#you know like the american one with the female watson whats it called.........elementary

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Lucy Liu is chuckling quietly on the other end of the phone line as she muses over the question inspired by the title of her new series, Why Women Kill.

"I don't think every woman could be pissed off enough to actually become a killer," the 51-year-old actor says, referring to the SBS series about three women living in different decades who must each decide how to deal with infidelity. "But does it make you think about the times where you've been really angry at someone – like, what it would take? Maybe."

She adds with another giggle, "Obviously I've never gone to that extent, but I've had many opportunities in my career to carry out death sentences. So I guess you could say, for good or bad, I've been able to get it out of my system somewhat!"

Lucy – who recently wrapped a seven-season stint as Dr Joan Watson to Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock Holmes in the modern-day TV revamp Elementary (2012-19) – is talking to Sunday Life from her New York City apartment, where she's been busy trying to keep her four-year-old son Rockwell amused during the city-wide COVID-19 stay-at-home order.

"New York is usually vibrant, because it's a walking city, but now everyone is wearing masks and avoiding each other," she laments. "It's difficult because Rockwell likes to be moving around all the time. It's just impossible to have him not put things in his mouth when I turn my back!"

Why Women Kill is creator Marc Cherry's latest series to showcase a female ensemble. He started out in 1990 as a writer and producer on the The Golden Girls and its short-lived spin-off, The Golden Palace. He also co-created the female-driven sitcom, The 5 Mrs Buchanans, went on to create the Golden Globe-winning series Desperate Housewives, and followed that up with Devious Maid.

Why Women Kill is a 10-part series detailing the lives of three women living in the same California home over three eras: Beth Ann (Ginnifer Goodwin), a '60s housewife; Simone (Lucy Liu), an '80s socialite; and Taylor (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), a present-day lawyer. There's bisexuality, open marriage, adultery, a closeted spouse, an overdose, a front-yard brawl and a choking incident involving meatloaf – and that's just the first episode!

Ultimately, the show examines how the roles of women may have changed through the decades, but their reaction to betrayal remains the same.

The actor had just wrapped Elementary when Cherry called to pitch her the character. "He said he really had Simone in mind for me, then he walked me through the actual storyline," she recalls. "It definitely changed a little bit from what we talked about at the start, but during the writing we got to know each other more and I felt like he had a great way of telling a story.

"I also loved the idea of Simone living in the '80s with the hair and shoulder pads, and what the relationship to the cheating is for each character, as it has an unexpected ending."

The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, Lucy was raised in the Jackson Heights neighbourhood of Queens, in New York City, and initially planned to pursue a degree in Asian languages and culture at the University of Michigan.

But she also secretly dreamed of becoming an actor, studying old Charlie Chan movies, and finally raised the nerve to audition for a supporting role in a college production of Alice in Wonderland in her final year.

Lucy was astonished when she landed the lead role, and it was all the encouragement she needed. As soon as she graduated, she broke the news to her parents that, despite her freshly inked college degree, she was moving to LA to become an actor.

After appearing in a string of TV shows including E.R. (1995, three episodes) and Ally McBeal (1998-2002, 79 episodes), she landed film roles in Charlie's Angels (2000), Chicago (2002) and Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003).

Lucy looks back and sees her young self as more guileless than driven, hardly the Asian trailblazer breaking stereotypes in Hollywood that she's become.

"I think I was just too naive and didn't know what was ahead of me or what I was going to be up against," she admits. "I had some idea when I got to LA, because a friend of mine would have 10 auditions in a day or a week and I would have maybe two or three in a month, so I knew it was going to be much more limited for me.

"But then I got really lucky with a few jobs, which put me in rooms for auditions where I looked like no other woman in the room. I thought, ‘I don't even understand why I'm here, but I'm going to give it my all.'

"I think when you are somewhat the black sheep, you don't really have anything to lose, because they are not necessarily looking for you. So you may as well go for it!"

Some reviewers have compared Why Women Kill's catty Simone to uber-bitch Alexis Carrington (Joan Collins) in the iconic '80s soap opera Dynasty. "I didn't really watch Dynasty because I couldn't relate to it as a child of immigrant parents, and I didn't understand that kind of wealth and the claws coming out to scratch you," says Lucy.

"But as you go on in life, you start to understand a little bit more what that pop culture was. When I started doing Charlie's Angels and went back to that era to see the representation of those women at that time, I realised they weren't just all kitschy, but they were also incredibly smart and sexy."

As friendly and accessible as Lucy is, she's also full of pride when asked about her son. Has she used some of their isolation time to introduce him to her voice work as Viper in the animated Kung Fu Panda films? Definitely not, the protective mum replies. "He doesn't know what I do. All he thinks is that I'm an artist and I'm a mommy – and that's enough for now."

Rockwell was born in 2015 via gestational surrogate after Lucy made the decision to become a single parent. "Elementary was the longest job I ever had and it gave me the ability to stay in one place, because we were syndicated and we knew we were going to be making a certain number of shows," she explains.

"So that was also the impetus for me to think, ‘Maybe I can have a family of my own.' It wasn't like I was making bad decisions before that, but I had made the choice to prioritise my career. Then, one day, I just felt like it wasn't enough. I didn't want to look back in 30 years and realise I was still having the same conversations about my job every day. I wanted more."

Lucy gets emotional while talking about how motherhood has changed her. "It's almost become this cellular feeling of connecting to the universe in a way where you understand the idea of the cycle of life and the responsibility of having another being who is a part of you but outside of yourself. It's a very different feeling to doing a project where you know you will finish and move on. This is a life-long decision that changes your life and prioritises things in a very positive way."

Given how candidly she has spoken about going it alone as a parent, it's surprising how little she's volunteered about her personal life. She explains it is all by design: she has never spoken publicly about her relationships, although online stories have flagged a handful of boyfriends, including a three-year relationship with actor Will McCormack that ended in 2008, and a relationship with Israeli-American shoe tycoon Noam Gottesman in 2010.

"I've always been very private and I fly under the radar as much as possible," she says. "I do that in a very specific manner. I don't bring people I'm dating to any public event because it's a big responsibility that I'm not sure anyone wants.

"Your work is your legacy and you want to be able to do more each time, and change so you can continue to have some kind of value," says Lucy, who has also been a producer and director. "You don't want people thinking of you as just someone who dated someone and getting distracted from your work."

For now it seems Lucy Liu's legacy is doing just fine, thank you.Lucy gets emotional while talking about how motherhood has changed her. "It's almost become this cellular feeling of connecting to the universe in a way where you understand the idea of the cycle of life and the responsibility of having another being who is a part of you but outside of yourself. It's a very different feeling to doing a project where you know you will finish and move on. This is a life-long decision that changes your life and prioritises things in a very positive way."Given how candidly she has spoken about going it alone as a parent, it's surprising how little she's volunteered about her personal life. She explains it is all by design: she has never spoken publicly about her relationships, although online stories have flagged a handful of boyfriends, including a three-year relationship with actor Will McCormack that ended in 2008, and a relationship with Israeli-American shoe tycoon Noam Gottesman in 2010."I've always been very private and I fly under the radar as much as possible," she says. "I do that in a very specific manner. I don't bring people I'm dating to any public event because it's a big responsibility that I'm not sure anyone wants."Your work is your legacy and you want to be able to do more each time, and change so you can continue to have some kind of value," says Lucy, who has also been a producer and director. "You don't want people thinking of you as just someone who dated someone and getting distracted from your work."For now it seems Lucy Liu's legacy is doing just fine, thank you.

#Lucy Liu #Sydney Morning Herald #interview #why women kill #Charlie's Angels #dating #motherhood #legacy #July 4 2020

[sincerelydayyy]

82 for the sarcasm prompt list, any character you want and Sherlock!

“There’s someone for everyone, and the person for you is a psychiatrist.” 

so I had to rewrite this because of a tech problem that was partially my own fault, oops. 

I chose to go outside of the BBC sherlock for the other character(s) just because I’ve been doing a bunch of crossovers lately, so hey enjoy some ElementaryLock - Joan and Holmes are the two I chose but now typing this I can totally see my fave Detective Bell doing something like this. 

note: I’m super behind on Elementary mostly cause I don’t watch tv live all that much anymore so I didn’t keep up past somewhere in s3 so this is just me messing around a bit. Also, first Elementary-esque fic so hope you like it!

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Sherlock Holmes was fairly certain he was hallucinating. There couldn’t be two of him in the same place. It just didn’t seem logical at all. If the identification card he was holding of the man sitting in front of him - one of two people in the room other than him - wasn’t a forgery then perhaps he was simply on something.

He didn’t recall taking anything. In fact, he had been on a case for a grueling two weeks. A thought occurred to him with that thought in mind. He had to be sleep deprived - or asleep, something that he hadn’t forced himself to do in at least seventy-two hours. 

Yes. That had to be it. 

This whole bizarre situation was much too vivid for a dream. Yet, he planned to treat it as such until something changed. 

“Where are we?” He decided to ask as he passed over the ID back to its owner; the other Holmes. 

“New York.” The man replied simply. He couldn’t tell what accent he was sporting but Sherlock didn’t think it sounded very American at all. He was dressed very relaxed in a button up shirt and corduroy pants, no shoes he noticed with a second more focused gaze. 

He definitely hadn’t taken a trip to America in the last two days. Dreaming, surely. 

“Problem?” Called the woman to his immediate left who was dressed to impress. 

“Who are you?” He asked instead wanting to get an answer that might give him more information on the situation at hand. 

“Joan Watson. A detective on most days, a former surgeon.”

A second Watson now?

Why would he dream that up? The one he had made very unsettlingly decisions but that was neither here nor there. There was also the added bonus that this one was female and quite attractive. It was almost distracting.

“Not possible.” He stated mostly to himself than the two alternative versions of himself and his best friend. They were different. Vastly so. 

“There is definitely a problem here, Watson.” The other Holmes changed from being bored almost listless to suddenly very intrigued by Sherlock. 

Sherlock looked down at himself and had to admit he was a state. Hair a mess, clothes ruffled and not pressed by any working iron. Was he sweating? Sick?

“What? There is no problem.” He insisted. He was in denial.

“Why don’t you tell us what you’re struggling with and maybe we can aid you, Sherlock?” This Joan person said to him.

He was tired, that was the only reason he basically laid out his whole past month to these two strangers who were definitely from an opposite parallel universe where he resided in America. 

The other Holmes looked amused by the end of it. “There’s someone for everyone, and the person for you is a psychiatrist.”

“I’ve been to those before. So unhelpful.”

Joan Watson laughed. “Sounds familiar?” She was talking to her counterpart and not Sherlock but he reacted by the sudden change in her demeanor upon noticing it. “Before you can go any further with this pathologist woman you have to sort your own life out. You’ve been through a lot and you can’t just expect things to go back to the way it was just because you were used to it. If you love her, deal with yourself first.”

“Of course I do. You’re in my head, by the way.”

“Then that tells you more than anything else we could tell you, Holmes.” The other Sherlock told him flippantly before retrieving his phone out of his pocket. He was bored again. 

He was felt something cool on his face. It took much longer than it should have for him to come out of that dream or conversation or whatever that was. 

He instinctively reached out for the hand that was retreating from around his head where a cool compress had been applied and shook him awake. He met a familiar set of brown eyes. She looked tired.

He wasn’t sure what to say but he let go of her hand. She just sighed. “You’re going to work yourself into a grave, you know that?” 

It was nice to know she cared even if he didn’t give her a lot of reasons to be here - in her own living room by the looks of it - taking care of him. 

“What’s wrong with me?” He mumbled quietly.

“Do you want an honest answer?” She rolled her eyes, hands resting on her hips. She was in pajamas. 

He was tempted to be sarcastic. But, he wasn’t feeling that great. His body was on fire. “Medically, Molly.”

“Like I said, you’re going to work yourself to death. This case is taking a lot out of you. You need rest like the rest of us, Sherlock Holmes.”

“How did I get here?”

She gave him a look. “You called me. When I didn’t answer your best friend called me thinking you were dying and not wanting to deal with you. So you’ve been on my couch for three days in a feverish fit. You kept mumbling weird shit.”

“Hope didn’t inconvenience you too much, Molly. I’m sure I can deal with getting better on my own.” He tried to get up.

She pushed him back down. “I’ve been fielding calls with your parents who expressed deep frustration with you so no. We’re stuck in this mess until you’re at 100%.”

“Sorry. They can be a bit much.”

Molly snorted. “Not really. Your mum is a sweetheart, your dad is pretty quiet. They just want you to take care of yourself like you’re supposed to. They didn’t give me a lot of information but I’m assuming it involves whatever happened with your sister that involved that phone call.”

“She was threatening you.” He finally told her. 

Molly sat on the arm of the sofa above his head, placing her hands in her lap. “Yeah. I’m not an idiot.” 

She didn’t sound upset just tired. 

As much as it annoyed him to even think, those other versions of himself and John might have been right. “Can we set this conversation for a later date? It might surprise you to know I’m still sorting through all of this and working a case.”

“The case has been solved.” She paused as she looked down at him. “But, yes. I’m not in the mood to go through all of that again. Postpone it as long as you need.”

“I would prefer to tell you what I’ve been trying to for the past month now but as you noticed I’m not well and you wouldn’t believe me.”

“You’d be surprised.” She said quietly. 

He didn’t know how to respond to that or the fact that she was moving his hair out of his face. Her hands like the compress felt good against his skin. He didn’t move. Or say a word. 

Silently though he regarded her statement. 

You’re always surprising me, Molly. 

I kinda like the second rewrite. I hadn’t exactly planned that Sherlolly part. It was just going to end with him waking up and seeing Molly looking after him. I still like it a lot. 

Feel free to let me know how you felt about it too?

#sherlock #joan watson #sherlolly #elementarylock #homeboy is definitely not used to being sick #day's fics #prompt fill #noregretsnotearsnoanxieties #asks

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Elementary (that Sherlock Holmes adaptation on CBS)

I thought I’d give my opinion so far of the CBS show, Elementary, since @jeremyholmes was curious and @tremendousdetectivetheorist has considered watching it sometime. I figured there might be others who are curious and whatnot, so I’ll make this a review-type post.

I might mention, for those who didn’t see my latest tag game post, that I just started a few days ago, and I’ve only seen through the 14th episode of season one, so my own opinion doesn’t really stretch very far I guess x3 We’ll see how this goes :D (There should be little to no spoilers here, but just in case here’s a warning: there may/ may not be spoilers :) )

I’ll be honest right now, to start with: the last year or so I’ve kind of stayed away from the show because a female Watson just, for some reason, seemed strange to me. I wasn’t sure how to feel about it. Which is pretty weird now that I think about it, because when the show first started in 2012 the only thing stopping me from watching it was time, school, and friends. ANYWAY I shouldn’t have judged like that so soon without watching it; it’s not all that different from other adaptations, except Watson is a woman named Joan.

I also was a little surprised because, I don’t know why, but I was at least half expecting it to just be… I guess just an American Sherlock, just based on the fact that it took place in New York. That’s what I get for assuming xD In other words, the accent took me off guard for like a solid second. Little spoiler There’s a part in an episode in which Sherlock has a fake New York-ish accent for a phone call, and it was pretty great.

So a bit of a synopsis of the show itself: it starts with Sherlock living in New York after moving out of London due to a drug habit that basically ended his reputation with Scotland Yard. He goes through a rehab and, thanks to his practically out-of-the-picture father, he gets a “sobriety companion”, i.e., Joan Watson. In the beginning, it’s strictly business: Joan was just there to make sure Sherlock didn’t use drugs again and to drug test him now and then. But after a few of the episodes, their relationship transitioned (rather smoothly, in my opinion) into that natural Holmes/Watson relationship. It doesn’t seem to be turning into a super romantic show, though (like I thought it might); it’s just the two of them in an apartment, and they have some pretty natural arguments and whatnot. So far as I am at the moment, though, they are friends. They solve cases together and get to know each other- sort of (as much as Sherlock will allow xD ).

One particular thing I found kind of interesting about the show is that Sherlock gets calls from a Captain Gregson of NYPD. I just thought it was a little neat because I haven’t seen a show/ movie that had a Gregson character. So Captain Gregson calls up Sherlock for help on cases, and sometimes a character named Detective Bell calls Sherlock as well.

This next little bit should be considered a spoiler; if you’d like, you can skip to the next blank space Irene Adler is brought up in conversation a number of times round the middle-ish of season one. She was a past love of Sherlock at some point while he was still in London, but she ended up dying a year and a half before the show’s storyline starts.

The actors aren’t bad looking either (I mean, have you seen Jonny Lee Miller (Holmes) and Lucy Liu (Watson)? They’re both gorgeous :D – in my opinion, anyway x3 )

I can’t really come up with one favorite thing about the show. I just really like all of it :3 If I had to choose, I think my very favorite part of it is the general adaptations of Holmes’s and Watson’s characters, both on the writer’s part and the actors’. Miller’s Sherlock is eccentric and brilliant (and amusing); Liu’s Watson is gentle with the victims’ families and others who are effected by whatever the case may be, and she gets on Sherlock sometimes but you know she cares and she wants him to be in a good place in life.

I think that’s bout it :D In conclusion, Elementary is currently my favorite TV show

#elementary #cbs #review #ish #a lot of my opinion #jonny lee miller #lucy liu #i love this show #even though i'm barely halfway through the first season xd #oh well #about 10 episodes to go to s2 #this post got really long #sorry ^^;

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50 questions you’ve never been asked tag

Soooo.... some anon send me the link to this, but didn’t specify which ones they wanted me to answer 😣 So I did them all. This took me a long ass time and in some questions I had to fucking question myself and rethink the meaning of life lol dramaaaaaaaa

1. What’s your favorite candle scent? Vanilla  2. What female celebrity do you wish was your sister? Emma Watson, I find her an amazing and inspirational woman at practically al levels :) 3. What male celebrity do you wish was your brother? Tbh any BTS member 😂 4. How old do you think you’ll be when you get married? IDK omg I gotta go to Korea and end my degree lol  5. Do you know a hoarder? Nope 6. Can you do a split? Yup 7. How old were you when you learned how to ride a bike? Like 6 or so 8. How many oceans have you swam in? None lol only the Mediterranean Sea 9. How many countries have you been to? 3 (GB, Spain and Italy) 10. Is anyone in your family in the army? Nop 11. What would you name your daughter if you had one? Ona (Its a Catalan name it means Wave lol) or Nova and I love the Japanese name Mayu and the Korean name HaNi lol 12. What would you name your son if you had one? Uhmm... Idk and I'm too tired to think rn 😂 sorry anon 13. What’s the worst grade you got on a test? Lol a 2 😂 I gotta say that I had like 2h of sleep for the past 4 days and I was like LITTERAL SHIT lol 14. What was your favorite TV show when you were a child? Detective Conan and I’m still watching it 15. What did you dress up as on Halloween when you were eight? OMG I ASKED MY MUM I WAS FUCKING RAMBO !!! 😂😂😂 16. Have you read any of the Harry Potter, Hunger Games or Twilight series? All of them. Harry Potter my fav 17. Would you rather have an American accent or a British accent? I’m self teacher English and ppl say I have an American accent and I love it :) 18. Did your mother go to college? Yup 19. Are your grandparents still married? Yup 20. Have you ever taken karate lessons? Nop 21. Do you know who Kermit the frog is? Duh 22. What’s the first amusement park you’ve been to? Portaventura (Its famous in Catalonia) 23. What language, besides your native language, would you like to be fluent in? KOREAAAAAN!!  24. Do you spell the color as grey or gray? grey 25. Is your father bald? Nope,  26. Do you know triplets? There were triplets in my elementary school class 27. Do you prefer Titanic or The Notebook? uh... they’re not rlly man style but Titanic 28. Have you ever had Indian food? Yup, love it  29. What’s the name of your favorite restaurant? Subway looool 30. Have you ever been to Olive Garden? Nop 31. Do you belong to any warehouse stores (Costco, BJ’s, etc.)? Nop 32. What would your parents have named you if you were the opposite gender? Roger  33. If you have a nickname, what is it? My name has a rlly strong R in the middle so some of my non Catalan/spanish friends have a hard time pronouncing it so they call me Catt or simply “K” 34. Who’s your favorite person in the world? Not just one, my parents, family, lil sister, bffs  35. Would you rather live in a rural area or in the suburbs? I live in a EXTREMLY rural area so I'd like to try the suburbs 36. Can you whistle? Yes 37. Do you sleep with a nightlight? Nope 38. Do you eat breakfast every morning? Nop 39. Do you take any pills or medication daily? No that I know lol 👀 40. What medical conditions do you have? None but I prone to Laryngitis 41. How many times have you been to the hospital? A couple (for the shit up there) 42. Have you ever seen Finding Nemo? YES 43. Where do you buy your jeans? Lefties, Forever 21... 44. What’s the last compliment you got? “U look less shitty today, smthg good happened?” I love my best friend 😂 45. Do you usually remember your dreams in the morning? No, never 46. What flavor tea do you enjoy? Earl Grey, vanilla, black tea... I LOVE TEA 47. How many pairs of shoes do you currently own? 2 (timbs and Adidas superstar) I'm a basic bitch 48. What religion will you raise your children to practice? None, I'm not religious and I think that they should have the right to decide what they want to believe in :) 49. How old were you when you found out that Santa wasn’t real? In Catalonia we have the “3 magic Kings from Orient” lol but they do the exact same thing, and I was like 10  50. Why do you have a youtube?  To watch BTS and Kpop vids (mvs, cracks, funny moments ...) and vine compilations now that vine is dead 😂

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#question tag #answers for anon #omg #sooooo long