#anatomy of a scandal Netflix

[cissyenthusiast010155]

~𝓚𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓸𝓭𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓬𝓴 (𝓐𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓷𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓪 𝓢𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪𝓵) 𝓢𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷 1

[ricisidro]

If you like Designated Survivor, a political action thriller conspiracy drama on Netflix, you'll like the following shows: House Of Cards, Diplomat, Anatomy Of Scandal and Bodyguard.

The show combines House of Cards (2013) with 24 (2001) tv series which also stars Kiefer Sutherland.

[bonbonsteahive]

shondaland = iconic behavior

the impact of ms. shonda lynn rhimes needs to be studied 😭

how are THE greys anatomy, scandal, private practice, and queen charlotte all coming out of ONE pen??? the drama, the romance she can do no wrong or so it feels

a trailblazer. i love me some shonda shows. greys anatomy is my love

[ericdeggans]

Why you should care about the TV Critics Association Press Tours, even if you are not a TV critic

Back in the day, years ago, it happened with regularity: A snarky story in one of the entertainment industry trade magazines taking a shot at the Television Critics Association’s twice-annual press tours.

Before we go on, a bit of inside baseball for context: the TCA is a group of critics and journalists who cover the TV industry, and two times a year we hold a conference of sorts in Los Angeles. Loads of major TV outlets participate, rolling out press conferences, receptions, set visits and interview opportunities to promote series and projects rolling out over the next six months or so.

The most recent TCA press tour, which I attended in Pasadena, Calif. (the picture above shows me giving the group's Heritage Award to Twin Peaks during the TCA Awards July 12), concluded in the middle of last week. And, predictable as an afternoon rain shower in Florida, The Hollywood Reporter rolled out a tough piece describing “The Incredible Shrinking Press Tour.”

“Frustrations with a staid press conference format, accelerated by Hollywood belt-tightening and the COVID-era shift away from in-person gatherings, to say nothing of severe budget cuts across the media landscape, have taken a visible toll on the press tour,” read the story, which quoted unnamed publicists of TV programmers sniping about having to participate. “An event that once stretched more than two packed weeks wrapped its latest cycle on July 17 after a thin eight days. Powerhouse streamers such as Netflix, Apple and Amazon were absent, and not a single programming executive took the stage to face down the press.”

(cast of Brooklyn Nine Nine at a TCA set visit)

True enough, this year’s press tour was smaller than previous outings; the event has struggled to return after COVID sidelined much of the TV industry. But Hollywood has also been buffeted by the impact of two strikes last year and concern – so far averted – that there might be a third this year.

A surplus of TV programming, increased production costs and caution about this year’s climate has led some big projects to be delayed until next year – more than one person in the industry joked to me about the phrase many are repeating in Hollywood, hoping to “survive until 2025.” Downsizing in media has also made it tougher for journalists to find the time and financial resources to attend press conferences at a swanky hotel which stretch out over more than a week.

Turns out, there’s lots of reasons why the tour has slimmed down this year, as the industry itself recalibrates and refocuses amid lots of institutional change.

But, as someone who has attended TCA tours since 1997 – yes, I’m THAT old -- I’m here to say that the tour remains a relevant and useful part of covering the industry, despite the anonymous sniping of assorted industry types.

(Yours truly visiting The Price is Right set during a TCA tour.)

When I first began attending tour, as the TV critic for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, the event was filled with critics like me from regional papers from across the country. We were trying to give our local readers insight into an industry which came into their living rooms nightly for hours at time. And for me, the TCA tour was an invaluable crash course in modern television.

Over the years, I got to know publicists who arranged exclusive visits to the sets of ER, Six Feet Under, Sex and The City and Law & Order. I quizzed industry leaders at on the record receptions, including former CBS head Les Moonves, Fox News founder Roger Ailes, Survivor and The Apprentice executive producer Mark Burnett, FX head John Landgraf and Scandal/Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes.

When the late, lamented UPN network created a sitcom that felt a bit too close to being a veiled comedy about slavery – the show was called The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, look it up – I was there to challenge the network’s executives and its producers. When Ailes and the Fox News anchor Chris Wallace tried to deny the way the cable newschannel favored conservatives, I was there, again, with access I would never have gotten any other way.

Most recently, in February, I asked producers from The Bachelor franchise why the show has struggled to handle racial issues – leading to losing its longtime host Chris Harrison and, possibly, the show’s creator Mike Fleiss. Their eight seconds of silence before a roomful of TV critics spoke volumes and sparked headlines nationwide.

There are few other major industries in America where the people who run things are expected to regularly face a group of journalists asking questions, sometimes pointed, about the decisions they have made. Given that media is occupying an increasing portion of our lives, having a forum where the press can interrogate the work of newscasters, documentarians, reality TV producers, media executives, series showrunners and big stars in public is incredibly valuable – both to journalists and the general public.

(former ABC entertainment president Jamie Tarses faced tough questions from reporters at TCA in 1997.)

The TCA tour has drawn lots of barbs over the years, from complaints from TV outlets about how much it costs to present press conferences, receptions and special events, to criticisms about the value of promotional items given to critics (that’s been severely toned down from the time, decade ago, when one network handed me a free cellphone after a press conference. I handed it back, noting it was far too valuable a gift to accept.)

But, as a former TCA board member from many years ago, I think what really rankles some in the TV industry is how little control they have over what happens at tours. Despite loads of coaching from experienced publicists, it is tough to predict what questions will be asked during a 40-minute press session, and an off-the-mark response can resonate for a while (Besides The Bachelor producers, I remember stars like Roseanne Barr, Katherine Heigl and even Donald Trump earning lots of critical coverage from bad press tour appearances.)

Entertainment trade publications have also often cast shade on the press tour, which regularly invites legions of less powerful and more removed journalists into the kind of access they usually enjoy.

What keeps the tour going, beyond its value to TCA members, is the ever-increasing need for publicity to punch through a media environment filled with more noise, distraction and competition than ever. Those who make TV need more ways to reach consumers, and the TCA tours still offer programmers the opportunity to reach journalists who connect with millions of consumers every day.

If the TCA press tours go away, what will be left is overly stage-managed press conferences wholly controlled by the TV outlets, with access severely limited to journalists and critics in big cities like New York and Los Angeles.

I hope that doesn’t happen. Because my time at the TCA has been among the most rewarding experiences in a long career, offering a window into the TV industry that is unparalleled and always enlightening.

[destinyc1020]

I was thinking about The Winner today and it really got me thinking. Why do you suppose they don’t make erotic thrillers anymore? They were so big in the 90s, Sharon Stone built her career off of them. Do you think society has become more puritanical or Hollywood just simply doesn’t think they “sell” anymore?

🤔🤔

Does Hollywood not make them anymore, really? 🤔

"Saltburn" was kind of an erotic thriller. "Deep Water" was another erotic thriller, even though it was as cheesy and cringey as a badly-written WattPad fanfic rofl 🤣

The Netflix series "You" is an erotic thriller imo. Same with the series "Anatomy of a Scandal".

I feel like the "50 Shades" franchise is also a pretty erotic thriller as well. 🤷🏾‍♀️

I feel like Hollywood still makes them. Maybe there's just more horror movies out nowadays that those seem to be more of the focus.

[luciasina]

The interiors of Anatomy of a Scandal (2022) - Melanie Allen (production design)

📸 Ana Cristina Blumenkron - Netflix

source

[dani171]

Blog Post #6

What did the OKCupid data provide?

The online dating website OkCupid released data in regard to racism and race on its platform. OkCupid revealed that there is a certain preference when it comes to white men and women. The majority would only respond to messages from other White men and women. OkCupid then revealed that women of Asian and Hispanic descent were seeking out White men meaning they were given the option to message back people of color. This information was all mentioned in one of our readings this week "The Social Media Handbook" by Jeremy Hunsinger and Theresa Senft.

What is "Black Twitter"?

Twitter in general is a great place to find "your people" or in other words a community in which you share certain interests. In this case, we have the community of "Black Twitter" which is mentioned in our reading "The Social Media Handbook" by Jeremy Hunsinger and Theresa Senft. In this reading, we hear of a study called Pew Study which discovered that 25% of black people who are online use Twitter. It is said that the users "prioritize the performance of their racial identity" (Senft & Hunsinger, 2014). Meaning they are building a foundation/ community.

Hunsinger, J., & Senft, T. M. (2014). The Social Media Handbook. Routledge.

How is Shondaland making television normal?

Shondaland is a studio owned by Shonda Rhimes that produces hit network television shows like Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and even the Netflix's original Bridgerton. Majority of these shows have people of color as the main character which at the time these network television shows was not common. In a way the same can be said for Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte in the show is portrayed as a person of color which is not historically accurate but instead a great way to give the spotlight to people of color and the change the narrative in a positive direction. So yes, this is how Shonda Rhimes is making television normal in a positive way.

Can we control race with technology?

Technology for the majority of us is right in front of us, and what we are unaware of is the power that we have to voice our opinions online and make a difference. Applications like Twitter make it easy for others to find our posts on their feed and influence their opinion. An application not mentioned in our reading "Race After Technology" that is also a platform that can make a change is TikTok.

[justsome-di]

Nobody Ends Up Dead in a Bathtub, Everyone Keeps Their Organs: Chapter 14

Summary: Alex is an ordinary, highly-introverted office worker. He clocks in and out and goes home to his little apartment he shares with his younger sister. He hasn’t dated in years. Until his co-workers set him up on a blind date.

The only issue is he and his date are not on the same page. At all.

While  Alex thinks it’s a normal date, Damián is under the impression Alex is a  client who paid to be there. No-so-quickly, they realize something is up. It’s all a prank. Damián is a sex worker Alex’s co-workers hired as a  sick joke.

After reassuring that they’re both okay, Alex decides he wants revenge for both him and Damián. The plan is to use the stigma of sex work and start a 6-week, scandalous fake dating scheme with a big finale at the office Halloween party. Alex’s co-workers will be too horrified to try to prank him again. At least, that’s the plan.

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All Alex could offer Damián was pumpkin soup, and he offered it sheepishly. He pulled it out of his fridge with a comment that he usually went shopping on Sundays, so supplies were slow. The soup, he promised, was fresh. It had just come in the mail—he asked Damián not to ask why or how he got soup in a stained Tupperware container in the mail but to just trust him that it was fine. Eve chimed in to say that their mother was crazy about soups.

But Damián was thankful for the bowl. Alex put care into reheating it. He put it in a pot instead of nuking it in the microwave. He pulled out a white bowl with a blue rim that Damián recognized as being part of a set from Bed, Bath, and Beyond and carefully ladled the soup into it. Before he handed it to Damián, he wiped a paper towel around the rim and sides to clean up any spillage like they were in a fancy restaurant that cared about presentation.

And as the most tender thing he could do, as he was passing it to Damián’s waiting hands with whisps of steam curling up between them, Alex told Damián to be careful. It was a bit hot. He could see the slight tremors in Damián’s hands and held the bowl for a second longer than he needed to to make sure Damián had a good grip on it. Their fingers overlapped for a single breath.

It turned out to be homemade by Alex’s mother, so Damián couldn’t sneakily Google what was in it. He couldn’t look at the calorie count and factor it into what else he had eaten that day, but he knew pumpkin soup was usually a safe food. It was almost always low in calories and high in vitamins or something, so it wasn’t a waste of whatever calories it had. He could easily sit down with it as Eve found Pretty Woman on Netflix and not be weighed down by guilt.

The dull headache he had had all day was gone by the time Julia Roberts stormed back into the high-end shop. Maybe eating regularly was good. He was reaching the same conclusion he always did after a few weeks of fasting now that he was at peace on Alex’s couch. It wasn’t worth it, and it was unhealthy, and he could enjoy things more when his head wasn’t foggy and his insides weren’t cramping with hunger pangs.

If he had a nickel for every time he see-sawed between recovery and relapse. 

“Is any of his accurate?” Eve asked him, waving her hand towards the TV.

“It’s accurate in the way Grey’s Anatomy is probably accurate to real hospitals,” Damián said.

“Ooh. Got it.”

Damián was happy to be sandwiched between the siblings. Even if Alex was as stiff as a board, almost afraid to let any part of him touch Damián.

He could smell Eve’s shampoo or face wash or whatever hygiene products were clinging to her. It was a neutral soapy scent. If Damián could tilt his head in the right direction, he could still smell the lavender scent that had come from Alex all night. It was always interesting, as an escort and sex worker, for Damián to learn his client’s scents.

Diego smelled like classic men’s colognes and deodorants. That thick, masculine stuff that billowed from bathrooms. No matter how much anyone paid for any bottle, it all smelled the same to Damián.

One client from the week wore a tacky scent so strong that almost made Damián gag. It was sandalwood-y. It was like he had rolled around in a Lowe’s before meeting Damián in their hotel room. The scent had been stuck in Damián’s nose all the way home and, he found later, embedded into his own clothes.

There was one older man from years before who smelled like the coffee he brewed during their date. Rich, almost sweet. Damián had always hoped to smell it again, but the man was a one-time client.

Damián was finally warm with the soap and lavender around him. The restaurant had been so cold, and the temperature had finally started to plummet outside. A chill had burrowed deep inside him early that evening and had refused to leave despite his jacket, despite a cup of coffee at the restaurant. It was Alex and Eve radiating their body heat on the cramped couch that made him feel better.

“It’s a little offensive with the whole Pygmalion thing,” Damián went on. “She has to change to be ‘proper’ or whatever. I think if I fell in love with someone, I’d want them to want me as I am. And I wouldn’t want to be bought out of my profession so I could live with some rich guy and never worry about money again.”

“Aw,” Eve groaned. “You spoiled it!”

“How else did you think it was going to end?”

“I thought she was going to end up a really high-end sex worker. Like she was going to get all these connections with Richard Gere’s colleagues.”

“That would be a good ending, for sure.”

Alex took Damián’s empty bowl and walked it to the sink. Damián hoped he was enjoying the movie and that he hadn’t come into Alex’s home late at night to show him a bad film. Especially after Alex had insisted on taking care of him. No one had ever been so determined to feed him before. No one had cared so much or seemed to take notice that Damián wasn’t eating much.

Damián didn’t feel the need to self-destruct. Alex was kind and genuine enough that Damián didn’t want to retaliate and be moody. The fire inside Damián that had usually made him snap at people who cared about him was extinguished before it could grow larger than a smolder.

When Alex sat back down, Damián wiggled a little closer to him. Alex relaxed a little. The couch was small. It was a modest, little thing that Damián suspected Alex had bought. It looked a little too new to have been left in the apartment for multiple tenants, and the cotton-blend upholstery screamed some level of practicality that Damián thought was characteristic of Alex.

The entire apartment was decorated with the organization of someone who intensely Googled how to stay organized in a one-bedroom apartment and took Marie Kondo’s advice to heart. Where Eve hadn’t put her own touch of chaos around the place, there were endearingly tiny containers and plastic-woven baskets. Alex had put forth the effort to keep his cramped space tidy, but he lacked an innate sense of interior design. 

Damián would have loved to add a splash of color here or there. He could switch the gray baskets with a forest green. Where Alex had placed a bookshelf that was sturdy, large, and black, Damián would swap it with a more sleeker, wood shelf. It wouldn’t hold as much, but it would open some space in the apartment. There wasn’t much on the shelves, anyway. There were some books but not many. It seemed to be there natively to hold a few framed pictures and the aforementioned baskets.

Damián let his legs spread. His knee hit Alex’s.

He didn’t know what he was doing. Alex was a client. And Damián had to remind himself he couldn’t fall for the first guy who was nice to him outside of appointments.

Though, knowing he was Eve’s brother made him feel a little differently about it all. Eve was kind and sweet and smart. Alex had to have been those things, too.

The movie ended. Eve was scrolling on her phone, knees tucked up under her and oblivious to the end credits. Alex watched the names roll across the screen.

“Did you like it?” Damián asked.

“Yeah!” Alex said, and Damián believed him. “The attempted rape scene was kinda a lot.”

“It was,” Damián sighed, and he left it at that.

“But I like how he asked her to stay at the end only if she wanted to.”

“Yeah! It’s one of my favorite parts. Consent is good.”

The movie had its flaws, but Damián loved the fairytale part of it. A man who genuinely cared for her whisking her off of her feet, kissing her. He could only dream of that happening to him.  

“Um.” Eve stared at her phone, eyebrows screwed together. “Did Richard Gere fuck a gerbil?”

“Old urban legend,” Damián said, quickly, dismissively.

“Why would he do that? How didn’t he get in trouble for animal cruelty?”

“Do you not know what an urban legend is?” Alex asked.

There was a bite to Alex’s tone that made Damián suspect that he wanted to hurl an insult toward Eve.

“Gerbiling aside,” Damián said, “Eve, what did you think?”

“I don’t get the part where she said she didn’t finish high school,” Eve said. “It felt like they were implying people who go into sex work aren’t educated, and I know for a fact that that’s not true.”

“It’s a diverse field. I know some people who didn’t finish high school.”

“But you were pre-med, weren’t you?” Eve asked. “That’s my only frame of reference.”

“I’m sorry,” Alex said. “You were pre-med?”

“That’s just a fancy way of saying I took a lot of science classes in college and applied to med school,” Damián said, quick to try to end the conversation there.

Alex turned fully to Damián. “You applied to med school?”

“Yeah.” Damián wanted to hide away. He didn’t want Alex to think of him any differently, that he had “potential” for something else. That was how the conversation usually went. “I did.”

“Why didn’t you go?”

“That was their decision. Not mine. No one accepted me.”

“Why not?”

“They don’t really tell you why, but I’ll be honest.” Damián sighed. “My name is Damián Muñoz. I think if it was something—you know, different, I would probably have gotten in. I had great grades and test scores and internships, but they still didn’t accept me.”

Eve winced. Anger briefly flashed across Alex’s face.

“That’s their loss,” Alex said. “Fuck them. I think you would have made a good doctor.”

“I wanted to be a psychiatrist.” Damián held his shoulders square, with pride. “But I like escorting more than I think I’d like being a doctor.”

“I can see that. Not that I think you’re not smart enough to be a doctor.”

“You’re too nice to be a doctor,” Eve said. “Medicine is a flawed field. They’d corrupt you.”

“Don’t listen to her,” Alex said.

“No, I’m serious. There’s so many issues with it. And you go in, all nice and caring, and they’d make you toughen up before you got done with school.” Eve pointed her finger at Damián. “Dr. Muñoz wouldn’t be half as nice as you are right now.”

Damián knew all about the racism and sexism ingrained in medicine. He knew the issues in psychiatry. He always thought of himself as above it. He’d be able to change the field. He would be a good psychiatrist who would listen to all of his patients and prescribe them what they needed and work with them. But, like how he knew they would never take him after being a sex worker for a year, he had a feeling that he wouldn’t have fit into the field very well. Not without changing something about himself.

“I get what she’s saying,” Alex said, sounding reluctant to agree with his sister. “Escorting seems like a good fit for you.”

“I like to think so,” Damián said.

“I mean, you’d be a great doctor, but you didn’t have to take out student loans to become an escort.”

He got it.

What a relief. Alex was cool with it all. There wasn’t any pushing that Damián should have gone to med school, shouldn’t have “reduced” himself to sex work.

“But let’s not tell anyone else about it,” Damián said. “I mean at the office party. It’s hard to explain.”

“They wouldn’t understand,” Alex said.

“Not that I think it’d come up in conversation. I don’t think anyone is going to be dressed up like a doctor and ask around who almost went to medical school.”

“If you guys weren’t going to the office party,” Eve said, “I’d tell you to come to the bookstore. We’re doing a party this year. We’ll have a ghost tour and everything. And there won’t be any dicks.”

That sounded like fun. But Damián had made an appointment with Alex, and he honored every appointment.

“The point of this is we’re going to the office to pretend to be a couple,” Alex said. “If we don’t go, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for us doing all of this.”

“Maybe we can pop in after,” Damián said. “Or I can, at least.”  

“I might, too,” Alex said.

“You won’t come,” Eve said with a sneer.

“I could! You don’t know how I’ll feel after the office party.”

Eve rolled her eyes and went back to her phone.

Damián would have loved to go to the bookstore with Alex, and then he thought that that was a dangerous thought.

“Are gerbils a gay sex thing?” Eve asked. She swiped down her phone screen with her thumb. “This is saying it’s a gay sex thing.”

Damián sighed. “It’s—first, it’s not real. No one was doing this. Don’t believe it. But the idea is—” Damián held up his fist. “Okay, Imagine this is the prostate.”

“No!” Alex knocked his fist down. “We’re not explaining gerbiling. Let Eve be ignorant.”

“I’ll just Google it later,” Eve said.

“Don’t. It won’t be worth it.”

The bickering continued. Damián smiled as lavender and fresh linens came together in front of him.

[jbaileyfansite]

Interview with Glamour Magazine UK (2020)

“Nothing says sex more than a montage,” Jonathan Bailey the new leading man on the costume drama scene jokes. We are approx. five minutes into our interview, and we have already covered the delights of mince pies, stilton and Nando’s but our attention has turned to the racy romance in Netflix’s new TV show, Bridgerton and its sex scenes.

Bridgerton, Shonda Rhimes’ (the producer behind Scandal and Grey's Anatomy) first foray into costume drama, is set in London during the Regency era and follows the trials and tribulations of the marriage market. Johnathan plays the troubled Anthony who after the death of his father is forced to assume the role of head of the Bridgerton family that contains eight close knit siblings of which Daphne - played by GLAMOUR UK cover star, Phoebe Dynevor - becomes the most celebrated catch on the scene. The resulting ‘romance’ will have your grandmother clutching her pearls, let’s just say that.

It’s certainly a career making role for Jonathan, who previously appeared in Broadchurch and Doctor Who, as well as sweeping a Laurence Olivier Award win for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his portrayal of Jamie in the 2018 West End revival of Company.

As Jonathan prepares to hit the big time – by appearing bottom first on Netflix - he talks how life is just like a boogie board - you just have to ride those waves - when it comes to dealing with your mental health and self-esteem… sounds poetic, no?

What do you think is so game changing about the way Bridgerton approaches sex and relationships?

I think romance as a genre exists on a beach holiday with a glass of rosé and it hasn't been given the respect that I think Shondaland and Netflix are now giving it on this wider platform. Inherently romance is about identity and about basic human interaction and sex is a massive part of that. With Bridgerton, you're following eight siblings, all with different wants and they'll meet people along the way, and they'll interact differently. It shows how you can exercise respect, have sex in different ways and how sex changes through relationships as they change. With the romance in this - with the amazing Sabrina Bartlett (who plays Anthony’s love interest)- one of the things that we talked about a lot was how power through sex can change. With Phoebe's character, I think the most extraordinary thing is about conversation and about how important it is for parents to talk to their children about sex so that they don't go into these situations which can be incredibly vulnerable.

I think it is a game changer. It's so important to see everything through every gaze and the female gaze in terms of sex is not something we have seen much of. Let's reassert that balance! Ultimately, we're telling it at a time where it's incredibly safe to do so because of the post #metoo era as there's intimacy coordination and because there's now a safety and there's an understanding you can tell a story through sex. Whereas before, I think it was just a white-knuckle ride, you had to just get through it, and it would be the day on the schedule that you'd be slightly terrified of.

It’s actually so shocking that we still talk about sex in 2020 and get really bashful about it…

No, I know! I was speaking to a friend the other day about sex in TV and film and we worked out it's more awkward to watch it on your own. Somehow it makes it better when you're watching it with a friend or you're in a group or you're in the cinema, because then at least it's a collective experience. I think there's an inherent curiosity about sexuality because it's linked to tribalism and knowing where you stand with people and how you interact. That's why it's always exciting. I think with period dramas - which is genre that I love - we always know that there'll be an unbuttoning of the corset and maybe a kiss at the end with a firework. But what better way to flip that genre like Shonda Rhimes has done. I think with Anthony you see his bottom first and then it pans up. There's no better way to say, ‘we see the genre and we raise you!’ Bottoms up!

For the role you worked out with a personal trainer didn’t you…

Yeah, I did. I just finished Company in the West End and then I just went on a really delicious traveling escapade, which involved just enjoying all the delicacies that I could find. When you're getting your kit off, you just want to feel confident. I also think getting into the discipline of exercise really helps when you have a long grueling schedule so exercising and getting ready for a role is more of a mental thing as well as a literal physical thing.

Having to get your body out there on screen is quite a conscious process. How does that affect your own relationship with your own body image, would you say?

Once upon a time there would always be a caveat with an audition saying there'll be nudity and you have to be okay with that. That would always sort of send a tremor up your spine, but I think actually everything I've done involves me getting my bum out, weirdly! It's something that I've become used to, but you've just got to be really careful that you're doing it for the right reasons. Of course, it does bleed into your everyday life and when you're trying to sustain something for nine months, you go through different barriers in terms of what is healthy and what isn't.

There's an element of control that comes with acting which you've just got to be really mindful of. When you start trying to control how you want to be seen or how you see yourself or how you feel on a certain day, you can get into habits. If you're self-aware enough, you can identify them as they're coming in and then continue. I can see how you can get into unhealthy thought patterns when it comes to body image, but that's why it has to be a constant conversation.

You play a new kind of costume drama leading man as he is an anti-hero is many ways isn’t he?

There's a real obsession around the ‘Darcy’ figures in literary history. Here you meet someone who is so vulnerable, susceptible to other people's opinions and society's opinions change his value system. The idea of masculinity is very important in Bridgerton, I really thought, ‘God, if you were a therapist, and you could time travel, you'd want to go to the Bridgerton’s straight away and it down with them because you'd make a fortune.’ They have literally just lost their father and Anthony becomes a viscount and head of the family within one night. This is the patriarchal system, that’s how that worked, and that has completely limited and shattered female existence. There is also a very modern sensibility of mental health in men. Hopefully he's not just a baddie and there's something quite human going on.

There are redeeming features…

Yeah, like his hair or mutton chops. I could write a thesis on how having facial hair like that can augment your sense of self within your social circles. Suddenly people are like, ‘Oh my God, are you in a band? Are you from Camden?’ It just changes the shape of everyone's face and makes it sharp.

The sideburns are like 19th century contouring!

Exactly! Your cheekbones are on fleek.

Bridgerton brings up how some men really do struggle behind the very public roles that they play. How do you look after your own mental wellbeing and what societal pressures that have put pressure on your mental health?

That's a really good question. I think there's just incredible amounts of labeling generally and as woman, as a man, as a gay man, as a mother, as a father, there's just a sense that there's opinions everywhere. And at this moment in time, that can come straight to your phone, but I know what the ‘balm’ is and for me it is having friends that you nurture you through and keeping transparency and openness. That’s not always easy and that requires work but when you get there and if you feel confident enough to be able to say how you're feeling moment to moment, you get a greater sense of your own identity.

If you do talk, sometimes you surprise yourself by how you're framing things in words, and it's completely different to how you think. My experience of any moments of real fear or trauma in certain ways is that you realize that other people have been through it. That's the power of storytelling as well as conversation. I am so lucky, and I escaped the Instagram teenage years!

I mean, MSN messenger was bad enough!

Yeah. I know – BRB and the wobbly nudge! I hated being nudged and I still hate being nudged. Who knows how self-image and self-esteem is really going to be affected going forward?

Existing authentically is the hardest battle of all really, isn't it?

Yeah! It's ebb and flow. I think it's like when you are in the sea, you've got your boogie board, if you're lucky you've got a wetsuit, and the waves are going to come, and you don't know how you're going to surf them. But as long as you know that that boogie board is yours and your pals are also down the road in the same sea then you're going to be all right because you know you're all experiencing similar waves and similar tides as them God, that was a real strong image, wasn't it?

‘Life is a boogie board,’ is truly a great way to look at life!

It’s a new mantra!

Source

[hunne-writes]

🎄Holiday Episodes🎄

Ted Lasso (Apple TV): S2E4 - "Carol of the Bells"

Bob's Burgers (Hulu): S3 E9 - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins S4 E8 - "Christmas in the Car" S5 E6 - "Father of the Bob" S6 E5 - "Nice-Capades" S7 E7 - "The Last Gingerbread House on the Left" S8 E6&7 - "The Bleakening" S9 E10 - "Better Off Sled" S10 E10 - "Have Yourself a Maily Linda Christmas" S11 E10 - "Yachty or Nice" S12 E 10 - "Gene's Christmas Break"

Grey's Anatomy (Hulu): S2 E12 - "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" S6 E10 - "Holidaze" S7 E10 - "Adrift and at Peace" S9 E7 - "I Was Made For Loving You" S9 E9 - "Run, Baby, Run" S11 E22 - "She's Leaving Home" S15 E12 - "Girlfriend in a Coma"

How I Met Your Mother (Hulu): S2 E11 - "How Lily Stole Christmas" S4 E11 - "Little Minnesota" S6 E12 - "False Positive" S7 E12 - "Symphony Of Illumination" S8 E10 - "The Over-Correction" S8 E11&12 - "The Final Page"

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Hulu): S6 E13 - "A Very Sunny Christmas"

Modern Family (Hulu): S1 E10 - "Undeck the Halls" S3 E10 - "Express Christmas" S5 E10 - "The Old Man And The Tree" S7 E9 - "White Christmas" S10 E10 - "Stuck in a Moment" S11 E9 - "The Last Christmas"

Rick and Morty (Hulu): S4 E6 - "Christmas Rick Tale"

Schitt's Creek (Hulu): S4 E13 - "Merry Christmas, Johnny Rose"

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (Hulu): S1 E15 - "Deck the Halls" S2 E12 - "Christmas Show" S4 E14 - "'Twas the Night Before Christening"

This is Us (Hulu): S1 E10 - "Last Christmas"

Friends (HBO Max): S2 E9 - "The One with Phoebe’s Dad" S3 E10 - "The One Where Rachel Quits" S4 E10 - "The One with the Girl from Poughkeepsie" S5 E10 - "The One with the Inappropriate Sister" S6 E10 - "The One with the Routine" S7 E10 - "The One with the Holiday Armadillo" S8 E11 - "The One with the Creepy Holiday Card" S9 E10 - "The One with Christmas in Tulsa"

Gossip Girl (HBO Max): S1 E11 - "Roman Holiday" S2 E12 - "It’s a Wonderful Lie"

Black Mirror (Netflix): S2 E4 - "White Christmas"

Community (Netflix): S2 E11 - "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" S3 E10 - "Regional Holiday Music"

Gilmore Girls (Netflix): S1 E10 - "Forgiveness and Stuff" S2 E10 - "The Bracebridge Dinner" S3 E10 - "That’ll Do Pig" S4 E11 - "In the Clamor and Clangor" S5 E11 - "Women of Questionable Morals" S7 E11 - "Santa’s Secret Stuff" Special - "A Year in the Life, ‘Winter’"

New Girl (Netflix): S1 E9 - "The 23" S2 E11 - "Santa" S3 E11 - "Clavado En Un Ba" S4 E11 - "LAXmas" S6 E10 - "Christmas Eve Eve"

30 Rock (Peacock): S3 E6 - "Christmas Special"

Parks & Recreation (Peacock): S2 E12 - "Christmas Scandal"

That 70's Show (Peacock): S1 E12 - "The Best Christmas Ever" S3 E9 - "Hyde’s Christmas Rager" S4 E12 - "An Eric Forman Christmas" S6 E7 - "Christmas" S7 E11 - "Winter"

The Office (Peacock): S2 E10 - "Christmas Party"

Mad Men (Prime Video): S5 E10 - "Christmas Waltz"

[in-flagrante]

Destry Allyn Spielberg’s Directing Debut Will Be ‘Please Don’t Feed The Children’; ‘Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery Starring

By Mike Fleming Jr

March 22, 2023 8:30am

Michelle Dockery is set to star in Destry Allyn Spielberg’s directorial debut, Please Don’t Feed the Children. The elevated genre feature film will begin production late April in New Mexico. Scripted by Paul Bertino, the psychological thriller is produced by Jason Dubin and his Perry Street Films, Josh Kesselman and Michael Hagerty.

In Please Don’t Feed the Children, after a viral outbreak ravaged the country’s adult population, a group of orphans heads south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret.

Spielberg, daughter of The Fabelmans helmer, will do this film before the one on which she originally expected to make her feature debut, Four Assassins (and a Funeral). The latter, a Kingsman-meets-Knives Out meets-Succession-style script by Ryan Hooper that made the 2021 Black List, will percolate a bit longer but is still in the works from Basil Iwanyk & Erica Lee’s Thunder Road Pictures. The pic will just move back as the other one was ready to go.

Spielberg won Best Thriller at City of Angels Women’s Film Festival in 2022 for her short film, Let Me Go the Right Way. She co-wrote the screenplay with Owen King, and it premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, with Hopper Penn and Brian D’Arcy James starring. Her work as an actress includes Licorice Pizza and an episode of the miniseries I Know This Much Is True.

Said Spielberg: “I am so grateful to have the opportunity to bring this story to the screen with such a collaborative and inspirational team. This picture is so much more than just a horror film. It’s a dream come true to work with a talent such as Michelle Dockery. I am excited to elevate the genre with our incredible cast and crew.”

Dockery is Emmy nominated for playing Lady Mary on Downton Abbey and its two film spinoffs. She also was Emmy-nommed for the Scott Frank-created limited series Godless and co-starred in the Guy Ritchie-directed The Gentlemen and opposite Chris Evans in the Morten Tyldum-directed Apple TV+ limited series Defending Jacob and the SJ Clarkson-directed limited Netflix series Anatomy of a Scandal. She just wrapped Stephen Knight’s six-part limited series This Town.  

Dockery is represented by WME, Anonymous Content, Hamilton Hodell and Johnson Shapiro Slewett; Spielberg is repped by WME, Sugar 23 and Gang Tyre.

[cissyenthusiast010155]

New Years Kiss ~Kate Woodstock xFem Assistant!Reader ~Holiday Bingo

Summary— A late night at Kate’s office, some scotch, and some New Year’s resolutions lead to new things… (Post Season 1).

Previous Day <—found here!

Holiday Bingo <—Here!!

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Requests & Prompt-List

Prompt- Resolutions

Warnings: light NSFW, implied smut, kissing, implied confessions of feelings, alcohol, alcohol consumption, implied age gap (all legal), etc.

Enjoy (;

You opened the bottle of scotch with a pop! And poured you and Kate each a glass.

It was late and you are both in her office. It had been a long day. Kate had spent all day arguing in court in the second Whitehall case. And you, as her new assistant, were always running to keep up with her.

You handed the woman her glass and she thanked you.

You did your best to follow what she said, keep track of her things, take notes, and learn from your mentor as best as you could. You usually ended up working insane hours, really early and then late into the night, but you liked it. But it was never easy…

Especially as her gaze racked up and down your figure as she sipped her scotch.

You sipped some of your own as a way to distract, your cheeks flushing a little. This made Kate chuckle.

“What…?”

“Nothing, you’re just adorable.” Kate hummed, taking another sip of her alcohol.

This made you blush even more.

“Am not…” you mumbled back.

“I looked at you for more than one second, and you start blushing… That’s adorable.” Kate chuckled.

You huffed in defeat, trying to avoid anymore blushing embarrassment. So you sat down in one of her lounge chairs. Kate followed and sat next to you in the loveseat. You only then noticed the time.

“Fuck Kate. It’s 1…”

Kate only then looked at the clock and her eyes widened.

“Indeed… Happy New Years, love.” She hummed, raising her glass out for you to clink.

You two clinked glasses and chuckled.

“So… any New Year’s resolutions for you?” Kate asked.

You thought about it for a moment.

“I’d… I would like to try to be less stressed.” You decidingly exclaimed.

You met Kate’s gaze after she didn’t respond for a moment after you spoke. Her gaze was fixed on your lips, but flickered back up to your eyes as you looked at her.

“You?”

“I…” Kate whispered, putting her glass down and coming closer to you, “Would like to kiss you…” she breathed out.

Your breath hitched and your eyes widened. Kate took your drink for you, putting it aside as you gulped.

“I’d very much like that…” you breathed out, your breathing already growing shallow.

This made Kate smile and lean in to close the gap. She slowly pecked your lips, starting slow and beginning to explore your lips. She bit your bottom lips every once in a while, making you shiver and causing your body to heat up more and more.

Kate’s left hand slid behind and around your neck, and her other landed on your thigh.

Her tongue then came out, swiping your bottom lip while she hummed. You understood her ask, opening your mouth enough for Kate’s tongue to enter your cavern. You let out an instinctive and breathy moan, as her tongue began to taste and explore your mouth.

It was still a slow pace, you were very much letting Kate take the lead. When she realized your hands wee frozen and unsure what to do, she guided them to her hips, humming in satisfaction when you had found her curves.

This was when you started to lose air, and Kate was as well, so she slowly pulled away. Her hooded eyes met your gaze. You breathed out a ragged breath and shivered.

There was only one thing going through your mind right now, and you could only say one thing,

“More” you whimpered.

~~~

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book club with gav! book 2: reputation

reputation by sarah vaughan

i picked this one up from the bookstore because i recognized the author, having watched and..... decently enjoyed the netflix limited series 'anatomy of a scandal' which was adapted out of another of her books. i didn't want to just read anatomy of a scandal because i'd watched the series, and i wanted to enjoy a New Story. i liked the look of it, it seemed to be dealing with some elements that i find really compelling - courtroom drama, political drama, social and journalism media, etc. reputation on the whole is something i'm a little obsessed with. thought all that sounded cool.

OVERALL IMPRESSION: gang it is not good. this is not a good book. the writing style was in DESPERATE need of an editor, with details that seemed irrelevant peppered all over, overstuffed bloated sentences that confused what was being described and why, etc. it also had a habit of utilizing a narrative trick that i think can be very fun if it's used effectively and sparingly. (i've used it myself actually, and i try to apply the same approach - use it sparingly, and make sure that it works enough to justify it.) it's this sort of like- there's probably an actual literary term for this, but it's like. retrospective narrative commentary on what's happening, 'i.e. i wouldn't know until later how bad of an idea that was, it was naive of me to trust him, at the time i believed him, this would come back to bite me when, etc'. this book used this so fucking often that it didn't just foreshadow future events including twists, it just. flat out told you what they were all going to be, leaving you able to predict beat for beat what was going on like 75% of the time. the povs were ineffectively deployed, and half of them didn't need to exist. the timeline jumping was fun for me but i can see that it would be hard to track if you weren't specifically watching it like i was. i didn't like the characters. any of them. the protagonist was infuriating and not in a fun way. and the overall promised thing that was the most compelling about the dust jacket - the way it stated the protagonist "is a liar" played out in the most boring way possible. the most interesting information came at the very, very end in the last, extremely short portion of the book that was effectively an epilogue, and it wasn't set up well.

now. in order to contextualize my thoughts about this book it is necessary to like..... go into a plot synopsis. it’s an EXTENDED plot synopsis. so that and my thoughts will be below the cut. general cw for this book that it's a murder mystery, so there's that, and this discussion of it will include brief and nondescriptive references to a mentioned suicide (we don't even know the character, he's related to a very small side character), revenge porn and nonconsensual nude pictures that are nonconsensually distributed, and some discussion of sexual assault/predatory relationships.

plot summary! so the plot of the book can be summarized this way: protagonist, emma webster, is a member of british parliament. she's a labour mp. she's an advocate for women's rights and feminist issues specifically, and has a current agenda about an anti-revenge porn bill. because of her advocacy, she sees a LOT of online harassment and threats of a truly vile nature, and some twitter threads and social media posts are included in the book. i love this sort of thing (the media threads), but i wish they'd done more with it. she is divorced and has a 14 year old daughter. her ex-husband is remarried to a former friend of hers from when she was a teacher. she is working with a specific journalist on this revenge porn bill. she lives part time in a home in her constituency, and part time in a home she shares with two other female mps close to parliament in london. events go down as follows, though i'm not 100% clear on the timeline, because this book had 45 plots. - protagonist is getting threats, she thinks her daughter is unaware of them, is mostly brushing them off while also being super intensely freaked out about them - daughter is having trouble at school: she's being bullied by an ex-friend who among other things has an instagram making fun of her - protagonist has a particularly angry and frightening interaction with a scary man from her constituency who's mostly mad he thinks she doesn't care about veterans issues because she doesn't talk about or campaign on them - threats she's receiving amp up, she starts to get texts direct to her mobile - she is freaking out constantly about her security and whether she’s safe at home. thinks every man she sees is going to throw acid in her face, which is both reasonable as a fear (genuine heightened threat to female politicians) and unreasonable as a fear (white women who consume too much true crime and think every single person in the universe is personally trying to serial kill them specifically complex). - she fucks the journalist and then immediately is like hm i should not have fucked that journalist, immediately ends the relationship and basically ghosts him, they don't even work together professionally after that. - the morning after she fucks the journalist she finds out daughter has taken secret nudie pics of her ex friend in order to teach that ex friend a lesson about...... being a bully and also too proud of her body? i guess???? and sent it to the boy her ex friend likes. the police are involved. it could be a child porn charge bc both girls are 14. the boy is 16. - this is gonna be really fucking bad for the protag and for daughter if it gets out to the news, especially given protag is campaigning against revenge porn and uh... well... this is similar enough it's gonna be hugely bad. - protagonist is obsessed and anxious to pieces about the possibility of this leaking - the daughter isn't actually charged, she just sort of gets suspended from school and then sent to another unit in the school for problem studentsTM. literally this is all of the consequences the daughter sees for her behaviour. that’s the whole thing. - threatening texts are persisting, protagonist thinks Angry Man Constituent is stalking her, bc he is, we see this in... his pov for some fucking reason - journalist lets protagonist know that he's been tipped off about a story involving the daughter that they can't print for legal reasons but if she works with them, they can spin it well - protagonist flips shit - she then concludes journalist is also stalking her. his paper posts pictures of her taking the trash out and is like She Seems Stressed! she takes this as an indication that he personally and specifically is stalking her and hates her and wants to take her down and ruin her daughter’s life, thinks there is a coded message in the article about her daughter. - journalist turns up dead (he's badly hurt in her home, dies in hospital) - protagonist goes on trial for his death - she initially tells the cops and her friends and Everyone that she came home and found him at the bottom of the stairs. turns out this was a lie. she pushed him. trial is basically on whether it was murder or self defense. - trial occurs, she is acquitted, important detail we learn is that the journalist got a message from a FB account he thought was her inviting him to the house. big part of the trial was that he was just There when she got home and she thought he was there to like. attack her or smth. - things we learn after the trial in the last like, 40-ish pages of the book: - the angry man constituent comes to the trial and yells at her when she's acquitted that his son (a vet) has died by suicide, and is then arrested and given a non-contact order - the threatening texts were not coming from him, they were coming from her daughter's ex-friend now-bully's mom? i guess? - her daughter is the one who sent the message inviting the journalist to the house in her mom's name. she wanted to talk to him, convince him not to run the story because she figured it was on her to handle the situation for some reason. - journalist got "x-rated" photos from a former university lecture section tutor of protagonist from when she was like 19 and in a sexual relationship with him (a pretty predatory one it seems) that will destroy the former tutor now-professor and political pundit's reputation (which would be a good thing, he sucks). this will also be devastating for protagonist (bad, yikes, bro, no). he wants to offer to protagonist that if she will work with them on that story, which will also prop up the point they're making together about her anti revenge porn bill, he will bury the thing with the daughter entirely. - this is what he was coming to talk to her about that day, and this is why she pushed him down the stairs. because she did. it's made clear in the last bit that she very much did Panic And Murder Him. - the reason the daughter didn't get there in time to be there first, why the protagonist got there first and this all happened, and there was so much confusion over who invited him there and why and all that, is that her train was delayed bc of. the constituent's son's suicide. whoof. - the step-mom knows what the daughter did. - none of this....... ever comes out i guess? it all kind of fizzles. that's it that's the book.

oKAY. now for: my thoughts.

fuck this book sucked so bad.

it was so distracted. it could not decide what it wanted the plot to be, or what it wanted the twists to be, or what they wanted to focus on, and it made all of its contents so much more muddled because of that. i was so thrown by the angry man constituent because literally the only relevance he actually ended up having to the story was as a direct case representation of the way the protagonist was being harassed and stalked and that his son's suicide was what delayed the daughter from getting there before the protagonist got home and found the journalist there. WE GOT HIM AS A POV CHARACTER. WHY? WHY DID WE NEED THAT???? all the stuff with the daughter was so unclear too? everyone here is an unreliable narrator which is fine but the way that they were unreliable was so like....... confused and muddled and nonspecific. did the daughter and the protagonist drop the ex-bff when protag got elected and ice her out? did ex-bff stop talking to the daughter for no reason and then get mean to her For No Reason? i have genuinely, honestly, really no fucking idea. and it's all like this. two characters will have wildly different perceptions of an event or a string of events, and there is NO clarity on which of them is right. which like, i'm struggling to articulate my issue with this, because that's a narrative choice you can make, but i think it does a disservice when we just... all of them are like this? they're all the same amount of unreliable, which makes it completely impossible to tell who actually IS unreliable, and there's just no way to know what actually fucking happened in this fucking book. i like an unreliable narrator. i don't like not knowing what the hell happened in a book like. On The Whole. there's no follow-through. there's no contextualization. there's no way to anchor any of it to reality. it made me nuts.

the protagonist was self-centred, sanctimonious, boring, and non-committal. there was nothing likable about her, either as a person or as a protagonist. she took so little action in her own life, and there was like... the lying that i was promised in the dust jacket didn't pan out in any kind of interesting way. she lied about finding the journalist at the bottom of the stairs when really she pushed him, but this is revealed so fast it barely matters, and the rest of the book has two small instances of what seems to be her misremembering minor interactions with other characters and saying something didn't happen when it did, and then being Seen As A Liar because she. lied about the initial finding the journalist. and then i guess not disclosing the things with the pics of her and her ex-tutor but... it just. didn't pan out in a way that was at all interesting. everyone else also sucked but it was never clear how much? the daughter's step-mom was like everyone thinks of me as the Other Woman and it's not fair 😠 and the journalist was doing some shitty journalism things though nowhere near as much as protagonist thought and the daughter did some shitty things too and never had any kind of sympathetic impression to me.

there was what i referred to often as like, milquetoast girlboss feminism all over this book. it was STEEPED in it. the whole thing was like, a thesis on how dangerous it is to be a female politician, which, yes! this is SO true! but it had nothing to say about that reality except that it exists, and there was also like... idk it felt very like, this is a perspective and landscaped shaped by White Girl True Crime in a lot of ways? she was obsessed with her own risk and this was never examined in any way. a lot of it was legitimate and real and a lot of it wasn't. she thinks every single person she interacts with is out to get her- specifically every man, which okay, i can get that. but also like... it caused her to lash out at everyone she knows, freak her daughter out, be unreasonable and cruel to her roommates. she had a simultaneous need to think she was two seconds from being murdered at all times and also to act to everyone around her like everything was fine, while also expecting them to take every concern she had immediately seriously at defcon 1. this was never unpacked. she wore a well behaved women rarely make history shirt in the second paragraph, talked about The Trolls all the time, and the book quoted harry potter in the daughter's section. it made weird and uncomfortable choices with race, when it engaged with race at all. just. overall hm.

here is an example of the way that race is dealt with here, in a section where the protagonist is about to be cross-examined by the crown prosecutor.

lot going on HERE huh! and it is all completely unexamined. yikes!

and then there’s this - the only other time when a character is identified as a person of colour. it’s a very uncomfortable thread where the like. it girl, most popular kid in school who the protagonist's daughter's friend abandoned her to suck up to is the only other identified character of colour in this book aside from this prosecutor and the daughter is repeatedly - REPEATEDLY - referred to as, and i’m directly quoting here, “an english rose.” she’s just so pale and thin you see. that’s why she’s so bullied, you see. because she’s so so so white. and so so so sooooooo thin. qualities well known to cause bullying in high school students- anyways. here’s the description of the most popular girl in school. who the daughter’s friends abandoned her for.

once again! YIKES! LOT going ON here! let’s unpack some of it shall we! (putting aside some of the... cringeworthy attempts at a grownass woman trying to emulate the slang of current day 14 year olds. i know it’s been eleven years since i was 14 but “bae-girl” is Nothing and im embarrassed for her just reading it. a lot of her Teen Talk has sounded good and natural but this is NOT it and her texting slang was atrocious.)

anyways. so. idk how it plays off to have your protagonist’s redheaded extremely pale skinned “english rose” daughter set up to be the target of social ostracism and bullying because her friends all chose trying to get close to the school’s super popular It Girl, who is described Like That. i think Not Good! not that there are never school hierarchies that fall down these lines but way these descriptions are presented and the language around them plus the whole “you an author are making up the social landscape here and are making some questionable choices villainizing a “confident, mean, hard” brown girl in contrast to the sensitive and delicate extremely pale white girl”” thing is like……. there are choices being made and i don’t like them.

and then there’s the ex best friend herself. who the daughter took the creepshot of and sent it to the boy the exbff likes. who is described like this (content warning for some SURPRISE! fatphobia as well!)

Flora hated her for this. She hated her for being so comfortable with her body. Despite her rounded tummy and the fat bulging over her bra, she liked herself enough to parade around the changing room, her double-Ds shoved up, her head tilted to one side.

i would like to remind the court at this time that this is the same ex-bff who is apparently basing a large part of her bullying campaign on how So So So THIN this girl is. because you know. the fat girl bullying the thin girl for how thin she is - another famously common high school social dynamic. you know how fat girls rule the school and thin girls are just so- sorry i can’t even stick the landing on that sarcastically lmao. again. not that things never shake out this way but 1. this is an author making choices and doing zero critical engagement with them, 2. this is playing into some bad shit and i hate it.

there are so many other things i could get into here. i have so many examples of sentences that were written so, so badly. i have so many specific moments that sucked ass. but i would keep going forever if i didn’t stop, i just want to leave on one last note: it’s not that the protagonist was a shitty person. it’s not that bad things happened and no one saw proper consequences. it’s that like- it’s that none of it was intentional. she sucked and i don’t think she was supposed to, at least not that much. i was promised a protagonist who was a liar. that was not what i got. i got ONE lie and two instances where she seemed to either mildly misrepresent or misremember a specific conversation she had. i got Poor Protagonist, She Told One Little Panic Lie And Now EVERYONE Thinks She’s A LIAR! Poor Baby! i got milquetoast girlboss white girl feminism that was completely uncritically presented. i got ‘everyone is out to get me all the time’ and this was given as a perfectly reasonable thing to believe and act on not ‘the real danger she faces has warped her worldview and she either needs some serious help or to find another career, as it is causing her excessive amounts of distress and she is lashing out at everyone in her life without consideration for their feelings or experiences or fears. ugh.

anyways. forthcoming are the two (2) shining lights from this book aka moments that were so fucking ludicrous they made me laugh hysterically. but that’s a separate post that i’ll make in a moment.

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I just watched anatomy of a scandal on Netflix. It's a drama miniseries on Netflix and I liked it. Its captivating. If this can help anon.

Romance will be everafter or a walk to remember are my go to for my movies night.

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[paardkipkoe]

Geen zin om te lezen

Dat heb ik niet vaak. Maar nu wel. Net geprobeerd met Netflix mijn behoefte aan verhalen te vervullen, maar dan moeten ze niet aankomen met Supersex of Anatomy of a Scandal. Wat een bagger. Dan blijft schrijven over, of niksen.

Maar dat is wel heel erg eng. Niet dat ik een post-calvinistische angst voor ledigheid heb, het is denk ik eerder een mutatie van doodsangst. Afdalen in het niets. De tijd stilzetten. Onheilspellend.

Hoe deed ik dat toen er nog geen mobieltjes waren en je soms niets anders kon doen dan je vervelen?

Ik heb een zandloper van de School of Life gekocht die bedoeld is om de tijd een kwartier stil te zetten. Kijken naar die korreltjes die samen een bergje vormen helpt wel, hoewel ik het volle kwartier niksen pas drie keer gehaald heb.

Ik ga het nog een keer proberen.

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Anatomy Of A Scandal Season 2

As the title suggests, the series "Anatomy Of A Scandal" delves into the intricate web of scandals that control the lives of its characters. This American thriller, brimming with adrenaline-pumping and thrilling scenes, premiered on Netflix in 2020, standing out with its eyebrow-raising tales of sexual assault and heinous crimes.

Speculations Surrounding Season 2

Touted as a limited series, the political thriller has sparked speculation about a potential second season. Since the debut installment, fervent demands from fans for future chapters have created a buzz surrounding the possibility of Anatomy Of A Scandal Season 2.

Next Episode Anticipation: Unraveling Secrets

In the previous episode, a distinctive conversation between Kate and Sophie added complexity to the narrative. Strange looks and confusing talks left fans intrigued. Sophie's departure to another country with her children marked the culmination of the last episode, following revelations about James' involvement in a death case. If Season 2 materializes, it may embark on a new storyline, building upon the fully-rounded conclusion of the debut installment.

Release Date Dilemma: Will Season 2 Arrive?

As of now, there is no confirmed release date for Anatomy Of A Scandal Season 2. The absence of official announcements and indications from the makers raises questions about the possibility of a new season. If the series gets renewed in the coming year, fans may have to wait until 2024 for the potential release of the next chapter in this scandalous saga.