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[glindalphaba]

THE JETTY (TV Series 2024)

[catherinesboleyn]

Laura Marcus as Elisabeth of Valois

The Serpent Queen 2.02

[canirove]

The Serpent Queen (2022 - 2024) | s02e02 | 7/?

[ariadnethedragon]

MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE (2020-)

S4E3: Origins

[spiderliliez]

Amy and Caitlin THE JETTY (2024)

[+] BO BRAGASON [GIF Collection] 🥀 [+] LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 [+] ..more on “The Jetty” 🎬

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This Color dress is worn two times in The Serpent Queen Season 2 Episode 2 (2024), First worn on Laura Marcus as Elisabeth and worn second on Stanley Morgan as Anjou

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

July: Blue Redux

Miss Scarlet and the Duke (s4 e3, "Origins") / Laura Marcus as Young Eliza Scarlet

This prequel episode takes place in the 1870s. Eliza wears this attractive soft blue gown with matching paisley shoulder cape to a party given by some friends. Although the majority of the series takes place in the 1880s, when bustles were still in style, adult Eliza barely wears them at all, but here she has quite a bulky one that looks rather like upholstery.

The young Duke (played by Matt Olsen) looks very smart as well in a borrowed evening suit!

[oswincoleman]

Here are some nice and detailed interviews conducted by the BBC with Jenna Coleman, and the rest of the cast and crew of The Jetty!

Also, here are some more promotional and behind the scenes pictures of Jenna Coleman as Ember Manning:

[servants-hall]

Miss Scarlet and The Duke, Season 4: Young Eliza & William

[chrisnaustin]

If only I were she!

[ronni-right]

Origins AU

CW: canon divergence, high society, enemies to friends to lovers, William is the future Duke of Wellington, and Eliza is the daughter of the Earl of Scarlet.

Their mothers had been friends since childhood, and it was not surprising that they had agreed to marry their children before they even got married. But they got old and they got married. The Duchess of Wellington gave birth to a boy a year into her marriage. And Countess Scarlett gave birth to a girl three years later. It can be said that William and Eliza grew up together. And their mothers knew William and Eliza would get married one day. However, William and Eliza were hostile to each other from childhood. Almost nothing changed as they grew up, except after returning to London after a few years from London, William and Eliza saw each other in a differen light: Eliza saw a handsme matured man even William was a pompous as before, and William saw a stunning lady even Eliza was a sharp-tongued as before. So when they met again, completely different sparks ran between them. And gradually, from enemies they became friends, as they both were attending similar events and were gravitating towards each other. And then a romance bloomed between them, which both carefully hid from their mothers. But you know, it’s hard to hide something from mothers.

[cantsayidont]

There may not be a dance soiree, but there is hateration and holleration:

THE JETTY (2024): Exasperating new BBC miniseries, created by Cat Jones and directed by Marialy Rivas, about a detective constable named Ember Manning (Jenna Coleman), raising her teenage daughter Hannah (Ruby Stokes) in the small Lancashire town where she grew up, where everyone knows her and no one takes her very seriously. When Ember realizes that a recent arson might be connected to the past disappearance of a girl named Amy (Bo Bragason), who went missing when she and Ember were teenagers, Ember tries to reopen the case, and butts heads with a crusading true crime podcaster (Weruche Opia), who's also interested in the story and has information about it that she won't share. Ember also realizes Amy's disappearance may have something to do with her daughter's now-dead father, who got Ember pregnant when she was only 17. The story alternates between engaging if uncomfortable drama (like an ongoing flashback sequence about Amy's manipulative flirtation with her friend Kitty (Laura Marcus), who was shyly in love with her despite Amy using her as cover for her secret affair with a shitty older man) and a boatload of stupid pseudo-true-crime white libfem copaganda. It's hampered at every turn by Coleman, who's not nearly as good an actor as some of her costars and seems completely out of her depth playing a cop in what wants to be a socially conscious procedural. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Yes, and if the story had focused more on Amy and Kitty, it might have made its points without all the copaganda horseshit. VERDICT: Some of the segments not centering Coleman are compelling, but Coleman is awful, and the script's fundamentally reactionary mindset and its preoccupation with imputing carceral solutions to misogyny are both clumsy and distasteful (not least because Jones uses one of the story's only Black characters as a rhetorical prop). CWs apply for grooming and sexual violence.

THE LITTLE GIANT (1933): Edward G. Robinson branched out into gangster comedy with this comedy of manners about a notorious Chicago bootlegger, one Jim "Bugs" Ahearn, who decides to retire to Palm Springs with his most loyal stooge (Russell Hopton), where he crashes polite society and falls for ostensibly respectable society dame Polly Cass (Helen Vinson). Meanwhile, Bugs' new housekeeper/girl Friday Ruth Wayburn (Mary Astor), a bankrupt heiress whose family home Bugs has just bought, plays Cyrano de Bergerac while trying to bite her tongue about Polly, whose family is nearly as crooked as Bugs. Not nearly as silly or chaotic as Robinson's later turn in the conceptually similar A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER, and its pre-Code indulgences are pretty modest, but it's an enjoyable romp with some amusing social satire. I ended up wishing the script had made more of the relationship between Bugs and Ruth, although Astor is great as always and her rapport with Robinson is one of the film's best features. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No, although Robinson does use the f-slur at one point. VERDICT: Enjoyable, but not as essential as the sillier A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER.

MATINEE (1993): Delightful comedy about a shlock movie impresario named Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) — an obvious pastiche of real-life producer/promoter William Castle — who pulls out all the stops for the premiere of his new Grade-Z sci-fi/horror epic, MANT, at a movie theater in Key West, Florida, during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, setting into motion all manner of chaos. As with the tonally similar A CHRISTMAS STORY, MATINEE is sort of notionally a kids' movie, about two friends (Simon Fenton and Omri Katz) who have each managed to score a date with a cute classmate: horny good girl Sherry (Kellie Martin, who at this age could have plausibly played Sara Michelle Gellar's younger sister) and budding leftist Sandra (Lisa Jakub), who begins to movie by getting herself suspended for protesting that bomb drills would be useless in an actual atomic attack. However, the movie is really aimed as much as adults who nostalgically remember that age (and/or era), and it's an affectionate, in-joke-laden homage to a now mostly vanished genre of cheesy cinematic nonsense (embodied in the clips we see from the MANT film-within-a-film, which are very funny). Goodman is wonderful, as is Cathy Moriarty as his weary girlfriend/star. Robert Picardo pops up in a supporting role as the hysterical theater owner, who's built a bomb shelter in the basement because he's convinced the world is about to end. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Nah. VERDICT: Great fun.

[allweknewisdead]

Hello, in James Joyce's Ulysses he writes: "Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend. Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the university of Oxtail." It is profane, it gets the Bible wrong on purpose, it nods in the direction of Nietzsche and it doesn’t quite seem to make sense - it must be modernism!

[canirove]

The Serpent Queen (2022 - 2024) | s02e01 | 2/?

[diamondshqt]

Hi would u take two requests for gif packs, one is for a POC actress Amrita Acharia from The Serpent Queen, and Laura Marcus from The Serpent Queen. There is so little content for them because they don't have many scenes. We are literally dying to use them for rp and people don't gif them even when requested and they say so 😭😭😭😭😭😭

added them both to my to do list! keep an eye out

[spiderliliez]

Amy and Caitlin THE JETTY (2024)

[+] BO BRAGASON [GIF Collection] 🥀 [+] LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 [+] ..more on “The Jetty” 🎬