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The great bromance continues to decline:

LMAO:

Gemma Chan again, on the set of Marvel's Captain Marvel.

He's wrong. Who called this?

The ol' Rudy magic continues to pay off:

Camille's coping well: Her full (and vile) statement.

A huge new Charlie Rose piece:

As the article said, I don't think it's clear from the context. It can be read that way or it can be read as him simply saying that is the ending of the story of Season 3. I can't make a determination. In the old days Lynch used to be much more clear that all of TP was 'dead as a doornail.'

This is wild - the now-sadly-quite-unwell Michael J. Anderson (The Man From Another Place/The Arm) comments on his ideas re: Jeffries, Judy and FWWM from an interview in 1995:

Emmy screening stuff tonight:

Oh lord:

Whither Neely O'Hara?

The David episode was as good as it could be given time constraints - I didn't believe when I heard he'd be a deadbeat, but his exile to Habitat for Humanity, etc. was a bit more complex than that and I felt it worked overall. It also was clearly a table setter episode for him to be around more often in future, which Galecki has said he intends to do with David moving back to Lanford. The stuff with him and Darlene, Becky and Darlene, etc. all worked. The Bev stuff is good (and in character). And the end scene with just David and Roseanne - who was at the most emotional we've seen her in years, and it was clearly not all acting with them as Roseanne Barr the actress has been taking a lot of time to get back on track performance-wise - was really affecting. I think Becky's arc - like Darlene's, and I suspect Roseanne's with her pain issues - is ongoing. They picked the Becky thread up from the last episode as she referenced it directly in her talk with Darlene about David.

Finally catching up after a long April - the Becky episode is probably one of the show's best since Season 7 or so. They really dug into Lecy's Becky and didn't just demean the character as was generally done with the recast. She also wasn't the butt of a joke like the first couple eps. And Lecy did an excellent job - her dryer, older delivery these days really works. They were also smart to let Darlene bond with her, and make Roseanne stand down and admit she was wrong and then pull out all the stops to do something nice for Becky. That's something that wouldn't have happened much in Seasons 7 or 8. The scene at the end with the parents joining the girls at the restaurant with Becky and Darlene drunk was very sweet. There's a continued focus on age and time, the constant struggles as the daughters age out of being near-millennials, on Roseanne trying to make ends meet with Uber and still having trouble with her knee ("I need to sit") which are both ongoing plot notes. Overall, this is what I hoped a revival could be once the furor calmed down. I hope it continues. I did laugh out loud at "her text says she's 'drunk as duck.'" I'm surprised that got past Standards and Practices. As for the last one, this is good so far - Bev: Hello, Jackie. You're looking tired. Jackie (re: her black wardrobe): Nice outfit. I see you're trying it without the sickle. Estelle Parsons has not missed a trick. I know she was still directing major theater (with Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain, etc.) as recently as a decade ago, I don't know if she still is. David - "Please, I'm vegan now, I have no upper arm strength!"

It looks like a mix of old and new, judging by the packaging and sample image.

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