#Emily Rios

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Emily Rios

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The Winning Season (2009) Jim Strouse

January 28th 2024

[cantsayidont]

SNOWFALL (2017–2023): Engrossing if often heavy-handed FX crime drama, co-created by John Singleton (with Eric Amadio and Dave Andron): a fictionalized account of how a CIA operation to fund anticommunist Contra death squads in Nicaragua in the 1980s sparked the crack cocaine trade in the U.S., focusing on a bright young Black man named Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), who becomes L.A.'s (fictional) first crack kingpin in increasingly uneasy partnership with twitchy, dweebish white CIA officer Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), who will do almost anything to keep the money and guns flowing, with ultimately ruinous consequences for all concerned.

As with any serialized drama lasting six seasons, the pacing is uneven and some plot threads get dropped without resolution, and like Singleton's early films, it can't resist periodically veering into contrivance-laden melodrama (although it's at least less strident than BOYZ N THE HOOD or HIGHER LEARNING). However, it's consistently interesting, anchored by some very strong performances — particularly Idris and Angela Lewis, as Franklin's aunt Lou — and its '80s setting is more convincingly realized than many recent period pieces, with a few nods to the life of Singleton himself, who was a teenager in South L.A. at the time the story takes place. Probably its biggest flaw is that its Latinx characters, even the ongoing ones, are rarely allowed to rise above stereotype (and the most complex Latina character, played by Emily Rios, departs after Season 2), although nearly all the Black characters, who are centered throughout, are refreshingly three-dimensional.

CONTAINS LESBIANS? Franklin's Aunt Lou — one of the show's best characters — is bisexual, and in the early seasons has a difficult, on-again-off-again relationship with a ruthless lesbian club owner (Judith Scott). VERDICT: Doesn't quite live up to its more grandiose ambitions, and the unnecessarily protracted, relentlessly downbeat finale leaves a sour taste, but it's still among the best shows of its genre: BREAKING BAD without the blorbofication, THE WIRE without the paternalistic cop apologism. Note that the final season needs CWs for threats of sexual violence, which are pretty rough.

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for The Brave and the Bold, i nominated Benjamin Bratt as Commissioner Jim Gordon, James Purefoy as Alfred Pennyworth, Giancarlo Esposito or Harold Perrineau as Lucius Fox, Cole Hauser as Harvey Bullock, Amy Ryan as Sarah Essen, Domhnall Gleeson as Jason Bard, Leslie Odom Jr. as Crispus Allen, Emily Rios as Renee Montoya, James Ransone as Jack Ryder and Hassie Harrison as Silver St. Cloud.

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True Detective (2014- ) tv series

-(finished) watchin' Season 2- 11/16/2023- 2 [1/2] stars- on Max

[elizabeth-stone]

i audibly GASPED THIS IS TOO GOOD

[gameofthunder66]

-(started) watchin' Season 1- 8/3/2023- on Max

True Detective S1E1 The Long Bright Dark

What should I bring for dinner?

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Agatha All Along / Because I could not stop for Death — Emily Dickinson

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[siderains]

“dads and daughters, you think any of them ever really get it right?”

(yasmin belkhyr, “Interlude with forgotten myth, or, portrait of ibrahim’s daughter,” alongside with the panel from “dawn of x”/picture of an aurora borealis/paragraph of one of kafka’s letters to his father/quote from “last days of magneto” with the artwork of briony marshall called “peaceful embrace”/quote from “wuthering heights” by emily brönte/quote from poem “the angry daughter” by janelles locket with a panel of “house of m”/quote from the book “ghost of my ghosts” by sol rios/quote from “x factor”/panel from “the trial of magneto”)

[laanswife]

Why are thirsty posts about fictional older women the most popular on Tumbr? 🤔😉

[holyblanchett]

Ok.. can I just say as someone who has survived through so many years of queerbaiting with Swanqueen, rizzles and jemily. To finally have a ship that is canon and being represented properly. Like is this fr?? What do you mean this isn't in my head??

I legit trust Jac Schaeffer with my life. Mother has been keeping us FED since Wandavision.

[aubreyplazawife]

Rewatching Dickinson and imagining Aubrey Plaza playing death

[ssaemhotchner]

What am i doing? Oh! Losing my mind over women old enough to be my mother, what about you??