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    Twin Peaks

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    I think Sheryl is a goddess, my all-time favorite actor and character from TP and the center of the show, but her part was too small (though integral) to justify that. One more hour and she might have it locked. Maybe next season.

     

    I'd give it to Grace or Catherine, but tbh I suspect TP will be lucky to get nominations or awards for the show, Lynch or Kyle. All of whom deserve it, but despite it being a critical hit it is likely too alienating and not mainstream 'weird' enough to sweep those awards. I'll be shocked if it does. I think Lynch and Kyle may have a real shot, though.

    Interesting quote from the Kyle interview re: the ending for the Joneses that confirms what I'd hoped:

     

    Those kinds of tonal and character shifts were fascinating to watch. In other episodes, it’s the Dougie screwball comedy. I was glad Dougie came back to Janey-E. Of course, when Dougie shows up again in the last episode, it’s not Dougie …

     

    He is yet another small shift in the Dougie-Cooper continuum. So he’s certainly not Dougie complete, and he’s not Cooper complete. But he is an entity that I think is the perfect choice, the perfect person to be with Janey-E. So they found each other.

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    The Politics Thread

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    No, the solution is to shame them and everyone who employs him until he is run off the air and out of public life.

     

    Stopping watching cable news today only gives these people cover for baby concentration camps. And yeah, that's exactly what those are. The only reason this is getting such coverage is because mainstream media, warts and all, and good reporters working for many different outlets are boots on the ground doing the work.

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    The Politics Thread

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    The Politics Thread

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    Jesus Christ:

     

     

    Maggie Haberman finally says it:

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    Star Trek returns with streaming series

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    I'd be very excited if it wasn't for Alex Kurtzman masterminding things. He's a hack.

     

    The Hollywood Reporter version of this story indicates Patrick Stewart may return as Picard in one new project. I've long said the TNG cast is owed an honorable sendoff with a miniseries on Netflix, but CBS All Access and written by Kurtzman is not what I had in mind. I guess we'll see.

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    The Politics Thread

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    The Politics Thread

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    Next up: This charmer is sure to win the crowd.

     

     

    Meanwhile, as to what DD mentioned above, ohhhh my God:

     

     

     

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    The Politics Thread

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    And now, your midday news spam from the Worst Year Ever:

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    The Politics Thread

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    I have been door to door before (even got bitten by a dog - invisible fence my aśs!) and I may go again. My 70+ mother has been tireless since the day after the election and is now running her local League of Women Voters and working with half a dozen local groups. She puts me to shame, so I have to do more.

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    The Politics Thread

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    The piece (as per usual with Politico) is a bit too sympathetic to both him and Nielsen, but at least it gives insane insights like that.


    Meanwhile, in The Hottest Take:

     

     

     

     

    47 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

    I think that people who focus so much on Nazi Nazi Nazi above all else are just turning people away from the real issue because many people automatically tune out that word now. I think the same happens when people mention the Japanese internment camps and act like it's all just the same.

     

    Except I think it is the same. I know George Takei does, and he was there.

     

    I am Jewish on my father's side, and I honestly never thought I'd see what we're seeing now in my own lifetime. It was inconceivable to me outside the lunatic fringe when I was a child. I'm glad my grandparents, who came up in the Depression and WWII, didn't live to see this - they lost a whole branch of the family in the Holocaust. I think - and my parents think - that what we're seeing with the alt right and the detention is very close to the slow rise of the Nazis and the internment camps. Too close. I think we can't say that enough. To dismiss it is to shield it and give it room to grow and build.

     

    Whatever the nuances and the degrees of the crises, the real issues, above all, are the same - hate, fear, bigotry and taking the civil rights of the different, the brown, the other.

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    The Politics Thread

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    Well, social media can be very maddening (and deadening). But at the same time good can sometimes be found from examining details and shining a light. If an ICE agent can be outed as a neo-Nazi, does it really matter if someone was posturing as part of that effort?

     

    Some behavior is performative for a lot of people, but ultimately I think the visibility in situations like these is better than a lack thereof. If we'd had social media 18 years ago who knows where we'd be.

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    The Politics Thread

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    We can make as many strides as we want - we have before. It's not going to begin to really stop until the last generation dies off and stops cultivating it. And even then it's a long road.

     

    I don't think people forgot about Abu Ghraib. I just think the dominant constituency are the same people who never cared - old and young.

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