#Rhys Dunham

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Dungeons & Dragons fancast

Directed and written by Dean DeBlois

Produced by Steve Starkey

and Jack Rapke

Produced and written by Roger Avary

Edited by John Refoua

Cinematography by Jonathan Sela

Music by John Powell

and Hans Zimmer

For the production companies, there would be

and

Distributed by

Charlie Hunnam as the Barbarian

Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey as the Bard

John Rhys-Davies as the Cleric

Orlando Bloom as the Druid

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as the Fighter

Sofia Boutella as the Monk

Gerard Butler as the Paladin

Liu Yifei as the Ranger

Charlize Theron as the Rogue

Rami Malek as the Sorcerer

Olivia Cheng as the Warlock

Djimon Hounsou as the Wizard

Melissa McCarthy as the Artificer

Benedict Cumberbatch as the Blood Hunter

Warwick Davis as Dungeon Master

Charles Dance as Vecna

Manu Bennett as Orcus

Richard Armitage as Asmodeus

Mads Mikkelsen as the evil Mage

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Girls (2012-2017), created by Lena Dunham

Director of Photography: Tim Ives

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The 10 Best TV Episodes of 2017: ‘Girls’

When 2017 lies dead and buried in the ground, "Separate the art from the artist" will be chiseled on its tombstone. But what will we find in the grave?

If it's the idea that creators are shielded from scrutiny by the strength of their creations, then goodbye and good riddance. For too long, sexual predators in entertainment and media triple-axled their way across the thin ice of "open secrets," their safety ensured by power. (Why, one of these men even became president!) The crack, the splash and the final desperate glug-glug-glugs were long overdue.

If we're lucky, though, this year of revelation and reckoning will force a deeper reexamination of our desire to see artists and their art as identical, because that dull blade of interpretation cuts both ways. Like a bizarro Louis C.K., whose professional accolades protected his personal reputation, Lena Dunham is a multi-hyphenate auteur whose detractors see her history of poor attempts to address urgent issues offscreen and take it that her art is similarly inept. The best way to argue against this clumsy conflation is by example – and "American Bitch" is as good an example as it gets. The third episode of Girls' sixth and final season, what's arguably the series' finest (half-)hour attacks the creator/creation dichotomy with funny, frightening ferocity. This parable about abusive artists doubles as case for its own artist's singular skill as an observer of moral failure ... including her own.

I wrote an essay about Girls’ “American Bitch” for Rolling Stone. This is just the first in a series of deep dives by the usual murderers’ row of RS writers. Stay tuned!

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Just as the philosophical question asks, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”; if a series is on and no one watches it, does it exists?”  This is my question about HBO Max’s GENERA+ION. 

Seven out of eight episodes have aired and hardly anyone talks about this show. Is it because GENERATION is stylized as “Genera+ion” so people assumed it would be obnoxious? Is it because it’s executive produced by Lena Dunham? Is it because it’s perceived as the poor cousin of EUPHORIA? Okay, there’s something to that, actually. But I really have enjoyed GENERA+ION. 

It was sold as an edgy drama but it’s more like SKINS with a heavy dose of DEGRASSI.  The teens (Justice Smith, Lukita Maxwell, Hayley Sanchez, Chloe East, Nathanya Alexander, Chase Sui Wonders, Sydney Mae Diaz and Uly Schlesinger) of HBO’s EUPHORIA and WE ARE WHO WE ARE are world-weary and angst ridden while the teens on this show have their fair share of teen angst, but more than anything they’re - for the most part - joy-filled knuckledheads as they navigate life. 

- Another group of teens dealing with mad drama are the teens of Netflix’s THE IRREGULARS.

If you ever thought, “Know what’s missing from the Sherlock Holmes universe? Orphans.” - then this show is for you.  Set in Victorian London, THE IRREGULARS focuses on four orphans: Bea (Thaddea Graham), her younger sister Jessie (Darci Shaw) and their friends Spike (McKell Davis) and Bill (Jojo Mancari) as they live a hard-scrabbled life with nothing but each other....that is until John Watson (Royce Pierreson) seeks out Bea’s help on a case. Bea and her friends, with an assist from the mysterious Leopold (Harrison Osterfield), The Irregulars realize there are dark forces at play and a growing threat to London. 

I liked the show but the last three hours were a chore to get through. It became truly ponderous, but I stuck with it because the back half of the series is where they get more into the Sherlock Holmes’ bits (played here by Henry Lloyd-Hughes as a Holmes who is decidely *not* a functional drug addict.)

(Lloyd-Hughes has a Sherlock connection: his grandmother’s godfather was Peter Cushing who played Sherlock in the Sixties’ series)

Very strong cast and I liked the characterizations of John Watson who has - at least in the incarnations I’ve seen - been the genteel sidekick with a bit of bite, whereas Watson in THE IRREGULARS is a rude, opportunistic bastard whose genius is a near match to Holmes. 

And it’s nice seeing Tom Holland’s former man-servant best friend with a starring role. 

Good on ya, Harrison.

I’m sure a quick Google search can find the answer, but I am sure the same casting director/s behind Epix’s PENNYWORTH is behind this series. I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that it has two of Pennyworth’s villains playing characters of dubious natures (Alfred Hogg who is the S2 baddie of PENNYWORTH features of Osterfield’s valet; and Jonjo O’Neill plays devious occultist Aleister Crowley in S1 & S2 of PENNYWORTH and plays a slightly less egotistical Mycroft Holmes in this). 

O’Neill is no stranger to Sherlock Holmes.  He recently ended his four-year relationship with Amanda Abbington, former partner of Martin Freeman and SHERLOCK’S Mary. 

It’s a good watch - a tad dense towards the end, but I would just zone out thinking that somewhere in the UK is a lab where someone mixed a bit of Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Rhys-Harries and Jamie Campbell Bower to make Jojo Mancari. 

Who I remember from being the guy who gave Agyness Deyn that work on HARD SUN

Speaking of HARD SUN, Deyn’s costar Jim Sturgess can be soon seen in series 2 of Apple+’s HOME BEFORE DARK which bows June 11th.

If you’ve not watched this great show, it’s inspired by the real life youngest investigative journalist Hilde Lysiak. Brooklynn Prince (THE FLORIDA PROJECT) plays Hilde, an investigative journalist who learned the trade at the knee of her father Matthew (Sturgess).  When Matthew is let go from the paper he was employed by, he moves his family to his hometown. Quickly Hilde discovers a decades long mystery and sets to solve it. Series two will further explore the mystery and the ramifications of what Hilde uncovers. 

I love this father/daughter duo.

- Unlike the three above series, APPLE+’s CALLS did not have to shut down production due to Covid-19.

Based on Canal+’s series based on the same name and created by Timothée Hochet, the U.S. version is from Hochet and writer/director Fede Alvarez (DON’T BREATHE, THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB) and features a bevy of actors (Pedro Pascal, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Karen Gillian, Nicholas Braun,  Aubrey Plaza, Lily Collins, Jaeden Martell and more) lending their voices to stories of the paranormal. 

I thought this would be a perfect show for me because it’s all voice-work so I could do other things, but no, I sat there staring at the screen reading the captions atop Windows Media visualizer background of the series.

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[cinematic-literature]

Girls S06E03 (American Bitch)

Book title

Rabbit at Rest (1990) by John Updike

The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) by John le Carré

Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller

Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Zuckerman Unbound (1981) and Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth

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Queer Me Awards // Click Managament Team.

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The Bryan Awards - The Best of the Last Decade (The 2010s)

With only two weeks left in the decade, I took a thorough look back at the last ten Bryan Awards (with the last nine of them being recorded as annual podcasts for WCRS FM), and picked the Best of the Best since the 2010 Bryan Awards (or programs that aired since January 1, 2010, and airing up until the cut-off for this September’s Bryan Awards, which was May 31, which would eliminate the likes of Mrs. Fletcher, Season 2 of Big Little Lies, plus newbies like On Becoming A God in Central Florida, Perfect Harmony, the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, and this week’s A Christmas Carol).

Here are the Guidelines Chosen for both this and the Silver Garbage Awards Worst of the Decade: - Eligibility Period is January 1, 2010 to May 31, 2019. - Glee is being entered for New Series of the Decade, because it won the 2010 Bryan Award in that race, despite it debuted in 2009. - Younger Acting will be merged through the genres: Daytime, Comedy, Drama, and Limited Series.  And if an actor turned 26 doesn't really matter, as long as 50% of their nominations were before they were 26. - Big Little Lies (Season 1), Orange Is the New Black, and Downton Abbey are Dramas.  Shameless is a Comedy.  True Detective is a Longform, as is American Horror Story, and ALL seasons will be lumped into one for Anthology Stories. - Sherlock and Sharknado are being entered for ALL of their movies, ditto for Black Mirror episodes, in the Longform races. - There will be separate Lead and Supporting Acting races for Comedy and Drama Bryan Awards, but NOT for Silver Garbage. Apologies for the Length of this Post, but without further ado...

COMEDY SERIES of the DECADE: Barry (HBO) The Big Bang Theory (CBS) black-ish (ABC) Girls (HBO) Glee (Fox) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Modern Family (ABC) Parks and Recreation (NBC) Transparent (Amazon Prime) Veep (HBO)

DRAMA SERIES of the DECADE: The Americans (F/X) Breaking Bad (AMC) Downton Abbey (PBS) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Good Wife (CBS) The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) Homeland (Showtime) Mad Men (AMC) Stranger Things (Netflix) This Is Us (NBC)

LIMITED SERIES, TV MOVIE, or SPECIAL of the DECADE: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (F/X) Behind the Candelabra (HBO) Chernobyl (HBO) Fosse/Verdon (F/X) Game Change (HBO) Mildred Pierce (HBO) The Normal Heart (HBO) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) The People Versus O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (F/X) Temple Grandin (HBO)

DAYTIME SOAP OF THE DECADE: All My Children (ABC/TOLN) As the World Turns (CBS) The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Days of Our Lives (NBC) General Hospital (ABC) One Life to Live (ABC/TOLN) The Young and the Restless (CBS) 

VARIETY or TALK SHOW of the DECADE: The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Syndicated) Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central) Key & Peele (Comedy Central) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) Saturday Night Live (NBC) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) New Series of the Decade: Glee (Fox; 2010 Winner) Boardwalk Empire (HBO; 2011 Winner) Homeland (Showtime; 2012 Winner) The Newsroom (HBO; 2013 Winner) Masters of Sex (Showtime; 2014 Winner) black-ish (ABC; 2015 Winner) Casual (Hulu; 2016 Winner) This Is Us (2017 Winner) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime; 2018 Winner) Succession (HBO; 2019 Winner)

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series of the Decade: Anthony Anderson - black-ish (ABC) Aziz Ansari - Master of None (Netflix) Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock (NBC) Don Cheadle - Black Monday & House of Lies (both Showtime) Johnny Galecki - The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Donald Glover - Atlanta (F/X) Bill Hader - Barry (HBO) William H. Macy - Shameless (Showtime) Matt LeBlanc - Episodes (Showtime) Jim Parsons - The Big Bang Theory (CBS)

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series of the Decade: Kristen Bell - The Good Place (NBC) & House of Lies (Showtime) Rachel Bloom - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) Rachel Brosnahan - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Zooey Deschanel - New Girl (Fox) Lena Dunham - Girls (HBO) Edie Falco - Nurse Jackie (Showtime) Allison Janney - Mom (CBS) Ellie Kemper - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Veep (HBO) Amy Poehler - Parks and Recreation (NBC) 

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series of the Decade: Louie Anderson - Baskets (F/X) Alec Baldwin - Saturday Night Live (NBC) Tituss Burgess - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Ty Burrell - Modern Family (ABC) Adam Driver - Girls (HBO) Tony Hale - Veep (HBO) Ed O’Neill - Modern Family (ABC) Tony Shalhoub - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Eric Stonestreet - Modern Family (ABC)

Henry Winkler - Barry (HBO) Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series of the Decade: Alex Borstein - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Julie Bowen - Modern Family (ABC) Anna Chlumsky - Veep (HBO) Jane Krakowski - 30 Rock (NBC) & Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Jane Lynch - Glee (Fox) Kate McKinnon - Saturday Night Live (NBC) Kathleen Rose Perkins - Episodes (Showtime) Sofia Vergara - Modern Family (ABC) Betty White - Hot in Cleveland (TV Land) Kristen Wiig - Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Lead Actor in a Drama Series of the Decade: Sterling K. Brown - This Is Us (NBC) Steve Buscemi - Boardwalk Empire (HBO) Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad (AMC) Jeff Daniels - The Newsroom (HBO) Jon Hamm - Mad Men (AMC) Rami Malek - Mr. Robot (USA) Bob Odenkirk - Better Call Saul (AMC) Billy Porter - Pose (F/X) Matthew Rhys - The Americans (F/X) Milo Ventimiglia - This Is Us (NBC)

Lead Actress in a Drama Series of the Decade: Claire Danes - Homeland (Showtime) Viola Davis - How to Get Away With Murder (ABC) Michelle Dockery - Downton Abbey (PBS) Claire Foy - The Crown (Netflix) Nicole Kidman - Big Little Lies (HBO) Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife (CBS) Elisabeth Moss - The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) & Mad Men (AMC) Keri Russell - The Americans (F/X) Kerry Washington - Scandal (ABC) Robin Wright - House of Cards (Netflix) 

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series of the Decade: Jonathan Banks - Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad (both AMC) Jim Carter - Downton Abbey (PBS) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Game of Thrones (HBO) Alan Cumming - The Good Wife (CBS) Peter Dinklage - Game of Thrones (HBO) David Harbour - Stranger Things (Netflix) John Lithgow - The Crown (Netflix) Mandy Patinkin - Homeland (Showtime) Aaron Paul - Breaking Bad (AMC) John Slattery - Mad Men (AMC) 

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series of the Decade: Uzo Aduba - Orange Is The New Black (Netflix) Christine Baranski - The Good Wife (CBS) Alexis Bledel - The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) Laura Dern - Big Little Lies (HBO) Anna Gunn - Breaking Bad (AMC) Lena Headey - Game of Thrones (HBO) Christina Hendricks - Mad Men (AMC) Thandie Newton - Westworld (HBO) Monica Potter - Parenthood (NBC) Dame Maggie Smith - Downton Abbey (PBS)

Lead Actor in a Limited Series, Movie, or TV Special of the Decade: Darren Criss - The Assassination of Gianni Versace (F/X) Benedict Cumberbatch - Parade’s End, Patrick Melrose, and Sherlock (HBO/Showtime/BBC America) Michael Douglas - Behind the Candelabra (HBO) Jared Harris - Chernobyl (HBO) Richard Jenkins - Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Matthew McConaughey - True Detective (HBO) Sam Rockwell - Fosse/Verdon (F/X) Mark Ruffalo - The Normal Heart (HBO) Billy Bob Thornton - Fargo (F/X) Courtney B. Vance - The People versus O.J. Simpson (F/X) 

Lead Actress in a Limited Series, Movie, or TV Special of the Decade: Amy Adams - Sharp Objects (HBO)

Claire Danes - Temple Grandin (HBO) Kirsten Dunst - Fargo (F/X) Nicole Kidman - Hemingway & Gellhorn (HBO) Jessica Lange - American Horror Story & Feud: Bette vs. Joan (both F/X) Frances McDormand - Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Julianne Moore - Game Change (HBO) Sarah Paulson - American Horror Story & The People versus O.J. Simpson (both F/X) Michelle Williams - Fosse/Verdon (F/X) Kate Winslet - Mildred Pierce (HBO) 

Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, Movie, or TV Special of the Decade: Matthew Bomer - The Normal Heart (HBO) Sterling K. Brown - The People versus O.J. Simpson (F/X) Martin Freeman - Sherlock (BBC America) Ed Harris - Game Change (HBO) Guy Pearce - Mildred Pierce (HBO) Jesse Plemons - Fargo (F/X) Edgar Ramirez - The Assassination of Gianni Versace (F/X) David Thewlis - Fargo (F/X) Ben Whishaw - A Very English Scandal (Amazon Prime) Bokeem Woodbine - Fargo (F/X) 

Supporting Actress in a Limited Series, Movie, or TV Special of the Decade: Patricia Arquette - The Act (Hulu) Angela Bassett - American Horror Story (F/X) Kathy Bates - American Horror Story (F/X) Patricia Clarkson - Sharp Objects (HBO) Regina King - American Crime (ABC) Melissa Leo - All the Way & Mildred Pierce (both HBO) Julia Ormond - Temple Grandin (HBO) Julia Roberts - The Normal Heart (HBO) Allison Tolman - Fargo (F/X) Evan Rachel Wood - Mildred Pierce (HBO)

Lead Actor in Daytime of the Decade: Maurice Benard - General Hospital (ABC) Peter Bergman - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Scott Clifton - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Doug Davidson - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Billy Flynn - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Anthony Geary - General Hospital (ABC) Christian LeBlanc - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Billy Miller - General Hospital (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) James Scott - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Jason Thompson - General Hospital (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS)

Lead Actress in Daytime of the Decade: Eileen Davidson - Days of Our Lives (NBC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Susan Flannery - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Nancy Lee Grahn - General Hospital (ABC) Katherine Kelly Lang - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Debbi Morgan - All My Children (ABC) Gina Tognoni - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Heather Tom - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Maura West - As the World Turns (CBS) & General Hospital (ABC) Laura Wright - General Hospital (ABC) Colleen Zenk - As the World Turns (CBS)

Supporting Actor in Daytime of the Decade: Darin Brooks - The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Steve Burton - General Hospital (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Trent Dawson - As the World Turns (CBS) Chad Duell - General Hospital (ABC) Jonathan Jackson - General Hospital (ABC) Bryton James - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Eric Martsolf - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Greg Rikaart - Days of Our Lives (NBC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Greg Vaughan - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Jacob Young - All My Children (ABC) & The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS) Supporting Actress in Daytime of the Decade: Julie Marie Berman - General Hospital (ABC) Jessica Collins - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Melissa Claire Egan - All My Children (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Jane Elliot - General Hospital (ABC) Genie Francis - General Hospital (ABC) & The Young and the Restless (CBS) Amelia Heinle - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Elizabeth Hendrickson - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Michelle Stafford - General Hospital (ABC) Kirsten Storms - General Hospital (ABC) Arianne Zucker - Days of Our Lives (NBC) 

Younger Actor in a Series, Limited Series, or Daytime Soap of the Decade: Max Burkholder - Parenthood (NBC) Chris Colfer - Glee (Fox) Bryan Craig - General Hospital (ABC) Freddie Highmore - Bates Motel (A&E) Connor Jessup - American Crime (ABC) Chandler Massey - Days of Our Lives (NBC) Cameron Monaghan - Shameless (Showtime) Rico Rodriguez - Modern Family (ABC) Marcus Scribner - black-ish (ABC) Jeremy Allen White - Shameless (Showtime)

Younger Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Daytime Soap of the Decade: Kristen Alderson - General Hospital & One Life to Live (both ABC) Tara Lynne Barr - Casual (Hulu) Millie Bobby Brown - Stranger Things (Netflix) Hunter King - The Young and the Restless (CBS) Yara Shahidi - black-ish (ABC) Kiernan Shipka - Mad Men (AMC) Holly Taylor - The Americans (F/X) Sophie Turner - Game of Thrones (HBO) Mae Whitman - Parenthood (NBC) Maisie Williams - Game of Thrones (HBO) 

Talk/Variety Show Host of the Decade: Samantha Bee - Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS) Stephen Colbert - The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) and The Late Show… (CBS) Jimmy Fallon - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon & The Tonight Show… (both NBC) Chelsea Handler - Chelsea Lately (E!) John Oliver - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Dr. Mehmet Oz - The Dr. Oz Show (Syndicated) Amy Schumer - Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central) Jon Stewart - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)  The Hosts of The Talk (CBS) The Hosts of The View (ABC) Game/Reality Host of the Decade: Ted Allen - Chopped (Food Network) RuPaul Charles - RuPaul’s Drag Race (Logo/VH1) Carson Daly - The Voice (NBC) Steve Harvey - Family Feud (Syndicated) Phil Keoghan - The Amazing Race (CBS) Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn - Project Runway (Lifetime) Jane Lynch - Hollywood Game Night (NBC) Jeff Probst - Survivor (CBS) Ryan Seacrest - American Idol (ABC & Fox) Alex Trebek - Jeopardy (Syndicated)

Ensemble of the Decade: As the World Turns (CBS) Big Little Lies (HBO) Downton Abbey (PBS) General Hospital (ABC) Mad Men (AMC) Modern Family (ABC) The Normal Heart (HBO) The People versus O.J. Simpson (F/X) Saturday Night Live (NBC) This is Us (NBC) 

Episode of the Decade:

The Americans - “START” (F/X)

As the World Turns - “# 13,858” (CBS)

Breaking Bad - “Felina” (AMC)

Game of Thrones - “The Battle of the Bastards” (HBO)

Game of Thrones - “Mother’s Mercy” (HBO)

Glee - “The Quarterback” (Fox)

Mad Men - “Person to Person” (AMC)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - “Pilot” (Amazon Prime)

Saturday Night Live - “Betty White/Jay-Z” (NBC)

South Park - The “Black Friday” Trilogy (Comedy Central)

Sports Moment of the Decade:

American Pharoah Wins The Triple Crown (NBC)

The Big Comeback: The Atlanta Falcons blow a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl LI (Fox)

The Cubs Win The World Series - 2016 World Series (Fox)

The Fierce Five - U.S. Women’s Gymnastics, 2012 Summer Olympics (NBC)

Maximum Security Gets Disqualified from the Kentucky Derby (NBC)

Promise Fulfilled: The Cavs Win the 2016 NBA Finals (ABC)

The Shot ‘18: Michigan Beats Houston at the Buzzer - NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament (TNT)

Spotgate: Barrett Was Short - “The Game: Michigan at Ohio State” (ABC)

Team USA Women Win the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup (Fox)

Undisputed: Ohio State Wins the College Football Playoff (ESPN)  

[quotesarethenextbestthing]

“Is this fiction?” -Hannah Horvath

“Is anything fiction?” -Chuck Palmer

6x3 “American Bitch”

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“American Bitch”.

   Okay, so I was literally stepping my foot into my bed when my friend texts me like, “you really, really, need to watch the last episode of Girls”. Happens to be the same friend that recommended me to watch the whole show in the first place, “it's totally your kind of show”, she told me (which led me to wonder if she saw me somehow projected in Hannah Horvard's character, which of course scared me to death). However, I then proceeded to watch the whole Girls thing, which I literally did in one and a half week, but didn't feel the show was making such an impact on me, nor was I astonished or, as most people, fascinated about it. I somehow didn't see it as such a feminist show as it is claimed to be and I didn't feel I was laughing that much with it.

  Nevertheless, the fact that I could watch five or six episodes in a row, made me realise I was actually starting to really enjoy the show. I was debating about it with friends, and it was really making me re-consider and re-think stuff I would normally not think about so much.

  However, as my friend predicted, this last episode totally overwhelmed me for the way it addresses such a difficult topic as consent is and totally changed my opinion of how the show works.

  I find it's never easy to talk about consent, to begin with because no one does, so it's difficult to know where to start, what point to make or which could be the best way to make an impact about it in people's minds. The magnificence of this episode (“American Bitch”, the third episode of what will be the last season of Girls, its sixth one) is precisely the way in which it addresses the delicate issue that consent represents and how it manages to make such a point that rests for a while in the spectator's mind and will surely create him or her an internal debate about it.

  I find it to be an absolute masterpiece. It consists of half an hour of basically just two characters, a man and a woman. The woman and main character of the show, Hannah, is invited to a famous novelist's home, Chuck Palmer, whom she has totally dissed in a “niche feminist blog”, because he has allegedly had not-that-really-consented-sex with a few college girls who have told their stories about him on “something called Tumblr, without an e”, as he himself claims. From the very first moment of the episode, you can tell it's going to be absolutely wonderful, when he goes: “How exactly does one give a non-consensual blowjob?”. Like, that phrase is absolutely BRILLIANT because, can't you not picture so many men wondering that? Like, how exactly does one do that? And he says it all calmly, like there’s nothing THAT bad about him wondering that because, really, how the fuck does one do that? Well, unfortunately, it happens, it has happened and it will continue happening because it's not that difficult (“it would be something very chokey…”, Hannah answers). But there you have the very first important point that the episode makes about consent: How are you to believe all these girls that claim to have been forced into having sex with someone when it's really not that easy and of course not that possible, physically speaking? Starting from there, all these kind of testimonies are easy to be doubted because, really, this sort of situations are much more difficult to happen that one might think. Or at least that's what lots of men seem to think.

  The brilliance of all of it comes when you actually start kind of liking the guy. He has a point, he of course is not the kind of guy who would force anyone into sex with him and he even makes Hannah begin to wonder if maybe she has been too harsh on him, dissing him in such a way before knowing the details of the stories. He's an interesting guy, they have an actual intellectual debate about the topic and you really not hate the guy at all (until you cannot like him anymore at the end of the episode). The thing is, he is a NORMAL guy, he is not a terrible monster that eats human being's fingers as chips with his steak. He's totally not the type of guy who would force anyone into having sex with him. He's totally not that type of guy. He's just not that guy.

  This part, where the viewer will totally start to like him, is so interesting, as one thought may also be evoked: he's not that kind of guy, BECAUSE HE DOESN'T NEED TO BE THAT KIND OF GUY. I mean, it's impossible for him to have any difficulties to fuck with any girl so, why would he force anyone? He has so many admirers over the globe, so many of them are so willing to go back with him to his hotel that, really, why on earth would he ever force anyone into sex? He doesn't need to! I find this idea to be so essential: no one needs to be that kind of guy to actually BE that kind of guy, also, because non-consented sexual relations have sometimes such subtle aspects that not always consist at all of some rude big man physically forcing a petite woman into doing things she would never want to, because power relationships have so many times so much to do in these non-consented situations, which is precisely one of the points that this episode so perfectly addresses and communicates to those watching it.

  However, the absolute magic of the episode comes when, just at the point when you are totally liking the guy at your most and indeed Hannah is also liking him after all and sharing with him views about Philip Roth, he asks Hannah to lie down with him “just to feel close to someone”. And Hannah does it, I think because she just doesn't find reasons at that point not to, although it's clear it feels weird to her. And, all of a sudden, here it comes, he takes out his penis. Just like that. Takes out his penis, puts it on top of Hannah's thigh, without saying a word. And Hannah, walking that thin line that separates consent from what is not consent, grabs it. She just grabs his penis, not even in a sexual way (there's in fact nothing that sexual about the scene, but there's no need to). She grabs it, just for a moment. She quickly stands up, freaking out, not understanding what the fuck has just happened or how it did happen. And there he is, with an indescribable expression that goes between satisfaction and a huge feeling of power, that kind of power only a penis can give you and, therefore, that kind of power only a man can feel. He really hasn't forced Hannah to grab his penis, but she absolutely hasn't done something she wanted to voluntarily do. And he has gotten no sexual pleasure from it, but just that feeling of superiority that clearly makes him feel so good about himself, and that allows him to then go to listen to his daughter play some flute, in the astonished company of Hannah, who can't believe that such a creepy and indecent guy can take out his penis, without anyone asking him to, and then five minutes later play the role of the father of the day so naturally.

  Not to mention of course, the final scene, where a multitude of girls keep entering his building, representing those many girls that aren't actually so lucky to escape sexual assault.

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OK, June 17

Cover: Kate Middleton pregnant again

Page 2: Contents 

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Page 6: Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi marriage in crisis 

Page 8: Lamar Odom comes clean 

Page 9: Sofia Richie acts like a robot who has been programmed to follow Scott Disick’s every command and she barely sees her family anymore, Allison Williams and Lena Dunham went their separate ways after Girls ended and have barely said a word to each other since, Daniel Craig’s injured ankle is just the latest bump in the rocky James Bond production

Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet -- shades of blue at the Cannes AMFAR Gala -- Natasha Poly, Rebel Wilson, Stella Maxwell 

Page 11: Cindy Bruna, Nina Dobrev 

Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Martha Hunt vs. Camille Rowe, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands vs. Gisele Bundchen, Izabel Goulart vs. Kate Beckinsale 

Page 14: News in Photos -- Miley Cyrus 

Page 15: Tom Holland, Matt Damon 

Page 16: Reese Witherspoon 

Page 18: Maya Henry, Kelly Rowland and Sinqua Wallis and Connie Orlando, Jamie Kennedy 

Page 20: Hilary Duff, Logan Browning and Allison Williams 

Page 21: Rihanna, Vanessa Lachey and daughter Brooklyn, Snoop Dogg 

Page 22: Keep It Moving -- Lisa Rinna, Serena Williams 

Page 23: Rachel McCord 

Page 24: John Stamos is selling his bachelor pad 

Page 26: Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn to get married around the Fourth of July at her Rhode Island estate 

Page 27: Kristen Stewart and Stella Maxwell are exes with benefits which Sara Dinkin tries to turn a blind eye to, Keri Russell will put her career on hold while Matthew Rhys films a TV show in L.A. for 6 months and she’s not happy about it, Baby Boom -- Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham welcomed a daughter, Jessa and Ben Seewald welcomed their third child, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jionni Lavalle welcome their third child 

Page 30: Cover Story -- Prince William and Kate Middleton baby bliss 

Page 34: Meghan Markle’s $1.6 million dollar baby 

Page 36: Chip and Joanna Gaines 

Page 40: Interview -- Taron Egerton 

Page 42: Country music stars tone up -- Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, Kelsea Ballerini 

Page 43: Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler 

Page 46: Style -- Jasmine Tookes 

Page 49: Style -- Display your Pride and support the LGBTQIA+ community -- Cara Delevingne

Page 51: Beauty -- rainbows -- Victoria Justice 

Page 52: Gifts for Father’s Day -- Will and Jaden Smith 

Page 54: Entertainment 

Page 55: Q&A -- Jameela Jamil of The Good Place 

Page 58: Mandy Moore’s climb to remember 

Page 60: Sound Bites -- Renee Zellweger, John Legend, Lisa Kudrow, Cardi B, Jessica Alba 

Page 61: Hollywood Heat Meter -- Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara engaged, Britney Spears, Kit Harington checked into rehab, George and Amal Clooney

Page 62: Horoscope -- Gemini Natalie Portman 

Page 64: By the Numbers -- Sophie Turner

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HBO's "Girls" returns for sixth and final season this February

HBO’s “Girls” returns for sixth and final season this February

Enjoying new success as a writer after participating in “The Moth,” Hannah gets an assignment that could change her life. Divorced from Desi, Marnie seeks to remain independent, but her self-absorption could undermine a budding relationship with Ray. New couple Jessa and Adam embark on a creative project that could become a source of contention. Shoshanna flourishes at a marketing agency, but…

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25, 18, 30

18. top five character i most relate to

amy march from little women clementine kruczynski from eternal sunshine jess day from new girl beth greene from twd philip jennings from the americans

25. top five ships

theodore laurence x amy march (little women) rick grimes x michonne grimes (twd) steve trevor x diana prince (dc) philip jennings x elizabeth jennings (the americans) peter bishop x olivia dunham (fringe)

honorable mentions to oleg x nina from the americans, jack x kate from lost, nick x jess from new girl, glenn x maggie from twd, and jack x rose from titanic.

30. top five offscreen relationships

matthew rhys x keri russell andrew lincoln and danai gurira chris pine and gal gadot timothee chalamet and saoirse ronan pedro pascal and oscar isaac

tv and movie asks!

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2015/2016 TV Awards

Best Drama Series: The Affair Better Call Saul Game of Thrones Horace and Pete The Leftovers Mr. Robot HONORABLE MENTION: Bates Motel, Bloodline, Hannibal, Homeland, House of Cards, How to Get Away with Murder, The Knick, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Narcos, Sense8, Shameless Best Actor - Drama Series: Kyle Chandler, Bloodline - "Part 23" Louis C.K., Horace and Pete - "Episode 10" Rami Malek, Mr. Robot - "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" Wagner Moura, Narcos - "Descenso" Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul - "Klick" Justin Theroux, The Leftovers - "International Assassin" Dominic West, The Affair - "Episode 210" HONORABLE MENTION: Steve Buscemi, Horace and Pete; Hugh Dancy, Hannibal; Hugh Dancy, The Path; Freddie Highmore, Bates Motel; Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal; Clive Owen, The Knick; Mandy Patinkin, Homeland; Aaron Paul, The Path; Brian J. Smith, Sense8; Kevin Spacey, House of Cards Best Actress - Drama Series: Claire Danes, Homeland - "Super Powers" Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder - "There's My Baby" Vera Farmiga, Bates Motel - "Forever" Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black - "The Collapse of Nature" Krysten Ritter, Marvel's Jessica Jones - "AKA WWJD?" Ruth Wilson, The Affair - "Episode 212" Robin Wright, House of Cards - "Chapter 49" HONORABLE MENTION: Gillian Anderson, The X-Files; Lizzy Caplan, Masters of Sex; Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Taraji P. Henson, Empire; Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife; Tuppence Middleton, Sense8; Michelle Monaghan, The Path; Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy; Emmy Rossum, Shameless; Kerry Washington, Scandal Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series: Alan Alda, Horace and Pete - "Episode 1" Kevin Carroll, The Leftovers - "I Live Here Now" Christopher Eccleston, The Leftovers - "No Room at the Inn" Kit Harington, Game of Thrones - "Battle of the Bastards" Michael McKean, Better Call Saul - "Nailed" David Tennant, Marvel's Jessica Jones - "AKA WWJD?" Martin Wallstrom, Mr. Robot - "eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt" HONORABLE MENTION: Michael Angarano, The Knick; Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul; Jon Bernthal, Marvel’s Daredevil; Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones; Andre Holland, The Knick; Joshua Jackson, The Affair; Joel Kinnaman, House of Cards; Dermot Mulroney, Shameless; Pedro Pascal, Narcos; Ray Romano, Vinyl; Miguel Angel Silvestre, Sense8; Christian Slater, Mr. Robot; Jussie Smollett, Empire; Jeremy Allen White, Shameless; Jesse Williams, Grey’s Anatomy Best Supporting Actress - Drama Series: Carrie Coon, The Leftovers - "Lens" Edie Falco, Horace and Pete - "Episode 10" Lena Headey, Game of Thrones - "The Winds of Winter" Regina King, The Leftovers - "Lens" Miranda Otto, Homeland - "All About Allison" Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul - "Rebecca" Maura Tierney, The Affair - "Episode 204" HONORABLE MENTION: Gillian Anderson, Hannibal; Annaleigh Ashford, Masters of Sex; Doona Bae, Sense8; Jacinda Barrett, Bloodline; Amy Brenneman, The Leftovers; Linda Cardellini, Bloodline; Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones; Portia Doubleday, Mr. Robot; Emma Kenney, Shameless; Sissy Spacek, Bloodline; Liv Tyler, The Leftovers; Olivia Wilde, Vinyl; Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones Best Writing - Drama Series: Game of Thrones - "The Winds of Winter" - David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Horace and Pete - "Episode 3" - Louis C.K. The Leftovers - "International Assassin" - Nick Cuse & Damon Lindelof The Leftovers - "Lens" - Damon Lindeof & Tom Perrotta The Leftovers - "No Room at the Inn" - Jacqueline Hoyt & Damon Lindelof Mr. Robot - "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" - Sam Esmail HONORABLE MENTION: The Affair - “Episode 210”; The Affair - “Episode 212”; Bates Motel - “Forever”; Better Call Saul - “Klick”; Bloodline - “Part 20”; Game of Thrones - “Battle of the Bastards”; Game of Thrones - “Book of the Stranger”; Grey’s Anatomy - “The Sound of Silence”; Hannibal - “Antipasto”; Hannibal - “The Wrath of the Lamb”; Homeland - “A False Glimmer”; Horace and Pete - “Episode 1”; Horace and Pete - “Episode 10”; House of Cards - “Chapter 49”; House of Cards - “Chapter 50”; How to Get Away with Murder - “Anna Mae”; The Knick - “This Is All We Are” The Leftovers - “I Live Here Now”; The Leftovers - “A Most Powerful Adversary”; The Leftovers - “Off Ramp”; Marvel’s Jessica Jones - “AKA Ladies Night”; Marvel’s Jessica Jones - “AKA WWJD?” Mr. Robot - “eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v”; Mr. Robot - “eps1.8_m1rr0rr1g.qt”; Narcos - “Descenso”; Sense8 - “Limbic Resonance”; Shameless - “The F Word” Best Directing - Drama Series: Game of Thrones - "Battle of the Bastards" - Miguel Sapochnik Horace and Pete - "Episode 10" - Louis C.K. The Knick - "This Is All We Are" - Steven Soderbergh The Leftovers - "International Assassin" - Craig Zobel The Leftovers - "No Room at the Inn" - Nicole Kassell Mr. Robot - "eps1.0_hellofriend.mov" - Niels Arden Oplev HONORABLE MENTION: The Affair - “Episode 212”; Bates Motel - “Norman”; Better Call Saul - “Klick”; Bloodline - “Part 20”; Game of Thrones - “The Winds of Winter”; Grey’s Anatomy - “The Sound of Silence”; Hannibal - “The Number of the Beast Is 666…”; Hannibal - “The Wrath of the Lamb”; Homeland - “A False Glimmer”; Horace and Pete - “Episode 1”; Horace and Pete - “Episode 3”; House of Cards - “Chapter 49”; How to Get Away with Murder - “Anna Mae”; The Knick - “Do You Remember Moon Flower?” The Leftovers - “I Live Here Now”; The Leftovers - “Lens”; The Leftovers - “Off Ramp”; Marvel’s Jessica Jones - “AKA Sin Bin”; Marvel’s Jessica Jones - “AKA WWJD?” Mr. Robot - “eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v”; Mr. Robot - “eps1.8_m1rr0rr1g.qt”; Narcos - “Descenso”; Sense8 - “What’s Going On?” Shameless - “Familia Supra Gallegorious Omnia!”; The X-Files - “Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster” Best Guest Actor - Drama Series: Richard Armitage, Hannibal - "And the Woman Clothed in Sun" Rhys Darby, The X-Files - "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster" Vincent D'Onofrio, Marvel's Daredevil - "The Man in the Box" Raul Esparza, Hannibal - "The Number of the Beast Is 666..." Peter Friedman, The Affair - "Episode 203" Ian McShane, Game of Thrones - "The Broken Man" HONORABLE MENTION: Bruce Altman, Mr. Robot; Beau Bridges, Bloodline; Beau Bridges, Masters of Sex; Andrew Dice Clay, Vinyl; Michael Cristofer, Mr. Robot; Peter Gallagher, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Scott Glenn, The Leftovers; Scott Glenn, Marvel’s Daredevil; Eddie Izzard, Hannibal; Gene Jones, Vinyl; Tobias Menzies, Game of Thrones; Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mr. Robot; Glenn Morshower, Bloodline; Sam Shepard, Bloodline; Max von Sydow, Game of Thrones; Fred Weller, The Knick; B.D. Wong, Mr. Robot Best Guest Actress - Drama Series: Ellen Burstyn, House of Cards - "Chapter 41" Maria Dizzia, Horace and Pete - "Episode 9" Allison Janney, Masters of Sex - "Matters of Gravity" Laurie Metcalf, Horace and Pete - "Episode 3" Cynthia Nixon, The Affair - "Episode 210" Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away with Murder - "Anna Mae" HONORABLE MENTION: Nina Arianda, Horace and Pete; Aidy Bryant, Horace and Pete; Kathleen Chalfant, The Affair; Gabriela de la Garza, Narcos; Hannah Dunne, Horace and Pete; Lisa Gay Hamilton, House of Cards; Famke Janssen, How to Get Away with Murder; Paula Newsome, How to Get Away with Murder; Deirdre O’Connell, The Affair; Molly Parker, House of Cards; Karen Pittman, Horace and Pete; Bella Ramsey, Game of Thrones; Amy Sedaris, Horace and Pete; Chloe Sevigny, Bloodline; Kathleen Turner, The Path; Cicely Tyson, House of Cards; Rutina Wesley, Hannibal; Mare Winningham, The Affair Best Ensemble - Drama Series: Bloodline Game of Thrones How to Get Away with Murder The Leftovers Mr. Robot Sense8 HONORABLE MENTION: The Affair, Better Call Saul, Empire, The Good Wife, Grey’s Anatomy, Homeland, Horace and Pete, House of Cards, The Knick, Narcos, The Path, Scandal, Shameless, Vinyl Best New Drama Series: Horace and Pete Marvel's Jessica Jones Mr. Robot Narcos The Path Sense8 HONORABLE MENTION: Vinyl Best Comedy Series: Girls Master of None Orange Is the New Black Silicon Valley Transparent Veep HONORABLE MENTION: Baskets, black-ish, Catastrophe, Getting On, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jane the Virgin, Lady Dynamite, The Last Man on Earth, Mom, Togetherness, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Best Actor - Comedy Series: Anthony Anderson, black-ish - "Hope" Aziz Ansari, Master of None - "Parents" Mark Duplass, Togetherness - "Advanced Pretend" Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth - "30 Years of Science Down the Tubes" Zach Galifianakis, Baskets - "Picnic" Thomas Middleditch, Silicon Valley - "Daily Active Users" Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent - "Grey Green Brown & Copper" HONORABLE MENTION: Gael Garcia Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle; Rob Delaney, Catastrophe; Neil Flynn, The Middle; Noah Galvin, The Real O’Neals; Jake Johnson, New Girl; Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory; Craig Roberts, Red Oaks; Andy Samberg, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Best Actress - Comedy Series: Maria Bamford, Lady Dynamite - "Enter Super Grisham" Lena Dunham, Girls - "I Love You Baby" Anna Faris, Mom - "Sticky Hands and a Walk on the Wild Side" Gaby Hoffmann, Transparent - "The Book of Life" Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - "Kimmy Finds Her Mom!" Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep - "Mother" Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin - "Chapter Twenty-Five" HONORABLE MENTION: Jane Fonda, Grace and Frankie; Patricia Heaton, The Middle; Sharon Horgan, Catastrophe; Gillian Jacobs, Love; Melanie Lynskey, Togetherness; Laurie Metcalf, Getting On; Martha Plimpton, The Real O’Neals; Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish; Taylor Schilling, Orange Is the New Black; Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie; Michaela Watkins, Casual Best Supporting Actor - Comedy Series: Louie Anderson, Baskets - "Uncle Dad" Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - "Kimmy Meets a Celebrity!" Jay Duplass, Transparent - "Mee-Maw" T.J. Miller, Silicon Valley - "Bachman's Earning's Over-Ride" Andrew Rannells, Girls - "Love Stories" Timothy Simons, Veep - "Cuntgate" Steve Zissis, Togetherness - "Hotels" HONORABLE MENTION: Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Ty Burrell, Modern Family; Jaime Camil, Jane the Virgin; Gary Cole, Veep; Charlie Day, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Adam Driver, Girls; Kevin Dunn, Veep; Sam Elliott, The Ranch; Max Greenfield, New Girl; Tony Hale, Veep; Glenn Howerton, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Richard Kind, Red Oaks; Hugh Laurie, Veep; Rob McElhenney, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Kumail Nanjiani, Silicon Valley; Sam Richardson, Veep; Nick Sandow, Orange Is the New Black; Reid Scott, Veep; Matt Shively, The Real O’Neals; Martin Starr, Silicon Valley; Jason Sudeikis, The Last Man on Earth; Matt Walsh, Veep; Zach Woods, Silicon Valley Best Supporting Actress - Comedy Series: Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black - "Fear, and Other Smells" Allison Janney, Mom - "Quaaludes and Crackerjack" Amy Landecker, Transparent - "Kina Hora" Judith Light, Transparent - "Flicky-Flicky Thump-Thump" Taryn Manning, Orange Is the New Black - "A Tittin' and a Hairin'" Amanda Peet, Togetherness - "Everybody Is Grownups" Noel Wells, Master of None - "Mornings" HONORABLE MENTION: Alex Borstein, Getting On; Danielle Brooks, Orange Is the New Black; Anna Chlumsky, Veep; Kathryn Hahn, Transparent; Jemima Kirke, Girls; Jane Krakowski, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Selenis Leyva, Orange Is the New Black; Zosia Mamet, Girls; Adrienne C. Moore, Orange Is the New Black; Kate Mulgrew, Orange Is the New Black; Niecy Nash, Getting On; Niecy Nash, Scream Queens; Andrea Navedo, Jane the Virgin; Kristen Schaal, The Last Man on Earth; Yara Shahidi, black-ish; Eden Sher, The Middle; Yael Stone, Orange Is the New Black; Sarah Sutherland, Veep; Samira Wiley, Orange Is the New Black Best Writing - Comedy Series: Girls - "The Panic in Central Park" - Lena Dunham Master of None - "Parents" - Aziz Ansari & Alan Yang Togetherness - "Advanced Pretend" - Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass Transparent - "Kina Hora" - Jill Soloway Veep - "Inauguration" - Jim Margolis Veep - "Kissing Your Sister" - Erik Kenward HONORABLE MENTION: Baskets - “Picnic”; black-ish - “Hope”; black-ish - “THE Word”; Catastrophe - “Episode 101”; Getting On - “Please Partake of a Memorial Orange”; Girls - “I Love You Baby”; Girls - “Love Stories”; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - “Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs”; Jane the Virgin - “Chapter Twenty-Five”; Lady Dynamite - “Knife Feelings”; The Last Man on Earth - “30 Years of Science Down the Tubes”; Master of None - “Finale”; Master of None - “Mornings”; Master of None - “Nashville”; Mom - “Sticky Hands and a Walk on the Wild Side”; Orange Is the New Black - “Don’t Make Me Come Back There”; Orange Is the New Black - “A Tittin’ and a Hairin’”; Orange Is the New Black - “Trust No Bitch”; Silicon Valley - “Daily Active Users”; Silicon Valley - “The Uptick”; Togetherness - “Changetown”; Togetherness - “Everybody Is Grownups”; Transparent - “The Book of Life”; Transparent - “Grey Green Brown & Copper”; Transparent - “Man on the Land”; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - “Kimmy Meets a Drunk Lady!”; Veep - “Congressional Ball”; Veep - “Cuntgate”; Veep - “Mother” Best Directing - Comedy Series: Girls - "The Panic in Central Park" - Richard Shepard Master of None - "Mornings" - Eric Wareheim Orange Is the New Black - "Trust No Bitch" - Phil Abraham Transparent - "Man on the Land" - Jill Soloway Veep - "Inauguration" - Becky Martin Veep - "Kissing Your Sister" - David Mandel HONORABLE MENTION: Baskets - “Picnic”; black-ish - “Hope”; Catastrophe - “Episode 203”; Getting On - “Please Partake of a Memorial Orange”; Girls - “I Love You Baby”; Girls - “Love Stories”; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - “Being Frank”; Jane the Virgin - “Chapter Forty-Four”; Lady Dynamite - “Enter Super Grisham”; The Last Man on Earth - “Is Anybody Out There?”; Master of None - “Finale”; Master of None - “Nashville”; Master of None - “Parents”; Orange Is the New Black - “Don’t Make Me Come Back There”; Orange Is the New Black - “A Tittin’ and a Hairin’”; Silicon Valley - “Daily Active Users”; Silicon Valley - “Maleant Data Systems Solutions”; Togetherness - “Advanced Pretend”; Togetherness - “Changetown”; Transparent - “The Book of Life”; Transparent - “Grey Green Brown & Copper”; Transparent - “Kina Hora”; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - “Kimmy Finds Her Mom!”; Veep - “Congressional Ball”; Veep - “Cuntgate”; Veep - “Mother” Best Guest Actor - Comedy Series: Christopher Abbott, Girls - "The Panic in Central Park" Shoukath Ansari, Master of None - "Parents" Sam Elliott, Grace and Frankie - "The Loophole" Martin Mull, Veep - "The Eagle" Olafur Darri Olfasson, Lady Dynamite - "Enter Super Grisham" Peter Scolari, Girls - "Good Man" HONORABLE MENTION: Clem Cheung, Master of None; Anton Coppola, Mozart in the Jungle; Noah Emmerich, Master of None; Jeff Goldblum, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Bill Hader, Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Dennis Haysbert, Brooklyn Nine-Nine; Judd Hirsch, The Big Bang Theory; Rob Huebel, Transparent; Nick Jonas, Scream Queens; Ki Hong Lee, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Jason Mantzoukas, Transparent; Matt McGorry, Orange Is the New Black; Hiro Mizushima, Girls; Dermot Mulroney, Mozart in the Jungle; Adam Pally, Lady Dynamite; Ravi Patel, Master of None; Corey Stoll, Girls; Bradley Whitford, Transparent Best Guest Actress - Comedy Series: Becky Ann Baker, Girls - "Queen for Two Days" Tina Fey, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - "Kimmy Meets a Drunk Lady!" Anjelica Huston, Transparent - "Grey Green Brown & Copper" Lisa Kudrow, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - "Kimmy Finds Her Mom!" Natasha Lyonne, Orange Is the New Black - "Empathy Is a Boner Killer" Jenny Slate, Girls - "Love Stories" HONORABLE MENTION: Nina Arianda, Master of None; Danielle Brooks, Master of None; Ellen Burstyn, Mom; Lynn Cohen, Master of None; Claire Danes, Master of None; Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe; Ariana Grande, Scream Queens; Melora Hardin, Transparent; Linda Lavin, Mom; Andrea Martin, Modern Family; Sonequa Martin-Green, New Girl; Laurie Metcalf, The Big Bang Theory; Annie Mumolo, Lady Dynamite; Estelle Parsons, Grace and Frankie; Condola Rashad, Master of None; Andrea Savage, Veep; Amy Sedaris, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt; Jenny Slate, Lady Dynamite; Michaela Watkins, Transparent Best Ensemble - Comedy Series: black-ish Jane the Virgin Orange Is the New Black Silicon Valley Transparent Veep HONORABLE MENTION: The Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Getting On, Girls, Grace and Frankie, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Last Man on Earth, The Middle, Modern Family, Mom, Mozart in the Jungle, New Girl, The Real O’Neal, Scream Queens Best New Comedy Series: Baskets Casual Catastrophe Lady Dynamite Master of None The Real O'Neals HONORABLE MENTION: F Is for Family, Fuller House, Love, The Ranch, Red Oaks, Scream Queens Best TV Movie/Miniseries: Fargo The Girlfriend Experience Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Roots Show Me a Hero HONORABLE MENTION: Act One (Live From Lincoln Center), All the Way, Confirmation, Driving Miss Daisy (Great Performances), Flesh and Bone, The Night Manager, A Very Murray Christmas, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Best Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries: Bryan Cranston, All the Way Ben Daniels, Flesh and Bone Santino Fontana, Act One (Live From Lincoln Center) Oscar Isaac, Show Me a Hero Courtney B. Vance, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Patrick Wilson, Fargo HONORABLE MENTION: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride; Colin Farrell, True Detective; Tom Hiddleston, The Night Manager; James Earl Jones, Driving Miss Daisy (Great Performances); Malachi Kirby, Roots; Bill Murray, A Very Murray Christmas; Rege-Jean Page, Roots; Tony Shalhoub, Act One (Live From Lincoln Center) Best Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries: Kirsten Dunst, Fargo Riley Keough, The Girlfriend Experience Rachel McAdams, True Detective Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Kerry Washington, Confirmation HONORABLE MENTION: Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Hotel; Sarah Hay, Flesh and Bone; Lady Gaga, American Horror Story: Hotel; Angela Lansbury, Driving Miss Daisy (Great Performances) Best Supporting Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries: Sterling K. Brown, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager Nick Offerman, Fargo Denis O'Hare, American Horror Story: Hotel Jesse Plemons, Fargo Bokeem Woodbine, Fargo HONORABLE MENTION: Chad Coleman, Roots; Ted Danson, Fargo; Martin Freeman, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride; Taylor Kitsch, True Detective; Derek Luke, Roots; Anthony Mackie, All the Way; Zach McClarnon, Fargo; Christopher Meloni, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp; Alfred Molina, Show Me a Hero; Clarke Peters, Show Me a Hero; Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Roots; Angus Sampson, Fargo; David Schwimmer, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story; Paul Sparks, The Girlfriend Experience; Jeffrey Wright, Confirmation Best Supporting Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries: Olivia Colman, The Night Manager LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Show Me a Hero Catherine Keener, Show Me a Hero Rachel Keller, Fargo Anika Noni Rose, Roots Jean Smart, Fargo HONORABLE MENTION: Elizabeth Debicki, The Night Manager; Ilfenesh Hadera, Show Me a Hero; Aisha Hinds, All the Way; Jennifer Hudson, Confirmation; Andrea Martin, Act One (Live From Lincoln Center); Elizabeth Marvel, Fargo; Cristin Milioti, Fargo; Natalie Paul, Show Me a Hero; Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Hotel; Amy Poehler, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp; Winona Ryder, Show Me a Hero; Amy Seimetz, The Girlfriend Experience; Erica Tazel, Roots Best Variety Series: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The Late Late Show with James Corden Saturday Night Live The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Whose Line Is It Anyway? HONORABLE MENTION: Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Real Time with Bill Maher, Watch What Happens Live, With Bob & David Best Variety Special: Adele Live in New York City Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo Grease: Live Lemonade Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted The 69th Annual Tony Awards HONORABLE MENTION: Adele Live in London, AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Steve Martin, Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin’ to Do (Great Performances), The Kennedy Center Honors, Kern & Hammerstein’s Show Boat (Live From Lincoln Center), The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping, Sinatra: Voice for a Century (Live From Lincoln Center), Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show, The Wiz Live!, The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 Best Male Performer - Variety Series/Special: James Corden, The Late Late Show with James Corden Larry David, Saturday Night Live Jordan Fisher, Grease: Live David Alan Grier, The Wiz Live! John Oliver, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Patton Oswalt, Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping HONORABLE MENTION: Fred Armisen, Saturday Night Live; Wayne Brady, Whose Line Is It Anyway?; David Cross, With Bob & David; Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; Neil Patrick Harris, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris; Elijah Kelley, The Wiz Live!; Taran Killam, Saturday Night Live; Kendrick Lamar, The 58th Annual Grammy Awards; Norm Lewis, Kern & Hammerstein’s Show Boat (Live From Lincoln Center); Colin Mochrie, Whose Line Is It Anyway?; Tracy Morgan, Saturday Night Live; Ne-Yo, The Wiz Live!; Bob Odenkirk, With Bob & David; Carlos PenaVega, Grease: Live; Chris Rock, The 88th Annual Academy Awards; Ryan Stiles, Whose Line Is It Anyway? Best Female Perfomer - Variety Series/Special: Adele, Adele Live in New York City Samantha Bee, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Beyonce, Lemonade Aretha Franklin, The Kennedy Center Honors Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live Keke Palmer, Grease: Live HONORABLE MENTION: Adele, Adele Live in London; Uzo Aduba, The Wiz Live!; Mary J. Blige, The Wiz Live!; Aidy Bryant, Saturday Night Live; Miley Cyrus, The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards; Ariana Grande, Saturday Night Live; Vanessa Hudgens, Grease: Live; Carly Rae Jepsen, Grease: Live; Lady Gaga, Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert; Tig Notaro, Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted; Chita Rivera, Chita Rivera: A Lot of Livin’ to Do (Great Performances); Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo; Shanice Williams, The Wiz Live!; Vanessa Williams, Kern & Hammerstein’s Show Boat (Live From Lincoln Center); Lauren Worsham, Kern & Hammerstein’s Show Boat (Live From Lincoln Center) Best Animated Series: Archer Bob's Burgers BoJack Horseman The Simpsons HONORABLE MENTION: F Is for Family, Family Guy, South Park Best Voice-Over Performance - Animated Series: Will Arnett, BoJack Horseman - "Escape From L.A." H. Jon Benjamin, Bob's Burgers - "Glued, Where's My Bob?" Alison Brie, BoJack Horseman - "Hank After Dark" Julie Kavner, The Simpsons - "The Marge-ian Chronicles" Dan Mintz, Bob's Burgers - "The Horse Rider-er" Yeardley Smith, The Simpsons - "Lisa with an 'S'" HONORABLE MENTION: H. 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[justbudfox]

Like a lot of people, I have a love/hate relationship with the series, Girls. Like a lot of people, my feelings focus principally on Lena Dunham, and the character she plays, Hannah Horvath. Both are teeth-grindingly super-annoying, both have a particular kind of indisputable talent. Neither aspect can be denied.

Since I watch the show on a shared HBOGO subscription (how terribly modern), I’m always behind in my viewing. So I just got to the third episode of this final season, entitled American Bitch. I was stunned. It was one of the best things the show has done in its six season run. Very well written, quite well acted, and it uses Tumblr as a vehicle for a principal plot point. Plus it was filmed in the kind of Manhattan apartment that still makes me weak in the knees.

To be fair, in certain respects it merely brings forward David Mamet’s 1992 gender-role-joust, Oleanna, to the modern day. And I like the play very much. So I’m willing to accept the twist on Mamet’s premise, and I take my hat off to Matthew Rhys for the masterful way he sets up the denouement here. Which I won’t spoil. Suffice it to say, I commend it to your attention. And when/if you see it, I’m curious for your reaction.