BetterForgotten

Every time Anastasia pops up, I’m like, “Ooh, look! It’s budget Jasmine Guy!”

TCS was already running out of steam when she joined, but I generally found Cousin Pam unbearable and it was clear Erika Alexander was still learning how to act on TV/sitcoms. I guess that’s why her turn as Maxine Shaw in Living Single was such a revelation to me - If I had only seen her as Pam, I wouldn’t have known she had it in her, lol. Living Single, of course, was created by Yvette Lee Bowser, who got her start on ADW and so many of the cast made guest appearances.

I’m kind of most interested in seeing what they do with Freddie in her guest appearance - is she the more polished lawyer (in training at that point) from the last season, or more so in line with Cree’s irreverent, free-spirited real life persona (she’s f.ucking hilarious in interviews to this day). The more I think back on it, they had really run out of ideas for the longtime characters by season 6 and the new characters weren’t all that good or interesting. The premise of the show could always live on, but they didn’t have the characters to support that type of reinvention back then (nor was NBC interested when ratings started to decline sharply).

Take with a grain of salt (but many of his leaks and sources have proven to be accurate in the past), but John Rocha is blaming SMG and saying she was problematic during the development and accusing her and her people of trying to smear Chole Zhao.

This will be the gift that keeps giving…

First trailer released today:

From what most industry sources have said, it was also a troubled pilot with tonal issues, and even in reworked form, it wasn’t deemed good enough by the suits at Hulu. That coupled with execs who aren’t a fan of the IP likely sealed its fate. It is being touted that there is still interest in exploring the IP in the future, but I would have to guess it would be without involvement from SMG and Chloe Zhao.

Robert Meyer Burnett said on John Campea’s show that he read the pilot script and that it just wasn’t very good… (that and SMG only appears in the last page of the script). Campea himself says he heard the pilot Zhao turned in was not at all what Hulu execs were expecting tonally, at least, and they decided not to move forward.

Because he was mentioned, congrats to Michael B. Jordan on his fist Oscar nomination and for Sinners being the most nominated film of the year. He’s gotten far, mainly being Ryan Coogler’s muse, but on his own merits as well.

Michael B. Jordan just starred in one of last year's biggest box office hits, and is a likely candidate for an Oscar nomination this year. He's not going to do Lifetime anytime soon, lol.

Aw, may be RIP. I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the OG Slaters as well. Derek wasn’t the greatest actor, but he was always present and had great chemistry with actors who made up his on-screen family. The early Slater years were lightening in a bottle, the likes of which we have rarely ever seen with newly introduced characters and families since.

That’s nice. MVJ was one of the very few scriptwriters that Geary respected. She wrote the rape confession monologue that Luke had with Lucky and it was one of the rare times that Geary didn’t change a word and acted out what was on the page.

This is sad, and I will choose to remember Geary for the electrifying performer he could be instead of what he purposely turned Luke into in his latter years on the show. That said, and I know he was getting older, but he did often look quite frail whenever I saw recent pics of him with his husband. Whatever it was, I hope he went peacefully. May he RIP.