[adamunc Joined: Jul 5th, 2011 Topics: 13 Posts: 617 View Predictions]

#1205437354

I love Susie’s speech when Midge tries to call off her wedding and get Susie to tell everyone. (“The Testi-Roastial,” The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

“Miriam, I have done a lot for you over the years. I jumped onto a subway track to retrieve your third favorite hat. I came to your apartment at four a.m. to kill a cockroach. Turned out to be a raisin. I’ve euthanized three of your elderly pets. I’ve wrung out your wet bras on hotel terraces. I wrestled a Turkish police officer to the ground, I kept Ethel Merman away from you. But this! This has nothing to do with your career. It’s your personal life and I gotta start drawing lines and I’m starting today. I’m sorry, but you get yourself out of this.”

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I am thrilled to see Ashford get recognition. Clark will and should win the Tony (if she doesn’t, I will call for a congressional investigation) but Ashford should get something. Her “By the Sea” is five minutes of musical theater heaven and the rest of her Mrs. Lovett is highly accomplished as well.

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Merrily has been problematic since the beginning and will continue to be so, I think. A lot of smart, talented people have had a go at solving its backward structure and no one has done it to full satisfaction yet.

Despite some brilliant Sondheim songs, I think the story doesn’t lend itself to the musical form and even if it has compelling personalities in the leads, its built-in flaws will show through.

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I loved so much about “Escape From Shit Mountain”, but it really underscored that this is NOT a comedy series. It belongs in drama, award strategy aside. One of the characteristics of the comedy form is that it tends to have lower consequence for actions, and that is not the case here. It has nothing to do with the quality of the show or its elements, but this is a drama.

Absolute props to JGL and Stephanie Hsu for their work here, as well as the writing and directing. Goes in my top 3 of the series, along with “Dead Man’s Hand” and “The Night Shift”.

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I felt like this would have played better if the A and B stories were switched. Ava, Barbara and Melissa snooping on the charter school should have been the focus and the mural the secondary plot. As it was, the mural idea was stretched too thin for something with such an obvious arc.

But there were some sharp lines throughout. “You’re awfully defeatist for someone who votes third-party.” Lol.

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I wonder if it would have been a different story had Michele opened in the show…

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This holds a lot of promise for me. The property seems ideal for musical treatment and the writing team feels like a match for the material. I’d love to see David Korins do the sets. I think his architectural take and plays on perspective would suit the Savannah settings well. And Catherine Zuber could do some killer costuming for the Savannah society elite.

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#1205327992

This seems like very good casting. He seemed talented to me in Almost Famous, it’s just that the book forgot to create a character for him to play and the director forgot to… well, direct the show.

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#1205317102

The story of two people trying to build an obscenely expensive house doesn’t sound like the stuff of scintillating theater, but I guess these two have earned the benefit of the doubt until we see more.

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#1205314990

Terrific ensemble episode. They continue to be very judicious about how they open the show up when they go outside the school walls. Mr. Johnson wasn’t really in the mix here, which makes sense given the story, but otherwise everyone in the ensemble had strong material and made the best of it.

I have done that exact same thing involving making sure you are seen on the convention floor and then going off carousing, so watching Barbara and Melissa in action was a hoot. And Barbara forgetting her shoes was everything.

I agree with the general sentiment that Janine and Gregory are cute enough, but they haven’t quite reached the level where many episodes should revolve around their halting romance. That should simmer in the background a little more; the stakes aren’t high enough yet.

Lauren Weedman is one of the great recurring characters currently going on a sitcom, so I hope she will qualify for Guest Actress this year and can break through.

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#1205311062

Michael Zaslow was probably even better in the 1979-80 season when he wasn’t nominated than he was for his 1994 win.

That was a strong win, though. Peter Bergman’s reel that year was nothing special, but the other four had great submissions.

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#1205306752

McKinsey only submitted herself once for GL and she wasn’t nominated that year. Though of course, she should have won one at some point in her career.

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#1205306288

I think we have SLR’s Emmy submission for this season.

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#1205305822

I think Ellen Parker may have had the best reel ever submitted in this category.

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#1205305762

Renewed for a second season.

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