WHAT THE FUCK????
CLOSE ENOUGH?? INFINITY TRAIN?? OK KO???
MAO MAO HAD A CONFIRMED SEASON 2 FOR YEARS AND AFTER ALL THAT SILENCE WE GET THIS???
SUMMER CAMP ISLAND HAS A WHOLE LAST SEASON READY TO GO???? LIKE:
EXCUSE ME????
Update: They're gone.
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I'm going to be honest- as HBO War shows go, I find The Pacific very difficult to watch, just due to the sheer open racism at play and the brutality of the pacific plane of the war. It's obviously very accurate to what occurred, but it's also just such a demonstration of the worst of what humanity has to offer, you have to be in the right mental space to watch it.
At the same time, I think it has some of the best character work in all of the HBO War/ Apple TV universe. Sometimes I just think of that one scene where John Basilone, this big ladies' man and war hero, just looks at the future Lena Basilone, by all measures a "spinster" by her age and so independent and capable she unintentionally isolated herself from those around her, and he just looks at her after calling her beautiful, just like he'd probably called countless women before her, and basically says semi-jokingly. "I bet you get that all the time."
And she looks at him, in her uniform, with her rank prominent, her hard work evident, and you can see her almost choke up. Because even if she was beautiful, or was pretty, women like Lena Basilone don't get told they're beautiful. Because they're always been the capable one. Or the smart one. Or the practical one. And we get the feeling she has accepted that she's not seen that way. Or will never be seen that way. But this man, who she poked a hole in his ego of any chance she got, sees her that way. Not in spite of her competence, but in tandem with it.
And then she smiles through the lump in her throat, and she simply says, "No- I don't get that often." Not pitying. Just a fact. That she most likely thought she'd come to terms with the fact that she'd never met a man who could accept all of her. And John looks at her like he can't believe that no one else has seen what he sees in all these years. And it's just SUCH good character work, it literally kills me.
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Kieran Culkin on Roman's ability to understand "the game" and how that intersects with his love of his family. (x)
The below make the same point but comes with a hurt tummy reference and therefore needed to be included. (x)
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