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I think Sloan was very good in the role and sure, attractive physically, but Lillian as a person always just seemed off and strange to me, very affected. Including in that storyline. I think the energy she and Parker radiated was very different and I just find her colder. YMMV.

Tina Sloan never exactly struck me as sexy.

Roger Howarth (Kent) name-drops his Loving stint in a new interview:

She had been mentally ill a long time - she also appeared on Intervention - and I believed Clooney's fair-minded response to her claim. That said she shouldn't have been shot, pop gun or not. It's sad, I always liked her.

New production photo and discussion is at the link. I guess I'm ready to get back to finishing off Season 10 now - somewhere.

I never got the impression Yglesias was a BernieBro, but maybe I've missed something as I've paid less attn to him in the last 6-9 months. Meanwhile, more bad news for Trump:

These time schedules seem a little... conservative.

Aretha was apparently a fan of Ariana Grande and they socialized, so I guess that's why she's on there.

Wanted to bring this back - the mystery voice of "Phillip Jeffries" (who is not Phillip Jeffries) talking to Mr. C in Part 2 of Season 3. Theories abound as to who the caller really is, but the most popular one of late is that this voice belongs to Grace Zabriskie, a.k.a. Sarah Palmer, the apparent host for Judy. Judy is linked to BOB as his/its 'mother' and/or mate. Mr. C was also searching for Judy and/or access to the White Lodge, though he did not seem to know exactly what Judy was. He funded the 'glass box' experiment in New York which led to what appeared to be Judy appearing in the box and killing the two youngsters in Part 1 - this suggests that this is what it means when the voice references New York. Here's the original, distorted voice: Here is a pitch-shifted clip: After hearing Grace in a podcast interview, I highly suspect this is her voice, given her clipped way of normally speaking and certain intonations. Meanwhile:

How can it be streamed if someone doesn't have Bounce?

As a late viewer I never understood how Blake got from the original character to Keifer's glorified housewife. She's a decent actress but I've always been uncomfortable envisioning major story with her in the role (like the truly bizarre one I once dreamed up for the family and her twin sons). I loved Marj as Vanessa on AMC, but that was a very specific, campy character. I had no real experience with McKinsey's Alex on GL until the advent of online videos, but once they came into the picture and you could see and hear her - she was indomitable. Then you turn on CBS and poor Marj is up there doing a blowsy, campy old loon and I'm like, 'are you fúcking kidding me?' Marj is very good at certain things but it was night and day. And her stories in the 2000s didn't help. Like the one where she doses Alan with hallucinogens and she starts popping up in his visions in ridiculous costumes! Don't get me started on Alan either. I like Ron Raines as a performer but he was wildly miscast as Alan - watching in the 90s he was so campily nefarious and bombastic he just made me laugh. It was even more embarrassing after I got acquainted with Chris Bernau's work (I'd only seen him on Dark Shadows until the 2000s). When RR turned up on OLTL 2.0 on Hulu as the big bad guy behind a global conspiracy that was fine, because he was suited to that sort of Snidely Whiplash figure - but Alan wasn't that.

Matt Yglesias has been crashingly negative in recent months. I think 25%-40% is closer. The fact that the GOP and WH, internally, are expecting a bloodbath says a lot.

I do enjoy Sessions being humiliated on the daily. But oh God, the times are so much more dangerous, and that includes both men.

Finally:

It was amusing watching contrarian Chuck Todd - who's never quite left his snide ways behind despite some good moments - ask a largely black, bipartisan panel (including Michael Steele) if DeSantis deserved the benefit of the doubt or 'guilt by association.' He got slammed down pretty fast, particularly by Steele. Meanwhile:

I always felt Keifer's Blake was matronly and safe, at least in the late '90s.

More Bobby and Laura on tour, and a celebration of FWWM's anniversary:

Nice to see the kids are back. Ames McNamara was golden with the family.