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I, Tonya.
Still soaking it in. So many great performers in this one, especially the major cast. Janney, Robbie, and Stan play off each other so well.
I donāt want to spoil any of it. I mean, everyone knows about āthe incidentā, so thatās nothing new. Itās just fun to hear everyoneās viewpoint, like some sort of Rural America version of Rashomon.
Also saw Battle of the Sexes.
Emma Stone was good as Billie Jean King, and once again, Steve Carell becomes some sort of chameleon when playing Bobby Riggs.
The film plays to her perfectionism, and by the end, tears were streaming down my face.
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I finished watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on Netflix. Wow that is just such an interesting exploration of romantic love and how women and men get hung up on it as this panacea for all their pain. There were episodes where it was really hard to watch, it rang so true for me. I also really enjoyed the women body humor, like fart humor for girls. A song about period sex? It was great to have someone talking about female bodies and the gross things they do as if they were not shameful, but grist for the humor mill. The humor was a little twee and Millennial in a way that made me feel old, but I try to stretch myself and not be stuck watching only things aimed at me.
I also finished up The Crownās new episodes. Very good. I especially love the physical humor of Claire Foy; these little touches they do to show how dowdy the Queen is, how uncultured in many ways. She nails it. Matt Smith as Prince Phillip is also remarkable in his physicality of inhabiting The Queen Consort - dashing and fit, and a little goofy. There were a couple of really good episodes this season.
I do hope this trend of desaturating every bloody color out of everything will go away soon. We get it. You can easily desaturate colors using software. Message received.
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binge-watched this with my mother in law over the holiday. loved it. once i saw the end of the first episode and saw āPalladino,ā i went, āoh, of COURSE ā now it makes sense!ā
the look, the smart, sassy, savvy protaganist, the biting humor ā of COURSE itās by the woman behind the Gilmore Girls. after that i couldnāt get enough.
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8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Christmas Special:
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a little late now (the deadline being yesterday) but:
the article is nicely snarky.
Fans of The Wire who thought the second season was a misstep and the fifth season was a disappointmentāi.e., non-fans of The Wireācan broaden the scope of Simonsā apology for just a little more money:
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Been watching Ash vs the Evil Dead. Itās so much stupid stupid fun.
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Very silly, very low budget, kind of like What We Do in the Shadows but with aliens instead of vampires. People will remember Wyatt Cenac from The Daily Show. Also includes H. Jon Benjamin as a small-town cop.
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Everyone knows Omar should have been killed by a zombie Stringer.
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I feel like if I want to watch The Wire I have to watch Homicide and dudeās other shows first.
Kind of like how I never actually got through The X-Files, or ST:TNG. Thereās just too much. I lose interest and then I forget where I left off.
SEE ALSO: South Park. And gawd forbid I ever start on Supernatural.
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Iāve gotten to where if thereās a show that gets great reviews and āeveryoneā has seenā¦if it is on season three or later, I wonāt start it.
The Star Wars Clones and Rebels cartoons are an example. Iāve heard good things, but damned if I have time to watch them all. Even as background noise. If someone would do a expurgated version, Iād be so happy.
I do not have the time available to sit and consume media.
I havenāt made it through the first episode of the new Black Mirror after 4 times of sitting down to watch it. Two of those on my mobile. (But this falls into the category of āIf my SO would watch it, I could watch it, but it is definitely not something she would watch, soā¦ā)
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Why?
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I havenāt been watching much video lately. Kiddos are home because of snow tomorrow, so maybe we will watch something,
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The Defenders, on Netflix. Not to be confused with The Defender on NFB. Oneās an interesting documentary about the toils of an everyman struggling to make ends meet and achieve their dream, and the other is a well choreographed action series. Both excellent.
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Anyone else watch the new X-Files tonight?
Iām still pulling my thoughts together. But since I didnāt really like Season 10, I wasnāt expecting to be crazy about tonight. And I wasnāt. I need a bit more time to get the words rightā¦ but Iām curious what others thought.
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I dunno.
David Simon shows I could potentially watch
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- The Corner
- The Wire
- Generation Kill
- Treme
- Show Me a Hero
- The Deuce
Did I miss anything?
Oh gawd, thereās more?
Do people know there was a second theatrical film?
I thought Iād better watch it before I tried to watch the reboot/sequel series, whatever it is.
BUT THEN THE NEW SERIES ACTS LIKE THE SECOND MOVIE NEVER HAPPENED 
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Yup. Though this may be the last go-round, since Gillian Anderson is saying sheās done after this season.
I knew, and I own it on DVD, but to this day, Iāve never seen it. Certain events in Season 9 and the series finale left me disillusioned with the show, and I havenāt yet caught up with movie #2.
Hell, Seasons 10 and 11 are acting like half the original series never happened. Oh, the show always questioned its own ātruth,ā and at the time, that was part of the fun. (Iām thinking of Mulderās doubting his quest to discover his sisterās fate, which spawned some interesting story twists and characterization.) But nowā¦ so many plot points directly contradict what was āestabishedā in the past, not to mention that apparently last yearās finale was a āvisionā witnessed by Scully while she was in yet another coma. So what exactly are we supposed to believe is going on? The more extended and convoluted the Conspiracy plot becomes, the harder it gets for me to suspend my disbelief and roll with the twists and bends of this roller-coaster. (That might be my own failing, Iāll admit. I just donāt watch TV the way I used to.)
Iāve got a few more thoughts, but theyāre still half-bakedā¦ let me put them back in the oven a little longer. 
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Waitā¦ that was tonight?
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Yup, at 8 pm, but Iām sure itās up on YouTube by now, and the FOX website should have it soon.
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Do people remember when there were three X-Files type shows on broadcast TV at the same time?
They were all very different.
They were all pretty good.
They all got canceled after one season 
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