This reminds so much of a souped-up Fargo. Sad, bumbling characters get caught up in darkly serious situations, in a small town American suburbia. And we can’t quite tell how it will all end.
Hits my sweet spots. Highly recommended.
LaRoy, Texas is a 2023 American crime thriller comedy film written and directed by Shane Atkinson. It stars John Magaro, Steve Zahn, Megan Stevenson, Matthew Del Negro and Dylan Baker.
Fue uno de los pocos futbolistas que jugó profesionalmente hasta los cincuenta años y probablemente uno de los pocos anglosajones que se mantuvo abstemio. Única adicción: el jugo de zanahoria.
A lo largo de su dilatada carrera, nunca ha recibido ninguna sanción disciplinaria dentro del terreno de juego. Ninguna expulsión, ninguna descalificación, ningún gesto histérico o violento: siempre ejemplar. Un verdadero caballero.
Muchos excompañeros, entrenadores y oponentes también lo confirmaron con el tiempo: su inmenso talento deportivo estaba a la altura de su estatura moral.
Cada verano, durante el receso del campeonato, volaba a África para entrenar a pequeños equipos locales, ofreciendo a los niños de las zonas más desfavorecidas de Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda y Tanzania momentos de luz y diversión. "El hombre negro de cara blanca", lo llamaban los africanos, considerándolo ahora uno de ellos.
En 1975, mientras el apartheid gobernaba Sudáfrica, financió y dirigió un club formado únicamente por futbolistas negros. Incluso lo llevó de gira a Sudamérica, contra los más prestigiosos equipos brasileños, desafiando el crudo racismo generalizado en aquellos años y enviando una señal que iba mucho más allá del campo de juego.
Sin embargo, si hoy se pregunta por Sir Stanley Matthews, pocos, incluso entre los expertos, lo conocen o saben lo importante que fue para el fútbol, a pesar de que la suya es la historia del primer Balón de Oro. La historia de un hombre, atleta y campeón increíble.
Derek: May I have one of your fries?
Stiles: Of course. Can I have a bite of your burger?
Derek: Absolutely not.
Agent McCall: Some perfect couple. You won’t even share your food with him.
Derek: It has avocado on it. He’s allergic to avocado.
Derek: Are you so jealous of our relationship that you want Stiles to die??
Stiles's parents both being Polish and to different "degrees" was one thing I never questioned. Granted, I grew up in Chicago, where it was common for someone that was essentially Polish in last name only to marry someone that had Poland-born parents that were happy the spouse was also Polish to any extent.
I have a lot of questions for Jeff Davis about his choices for the McCalls and Hales, however. It definitely felt like the Hales were hispanic-coded and/or indigenous-coded at times despite being played by white actors. Meanwhile, we get almost nothing about the background of either of Scott's parents beyond Melissa's maiden name and, I guess, Rafe speaking Spanish to teenage Derek. What a wild combination of choices.
the names scott and stiles come directly from the 1985 teen wolf movie but everything else is jeff and the writing team.
the way that we know more about the argents, the hales, the yukimuras and the stilinskis than we do about scott's family has always made me feel a particular way.
the argents and hales are the driving force behind so much of the narrative that their history is important to the overall narrative. noshiko's story was important to the story of 3B. malia's history intersects with the hales.
we even get a whole season to learning about lydia's banshee grandmother.
(i want to say there's something in that cora ended up in south america after the fire and went back there after she left beacon hills. do the hales have ties there?)
rafael mccall is just kind of there. i have affection for matthew del negro because he was steve cortez in mass effect and he was fucking wasted by teen wolf. how did he and melissa meet? did scott actually live with him for a while after the divorce as was said in season 1? why didn't we get to see rafael learn about the supernatural as was implied? did this man pay child support?
it's funny. @dear-massacre and i discussed earlier that there's such a small polish population in california but jeff gives us the vaguely polish name stilinski and claudia's maiden name is gajos. stiles is named for his polish grandfather mieczyslaw.
the only other vague slavic name we have is paige's last name, which is never said in canon but it's krasikeva.
jeff did something very deliberate with paige. she's a narrative mirror to sitles.
but yeah it would make sense that noah's family has been in the states longer and assimilated losing some of that cultural tie whereas claudia's either family came more recently and/or they kept cultural ties refusing to lose them to assimilate as much.
El destino del reino se bifurca en bandos… “La Casa Del Dragón · Temporada 2”
Poniente está al borde de una sangrienta guerra civil con los Consejos Verde y Negro, luchando por el Rey Aegon y la Reina Rhaenyra, respectivamente. Como cada facción cree que el suyo es el asiento legítimo en el Trono de Hierro, todos deben elegir su bando.
Estreno: 16 de junio de 2024 en HBO y Max.
Avance: Consejo Verde
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Basada en la saga ‘Fuego y Sangre’ de George R.R. Martin, la segunda temporada de la serie original de HBO, cuenta con las actuaciones de Emma D'Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Sonoya Mizuno, Rhys Ifans, Jefferson Hall, Matthew Needham, Abubakar Salim, Gayle Rankin, Simon Russell Beale, Clinton Liberty, Jamie Kenna, Kieran Bew, Tom Bennett, Vincent Regan, Tom Taylor, Freddie Fox, Tom Glynn Carney, Ewan Mitchell, Phia Saban, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Oscar Eskinazi y Harry Collett.
Morning Briefing: Buffalo Mass Shooter Plagiarized 'Manifesto,' Antisemitism Associated with 'Conspiracist View of the World'
Morning Briefing: The writings of the White Supremacist mass shooter behind the racist attack at the Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York were “derived from hate content he consumed online,” according to a study published by Montclair State University.
The study found that the at least 82% of so-called manifesto was plagiarized, and that “56% was taken from manifestos of other white nationalist attackers.”
Antisemitic attitudes are most strongly associated with a “conspiracist view of the world, a desire to overturn the social order, and a preference for authoritarian forms of government,” according to a study published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) published a report which “analyzes the rise in white supremacist recruitment and violence and the painful and profound impact that white supremacy has on targeted communities, especially on young people.”
In Montgomery County, Maryland, an electronic traffic sign in “construction zone was apparently hacked to display a racist message.” This is similar to another incident of hacking interstate sign in Alabama.
Canadian prosecutors recommended that Gabriel Sohier Chaput, an infamous neo-Nazi propagandist who was found guilty of willfully promoting hatred, should “serve three months of jail time with two years of probation,” however, Judge Manlio Del Negro responded that the sentencing recommendation “trivializes the crime.”