The wardrobe department did a good job demonstrating the girls' distinct personalities with the way they are styling their own outfits.
Especially with Gail: she always dresses young, the ripped jeans and pink belt, but unfashionably (she doesn't care about being trendy). It's a fun visual way of demonstrating her simultaneous immaturity and desire to be thought of as cool.
In contrast, Dee is nearly always very put-together and neat, especially in later seasons, showing the carefully constructed facade she puts on.
Artemis just looks good (she always does) because she doesn't have the insecurities of the gang and is happy with who she is.
The waitress always has interesting styling because her style has probably changed the most over the years. This fits with the idea that the gang merely sees her as 'the waitress' - an unchanging, dull constant in their lives, but the audience can see that she is always changing and experiencing her own life away from the gang.
The wardrobe department really shines on Always Sunny - they do an amazing job at demonstrating character through clothing. Maybe this is partly because, unlike some shows, they don't have the barrier that the characters need to look attractive to the audience. They are allowed to look cartoonish and ridiculous.
Like, imagine Hugh Honey and Vic Vinegar without the iconic yellow suits and stripes ties!
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Wow they actually found a way to do the Mortgage Crisis episode and barely address any of it, let alone the Vic Vinegar and Hugh Honey gayness of it all. Hahaha. And we were out here confidently saying there's NO way, it's just too important and gay and iconic to the fans. But where there's a will, I guess.
I guess we learnt that this was written back in season 4 and held back until season 5. That was new information. I can find positives.
Speaking of, they did actually talk about the live show, which I wouldn't have bet on. Glenn really stuck it to the dudebros who don't know what "healthy communication" or "friends for 22 years" looks like.
Charlie had some interesting personal stories about meeting famous people. "Just so you know, I'm a person of value" lmao. Taylor Swift is a Sunny fan?!
Megan and Glenn tried to bring it back to the episode a couple of times and Megan even pointed out honey and vinegar specifically. I would've understood if they were just too tired to analyze the show because they're clearly under a time crunch for S16, but fucking Rob went out of his way to be a buzzkill today.
Sorry, I'm usually very willing to give them all the benefit of the doubt and then some because they're all people with shit going on, but Robert just pissed me off today. He constantly brings up Mythic Quest and now Wrexham when he should be talking about THIS show. THIS episode. He's allowed to not like things, Charlie frequently did in earlier seasons, but wow, you can still talk about the episode or at the very least, not interrupt the others when they're talking about it!
Anyway, at least Glenn called him out and said he was dead wrong about this episode. The show really needs all three of them to work.
I'm disappointed after a long break and dropped shit to listen to this as soon as it came out because I was so excited, so I'm still hot about this whole thing and it makes me want to say mean things, mostly about Rob and his neediness, that I might regret later so this is probably a good time to stop.
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“I don’t remember ever not thinking I was going to be an actor,” says Cush Jumbo. We’re meeting to talk about her new role in Shakespeare’s legendary psychological drama, Macbeth, in which she will star opposite David Tennant. Has she always wanted to act, I ask? “This is just what I do – I’m not that good at anything else.”
When it comes to Jumbo, “good” is an understatement. The star of The Good Wife has played many formidable stage roles, appearing in Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking, all-female version of Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse in 2012, She Stoops to Conquer in the same year at the Olivier Theatre, and opposite Hugh Jackman in The River on Broadway – to name a few. A personal favourite for me was her star turn as the titular role in Hamlet at the Young Vic two years ago, which stopped me in my tracks.
But it was when Jumbo decided to not just act but create – writing and starring in Josephine and I, a play about the jazz sensation, political activist and international icon Josephine Baker, in 2015 – that she garnered real, critical acclaim. Josephine and I catapulted Jumbo towards scoring the iconic, whip-smart female role she has now undertaken: Lady Macbeth.
Despite being offered the role several times, Jumbo didn’t feel the set-up was right – until now. “One of the biggest things I’ve learnt over the last 10 years is: don’t play opposite a man, if you’re not sure whether that man is going to mess with your mental health,” she tells me. But the right timing, the safety net of acting opposite Tennant (a close friend) and the vision of director Max Webster has been a magic combination, giving her the confidence to take on this venerated role.
In this production, Webster has chosen to put the marriage at the centre. “He believes Macbeth is a play about a couple suffering with psychosis after losing a child,” says Jumbo. In order to create a sense of intimacy, the production employs the use of headphones, through which the audience experiences binaural technology that creates an intense and unnerving 3D sound world. I’m excited to see how this technique might help to amplify the sense of inner monologue that Shakespeare is so good at creating.
Lady Macbeth and Jumbo are alike in one sense, at least: they both want to be heard. You could call this serendipity, but Jumbo thinks of it more as destiny: “It’s quite amazing how the universe gives you things when you need them,” she says. Jumbo’s ambition with her performance is to change perspectives of this much-maligned anti-heroine. “Her name has been dragged through the mud,” she explains. “If she were male, she would’ve been seen as a flawed hero.” She’s determined to give Lady Macbeth’s character new meaning, and to prove her as one of Shakespeare’s smartest creations.
Jumbo is looking forward to a busy period, Macbeth aside. She has demonstrated her entrepreneurial spirit with Criminal Record, an eight-episode crime thriller that she pitched, co-executively produced and will star in, which will debut on Apple TV+ in January 2024. It’s an exciting time for the actor – and there’s no doubt that, both on stage and screen, Jumbo is one to watch.'
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