#WHERE'S CLOSURE ON NICA???

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tw for sexual abuse/rape + assault and abuse mention

Honestly I absolutely see that the first person Nica would have talked about Foley's sexual abuse/assault and rape to would have been Andy. Because they definitely would have been talking about Chucky and their trauma with him and when it got to when Nica was in the care of Foley she would have remembered some things, especially because of how we see Foley didn't hypnotize her the second time in Cult meaning he probably did that at least a few times without hypnotizing her. Now I don't think he did that often but I remember seeing at some point something about how when Nica didn't wanna be transferred it was probably also partially due to somewhat remembering her sessions with Foley. AND I think the hypnosis doesn't fully work due to him saying he'd be silent about 'her assault' if she keeps quiet about his sexual abuse, which also furthers the not always hypnotizing her thing. But anyways, back to the main point, I think she would have mentioned that since she trusts Andy and Andy probably would have gone silent. Because he’s never been sexually abused (that we know of) and also he KNOWS she didn't get real closure and never will since they both know Chucky probably didn't mean it or actually give him what he deserves, that being torture. And she never got to see it. Plus she just ended up in a weird ass relationship again after that with Tiffany abusing her. Now we don't know if Tiff ever did sexually abuse Nica but since she did help Chucky rape Jennifer in seed we can assume it's not like she wouldn't do it. Also with the way the series is going, it seems likely that Nica gets turned into a doll and with Tiffany being who she is now she probably would make her a fucking sex doll. So I feel like Andy wouldn't know really what to say and just… do the generic stuff which leaves Nica again feeling almost. Alone. Like yeah she knows Andy means it but everyone that isn't a victim says 'I'm so sorry' and 'your so strong' and that stuff to victims when they come out because unless they are a victim they don't wanna say to much and with Andy we could safely assume he's not a sexual abuse victim and he probably just. Can't say much so she feels trapped knowing he doesn't understand at all what that's like. He doesn’t know how to cope with it, the unhealthy coping mechanisms that can be gained from it, what it feels like, the breakdowns, the feeling scared of new people you meet abusing you, the feeling of their hands on you, the random sensation of being sexually assaulted again, not feeling pure/clean, and everything else that comes with the trauma of being sexually abused and she knows that he doesn’t understand what she went through, which is a very lonely feeling where it feels like nobody has been through what she has and that nobody gets her so she’s just alone.

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YOURE TELLING ME ANDY DIDN’T ACTUALLY KILL CHUCKY AND HE KILLED DR MIXTER INSTEAD??? 

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Okay. It’s Greater Boston season finale live reaction time

Loving the bookending of the season again, this time with the dreams. I love that.

“the big bag of Cs” what an incredible name

“You seem like you’ve got everything figured out.” “Yeah, I fuckin’ do!”

HEY I LOVE MALLORY A BISEXUAL ICON

“They weren’t. You weren’t.” I appreciate Mallory so much. The choices you made as your past self aren’t the choices you’d make now because those choices made you who you are now! I really do think it's important to allow yourself that and accept those past selves and their choices and I love her.

I’m so worried about Leon.

holy shit!!!!!!!! holy shit the puzzle box!!!!!

holy fuck, Dimitri doesn’t know what’s in the puzzle box???

He wanted them to figure it out together .... oh no

We are watching Ben Affleck. We know what Ben Affleck is doing at all times. Ben Affleck will not go unobserved.

(... A strange parallel here between Legion and Leon, actually.) (Edit after finishing the episode: WELP)

“Of course she was thinking of him. Me. She was thinking of me.” Leon! Don’t forget that you’re part of this, that this is your story too!

The Whirladon being just one more part of the denial of closure that these three have had.

Oh shit, I just realized that Mallory being here is also part of the coming-full-circle of this moment.

Dimitri thinks Leon was right about Atlantis and Mallory thinks that Dimitri was right

“That’s my loss. He didn’t need my mysteries ... All Leon needed was to know we loved him, and he did. He was sure of us, both of us..” Okay I’m crying now

The slow descent, denial of closure, you can imagine that moment so many times but that doesn’t mean it’s going to happen like you want it to

I love these two? A lot?

He always came back for Nica what the fuck

COMMUNICATE! COMMUNICATION!

Wait, are the robots going to drive the trains???

What does Rusty think about this I want to know

I love the fact that Leon’s ridiculous cover letter from Season 1 has become a major plot point.

Something I’ve always loved about this show is that despite being a character who is almost entirely unable to directly influence the action, Leon utterly permeates the fabric of the show, both physically and metaphorically. The characters’ motivations, the coincidences that bring them together, the narration, the trains, the city.

Love ya Chucko. Love ya Nicole.

CHUCK WROTE THE RIDDLE BOOK?

TALK ABOUT BOOKENDS, YEAH

Wow, how many of the things opened in the first episode of the show are being closed here? Or at least starting to close?

“Did anyone ever find you?” Love ya Chucko,

Hahaha, Chuck’s network got bought out by Multitude. Is Amanda McLoughlin his boss now?

Oh man, Michael’s so excited to commit a new conspiracy, does he get to bring his trenchcoat this time???

Michael being anxious about being financially secure, oh man

Louisa like .... okay maybe you still need someone to do a little bit of the responsibility for you

More bringing back of the first episode! Nica’s open mic night!

I'm crying again about Nica Stamatis!

THE PUZZLE BOXES ONLY WORK TOGETHER OH NO

(I still have a bunch of those old T tokens)

Oh, Nica. Nica, honey, no, you didn't.

(Was that Jordan Cobb threatening Matt Damon and Ben Affleck?)

Read the letter!!!! Read the LETTER

Okay but there is a magical mystery here, Dimitri, and it's in your pocket.

Are they going to believe him? Please, let them believe him

THAT'S THEIR PRISONS. THEY'VE HAD A MOTIF OF IMPRISONMENT THIS WHOLE TIME AND THEIR PRISONS WERE INSIDE THE PUZZLE BOXES

"I knew what I wanted to be because you showed it to me." I have started crying a third time

Brb, I'm gonna go find and buy this song immediately. (How did I not know Jamie sings?)

What the fuck?

What the fuck?

WHAT THE FUCK,

IS THE BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL THE PLOT NOW?

WHAT

I LOVE THIS

the narrator is literally an Alexa apparently

Okay, if this is where this is going I very much want to know why the Narrator agreed to hand things over to Leon.

Not to mention what it means that people are breaking free of the narration!

Oliver speaking in his real voice again. Damn.

Oh god, also this is reflecting back amazingly on the Narrator's shock when Leon first interrupted him.

Hm, the narrator is ... a Bastard.

Oh, Rusty.

Well, fuck, Phil agreed?

OH NO IS NICA THE FALL GUY

OH NO NO NO NO NO.

NOPE

Leon Stamatis, I love you.

What else did you think you were going to get when you wired the most stubborn, determined bastard on this show directly into your city? Did you think he was going to let you do what you wanted?

(You can't make Leon do anything he doesnt want to! No one can! As Dimitri said!)

Well.

That was Something.

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Asian Markets Mixed After Wall Street’s Swoon: Live Updates

Asian markets stabilize after Wall Street’s dismal day.

Markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mixed midday on Tuesday as investors tried to grapple with a disastrous Monday on Wall Street.Japan’s Nikkei 225 index was down about half a percent midday. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.3 percent.By contrast, Hong Kong shares were up 0.6 percent.The region’s biggest loser was South Korean stocks. The Kospi index there fell 2.1 percent. The biggest gainers were in Australia, where the S&P/ASX 200 index was up 3.2 percent.Futures markets signaled a positive opening on Wall Street, though they also were predicting more losses in European trading.Markets showed other signs of confidence. Oil prices rose, with barrels of West Texas Intermediate, the American benchmark, up more than 3 percent. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rose as bond prices fell, suggesting investors were warming to the idea of putting their money in riskier assets like stocks.

Philippines becomes the first financial market to close.

The Philippine Stock Exchange on Tuesday became the first market to close over the coronavirus. In a memorandum on its website, it said trading would stop until further notice. Even in a time of ailing financial markets, the country’s stock performance stands out. Its main index has plunged by nearly one-third from its January high, making it one of the worst performers in the Asia-Pacific region.The closures came hours after President Rodrigo Duterte put big chunks of the country’s population under quarantine to stop the coronavirus outbreak. The country lists 142 confirmed infections and 12 deaths so far.

Amazon will hire more workers and raise pay as delivery orders surge.

Amazon said it would hire 100,000 new workers and raise pay by $2 an hour for many employees in response to a surge in delivery orders from people staying at home to combat the spread of the coronavirus.Amazon said the 100,000 new jobs would include both full and part-time positions across the United States to staff its warehouses and make deliveries. The company encouraged people who lost work as a result of coronavirus-related shutdowns and cancellations to apply.“We also know many people have been economically impacted as jobs in areas like hospitality, restaurants, and travel are lost or furloughed as part of this crisis,” the company said in a news release. “We want those people to know we welcome them on our teams until things return to normal and their past employer is able to bring them back.”Amazon said it would also spend $350 million to raise pay by $2 or more an hour for workers staffing its enormous logistics operation in the United States, Britain and parts of Europe. The raises would last at least through April. In the United States, such workers start at $15 an hour.

S&P 500 has its worst day since the outbreak began.

Financial markets cratered on Monday, as investors were confronted with evidence that a steep decline in the world’s largest economies may have already begun.The sell-off began after the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps on Sunday afternoon to bolster the American economy, signaling that it saw an economic crisis unfolding as businesses shut down and borders are closed to contain the coronavirus. The financial downdraft was global, with major benchmarks in Asia, Europe and the United States all falling on Monday.The S&P 500 fell 12 percent, its biggest drop since the coronavirus outbreak began to roil markets in the United States last month — and its worst daily decline since October 1987, when stocks plunged about 20 percent in what came to be known as Black Monday. For the technology heavy Nasdaq, the drop was its worst on record.Energy prices also slid sharply as investors factored in significant slowdowns in economic activity.Global oil prices plunged to below $30 a barrel, the lowest level in more than four years. Oil has fallen by half since the start of the year, and some analysts predict that oil prices could drop below $20 a barrel in the coming weeks.

The ‘Trump bump’ in stocks has deflated.

The decline of the stock market, which hit a record high less than a month ago, has wiped out many of the gains that President Trump has crowed about throughout his presidency.Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016, along with the Republican Party’s control of Congress, set off a surge in share prices as investors looked forward to the prospect of steep cuts to corporate tax rates and an administration stocked with industry-friendly faces.In December 2017, Mr. Trump delivered a sweeping tax overhaul. By the following month, the S&P 500 was up more than 30 percent, and the gains kept coming for much of the year. For Mr. Trump, this was a surefire barometer of his success as president.There was one other nasty dip along the way: In late 2018, investors grew increasingly worried about Mr. Trump’s trade war with China and the prospect that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates.Stocks climbed 28.9 percent last year, thanks largely to the Fed’s decision to reverse course. But that rally has unraveled in the past month.Though stocks have now given up most of their gains since the president was elected, the S&P 500 would have to fall another 12 percent for the entire Trump bump to be erased.

Food distributor plans to hire displaced workers.

Companies that power the supply chain are taking steps to make sure food keeps flowing to Americans in the coming weeks and months.United Natural Foods Inc., one of the nation’s largest distributors of food to supermarkets, is planning to hire potentially thousands of out-of-work warehouse workers to staff in its 59 distribution centers, the company’s chief executive, Steven L. Spinner, said.The distributor has been crushed by demand from grocery stores, but other food distributors like US Foods and Sysco, which supply restaurants and schools, are likely to experience significant layoffs as cities and states shut down public places.UNFI, as the company is known, is making plans to hire the displaced workers to help relieve its employees, many of whom have been working 60 to 70 hour a week to keep up with the panic buying in supermarkets across the country. The hiring could take place as soon as next week.This unusual industry effort where companies are essentially sharing their work force is also meant to ensure there is a larger pool of trained warehouse workers in case illness incapacitates some of them.“We are going to do creative things and work out a way to use their folks,’‘ Mr. Spinner said. “The beauty of a shared work force is that these people have already been hired and are screened. They are already trained to work in a warehouse.”Reporting was contributed by Michael Corkery, Jack Nicas, Daniel Victor and Carlos Tejada. Read the full article

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Part two. Ohhh this is so fun. Look at all these all these movies, Alright, lets pick up right where we left off. 

1) The Boy 2 - I’m trying to figure out where else the directors could go with this film. I thought it gave us closure and didn’t really need a sequel, but like all horror movies I’d most definitely give it a chance! Expected release date: Unknown.

2) Alien - I love that this poster gives absolutely nothing away. And I have yet to search youtube or scour the T.V. for a sneak peek. I, myself would love to be surprised. Every single one of the alien films has been solid. I think this one will be much the same. Expected Release Date: May 19, 2017.

3) Halloween Returns - If you are still keeping count (which I am) this will officially be #11. The Halloween films have always been great. There is rumor of this one starting out with Michael on death row. Looking forward to this one! Looks like this one may be on hold as far as a release date as of right now, but it seems like John Carpenter will be involved. Expected release date: Unknown.

4) Orphan 2 - Esther’s revenge. Not too much released about this film. Expected release date: Unknown.

5) Scream - The End - Its been 20 years since the start of the franchise. There are definitely high hopes for this film (if it finally happens). Who doesn’t love a Wes Craven film? Hopefully this one was in the works before he passed away. Expected release date: Unknown.

6) Insidious Chapter 4 - The plot is currently unknown. The longer they keep this one under wraps, the better I think it will be. These films always have the best movie and are super creepy. This is one to check out at the box office for sure! Expected release date: October 20, 2017.

7) Cult of Chucky - with a 4.2 out of 5 on IMDB this one is sure to be a hit. The plot is a good start too: Nica Pierce has spent four years in a mental institution after members of her family were murdered, a crime she did not commit. Her psychiatrist gives her a Good Guy doll as a therapeutic tool. Soon afterward, a new string of murders take place around the asylum, making Nica suspect that Chucky, the possessed doll behind the crimes she was accused of and who she has concluded is a figment of her imagination, is behind her predicament. Sound similar to the first one? EXCITE! Expected release date: October 20, 2017.

8) IT - Who else got the chills while watching the trailer?! I love that they seemed to keep it pretty true to the book / original movie and that they didn’t show Pennywise too much. Just enough to get the blood pumping. One of the horror films I’m most excited for this year! Expected release date: September 8, 2017

9) FInal Destination 6 - Looks like it’s going to be like every other Final Destination with it’s twists and entertaining kills. Expected release date: August 2017.

10) Ouija 3 - I think it’s so great that Creepypasta and Internet created gems are making their way into the horror genre. Some of these concepts are really terrifying and ‘Charlie Charlie’ is one of them. I haven't seen this film but I think it may have already been released. Release Date: End of 2016.

Which of these would you go to see?

-- Kaity 

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Fed Cuts Interest Rates in Bid to Protect Economy: Live Updates

The Fed unveils an emergency program to keep credit flowing.

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates to near-zero on Sunday, in its second emergency measure this month amid increasingly dire predictions about the economic impact of the coronavirus.The central bank also said it would buy up huge amounts of government and mortgage-backed debt.“The coronavirus outbreak has harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States,” the central bank said in a statement on Sunday. “The Federal Reserve is prepared to use its full range of tools to support the flow of credit to households and businesses.”The Fed cut its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point, to a range of 0 to 0.25 percent, and said it would increase its holdings of Treasury securities by at least $500 billion and its holdings of government mortgage-backed securities by at least $200 billion “over coming months.”The moves, reminiscent of steps the central bank took during the 2008 financial crisis, are aimed at making it easier for banks to lend money to businesses facing a steep and sudden drop in revenue as the virus forces them to curtail their activity or shut down.In a sign of how urgent the Fed considered Sunday’s moves, the central bank’s chairman, Jerome H. Powell, said the Federal Open Market Committee would no longer hold its previously planned meeting scheduled for this week, saying this decision was “in lieu” of that.Despite the Fed’s intervention, stock futures in the United States declined steeply on Sunday evening.Economists have been cutting forecasts for economic growth for weeks, as they consider how store closings, falling consumer spending and decreased travel will affect the United States. On Sunday, economists at Goldman Sachs said they now expected the American economy, the world’s largest, would record zero growth in the first quarter, and would shrink in the second quarter.Even with monetary and fiscal stimulus measures, “these shutdowns and rising public anxiety about the virus are likely to lead to a sharp deterioration in economic activity in the rest of March and throughout April,” Goldman’s economists wrote in a research note.Financial markets have plunged in recent weeks as investors fixated on potential costs of the coronavirus outbreak. Stocks are down some 20 percent from their Feb. 19 high.On March 3, the Fed cut interest rates by a half percentage point in an emergency announcement. The U.S. stock market managed to rally only for roughly 15 minutes before falling sharply once again and finishing the day down nearly 3 percent.The volatility has only grown since then, with the S&P 500 posting its worst-single day loss since the Black Monday crash of 1987 on Thursday, before posting an extraordinary 9.3 percent gain to close the week on Friday. The wild swings in prices extend well beyond stocks. At times last week, the market for Treasuries showed signs of trouble — a worrisome indicator because U.S. government bonds are considered the safest spot for investors to park their cash in times of stress.

An economic hit from ‘all sides.’

For weeks, forecasters have warned of the coronavirus’s potential to disrupt the American economy just as it has done elsewhere. But there was little hard evidence beyond delayed shipments of goods from China and stomach-churning volatility in financial markets.Now the effects are showing up in downtown nightspots and suburban shopping centers from coast to coast.Not since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has a crisis enveloped so much of the economy so quickly. Broadway is dark. The college basketball tournaments are canceled and professional sports are on indefinite hold. Conferences, concerts and St. Patrick’s Day parades have been called off or postponed. Even Disneyland — which stayed open through a recession a decade ago that wiped out millions of American jobs and trillions of dollars in wealth — is shuttered.“This hits the heart of the economy, and it hits the economy on all sides,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton. “It’s not just that we’re slowing down things. We’re actually hitting the pause button, and there is no precedent, there is no mold for that.”

Starbucks will eliminate seating and close some stores.

Starbucks will eliminate seating at all of its company-owned stores in the United States for at least the next two weeks to encourage social distancing, the company announced on Sunday.It will also temporarily close some stores in “high-social gathering locations,” like malls and college campuses. A Starbucks spokeswoman, Jaime Riley, said the company was still determining how many stores will be closed.At the stores that do remain open, customers will be able to walk up to the counter to order, place delivery or pickup orders online or use drive-throughs where available.For the next two weeks, Starbucks employees who are unable to work or whose hours are reduced because of the store closures will be compensated for the shifts they would normally have worked.At the end of that period, Starbucks will “reassess to make sure that our parents continue to be financially supported,” Ms. Riley said.

Hollywood may have just had a historically bad weekend.

Seemingly every aspect of American life has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, and the weekend ritual of watching a movie in the dark sitting with strangers has been no exception. Most cinemas in the United States remain open, with the two biggest chains, AMC and Regal, reducing seating capacity in auditoriums by 50 percent so that people could leave at least one empty seat between them. But fears about the coronavirus kept the masses at home: Domestic ticket sales totaled about $55.3 million, a 44 percent drop from last weekend, despite three new films — “Bloodshot,” “The Hunt” and “I Still Believe” — arriving in wide release.It was the worst period for movie theaters in two decades, according to Comscore, which compiles box office data. The next lowest weekend was Sept. 15 to 17 in 2000, when ticket sales totaled $54.5 million and the primary draws were holdovers like “The Watcher,” a serial-killer movie, and “Nurse Betty,” a dark comedy starring Renée Zellweger. In today’s money, however, the 2000 weekend generated roughly $83 million in ticket sales.

Why stock prices surged on Friday.

Just 30 minutes before trading on Wall Street came to a close on Friday, President Trump declared a national emergency and said he’d speed up testing for the coronavirus in the United States with the help of private companies.Speaking outside the White House — surrounded by chief executives from a number of companies — Mr. Trump said Google would help create a website to screen coronavirus cases, and Walmart, Target and others would help with testing. (The president oversold that Google site.)Investors had been waiting all week to see Washington take action, so they didn’t wait to hear the finer details: Stocks surged some 6 percent as the president spoke about the plans, to end the day up 9 percent.

Catch up: Here’s what else is happening.

Retailers started closing stores: Apple said it would shutter more than 450 stores across 21 countries for two weeks. Nike said it would shut all of its stores in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, New Zealand and Australia for the same period.Spain and France announced drastic restrictions: On Saturday, Spain ordered all citizens to confine themselves to their homes — and to leave only to buy food, go to work, seek medical care or assist the elderly and others in need. France announced the closing of all “non-indispensable” businesses as of midnight, including restaurants, bars and movie theaters.Saudi Aramco’s profit fell. The world’s largest oil company said on Sunday that its profit last year fell more than 20 percent, primarily because of lower oil prices.Volkswagen will temporarily close a factory in Chattanooga, Tenn. The factory will close for the day on Monday as managers assess how to handle a shortage of workers who have child care problems.Jeanna Smialek, Ben Casselman, Jack Ewing, Stanley Reed, Jack Nicas, Liz Alderman, Brooks Barnes, David Yaffe-Bellany and Matt Phillips contributed reporting. Read the full article