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I mean, I'm pretty sure people can like Stranger Things, The Crown and ODAAT. They've certainly all been popular with the same circles.

LMAO:

WEHT Charlie Rose?

Seth Abramson is a blowhard.

She's been vague but it's in many of her recent interviews. Part of it is what she alludes to in some press, that her original exit was probably not 100% peaceful. This has been mentioned before in other accounts not from her: Supposedly she told them she wanted to go to college full time and supposedly Roseanne told her she was either in or out, and Lecy chose out. The other issue is that, from everything I've heard, Season 8 was sold to the cast as the final year, which is why Lecy chose to return. John Goodman was also ready to be done and by all accounts (including his own) was deep into his alcoholism at the time. That whole penultimate year sounds very messy and full of tension, especially with the Beckys switching off, Disney taking over ABC and forcing a Disney World episode, and so on. Then Roseanne abruptly chose to do one more year, and Lecy left again and Goodman decided to do half the run. According to a report at the time, he tried to quit entirely but was convinced to do half the season - originally they feared he would only return for one episode to kill off Dan. More on Glenn Quinn:

I was one of maybe two people on the planet who liked Felicity La Fortune on AMC. She was beyond unpopular. But I think I only liked her on the show because she reminded me a lot of HBS/Nora on OLTL (and in fact, subbed for Hillary one day in the early 2000s).

ODAAT got renewed, so....

I hope this one was better than last week's, which I found truly painful and retrograde and definitely a boon for the conservatives. Except for the good scene with Sara Gilbert and Emma Kenney it was mostly Roseanne doing bad S8-S9 applause lines that you can easily see being used by right wingers. I get what they were going for with the parenting debate but I thought it was poorly done. I don't think the show is alt right at all, but it (and Roseanne's very stiff performance) didn't do the controversy over the show any favors. If it's true it was actually the second episode filmed, it explains why she looked much more at ease in the aired ep 2 focusing on Mark Jr. Anyway, I'll get to tonight's in a few hours. I am glad tonight's episode is apparently Becky-focused. I've been waiting for that since the first time Lecy left the show. She's been quite candid recently about how uncomfortable she found Season 8.

Lecy talks to Vulture and does her best to thread the needle. Not brilliantly, but I see her point. I can disagree and agree; I see both sides of the argument. I know very well the show isn't run by or an apologia for the right wing or Trump supporters, but it's still caught in a controversial and uneasy spot in a difficult moment and has no good answers. But maybe that's where it needs to be. It's also not incisive enough yet to really confront the issues, but it sounds like the opiates episode may do that.

She's been doing so well and I'm so proud!

The Radio Times covers Steven Moffat's novelization of The Day of the Doctor, which explains away many bits of DW continuity including the infamous Peter Cushing movies. RTD's also thrown in some future (Smith, Capaldi, Whittaker) and potential future regenerations into his novelization of Rose:

Jake Weary plays gay and does some pretty graphic scenes on TNT's Animal Kingdom (opposite AW's Spencer Treat Clark - that took some getting used to) these days. I believed Zimmer when she said, both in public and in her book later on, that she wanted him to be able to have a normal life and not deal with the grind of a long-term contract. I do think there may also have been some concern about him taking abuse as a young teenager or getting pigeonholed, which I can understand from his mother. Regardless, Van Hansis was mediocre. And it was beyond me how often ATWT would run from any good drama in its last years, trying to shut down any promising storyline immediately. The Luke thing with Laurence Lau - that was dynamite. Gone in, what, three, four weeks?

Leon Russom (AW) has a brief but memorable role in A Quiet Place.

Deadspin covers the revolt at Sinclair Broadcasting.

Every kid is different. I knew I looked at and was fascinated by boys a lot from around that age or close to it, but did I know I definitely was into boys most of all? Not until maybe 12 or 13, and I didn't make a definitive determination on my orientation until I was 17 or so. I can't say what every kid experiences. I think she is erring on the side of caution in her remarks when dealing with a 9 year old child character and actor on a charged topic, and I think that's prudent. Easiest and smartest, IMO, to say Mark will figure himself out in his own time. Which most of us did.