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Juliette's plotline this season is like "oh you're finally recovering from your previous physical damage? GUESS WHAT"

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What’s crazy about Apple TV is that a chunk of the shows on there are about dystopian leadership filled with religious and corporate overtones IE “I pray to the founders…” “praise be to Keir…” and how keeping people in the dark and lying about their reality is the only way to have ultimate control over humans. And this comes from the most dominating tech company in existence. What’s terrible about this is that they are putting out the most interesting compelling and cinematic television there is right now. It’s very conflicting

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Juliette Nichols is the Character Of All Time tbh!!! She almost burned down her apartment as a kid because she got so focused on fixing a chair she forgot she was cooking, she rips the fitted sheet off her bed to sleep on a bare mattress, she sleeps in her work clothes, she asked how old some food was and then just ate it without even heating it up. She spends a season trapped in a haunted silo with a man who knows a lot about the before times but is too busy trying to get a suit to go outside to give a shit and also gets sepsis from forgetting to look after an arm wound. She gets pissed when someone infodumps to her about the past, even. She's given stew with a spoon and drinks it. She panicked and ran into an incinerator and thinks she can pry open ANY door with a crowbar. She hasn't washed her hair in weeks, probably,,

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“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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no matter how many other seasons will they release, you will never be forgotten jibaro🫶

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omg???

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i saw the tv glow is awesome bc its terrifying in a transgender "if i keep pushing this down and down and down i will be slowly letting myself die" way but also its even just scary as "a man in the moon traps you in a dimension out of time built to psychologically torture you with suburbia"

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This is not the only way to be, but it’s the way that I am. - Cordelia Cupp

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THE RESIDENCE  (2025—) 1x03 “Knives Out”

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The Residence Spoilers

At the end of the day, The Residence is an indictment of the wealthy’s attempts (and successes) to infiltrate the government, but more importantly a tribute to the everyday workers holding the line despite the forces trying to oust them, despite living in poverty and needing to take three buses to get to work, despite abusive relationships and coworkers who want to make you bring back the original meaning of “going postal.”

And yes, A.B.’s trusting nature got him killed, but it was by a very specific archetype and the only person given a political party: the “other” party. It’s pretty clearly implied which is which, but they intentionally didn’t state it because the house itself is apolitical in terms of left and right. No one else who wasn’t a politician was even given any indications of a political party because it doesn’t matter.

Sure it’s a little more idealistic than where we currently are (proxy Chuck Schumer and Marjorie Taylor Greene sitting next to each other comparing notes was a little too on the nose for my taste but she is the most recognizable example of a republican congressperson right now), but that’s the point. It showed us where we could be, where we should be. They showed a microcosm of it during the March 4th flashbacks, but just because it wasn’t as obvious throughout the rest of the events of the show (until the end) doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

The everyday federal employees keep this shit running even when everything around them is burning, and it’s the wealthy who want to tear it down. The working class have more in common than we think; it shouldn’t be an us vs. them thing with the other party, but the wealthy will happily continue to pit us against each other so they can steal the country out from under our noses.

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what if we went to a party and it was at the white house and there was a murder and kylie minogue was there (the residence is a fun show)

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Me: let's see how the new season of black mirror is going

Netflix: *subscription based brain functions*

Me: yeah... that's about right

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pearl is me i am pearl

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severance is like [45-50 minutes of life-altering television that leave you wanting to walk into the ocean or perhaps perform a self-immolation]

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