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All you have to do is look at her recent posts in the last few pages/days to know it's an act. Desperation breeds outrageous statements. It's also possibly an old troll dissatisfied with their current lack of attention in other incarnations, but I'm not convinced it's been talking to itself just yet.

Don't. Feed. The New Troll. It is a very obvious act and s/he has tipped her hand more than once.

I don't watch or give a [!@#$%^&*] about NCIS, to be clear. But this incident aside (which I believe got unpacked a year ago when she first brought it up, re: Harmon's dog, and it wasn't a #MeToo thing but more a set mishap), she has a long track record with weaving dramas any time someone else at her show gets attention. It's really odd. I'm frankly surprised CBS gave her another show; I don't expect it to last.

Pauley Perrette is insane tbh. She has a bizarre background with stuff like this.

Good luck with that around here! Don't bother. The last post makes it very clear this is an act.

Like I said: You're already overplaying this act poorly. If you want this to have legs you need to not say things like that. You have to ease people into your lunacy.

You're officially trying too hard at whatever this whole persona is supposed to be. Good luck.

I do. Far from perfect, but far from Passions, which was trash.

Yes, they wrote a better show both there and (one half of them) at AMC.

He's an egomaniacal idiot who knows a handful of middle-aged stans will cut for him at all costs. He's that desperate to try to get work.

Because it happened.

The heat around the NYT and Maggie Haberman has gotten worse. As is the editorial staff's wont these days without a public editor, they ran a piece 'answering reader questions' in which they said they'd examined her Hope Hicks story and found nothing wrong with her/their work, then hastily closed it to comments after a hundred replies. They also did this with her latest story which appears to draw superficial comparisons between the Trumps and the royals as well as the Kennedys.

Surprise!

You could've just said Friday.

The great Michael Park (ATWT) has a supporting role in Stranger Things 3!

I too am quite tired of the 'critic as personal journey' cottage industry. It just feels like an endless audition reel to get out of low-paying journalism. Soon to follow: The novel, film, TV pitch. Like any other writer, except your job wasn't supposed to be about you. I want to be happy for her, but I find equating her struggles with over-identifying with TV show The Handmaid's Tale kind of the height of insular nerd excess and dangerously immature. Though I suppose many shows have made a difference in people's lives by letting them see themselves in many shows and characters, and that can't be discounted. I just think TV critic Emily VanDerWerff, who was previously a married male with a child and feted by a bubble of TV/entertainment journo twitter no matter what they did as Todd, then reaching into the job they do and using it to actualize themselves feels both opportunistic and a bit delusional. That has nothing to do with being transgender, but it does have to do with some kind of self-insertion thing. I don't know. I'm probably just a retrograde bitch.