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SeanC

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  1. I hope this means we're getting a His Girl Friday-style Lois Lane, based on that casting.
  2. No, it only applies in the MCU main timeline.
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    Priscilla

    A year after Baz Luhrmann supplied his hyper-kinetic take on the King, stylistic polar opposite Sofia Coppola brings us a different take on the problematic relationship of Priscilla and Elvis from the former's perspective.
  4. "Everything is legal in New Jersey!" The two contestants citing Jamaica and Australia as still being under British rule, LOL.
  5. Luca Guadagnino's next film, starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor (The Crown), and John Mulaney Mike Faist (West Side Story).
  6. Princeton is consistently one of the top-ranked schools in the country, there's no real reason it wouldn't be the right place for her to go. It sounded like her ultimate ambition is to be a lawyer (er, Supreme Court justice), in which case her undergrad is (outside some specialty tracks like IP law) mostly just launchpad for whatever law school she applies to. Ethan wasn't important in and of himself, but he played a notable role in Devi's storyline, e.g., her sexual maturation (which also, keeping in mind that the season is bookended by her relationship with Ben, avoids having her only have sex with one person). Margo also might end up being Devi's step-sister in the future, for all we know. Strong finale and a strong final season. This is one of the most complete shows Netflix has ever had, in my opinion.
  7. I enjoyed this as an unorthodox approach to a prom episode, where our main characters never actually make it to prom.
  8. I loved seeing Pete Gardner, albeit in a small role. Not that this really matters, but there's never any plot explanation why Devi is convinced that someone at the school must have gotten into Princeton if she didn't. While the earlier scene with Fabiola and her mom establishes their belief that it's statistically unlikely that two students from the school would get in (which is true enough), that's not a rule; and for that matter, there'd be plenty of US high schools with zero Princeton admissions per year.
  9. Trump getting indicted and interrupting Jeopardy, his most evil act yet.
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    Bottoms (2023)

    Shiva Baby was one of my favourites of its year, excited to see what Seligman does next.
  11. If they were going require greater specificity on “Adams”, they shouldn’t have accepted “Harrison” as a one-word answer in the same category. I got Final after thinking about it for a moment — it doesn’t seem like any of the contestants approached the question from the perspective of trying to narrow down blockbuster films of that year, though.
  12. "Cerebrum plum" does not rhyme. Credit my English double-major in undergraduate, I got "Lake poets", though I didn't remember precisely who they were.
  13. Raimi's a terrific director with an actual sense of style, something lacking from a majority of MCU films, so I'm all for him doing more of them as long as the studio actually lets him bring those qualities to the proceedings.
  14. A brief tally of the noteworthy narrative drivers/plot points in play for Season 3 and beyond. 1997 The search for new shelter for the group; Conflict with Coach Ben; The identity of Javi's "friend"; Per the S2 finale, at some point one of the characters will refuse to participate in the draw; Shauna's resentment of not being the leader. 2021/? Dark Tai and everything relating to her actions, including Tai's chaotic family situation; Van's having cancer; Walter isn't per se a plotline, but as a man of considerable means and dubious morals, he seems like somebody who could cause problems for the group going ahead; Theoretically there could be more to the whole coverup of all the previous murders, but I personally think that's unlikely.
  15. Is she sad at the end? She seems pretty content watching TV with her closest friend. While we were shown that Midge has tensions with both her kids, they'd both be 50ish by the time depicted, and her one grandchild that we know of would be college-aged. Regardless of her relationship with them, they wouldn't be hanging around her house every day.
  16. Thanos "loves" Gamora insofar as he feels an emotional attachment to her and is sad at her death. That's all that the Soul Stone cares about. It's not framed as evidence that he's a good person or whatever, it's just a measure of his willingness to give up something that matters to him personally. If you're defining love as a healthy relationship, arguably it's impossible to ever meet the test's criteria since being willing to kill the person in question for your own advancement inherently a negative.
  17. The next sentence in her journal, that she always previously thought it was Jackie who made her feel invisible, seemed like the beginning of self-reflection. But in Shauna's defense, it wasn't really a leadership election, the group's prophet came down and bestowed leadership on one particular person. I would say Van's cancer is going to be a major question mark going forward as far as the supernatural element goes. Senator-elect, I believe. I would guess that most people don't know she's missing; her campaign manager presumably didn't raise the issue, who else would?
  18. Absent further explanation I think she was referring to landing him the big Princess Margaret guest spot.
  19. He already has other films in the works, including another Grann adaptation. I wouldn't expect this to be his last outing. The book is one of the best pieces of non-fiction I've read in the last decade, so I've been looking forward to this film for a long time.
  20. (Adult) Shauna needs screentime; if that particular stuff wasn't being shown, she'd be shown doing something else. We've been shown plenty over the course of this season. The gnawing affect of hunger has been a constant theme for the past seven episodes, and we even that things like the multi-episode twist with Akilah's mouse that shows just how much it's been warping the characters.
  21. While Nelisse and Lynskey's mannerisms are different in some ways, one should note that tonally they're also dealing with some fairly different material. Lynskey's scenes are often written as suburban dark comedy, whereas Nelisse is often (and especially this season) playing the angstiest, grimmest part of the show. Actors don't generally need to know where their characters are headed as a result of things that haven't happened yet. Indeed, it's quite rare to get that on TV.
  22. I like that Lottie's therapies mostly work, except with Misty they 'work' in a way that really you shouldn't want them to.
  23. A shame more people aren't seeing this, but it's quite fun, and the lead actress is terrific.
  24. There’s nothing weird about it. Gunn probably liked the idea of adding another female character to the cast, among other things, while keeping the actual character name. Cosmo is the character. The movies make adaptational alterations to characters’ race, gender, etc. all the time.
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