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I wanted to post my thoughts on a thread and i didn’t find one, so here it goes.
I find all 3 episodes I’ve seen so far very good, it’s a case you get wrapped in very easily and Fanning is giving a masterclass of performance. Chloe Sevigny also is very good and both would be deserving of nominations.I’m on to watch episode 4.
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The HBO darlings everywhere (The Last of Us, Succession, The White Lotus, Perry Mason, Somebody Somewhere, White House Plumbers, Love & Death);
The Apple gang (Bad Sisters, Slow Horses, Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Black Bird);
Poker Face, The Great, The Bear, Evil (especially Katja Herbers) and The Good Fight.Please! These gays, they're trying to murder me!
Sevigny has this and Russian Doll… She’s so overdue for a nomination..she should have won for Big Love season 3
speak on it!!! Her Big Love snubs were unforgivable, and now that she is again doing win worthy work in The Girl From Plainville and hopefully has something good to do in Russian Doll, they better not decide to pay my girl dust again!!
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The choice to show Conrad’s body when the police discovered him at the start of the show was a bit of a clumsy one for many different reasons but aside from that I thought these were four solid episodes! Out of the true crime limited series I’ve seen so far this season this has had by far the strongest start (although I haven’t seen WeCrashed). Whilst the show has a considerable focus on Michelle Carter it never once tries to make the audience sympathise with her which is something II thought was lacking a bit in both Inventing Anna and The Dropout. There’s an element of humanity the show keeps focusing on whether that’s with the narrative focus on Conrad and his mother or what I thought was the clever use of Michelle’s friend/crush in the third and fourth episodes as a foil.
Admittedly it took me a while to get into Fanning’s performance because it was quite different than I what I was expecting from her but her performance here feels so frighteningly real in ways I don’t even think I can begin to describe. It’s a great casting choice to cast an actress of a similar generation to the protagonist but is also much older than them now than they were at the the time of these events because you have someone who can really get it to the nit and grit of the character and the period this show is set who can also give an element of the false maturity Carter had. The real star (or rather MVP) for me here though is Chloe Sevigny who is just absolutely heartbreaking and delivers a portrait of grief that just feels very delicately handled.
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it’s ironic to me that the actor playing CONrad in The Girl from Plainville is the same actor who played CONnor in Dear Evan Hansen, who are similar characters for obvious reasons.
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!EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE!
- SEVEN OSCARS
- BEST PICTURE
- Michelle Yeoh, Best Actress
- Ke Huy Quan, Best Supporting Actor
- Jamie Lee Curtis, Best Supporting Actress
- Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Best Director & Best Original Screenplay
- Paul Rogers, Best Film EditingFYC (TV):
- Abbott Elementary
- House of the Dragon
- The White Lotus
- The Last of UsI didn’t know Lisa Cholodenko was director in some episodes
She’s doing a fantastic job here. Each of her projects feel very journalistic in how much they capture a very “real” one and that continues to be the case here. Those Glee scenes are creepy but they also felt like they were shot by someone who knew and researched in depth about this case and pop culture at the time.
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She’s doing a fantastic job here. Each of her projects feel very journalistic in how much they capture a very “real” one and that continues to be the case here. Those Glee scenes are creepy but they also felt like they were shot by someone who knew and researched in depth about this case and pop culture at the time.
she needs to have a Jane Campion season. It’s like she has being blackballed out of movies for some reason. She should have made more movies than she has .
ReplyCopy URLshe needs to have a Jane Campion season. It’s like she has being blackballed out of movies for some reason. She should have made more movies than she has .
She supposedly was set to direct a remake of Toni Erdmann (which really should not happen) but I think that project has gone into limbo.
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Her fanpage shared the Glee clips and it gives me so much secondhand embarassment. It must be really effective in some ways
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Best Director: Edgar Wright, Guillermo Del Toro, Jane Campion
Best Picture: Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog
Best Actress: Kristen Stewart, Thomasin McKenzie, Rooney Mara, Tessa Thompson
Best Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch, Bradley Cooper
Best S. Actress: Cate Blanchett, Diana Rigg, Anya Taylor Joy
Best S. Actor: Kodi Smit McPhee, Willem Dafoe, Richard JenkinsAlways going to stan Elle Fanning, if only because I have a massive celebrity crush on her – but she’s got way more of a chance with The Great and should focus on that.
it’s ironic to me that the actor playing CONrad in The Girl from Plainville is the same actor who played CONnor in Dear Evan Hansen, who are similar characters for obvious reasons.
Blame Colton Ryan’s agent I think. He’s the only truly good casting in the DEH movie, as he had been doing the role in US stage tours. That probably inspired those working for him to deem him “the kid who plays suicide” – and yeah, it doesn’t sound comfortable.
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