Small Talk: Not Your Mother's Exorcist!

[Meredith Quill]

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[kwnyc]

Michael Emerson came to a show I was working last Saturday night (he's friends with our Associate Artistic Director), and I told him how much I'm enjoying Evil. (And that I'm part of an internet discussion group that gets deeply into topics around the show.) He said they are getting ready to start filming the second season.

I told him I appreciate the quality of the show: writing, acting, and its examination of where evil comes from, and he seemed very pleased. (He also liked the show he came to see a lot!)

[Annber03]

4 hours ago, kwnyc said:

He said they are getting ready to start filming the second season.

Woohoo!

That's so cool. I'm glad you were able to talk with him about the show, and that he enjoyed the show you were working on as well. I've heard he's a super nice person in general. 

[OtterMommy]

3 hours ago, Annber03 said:

Woohoo!

That's so cool. I'm glad you were able to talk with him about the show, and that he enjoyed the show you were working on as well. I've heard he's a super nice person in general. 

I always find it jarring that some of the nicest actors play the skeeviest characters!  I hear that Steve Buscemi is just incredibly sweet, but I will always think of him as Carl Showalter from Fargo.

[Annber03]

7 minutes ago, OtterMommy said:

I always find it jarring that some of the nicest actors play the skeeviest characters!  I hear that Steve Buscemi is just incredibly sweet, but I will always think of him as Carl Showalter from Fargo.

Ha, yeah, it's a strange thing indeed. But hey, that's part of the appeal, right getting to play somebody who's the total opposite of you in some form :D? I do tend to think the best actors are often those who can convincingly play somebody who's so very different from them. That's not always an easy thing to pull off. 

[kwnyc]

I've run into Michael Emerson (and Carrie Preston) at a local bar in my neighborhood, and they took a picture with me & my sister. Steve Buscemi is well known as a great guy...my acting teacher gave him one of the puppies from her dog's litter, and he called it "Chiefie," in honor of his time in the FDNY.

[Anela]

I have no idea where to put this, so I'm just putting it here. I found an older show that I loved, when it aired, called Mysterious Ways. Some of the episodes, at least, are uploaded to youtube. 

I also followed a link from a kind poster in a different thread, and got paramount plus for 99c a month. I couldn't find it myself, when I looked. 

[Annber03]

I just looked up that "Mysterious Ways" show, as I'd never heard of it. It does sound very intriguing - I'm glad to hear some of the episodes are on YouTube. May have to check out a couple of 'em. I can definitely see the similarities to "Evil", based off the description of the show :). 

[Anela]

19 hours ago, Annber03 said:

I just looked up that "Mysterious Ways" show, as I'd never heard of it. It does sound very intriguing - I'm glad to hear some of the episodes are on YouTube. May have to check out a couple of 'em. I can definitely see the similarities to "Evil", based off the description of the show :). 

It's kind of like "Evil" for Hallmark. :) 

[Anela]

I'm watching The Good Fight, finally. I wasn't in the mood for it last year, but I somehow missed cancelling Paramount+ (I thought I'd set it to cancel on the expiration date), so I'm binge-watching it now. I wasn't aware of how many "Evil" actors were in this. Mike Colter is in the one I'm watching right now. The newly-satanist psychiatrist was in another one today. The wonderful nun plays someone's mother, and there are more. 

[Anela]

I’ve been watching Joan of Arcadia.  It’s a show I re-watch every year or two. I like the family, I like the show itself. I’m not religious, but I like shows surrounding this sort of thing. I was also starting a dead like me re-watch, just before July 4th.

I’ve just found out that another aunt died.  I didn’t know her very well, but she was very kind when we visited, after my uncle had been in the hospital. One reason we hadn’t seen them, was covid. We’d been talking about them, recently. Saying we should ask if it was okay to visit.  I thought about them both, last night.  I’ll be lighting a candle for her tonight.  

[HerkyJerky]

32 minutes ago, Anela said:

I’ve been watching Joan of Arcadia.  It’s a show I re-watch every year or two. I like the family, I like the show itself.

OMG! I LOVE that show!  It definitely should have got a third season.  Supposedly the showrunners had it all planned out.