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Thursday, April 24th:

(exclusive): Étoile (APrime, ballet dramedy series premiere, all 8 eps), YOU (netflix, season 5 available, all 10 eps, series finale)

(streaming weekly): "I, Jack Wright" (BritBox, series premiere, first 2 eps), Black Snow (SundanceNow|AMC+, season 2 opener, first 2 eps), Happy Face (Para+, penultimate), Law & Order: Organized Crime (Peacock), Leverage: Redemption (APrime), Ruthless (BET+, season 5 finale), [LATER in primetime]: Pop the Balloon LIVE (netflix), Hacks (MAX)

(also new): "Playing with Fire" (LMN, original movie, 2hrs)

(hour 1): Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (CBS) / . / Ghosts (CBS), Hudson & Rex (UPtv), Next Level Chef (FOX), "Police 24/7" (theCW)

(hour 2): Elsbeth (CBS, new timeslot), Farmer Wants a Wife (FOX), Crime Nation (theCW), Top Chef (BRAVO, ~95mins+)

(hour 3): SurrealEstate (SyFy), Top Chef (BRAVO, contd)

[repeats, resuming next week: Law & Order (NBC), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), Found (NBC) ] [preempted, returning next week: 9-1-1 (ABC), Doctor Odyssey (ABC), Grey's Anatomy (ABC) ]

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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 5/ Episode 9 "Four Minutes" – Recap and Review (with Spoilers) | Finale https://tinyurl.com/2jwndpzg

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Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls- Swan Song-Part 6- Salty Nears Her Retirement

I am preparing for the end of Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls. It's been 2 and a half+ years on Tumblr but I must retire the series. It's mostly Lorelai's fault that the show has become unwatchable. Fuck Lorelai Gilmore. If a combination of boredom, a whim to write again, and enough fortitude to suffer through the misery that is the back half of this season somehow get the best of me in the future I'll crank out another episode, perhaps. idk. We’ll see. When we last left her, She-Demon From The Pits of Dean-Blowing Hell Lorelai Q Gilmore was giving Rory the third degree about Rory potentially engaging in driveway/ front lawn intercourse with Jess. Alas, he will never be so lucky. Emily and Rory are sitting around waiting for Mr Blue Balls to show up. He's late of course, because he's fighting a vengeful swan who's actually the zombie of his fuckbuddy he murdered, on his way home from Walmart. Me sitting here thinking how he managed to encounter Swan Shane when he is supposed to be coming to dinner on his way home from work. Did he make a detour to Stars Hollow on the way home or did the Beakening happening before he got to work that day? And then he had to put up with ribbing about his black eye from the other Forklfiters? And since it’s a Friday, did he go to school like that or just ditch? Huh. So many questions. Emily: There was a big tie up on the 84 (highway) earlier. He's probably smack dab in the middle of that. Sure. Sure. A Traffic jam.

Rt 84 is a real highway in Connecticut that actually does lead to the Walmart in Hartford. You know I had to google that shit. Apparently, Rt 84 is also known as "The Yankee Expressway." It briefly crosses the border into New York state. It is an approximately 3 hour drive from Rt 84 to Locust Street in Philadelphia (162 miles). Emily helpfully suggests calling Jess on his cellphone, and he does not have one. That's what you think, Rory. He had one, but after the dance marathon when he was throwing Shane's limp body into the lake, he dropped it, and his phone insurance plan didn't cover Acts of Axe Murder. Swan Shane found it and has been racking up a hefty long distance bill.

This cracked me up. He doesn't "believe" in cellphones. Well, the man has a philosophy. Like Uncle like Nephew, I suppose, but Luke and Jess are going to have to get with the times. It's going to be hard to be a low level drug dealer with Tawd and run a publishing company and keep track of all your conquests as a raging manwhore without a phone, Jess. One of your book groupies is DTF and you're gonna tell her to booty call you on your landline, lol.

SO much better. Mmm. Mm, where was I?

Jess Mariano, winning the favor of old people by adopting his Uncle's Amish ways. Then quickly losing said favor of old people. Emily predicts a future where "Robots will carry people from place to place." Like...a self driving car? Or a home robot that physically picks you up and carries you from room to room and tucks you into bed? AmyShermanPalladino is a visionary, regardless. Emily is so excited to meet Jess. Le sigh. Nothing in this show can ever Not Be A Disaster. Gilmore Girls' alternative title is The Nothing Is Ever Not A Disaster Show. It's fine since I'm quitting this show anyway.

"I put up my horny hair for this?"

I see he wore his best Thrift Store Dumpster coat to dinner (it's last appearance. Good riddance). If only Shane was still alive, she could have helped you put on some concealer over that bruise. But you had to hack her body into chop suey with an axe.

Emily seems to...not notice the Beak Mark? Or she is being hella polite? She doesn't even flinch.

Yeah. Yeah. We know who he is. Jess must have drove there in a blind stupor because when he shows up again in season 6 to this same exact house, he doesn't remember who lives here. A couple of good swan kicks to the head will affect your memory I suppose.

Not gonna lie, I'd be doing the same thing as Rory and badgering him about it all night too. Emily casually asks "is this new" and "Does it hurt" like she expects all of Rory's boyfriends to come to dinner with black eyes. It's just an average Friday.

Of course you're fine, baby. *pets his head*

That ol' "The Yankee Highway was jammed" chestnut.

Emily expresses her fears of men who drive big trucks as they are "hopped up on bennies and goofballs." Not me having to google what sort of drug a goofball is... "A goofball is a simultaneous co-injection of methamphetamines and opioids.” I'd ask how Emily knows this, but those old rich society people know their drugs. Jess is thinking how does this old lady know more about drugs than I, the future low level drug dealer? I never said Jess was a good drug dealer, that's why he never rose through the ranks and Tawd fired him.

I feel this is a reasonable line of questioning...and I was gonna say, maybe you should believe him that he didn't get into a fight, and let it go, but he did lie to you again later and say he got whacked in the face with a football by one of his nonexistent friends...and you believed him...anyway I don't know where I was going with this. Rory is clearly too horny to think straight right now. She's got some crazy Dick Fog. You could tell her the moon was made of cheese right now and she'd ask what kind. (she likes Parmesan).

I will not have any more of this I-84 slander! And get this thirsty axe murderer a drink, will you?

No, baby. This is not your beloved Hot Dog Stand that nourished you with love and heavily salted meats throughout your childhood when your mother wouldn't.

Me, robotically: Milo Ventimiglia is a lifelong vegetarian.

This sounds so ominous. Does Jess eat his victims after he axes them? He couldn't look, sound and act like more like a murderer n this scene if he tried. Emily: I don't know how anyone can resist eating meat! Jess: It's why we have teeth. Stop it you two. You're scaring me. Emily (To Rory) This one eats anything! Jess (thinking) I wish that one was eating my meat right now. Emily remarks that Rory and Lorelai are a "medical marvel" because they are not bloated like whales for the amount of junk food they eat. Jess thinks back to his childhood opening his lunchbox at school to find his mom packed cigarette ash sandwiches.

Thank you, servant. Get that coat out of here. I am sad that if I quit writing I won't get to his Employee of the Month ceremony (definitely one of the greatest moments in the entire show)

His WalMart manager was the only person who ever truly believed in his potential.

Emily imagines that Walmarts are "Wonderful stores". She's never been inside a Walmart, but she owns stock in the company. Employees of The Mart frequently wish for the sweet embrace of death. If Emily Gilmore ever stepped foot in a Walmart, she would combust. Sooo many Poors.

At least you have a choice where you want to be buried. Shane was not so lucky.

Yes, I too am curious about when The Beakening happened.

He looks terrifying. Rory, you better end your line of questioning or you're going to end up at the bottom of the lake with Bloaty too. He's got a fork and he's not afraid to use it!

Rory of course accuses Jess of getting into a fight with Dean. I lost my bingo card when my old computer was fried a few weeks ago, but I'll symbolically mark off a Rory is Still Preoccupied With Dean square. Dean Dean Dean, blah blah blah.

Yep. Who died and made Dean King of Gilmore Girls. AmyShermanPalladino, I guess (she's not dead). Alright, this spat calls for a Play By Play. Rory refuses to believe Jess that his shiner didn't come from Dean. Jess accuses Rory of sabotaging his attempt to make a "Quasi positive" impression on her grandmother. Say QuasiPositive 3x fast! Jess is only here as a favor to Rory. He does not want to be here. He won this dinner in a badly executed trade for one of Rory's crappy used books and a tongueless peck on the lips that wasn't worth a nickel. Jess complains about raisins in the salad. Back at the pond, Shane complains that she misses being a human, but she would beak Jess again for a piece of his salad, including the raisins. Raisins are like swan crack. Rory asserts that since Jess didn't deny he was sucker punched by Dean in his "Whole speech" (of about 10 seconds) it must mean its true. Jess bemoans that everyone should leave him alone.

Wielding a sharp fork in his hand, Jess gives Rory a chilling homicidal glare. Emily returns to the table. Salty will continue this gripping dinner theater saga in the next chapter because she's almost out of room.

[frazzledsoul]

Asking a few people their thoughts on this! Sticking only to the original series run, excluding AIYTL and excluding any visions you may have heard AmyShermanPalladino herself had for this scenario, what is your personal vision of what would have happened to Jess and Rory had Milo not left the show at the end of s3? Would they still have broken up at the end of season 3, then gotten back together later, or stayed together? Are they going to somehow date the entire time Rory is at Yale (it's incredibly unlikely he's going to go to Yale with her, so what are they going to show him doing in his early 20's pre-Truncheon?) Some arc where their relationship is more on and off and they date other people? Thoughts please.

So I'm not sure what Amy was thinking asking Milo to sign that big contract. I can't imagine that there ever would be a compelling reason for Jess to stick around Stars Hollow, and while she might be willing to invent a workplace and some co-workers for Truncheon for a single episode of the show, it's highly unlikely she's going to want to do that as a plot thread full time if those characters are never going to interact with anyone else on the main set. It's just not plausible.

However, putting all the logistical issues aside I don't think they would have stayed together. I think the class issues alone would probably have defeated them and Jess needed to go out and develop his own identity. He can't do that if he's just the guy on the fringes of her (more boring) story. He needed to figure out who he was on his own. And that entire story was probably too much for this show.

However, if ASP had kept Milo around I guess she wouldn't have had to inflict Jason (sorry Jason) and his scintillating insurance industry storylines on us as an excuse not to hook up Luke and Lorelai.

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#frontmezzjunkies reports:

#MichaelUrie will rejoin #SuttonFoster in the #Broadway bound revival of #OnceUponAMattress

the #MaryRodgers #musical adapted by #AmyShermanPalladino and directed by #LeardeBessonet

Urie Re-joins Foster In the Broadway-L.A. Revival Of "Once Upon A Mattress"

https://frontmezzjunkies.com/2024/05/29/urie-re-joins-foster-in-the-broadway-l-a-revival-of-once-upon-a-mattress/

(via Urie Re-joins Foster In the Broadway-L.A. Revival Of "Once Upon A Mattress")

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WIG REVIEW: THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL

You guys, I finished watching this and yes, it is marvelous! But as a huge fan of Gilmore Girls, I would expect nothing less from the Sherman-Palladinos. And Mrs. Maisel is much like Gilmore Girls in that they both have alliterative titles and are about fast-talking, smart, funny, pretty, impulsive, and usually self-destructive women. The differences are that Mrs. Maisel is set in 1958 and therefore doesn’t include as many pop-cultural references per second (though it does include many phrases that no one uttered in 1958 - I’m almost ready for someone to say “turnt” in one of these episodes….get it together Amy S-P!) and Mrs. Maisel (Midge if you’re nasty) has the opposite of a close relationship with her kids (to the point where I might actually want to call child services?). BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WIGS? Let’s discuss.

As Midge Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan is pretty marvelous (with a title like this, I guess marvelous is the adjective to always use?) and very pretty and pretty funny. Her wig, however, is total nonsense. Despite every scene of this 50s explosion of a show looking like it cost ALL THE MONEY, as usual, the wig budget seems to be bupkis. 

In some shots, this monstrosity is hidden under a hat or headband which covers the main issue of the subpar texture and seamwork. 

But for the most part, the flaws are right out in the open, just as any flawed Sherman-Palladino heroine would have it? 

Seriously, though, it’s bad, and as the season progresses, it gets worse and worse. The texture is so dried out and the part is just downright awful.

I think the only time Midge’s hair looks ok is when she’s been out in the rain on a bender (same?)

It should be mentioned that Midge’s mom also has a wig and it’s not as bad but it’s also not great. Tony Shalhoub as Midge’s dad is REALLY GREAT THOUGH. Also Kevin Pollack plays Midge’s father-in-law and I’m just really glad he’s getting work even though he has to suffer through a flashback wig sequence that I couldn’t find a picture of but that is probably for the best since as usual men’s wigs are always the worst.

Speaking of the worst, Midge’s husband/soon-to-be-ex-husband (?) Joel is absolutely the worst. I didn’t include a picture of him on this blog (instead please enjoy another pic of the wonderful Tony Shalhoub) because I hate him so much. Even more than I hated Lorelei Gilmore’s ex (AND THAT IS A LOT). At one point, someone calls him Sal Mineo (SICK BURN) and I truly hope that in Season 2 he goes the way of Sal Mineo - aka I hope he’s stabbed to death in a dark alleyway and then 40 years later his name is used as a comic punchline. Too harsh? Nope, this character is the pits. 

However, Alex Borstein as Susie, Midge’s manager is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL AND DESERVING ALL THE AWARDS. Not only does she deliver the Sal Mineo sick burn but about 1000 sick burns per episode. I’m also a sucker for any narrative involving two women from opposite walks of life becoming friends and realizing their own potential through said friendship. AMEN SISTERS. STILL, LOOK AT THAT EFFING AWFUL WIG ON MIDGE.

In conclusion, do yourself a favor and watch this show because it’s really charming and wonderful despite its flaws (MUCH LIKE ANY AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO HEROINE), however one of its major flaws is the wigs. Throw some more $$ at the wig budget next season, Amazon! Lord knows I throw enough $$ on random orders of crap every week for you to afford it! Put it on my tab!

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AMY IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 5/ Episode 7 "A House Full of Extremely Lame Horses" – Recap and Review (with Spoilers)

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls, Season 3, Episode 13- Dear Emily and Richard-Part 2

Lorelai receives a call at the inn from some old fogey who wants them to host his retirement party, but he can't settle on a theme for the party. Michel, much like Jess moments earlier, is triggered by a minor work inconvenience and unveils a detailed plot to first hobble his knees then bury the man alive in what is turning out to be a dark, dark timeline. And we haven't even gotten to Crusty yet. It's a pre Halloween horror fest!

Lane is just hanging out at the inn for some unknown reason, helping Lorelai make decorations? And listening to Michel's gruesome murder plans and not saying a word. Meanwhile Lorelai has sent Rory on a mission to fetch Dean. Oh, here they are now!

Get it? It's a Big Red Flag! Teehee! Rory shows up with an invitation to Creepy Sherry's Scheduled C Section Extravaganza.

February 7th! Hey, that's my birthday! Welcome to this cruel cruel world, Gigi, my fellow Aquarius. Your mother is Absent Sherry and your father is Absent Crusty and Rory is your Completely Uninterested Absent Sister. Oh boy are you fucked! Good luck!

*SIGH* *opens Googs* Laura Mercier is apparently a brand of makeup. It still exists today, and now that I've made the connection, it does sound vaguely familiar. Demerol is a painkiller.

Yah, that's the spirit, Rory. Much enthusiasm. Gigi would be 21 this year. Maybe Gigi also pulled a Jess, booked a good therapist in her late teens, threw off the shackles of her childhood trauma, and made millions with some kind of art at a young age so she could shrug "She's sort of my sister" about Rory while rolling around on a waterbed covered with 8 million dollars. Jess:"Rory is sort of my cousin."

Crossing off "Delicious Looking Fake Food" and "Millennial Pop Culture Reference" From my Bingo Card. Actually, we have a rapid fire 4x MCPR (Millennial Pop Culture Reference) blitz in under a minute. As always, there is likely some underlying context to these jokes that are going over my head so feel free to correct me. Let's go girls. Beanie babies-#1.

Oh stop, Lorelai. We know Rory doesn't do anything to earn money.

MCPR #2. Adrian Zmed is (was?) an actor and she is implying that he'll "do ridiculous things for money, including his whole career". Did she mean "Milo Ventimiglia"?

MCPR #3. I'm counting "another reference to a time when Amazon was only selling books" as a MPCR (Millennial Pop Culture Reference). Turns out the boxes were filled with a bunch of travel books from Emily.

MPCR #4. Paris and Nicky Hilton. The Simple Life had just come out that year. So is the joke is that like Emily & RIchard, Paris and Nicky Hilton are also Rich People Who Go To Europe? That's about where the similarities end as far as I'm concerned. Meh. I'm saying that AmyShermanPalladino could have come up with a better pair of Rich Snoots to compare E&R to. Boo! Write better jokes! Anyway, as L&R are perusing the travel books from the 80's, Lorelai starts to reminisce about her childhood while I go take a nap.

SUCH bad casting. Bleh.

Heh heh.

The big problem with Teen Crusty's actor is that besides the physical resemblance to David Sutcliffe being phoned in long distance, this geek is way too sincere and not nearly slimy enough to make me believe he's a Young Crusty/Sutcliffe. He's not some devil may care walking red flag wrecking Porsches on purpose and impregnating dopey girls on freezing cold balconies. Boo! Bad casting! BOO! He looks and sounds like he's late for a meeting to preside over the algebra club. As for the actress playing Lorelai, B for effort. She's trying. It's just that no one is really going to pull it off. You're not going to get some random young bubbly brunette actress to fill Lauren Graham's shoes and call it a day. Big shoes to fill, in my opinion. Young Crusty is shown to be the one who has to convince Lorelai to break off the shackles of rich people prison, ditch college, give a big middle finger to their parents, and run away to Europe. The only time he's shown some kind of initiative or vision for his life is when he was 16. Perhaps Lorelai is having some kind of false memory here.

They said the name of the episode in the episode, time to cross off another space on the ol Bingo Board. Cutting back to Reality, reading Rich People travel guides has made Lorelai dreamy about traveling like a rich person now, and she no longer wishes to explore Europe living like a squirrel, so hoity toity hotels it is. But she has no money. Womp womp. Cut to Chilton where Madelyn and Louise are needling Rory about Paris' boyfriend Jamie. Then another meeting of the ol Franklin. You know what that means. Time to skip skip skip to my loo!

I'll just assume "Paris and Rory sexual tension" occurs and knock that one off my bingo board too. During said sexually tense school newspaper meeting, Rory gets a call on her ancient cellphone from Creepy Sherry's work colleague to inform her that Sherry went into a labor a week ahead of her planned c section. This ride or die friend repeatedly calls Sherry's slightly early natural labor "a screw up". Creepy Sherry's psychopath colleague wants Rory to leave school, find transportation and accompany her father's girlfriend that she barely knows during her childbirth at a hospital miles away from her home.

Come on Rory. Say no to somebody's completely ridiculous, unrealistic, borderline psychopathic demands. I believe in you. You can do this...

As as personal aside, Rory accompanying Creepy Sherry during labor was one of those things I became convinced was a false memory in the long time periods between rewatches. I was certain I had dreamed it and it never really happened. This happened with a few scenes tbh. When that happens, I feel a slight sense of self-vindication. See, me? You were right me!

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“GREATNESS” portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald #michelleobama #obama #amyshermanpalladino #art #portrait #blackhistorymonth #museumofart #indystarnetwork

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Urie Re-joins Foster In the Broadway-L.A. Revival Of "Once Upon A Mattress"

#frontmezzjunkies reports: #MichaelUrie will rejoin #SuttonFoster in the #Broadway bound revival of #OnceUponAMattress the #MaryRodgers #musical adapted by #AmyShermanPalladino and directed by #LeardeBessonet

Michael Urie, Sutton Foster, and the cast of Encores’ Once Upon a Mattress. Photo by Joan Marcus. The New York Theater Report: Michael Urie Joins Cast of the Broadway Bound Revival of Once Upon a Mattress. Michael Urie, who was just on Broadway delighting us all in the revival of Spamalot, will reprise his Off-Broadway performance opposite Sutton Foster (Broadway’s Sweeney Todd) in the upcoming…