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Scenery in True Detective

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The first time I found you a bit cute (❀❛ ֊ ❛„)♡

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FILM AND TV OF YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW!

↳ day 5: nostalgia

ATONEMENT (2007) dir. Joe Wright

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You don't believe in curses? No, I don't. I believe if I can see it and I can touch it, it's real. That's what I believe. Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan THE MUMMY (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

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I thought that line was hysterical. Even without the transition..I just love when Shawn's so confident about his, you know, his background or his lack of thereafter. Yeah you know the trailer park.  But we haven't had it for a while, you know? It's been a while since we've had, like, all of fourth season was like trailer park Shawn, and like right. Proud of his poverty. And we haven't seen that. So it was cool to see like, ah, that attitude come out. It's funny. -Rider

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Yeah. I would totally do this like this. This was something that Ben and I would've had so much fun with. Yeah. But I don't actually specifically remember this one, you know. But yeah, this all feels of a piece of like, oh, this is my acting relationship with Ben is that we could do this with our eyes closed, you know? Yeah. I knew exactly how he was gonna say it every time. And. it was always just, yeah. It was so fun. -Rider 

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But also, Cory stayed up all night to get her tickets for this thing he's already done the demonstration of even if I'm not into this thing, I support you. And it's like, so it's completely under, like, she doesn't need to test his ability to read a painting. That's not why she likes him and that, but that should be the point. Right. It should be that Topanga says, here's another type of guy who's more like me in some ways. But I've always been with Cory, who's actually very different from me. And, and you know, just have that conversation. Which is a healthy conversation to have. You can have, you can be in love with somebody and Yep. Have very different taste in music, movies, paintings. And look all that stuff, like the idea that you would see... -Rider 

By the way. I actually truly love the idea of a character having so much confidence in not only himself but his relationship. That he says, I don't care if no one else is with me. I know without a shadow of a doubt what we have is real. And if it's three months, six months, four years, six years, we're gonna end up together and she can go and date any random artist she wants. At the end of the day, what she's gonna realize is that no human being will ever love her or take care of her or know her or be there for her the way I will. -Danielle 

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Trina is unbelievable. She's great. Every time she opens her mouth, I was like, thank God. Like somebody's talking like a human being. Somebody's getting laughs. Somebody has character and perspective is reacting to things. -Rider

I I wanna say about Trina And, it was what I was thinking. I was watching And. it is such a backhanded egotistical compliment for myself. It sounds ridiculous how I'm gonna say it, but every time she ca it was like she was the breath of fresh air that Eric usually brings. So she would come on snd it was just like, just like you said Rider. It was like, oh, okay.  Like someone grounded in reality. Who's actually part of the world and, and she was so good. -Will

The standout highlight of this episode  In every single moment. I couldn't agree more. Hands down the best. -Danielle

All the funny, all the energy. I was like oh, Trina's doing so work here. She does it every time. I was like, yes. I really hope that they give because I like, I, I feel like up until now they have not given Trina like this much to do. Like, she doesn't get to drive a scene. She doesn't get to drive the comedy. She's always reactive. She's always kind of eye rolling at Shawn or Cory, or whatever. And when they give her this it's great. Oh, you, you are a great sitcom actor. And I don't think she got many opportunities even for the rest of the show. But this one was fantastic. I was like, yes. Oh my god. -Rider 

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But I did love, I liked this scene in that I was just like, nice to see Shawn and Angela together and like the dynamic between.. And. it was like, oh, Shawn's actually listening to her and like, I thought it was, I was like, cool. That's like, it was just nice to see, it's been awhile... I'm just yelling and angry, but I still just, I don't know. It was just nice to see Shawn in a scene with his girlfriend. -Rider 

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And I remember this scene, and I remember being told exactly how it should be paced and that this, this is exactly the way it was supposed to be. That there weren't supposed to be pauses. That somehow us not listening to each other and talking over each other is some sign of deep profound love or whatever. And I'm watching it now and it's not correct.  it's just not. It's not, it's not right...it seems phony. It seemed forced. It's not romantic. We're not listening to each other. There's nothing about this that makes me say, wow, look at these two together. This is what I've been wanting. And, it's a shame. -Danielle 

It's, it's just hard to root for Cory Topanga. That's my know, that's the biggest problem for me. It's like the show so obvious. They wants me to root for them. And I do want to, like, I will, I think the idea of like tracking a adolescent relationship to towards marriage, like if we accept that, that's the, like, there's a version of that that could be really cool, you know? And, and very meaningful. I mean, I think about like, when I watched Wonder Years before we did Boy, like, that relationship felt like, oh, it, it felt like all the ways that I felt about my, you know, feelings when I was a little kid and or a teenager. Like, so there's a, I think taking teenage relationships impor seriously is so cool as a concept. But this is, it's just one step too far. It's, it's, you know, it's, it's didactic. It's telling you what's important. And it. And it's so heady. It's so over intellectualized. It's so debated. It's, it, it just doesn't actually make sense. And it's, it's unfortunate. -Rider

And, but for the record, the kind of, as awful as it was, the joy of it was Kevin and Winnie didn't end up together. -Will

Well, that's the point, right? -Rider

Yeah. That was the point. -Will

You cherish those relationships and those feelings. But you grow up and by growing up you learn that you can't just pick somebody and you're not destined. And that those feelings of destiny don't actually mean that, you know? But in this case, like, yeah, it's, yeah. -Rider 

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From (2022–) 1x03 "Choosing Day"

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Hannah Cheramy as Julie Matthews FROM, 3x09 "Revelations: Chapter 1"

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From (2022–) 1x03 "Choosing Day"

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