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Very sorry to hear it. Meanwhile, more on Cambridge Analytica and other stuff:

I think Nancy Curlee might have been able to help OLTL, for awhile anyway.

A good piece on how Ivanka and Jared's world keeps collapsing, and a suggestion that if push came to shove she would choose Jared over her father, while her father would absolutely cut Jared loose to save himself (something his once and perhaps future lawyer, Kasowitz, has reportedly suggested to him before). I never believed that Ivanka would choose anything over her father, and I'm still not convinced - as the piece notes, her devotion to him since childhood is pathological - but this isn't the first article in the last few weeks that is highly critical of her but also suggests that she might now have more loyalty than the once-stable life she had with her husband than to the aging Trump.

A good interview with Roseanne and John Goodman on Kimmel. Kimmel playfully grills her about Trump (and Goodman needles her a bit as well), and tbh Roseanne seems defensive but also sheepish. As I suspected, she seems secretly embarrassed despite her wounded pride - and interestingly, earnestly urges people to vote and "change it if you don't like it."

That's why they all hate it - Greenwald, much of the Intercept staff, the Sanders camp, and then of course the right. In the end, while degrees and points of critique may change, all it ultimately comes down to is that they hate the Democratic Party, and suggesting Russians may have infiltrated our political system and unfairly swung the election undermines their core tenet and belief, which is that Democrats suck and they were right all along. The alternative makes them all look like fools.

The advantage today is that a lot of people are now longer clouded by the fog of 9/11 and know Bolton's name and history. People see through the neocon [!@#$%^&*] after living through it, and the media is calling Bolton what he is. Will that stop anything, I don't know. I can't wait to hear the contortions the Greenwald/Bernie Left do to justify their past choices re: Clinton with John Bolton riding again.

There's more good reviews circulating in the press today, which I am pleasantly surprised by. I still have a lot of reservations, but I like a fair amount of the clips I've seen. It'll just be nice to see them all again.

Wow:

Variety gives a mostly decent review (from Sonia Saraiya, who I can't stand). I've heard before that the pilot has the cast a little awkward in their rhythms, and this seems to bear that out. This bit about the pilot's Trump/Hillary plot and stuff in future is interesting (spoiler tagged):

Aaaaand a couple more: Lisa Coronado (the hit and run mom), Mary Reber (Alice Tremond/the real-life owner of the Palmer house from Part 18), John Pirruccello (Deputy Chad) and Zoe McLane (the supermarket girl who runs afoul of Sarah Palmer).

Jake Wardle (Freddie) got his final fight script on a post-it note the day of: His interview with a fansite. Additional interviews with Mark Frost, producer and Lynch right hand Sabrina Sutherland, and James Grixoni (dreamy Deputy Jesse).

And even more big news:

Whoa: Meanwhile, after a weak statement re: the CA scandal, Mark Zuckerberg is going on CNN soon to try and salvage his rep.

Rough day:

The mortifying backstory of Don Jr. and Aubrey O'Day continues to unfold.

Eccleston talks with the Radio Times some more about why he quit DW in Series 1 and how it destroyed his relationship with Russell T. Davies.

The BBC did this BTS TV doc featuring a week on the set of Roseanne in '91. The Roseanne portion of the doc was stripped from American airings, but here it is. It's something else: You can see a young Amy Sherman-Palladino in there in the writers' room, along with Chuck Lorre, etc.

ETA: Nevermind, I misread. I do think the GOP are in trouble there.

Good luck, suckers!

I think there's probably plenty of blame on both sides throughout - she is bipolar and possibly more erratic than ever in some areas now, and she made so many writers' lives hell. But she also put on a damn good show for years, and I think a lot of that was due to her perfectionism, until it curdled in the final seasons. I suspect Sara Gilbert, as EP, knows exactly how to handle her in ways many other past producers or staff did not. I also note a number of her longtime comedy friends (Norm McDonald, Wanda Sykes, etc.) on the new staff. That being said: The only episodes we have crew details on have writing and directing credits for several old regulars from the original show, including John Pasquin (director) and Sid Youngers (writer). I have a feeling the pilot may be the broadest and possibly worst of the new episodes, at least according to some early reviews that say the show improves after. But that is not uncommon for pilots. As long as they're not waving a Trump 2020 flag - and there is no way Sara Gilbert and co. would go for that - I'm okay.