#i bought the season on itunes shortly after

[alyblacklist]

Hi, Aly! Firstly thank you for all that you do! Your Tumblr blog is a god send and I appreciate all the time you dedicate to keeping it updated and fresh! I hope you had a great vacation--although I feel like that wish is a little late. Anyway, I'm genuinely curious to hear what Keenler moment solidified your love/hope for the ship. :)

Aww, thank you!  I did have a very nice vacation (probably not long enough!).  I am already missing sunsets at sea and Caribbean waters now that I am back to reality.  

That’s an interesting question…I actually binge-watched S1 and S2 (my husband started S1 on Netflix and then we bought S2 on iTunes) while S2 was still airing.  A love for Ressler and Keenler is what drove me to seek out a fandom community in the first place, and to start reading fanfic for the first time.  It wasn’t something I had ever done before for any other show.  I think it was probably the dinner in Longevity, if I think back, because I remember watching that episode and then starting to search social media to see if they had kissed yet (innocent fool that I was, I thought things were really going somewhere and I tried to spoil myself before we were done with the season!  LOL).  I remember finding Liz’s Wanted poster so I spoiled myself on that before I watched the S2 finale.  I eventually found my way to Tumblr somewhere over the hiatus between S2 and S3, rewatched both seasons AGAIN, and created my blog shortly before the S3 premiere (though I didn’t actually post for a couple months more beyond that).  I was so hopeful for the ship back then - the path seemed clear, the angst of him letting her go at the end of S2, the teasers for S3A were amazing - they put out the Behind the Blacklist including Ressler among the three men who loved Liz….it was a very easy and fun time to be a Keenler shipper and then 3A started up and right from the start we had  “what you know about her, what you feel about her…”  Sigh.  And it seems even stranger now to think I had never known what it meant to “ship” characters until I joined this fandom.  I was struck by what a difference gifs and edits made - a good example being that I never knew that anyone saw Red and Liz as a romantic possibility until I joined Tumblr.  But ever since, it’s been more a matter of not losing hope for the ship - of trusting my original instincts on the story and where it was headed despite the twists and turns of S3B-5 and so far, I’m comfortable with that.  It’s like the slowest slow burn ever now, and most of the Keenlers I followed originally aren’t here anymore, but I still have faith in the ship and the story (and especially after this season).  Thanks for the ask!  

[almostsane-things]

Tag!!

I got tagged by @realtruesuccessor Thanks bud and also thank you for the flower message earlier~

Tag 9 people: @annaxietea, @elfiia, @devilsies, @o-zma, @synapsi-s, @theannoyingquestionsblogm @sweetgloss, @ninethecat, @voldy-in-my-turban

Colors I am currently wearing: Green, black, and white, also pjs :p

Last band t-shirt I bought: I do not have these either, the only one I can think of is the Miley Cyrus shirt I had when I was a kid. That was the very first music concert that I’ve been to

Last band I saw live: Mm, aside from like, live music out on the town, the Cheetah Girls concert I went to shortly after that Miley one

Lipstick or Chapstick: Chapstick, my lips are always dry

Last song I listened to: Only Human from DN the musical. I had my itunes on shuffle.

Last movie I watched: Just rewatched Alice in Wonderland with my mum the other day cuz she was looking for tattoo ideas.

Last three tv shows I watched: Uhhh, My Name is Earl (bc my parents were watching it,) Once Upon a Time forever ago tbh, and I just watched the first ep of Persona 5 recently

Book(s) I’m currently reading: Actually I just got a new book at the library, Let’s Talk About Love, with an ace protag and I am very excite to read it

Bold statements that are true, italicize statements you wish were true-

Air:

i have small hands // i love the night sky // i watch small animals and birds when i pass by them // i drink herbal tea // i wake to see dawn // the smell of dust is comforting (!!! undertale...) // i’m valued for being wise // i prefer books to music // i meditate // i find joy in learning truths from the world around me

Fire:

i don’t have straight hair // i like to wear ripped jeans and overalls // i play an organized sport // i love dogs // i am not afraid of adventure // i love talking to strangers // i always try new foods // i enjoy road trips // summer is my favorite season // my radio is always playing

Water:

i wear bracelets on my wrists // i love the bustle of the city // i have more than one set of piercings // i read poetry // i love the sound of a thunderstorm // i want to travel the world // i sleep past midday most days  // i love dimly lit diners and fluorescent signs // i rewatch kids shows out of nostalgia // i see emotions in colors not words

Earth:

i wear glasses/contacts // i enjoy doing the laundry // i am a vegetarian or vegan // i have an excellent sense of time // my humor is cheerful // i am a valued adviser to my friends // i believe in true love // i love the chill of the mountain air // i’m always listening to music // i am highly trusted by the people in my life

Aether:

i go without makeup in my daily life // i make my own artwork // i keep track of my tasks and time // i always know true north // i see beauty in everything // i can always smell flowers // i smile at everyone i pass by // i always fear history repeating itself (cries at the current news) // i have recovered am recovering from a mental disorder // i can love unconditionally

[dark-matter-of-opinion]

Hey, do you know where the show can be (legally) watched online for those of us who are cord-cutters? I bought S2 through iTunes last year but they don't have S3 :( maybe it's they don't have it yet, but I'm not seeing any other option, so I thought I'd ask.

I'm using SlingTV to watch live since I haven't had cable for years. This also allows you to sign in on the Syfy website as well, allowing you to watch the episodes shortly after they've aired (for example, episodes are already up on Syfy's site to watch if you have a cable provider login; SlingTV counts as a provider). Generally, I get seasons through Microsoft Video, episodes are usually up within 24 hours. But for Dark Matter that's too long to wait for me. :) SlingTV is $25 a month for the package that includes Syfy, and there's a 7 day free trial. No contract, so keep it while you need it, cancel it when you don't. The app had pretty reasonable streaming quality, too. A bonus to SlingTV for me is that they have east coast feed, which is preferred for me. If you want west coast, you probably have to log into Syfy's site.

[bharatiyamedia-blog]

The Workplace is leaving Netflix in 2021 as a result of NBC needs it again – TechCrunch

http://tinyurl.com/yxuw6p4o Nicely, it’s official: The Workplace is leaving Netflix . Michael Scott and the remainder of Dunder Mifflin will likely be heading for an additional streaming service come January 2021. By far the most well-liked present on Netflix in 2018, The Workplace was sure to depart the service finally — or, on the very least, see some HUGE contract renegotiations. The present’s departure had been rumored a number of instances prior to now, however have been shortly debunked. Now phrase of the tip date comes straight from Netflix itself: We’re unhappy that NBC has determined to take The Workplace again for its personal streaming platform — however members can binge watch the present to their hearts’ content material ad-free on Netflix till January 2021 — Netflix US (@netflix) June 25, 2019 NBC backs this up with a press release here, saying that they plan to carry it for a “soon-to-be-launched streaming service” of their very own. In different phrases: ‘yeah, it’s the most well-liked on-demand present on the Web, after all we’re taking it again.’ (Or, to paraphrase Michael G. Scott: ‘Generally I begin a [streaming service] and I don’t even know the place it’s going. I simply hope I discover it alongside the best way.’) It’s been an excellent run. The Workplace has been on a more-or-less limitless loop in our family for the previous few years (although, admittedly, typically that loop restarts a number of seasons earlier than the precise finish as a result of, properly, come on.) On the upside, you’ve bought properly over a 12 months to complete watching it, be it for the primary time or the 81st. Will its departure make me join yet-another-streaming service? In all probability not. Will it make me simply purchase the entire damned factor outright on iTunes/Google Play/no matter so I can maintain streaming it within the background till the tip of time? That’s a bit extra probably. I can’t determine whether or not to finish this with a Michael Scott “NOOOOOO” GIF or a Kelly Kapoor “Primary, how dare you?”, so think about that the sentiment is one thing of a mix of the 2. Source link

[storitellerstvtalk-blog]

Flashback Friday: Girl Rock Band TV Show From the 1970s

The year was 2007. I just turned 11-years-old. I was out from school for the summer and my brother was begging to “grow up”, but I wanted to keep the shows that I watched G and PG rated. Therefore, I turned to Boomerang–Cartoon Network’s sister channel–that was I discovered Josie and the Cats for the first time, and I quickly became interested in watching the cartoon every day. However, the backlash was swift from my brother: He hated the outer space version and forced me to watch Nickelodeon instead; in fact, my brother doesn’t like the shows that I watch, but it is a stereotype because anyone can watch regardless the advertisers are targeted towards to. Additionally, I was about to go back to school for fifth grade–which meant that I would have to miss the final airings of Josie and the Cats in Outer Space.

Flash forward to November 2007–just a couple of days before the Writers Guild of America went on strike–I got to rewatch Josie and the Cats for two weekends, which by then the strike had already begun. Sadly, it didn’t last too long because my TV set was taken away, which I will not discuss, and this had put me into my darkest point of my life during that time period because I was being bullied by my peers at the time.

Two years had passed by and I became interested in Josie and the Cats again, but this time, the topic of first love came up in the air and I was strictly prohibited to talk about it even though it is an issue that teens face even in the 1970s when there were no teen dramas nor comedies to watch. I bought Josie and the Cats: The Complete Series on iTunes for my thirteenth birthday and shortly after, I became interested on getting Josie and the Cats in Outer Space on iTunes–which it wasn’t available at the time nor was it on DVD–while I was watching the show on Boomerang. It was 2009 and the 2000s was coming to a close as the 2010s was about to begin.

It was now 2010 and I became obsessed with the Josie and the Cats franchise for most of my junior high years that I even drew a fanart picture of the rocket for my eighth grade science class and I even mentioned it on my autobiography English project, and middle school memory book project at the end of my year in eighth grade. I wanted to buy Josie and the Cats in Outer Space on iTunes so badly, but it wasn’t released on the day it was released on DVD, but I kept my hopes high as I lost it as the months went by.

Eight years later, iTunes had finally put out Josie and the Cats in Outer Space after years of waiting and waiting to get the digital copy of the 1970s girl band TV series. I just bought the second season of Josie and the Cats, and I am happy to say that I can now watch all of the 1970s version of Josie and the Cats on my Apple TV and the devices that I own because I waited for so long and most of the decade. The near-decades-long wait is over, now I can wait on the release of the TV shows that I want to get because of the real-life issues that we face that characters face as well. Hopefully, I will get them at some point within the next few months or so, but all I need is patience.

What Question That I Had After I Watched Josie and the Cats?

In 2009, when Josie and the Cats was one of my favorite TV shows, I had many questions regarding having a crush on someone as a teenager even though I did not have a boyfriend at the time. It stuck over my head for several months that I wanted to date a boy, but I realized that I was not prepared to jump into the dating scene. In the years after watching the series, I did date a boy, but it was horrible towards at the end–which resulted me to distance from him for good. To this day, I am still looking for answers regarding to love with the hopes of finding a healthy one someday.

[percyvdw1304247-blog]

Madden NFL Mobile Unlimited Coins, Cash & Stamina -

Madden NFL mobile shortly turn out to be one the preferred sports activities apps on the Google play retailer and is presently trending. Sports Apps for iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Facebook and more! Even when you’re not an avid sports fan attending a daily mid-season game, you will walk out charged with the ability of workforce spirit within the arena. I guess I simply don't understand why people who couldn't care much less about town of Cleveland and their sports activities groups feel the necessity to rag on their followers for supporting Peyton Hillis and the Browns on this voting process. Some individuals desire pocket quarterbacks however with the brand new scramble button this 12 months, you’re going to in all probability desire a quarterback with numerous pace. In finishing up offense actions, it is best to tap the Proficiency movements button however you run because of the golf ball. This comes in useful each time you run the ball with your main operating again.

The only draw back to getting coins via achievements is that finally, you may run out of achievements -- though a few of them are tiered with multiple achievements in a set. So, after you have an interest, it would be good if you happen to attempt to play the game, first. You’ll be performing as a HB and a large receiver, and can have superb agility due to this motive. Do not hearken to the 5 star reviews It is a good sport with good gameplay. Releases 7.1 - 7.3 also went dwell during the month of October with a purpose to shore up the stability of the sport. This sport is presently supplied for each the Android and also iphone cell tools platforms. The madden nfl mobile hack and cheats would require human verification if you'd like cash. Beneath you’ll discover details about choices of Madden NFL Mobile Cheats and instructions (how to use).

Add Unlimited Stamina - Madden NFL Mobile Free Stamina. Secondly, we operate on a highly secured server which offers a assure that any coins bought from our webpage are secure and free from malicious software like viruses. This season of Madden NFL Mobile has emphasized the importance of enhancing gameplay and we are committed to doing so all through the remainder of the season. Madden NFL Mobile is a very sensible simulation of soccer. It's named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, a well-known former Tremendous Bowl-successful coach of the Oakland madden nfl 18 coins ps4 NFL Mobile coin hack Raiders and color commentator. Completely different players may have different stage caps, but base gadgets in Madden NFL Mobile 18 will achieve a most of 20 levels. You will notice their subsequent items that are going to unlock after finishing this level and going to the subsequent one. Benefit from this for some Extremely simple first downs, especially in case you are fortunate sufficient to end up with somebody like Wilson or Kaepernick as your QB.

Subsequent, we looked at what it's prefer to pass in Madden NFL Mobile in comparison with the actual sport. Our Instrument is designed to be easy and also you don’t need to do any surveys or something like that. Log out of Recreation Middle before set up should you don’t need to share your game play with friends. The events additionally keep on changing, and for that reason, you will definitely by no means ever obtain burnt out. They carry on dong tricks with eh camera, churning the sound effects around, introducing newer moves and controls and what not. Madden NFL 15 features greater than 80 hours of recent commentary between play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and shade commentator Phil Simms. The challenge right here is that, as in Big Win Soccer, the sport always makes it fairly clear that it desires you to pay actual cash to unlock options. All the options you'd expect are present, together with online multiplayer and an all-star model team builder mode. If you are iPhone and iPad proprietor,you now can download Who's the Player?

My favorite Badger Player ever! Boss player can be accessible in G.O.A.T. With that data, we modified the ball trajectory on passes in response to the newest NFL knowledge. The application does not require your private data, our cell Madden NFL 17 Glitch Cheat device is completely secure to make use of. Madden Cell hack is included with generating unlimited coins in order that it is feasible to get pleasure from each recreation with more sophistication. It is doable to only buy some objects a specific number of instances. Possible accidents range from fractured bones as well as paralysis. It may be a simple technique to get more coins, however you can't neglect that every problem uses up Stamina. Can you still play games this manner? Leagues, you may get the leagues collectible playing cards, and 10 cards may be exchanged to 1 League Pack. Get in the sport anytime anyplace with every day dwell occasions seasons and head to head difficulties newly designed Leagues.

[bebewinters3203-blog]

FIFA Mobile: 6 Buying and selling Methods To Changing into A Millionaire

The ‘Recommended’ tab is a good place to start out, since it features Plans for which you have got already acquired some of the required collectibles. One of the vital requested cellular options from last season, Fast Simulation will make its debut on FIFA 15 Final Team, giving fans full management of their squad whereas a match plays out shortly in your tablet or cellphone. Social media integration is at all times included, so followers can share the content on Fb; nevertheless, the dialogue can happen on the fan wall inside an app, with out the necessity to move anyplace else. Block varieties randomly so that you all the time can play in one thing new. Q: Why I can not add my associates on this App ? In the pleasant side, Apple App retailer is the most effective. Now EA Sports activities has already made the app available on Android, so where is FIFA 17 Mobile IOS? Before receiving the Coins and Fifa Factors to your recreation account you will need to verify that you're a human and never a software (Automated bot) and to stop customers that use our FIFA Mobile cheat to abuse our generator. When we're talking about thrilling games on the market, football needs to be introduced up.

fifa mobile coins (forum.thefreedictionary.com) Mobile novices have higher possibilities at successful assault mode games in the event that they let the computer handle issues. The action focuses 100% on attacking, which also provides the name of this mode. On verifying , the free FIFA 17 coins will probably be added to your game immediately. Proper now we're specializing in launching the brand new FIFA Mobile and could have extra bulletins all year long. The streams are broadcast by means of Beam, a web based streaming platform that was bought by Microsoft last year. This manner, two players can compete even if they aren't on-line at the identical time. We’ve even bought the Adidas Brazuca ball. We have had time mull over the Xbox One X, and yes, we have got opinions. Ironically one in every of the largest challenge arises from this success with an absence of playing courts being the only biggest challenge at the moment faced. The mouthwash model had two news rooms staffed with sports activities consultants and illustrators in New York and London who were tasked with delivering recaps from the most important matches. How to make use of our FIFA Mobile Soccer Cheat Generator? FIFA Mobile represents a giant change for the football franchise on cell. FIFA Mobile is coming to your favourite mobile system this fall with a brand new soccer experience developed specifically for mobile players.

Years after it first launched for cellular gadgets, there still aren’t sufficient superlatives for brand spanking new Star Soccer, which despite its basic appears is the very best pocket-sized football sport out there. Commerce specific Tokens into each Plan to earn an one hundred OVR Participant plus a Now and Later reward for the following Season of FIFA Mobile. These typically come in the form of mini games, and reward you with free gamers and packs for completing them. Riprendiamo il cammino verso la salvezza affrontando squadre fortissime come la Juventus e il Parma sul gioco Ma attenzione perch tra i possibili. Just come to freefifa17coins.xyz when ever you want the free FIFA 17 coins and factors and cargo the generator along with your knowledge and necessities. The FIFA 14 video clip sport ensures hrs of nice collectively with the footballer colleagues. I PACK A Staff HEROES ON FIFA MOBILE! Above: FIFA Mobile from EA. Also, Ultimate Workforce has been a popular function for gamers of FIFA and Madden. How you can MAKE Hundreds of thousands OF COINS Easily ON FIFA MOBILE !

You can also make free WGT credits. Our program that's hack was updated and might now operate on-line without needing a obtain or the instructions. Bangui earlier within the day showed that builders can count on the destiny of the PS3 / 360 versions of the Xbox One / PS4 neverwinter differences. For instance, the leading eSports streaming service Twitch was bought by Amazon in 2014 for just shy of one billion (US dollars). Do you have enough players in coverage to match up to every receiver and tight end? EA goals to develop player relationships by stay providers and needs to attract gamers outdoors its gaming universe. Once you obtain player packs or buy a player at the Market, go to "My Team". Don’t overprice that player. In July 2011, many users experienced login issues about white display screen, underneath-upkeep and others. Match commentary is not included in that, which is an effective factor since it is obtainable in half a dozen completely different languages.

Another draw back is that, .EXE files might be solely run on Home windows PCs, and there can be no hope for many who game on consoles or cell devices. What else you'd have wanted from a software program? To date, early opinions in iTunes have been fairly constructive. Naturally, the cellular sport offers premium forex - coins. The sport issues you to struggle in nations all around the planet, and use a quantity of varied weapons — together with a distant-managed drone — to complete goals. Community (PSN) connectivity issues. And these plans are trying Really Worthwhile ! Defensive techniques are designed to assist your workforce defend higher. M endorsement income ought to assist to ease that pain. Time to select up your favourite sporting apparel, footwear and equipment at a steal! You just want to seek out the proper cards due to the worth ranges. Daniel shared a number of of the classes he has learned within the final decade.

[njawaidofficial]

'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Ryan Murphy ('Feud: Bette and Joan')

http://styleveryday.com/2017/08/14/awards-chatter-podcast-ryan-murphy-feud-bette-and-joan/

'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Ryan Murphy ('Feud: Bette and Joan')

“The only difference between me and the ten guys and women who were in my writing group when I first started out here in Hollywood is that I’m the only one of those people who just didn’t take no for an answer and didn’t become devastated over the rejection,” says Ryan Murphy, the writer, director, producer and showrunner best known for creating or co-creating The WB’s Popular, FX’s Nip/Tuck, Fox’s Glee, NBC’s The New Normal and Fox’s Scream Queens, as well as the ongoing FX anthology series American Horror Story, American Crime Story and Feud. As we sit down at the offices of Ryan Murphy Productions on the Fox lot to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast, Murphy continues, “I think that’s because when I was growing up, I would get pushed down. And what are you gonna do? You gonna stay on the ground? No, you’re gonna get up and you’re gonna keep going. I’ve always had that philosophy: ‘Okay, well, that didn’t work out — and it hurt — so what’s the next thing that might?'”

(Click above to listen to this episode or here to access all of our 165 episodes via iTunes. Past guests include Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Eddie Murphy, Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Amy Schumer, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Louis C.K., Emma Stone, Harvey Weinstein, Natalie Portman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jane Fonda, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nicole Kidman, Aziz Ansari, Taraji P. Henson, J.J. Abrams, Helen Mirren, Justin Timberlake, Brie Larson, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Vikander, Warren Beatty, Jessica Chastain, Samuel L. Jackson, Kate Winslet, Sting, Isabelle Huppert, Tyler Perry, Sally Field, Michael Moore, Lily Collins, Denzel Washington, Mandy Moore, Ricky Gervais, Kristen Stewart, James Corden, Sarah Silverman, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Maher, Lily Tomlin, Rami Malek, Allison Janney, Eddie Redmayne, Olivia Wilde, Trevor Noah and Elisabeth Moss.)

Murphy, 51, was born and raised in Indianapolis — partially by his grandmother, who helped to introduce him to film and TV — as part of “a very rigorous, conservative,” religious, middle-class family. He knew early on that he was gay, but remained in the closet until the age of 15, when his mother discovered love letters that he had exchanged with an older boy and sent him to a therapist. The therapist met with him several times and then told his parents that they could either love him or lose him, and they got on board — but even so, by the time he graduated from high school and college, he knew that he needed to get away. “I always wanted to come to Hollywood, even as a young kid, and I always knew I would end up here,” he says, “I just didn’t know how.”

After college, Murphy headed west “with nothing” but, nevertheless, “instantly loved it.” A journalism major in college, he started out as a freelance writer and eventually graduated to churning out celebrity profiles for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, while doing his own writing on the side. “I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the way in was to write,” he recalls, and indeed his first screenplay, Why Can’t I Be Audrey Hepburn?, was read by an agent and bought by Steven Spielberg. “From that, everyone wanted to meet me,” he recalls. Murphy spent the next two years selling movie pitches and writing scripts, but, he says, “I realized, at that point, that I didn’t really want to be a writer; what I really wanted to be was a director/producer.”

At the urging of Murphy’s agent at the time, he turned one of his film scripts into a TV pitch, and all four networks bid on it. It wound up at The WB in 1999 as Popular, and it helped to put him on the map. He loved much about working in television — “I loved the pace of it and the energy and I liked creating something and writing something and then you were shooting it a week later,” he explains — but his overall experience with that show was “really terrible”: “I had homophobic executives; I was constantly being told to change who I was and what I was writing; and I always felt like I was 15 years old, you know, back pre-shrink.” The show was canceled after two seasons.

At that point, Murphy says, “I just decided, ‘Okay, well, what do you want to do and what do you want to be? You’ve got a foot in the door and your next move has to be pretty good.” In 2003, inspired by Mike Nichols and his 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, as well as an article that he came across about plastic surgery, he created the series Nip/Tuck for FX, marking his first of many collaborations with that network; his first time doing a show that didn’t really fit into any pre-existing mold; and, with the exception of one episode of Popular, his first time directing. “That was sort of the birth of a different part of my life and career,” he says, and he was recognized for it with a best drama series Golden Globe Award in 2005.

With his stock soaring, Murphy poured his heart and soul into Pretty Handsome, a pilot about a small-town gynecologist who realizes he is a woman, but, to his devastation, FX passed on it. However, this proved to be the first of several times when a low moment paved the way for high ones soon after — in this case, Glee and American Horror Story. “Every great success that I’ve had in my life has come from a disappointment that I was devastated by,” he marvels. “From that Pretty Handsome melancholy came these two big hits in my career, and it only happened, I think, because I was forced to get quiet and say to myself, ‘Well what do you really want to talk about?'” (He notes that a similar thing happened years later when FX declined to pick up his pilot Open, soon after which he arrived at the idea for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.)

Glee was “an optimistic family musical” in which “the underdogs would always win,” Murphy says, noting, “There was a lot of my childhood in there.” Beyond being a musical series, the show — which ran on Fox from 2009 through 2015, arriving, like Modern Family, shortly after the election of America’s first black president — prominently featured LGBTQ and disabled characters, and became a full-fledged hit. “That was one of the biggest shocks of my life, that that show became what it became,” he confesses. Two years into its run, he launched a totally different sort of program — an anthology series in the mold of The Twilight Zone and others from TV’s Golden Age, only with a horror tint — and American Horror Story became an award-winning hit in its own right.

What’s with all the genre hopping, which most TV content creators never get to do because they either have more limited interests or get pigeon-holed into one sort of work? Murphy gets the chance, he says, because “Not everything [I do] does work, but I’ve had enough things that have that shouldn’t have” that he is given the benefit of the doubt. The desire, though, exists for deeper reasons. “I love all different genres and I just sort of bounce around between them because it keeps things fresh for me,” he explains. “And, I guess, maybe subconsciously, in the early days it was a way for me to not be stereotyped, when I have felt, as a minority, that I’m so stereotyped. He adds, “Now, I would say, it really is by design. I really love it.”

Another thing he loves: actors. He has built a veritable stock company over the years, led by his two queens from different generations, Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson, and also including Kathy Bates, Frances Conroy, Angela Bassett, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Matt Bomer and Denis O’Hare, plus many behind-the-scenes collaborators. “I think it comes from me having a sense of, ‘I wish that I had more of a close-knit family growing up and maybe felt a part of a community growing up,’ and I didn’t,” he reflects. As for the disproportionate number of women, and particularly older women, with whom he works, he says, “I like writing roles for women over 40 because it just resurfaces them, and they’re great.” This year, he started the Half Foundation, an initiative within his production company, to make 50 percent of his on-set hires women.

Murphy also has used his pedestal to highlight stories about gay people, not only on Glee, but in his short-lived semi-autobiographical NBC sitcom The New Normal (2012-2013) and his HBO TV movie The Normal Heart (2014), on which he partnered with Larry Kramer to bring Kramer’s landmark play to the screen after years of roadblocks. Productions like these would not have been possible less than two decades ago, when Murphy was starting out in the business. “I feel like I haven’t changed,” he says. “I feel what changed is the executives. The executives are now great — like, they want those characters. They know that launching a conversation about anything in visibility means a more diversified audience, which leads to success.”

Recently, Murphy has devoted a lot of his time to launching new FX anthology series in the mold of American Horror Story. He started last year with American Crime Story and its first installment, The People v. O.J. Simpson, which proved a towering success. And this year he did so again with Feud and its first installment, Bette and Joan, an eight-part study of the complicated relationship between the legendary movie stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, two best actress Oscar winners, starring two other best actress Oscar winners, the aforementioned Lange, as Crawford, as well as Susan Sarandon, as Davis. For it, Murphy personally received three Emmy nominations in July — best limited series, best directing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special and best writing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special — bringing his career tally to 23, four of which have turned into wins: best directing for a comedy series for Glee in 2010; best TV movie for The Normal Heart in 2014; best limited series for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story in 2016; and best short form nonfiction or reality series for Inside Look: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story in 2016.

Murphy, who grew up obsessed with Hollywood’s Golden Age and the Oscars, interviewed Davis when he first moved out to L.A., and created Feud using information from that conversation, tons of other research and a film script that he and Plan B bought years ago. He insists that the bickering of the two actresses featured on the show was not at all replicated by the two actresses who brought them back to life on his set. “It was a love-fest,” he says of Lange and Sarandon’s interactions. “They actually worked well together and supported each other and had great ideas for scenes for each other, so none of that happened. And hilariously, and thankfully, they were both nominated for best actress, as opposed to poor Joan Crawford, who wasn’t invited to the party [in 1963 for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, when the Academy nominated Davis but not Crawford for best actress]. Jessica and Susan are staunch feminists and believe in equality, and they’re not gonna do that bullshit. They’re just not those people. They’re not interested in petty gossiping. I’ve never met two women less interested in that.”

The one bit of drama that has been associated with Feud has come from the most unexpected of places: Olivia de Havilland, the sole legendary actress portrayed in the film who still is alive today. In June, on the eve of her 101st birthday, de Havilland sued Murphy for, allegedly, defaming her on the show (which she had not yet seen when I asked her about it in April). “I was saddened by it because I felt that I really had written and produced and directed a love letter to these women, and I was like, ‘Oh, no, really? I love her so much,'” Murphy says. “I’m sorry that she feels badly about it, but I don’t know why she feels badly.” In reference to Feud‘s depiction of de Havilland, he insists, “There is absolutely nothing but love — there is no malice, there is nothing said that’s not treating her like a lady.”

Murphy emphasizes, “The other thing that I think people should know about the docudramas that I do — be it Feud or American Crime Story with O.J. or [the subjects of an upcoming installment] Charles and Diana and on and on — you know, we don’t just write those and film them; we write them and lawyers read them and they say, ‘Where did you get this piece of information from? Where is this quote of Olivia de Havilland coming from?’ Obviously, the construct of doing a documentary wrap-around is a device of docudrama that’s been done since God was a boy. But everything that we have Olivia or Joan or Bette saying is, I would say, based completely on existing information, either research or interviews. And in the case of Olivia de Havilland, we have a very long document, as we did with Joan and Bette, where we say, ‘This is where we got this line from. She said this in an interview.’ Is it directly the exact line? No, some of it’s tweaked, but it’s all based on fact, it’s all based on research. And this had been vetted for months before we even shot any episode.”

He notes, “I feel like Olivia de Havilland is a historical figure, and I’m just sad she didn’t love it as much as everybody else seemed to. But I also have the support of Fox, and we have 15 lawyers who have reviewed every claim and think there absolutely is no claim.” But, he emphasizes, “I have nothing but love and admiration for her, and I do think it will all end up okay. Maybe I’ll get to meet her in court, but I hope it doesn’t go that far. The first thing I would do is say, ‘Can I have an autograph? I really love you! I really do!'”

Throughout our conversation, while discussing past traumas, personal and professional, and even lawsuits, Murphy exudes calm, but he says that doesn’t mean he isn’t upset about some of what’s going on around him. “I feel very angry about the state of the country,” he vents, “and I feel like the best thing that I can do is sit up straight and shut up and just write characters that are going through difficulties, so that people can see that and, as human beings, hopefully recognize that pain is pain is pain. That’s what I’m interested in doing as my sort of political activism.”

Glee Primetime Emmy Awards Feud

#Awards #Bette #Chatter #Feud #Joan #Murphy #Podcast #Ryan

[uni23daisy]

Watching Hannibal...