillz other than being declared “resistance leader”, until she picked up a gun. Seriously, she might have been any human being with any skillset. The flashbacks were a step in the right direction but too little, too late – from time to time I forgot she even existed, which is sad because after Melissa Leo, Carla G. turned in the best acting performances of the show.
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I think if you live with someone, even in a sham marriage, for a dozen years, you're going to feel some love for them. Unless you both loathe each other. Harold and Kate were shown to be quite fond of each other, so Harold deciding to go back for Kate was initially sweet. They were in the shit and he wasn't going to just leave her. No telling what kind of service Kate had before she was partnered with Ethan, but she may have lost some good friends in her tenure. ( Obviously, a guess/fanwank.) To be looking into a good friend's face as it is blown off by some snot weasel? I wish I had Kate's focus; I'd be a little huddled ball. Then again, maybe a dozen years of Reckonings will toughen you up? More?
Yeah, I don't have a problem with a last-minute realization of deeper feelings. I in fact thought Gugino and Diamond did a good job of getting us to that point with their earlier "IF your fiancee is still alive we'll deal with that". (a) If it's a fact that Kate and Harold don't in fact love each other, what would there be attached to this scenario to "deal with"? Just say "See ya!" and he's off with his fiancee, not like they need a divorce or anything; (b), by this time, I could be wrong but i thought by this time, we're all pretty convinced that Kate, at least, knows and accepts the doomsday scenario, and that there is no living fiancee for him to find.
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I don't think it's about the sex tape, per se, but rather the mere fact that Rachel had sex with the bachelor undermining the whole show. It'd imagine it's a fireable offense. So I don't think threatening to expose Rachel in a sex tape would be bothersome but her job? I do think Rachel would worry about that.
IIRC something similar happened with a producer (? cameraman?) on Survivor (? the Bachelor? sorry this is so vague but I think was last decade), and a female contestant. I also don't think it was even sex, I think it was just flirting or kissing or giving signs they intended to date after the series finished spooling out. I'm also pretty sure he did wind up getting fired.
They had me fooled with Chet honestly - like the Mommy and Daddy of Everlasting - except I knew there was a reason Quinn twigged to Chet only ever paying cash for everything when they were cheating together, and never using his cards. That takes forethought and a certain degree of criminality.
This is great risky writing and I love it, but I don’t understand how the entire Rachel/Jeremy storyline could have been crafted without my caring for a second whether Jeremy lives or dies. It was almost hilarious to me from a meta standpoint, that I watched Jeremy lay one on Rachel and simultaneously think "oh geez, I'm supposed to be thinking this is some Scarlett/Rhett at the burning of Atlanta moment, aren't I? Yet here I am, feeling like I'm watching wallpaper plant a kiss on Rachel."
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I was under the impression that the Sheriff wasn't going to announce the murder investigation until the day after the funeral, not that he was going wait to start the investigation until the next day.
But how's an investigation work, if it has to be a secret in the interim lest people know it's not a suicide? Because one would think it does, once you start to tell people, any chunk of information starts leaking out. You can't ask people in the community (your potential murder leads) to report "anything suspicious they might have seen" in connection with Rachel, without arousing their suspicion, because what's suspicious about someone hanging herself while alone, the current putative cover story? I should think any person who's ever seen a CSI type show would immediately think the sheriff is alluding to Rachel being framed as a fake suicide, with a locution like that. Assuming the sheriff (a) believes Emma's mum and (b) literally knows nada, for all he knows it was a stranger/drifter murderer, with someone who might already be gone, and certainly blow the town or even state, within a 24- or even 16-hour allotment, while the sheriff is being all nicey-wicey and "letting people grieve".
I'm no law enforcement professional myself, but it seems to me that the sheriff's proposition in some jurisdictions, might even come under the heading of "interfering with an investigation". For all the sheriff knows, the murder itself happened in a semi- or wholly-public place, in which case the public's actual impressions of real-life weird situations in the vicinity of the deceased around that time frame, is important. WE know that no one saw anything public and thus couldn't enlighten the sheriff, because we saw the murder happen; but the sheriff's brain shouldn't have access to the fact that there were no eyewitnesses. Even then, sometimes people might have seen the killer buying a rope, etc., and not register it until they were told by a police investigation, that they should remember or pay attention to this innocuous purchase.
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I think they've done a good job of spreading suspicion around evenly so far, if they really wanted to be daring and throw us off the scent the killer would be a woman, but I doubt a woman has the upper body strength necessary to banister-hang Rachel. Maybe one is cahooting with a man.
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What I like is that this fiasco gives them a somewhat plausible reason for not trusting the cops for the rest of the season.
I think they've got that reason already because wow, is the chief/sheriff Barney Fife? The last last last thing you want to do, when your coroner has just told you that you are looking at a murder investigation, is to waste The First 24 Hours of your precious First 48 Hours of investigational time sitting around on your hands, because gawrsh gee willikers, "people need time to grieve". And the coroner just nods her head like a pretty meat puppet, like she hasn't had some kind of coroner educational procedure on what happens after you think you've discovered a murder, which involves "The first 48 hours of an investigation are critical, and most cases which go beyond this benchmark without being solved, are in fact never solved as a trail goes cold" (paraphrase but I'm sure that's the gist).
Don't get me started on why Teach wouldn't do the searching for Brooke's naughty photo before the students came to class and when he was alone, lol.
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I feel like some of the Ivy/Liaisons production den mother thing, is attempted, in light of what happens at the end of the season, to either parallel her with Derek as a director figure, or to parallel her with Karen in the latter's alleged new role as the Lady Bountiful of Broadway, with her "bringing Jimmy and Kyle to the attention of Broadway". Some things I really liked from Season 2:
-Jimmy and Kyle's pitch session to Derek - I felt like the showrunner drew upon that from real life.
-Megan Hilty is actually a trained opera singer, I have heard Krysta Rodriguez has training as an aerialist, and considering that, I'm guessing Jeremy Jordan also plays piano; and probably some others I'm missing. I felt like before the start of the season the new showrunner had asked for the CV's of all the actors and worked their real-life talents into the season, which I liked on the whole, it's both sharp and connotes some respect.
-As I am given to understand it, Jimmy gives a near-perfect rendition of the practice of "negging" in the direction of Karen, which works because Karen is a masochist (off the top of my head, it happens when he admires her gold shoes at the party at his and Kyle's randomly not-condemned $4,500/month loft, and probably other places).
- Over the course of the season, the showrunner will also put what I call "parallel reverse conversations" of a romantic/personal/whatever they were going for at the time nature, into the mouths of, variantly Derek/Karen, Karen/Jimmy, Ivy/Derek, and so forth. (For serious. I know it sounds a bit off on my part, and I can't think of any examples right now off the top of my head, but if I do I'll post 'em.) Derek might say something to Karen in one scene, and then you'll find almost his very words being parroted from Ivy's mouth down the road a few scenes, only this time Ivy is aiming the verbal expression in Derek's direction. I vacillate between thinking whether or not it's genius parallelism, or a cheesy desperate attempt to avoid doing extra writing; but on the whole I think I like it.
-Pursuant to the Rent discussion, maybe this is general knowledge, but at the time of first run airings there was a bit of scandalous grumbling because the showrunner was Anthony Rapp's boyfriend in the latter's Rent development days. A small subset of the audience felt like he was trivializing Jonathan Larson's memory (and other things), though with the appearance of Daphne Rubin Vega and Jesse L. Martin in the season, I guess that's a minority opinion to hold.
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#WhoisDrill -- really ABC ?
Do they think they're misdirecting us off of the crackling lights [LOL]? Clearly Drill is what they call "an entity", to the point where it should be #WhatIsDrill - and if not, that's some really bad signifiers, because Drill has talked to people when, for example, Milo Ventimiglia hasn't been within a country mile of the Drill subjects.
I thought Minx's compliment about Claire's prettiness was realistic considering she needed to butter Henry up, because we've seen she can't stand Claire, yet couldn't very well say "I hate your mom, who makes my mom cry and has clearly done something bad with my dad on top of it."
I'm also not seeing the fun for the kids in the "scavenger hunt", and think it's a little contrived that they have to send Henry out, when they could just skip involving Henry and hand all his tasks directly to Minx. (I mean, I get that they technically "can't", because Minx at the power plant with Claire and Sean has no resonance, but they could come up with some other way to integrate the power plant into the plotline, use something completely different, etc.) Minx could be the only small minion, and the story wouldn't lose much other than some cuteness factor. Heck, she could've lured Harper's mom into the treehouse. "Are you lost, little girl?" "I'm scared of heights! Can't climb down!", etc.
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I feel compelled to likewise offer up Krysta Rodriguez' rendition of Broadway Here I Come:
though Jeremy Jordan slays the song and leaves it a wrung-out husk, lol, I sometimes wonder how much time he did and had to practice it over the hiatus between seasons to get it so note-perfect.
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I missed the first one of these and got all excited when Megan Hilty appeared on the front page. I guess I love this show a lot more than I thought. I've actually considered rewatching it over the summer, and reading this really got me in the mood.
"Let's Be Bad" might be my favorite performance of the entire series, and that's the performance that should've erased any doubt that Ivy was the perfect Marilyn. I get that they felt the need to turn Marilyn into a revolving-door-of-casting thing (if only so that Karen had a reason to be there) but it even that early on it was laughable.
I don’t think the show would have made me so mad if they had been honest about what they were doing, but as it plays, it’s just a big mess. Why circle the entire pre-show ad campaign around “the competition between Karen and Ivy”, when they clearly never intended for there to be any question about who would win? Not only does the performance erase all doubt; but they decide that the director’s reaction to this stellar performance that clearly brings everything he ever wanted to the part, was… to look at his actress as if she’d just pulled down her pants and pissed on the rehearsal stage, and stalk out the door in dead silence. I drove myself crazy for weeks, thinking “Is this because Ivy has just ruined Derek’s plans to put a major star in the role because of being so unquestionably IT?” Etc. Little did I know, the actual answer was “actually we told the showrunner she had to make up some reason why this would piss off the director and she had no idea, so just made Derek act like he had a stroke.”
This was when Karen's lack of a back story started to drive me crazy. Here's what we know about Karen so far: she's 24, she's lived in NYC for 2 years, at some point she suffered a brain injury rendering her incapable of higher problem solving ability.
Just kidding (not kidding at all).
Anyway. So Karen moved to NYC right after college? And bumped into an Oxford educated guy who moved to NYC to take a mid level job in the Mayor's office on the subway and moved into his GIANT apartment that a city employee and coffee shop waitress can afford? Ok we'll all shelf that one for now. She's been in NYC for 2 years and Derek can tell "she's trained" (*sigh* really? Because I can't), so why doesn't she know anything? I mean anything? Like the name of one of the biggest music producers in the business? Or that professional actors often take class? Or where downstage is? OR WHAT A REASONABLE CREDIT CARD BALLACE IS?!?! She's from Iowa, not 1908! Why doesn't she know anything!?
And this is more of what I thought throughout Season 1. I actually thought, because they'd spent time pre-teasing this show as "All About Eve", I thought "Aha! HERE's my intrigue! British Dev and British Derek KNOW each other already, and have hatched an elaborate plan to put Karen in the role of Marilyn even though she is so clearly underqualified for it!" (Because it actually gets worse than you outlined; she doesn't just "bump into him." In one of the episodes, Dev very clearly reminisces to Karen about how they met in "that pub in London". So apparently he moved to NYC for her, after they met in the junior year study abroad program that Karen's parents paid for, I guess.)
Oh, and Karen also had a Playbill bio at some point, as did many of the other actors. Along with the "downstage" discussion, they thought it was a good idea to give Karen Equity theater credits in I think, the likes of Queens. Plus I thought they made S1 Dylan Baker carol about how beautifully Karen sang in high school musical, which experience also would have included such helpful explanation and experiences as "what the tapes marks on the floor mean" and "don't sing louder than the lead, unless you're a little snip whose sole goal is to sing louder than the lead and upstage her." Gah, this show made me want to sling something at the screen!
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"And okay, she was good but why was she soloing in Sam's church???"
EXACTLY! I really like this song and this version, but why couldn't this have been Sam's song? Or, at least, Karen not take it over entirely? My Karen hate was already deep and profound, but this just cemented it for me. Even though I have forgotten most of the details of this show over time, whenever this spins up on the iPod, I can't just enjoy it because I start to get mad on Sam's behalf again!
I have all kinds of irrational anger about this, including on behalf of the actor who plays Sam. I lol'ed when I read the comments of someone along the way who said they were expecting to hear members of Sam's congregation breathily exclaiming, "is that girl who sang so beautifully going to be Marilyn??" I'm shocked they displayed the restraint, frankly.
Here's a 1001 Nights version from YouTube:
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Oh no... it just occurred to me that parallel parent issues of Rachel and Adam, extend the probability that they will have at the very least an inappropriate fling with each other. Do. Not. Want!
(OK, I guess they were relatively restrained and subtle about this possibility... up until now! I liked Rachel's reaction to realizing "oh noes, I'm wearing my Attraction Face. For Adam. Ugh.")
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I just found it realistic, based on the fact that Rachel and Adam, the insanely rich hotel heir, basically lied to him and said that it was a given that his sister would win. In his mind he is probably thinking all about the money his sister would gain and thereby share with him as his sister wouldn't leave him behind once she were to get married to Adam. He didn't put it together that they were both lying to him so his sister would come back w/ them so Rachel's ass would be saved.
I took a different angle, that his brotherly/family pride was roused and the thought being, "of course my sister's the prettiest and smartest. Why wouldn't she win." (I admit I think this partially because my sister is a devotee of the franchise, and spent a stout 15 minutes one year trying to convince me I should try out. I could but laugh, as I'm built closer to "hearty farmgirl" than lollipop-headed ingenue, and probably a good dozen years older than their cutoff - all of which being things I swear my sister knows - but for a few mad moments, she was absolutely sincerely determined that I audition even though I stand less of a chance than that proverbial snowball.)
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Will's not autistic, he only uses that as a cover for not wanting to be around people and why he's sometimes socially inept when he is. Jack called him out on that in the first episode. Fuller said that Will is the opposite of autistic, where autistic people miss social clues and have trouble reading people, Will reads people far too well and it wears on him and in certain circumstances (Hannibal) he's in danger of being consumed by it.
I don't know if I agree with Fuller on that one, because I think absorbing everything from everyone else and having no filter against their stresses, stressors, sometimes voices, etc., is behavior on the spectrum.
As for the art-film quality of the show, personally i kind of adore it; it’s like lagniappe to me. In fact, I think I talked a Bates Motel fan into giving Hannibal a go with my paeans to the art direction. Probably the closest thing in visual quality to a feature film I've ever seen done on TV, and this is saying quite a lot from me because I think I hate quirk, as I grudged Fuller for years over Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, both of which I found so twee I couldn't make it through the pilots. So, Bryan Fuller, though you'll never read this, I feel compelled to eat my words in public after watching Hannibal. You got me at last, yo.
(Also, not that I know for sure, but it occurs to me, the blurring of the works of art's erogenous areas, may be specifically so we can have more blood and gore, oddly enough. Weird to contemplate, but I can see Standards & Practices making that decision with their invisible scorecards.)
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If I was in that orientation room I would have been all, "It's 2048 but all I see are these el-cheapo plastic chairs, a 1970s slide projector and a bunch of candle holders that look like the first graders made them for their Christmas party".
It does give off a very large whiff of "Dharma Initiative Hatch", doesn't it? To some extent I think this is just something that is going to continue to hang out there frustrating people, because clearly FOX has not passed out an unlimited budget from which the set designers can conjure "Future Tech-Fakery". Plus being limited by whatever the author wrote in his original source material.
I probably also wouldn't necessarily have done the partial-Kidz Kult, but if you're going to drag out a storyline so that the teens have something to do, Animal Farming it buys you some extra time while other Kidz figure it out. Plus, secret societies are fun. (Though they should probably have Son fall for a non-insider to complicate things, I'm assuming the girlfriend he's already got is one of the 111.)
I knew Melissa Leo was a tremendous actress, I didn't know she could be this creepazoid, though. Nurse Pam makes my blood run cold. Anyone else think they're powdering her up to be extra-pale and wondering if maybe this is a clue? I paused just now on a frame where I feel like they forgot to powder under her eyes, and it looks like she's had a Kabuki mask slapped on.
Also I want to know what Ethan's boss knows, and there has to be something as yet undefined creepy about the "FBI receptionist", since even if she's credited to an actress we don't know as having a role in Wayward Pines, doubtful she's manning an FBI switchboard in 4,028 AD.
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S01.E09: Broken Child
in The Whispers [V]
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It was worse for me (and I agree Rabe is talented, but 21st century modern doesn't seem to be her bailiwick), what made it worse was, before and after the primal scream, it was like an emotional transition wipe with a windshield wiper. She didn't even blend. Guttural scream > directly into, whatever that bland emotion was. Then onto the next bland emotion like someone dropped a curtain.
I disagree in that I think the masks finally are/found a way to be creepy, but this show is missing some sensible logical things to increase audience identification.
For example, the way all adults now believe in “Drill”, and have no qualms about referring to it/him as “Drill”, without laughing out loud. At least someone, probably not-Prez politician, should still be making faces and skeptically referring to “This…thing!!!” (Short version: “Somebody should still have some qualms, so that the audience can feel superior to some blind fool.”) Also, this lets someone be working at cross purposes.
Secondly, shoot Rollins with, basically, truth serum? Shouldn’t he then be revealing “some truths”, to increase suspense, that lets Drill (I can barely type it with a straight face now either), get one-up on someone? Did he, and it was so boring I blinked and missed it?