Abbott Elementary has treated Sheryl Lee Ralph very well so far. Her role as kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard has definitely let Ralph shine, to the tune of a Best Supporting Actress win at the Emmy Awards earlier this year. Critical acclaim aside, though, Ralph says the real satisfaction she gets from the show comes from its fans, who she says are incredible when it comes to their feedback
Abbott Elementary airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on ABC, and episodes start streaming the following day on Hulu.
Sheryl Lee Ralph and Lisa Ann Walter Discuss Barbara and Melissa's Relatable Friendship on 'Abbott Elementary'
Sheryl Lee Ralph and Lisa Ann Walter Discuss Barbara and Melissa's Relatable Friendship on 'Abbott Elementary'
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Sheryl Lee Ralph, who just won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series, and Lisa Ann Walter star as Barbara Howard and Melissa Schemmenti in Abbott Elementary. Season 2 premieres on Wednesday, September 21 at 9 PM ET on ABC. Additionally, you can watch new episodes on demand and on Hulu the following day.
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there’s a great write up by someone on here that i will have to search for in which they discuss how the ultimate evil for david lynch is sexual violence against women (even more severe than murder, which is often auxiliary to that type of specific violence); twin peaks is incredibly soapy—on purpose! lynch and frost are playing with form and content on purpose to examine incredibly difficult subject matter through a (for lack of a better word) more palatable format—which most of the time i think works to its advantage and makes those moments of visible horror so much more effective (i use “visible” rather than “true” or other similar adjectives because the horror is always there, it’s embedded in the entire town, shows up in every generation we see in screen and we watch them grapple with it in different ways, but that’s a separate post)
however—and i’ve talked about this before—i find that once you’ve watched fire walk with me it is so much harder to watch the show because the ignorance of nearly every single member of the town (yes, including cooper) pervades the way the action unfolds. twin peaks viewers knew the premise of the show going in and we get to discover details and information alongside the characters. when albert rosenfield comes in as the only voice of reason and reality, it’s set up to be jarring to both the townspeople and to the viewer. why?
sheryl lee said in an interview, “fire walk with me was very difficult for me to watch… and, emotionally it’s a reminder: this is a movie, but this continues to happen every day and how can we stop it? when i watch fire walk with me now, as a mother, i watch it and i think look at all those signs that were being exhibited. this girl was in danger, and look at all these people that were in her life. what would have happened if someone, somewhere, somehow could have helped or stopped it? that’s hard to watch.”
much has been discussed critically about fire walk with me and whether or not it’s exploitative in the ways that it portrays sexual violence against women. while lynch does not shy away from making that violence visible, it is done so in an attempt to make the viewer examine their own relationship to that violence and how it shows up in their own lives. the audience is forced to think about the ways that they are complicit in how and why these violent acts occur and what they can do to stop it, which is why for many it is an uncomfortable watch. for others, it is a painful (and speaking from my own perspective) necessary watch because lynch didn’t make a horror movie, he made a documentary.
fire walk with me is necessary (in my humblest of opinions) to understand why the pieces that lynch and frost put into twin peaks work. there’s so much backstory to how they weren’t originally going to reveal who laura palmer’s killer was until ABC made them, lynch wasn’t around during much of the second season so things got a little off the rails storytelling-wise, etc. etc. but fire walk with me allows them to tie difficult, often horrifying threads (ben horne unknowingly attempting to have sex with his daughter, the townspeople’s distancing of albert, the hands of random townspeople trembling as BOB attempts to claw back into the material world, the list goes on and on) back to the central thesis of “sexual violence is the ultimate evil, it is completely avoidable, and you have a responsibility to recognize the signs and stop being complicit”
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Sheryl was 66 during filming and is African-American (African and Jamaican).
Every time a white actor does the ‘over it’ thing I think about Quvenzhané Wallis who was literally just a little kid yet called ‘woman’ to the point where she started correcting reporters and how badly she was treated for like. Knowing she was talented? Not grovelling? I was only a teenager but that entire situation made me rage because white actors and the like would praise and put her down in the same breath like didn’t even see they were contributing to the problem. Also Viola Davis whose speeches are heartfelt but have also become inspirational fodder because (white) people love that she’s huge but still ‘grateful.’ Ugh. Like I know awards can get you in the right rooms but also not really. Heavily awarded POC might still only get one major role a year yet some random white will be able to do a mediocre indie and suddenly get major. And Hollywood will act so clueless as if the change will magically fall from the sky. Hollow really is the perfect description you’re so right.
yeah the thing about awards potentially in theory having a positive effect on an actor's career but not really is something that is talked about a lot (i.e. it does not have the same boost for actors of color) but also the using speeches as inspiration porn thing is just constantly at the forefront for me, i think about it every single time any of the eeaao cast does an interview or accepts an award, but tbh the one that was the absolute worst this year imo was after sheryl lee ralph won the emmy and sang on stage in what was clearly a genuine moment of emotion because that's how she expresses herself in her day to day life, she's A Singer so she sings, but then i remember seeing multiple red carpet interviews for other events or talk show appearances in the following days when interviewers, naturally, would comment on that speech, but then they'd have the fucking audacity to ask her to sing for them on the spot and it's like??? it's not a party trick that you can just ask her to whip out at a moment's notice for your own entertainment?? that just feels so degrading idk like it's just cheapening her actual moment of expression and turning it into a reproducible commodity that can get every outlet their own clicks and views. but of course she has to do it and she has to keep a smile on her face bc on the surface it's an innocuous request and she's a Polite and gracious person so how could she say no without coming off rude to the interviewer. fucking bonkers.
NEW: Judge Joe Brown says he’s bringing a defamation suit against Sheryl Lee Ralph for stating in an interview that a TV judge sexually assaulted her. She never mentioned the name of the person who did it.
He told on himself. 💀💀. The lawsuit need to be thrown out immediately. He needs to leave her alone!