#David Del Rio

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VANESSA & MATEO | 1x09 | You Can't Always Get What You Want

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I just finished Maggie. And honestly it looks like it probably would have gotten on my nerves with the Will-They-Won’t-They bull crap. Like the chick doesn’t even let things play out after having a vision. She just breaks up with a person. Lame. And considering she pushes Ben to propose to Jessie in the finale, it would have been cruel for Ben and Maggie to get together in the next season after all that happened.

So now I don’t feel so bad about it getting cancelled. 😂😂

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A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)

This is the sequel to yesterday's movie. Also, in my research into the lead actor and actress being married, I found out that she has her own production company and she produced these movies. I have mad respect for a woman who uses her own husband to make not one but two thirst trap movies.

We open on Callie (Lauren Swickard) and Manny (David Del Rio) giving a tour to a group visiting the vineyard and Joseph (Josh Swickard) interrupts to propose to Callie. Leo (Ali Afshar) happens to be visiting to share some news with Joseph but also to hang out with Manny because they’re long distance besties now I guess. But the news that Leo shares is big- Joseph’s mom ran off with her yoga instructor and is living on a remote island now, so her right hand person is now running his deceased father’s company. We don’t find out much about this person yet, but it’s clear that Joseph isn’t a fan. However, Leo says that the company is in Joseph’s name. He would just have to go back to San Francisco to step in as CEO.

We do also get some new characters in this one. Brandy (Raquel Dominguez) is Callie’s best friend who is training to be a farm vet and is getting credit hours on the farm now. When Joseph and Callie head to the city, Brandy and Manny are in charge of the farm and taking care of Hannah (Natalia Mann) since their ill mother passed away in the time between the movies. Brandy and Manny have a super awkward romance blossoming as well. I won’t get into details because there’s a solid chance that I’m being dramatic, but it’s heavy cringe.

In the city, Callie meets lots of people, but there are two characters who are the most prominent- Victoria (Laura James) and Owen (Noah James). These two just happen to have the same last name and are married to completely separate people in real life (yes, I checked). Victoria is the current acting CEO of Joseph’s company and his mom’s right hand person, but it is clear very quickly that she hates Callie almost immediately and doesn’t trust Joseph to lead the company. Owen is a business friend of Joseph, but is also Callie’s deceased fiancé’s older brother. So. That’s a fun coincidence. Owen seems like he could go either way as being a good person or a total douche (like the guy friend in the first movie who just hung around too much) and I was leaning one way and was wrong, so. I’ll let you find that out for yourself.

This movie was harder to get through just because there were so many rich people tropes we had to experience. I strongly prefer cities to small towns in real life, but not the rich part of cities. I am staunchly middle class (eat the rich). Anyway, the conflict in this movie seemed much more genuine and I loved the resolution. I think the flashback (iykyk) was a really great way to resolve things instead of having one character do large romantic gestures. Too many of those is just manipulation anyhow. The production components were just as good as the first movie (writing, acting, music), so no complaints there. Overall, 3 stars.

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Matlock (CBS) Trailer HD - Kathy Bates series - After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock, played by Academy & Emmy Award Winner Kathy Bates, rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Inspired by the classic television series of the same name.

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Rupaul's Drag Race Season 6 / Good Omens Season 2

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Maggie: Season 1 (2022) 🍕

The premise of out of context visions of the future is potentially interesting, but the show really fails to bank on it or captivate. Already canceled after the first season 🤷🏼‍♀️

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VANESSA & MATEO | 1x08 | May I Have This Dance?

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MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) directed by David Lynch

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Football & Formula 1

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Mulholland Drive (2001)

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Holy Shit! I love all things drag and I laughed my tits off the whooooole time! If you haven't seen it yet, WATCH IT NOW!

Showbiz...

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A California Christmas (2020)

Interesting title choice for this film, because it does take place in California, but not big metropolitan city California. Wine country California. Which does feel like a very different vibe. The most important question I have is does it snow anywhere in California with any seasonal regularity?

Our story opens on Joseph (Josh Swickard) who is clearly very good at being a rich playboy who doesn't worry about much in his life. His mother, Amy Van Aston (Julie Lancaster), threatens to cut him off from his lifestyle if he doesn't get this farm girl to sell her land to them for a shipping center or something. Amy tells Joseph that the only thing he's good at is getting young women to do what he wants, so he has until Christmas to get her to sign the contract.

Callie Bernet (Lauren Swickard) is the farm girl in question. Also on the farm is her sick mother Wendy (Amanda Detmer) and younger sister Hannah (Natalia Mann). Callie has been trying to make ends meet for a while and still hasn't found a solution, but desperately wants to keep the farm because her father passed away three years prior and her mom's days are dwindling. Also popping in and out a few times is Connor (Gunnar Anderson), a local guy who has taken it upon himself to be a bit too involved in Callie's life since her fiance died three years ago (in a car accident with her dad, also Callie was in the car and was the only survivor).

Leo (Ali Afshar), Joseph's personal assistant, is driving Joseph to the farm to talk about the deal when he hits a pot hole and Joseph spills coffee all over himself and has to change. The only clothes in the car are things Leo was going to donate, so Joseph changes out of his suit into an old t-shirt and jeans. They get to the farm early and Joseph walks up while Callie and Hannah are helping a cow give birth. They see Joseph and think he is the new farmhand they hired to help for the season, and Joseph rolls with it. Once he's alone, he calls Leo and tells Leo to find the real Manny (David Del Rio) and stop him from coming to the job because Joseph needs more time to get to know Callie before he can convince her to sell.

We all see where that's going, but the real plot twist is the unlikely friendship that occurred between Manny, farmhand and COD player, and Leo, wine connoisseur. Their relationship is like a bit that keeps going throughout the movie, and it did kind of lead into the resolution, so that was really fun.

This movie is mostly just a thirst trap for farm laborers, but it's also pretty fun to watch. The acting is surprisingly good for a formulaic movie style and genre, but the main characters are married in real life, so that probably helps the chemistry on screen. There is a sequel to this that I am excited to watch for tomorrow's review. Overall, 4 stars.

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a group of petty bitches being petty and bitchy (nature is healing)

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Exclusive Interview: Bianca Del Rio dishes on Hulu's Drag Me To Dinner

Ten years after filming season six of RuPaul’s Drag Race, which she ultimately went on to win, the deliciously acerbic, certified drag superstar Bianca Del Rio is back on our screens (not that she ever left) in a new competition series, Drag Me To Dinner, created by gay power couple Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka. This time around though, Bianca is the one doing the judging—alongside NPH…