Thanks for the clips and mini-reviews @Maxim . I appreciate that you also recap the moments you don't show.
I didn't realize the hot therapist stayed around this long. I suppose it makes sense to keep bringing him back to unwittingly cause chaos. About a year before this Another World had an evil female psychiatrist, plotting to get a man. There was something in the water in those years as the big screen and softcore movies loved that theme too.
The scene with Viki and Bo is moving, but I wish they'd brought up Viki's late husband, Joe. Like Sarah, he also "died," returned from the dead, and died for real. I guess they may have thought connecting to recently deceased Megan was more organic, especially as Sarah was her sister.
The Dorian on display here is who we'll be getting for a while to come, just in a much more outwardly neurotic and histrionic form once Elaine Princi is gone. I don't love when the show uses Dorian this way, but I know they need her to move the plot along. The moment where Viki nearly snaps is great.
Your mention of the "circus" with characters like Alex reminds me of how some fans talk about novelas, and the cores of them. They too are critical of some that have a "circus" atmosphere. Alex would probably fit into that type of show. Actually, much of OLTL at this time does remind me of them - Blair's schemes with Asa, Addie and the scissors, Clint/Viki/Sloan, Dorian, Luna and Death, Marty, Suede, etc. That high octane, operatic feel.
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Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or: The Square
Toronto Film Festival - People's Choice Award: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Gotham Independent Film Awards - Best Picture: Call Me By Your Name
National Board of Review - Best Film: The Post
NYFCC - Best Picture: Lady Bird
National Society of Film Critics Winners - Best Film: Lady Bird
Golden Globes - Best Picture Drama: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Golden Globes - Best Picture Musical or Comedy: Ladybird
Critics Choice Awards - Best Picture: The Shape of Water
Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture: The Shape of Water
Directors Guild Award - Feature Film: The Shape of Water
Writers Guild Award - Best Original Screenplay: Get Out
Writers Guild Award - Best Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Satellite Awards - Best Film: God's Own Country / Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BAFTA - Best Film: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Independent Spirit Awards - Best Picture: Get Out
Academy Awards - Best Picture: The Shape of Water
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Cannes: Full List of Winners:
Palme d'Or: The Square (Ruben Östlund)
Grand Prix: 120 Beats per Minute (Robin Campillo)
Best Director: Sofia Coppola (The Beguiled)
Best Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos / Efthymis Filippou (The Killing of a Sacred Deer) & Lynne Ramsay ( You Were Never Really Here) (tie)
Best Actress: Diane Kruger ( In the Fade)
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)
Jury Prize: Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
70th Anniversary Prize: Nicole Kidman
Honorary Palme d'Or: Jeffrey Katzenberg
TIFF - A full list of winners can be found here
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