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vacationship · 4 months

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"About the Blogger" meme

Aw thank you for tagging me @happylikeasadsong and @currymanganese . Belatedly getting around to this.

Star Sign(s): Cancer sun, Cancer moon, Taurus rising. Water and earth, yo! It gets muddy over here. A decent amount of fire and air in my whole chart, too.

Favorite Holidays: Christmas, it's the lights and Ave Maria and Joy to the World what can I say.

Last Meal: Burmese mango chicken and coconut rice with browned coconut flakes on top of the rice. Delish! I would eat that coconut rice every day, just by itself. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Current Favorite Musician: First Aid Kit is a current favorite, love sister duos. Khruangbin has been an obsession for awhile.

Last Music Listened To: Monster Rally. Lately I need no lyrics. Just take me away please. Into the stars, into the universe.

Last Movie Watched: well the fam bam was out of the house so I took advantage to leisurely wrap presents, sip my bevvie, and watch not one but two xmas movies back to back. Last Christmas and Love Hard. Both were fun! Last Christmas: it got me at being an homage to George Michael songs the whole way through. Love Hard: catfishing turned love story, okaaaayy, I'm with you. These holiday romcoms though, wince, cringe, love you/hate you.

Last TV Show Watched: I finally started Pen15 and it is EEK watching these adult actors play this young age so well, it is so wild. I'm also slowly watching Only Murders in the Building (do I like it? I think so… Selena Gomez is killin it and I gotta say I love her makeup line) and also Not Dead Yet (hmm, didn't realize there was a death theme). I just really enjoy Gina Rodriguez and it’s a fun sitcom and makes me miss Jane the Virgin.

Randomly found Crashing from 2016—Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s writing had me belly laughing in a few spots and I almost want to say I'd have preferred this show to continue with another season than Flea Bag getting two seasons, which I rewatched a few eps of to remind myself and compare with Crashing, and while FB was such a good show that got acclaim, like Crashing is sort of the funnier prequel (for PWB?) with an ensemble cast? And fuckin Jonathan Bailey is in it? Both lead characters played by PWB are annoying af to me, probably in a good way.

I hope to get through all these but the Bear has me fixated.

Last Book/Fic Finished: Ok well let me pull out my dusty kindle now to see what I last read. All really good recent reads: If I Survive You, True Biz, Black Cake, Kindred, the Book of Form and Emptiness, the Island of Sea Women. Okay, I feel I need another worthy book to maybe offset my Sydcarmy obsession. These were good books. Books are good. Note to self: read a book!!!!!!!

Last Book/Fic Abandoned: I'm a mama, I can't tell you what fics I like best and which I abandoned!?!? I love all your fics my sydcarmys and honestly I want to read more. Last book I abandoned: What Fresh Hell is This. It's a funny and serious book about menopause that I started reading it to see if I could recommend to a client because I haven't been througu it, but I just can't yet. Glad it's out there tho. One day.

Currently Reading: Nothing. I'm waiting for something good. I need something good. I'm afraid to start more sydcarmy fics because then I won't sleep til 3am.

Last Thing Researched for Art/Writing/Hyperfixation: Never you mind

Favorite Online Fandom Memory: Being in an online fandom is actually pretty new for me, I’m sort of an oldie and I’ve been missing out. Just finding the sydcarmy tag has been revolutionary. It’s so fun, mind blowing, brain rotting, and I respect y’all so much.

Favorite Old Fandom You Wish Would Drag You Back In/Have A Resurgence: Since I mentioned it already: Jane the Virgin, and I'm guessing it had a divided ship fandom, and I could personally never decide who I liked best for Jane even though SPOILERS I knew Rafael was endgame. I hated what they did to Michael, HATED it. (SPOILERS let him RIP.) Not saying I’d want a resurgence, more that I wish I’d been there because I was so alone in my angst over obvious endgame guy versus so much unexpected chemistry with the other guy and they like worked that into the show and made me wonder if they were gonna change their minds about who was endgame? That was enticing and nerve wracking. Also I ship the three generations of women and, Rogelio with himself, but with Xiomara, too.

Favorite Thing You Enjoy That Never Had an Active or Big "Fandom" but You Wish It Did: I don't know. I really want to have a good answer. I was not here. I seriously thought tumblr was a dating app for like the longest time. What a dummy. I needed this.

Tempting Project You're Trying to Rein In/Don't Have Time For: I am my own tempting project.

#sydcarmy

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heavenboy09 · 10 months

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 🎂 To You, The Rising British Actress Of Today's Cienma & Now Starring In The Biggest Adventure Film 🎥 Of The Summer

She is an English actress, screenwriter and producer. As a creator, head writer, and star of the comedy series Fleabag (2016–2019), she won three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes and a British Academy Television Award. She received further Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for writing and producing the spy thriller series Killing Eve (2018–2022).

She has also created, written, and starred in the comedy series Crashing (2016). She has also acted in the comedy series The Café (2011–2013), in the second season of Broadchurch (2015), and in the films Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).

She has since contributed to the screenplay of the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021)

and starred in the adventure film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).

Please Wish This Amazing British Actress Of Good Wholesome Acting, Comedy & Screenwriting Of England 🇬🇧, A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

If you don't know her, you will sure to love her soon.

MS. PHOEBE WALLER - BRIDGE 🌉 🇬🇧 AKA HELENA SHAW OF INDIANA JONES & THE DIAL OF DESTINY

#Phoebe Waller Bridge #Helena Shaw #Fleabag #Indiana Jones and The Dial Of Destiny #Spotify

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imunbreakabledude · 4 years

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TV Rec List for KE fans

Because some of you need new things to watch rather than wallowing over Killing Eve being delayed!

Please enjoy this long, detailed, organized list of TV recommendations. This began as “shows you might like if you liked Killing Eve”, but broadened as I started writing it, so there should be something for everyone!

Features categorization by “if you like x, you might like”… Some shows are listed in multiple categories, if they apply. I have also listed where to legally stream each show (in the US), and how many seasons exist.

Please share this with others, and add more shows if you have them! Or let me know if you try any of these shows and like them. I truly love getting people into shows.

(+ Means the show is still airing and/or not officially complete yet.)

(* Means I personally haven’t seen the show yet, but it’s based on other people recommending it to ME!)

IF YOU LIKE the theme of obsession, a relentlessly female point of view, unique voice, and two female leads who are of different generations:

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (4 seasons, Netflix) (yes, this is very specific but I’m listing it first because it’s my all time favorite and there’s no other show like it so I HIGHLY recommend trying it out to see if it hooks you.)

IF YOU LIKE female-driven crime dramas:

Good Girls (3+ seasons, Netflix) (dark drama-comedy) (doesn’t have WLW content but DOES have a lead in her 40s going through an Awakening once she starts doing Bad Things, and a fucked up het relationship that rivals Villaneve for dark sexual tension!)

Jessica Jones (3 seasons, Netflix)

Jane the Virgin (5 seasons, Netflix) (more of a lighthearted family comedy-drama, but there’s crime lord stuff in the mix too!)

IF YOU LIKE action, humor, darkness, and supernatural content, with WLW relationships:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (7 seasons, Hulu)

Wynona Earp (4+ seasons, Netflix)

Carmilla (3 seasons of web episodes, Youtube)

Charmed (2018) (2+ seasons, Netflix)* (Personally, I am partial to the original Charmed from 1998, but the reboot has WLW content and the original doesn’t - and I have just discovered, to my great dismay, the original is no longer on Netflix! Which must be a very recent development! I am anguished!)

IF YOU LIKE Female driven shows with several seasons, good writing, LOTS OF TWISTS, and WLW content:

Orphan Black (5 seasons, Prime) (an all time great; if you have not seen it yet this should be top of your list)

Jane the Virgin (5 seasons, Netflix) (There’s also a sapphic sociopath on this one, though you may not want to sympathize with her)

IF YOU LIKE some fucked up exploration of manipulative relationships, and WLW tension:

Jessica Jones (3 seasons, Netflix) (there’s also bonus mommy issues too, if you liked the mommy stuff in s3 of KE) (plus a delicious queerbaity relationship between the two lead women)

Jane the Virgin (5 seasons, Netflix) (actually lighthearted overall but one of the WLW relationships in the show is fucked up in a delicious dramatic way. THERE IS ALSO A WHOLESOME ONE TO BALANCE IT OUT!)

UnREAL (4 seasons, Hulu) (the manipulation and moral grayness of the female leads is just… mwah. On a totally unique concept - behind the scenes of a reality dating show. Underrated gem)

IF YOU LIKE big ensemble cast, morally gray female characters, WLW content, and yeah, let’s just say it, it’s in a women’s prison…

Orange Is the New Black (7 seasons, Netflix)

Wentworth (8 seasons, Netflix)*

Vis a Vis / Locked Up (4 seasons, Netflix. Spanish language)*

IF YOU LIKE an investigator and criminal growing obsessed with each other and working together in a very homoerotic way, and the plot is phenomenal, the one catch is they’re men:

Death Note (1 “season”, Hulu)

IF YOU LIKE Phoebe Waller-Bridge:

Fleabag (2 seasons, Prime)

Crashing (1 season, Netflix)

IF YOU LIKE a writing style that is similar to PWB’s in my opinion - witty, hilarious, dense, with female leads that are kind of awful but charming and memorable minor characters, though no WLW content, but plenty of subtext:

(I’m talking about Amy Sherman-Palladino, here.)

Gilmore Girls (7 seasons + 4 ep revival, Netflix)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (3+ seasons, Prime)

IF YOU LIKE women wrestling each other. Big ensemble cast. Some WLW. And also Betty Gilpin kind of looks like Jodie Comer:

GLOW (3 seasons, Netflix)

IF YOU LIKE single actors taking on different personas, in a driving dramatic plot with bits of scifi and twists and turns:

Orphan Black (5 seasons, Prime)

Dollhouse (2 seasons, Hulu) (another underrated gem imo)

IF YOU LIKE shows that are just really fucking weird I don’t know how to categorize it even but there’s WLW sex and anachronisms and it’s fun:

Dickinson (1+ seasons, Apple TV)

IF YOU LIKE I’m struggling to relate these to KE at all but they’re amazing shows and essential Viewing:

Avatar: The Last Airbender (3 seasons, Netflix)

The Legend of Korra (4 seasons, Netflix)

IF YOU LIKE female-driven comedies:

Fleabag (2 seasons, Prime)

Broad City (5 seasons, Hulu)

Derry Girls (2+ seasons, Netflix)

Pen15 (2+ seasons, Hulu)

The Mindy Project (6 seasons, Hulu)

Insecure (4+ seasons, HBO)

Dead to Me (2+ seasons, Netflix)

IF YOU LIKE queer feel good comedies:

Broad City (5 seasons, Hulu)

Derry Girls (2+ seasons, Netflix)

Atypical (3+ seasons, Netflix)*

One Day at a Time (4 seasons, 3 on Netflix)

Schitt’s Creek (6 seasons, Netflix)

The Good Place (4 seasons, Netflix)

IF YOU LIKE comedies that are deep and will also make you cry and also push the artistic boundaries of the medium in beautiful ways:

Fleabag (2 seasons, Prime)

Bojack Horseman (6 seasons, Netflix)

Pen15 (2+ seasons, Hulu)

#killing eve #tvthoughts #crazy ex girlfriend #gilmore girls #idk i feel the urge to tag all the shows i listed but I won't do that #just want to get word out! people should enjoy lots of TV!#tvreclist

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wellntruly · 5 years

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FLEABAG Notes - Season 2, Ep 2

If you turn this whole season into one episode, Ep 1 is the stunning cold open, and Ep 2 is the addictive first act, laying groundwork you just want to jump on immediately. Bless. #Jokes.

Anyway see my 2x01 post for notes, on the notes!

Season 2, Episode 2

Fleabag: quite genuinely wishes peace to the other members of the congregation Fleabag: quite genuinely checks out all the mostly nude ~exquisitely suffering~ Jesuses adorning the walls Get You a Girl Who Can Do Both

I found it rather surprising there aren’t more people turning up for worship when their priest is Andrew Scott---Catholic London where you at! Emily then reminded me that that’s point: England is Anglican. ah yeah, right.

Fleabag beatifically responding “And also with you” at the wrong time, Priest smilingly stumbling to delivery his community announcements because she threw him off---I love it I love it I love it. and, a metaphor for their relationship???? MAYHAP.

well turns out I was just entirely unprepared for the visual of a roughed up priest with a black eye

Fleabag gesturing at his robes: “This is looovely!” Priest, happily spreading his arms: “Oh thank you, thank you!” why are you two like this

Priest: “I thought you’d be in prison, by now.” Fleabag: “Oh well I keep trying but they just won’t have me.” why are you two like this!

pls Father you don’t need any more edge, there are plenty enough edges, I feel like I’m about to fall off ALL of them

Fleabag giggling as she tries to pay him back, “I’ve got no pockets!”, this is too cute for God’s House

GOD this side room, this is what I imagine all church side rooms to be like

how 2 even explain her delivery of “Jesus” after looking at this next painting… it’s like simultaneously the way you would say someone’s name when you’re flirtily admonishing them for being a tease, and also how you would say “Jesus” in flirty response to someone being a tease. or as @starlingshrike put it: “like Jesus is being a very naughty boy.” basically it’s a perfect 10 high dive of a line read and Emily and I howled.

the Priest shouting “Bastard!” when he spills the tea is the dorkiest thing he’s done yet, but admittedly we haven’t gotten to his review

just CAREENING around the internet on a fevered impulse that “tat” might originally be a Polari word.....and good ol’ Professor Baker says it fucking is, GOD bless, the gayest thing Andrew Scott does in this show besides just, being a hot Catholic priest.

“I will if you will!” oh Father don’t say these things

I did not know at the outset that they made G&Ts in cans, and Emily assured me that ohohoho yes they do, and you can drink them on the Tube, and boy they are lethal

NEITHER OF YOU ARE COOL, you’re hot hot hot. no but also you’re not cool.

Priest: “So you were in my prayers, last night.”

even just thinking about this moment makes me laugh

his bit from the funeral liturgy really is nice, about life changing not ending

somehow her brand of atheism has come across as adorably feral or something, smelling Bibles and religious paintings cRAshing down, while she darts her big eyes around with a startled piratey smile. it’s very endearing. The Feral Atheist & the Disheveled Priest. oh no it’s the best.

Hot Priest writing restaurant reviews as a hobby feels like it was designed to torment me personally. I love Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s obsession with food. like Villanelle eating things in Killing Eve? uugh. anyway enjoying food is inherently sensual and I’m obsessed with this as an interest of his, well done team.

“I’d spend forty days and forty nights in that dessert!” Lordt.

FLEABAG OUT HERE GOOGLING “CATHOLIC PRIEST SEX” LIKE HER BIG DUMBASS ENERGY FOREBEARS

hahaha aw biscuit

her cafe really is doing well!!!

Chatty Wednesdays is Claire’s ACTUAL NIGHTMARE, haaaahahahaha, her insisting that she DOES NOT WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS, oh I’m weeping

THE PAINTING SET UP, how could I forget

OLIVIA!

Godmother just, has their dad’s cellphone? yeah I’d share a horrified glance about that!

of course Flea likes that red, it’s a similar color to her usual lipstick. or that shirt she’d stolen from Claire in the first season.

I am in LOVE with the desperately direct way Sian Clifford delivers the news that Martin is pressing charges against her for assault. also that she’s providing her sister with the exceptional legal advice and not her fucking husband.

this man and his eyebrow, incredible

incredible

jesus christ when I came back to Prime after pausing to write that down I learned his character name is literally Hot Misogynist. PHOEBE.

doves. symbolical.

Claire: “What you did in the restaurant was unforgivable.” Fleabag: “I know.” Claire: “Thank you.” Fleabag: :)

yes yes yes the therapy session, Fiona Shaaawww

and for once it wasn’t a joke, actually! awkwardly

but then..

Counsellor: “So why do you think your father suggested you come for counseling?” Fleabag: “Um, I think because my mother died and he can’t talk about, and my sister and I didn’t speak for a year because she thinks I tried to sleep with her husband, and because I’ve spent most of my adult life using sex to deflect from the screaming void inside my empty heart. [I’m good at this!]”

“I understand myself only insofar as it is funny.” - Elaine Kahn, Women in Public

hey babe you know else just told you he also doesn’t have any friends? your priest buddy. you two lonely souls!

Counsellor: “And what have you found in your abstinence?” Fleabag: “Well I’m very horny, and your little scarf isn’t helping.” this is when I screamed. listen we all have a crush on Fiona Shaw. thanks for casting her in both of these, Phoebs, and Getting It.

the first moment when this show interrogated its own fourth wall-breaking device was actually last season, in the finale when Claire alludes to “what you did to Boo” and all the clues come together in a moment almost too awful to confront, which is why Fleabag doesn’t want us to see this, and physically tries to evade and escape from the camera in her distress. this was a brilliant and unexpected piece of TV-making that took this show from wonderful to scorchingly wonderful in my books.

and the second moment comes here, with Fleabag assuring the Counsellor she does have friends, and when she remarks that it’s good she has someone to talk to, our Flea turns to click a wink at us like a fingergun-less finger gun, and holy shit. holy shit! we’re a functioning part of her life, and that’s not how this viewer/fictional character relationship is supposed to go! but it’s flattering, it’s intimate, it’s the warmth of a friend catching your eye in a crowd and sharing a look with you, we’re friends, she called us friends, and now we’re even more tied up in her emotional landscape than we were before. terrific, so heightening. second seasons are about raising stakes!

for instance:

“I want to fuck a priest.” “Catholic?” “Yes.” “A good one?” “Yes.” “Looks good in the, um? [gestures at a collar]” “Yes.” “I understand. [a beat] Do you really want to fuck the priest, or do you want to fuck God?” truly the dialogue of the year

…..can you get arrested for trying to fuck a priest? asking for a friend. (a friend)

Fleabag asks her just to tell her what to do!!! guys!!!!! let’s put a pin in this for later!!!!!!!!

but the counsellor says she already knows what she’s going to do, that everyone does. maybe what we want is permission…huh I’m gonna be working on this

anyway she obviously goes to help with the church raffle

this entire thing where her whole conversation with Harry is like he was the one who bore this baby is so COMMITTED. Fleabag never once glances at us to comment on the way it’s all being phrased, all her attention is on him in this fascinated mystification & curiosity.

I forgot that in the course of their layered lines trying to explain how they know each other to the Priest Harry winds up saying he used to be “her girlfriend.” Priest to Harry: “Good for you.”

I think actually my dark horse favorite moment in this episode is Fleabag instructing herself not to say it, just don’t say it, and then saying it anyway. I really think this may be Waller-Bridge’s most virtuosic fourth wall back-and-forth performance. her rhythm is flawless, it’s just….it’s almost like watching a magician.

similarly: “Insidious — [in-sidious]”

Emily: “I wonder if this kid is the way he is because he has the dad he does.” Tarra: “God good point.”

regardless Jake does indeed have a VERY strong vacant-eyed murder vibe

Emily and I were INSISTING to Flea that he would have just marked all the sexy passages, the Songs of Solomon sort of business, ~heyoh~

(but pretty sure we were wrong)

(it is of course much more interesting that the Priest really did mark passages he thinks she might find helpful -- “They’re just words,” he says, and wow I love that.)

oh you. stop it.

listen: he’d like you. to come. (heyoh)

ANYWAY RELATED--love the THUNDER CRASH over these particular credits! we are treading on dangerous ground!

Fleabag Notes

Season 2: Episode 1 | Season 1

#Fleabag spoilers #Fleabag #Tarra's Fleabag Tag #Tarra takes notes

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pinelife3 · 5 years

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Sadness

The treatment of the breaking of the fourth wall in Fleabag is the most compelling thing I’ve seen all year. Throughout the first season, our protagonist Fleabag (played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge who also writes the show) would look at the camera to make witty asides. Usually a sarcastic remark or eye roll to hammer home that she’s sardonic, insincere, perhaps a little underhanded.

You’ve probably noticed how if you’re in a one-on-one conversation, it’s hard to rag on someone but that in a group it works (because you can pretend it’s good natured humour rather than a scathing attack on their very existence). In Fleabag, the breaking of the fourth wall is a way for Fleabag to safely ridicule whoever she’s speaking to. It’s also a succinct way of delivering backstory, revealing her intentions, and getting us on side. These interactions with the fourth wall are pretty standard, see: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Amélie, House of Cards, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shakespearean asides, American Psycho. It’s an accepted device. But then in season two, when Fleabag speaks to us, someone takes notice, someone spots her dipping out of their diegetic reality as she speaks to us in ours.

I thrilled at this.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve seen everything - but I’d never seen this before. This is the most exciting thing I’ve ever seen on a TV show (forget the Red Wedding). This is a masterful trick, and great storytelling all at once - it demolishes a literary device. But most of the coverage of Fleabag has focused on how sad the show is:

People seem to like that: they like being crushed, enjoy being devastated. Why is that?

I’ve recently cried over two cowboy related things: Brokeback Mountain and Red Dead Redemption 2.

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I cried when I finished Red Dead Redemption 2 because I love Arthur Morgan so much: he was just the sweetest guy, and I was sad the story was over because we can’t go fishing anymore, or crash his horse into trees and fall, or fight gators in the swamps, or brush his horse while we cruise around the old west. I just felt so wistful for his life and the idea of bad guys working hard to be good in a changing world.

And then I cried at the end of Brokeback Mountain because it is objectively very sad. The shirts tucked inside each other which Jack kept all those years. The possibility that Jack didn’t know how much Ennis loved him. The life they could have had together, and how much they loved each other - but the families and relationships they destroyed along the way as well, because no one ever said what they felt.

I really liked both Brokeback and Red Dead, because they have great stories and characters. In Red Dead, I have so many fond memories - and for that reason it made me feel strong emotions. But I don’t like Red Dead because it made me feel strong emotions. I don’t like Brokeback because it was ‘crushing’ and/or ‘devastating’ - it was enjoyable because it was a beautiful story with tragic, poignant elements. I like the story - not that it made me cry. Most Fleabag reviews seem to focus on the sadness it made the audience feel as a way to recommend it to people.

Watch Fleabag - it will make you feel something.

Prepare to emote because Fleabag is preternaturally sad.

The discourse around the show on Reddit is similar:

Pffft want to feel really sad? Check out this scene from Synecdoche, New York:

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It’s very moving, kind of irresistibly so. And I think that’s because it’s calling out to that scared, bitter, self-pitying part of you which is always cringing in the shadows, waiting for someone to invite it out of the garage into the living room. This speech is designed to frighten you: you’ll make misssssstakesss and ruin your life. You won’t even know you’re doing it until it’ssssss toooooo late. You might think your life is nice - but that’sssssssssssss only because you haven’t ssssssssssseen how bad it will get. It’s giving you permission to feel bad without providing any reason to feel bad, and then it’s allowing you to wallow in that bad feeling. It’s poison.

I promise you, for 99% of people who watched Synecdoche, New York , life is not that bad. People in horrible, war torn places where they aren’t able to watch Charlie Kaufman films because no one dubs indie movies in Kurdish have it bad - and not just because they’re missing out on great films, but because they essentially live in a sandier version of Hell. Haven’t you ever sat in the sun with a dog and seen it look back at you and felt a perfect connection? Haven’t you ever fallen asleep, perfectly comfortable, tucked in beside someone you love? Haven’t you ever eaten pancakes with ice cream, or seen a huge mountain, or been really cold and then gotten into a warm bath? Haven’t you ever seen a baby fake-crying on the tram and then its mum tickles it under the chin and it laughs, and you see everyone around you smile because babies are so pure? Come on! You’re not Othello. Your life is pretty nice. Even Othello’s life was pretty nice right up until the end.

Pretty nice.

But boring. Right?

Pancakes? Cuddles?

How am I to thrill at sunsets and smiling babies?

Good. Now I’m sad again.

And if the realisation that you don’t have anything to be sad about (except for the ordinariness of the pleasures in your life) didn’t make you sad, check out this compilation of the 10 most depressing moments in Bojack Horseman (ranked in order from least depressing to most depressing!).

A major inconvenience of modern life is that most of us have supremely comfortable, happy, safe lives. And when something goes wrong, you can’t go on a tragic rampage and tear out your own eyes, beat your breast, or wail on the moor in a thunderstorm - even though that may be what you feel like doing.

Work sucks, no one respects me, and I messed up that section of the Excel spreadsheet so maybe they are right to not respect me: take me to a moor where my tears can blend with rain and my howls will be swallowed by the wind!

Ordinary people don’t get to live in a tragedy - and besides, there aren’t as many moors around as literature might have you believe. The most you can do usually is make a scene at a family dinner or isolate yourself at a party and then get drunk and walk home crying. Who would write a sweeping, romantic story about an embarrassing fuck up walking home drunk, feeling sorry for themselves.

Oh.

Wait:

And Now For That 2000 Year Old Mystery

Aristotle’s Poetics is the source of the word catharsis (in italics because it’s Greek which is the way I was taught to do it in high school - if only there were Greecian-alics, am I right?), which in common parlance today basically means any kind of dramatic release of emotions. Kickboxing is cathartic. Getting your eyebrows waxed is cathartic. Crying during an emotional episode of a TV show is cathartic.

Because the word appeared in Poetics, it's original usage related to the theatre, in particular the experience of an audience watching a tragedy: the release of emotions they feel in watching things go seriously wrong for the hero. For this reason, catharsis is often tied to anagnorisis - the moment of tragic realisation.

Oh god I killed my father and married my mother.

Oh god, that’s my son’s head on the pike, not the head of a mountain lion.

Oh god, remember when I messed up that bit of the spreadsheet and everyone knew it was me. Existence truly is pain.

You get the idea. It’s not enough that the protagonist is a fuck up: that matter needs to be brought to their attention and they need to reflect on it.

(A more proper (read: academic) definition of catharsis is: “an imitation of an action ‘with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.’” The emotions the audience feel echo what the people on stage are feeling. The jump scare in a horror movie scares the character on screen and the audience watching at home.)

Aristotle never clearly defined catharsis. So for all this time (2000+ years) people have been trying to infer what he meant from a couple of references to a pretty slippery concept. Even though the general public has their understanding of the word, academics still cannot agree on a definition. But we know what it means, roughly, because we’ve all experienced it.

Over the weekend I watched Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s other other TV show (not Killing Eve) which had an exchange between an artist and a drunk girl on sadness and how it factors into art:

Character 1: He’s my muse!

Character 2: Your muse?

...

Character 2: Like an artist's muse?!

Character 1: Yes, he is! You think meeting someone like Colin happens to artists all the time?! He gives so much.

Character 2: Yeah, sure, and you just lap it up and just slap it on a canvas.

Character 1: Pardon?

Character 2: "His pain is so beautiful." You're using him to indulge yourself.

Character 1: I am indulging? And what is this?

Character 2: This is a $4 bottle of wine.

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Character 2: Sorry if I upset you, Melody.

Character 1: You don't upset me. You bore me. All you seem to want to do is drink and wank and drink and wank.

Character 2: Well, at least I don't have to wank other people's pain onto a canvas, and then shove it in people's faces and call it "my art."

Character 2 in this scene is played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. I can’t be bothered to explain why it’s relevant.

For the eternity of human brains, or at least for as long as preserved creativity, the most comfortable, secure people in the world have tried to experience the things tragic victims feel - perhaps so they can briefly know what it feels like to be a romantic figure struggling in an unjust world. A passport to feelings and drama we aren’t permitted in every day life. Catharsis is the word to express the reaction, but what do we call an audience who seeks out that sensation? Catharsis chasers?

It’s not insightful to say that people like to watch Fast & Furious movies because they’re exciting and perhaps audiences enjoy that excitement because their own lives are un-exciting. But commending a thing because it will make you sad seems aberrant in some way. A fast and dangerous car that will make you miserable. A roller coaster that will make you depressed. An incredible shootout in the streets of LA that will make you sob in the bathroom cubicle at work every time you think about it. I can’t explain the drive, but like Aristotle I will invent a new word, so that academics can never know what I meant but will still write at great length about it, so that it will slip into common parlance and be horribly misused until eventually, 2000 years from now, a girl can waffle on about it on her blog. And the word will be: scartharsio. Or maybe scorpithoniacs? Or sarcastiharsics?

Sadness is entertainment for a scartharsio.

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Four shows are opening on Broadway in March. Two of them are transfers from Off-Broadway that thrilled audiences in very different ways: “Be More Chill” and “What The Constitution Means To Me.” The other two bring to Broadway some beloved tunes — a revival of Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me Kate” and “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations”

But as savvy New York theatergoers know, Broadway ain’t the half of it: For every “Ain’t Too Proud” on Broadway, there’s an “Ain’t No Mo'” Off-Broadway. Among the shows opening Off-Broadway in March:

Daveed Diggs in White Noise by Suzan-Lori Parks (Public Theater)

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks – White Noise

Florian Zeller

Alan Cumming in Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris (Vineyard and the New Group)

Daveed Diggs in “White Noise,” a new play by Suzan-Lori Parks (Top Dog/Underdog); Isabelle Huppert in The Mother, a new play by Florian Zeller (The Father); Alan Cumming in “Daddy,” a new play by Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play.)

Below is a selective list of Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and festival offerings in February, organized chronologically by opening date, with each title linked to a relevant website. Color key of theaters: Broadway: Red. Off Broadway: Black, Blue, or Purple. Off Off Broadway: Green. Theater festival: Orange. Puppetry: Brown. Immersive: Magenta.

To look at the Spring season as a whole, check out my Off Broadway Spring 2019 preview guide and my Broadway 2018-2019 season guide

March 1

Ajijaak on Turtle Island (New Victory)

A “family-friendly First Nations spectacle.” Separated from her family in a Tar Sands fire, the crane Ajijaak makes her first migration from Canada to the Gulf Coast alone, discovering the strength of her song along the way.

Chained: A Victorian Nightmare: (FOST at Starrett-Leigh Building )

An immersive theater VR adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Tickets sold only as an add-on to the FOST (Future of Storytelling) Story Arcade, which is described as a “pop-up, showcasing a… sampling of immersive, experiential, and multi-sensory exhibits.”

March 5

Daddy (Vineyard at Signature)

In the second Off-Broadway play by Jeremy O. Harris (who gained some notoriety with his Slave Play in the fall), Alan Cumming plays Andre, an older white art collector who befriends Franklin, young black artist on the verge of his first show. Their bond creates a battle of wills with Franklin’s mother.

The Cake (MTC at City Center)

In what sounds like a recent Supreme Court case, Debra Jo Rupp portrays a baker in North Carolina who refuses to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The difference — one of the brides is the daughter of a dear friend, now deceased. The play is by Bekah Brunstetter (who writes for the TV series This Is Us.)

March 7

Fleabag (Soho Playhouse)

The play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge that inspired the BBC television series currently being shown on Amazon Prime.

Actually We’re F**ked (Cherry Lane)

In this play by Matt Williams, “four millennials gather every Thursday to order take-out, drink too much wine, and argue over how to unf**k the planet.”

Chick Flick The Musical (Westside Theater)

In this musical by Suzy Conn, four friends gather to unwind, watch a chick flick and play their favorite chick flick drinking game.

Chimpanzee (HERE)

A “non-verbal puppet play based on true events.” An aging, isolated chimpanzee pieces together the fragments of her childhood in a human family

March 10

Be More Chill (Lyceum)

Broadway transfer of the teenage cult musical about high school student Jeremy Heere who sees himself as a loser but then swallows a pill containing a supercomputer and becomes cool — but at what cost?

My review of Be More Chill Off-Broadway

If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka(Playwrights Horizons)

In the village of Affreakah-Amirrorkah, no one questions that Akim is the one true, perfect beauty — not even her jealous classmates. But they’ll be damned before they let her be the leading lady in this story. A decidedly contemporary riff on a West African fable by Tori Sampson

March 11

The Mother (Atlantic)

Isabelle Huppert stars in a play by Florian Zeller (The Father) as a woman suffering from clinical depression and grasping for stability after her grown children move on to build lives of their own.

Southern Promises (Flea)

A revival of Thomas Bradshaw’s incendiary 2008 play: On his deathbed, a plantation owner vows to set his slaves free, but when his wife rejects the request chaos erupts on the plantation.

March 12

Ashes (HERE)

In a small village in the south of Norway, a young man sets houses on fire, and a writer seizes them as literary material several decades later. From Plexus/Polaire, the Norwegian/French avant-garde theater company that in January presented Chambre Noir

March 13

Surely Goodness and Mercy (Keen Company at Theater Row)

In this play by Chisa Hutchinson (“She Like Girls,” “Dead & Breathing”), a Bible-toting boy with a photographic memory befriends the cantankerous old lunch lady in an underfunded public school in Newark.

Hatef**k (WP)

In this play by Rehana Lew Mirza, passions ignite when Layla, an intense literature professor, accuses Imran, a brashly iconoclastic novelist, of trading in anti-Muslim stereotypes. But as their attraction grows into something more, they discover that good sex doesn’t always make good bedfellows.

March 14

Kiss Me Kate (Roundabout at Studio 54)

Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase star as warring ex-lovers forced to portray the warring couple of Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ in this third Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s 1948 musical. The winner of the first-ever Tony Award for Best Musical, the show features such familiar tunes as “Too Darn Hot,” “So In Love” and “Always True To You In My Fashion.”

Georgia Mertching is Dead (EST)

In this play by Catya McMullen, three 30-year-old women who have been friends since high school set off on a road trip south–with homemade female urination devices, too much pie, ill-advised sexual escapades–to celebrate and mourn a figure from their past.

Rogues Gallery (Broken Ghost)

Unleash your inner villain in this fully immersive evening of world conquest and inevitable betrayal!

March 18

Culturemart Festival (HERE)

Cannabis! by Baba Israel, 9000 Paper Balloons by Spencer Lott & Maiko Kikuchi,Songs of Sanctuary for the Black Madonna by Imani Uzuri,A Voluptuary Life by James Scruggs,Paper Room by Laura Peterson

Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse)

Written by John Guare and directed by Jerry Zaks (the pair behind House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation) this new play stars John Larroquette as a New York playwright turned stockbroker revisiting a wild event that happened 35 years ago on that island.

March 19

Juno and the Paycock (Irish Rep)

Part of the theater’s season of Sean O’Casey, the play is a devastating portrait of wasted potential in a Dublin torn apart by the chaos of the Irish Civil War. When a handsome visitor arrives with news of an inheritance, the Boyle family begins to plan their new life, but their apparent salvation soon reveals itself to be the cause of their ruin

March 20

White Noise (Public)

Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) returns Off-Broadway in a new play by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis. Long-time friends and lovers Leo, Misha, Ralph, and Dawn are educated, progressive, cosmopolitan, and woke. But when a racially motivated incident with the cops leaves Leo shaken, he decides extreme measures must be taken for self-preservation

St. Peter’s Foot (UP Theater)

Mike and Roma think they made the right decision in not having children. Then a baby is left on their doorstep

March 21

Aint Too Proud (Imperial)

“Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations” stars Jeremy Pope (Choir Boy) as Eddie Kendricks, Ephraim Sykes as David Ruffin, etc. This new musical with a book by Dominique Morisseau helmed by the director of “Jersey Boys” follows The Temptations’ journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

March 25

Accidentally Brave (DR2 Theater)

Actor and playwright Maddie Corman shares her true story of what happened after her husband was arrested on a shocking charge.

March 27

The Lehman Trilogy (Park Ave Armory)

Italian playwright Stefano Massini’s play, adapted by Ben Power and directed by Sam Mendes (The Ferryman!) stars acclaimed actors Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley, and Ben Miles and the Lehman brothers and their sons and grandsons over nearly two centuries, climaxing with the end of the firm that bore their name in the crash of 2008.

Ain’t No Mo’ (Public)

In this satire by Jordan E. Cooper that began at the Fire This Time Festival, African-Americans leave en masse a country plagued with injustice.

March 31

What The Constitution Means To Me (Helen Hayes)

Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned enough money for her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. Now, the Obie Award winner resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women in her own family and the founding document that dictated their rights and citizenship. My review of the play Off-Broadway

Do You Feel Anger? (Vineyard)

In this play by Mara Nelson-Greenberg , Sophia is hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency

March 2019 New York Theater Openings Four shows are opening on Broadway in March. Two of them are transfers from Off-Broadway that thrilled audiences in very different ways: "Be More Chill" and "What The Constitution Means To Me." The other two bring to Broadway some beloved tunes -- a revival of Cole Porter's "Kiss Me Kate" and "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations"

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The Best Television Shows of 2020 (So Far)

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While there’s been some stellar television worth your time in that span there’s also a number of shows you must avoid.

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Shows to Avoid

“Killing Eve”— Phoebe Waller-Bridge proved her writing chops with, “Crashing,” “Fleabag” and “Killing Eve’s” first two seasons. (She also wrote the screenplay for the…

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How to survive the boredom of corona

So, we’re young, most of us aren’t gonna die from corona, but we might die from the boredom of staying at home by ourselves or the stress of becoming your own teacher/ following up on online classes. These are the things I could come . up with to survive.

1. School and learning

So a lot of universities and schools are closed now and are implementing distant learning. For a lot of university students, online classes are a thing but for me, they just want me to do it myself (aka become my own professor somehow?)

It involves reading texts on my laptop which I find hard because I need to be able to add some kind of structure to my text. For that, I use the extension called Weava Highlighter for Chrome, which allows me to highlight in PDF-documents and on most websites

Another problem I often run into is being distracted by other websites or my phone while trying to focus. For my phone, I use an app called Forest, which I’m sure a lot of people already know, but you can also just use downtime on iPhone, which is already implemented. (I don’t have any knowledge on android devices, sadly). For my laptop, I use StayFocusd to block sites I usually go to to distract myself, which is tricky as I often Google random facts that don’t have anything to do with my classes.

For people who are now at home and don’t have any classes to keep up with, or have some extra time, this is also a great opportunity to learn new things.

You can learn to code with Codecademy

You can watch TedTalks

There are lots of sites that offer great courses, like Khan Academy, Udemy, Skillshare, etc.

Learn a new language using Duolingo

Disclaimer: I haven’t used any of these sites except for Codecademy so don’t come for me if they suck!

2. entertainment

Some of us aren’t allowed to leave the house anymore, but some still are. I’ll divide these things into two categories: first I’ll talk about the ones you do have to leave the house for, next I’ll talk about the ones you can do inside (using materials most people have lying around in their house). To finish off I’ll also do suggestions on things you can watch.

outside

Go for a run. Extra challenge: you’ll have to maintain a distance from everyone on your path.

Buy some hair dye and dye your hair. Who cares if it sucks, you’re mostly stuck at home anyway!

Write your information on a piece of paper and offer your service to older people or people with children who need babysitters. Do it for free!

Go on a walk and take pictures

Disclaimer: When going outside, wash your hands before and after, and if you offer services to elderly people, try to do things you don’t need to be inside for as much as possible, only if they really need help inside the house you should go inside, but groceries, for example, can be dropped off at the door.

Inside

Paint with whatever you can find. If you don’t have paint at home, use that make-up that you never use, food coloring,... be creative and maybe you have a new painting by the end of this!

Try on all of your clothes and clean out your closet. Extra fun if you do this while on FaceTime with your friends.

Open that bottle of wine you’ve been saving for that special occasion and FaceTime with friends or watch a movie (considering you are of legal drinking age!)

Try learning TikTok-dances. Again, fun guaranteed if you do this on FaceTime with friends

Write a story, might I suggest a lockdown situation because of a virus called Covid-19 as the plot.

Read a book

Movies and other recommendations

Completely free:

Starkid musicals: there are 12 in total and they are all uploaded on YouTube. You might know them from the Very Potter Musicals or the ‘I don’t really wanna do the work today’-vine. Darren Criss (Glee and American Crime Story), Devin Lytle (Former Buzzfeed employee) (both were mainly in the older musicals) and Joey Richter (Petey in Jessie, is in almost every Starkid Musical) are also Starkid members. Their musicals are funny and silly but I love them a lot. Disclaimer: their first musical (A Very Potter Musical) was recorded over 10 years ago, so the quality isn’t the best. Also they use a lot of explicit language...

Brat TV is a YouTube channel that has shows with young actors (read Dance Moms kids, TikTokkers, etc.) which they upload on YouTube. Younger kids seem to enjoy it a lot, but when I watch it, I watch it to laugh at how bad it actually is.

Your local broadcasters might have free to watch shows that you maybe haven’t seen before. In my country, I was able to watch the first season of Killing Eve through the public broadcasting company.

Netflix:

Watching new things on Netflix can be kinda hard, so here are some suggestions of shows you might’ve missed

Crash landing on you: What can I say, it’s Korean, I wasn’t really sure at first but once I got into it I couldn’t stop. It has 16 episodes that usually last over an hour.

Inception: I thought everyone knew this movie but apparently lots of people don’t. It’s cool, watch it.

I actually don’t have more. There isn’t that much content on Netflix that is actually good and people haven’t already heard about.

Other platforms, I don’t even know where bc I watched these illegally:

Modern love: 6 episodes, each a different story about love.

Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge is really funny, and in this one, which she wrote herself, she plays an unnamed character who goes through some shit. Especially season 2 is wild.

Into the wild: emotional story based on the experiences of Chris McCandless. Yes, this story really happened... You’re gonna cry.

Radius: I can’t explain this one without revealing the plot. Just watch it.

What Happened to Monday: 7 kids are born in a world with a 1 kid-policy so naturally they are all named after one day and take the identity of one person

And if you’re really, really bored, might I suggest watching movies that just look like they’re gonna be bad, and they are bad and you just have a fun time laughing at how bad they are lol.

Good luck! Stay safe! Wash your hands!

#coronavirus #corona #covid19 #quarantine #lockdown

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These are the TV gifts that keep on giving

Amount, not high quality, has positively been the title of the sport on TV this 12 months. Forgettable exhibits disappear like objects seen in a rearview mirror, giving the collection — and performers — that actually stand out a particular luster. In case you haven’t caught up but with these collection, give your self an early Christmas current. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) The autumn season has been a serviceable lineup of medical and authorized dramas that will get the timid networks by yet another 12 months of programming. The streaming companies, in the meantime, have bestowed upon us their equally predictable lineup of dystopian dramas that includes movie stars in the hunt for new horizons. However the present everybody has been ready for is lastly again subsequent weekend: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” A preview of Season 2’s first 5 episodes reveals that none of the rapid-fire repartee, grit or sophistication has been squandered in the race for achievement. One elegant bonus: the collection options two episodes set in Paris as Abe Weissman (Tony Shalhoub) leaves his traditional six on Riverside Drive to win again his sad spouse (Marin Hinkle). And so they actually went to Paris, not Toronto. As creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino hint Midge’s evolution, we see their heroine interact in a fragile balancing act, honoring the traditions of her tradition whereas secretly perfecting her act as a gate-crashing standup comedian. [embedded content] “Killing Eve” (BBC America) No restricted collection this 12 months has been as intelligent, smooth or suspenseful. Now out there on demand on AMC, the present, developed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge from a collection of novellas by Luke Jennings, incorporates a pair of completely matched performances from “Gray’s Anatomy” vet Sandra Oh as an bold MI5 agent who turns into obsessive about catching an murderer she is aware of solely as Villanelle (newcomer Jodie Comer as the enigmatic, glamorous — and humorous — killer). As Eve tracks Villanelle throughout Europe and into Russia, the two girls keep you guessing which one is the hunter and which one is the sport. [embedded content] “A Very English Scandal” (Amazon) “A Very English Scandal” did the not possible. It took a real story that unfolded over 14 years and boiled it right down to a crackling three episodes with out sacrificing historical past, element or leisure worth. Hugh Grant earned rave opinions as Jeremy Thorpe, a closeted MP whose fears about the revelation of his affair with Norman Josiffe (scene-stealer Ben Whishaw) drove him to rent somebody to have the cheeky secure boy murdered. [embedded content] “This Is Us” (NBC) At the finish of its second season, “This Is Us” previewed a storyline about Jack Pearson’s (Milo Ventimiglia) Vietnam years. Having simply seen the collection lastly inform us how Jack actually died, one other flashback didn’t appear promising. However we didn’t know that creator Dan Fogelman was bringing novelist Tim O’Brien, whose e-book “The Issues We Carried” is a blistering chronicle based mostly on his struggle experiences, on board to co-write these episodes. And now the NBC drama has its finest storyline in a really very long time as Jack searches for his brother Nicky (Michael Anganaro) in Vietnam and tries to deliver him house from the struggle. [embedded content] Lisa Emery, “Ozark” (Netflix) Now that Aunt Lydia has been sidelined on “The Handmaid’s Story,” we discovered a brand new villain to root for in Darlene Snell. Equally adept at blowing the head off drug cartel kingpin Del (Esai Morales) for calling her a redneck and poisoning her personal husband, Jacob (Peter Mullan), Darlene proves she is scary, fearless and decided to not give her energy — or land — to smarmy cash launderer Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) and his smug spouse, Wendy (Laura Linney). Share this: https://nypost.com/2018/11/23/these-are-the-tv-gifts-that-keep-on-giving/ The post These are the TV gifts that keep on giving appeared first on My style by Kartia. https://www.kartiavelino.com/2018/11/these-are-the-tv-gifts-that-keep-on-giving.html

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