#absentia tv show

[nikki-rook]

Stana Katic as Emily Byrne - Kicking Ass in Absentia Season 2

[absentia-if]

Top Nine Shows

Thank you for the tag @enspey!!

It’s very hard for me to narrow down my favorite shows as I have so many— and I didn’t include a couple more of my favorites— but I had fun compiling this list for you all.

I don’t really know who to tag, anyone can join in if they’d like, but I’ll tag: @bouncyballcitadel // @kal-down // @never-never-land // @jaunefleurwrites

[twelverriver]

8 shows to get to know me better tagged by @babygirlgiles

buffy the vampire slayer (everyone who knows me knows how much i am OBSESSED with btvs and buffy summers i bring her up in every conversation <3)

doctor who ( i love this show so much. rewired my brain chemistry. if i ever go a day without saying u know this reminds of something that happened in doctor who and then i proceed to ramble about dw for five to ten minutes know i have been switched out. i feel sooooo normal about this show <3)

angel ( in my actually ats is a great show era. it’s not but i love it so much so that makes up for it right????? it doesnt deserve the brainrot it causes me but WELL. i love it in spite of its creator)

fleabag  ( do i even NEED to say anything about fleabag !!!!!!!!! possibly best show created in the 21st century.) 

succession ( i reference this show every day it’s the thing that consistently makes me feel better without fail every time i feel bad i love this show SO much)  

the good place ( if you haven’t cried out your entire SOUL and every fluid in your body don’t even talk to me)

agent carter (my introduction to marvel!!! peggy carter will forever be my favourite marvel character)

hart of dixie (this show has HEALING powers!!!!!)

precious mention to every sit com ever <3 i love new girl i love you parks & rec i love you modern family i love u b99 etc etc

[vintagewarhol]

[flanaganfilm]

howdy!! do you rewatch your own work? if so, how often? im wondering if it has the same "artist just sees faults with what they create" thing, or if youre able to appreciate past projects the way they deserve

I don't, typically... usually, by the time we're finished with post production, I've seen the thing so many times that I'm thrilled to stop watching it. I'm either sick of it, or just feeling like it doesn't belong to me anymore. There are other reasons, too - Hill House was a traumatic production for me, for example, I have a lot of complicated emotions woven into it, so I haven't felt ready to rewatch that one since before it aired. Maybe in a few more years.

Somewhat recently, I've revisited a few of the older movies with my eldest son, who is 13 now. He's basically as old as my career itself. We've watched Oculus, Hush, The Midnight Club (which he LOVED, proving it worked for our target audience) and Ouija: OOE together, and each of those screenings was a really cool experience. His reactions and questions were really fascinating, and I felt like I was able to see those movies anew through his eyes. That's the closest I've come to feeling like I was really seeing them, and that's only because so much time has gone by for those. I watched the Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep a few years back at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado. It was part of a live NoSleep Podcast event, and that was the first time I'd seen that movie since it was released. It was also the first and only time I'd ever seen the Director's Cut with an audience. That was a really special screening and it meant a lot to me.

I haven't yet had the guts to revisit any of the TV series other than Midnight Club. As my kids get older, I'm sure I'll watch them all with them. The one I'm most excited to see is Midnight Mass, which remains my favorite of the shows. I haven't seen it since before it came out - I remember the last day of post on that show, watching down each episode with final mix and color. That's a series I wish I could actually watch like a viewer at home, and while I'll never truly be able to do that, I look forward to looking at it with some real distance.

There are a few of the older projects I'd be curious to watch now. I wonder how Absentia holds up - I was such a baby when we made that movie, and it's been so long. I imagine I could watch that today and have a really trippy experience. I also haven't revisited Before I Wake in a very long time, and I always really loved that script. The movie was a rough road, and my feelings were mixed by the time it finally found its finish line (Relativity Media really beat that one up), but that could also be a really interesting viewing experience at this stage of my career.

But generally, each of these movies is a journey, and once the journey is over it's tough to ever really go back. There's little point, and moving forward feels like a matter of survival. The "finished product" is only the tip of a large, deep, labyrinthian iceberg for me. It's impossible to only see what's on the surface, no matter how hard I try.

(Interesting side-note: The only exception I've found to this rule is The Life of Chuck. We just finished post production on the movie, and I've watched it dozens and dozens of times now - but I've never grown tired of it, not even a little bit. That movie is something special, and I am eager to watch it again - and again - and again. I don't know that I'll ever want distance from that one; in fact, watching it brings me a sense of joy, comfort, and safety.)

[whumpapedia]

The following have been added to the Whumpapedia:

TV SHOWS:

12 Monkeys

9-1-1 (congrats Buck fans btw)

Absentia

Almost Paradise

Bridgerton

Chicago Fire

Chicago Med

Chicago PD

Chuck

The Company You Keep

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Criminal Record (2024)

CSI: Miami

CSI: Vegas

Days of Our Lives

Doctor Who (Classic)

Thanks to those who contributed.

If you submitted a mass spreadsheet and haven't heard back from us, still working on it. For anyone thinking of submitting en masse via spreadsheet, straight up, the form is a lot easier for us integration wise.

[takaraphoenix]

Do you have any new fanfic ideas for Nico/percy, jason/percy or Nico/jason/percy coming up? I loved your last series “legacy of the olympians” and was wondering when we could hope to see your next fic posted? Also, hope you’ve been doing well!! Noticed it’s been a few months since you last posted on fanfiction/A03, so I wanted to check in, as well as ask. hope life’s been treating you well!

Not coming up right now, no. The current plan is to first finish the ongoing multi-chapter fics, or at least another one or two, since I haven't had a lot of free time lately (as you did notice xD).

Though I do have a plan for the fic that comes next and I'm happy to share the pitch!

It is going to be a Nico/Jason/Percy story that will be called Amor in Absentia. The title itself is a nod toward the TV show that gave me the inspiration - Absentia.

Not really taking the actual plot of the fic, but one very specific dynamic within the story that I thought "damn, this would be an incredible OT3 prompt".

That dynamic being: Chara A (Percy) was abducted years ago, declared legally dead. His husband (Nico) grieved and then moved on to get remarried (to Jason). Aaand then the supposedly dead partner is saved after all, returned with severe trauma and PTSD.

Didn't care for the rest of the show, but this dynamic is delicious. Naturally, the show used the (straight, duh) love-triangle for drama and didn't consider how amazing of an OT3 this would be, so guess you gotta do all yourself, huh? ;)

But yeah. Percy - most likely in the capacity of being a Navy SEAL since that is what I love the most to use to legitimate Percy's PTSD and war trauma in a mortal AU - got captured and was then freed later on when Nico is happily married to Jason, but clearly still loves Percy. And Jason, the caring and understanding husband of Nico, is going to accept Percy into their home to help him settle back in (and inevitably fall in love with Percy himself).

So. That's the plan for the next multi-chapter PJO fic once I get around to it! But real life has been busy and demanding lately, which is why every current fic is already... weeks delayed at this point, and with that, it kind of... it would feel unfair to start something new before at least wrapping some more up first? Like, my Buffy fic only has one more chapter to go, for example.

Thank you for checking in, that's very sweet! <3

[mikelogan]

also just realized that after watching absentia for the first time this evening, i've officially seen everything mike flanagan has directed (minus shorts and tv shows). i hope he knows how much i love him (and his wife)

[drtbrennan]

oh ALSO ABSENTIA 🫶🏻

YES YES favourite character: emily funniest character: the way im blanking, maybe cal???? LMAO best-looking character: emily omg 3 favourite ships: emily/cal three times least favourite character: i have such an alice vendetta least favourite ship: omg idk nick/emily maybe because i definitely preferred them as friends!! reason why i watch it: QUEEN STANA DUH why i started watching it: jana you are very good at selling tv shows and i love watching them with you <3

[byneddiedingo]

Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)

Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover, Seymour Cassel, Kumar Pallana, Grant Rosenmeyer, Jonah Meyerson, Alec Baldwin (voice). Screenplay: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson. Cinematography: Robert D. Yeoman. Production design: David Wasco. Film editing: Dylan Tichenor. Music: Mark Mothersbaugh. It's hard to be droll for an hour and a half, and The Royal Tenenbaums, which runs about 20 minutes longer than that, shows the strain. Still, I don't have the feeling with it that I sometimes have with Wes Anderson's films, that of not being completely in on the joke. This time it's the wacky family joke, familiar from George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play You Can't Take It With You and numerous TV sitcoms. It works in large part because the cast plays it with such beautifully straight faces, and it's a magnificent cast. Gene Hackman, as the paterfamilias in absentia Royal Tenenbaum, is the standout, in large part because he gets to play loose while everyone else maintains a morose deadpan, but also because he's an actor who has always been cast as the loose cannon. Even in films in which he's supposed to be reserved and repressed, such as The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974), he keeps you waiting for the inevitable moment when he snaps. Here he's loose from the beginning, but he doesn't tire you out with his volatility because he knows how much of it to keep in check at any given moment.

[lavelled]

story of my life.

You’re a family of pedo lineage minus internal logic or heart.

Harry and Meg use Europe in their press to symbolize rope and rape. No vacation home for the divorcing couple. Why combo media for a psychotic pairing whose husband publishes X-rated messages on his X-website? I wish to disrupt every facet of their life.

Born and raised in Los Angeles with a Dad who was a television lighting director, Megin knew me and my old-time story. That’s well established. What are the odds that her National Enquirer family—with their royal perks of magazine interviews, morning chat shows, hosting The Kinsey African American Art and History Collection in Los Angeles where mom, Doria, the mother who gives the media as many nuanced quotes on the fraught nonexistent racist abuse of her daughter as she does about yoga, posed with Tina Knowles, The Diary of Princess Pushy sister book deal, that sister’s defamation lawsuit in Florida, meritless and princely, her brother on Big Brother VIP, an outcast father’s heart attack and papped “Images of Britain” reading pics inside an internet café, then that ticker story retraction—all know Tom and I and are limelight sellouts?

Since 1995, Murdle has displayed such range to inhabit the roles of two different characters named Megan. In 2009, Meg guest-starred on Knight Rider, or KR, the remake of a tv show I never watched because I was a toddler. She played Annie Ortiz, a cagefighter. Keen sense of irony.

Although feminist studies on sex can be strict, role models should quite literally have lots of sex. However, if you embark on a high culture, holier-than-thou royal protocol tour, greeting young devotees alongside the gentleman you knew ruined a girl and inspires thousands of deaths and famed suicides as he pays your baby bills with seedy tech money, you should have the pedigree and resume worth emulating.

She was Wendy in the rebooted 90210 series. The sexual explicitness didn’t make it into the Oprah interview:

https://metro.co.uk/2017/03/13/meghan-markles-raunchiest-role-to-date-sees-her-performing-a-sex-act-in-a-car-from-2008-episode-of-90210-6506457/

This is the monarchy’s Meghan lipgloss that smears story.

On YouTube, there’s a video of mouthiness: "2008 Meghan Markle in a saucy scene in the first episode of 90210."

Henry Charles Mountbatten-Windsor and his purist wife joined together in falsehood for titles, revenue, babies—and for Harry—movie-star vindictiveness and prudish slut Internet slurs aimed at my already stymied life at 51. It’s been eight years. Our worldview is that they’re defrauding, hypocritical representatives who cause suicide. Academy Award winners and Nobel laureates have shunned the spotlight to live in fade-out reclusiveness. 90210 Wendy can do this, too.

The Duke and Duchess of royal family duty need to be taken down a peg socially. Tell her he tweets eloquently about fucking another woman from his full-time tech.

On Twitter, Prince Harry is Brooks Otterlake. Harry parlayed this guy into an Orson film. It can be confusing. Per review (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-other-side-of-the-wind-2018), Netflix distributed the restoration of an old film by Harry the same year as the royal wedding. How does the contract madman who torments kids on the Internet with Nutella death threats, responsible for terrorism, produce a movie in absentia about my rape during a honeymoon?

On Twitter, my childhood triplex wrestler:

Ironic - as a child, I was enthralled by the WWE..... yet today, it is I, who must "wrestle mania"

Young on ice show:

I don't think we're done hearing about the Toronto Maple Leafs. I have a feeling they'll be playing hockey for many years to come!

Royally sexing, though, not his wife:

My experimental novel "Megan, a Stallion" has been moved to my cancelled projects folder because it would be too good and discourage other people from writing.

google.

Their meager wedding of egotism kills kids—Meg Thomas, 13, on Oct 30, 2018, five months after the royal nuptials, committed suicide at home in Leeton Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

Your love life is a lie.

She’s shitty at her job.

DIVORCE.

K

[nikki-rook]

Stana Katic as Emily Byrne in Absentia Season 2

[ezekialmcadams]

2023 in TV For the year of 2023, I still haven’t watched as much as I’ve wanted. Peak TV is still rampant across network, cable and streaming platforms. I did finish Prodigal Son: Season 2 which I’m proud of.

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Will Trent (Five/13 left)

Curse of Oak Island: Season 11 (Three/Unknown episodes left)

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

Alaska Daily (5/11)  

FRIDAY

Fire Country (5/22 left)

Paranormal Revenge (Ten/Unknown episodes left)

SUNDAY

The Curse of Akakor (Twelve episodes left)

STARTED BUT HAVEN’T FINISHED

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Seven episodes left)

Snowfall (Nine episodes left)

I’m Dying Up Here (Nine episodes left)

Top of the Lake: Season 2 (Five episodes left)

Anne with an E (Six episodes left)

This Is Us (Seventeen episodes left)

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The UnXplained: Season 4 (8/Unknown episodes left)

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UNWATCHED TV SHOWS

Sense8 (Netflix)

Narcos (Netflix)

Love (Netflix)

Haters Back Off (Netflix)

The Crown (Netflix)

GirlBOSS (Netflix)

Dear White People (Netflix)

The Keepers (Netflix)

Outcast: Season 2 (Cinemax)

Gypsy (Netflix)

Friends From College (Netflix)

Ozark (Netflix)

Mr. Mercedes (Audience)

Atypical (Netflix)

The Disappearance (CTV)  

Mindhunter (Netflix)

Frankie Drake Mysteries (CBC)

Godless (Netflix)

Greenhouse Academy (Netflix)

Grace and Frankie: Season 4 (Netflix)

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 4 Part 1 (Netflix)

Lost in Space (Netflix)

Stranger Things: Season 2 (Netflix)

The Rain (Netflix) - May 4 2018

Five Points (Facebook Watch) - June 4 2018  

Impulse (YouTube Premimum)  - June 6 2018  

The Hollow (Netflix) - June 8 2018

Two Sentence Horror Stories (Stage13) - Oct 2017

The Dragon Prince (Netflix) - Sept 14 2018

Origin (YouTube Premium) - Nov 14 2018

Queen America (Facebook Watch) - Nov 21 2018

Coroner (CBC) - Jan 6 2019

Cavendish (CBC) - Jan 8 2019

Unspeakable (Limited Series) (CBC) - Jan 9 2019

Black Monday (Showtime) - Jan 20 2019

Northern Rescue (CBC Gem/Netflix) - March 1 2019

Street Legal 2019 Revival (CBC) - March 4 2019

Diggstown (CBC) - March 6 2019

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Season 2 (Netflix)

The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 2 (Hulu)

Insomnia: Mini-Series (Web -Insomniatheshow.com) - June 5 2019

City on the Hill (Showtime) - June 16 2019

Warigami (CBC Gem) - July 12 2019

Veronica Mars: Season 4 (Hulu) - July 26 2019

On Becoming a God in Central Florida (YouTube Premium/Showtime) - Aug 25 2019

Carnival Row (Amazon) - Aug 30 2019

The Last Kids on Earth (Netflix) - Sept 17 2019

Raising Dion (Netflix) - Oct 4 2019

Big Mouth: Season 3 (Netflix) - Oct 4 2019

The Birch (Facebook Watch) - Oct 11 2019

Limetown (Facebook Watch) - Oct 16 2019

Dickinson (Apple) - Nov 1 2019

His Dark Materials (BBC/HBO) - Nov 3 2019

Are You Sleeping?/Truth Be Told (Apple) - Dec 6 2019

Messiah (Netflix)  Jan 1 2020

Medical Police (Netflix) - Jan 10 2020

The Outsider (HBO) - Jan 12 2020

Locke & Key (Netflix) - February 7 2020

Utopia Falls (CBC Gem) - February 14 2020

Motherland: Fort Salem (Freeform) - March 18 2020

Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu) - March 18 2020

Siren: Season 3 (Freeform) - April 2 2020

Home Before Dark (Apple TV+) - April 3 2020

Outer Banks (Netflix) - April 15 2020

Untitled Mindy Kalling Bio/Never Have I Ever (Netflix) - April 27 2020

Amphibia: Season 2 (Disney Channel) - July 11 2020

Killer Camp (The CW) - July 16 2020

Don’t Look Deeper (Quibi) - July 27 2020

Slutty Teenage Bounty Hunters (Netflix) - Aug 14 2020

Raised by Wolves (HBO Max) - Sept 3 2020    

Away - Mars Drama (Netflix)  - Sept 4 2020

Wireless (Quibi) - Sept 14 2020

The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix) - Oct 9 2020

Small Axe (BBC) - Nov 20 2020

Amityville Horror House (Discovery Plus) - Jan 4 2021

A Discovery of Witches: Season 2 (Sky/BBC America) - Jan 8 2021

UFO Witness (Travel) - January 14 2021

Firefly Lane (Netflix) - Feb 3 2021

Amphibia Returns - March 6 2021

THEM (Amazon) - April 9 2021

Last Summer/Cruel Summer (Freeform) - April 20 2021

Grishaverse/Shadow & Bone (Netflix) - April 23 2021

Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix) - May 7 2021

The Underground Railroad (Amazon)  - May 14 2021

The Owl House (Disney Channel) - June 12 2021

Motherland: Fort Salem: Season 2 (Freeform) - June 22 2021  

The Mysterious Benedict Society (Hulu) - June 25 2021

Brand New Cherry Flavor (Netflix) - August 13 2021

Chapelwaite (Epix) - August 22 2021

Foundation (Apple TV+) - September 23 2021

Midnight Mass (Netflix) - September 24 2021

Amphibia: Season 3 (Disney Channel - Oct 2 2021

You: Season 3 (Netflix) - October 15 2021

I Know What You Did Last Summer (Amazon) - October 15 2021

Invasion (Apple TV+) - Oct 22 2021

The Expanse Season 6 (Amazon) - December 10 2021

A Discovery of Witches: Season 3 (Sky Max) - January 7 2022  

Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch: Season 2 (Discovery) - January 7 2022

Peacemaker (HBO Max) - January 13 2022

Wolf Like Me (Peacock) - January 13 2022

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel: Season 4 (Amazon) - February 18 2022

Killing Eve: Season 4 (AMC) - February 23 2022

The Dropout (Hulu) - March 3 2022

Joe Vs Carole (Peacock) - March 3 2022

The Thing About Pam  (NBC) - March 8 2022

Mr. Mayor: Season 2 (NBC) -  March 15 2022

Welcome to Flatch (Fox) - March 17 2022

Lost Gold of the Aztecs (History) - March 29 2022

The Girl from Plainville (Hulu) - March 29 2022

Outer Range (Amazon) - April 15 2022

Billy the Kid (Epix) - April 24 2022

Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles  (Netflix) - April 28 2022

Grace and Frankie: Season 7 (Netflix) - April 29 2022

The Wilds: Season 2 - May 4 2022

Candy (Hulu) - May 9 2022

The Lake (Amazon) - June 17 2022

Motherland: Fort Salem: Season 3 (Freeform) - June 21 2022

UFO Witness: Season 2 (Travel) - June 21 2022

Mysteries Decoded: Season 2 (The CW) - July 6 2022

The Challenge: USA (CBS) - July 6 2022

Boo, Bitch (Netflix) - July 8 2022

SkyMed (CBC Gem) - July 10 2022

Unprecedented (Discovery+) - July 2022

Resident Evil (Netflix) - July 14 2022

Blood & Treasure (CBS): Season 2 - July 17 2022

Breathe/Keep Breathing (Netflix) - July 28 2022  

Paper Girls (Amazon) - July 29 2022

Are You Afraid of the Dark (2019): Season 3: Ghost Island (Nickelodeon) - June 30 2022

Children of the Underground (FX) - Aug 12 2022

Surfside Girls (Apple TV+) - August 19 2022

The Imperfects (Netflix) - September 8 2022    

Quantum Leap Reboot (NBC) - Sept 19 2022  

La Brea: Season 2 (NBC) - Sept 27 2022

Walker Independence (The CW) - October 6 2022

The Midnight Club (Netflix) - October 7 2022

The Winchesters (The CW) - October 11 2022

28 Days Haunted (Netflix) - October 21 2022

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (Netflix) - October 25 2022

Manifest: Season 4 (Netflix) - November 4 2022

1899 (Netflix) - November 17 2022

Fantasy Island: Season 2 - May 31 2022/January 2 2023

The Last of Us (HBO) - January 15 2023

Shrinking (Apple TV+) - January 26 2023 

Poker Face (Peacock) - January 26 2023

Wolf Pack (Paramount+) - January 26 2023 

Lockwood & Co (Netflix) - January 27 2023

The Watchful Eye (Freeform) - January 30 2023

Deadman’s Curse (Hulu) - January 31 2023

The Ark (CTV) - February 1 2023

The Spencer Sisters (CTV) - February 10 2023

Daisy Jones and the Six (Amazon) - March 3 2023

Shelved (CTV) - March 6 2023

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (Netflix) - March 8 2023

School Spirits (Paramount+) - March 9  2023

Ted Lasso: Season 3 (Apple TV+) - March 15 2023

The Power (Amazon) - March 31 2023

The UnXplained: Season 5  (History) - March 31 2023

Mysteries Decoded: Season 3 (The CW) - April 4 2023

The Making of a haunting: The Amityville Murders/Amityville: An Origin Story (MGM Plus) - April 23 2023

Nancy Drew: Season 5 (The CW) - May 31 2023

Twisted Metal (Peacock) - July 27 2023

Black Cake (Hulu) - November 1 2023

Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix) - November 3 2023

The Buccaneers (Apple TV+) - November 8 2023

The Curse (Showtime) - November 12 2023

Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters: Season 2 - November 14 2023

Doctor Who: The Star Beast (Special) - November 25 2023                         

UPCOMING

They Can’t Kill Us All (AMC)

Heist 88 (FX)

Kaos (Netflix)

Diablo Animated Series (Netflix)

Avatar Last Airbender Live Action (Netflix)

Sunshine Scouts (Netflix)  

Dark Cargo (YouTube Premium)

Triangle (ABC) - Pilot  - 2019 - NOT PICKED UP SEPT 23 2019

The Lost Boys (CW) - Pilot - 2019

Scare Club (Freeform) - 2020?

The Cove (CW)

Untitled Steven Speilberg Horror Series (Quibi) - 2020

Wicked, Kansas (Epix) - 2020

Gormenghast (Showtime) - 2020

One Night Forever (Quibi) - 2020

13 Ghosts (Crypt TV/Facebook Watch) - 2020

Trip (Quibi) - 2020

Green Cross (Netflix) -????

Heaven’s Forest (Netflix) - ????

The Magic Order (Netflix) - ????

Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (Amazon) - ????

Firekeeper’s Daughter (Netflix) - ????

Skull Island (Netflix) -2022/?????

The Lighthouse Witches (Unknown Network/Streaming Service) - ????

Five Point (CBS) - ?????

The Big Cigar (Apple TV+) - ????

Jade City (Peacock) - ???? - Series Order cancelled July 2022

The Islands (Peacock) - ????

Witch Mountain Pilot (Disney+) - ????

The Castaways (Paramount+) - ????

The Deep (Amazon) - ????

Earth Abides (MGM+) - ????

Five Families (History) - ????

The Hunting Party (NBC) - ????

Nowhere (NBC) - ????

Apples Never Fall (Peacock) - March 2023

FINISHED

Doctor Who Spring Special (Legend of the Sea Devils) - January 5 2023

Doctor Who Fall Special 2022 (Power of the Doctor) - January 5 2023

Survivor: Season 43 - January 9 2023

Big Sky: Season 3 - January 21 2023

The Traitors: Season 1 - February 19 2023

Alert Missing Persons Unit: Season 1 - March 3 2023

Picard: Season 3 - April 20 2023

Yellowjackets: Season 2 - May 26 2023

Succession: Season 4 - May 28 2023

Curse of Oak Island: Season 10 - June 27 2023

The Bear: Season 2 - July 20 2023

Secret Invasion: Season 1 -  July 26 2023

Justified: City Primeval (Miniseries) - August 30 2023

Survivor: Season 44 - September 7 2023

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 1 - September 9 2023

Prodigal Son: Season 2 - September 10 2023

History’s Greatest Mysteries: Season 4 - October 10 2023

Stargirl: Season 3 - November 26 2023

SurrealEstate: Season 2 - December 7 2023

Abbott Elementary: Season 2 - December 19 2023

Ghosts: Season 2 - December 20 2023

Survivor 45 - December 20 2023

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee - Canceled June 2002 but forgot to remove it - Removed from List December 20 2023          

[msclaritea]

Golden Globes 2024 Review: Awards Fail to Rise from the Ashes

But after years of scandals, a pandemic, strikes and pivots, including a forced hiatus from TV and then a break with NBC, the Globes spent the run-up to this Sunday’s ceremony (now on CBS) indicating that the institution had changed. For one thing, the HFPA itself is no more, replaced by a for-profit venture with an expanded, diversified voting body. Some of these adjustments were welcome, even overdue; Hollywood has enough opportunities for nepotism without the title formerly known as Miss Golden Globe. Yet the Globes also risked throwing out the baby with the bathwater — or rather, Jennifer Lawrence’s lukewarm chardonnay. If the Golden Globes, the organization, got its act together, could the Golden Globes, the annual celebrity extravaganza, still be fun?

It turns out this year’s Globes were still a trainwreck — just not the kind one likes to watch. At just a hair over three hours, the ceremony was efficient on paper, but felt interminable in practice. With forced banter, ill-conceived staging and a woefully unqualified MC, this year’s show was hardly a triumphant return, let alone a showcase for a new and improved Golden Globes.

Host Jo Koy took the job less than two weeks ago, after bigger names like eventual winner Ali Wong had publicly passed on the gig. Koy’s performance failed to seize the spotlight, instead making for an inauspicious beginning to the Globes’ attempted rebrand. Rather than endearing the stand-up to a new audience, Koy’s monologue was filled with cringe-worthy jokes about “Barbie” breasts and bitter jabs at a crowd that was audibly not on his wavelength. Previous hosts like Jerrod Carmichael and Ricky Gervais have gleefully turned their satiric blades on the Globes itself. (Unfortunately for Koy, Gervais’ shadow only became more prominent when his fellow comic won a prize in absentia.) The kindest compliment one could pay Koy’s performance, at least from the show’s point of view, is that it was enough of a boondoggle to distract from his employer’s own struggles. Unlike in years past, the Globes’ troubles went largely unmentioned until Robert Downey Jr.’s wry acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor.

"The former Marvel star brought the same sarcastic charm that enlivened his erstwhile character Tony Stark. (“It’s so fun proving agents right!”) 🙄

But the evening was otherwise dominated by rushed, perfunctory speeches by honorees who hardly seemed happy to be there. Highlights, like Ayo Edebiri’s shoutout to her reps’ assistants or Greta Gerwig’s shoutout to Noah Baumbach’s inner Barbie girl, came and went quickly, a pace encouraged by an unseen, though frequently commented on, countdown clock. Nor did the presenters seem any more enthusiastic, with the notable exception of Jon Batiste and Andra Day. Onlookers in and out of the room seemed to seize on the pair’s easy chemistry like an oasis in a charisma desert, as much a testament to their own appeal as the lack of highlights before and after their appearance.

The Globes did pull off the coup of getting Taylor Swift in the room by handing her a nomination for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, an award all but made up to lure megawatt stars to the Beverly Hilton. But Koy quickly squandered that win, alienating the pop star with a cheap shot about her presence at NFL games. Swift, an expert at making the most of wordless TV cutaways, telegraphed her displeasure with a single swig of her drink. The night was surprisingly light on prominent no-shows, besides former Gervais and the team behind “The Boy and the Heron.” But given what greeted those who did attend, producers may have difficulty luring in stars of Swift’s caliber again. Lesser-known nominees like Christine Vachon, producer of “May December,” publicly complained about terrible seats at the room’s margins, adding to the impression that a show that bills itself as one big party was failing to satisfy its guests. For viewers, the dampened vibe was both palpable and contagious."

[xoxozev]

Have you ever met a girl like her before?

“Guess I would never know what’s going on inside that pretty little head of hers, nobody ever did. Her mind is a crossword puzzle that I could never solve. A cipher that I could never decode.”

PROLOGUE

The name is Adena Zevanya. You can just call me Dena for short.

A 21-year-old who’s currently in her last pre-clinical year of med school. 

An INTJ, so I might appear cold at first and it does take time before I finally open up to someone new.

Scorpio sun, Cancer moon, and Taurus rising as my zodiacs placement. Oh, I also have Libra mercury and Scorpio venus. Yes, lots of Scorpio placements. Please, bear with it.

My interests include Medicine, Psychology, Fashion, Movies, Music, and Literature. Feel free to knock on my dm any time. 

CLOSED AGENCIES

Mad For Love as Lee Minhyung (Mark)

Girl Absentia as Lee Minhyung (Mark)

The 500 Cohesion as Park Jisung

The Sophrosyne as Jang Wonyoung

Breakneck Place as Blair Waldorf

Who Did Thats as Roseanne Park

Etherealm as Aeri Uchinaga (Giselle)

Districts Revolt as Olivia Rodrigo

tags: MadForLMK, MARKsentia, JISUNGcounts, WONYOUNGsyne, escapyBLAIR, RosieDidnt, NumbGiselle, TributeLivia

DISCOGRAPHY

K-POP

NCT Jisung, Mark, Haechan

NewJeans Minji, Hanni, Haerin

AESPA Yoo Karina, Ning Yizhuo

Treasure Watanabe Haruto

IVE Jang Wonyoung, Ahn Yujin

WESTERN

Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams, Ariana Grande, Olivia Rodrigo, Madison Beer, NIKI, Keshi, Lauv, LANY, Halsey, Why Don't We, Justin Bieber, One Direction, Against The Current, 5SOS, All Time Low

FILMOGRAPHY

MOVIES

Harry Potter, School of Good and Evil, The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Inception, In Time, The Butterfly Effect, The Prestige, Gone Girl, The Devil Wears Prada, Love Rosie, Lady Bird, Clueless

TV SHOWS

Grey's Anatomy, American Horror Story, Scream Queens, Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Never Have I Ever, 13 Reasons Why, Stranger Things, The Queen's Gambit, Game of Thrones, Alice in Borderland, Shadow and Bones

K-DRAMAS

Sweet Home, All of Us are Dead, Squid Game, Law School, Vincenzo, The Penthouse, Little Women, Why Her, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Business Proposal, Nevertheless, Love Alarm

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pulang - Leila S. Chudori

Supernova - Dee Lestari

Jakarta Sebelum Pagi - Ziggy

Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard

The Selection - Kiera Cass

Memories - Lang Leav

LATEST READ

Di Tanah Lada - Ziggy

Kapan Nanti - Ziggy

Laut Bercerita - Leila S. Chudori

Funiculi Funicula - Toshikazu

Animal Farm - George Orwell

CURRENT READ

Namaku Alam - Leila S. Chudori

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

EPILOGUE

“… And at the end of this heartbreaking tale, we were both just the broken-hearted dreamers.”

— Yours, Adena Zevanya.

[flanaganfilm]

Hey Mike! Can you talk about your experience going from Absentia to Oculus? That process after Absentia went on its festival run to pitching Oculus? Would love to learn about that time in your life & career!

I moved to Los Angeles in 2003, right after I graduated college. I went to Towson University in Maryland, was an EMF major (Electronic Media & Film) and had wanted nothing more than to make movies my whole life. We were a comfortable middle class military family (my dad was in the Coast Guard) and for most of my life, making movies for a living felt like an impossible dream.

When I moved to LA I took whatever work I could find. I shot and edited those local car commercials you see on TV at 2am, I was a logger and an AE for reality TV shows, and I eventually worked my way to editing.

I said I'd give myself 5 years to make it in Hollwood. By the time we shot Absentia, I'd been here for 7 years, and in that time I hadn't gotten any closer to my dream.

I've already written at length about how Absentia came along and what it was like to make that little movie, and I've recently blogged about how the Oculus premiere changed my life and birthed my career, so I won't rehash those - but I don't often talk about what went on in between.

I finished editing Absentia just before my oldest son was born in 2010, and went back to working full-time as a reality TV editor. In fact, in the months leading up to his birth, I was working double-time - I spent my days at a company called Film Garden working on a series for DIY Network, and my nights editing packages at Nash Entertainment for those true crime clip shows. Whatever it took to keep the lights on and provide as much support as I could for my son.

While this was happening, I'd submitted Absentia to a pile of film festivals. We didn't get into any of the majors - Sundance, SXSW, and Toronto all passed on the film. Our world premiere was at the Fargo Film Festival, where Tom Brandau, one of my former professors from Towson - and one of my mentors - was teaching.

(Our original festival poster, WAY better than the weird clip art that would come later)

The movie got into a fair amount of film festivals, and we traveled with it as much as we could. I have fond memories of the Phoenix Film Festival, San Luis Obispo (where I met Greg Kinnear at a party and very awkwardly asked for a picture - you can see how thrilled he is about it) and my personal favorite: the Fantastia Film Festival in Montreal.

(At one of the screenings, I believe the San Luis Obispo Film Festival)

While this was happening, the film was picked up for a tiny VOD and DVD release through Phase 4 Films.

They were a Canadian distribution company whose claim to fame was putting out Kevin Smith's Red State under a very unusual distribution model. They acquired the movie, which led to a company holiday part in Hollywood.

There, I briefly met Kevin Smith for the first time. We've met again since, and I've now had a chance to thank him for the kindness he showed me back then - I was just some starstruck kid at a party, but he was gracious and available and inspiring. I really admire the way Kevin deals with his fans, and I've tried to emulate it over the years.

So that was kind of it for Absentia. We went to a few festivals, went to a few parties, and posed for a few pictures with some people we admired. Phase 4 designed some truly godawful cover art, dropped the movie into video stores, and that was that.

($2.99 is a pretty good deal)

So Absentia had pretty much run its course. It had a passionate following of fans, but between the crappy art design and glut of low budget horror films on the market, its moment had already come and gone. I was back at work, editing a series for DIY Network called Extra Yardage, and yearning for another chance to make a movie.

Absentia might not have broken open the industry doors like I'd wanted it to, but one thing it did yield was a meeting with an entertainment attorney named Joel VanderKloot.

I had been represented a few times over the years by various managers (to be honest, they were actually Jeff Howard's managers, and they took me on because we had a co-written project together.) But those relationships hadn't gone anywhere, I'd never sold a script or booked a job, and when I suggested making Absentia they were not supportive ("You've already tried the indie thing, haven't you?") so by the time Absentia was made, I was completely unrepped.

Joel was a family friend of Jason Poh, who was one of our Absentia Kickstarter backers. He was a guy who'd just found the project online and donated a thousand bucks. He kept up with us, and loved the final movie. He told me he knew an entertainment lawyer and offered to arrange a lunch.

I left my editing job at Film Garden for a long lunch and met Joel in Santa Monica (this was a day-killing drive for me). Joel had seen the movie and really liked it. We had a good lunch, but wasn't immediately sure about taking me on - it's a lot of work to take on a new client, and there wasn't much heat on my movie. But there was something there that he liked, and he called later that day to say he would take me on as a client.

I was elated. I felt like I'd made my movie to the best of my ability, and that it had flashed in the pan and then died... no one had noticed outside of a few festival audiences and critics. But here was someone who worked in the industry and he saw something in the film that he believed in.

Joel started looking for managers while I clung to my day job. He passed the movie around and we had a few nibbles, which led to the first manager in my career who wanted to simply represent ME: Nicholas Bogner.

Bogner went about setting general meetings at production companies who specialized in horror films. There weren't a lot of takers, and not everyone was willing to watch an entire feature film in consideration of a general meeting. So it was hit or miss - I was a nobody, after all, and they get these kinds of incoming inquiries all the time.

But there were a few takers. And the very first meeting I had was with Anil Kurian at Intrepid Pictures.

Again, I took an extended lunch from my editing job and drove across town to Intrepid's offices in Santa Monica. I was beyond nervous when I sat in the waiting room. The young man working the front desk signed me in and offered me a water. And then, just before the meeting started, he leaned over and he said "I loved Absentia, by the way."

Anil was a really cool executive and we had a good general meeting. At the end of it, he introduced me to the heads of Intrepid: Marc Evans, and Trevor Macy.

We all ended up in the conference room, where posters for Intrepid's other movies - at that time, The Strangers and The Raven - were hanging. I vividly remember staring at them while I pitched all five of the ideas I had for movies.

One of them was a story about a little boy whose dreams manifested in real life, and another was a take on Stephen King's novel Gerald's Game. But at the time, none of these ideas worked. The meeting was over, and everyone was politely going about their day.

I felt a panic in me. It was my first real meeting, the door had been cracked open just an inch by Absentia, and I was about to walk away with nothing. Would my new manager want to keep me? Would my new lawyer think he was wasting his time?

I stopped in the doorway and turned back. "I've got one other thing," I said. "I made a short years ago about a haunted mirror, and I have a take for a feature."

They kind of laughed at the idea of a haunted mirror. "How do you make that scary?" Trevor asked. I said "Think of it like a portable Overlook Hotel," and the room got a little quieter.

"I'd like to see that short," Trevor said. I agreed to send it immediately.

I ran back to work, stayed a few hours late to make up the time I'd burned on my lunch hour, and went home to find a DVD copy of Oculus: The Man with the Plan.

I'd made that short in 2005. It was 20 mins long, and a lot of fun. Over the years whenever I'd get into meetings (all courtesy of Jeff Howard, who had sold scripts long before we started writing together), people would see it and ask about a feature. Every time, though, the conversation stalled because they wanted the film to be a found footage movie, or they'd balk at the idea of me directing a feature.

I sent the DVD to Intrepid and waited. About a week later, they called and asked me to come back in.

I took another long lunch (this would become quite a habit as the project advanced) and drove back down. We met again in the conference room, but this time the mood was a little different.

Trevor said "We're interested in this. How would you expand it? I know there are cameras in the room with the man and the mirror, which begs the question of found footage..."

My heart sank.

"... but we're thinking that's a mistake. It looks like all the fun is in playing with reality, and you can't do that with found footage. So how would you do it?"

And we were off.

I won't rehash the long journey between this meeting and the Oculus premiere at Toronto (scroll down to find another blog about that), but that was really the moment when things changed.

I drove back to work a little giddy. Intrepid optioned the short film, I called Jeff Howard to see if he'd still want to work on a feature with me, and we were commissioned to write the script.

It was my first Hollywood job. I was paid the bare minimum, but I was also able to join the WGA because of the deal. I still didn't quit my day job (and wouldn't for a long time, not until the movie was really shooting in Alabama the following year) but I was off to the races.

Once the script was done, Oculus would lead to my first agents (at APA, and they treated me very well) and my first "real" movie.

What's particularly neat about this time, looking back, is that I owe it all to Absentia. We'd made this tiny little movie to try to kick open the door of Hollywood and start a career. And despite the enormous pride I had in the finished film, it felt for a long time like it hadn't quite succeeded in that.

But quietly, subtly, the movie did exactly what I hoped it would. The festival screenings built up a small but confident word of mouth. The movie led directly to my attorney Joel (who still represents me to this day), which led directly to my first real representation, which led directly to Intrepid Pictures.

Trevor Macy is now my business partner and has produced every single thing I've ever made since. We run Intrepid Pictures together, and I see that same eagerness in the faces of young filmmakers who find their way to us for general meetings. I try to be as supportive and accessible to them as I possibly can, because I remember very well what it feels like to stand in their shoes.

And Trevor even ended up making those other pitches he'd rejected all those years ago - Before I Wake and Gerald's Game followed soon after Oculus was done.

Absentia did everything I could have wanted it to do, and much more. I'll always remember that period of time with great affection... but man, it was stressful. The uncertainty of those years still exists in me, I don't think it'll ever leave.

Someone told me, along the way, that there wouldn't be a moment when I realized I "made it." It would happen while I wasn't looking. That ended up being absolutely true.