moonorchid

My stance is heigl burned the bridge between her and Shonda. But so much time has passed and heigl has publicly been remorseful of how she behaved but Shonda and co are still being petty as hell when it comes to heigl and izzie. It’s like we can’t take into account personal growth over a decade.

Also, I can’t get over him telling her: “you made me a better husband for izzie”... like it kind of sounds nice but honestly it’s horrible. that’s my biggest gripe. I can accept the izzie ending. I’m not even mad. But he ghosted his wife, cheated on her, then broke up with her and divorced her in a letter right AFTER she just got out of a mental hospital, gave him an “out”, and he remarried her ass. He was too cowardly to face her and didn’t respect her enough to do so. the nostalgia this episode was cranked up to dull that fact.

The radio silence could be them learning from the Sarah/JCap fiasco...although at the time it was krista and Ellen being too much about the whole thing and not anticipating that people would be angry as hell. radio silence leads to speculation but if they don’t feed the fire it doesn’t get out of control.

I didn’t care for the differences the movie made from the book, but when I realized the book was a sequel to Stephen Kings “the shining” and the movie was the sequel to stanly Kubricks “the shinging” I was able to accept it better and come to peace with it. That said I did like the movie a lot. McGregor was an excellent Dan, in fact everyone they got to play the key roles were perfect. The part with the baseball boy was tough to watch but fit the movie well, it created the stakes and made no qualms about how horrendous these beings were. The woman they got to play Wendy looks freakishly like Shelly Duvall and I didn’t even realize it was Henry Thomas as Jack till I looked it up, crazy resemblences.

Didn’t amelia want a FWB relationship with link before baby? Wasn’t she literally about to proposition carina when carina mentioned her being pregnant? It’s not like either of them were entertaining serious thoughts of the other before she was pregnant and then they tried to build something when she was pregnant. Amelia has all the power and she’s abusing it imo. She’s holding valuable information hostage till she gets the response she wants and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But Amelia has always been like this, she’s always been incredibly selfish when it comes to the men in her life and while before it was blamed on her tumor, there’s nothing to hide behind here. Not everything is a fairytale And sometimes you have to deal with the choices in front of you.

I feel like this really could have benefitted from an extra 30 minutes. But overall it has everything I liked from the first movie. Although I wish Jordan Fishers, John Ambrose could stick around for the third movie cause he was every bit as charming as I imagined John Ambrose to be. These movies are sold by the chemistry of Lara Jean and Peter but it rests on the shoulders on Lana Condor who is a damn revelation imo. It would be so easy to play Lara Jean as a type of “manic pixie dream girl” but Lana reflects all the introspection across her face.

I just didn’t want “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” to win. It’s a good movie and I enjoyed it but imo it’s very overrated. I thought it would just cause of the nostalgia factor. “Parasite” I love because it’s a movie with a point to it, everything that happens and everything said has a point to it and it’s point was poignant and thought provoking. I wanted it to win cause I felt there was a lot of care and thought went into it as opposed to a lot of wanking off to its own greatness or just a rehashing of a genre. The Oscars are still too white and male but this win means something amazing! I’m so happy for all involved.

I’m happy for “Parasite” but now I fear it’s definitely not winning Beat Picture...just anything but “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” please!

Thank you! I just don’t get it! She’s so talented and I like her a lot but for this role I just don’t think it’s Oscar award worthy 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m sorry something happened big time cause the silence is deafening. Ellen has power here and some responsibility. You want to be the highest paid female actress on tv? You want to be the only one on the poster? You want to be celebrated? You want to be a producer? You don’t get to throw your hands up and claim “it’s above my pay grade”, if she could retweet an article with two sentences, she could put out a statement. That goes for her, Krista Vernoff, Debbie Allen, AND Shonda Rhimes!

I don’t know if the writer intended this but the article insinuates the environment at grey’s partially led Justin chambers to the situstion he’s in now

Yeah I didn’t think she has anything about what’s happening now...but she at least thinks she knows something and she’s been a little shady towards greys for some years now.

Sara has tea!

I cheated and only watched the last three eps of the fourth season. My husband and I watched this show together in its first and second season and just kind of lost touch with it afterward. I knew this was the last season and have always thought of it in the back of my mind as “the show I really need to catch up on”. For a show that comes off very cerebral it packs a lot of emotion. I cried through 11,12, and 13! (Mastermind) Eliots heartbreak is so palpable and you just feel so much for him, Rami Malek is such an amazing actor, I can’t wait to follow what he does for the rest of my life. This show is such a breath of fresh air! It knows exactly what it is, what it’s trying to say, and where it wants to go. Sam Esmail may not be a genius as much as he just knows what he wants and is incredibly detail oriented, which doesn’t take away from his talent at all. Im prob in the minority, but Eliot and Angela were always a big draw in for me. I’m a sucker for pairings like this on tv. I know there was some BTS drama behind the scenes between Rami and Portia and that’s a large reason why Angela was killed off in the first five minutes of the season. While I def don’t think that part was planned, I think Angela dying was always going to happen. I just wish things between Portia and Rami weren’t so bad that they could have at least done a final scene together in the finale, but Rami was phenomenal in his scene on the phone with (fantasy) Angela. I rewound it about five times to feel his feelings again because it was so deep, so sorrowful, so hopeful. Angela was a big presence for Eliot and coming to terms with his feelings for her and her death, it was done so perfectly writing wise and acting wise that I’d find it hard to believe Angela’s death wasn’t always in the cards. Just the timing got affected by real life. This finale may be as close to perfect as a viewer will ever get. It’s kind of happy but very bittersweet. The mastermind is who we’ve gotten to know, who we rooted for, who we cried for. There’s a moment where we are just as stubborn as he is in his desperation to stay in control, and then both of us come back and realize the only happy ending is for the real Eliot to come back. The Mastermind is not equipped for the happy ending. The quickness with which he knew that once the happy ending was being laid before him was heart twisting. I tend to find the emotion in the shows I watch and when that part clicks for me I consider a show/finale a success. It’s why the LOST finale works for me, except Esmail didn’t completely dick over his audience to keep the show going before they could start the end game. Just these last three episodes alone have made my heart heavy and has left a huge impression on me. This show is a MASTERCLASS of television imo. There is so much to unpack with this show and it’s finale, I’ll prob be coming up with different aspects about it for a long time. Brava!

The big surprise for me was Taron Egerton winning! I had pulled for him and thought he deserved it but with Leo’s yearly Oscar bait and Eddie Murphy’s comeback I didn’t think he stood a chance.

At the end of the episode I was heartbroken but there HAS to be a catch...there were too many coincidences and red herrings...but maybe I’m just in denial that the empire has my precious baby 😞 I damn near clutched my pearls when baby yoda, not just force choked Cara, but when his eyes narrowed and he twisted his wrist ala Darth Vader! And this his scared shocked eyes when mando yelled and grabbed him. I don’t want to believe Cara is a double agent but didn’t there was a scene where the droid (I keep forgetting the name) walked in and stared at Cara hard...it was odd. How may episodes are there in a season? This def feels like the beginning of the climax and it’s gonna be wild!

Saw it today with my kids, in a theater full of kids. As much as I liked the first movie I did not have high expectations for this one because it’s pretty much impossible to capture the same magic twice. so saying that, I did like it but it wasn’t as good as the first. I appreciated though how meta they were about the first movie and really tried to progress all the characters. As an adult who loves Disney, I appreciated all of that and the kids in the theater appreciated Olaf a lot, he got the biggest laughs. I feel like there were a lot of good ideas here that just didn’t quite hit their mark but it’s not unsatisfying. I could have done without kristoffs proposal panic (I went to the bathroom during his power ballad). The animation was breath taking. Much like in the first movie, the beginning songs lay out what this movie is about, and I liked that. Some scenes felt a little long. The songs were nice but were definitely not “let it go”. Elsa and Anna’s relationship and their evolution was nice although I feel like Anna’s got short changed a little bit. I don’t have big problems with this one. It’s not as good as “Frozen” but leagues better then most Disney sequels, and my kids loved it.

Is it just me or is Maggie severely over freaking reacting and being over dramatic. She INSISTS that cause she just met Sabi she’s not emotionally connected and honestly she wasn’t. Plus what happened wasn’t her fault and someone as smart as her should be able to see it since she’s such a genius and doesn’t get human emotion like that. I just don’t feel invested in her turmoil cause the moment she takes a second to look at it, she’ll see it wasn’t her fault and be okay, AND, what is she upset about? When Cristina went through this she was suffering from major PTSD , when April went through this her foundation in her faith was shook and she was asking some major existential questions. What is Maggie upset about? That she actually lost a patient? That it was a family member? What is she so undone by? and god let omelia DIE DIE DIE! eveurthing else was standard for this show.

This ep really kicked it up a notch and I loved it! Jennifer Anniston is a damn dynamo in this role. I literally went “oh shit” (even though I saw it coming so it’s def a credit to Anniston’s acting) when Alex announced Bradley as her co-host. I don’t know if she won that round but I did love how she fought for what she wanted and gave the proverbial middle finger. Poor Bradley is just a pawn right now with the attitude of a knight, lol. I felt for her when she realized where she was sitting but I don’t buy her total naïveté. Like take a wild guess why your sitting at the table of one half of America’s favorite morning new duo, whose female, and who is in the middle of contract negotiations. Alex is mad at the wrong person and I liked how Bradley told her that not everyone can just say “f*** you” to the head of the network. Im definitely recommending this show. It’s may not be the next best thing since sliced bread but it’s good!

I didn’t expect much based off the reviews but I’m a Witherspoon fan (and a more casual fan of anniston) and I’m loving both of them in this. When talented women are the driving force, it’s hard to fail with me. I actually had no clue what the premise was so it was really intriguing learning all this as I was watching. My favorite scene was Alex and Bradley in the interview. I’m a big fan of simple intense scenes where talented actors just talk. Both were really good at portraying the text and subtext and where each person was coming from. My second favorite was when Alex went to see Mitch. Its not pretty but Alex’s devastation at how her world has changed because of Mitch’s actions was relatable. It’s still not clear to us what he’s being accused of, so we literally know as much as she does. Steve Carrel in the “Matt Lauer esque” role is really interesting and I think might be perfect. Steve Carrel is extremely likable and so was Matt lauer. I think having that “face” so to speak keeps Mitch from being a complete monster, at least for now, and that makes all of this more interesting. I definitely recommend trying it out for yourself despite the reviews. This was enough to get me interested in the next episode.

Well excuse Deluca for being disappointed considering Meredith told him she loved him. Apparently he was always just supposed to know that Meredith viewed him as a toy. I swear do people hear themselves when they go on about this? I’m all about feminism but if the genders were reversed Deluca would be getting raked across the coals. and people are saying “I understand merediths sentiment saying she couldn’t be with him if she lost her license, Derek would have said the same” except if Derek said that to Meredith he would be getting DRAGGED for it. Merediths behavior this entire arc has ranged from good intentions to ridiculous to entitled and smug and no amount of writers dosing the audience with nostalgia and throwing in a Cristina letter tongue bathing Meredith as the sun is gonna change that.

I’m reminded when Maggie came back after her mom died and took Nathan’s surgery from him and got the patient to okay it cause she’s the best ever and doesn’t she want the best? I honestly hated it then (and yes, I would have hated it if it was Derek, it’s arrogant to an annoying level) and it all worked out so that just fuels Maggie’s arrogance. She’s a genius and should be confident, but arrogance kills. It prob wasn’t her fault but she was working in a hospital that’s not hers with people she doesn’t know which just leaves too many variables unknown. It’s interesting that they took a semi similar situation and the surgery went south. Especially since she just declared surgery was her one true love. Maggie’s never dealt with failure and it’s double cause this was a family member. It doesn’t surprise me that she had to have Alex coach her to tell the family. One, she prob rarely has to do it cause she is that good, and two, if we’ve been shown one thing about Maggie it’s how she doesn’t know how to deal with emotions.

THIS!!! So much this!!! There is such a lack of self awareness and accountability with Meredith right now. I don’t really care to see any of the kids on this show. It’s not that kind of show. But what gets my goat is when this show writes these character like they don’t have kids. Like that ridiculous time Meredith took a sledgehammer to her house, and now this. Kelly came out with a small interview recently that surprised me. She said that part of what keeps the show fresh is they get new writers every season. I don’t keep track of the writers anymore on this show but of this is true, I don’t think it keeps it fresh, I think it keeps the show inconsistent in tone and voice.

Probably, lol. For me it just feels like a missed opportunity for a better moment.

I don’t think it’s bad for deluca to talk to Zola about Derek. It seems like that’s what she needed in the moment and Deluca tried to step up for her. The frustration comes from krista taking what would be a great moment if it was literally any one of the dozen characters on the show who did know Derek and making it a genuine emotional moment for the characters and the audience and instead choosing this moment to try and push merluca.