Vee

Kevin and Lucy were together for awhile onscreen (with both on recurring, but featured fairly steadily) after the initial McBain story. It was the following summer, I think, maybe 2014, maybe 2015 where Ron unwisely broke them up when Lindstrom's appearances were sparse. (I know there was talk of Serena and Christina allegedly being cast at this time, but it never happened.) He even pushed a boring subplot where Lucy got briefly involved with Duke(!!). We saw them in Duke's hotel room after sleeping together but I'm not sure we ever saw them kiss and we definitely never saw them have sex. Breaking up Kevin and Lucy was a massive mistake and while I love Laura and I know Genie loves being paired with Jon Lindstrom, the pairing of Kevin/Laura is boring as sin for both of them. I'd break them up yesterday.

Carl Lumbly has always been an incredible actor (who I've always wanted to see on better soaps), but he is heartbreaking and incredibly riveting as Isaiah Bradley. I wasn't sure if they were going to go into that character and storyline in this series, but I am so glad they did. And with showing us Elijah they've added another into the mix. Most of those characters are now either already onscreen or have been cast and will be seen in upcoming Marvel projects shortly. I'm only two in, but thus far John Walker's character has, on the surface at least, been considerably softened - Wyatt Russell is as charming as his father. The Walker of Mark Gruenwald's classic 80s storyline was just a few shades off from the alt right grift circuit, a deeply unstable redneck who had hooked up with a bunch of barfighting superhuman jamokes looking for a quick buck and some fame. It took him a long time to be even somewhat redeemed from his ugly origins; even when John Byrne added him to the West Coast Avengers, he was half-nuts and talking to ghosts in his bedroom at headquarters. The legendary Christopher Priest is doing a miniseries for him now and he's still a little nuts. We'll see how deep and dark they go into Walker as the story continues. Erin Kellyman is great as Karli Morgenthau. I hope we'll see a lot more of her. I did not know that Torres Danny Ramirez is so cute. I knew I'd seen Bucky's shrink somewhere (Amy Aquino) but I didn't realize, out of all her many TV and film credits, that the one I was thinking of was her playing Melanie Griffith's secretary at the end of Working Girl. The chemistry between the duo is as always hilarious. "We're locked in now!"

Been preoccupied with my own stuff for a couple weeks, but finally getting to this. Sebastian Stan is doing amazing work with very little dialogue in the premiere - all his eyes and micro-expressions. And I love seeing Sam's family life and background; his sister and nephews are great. Anthony Mackie is the man to lead this franchise forward. This show may not have been the mysteries of WV but it's very solid for me, at least in the first episode. The character stuff with the bank was great. Rhodey's very subdued reactions to Sam giving up the shield and the military brass thanking him for doing so were exceptional work by Don Cheadle - you can tell how much he doesn't like it but how much personally and professionally constrains him. Danny Ramirez (Torres) is super hot. Poor Bucky! Poor Yori!

I'll leave it there for now since sadly I expect it to be. Meanwhile, another sad one:

He'll never switch. He loves the glory. He flaunts that history for his voters back home. Ultimately he votes our way most of the time. He's just an ass.

Capitalizing on a poorly-thought-out Marsha Blackburn tweet outraged that 'elder care' was in the infrastructure bill, the Dems have gone full force at it (as they should): I've never seen Mitch like this, and I love it:

Not really. He says this all the time, then votes with Democrats anyway. He loves to posture, be an [!@#$%^&*], then vote with the Dems. Just like last time.

She wove a very elaborate (and to some, compelling) fiction about herself re: the business and still does to this day.

I think RTD and co. were so hung up on the Rose hangover (and then enamored of getting Catherine Tate) that they couldn't see the long-term forest for the trees with Martha. They tried to fix it by offering her Torchwood regular status and setting it up at the end of S4, but by then Freema had L&O UK and was moving on. I always loved the Jones family, especially Adjoa Anjoh who's finally getting a bigger profile now along with Gugu.

I'm thrilled for all of them. And while Freema has worked very steadily in major projects since DW, I do admittedly want to have the kind of smash breakthrough Karen and Billie have had in their respective careers. I'll never quite get over how RTD did her dirty in Series 3 - I knew from the moment I saw her onscreen that she could've run on the show for years and years like Lis Sladen did as Sarah Jane in the 70s. She had that kick and she was committed. Russell tried to clean it up later, but still.

It's awful. She was a force.

Shocking and tragic. I remember Charles being one of the first journalists to say in January that the Southern states are not red but voter suppressed. She was a great voice.