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theowritesfiction · 5 months

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alright, this looks like a fun list to put together, thanks for tagging me @juniperhillpatient <3

10 characters 10 fandoms 10 (ish) tags!

Katara / ATLA – yeah, gasp, no Azula, I always say I love them both equally, but I’ll go with Katara this time. A lot of the times, I will find the good girl too plain or boring, but that couldn’t be further from the truth with Katara. Katara has too many good character traits for me to list, but she also comes with plenty of flaws, painful childhood trauma and some unresolved anger issues. Put together, it makes for the kind of complex character that I always become deeply attracted to.

Adora / SPOP - again, no Catra, gasp, but I wanted to continue with the good girl vibe, and Adora definitely has a lot of similarities with Katara, good girl with issues. I would say that Adora is a lot more patient than Katara, and it takes a lot more to push her to the breaking point. Also, Adora has the kind of martyr complex that’s not very obvious in Katara.

Dawn Summers / BTVS – okay, I’m cheating a little here, normally I would go with Faith or Buffy here, but @juniperhillpatient already picked Faith, and Buffy is such an obvious choice. And I do love Dawnie because I always stand up for the underdog. Coming into the show the way she did, having all this conflict with established characters, turned many (horrible and wrong) fans against her, but I want to say that every issue she ever had was totally valid. Just thinking about what this kid was put through in S5 is still crazy.

Elizabeth Harmon / The Queen’s Gambit – okay, maybe it’s just me, but watching one of my favorite actresses portray a stunningly beautiful young woman who destroys the patriarchy at the chess board meant everything to me. She also has one of the worst, if not THE worst childhoods on this list, and even the foster family that took her in treated her so coldly. Raised with no love in her life, Beth struggles with empathy and finds it very hard to form relationships.

Aeryn Sun / Farscape – for the crime of conceiving a child out of love, her mother was given the choice to kill her lover or her child. She killed Aeryn’s father so that the child could live. Aeryn was then brought up by the state, in a heavily militarized society, pretty much bred for war. Over the course of the show, Aeryn slowly and reluctantly learns the value of forming genuine emotional connections and experiencing all these ‘weak’ feelings.

Susan Ivanova / Babylon 5 – first openly (or at least very heavily implied) lesbian – or bi – character that I came across in any TV show. Her romance with Talia is deeply tragic and captivating. Susan is an unflinchingly loyal and courageous character, but I also remember really appreciating her snarky sense of humor (as well as her stunning looks, ofc)

Angua von Uberwald / Discworld – I had to include Angua because her character concept is just so fascinating. The City Watch books are my favorite in the series, and while I love all the characters of the Watch, Angua is a personal favorite. It’s always fun to watch her balancing her werewolf nature with the demands of her job and just fitting into human society and having meaningful relationships. She also has very tense relationship with her family who are way more into traditional werewolf lifestyle of hunting humans for sport.

Shadowheart / Baldur’s Gate 3 – it wasn’t easy to decide between the BG3 ladies, but it had to be Jenevelle. It’s so hard to summarize her, because you have to first establish which Shadowheart you’re talking about. Taken as a young child, Shadowheart had her memories erased by the worshippers of Shar, twisting her into a disciple of their cruel deity. This is why when you begin traveling with Shadowheart, she will usually respond well or at least won’t denounce evil and cruel choices, but even then, you can see occasional glimpses of another, gentler personality underneath, one that someone has tried very hard to erase. Helping her denounce Shar, allowing her to reclaim her memories and find redemption is maybe the most rewarding experience I’ve had in any video game. She’s also beautifully voiced and has an amazing sense of humor, even if she doesn’t verbally obliterate people the way Minthara does.

Audrey Horne / Twin Peaks – I guess Audrey would be the femme fatale of this list. She’s the spoiled brat with the rich daddy, used to get whatever she wants. She’s pretty manipulative and enjoys toying with people. Audrey’s big flaw is that she thinks she’s more mature and cleverer than she actually is, so she occasionally will get herself into a lot of trouble by not thinking things through. She is a really fun character, though, especially when she’s at her spoiled worst at the start of the show.

Rachel Amber / Life is Strange – I wanted to put Rachel after a character from Twin Peaks, because Rachel is so obviously inspired by… no, not by Audrey, but by Laura Palmer. Both of them have this outward glamor girl appearance, but underneath it, there’s a dangerous fascination with the ugly and filthy aspects of human experience. Rachel is also taught by many to be extremely manipulative (which I don’t necessarily agree with). It’s true that Rachel needs attention as much as she needs air. In many ways, Rachel is like a social chameleon. She just effortlessly makes people see in her whatever it is they want to see.

Anyway, I’ve rambled way too long already, have a great day and I’m sorry if you read through all that!

#tag games #I probably forgot someone important #oh well

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indulgnces · 9 months

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interview. | timeline. | wanted. | pinterest. | navi.

name: carmen rivera

card: the chariot

birthday: october 1986 (36 - scorpio!)

birthplace: miami, florida

current residence: brooklyn, new york

gender: cis woman // she/her

occupation: art dealer

face: summer bishil

character inspo: robin buckley (s3 only! of stranger things), jonathan byers (stranger things), love quinn (you), katherine pierce (tvd), cady heron (mean girls), margaery tyrell (game of thrones), beth harmon (queen's gambit), audrey hope (gossip girl hbo).

from the mun: hi guys! I go by jess, and I’m really excited to be here! this is my first group in a year, and in that time tumblr decided to fuck around with its whole ass interface so (upside smiley), we're on a learning curve rn with that. but otherwise, I’m still really excited to be here and to plot! I’ll post a plot call on discord later, but also wanted to state one here that if you’re up for plotting and wanna plot with my girl, feel free to give this a like and I’ll hit you up! (:

growing up.

born in miami, florida to her single mother, leticia "lettie" rivera. they were a very happy family, if not at all rich or stable. lettie was a young single mom who had a penchant for two things: moving, and falling in love. as such, throughout carmen's childhood, the riveras never stayed in one place for more than two years.

as a child, carmen didn't mind because lettie did a wonderful job of depicting their travels as "chasing adventures," romancing their travels as a grand roadtrip the two were embarking on as they traveled across the nation. in reality, they moved because lettie faced one two many heartbreaks, not enough heartbreaks, or she heard of a betty paying job somewhere else.

a key way that lettie romanced their situation was through art. art could be found anywhere, created by anyone (*cough* it was a free medium! *cough*) and was a perfect form of self-expression and a great source of entertainment. as such, lettie and carmen bonded over all the different art they came across in every city they went (very much like gilmore girls' lorelai & rory's shared love of film)

all good things must come to an end, however, and carmen was disillusioned by their way of life after lettie got involved with a rich man and carmen was placed in a rich school for a year, full of rich, snobby kids who had nothing nice to say about carmen or her mother, and were quick to point out everything weird and different about their way of life. disillusioned, she couldn't help but begin to see the faults as well. slowly, she recognized that she was going to end up just like her mother if she didn't stop idolizing her and start taking shit more seriously, and so carmen's behavior shifted.

with a new determination, carmen made it a goal to not end up like her mother. that goal had two major objectives: a college degree and a good career. as her family continued to move from place to place, carmen stopped prioritizing making friends and relationships, and instead put her effort into making better grades and saving money. her breezy, mirthful personality morphed as she got older, giving way to a snarky, aloof demeanor.

carmen convinced lettie to settle for her last two years of high school, so in the summer of 2003, the riveras came and stayed in angelwoods. carmen ended up staying for college just because it was the most convenient option for her. lettie left town soon after carmen moved into her dorm.

oh and during high school school she worked two part time jobs - nights at the movie theater during the week, and the day shift at the local community rec center.

so!! small town reputation before college: say hello to the floozy mother and her unapproachable daughter everyone!!

college.

if carmen tried to keep to herself in high school, she did the exact opposite in college. she was an art history major with intentions to be an art dealer

that meant she needed connections baby!

anyone from a financially well-off family, with an interest in art/a family who had an interest in art, or on a clear financially successful path themselves were all people carmen very much got to know during college.

listen, is she a gold digger? no. more like gold detector. her future career depended on having a network of people to invest in future galleries or buy future art pieces from her future clients. it depended on her getting her foot in the door by getting jobs in galleries and being invited to galas and curator events. that can't happen if all her friends are poor like her!!

anyways, college was a pivotal time for her because in pursuit of fostering good connections, getting invites, and getting job opportunities, carmen found out she was not as.... morally righteous? as she thought she was

aka she screwed people over (literally and figuratively) to get to where she is today

and tbh, outside of a few ruined relationships here and there, it was all pretty worth it because she did develop a lot of good connections in college, leading to her getting a job at an up-and-coming gallery in denver out of college.

but like, oof, the personal cost to do that. not great, not great.

but that's not really an issue because she's off to denver so she doesn't have to think about any of that! you do what you gotta do to get where you wanna be, babes!

oh also, she worked as an RA (a bad one lol she only did it for the free housing) and at the university art gallery during college.

so let's talk small town college reputation: to the general public, there were RUMORS because omg it was probably so weird to see her switch up from being like antisocial poor new girl in high school to suddenly showing up to like kinda-definitely-out-of-her-class events, schmoozing and speaking more than she ever did before.

post college.

so she goes to denver! spends a year at the gallery and it's great, but she ends up moving to chicago after getting a better job opportunity there.

spends 6 years in the art world in chicago, builds an increasingly bigger and better network of artists and buyers, gains more skill working at different galleries and with different private buyers, curates a couple shows herself even before she's off again in 2015, this time to the big big leagues: nyc!

in a couple years, she was able to secure herself a very nice, financially stable job working as an art dealer for an investor conglomerate, finding pieces for their individual private collections while also working as the dealer for their well known art gallery in brooklyn. it's a cushy position, better than anything she's had in her previous years, and she's feeling really good about where she's ended up.

and of course it's then that she gets the invitation for her college reunion and is like - well shit.

personality.

positive: driven, adaptable, independent, persistent, witty, ambitious, thoughtful, jaunty, passionate

negative: aloof, selfish, ruthless, desperate, fickle, snarky, impulsive, biting, disloyal

not a heartless bitch. she thinks she is, but she is not. she grew up very carefree and curious, indulging in the imaginative world her mother spun for her, and she'll always be a creative, wide-eyed girl at heart. but once she realized that indulging in that lifestyle, with her circumstances, would only lead her to an insignificant life like her mother's, she put that side of her to bed.

she is determined, but not necessarily a planner - she's not thinking twelves steps ahead with a plan a and plan b and plan c - she has one plan: succeed, and she's adapted herself however she's needed to see that plan to fruition.

an optimist turned realist.

she is creative and intelligent (street smarts more so than book), but also biting and defensive, more reactive than she'd like to be.

embodies control but craves the freedom of her youth. longs for meaningful connections but has never learned how to properly maintain long-term relationships

and that's carmen! I did not proofread so I apologize for any typos! same goes for the wanted page, which I'm about to draw your attention to now: her wanted page is updated with a lot of jumping off points for plot connections if you wanna give that a look! if you're interested in plotting, you can like this or react to the plotting call in the discord and I'll reach out to plot!

interview. | timeline. | wanted. | pinterest. | navi.

#♠ — carmen.#intro.#<33 #♠ — ooc.#reunion.intro

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ssickprimus · 2 years

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*sigh* oh jerry. that whole ‘loving you is a work’ honestly had me seeing red for a few hours straight. i love jerry’s hurts/pains. but this one!!!! is like NO, fuck beth, you’re a vile woman! >n<

so-so vile. and honestly, this should have been a huge red flag for any push of ‘romance’ between them, even partly bc it’s sorta twisted how they force beth into it as well, despite the fact she clearly hates this aspect of her life. she hates her marriage. hates him. thinks that he’s just like her mom. and for jerry.....i just wish that he didn’t have to spend a second near her. looking at that wreched bi word of a wine wife. *groan*

beth & jerry’s narrative always was very frustrating to me, but at the same time, gross ‘romanization’ of long-term abuse aside, well, i could sorta see how this would work between them. between such people in general. yet, forcing them back together was one hell of an author’s avatar move. harmon’s wishful thinking, i’ll bet.

then, there is that weird paralell between rick and beth, that some people adore cling to. but like when it comes to comparison on how rick also picks on jerry, i must say, that usually, it’s not all that deep for jer personally. he doesn’t care TOO sincerely about HOW rick depicts him (canon wise). he doesn’t see himself needing to live up to his expectations most of the time. vs beth, who had conditioned him into feeling, like he needs to meet some of her needs, no matter how selfish and one-sided they are. such as keeping her good-for-nothing father around their kids. but beth herself does a shitty job of keeping a track of what rick is up to, so it’s always her kids and jerry, who tend to pay the price of keeping him around. in a way, rick’s abuse of them is more personal vs what he gives beth. sorta sad - for her - isn’t it? he won’t even bother to give her meaningful pain.

idk. years later this clip still gets under my skin. it’s one of those instances, where i started feeling slowly burning hate for beth as for character. it wasn’t quick, funny enough. in fact, i only began to truly loathe her, after attempting to understand her character, looking closely at/on it.

but where rick’s nature always be ‘predatory’, beth is just like a bottom-feeder, an c-class abuser with nothing to give. the humor of it all is that they had to literally re-write her whole character in the end of 3th season to make it ‘work’. and it’s despite the fact, that the default beth of 1-2 seasons could actually idk be turned into smth else via progress of the story, be it good or bad progress. eventually, they did the same with the rest of the main cast, but like...it feels a tad jarring. if loving someone is so hard and unthankful, then ‘quit‘.

#personal text??#kind of #it was in my draft for a bit #figured that i might as well post it

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vcnce · 1 year

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[ RIVER , 26 , EST , THEY/THEM. ] ⸻ ROSA LEE TEABAG is often somewhere that EMMELINE ROSE VANCE can be found enjoying peace, quiet, and a nice cup of tea, the twenty four year old, that's often confused for the muggle DAISY EDGAR JONES is known for being COMPASSIONATE, but maybe that's why the sorting hat had them in GRYFFINDOR while in school , but they can still be very SELF RIGHTEOUS according to their friends . currently they are WORKING as an AUROR and if rumors are said to be true about the brewing war , they would surely side with THE ORDER . ⸻ ( cisfemale + she/her )

TW: physical abuse, abuse, violence

B A S I C S

NAME: emmeline rose vance

NICKNAMES: em, lina

AGE: twenty four

BIRTHDAY: may 23rd

GENDER: cisfemale

PRONOUNS: she/her

ORIENTATION: panromantic greysexual

OCCUPATION: auror

A P P E A R A N C E

FACE CLAIM: daisy edgar jones

HEIGHT: 5'6ft

BUILD: lithe

HAIR: shoulder length, straight, dark brown

EYES: doe brown eyes

SKIN: fair

OTHER: tattoos: one, two, three

M A G I C I N F O

HOUSE: gryffindor

WAND: dragon heartstring, 10 ½ inches, blackthorn

BLOOD STATUS: half blood

PATRONUS: leopard

QUIDDITCH POSITION: gryffindor chaser

BOGGART: her father

AMORTENTIA: fresh coat of paint, the air after a storm, a steaming cup of tea, citrus

P E R S O N A L I T Y

pragmatic, level headed, and composed. those are the traits often attributed to emmeline. because she doesn't show emotions in an obvious way, those traits are often misconstrued as her being heartless. in actuality, however, emmeline is quietly compassionate and passionate about those in which she cares for. she also has a strong sense of justice that can translate into self righteousness without the proper checks and balances. her moral superiority also feeds into her pride.

I N S P O

steve rodgers (marvel), beth harmon (queen's gambit), sophie hatter (hmc book)

B A C K G R O U N D

it came as a shock to many when anson vance, renowned pureblood extremist, married the halfblood, laurel callaghan. some thought he married below his station, others believed she settled. but the simple truth of it was that two people, from different backgrounds and with opposing personalities, got caught up in a whirlwind romance and fell in love. it was actually beautiful while that love lasted.

laurel gave birth to their first child soon after their nuptials. a few years later, emmeline was born, and it was around that time that their marriage had started to disintegrate. they argued more, fought more. eventually those fights escalated into physical altercations, courtesy of anson.

so it wasn't that surprising when the target of that violence shifted towards their children as well. a backhanded slap when emmeline got too mouthy. a hand tangled in her hair while her father screamed in her face. when she was shoved to the floor in the middle of an argument. the only solace to be found in those cold halls were emmeline's mother, older sibling, and her eventual younger sibling.

and then she got her letter and almost everything changed.

being at hogwarts felt like a haven. while the school wasn't a hundred percent safe, she could walk down the halls without dread settling into her stomach or constantly looking over her shoulder. she found peace, to a degree, despite that familiar sickening feeling she'd get whenever a letter came from home.

it was off and on like that for a few years. being at home vs being at school. em would always rationalize that she only had to make it through a few months before she would be back at her safe space, and soon her younger sibling would be there as well. but eventually, during her fourth year, things boiled over. anson and laurel had gotten into the worst fight they'd ever had; anson had gotten violent. and emmeline…she got in his way.

it wasn't like she hadn't been hit by her father before, but this time was different. she was no longer a little girl nor was she completely defenseless. she pulled out her wand and pointed it at him, the threat clear. maybe he was too shocked to respond or maybe it truly became clear to him what he had done to his family. whatever the reason, he backed off and left the room.

the next day, laurel and the kids moved in with her parents. she filed for divorce soon after. she'll never say, but it was that moment that em realized what she wanted to do. she wanted to protect people, to be an auror.

H E A D C A N O N S

about five years after her mother got divorced, laurel remarried the sweetest wizard. emmeline gained a few step siblings from their marriage.

despite her career choice, as a child, she wanted to be a magizoologist. there was always a soft spot in her heart for animals, so she figured being in a career that involved them was the right fit. considering her disinterest in the biology aspect of it, however, it's for the best that it never happened. that doesn't stop her from volunteering at muggle animal shelters when she has some free time.

her best hogwarts subjects in school were flying and charms. her worst was potions and herbology.

she hasn't had contact with her father since the divorce. letters get immediately burned, should they come.

she enjoys sketching and painting; her apartment is filled with artwork.

she is a very bubbly and talkative drunk, much to her embarrassment. it is the biggest reason she doesn't drink. often.

W A N T E D C O N N E C T I O N S

THE BEST FRIENDS

CHAOS ENABLER: these two are very different. they are the reckless to emmeline's cautious, the energetic to her calm, etc. and so and so forth. they force her to push boundaries, and she keeps them steady. they've been best friends for years. (2/2: alice travers & otto bagman)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: her other best friend is similar in temperament. they enjoy similar things. while they obviously have their differences as well, the two are mirror image of each other. (0/1)

THE RIVAL: ever since their hogwarts years, these two have been at odds with each other. whether it was with their class marks, on the quidditch field, or over the more mundane and petty, they would find themselves on opposing sides. that hasn't changed in adulthood as they both became aurors. (1/1: augustus rookwood)

THE MENTOR: this person has unintentionally taken emmeline under their wing (despite an unwillingness on both ends) and has shown them the ropes at her new job. other than helping emmeline grow as an auror, they also challenge a lot of her black and white ideas of justice. (0/1)

THE EX: young love is a wonderful thing. that is, until it ends. maybe they were tired of emmeline's lack of vulnerability, maybe she was tired of their lack of communication, or maybe they fell out of love. regardless, she still holds a soft spot for them despite her awkward avoidance of their presence as of late. (0/1)

and any other you may have!

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cinemapremi · 6 months

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20 Netflix Series To Watch Right Now in 2023

1. The Baby-Sitters Club (2020) Release Year: 2020 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Family, Drama Star Cast: Sophie Grace, Malia Baker, Momona Tamada, Shay Rudolph Director: - Description: A group of friends launch a babysitting business. Fun Fact: The series is based on the popular book series by Ann M. Martin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vivBx21jYC0 2. The Dragon Prince (2018) Release Year: 2018 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Animation, Adventure Star Cast: Jack De Sena, Paula Burrows, Sasha Zoey Rojen Director: - Description: In the magical land of Xadia, magic comes from six primal sources. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWEtCsi3Eo8 3. The Queen's Gambit (2020) Release Year: 2020 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Drama Star Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp Director: Scott Frank Description: Orphaned at a young age, Beth Harmon discovers her prodigious talent for chess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ruX2V5NvGc 4. Master of None (2015) Release Year: 2015 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Comedy, Drama Star Cast: Aziz Ansari, Eric Wareheim, Lena Waithe Director: - Description: Follows the personal and professional life of Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwnEXjrsIKc 5. The Haunting of Hill House (2018) Release Year: 2018 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Drama, Horror Star Cast: Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas Director: Mike Flanagan Description: Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eqxXqJDmcY 6. Castlevania (2017) Release Year: 2017 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Animation, Action Star Cast: Richard Armitage, James Callis, Alejandra Reynoso Director: - Description: A vampire hunter fights to save a city from an army of otherworldly creatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3jNb7IdJHQ 7. The Umbrella Academy (2019) Release Year: 2019 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Action, Adventure Star Cast: Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda Director: - Description: A dysfunctional family of adopted superpowered siblings investigates the death of their father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DAmWHxeoKw 8. The Witcher (2019) Release Year: 2019 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Action, Adventure Star Cast: Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra Director: - Description: Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndl1W4ltcmg 9. Cobra Kai (2018) Release Year: 2018 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Action, Comedy Star Cast: William Zabka, Ralph Macchio, Courtney Henggeler Director: - Description: Decades after their 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament bout, a middle-aged Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence find themselves martial-arts rivals again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwwxNbtK6Y 10. BoJack Horseman (2014) Release Year: 2014 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Animation, Comedy Star Cast: Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie Director: - Description: BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit television show "Horsin' Around" in the '90s, but now he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1eJMig5Ik4 11. The Crown (2016) Release Year: 2016 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Biography, Drama Star Cast: Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, Tobias Menzies Director: - Description: Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWtnJjn6ng0 12. Dark (2017) Release Year: 2017 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Crime, Drama Star Cast: Karoline Eichhorn, Louis Hofmann, Jördis Triebel Director: - Description: A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrwycJ08PSA&t=2s 13. Black Mirror (2011) Release Year: 2011 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi Star Cast: Daniel Lapaine, Hannah John-Kamen, Michaela Coel Director: - Description: An anthology series exploring a twisted, high-tech multiverse where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0XOApF5nLU 14. Stranger Things (2016) Release Year: 2016 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Drama, Fantasy Star Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder Director: - Description: When a young boy disappears, his mother, a police chief, and his friends must confront terrifying supernatural forces in order to get him back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EkMc79ZSU 15. Unorthodox (2020) Release Year: 2020 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Drama Star Cast: Shira Haas, Amit Rahav, Jeff Wilbusch Director: - Description: Story of a young ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who flees her arranged marriage and religious community to start a new life abroad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nixgq1d5J7g 16. Mindhunter (2017) Release Year: 2017 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Crime, Drama Star Cast: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv Director: - Description: In the late 1970s two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHJO6VR6TYY 17. Daredevil (2015) Release Year: 2015 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Action, Crime Star Cast: Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll Director: - Description: A blind lawyer by day, vigilante by night. Matt Murdock fights the crime of New York as Daredevil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAy6NJ_D5vU 18. Friends (1994) Release Year: 1994 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Comedy, Romance Star Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow Director: - Description: Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something friends living in Manhattan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTpmw0Ac6Zs 19. Narcos (2015) Release Year: 2015 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Biography, Crime Star Cast: Pedro Pascal, Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook Director: - Description: A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl8zdCY-abw 20. Making a Murderer (2015) Release Year: 2015 IMDb Rating: 100% Genre: Documentary, Crime Star Cast: - Director: - Description: Filmed over a 10-year period, Making a Murderer is an unprecedented real-life thriller about a DNA exoneree who, while in the midst of exposing corruption in local law enforcement, finds himself the prime suspect in a grisly new crime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxgbdYaR_KQ I hope you find these TV series interesting! Also checkout: Read the full article

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yeasty-flax-wench · 3 years

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oh to be a master at chess so i can be in chess love with another chess master

#i need to stop watching the queens gambit #chess #beth harmon #chess master #haha funny joke #romance #love #aesthetic

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starringcupidpodcast · 3 years

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Ep. 10: Beth Harmon (ft. Awodwa)

This week we're checking mates (I am so sorry for this one) and looking at chess champion, Beth Harmon. For our first solo subject, from Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, we're talking about her relationships with Harry, Benny, and Townes.

We've invited Awodwa Mambi - friend of the show and friend of ours - to chat about one of her favourite 2020 shows. Find out how Harry was hopelessly in love, why Benny and Beth were too different, and what it is about Townes that makes Zama & Awodwa swoon. This week's who's your fave battle sees two main female characters against each other.

Be sure to vote for your favourite star on our Twitter poll @ StarringCupid. Follow for more content and podcast updates.

**Allan Scott was a co-creator of the show. Apologises for leaving him out.

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WELCOME TO AUTISTIC LOVE SOURCE!

this is a sourceblog celebrating autistic representation in romance! we blog about canon ships featuring autistic and autistic coded characters including:

katniss everdeen and peeta mellark - the hunger games

bruce wayne/batman and selina kyle/catwoman - dc universe

beth harmon and benny watts - the queen's gambit

parker and alec hardison - leverage

jemma simmons and leopold fitz - agents of shield

fitzwilliam darcy and elizabeth bennet - pride and prejudice

lan wangi and wei wuxian - the untamed

hermione granger and ronald weasley - harry potter

s’chn t’gai spock and nyota uhura - star trek aos

luke patterson and julie molina - julie and the phantoms

and more! you can find a full list on our FAQ page and if you have a suggestion please send it in, we are always looking for more autistic ships to include, please be sure to indicate which character is autistic and why. we are now tracking #autisticlovesource and #autisticlove, tag us in your gifs and edits for autistic ships so we can reblog them here!

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Here's when all 41 new Hallmark Christmas movies will air - Entertainment Weekly

You, Me, & The Christmas Tress

Premieres: Oct. 22, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Danica McKellar, Benjamin Ayres, Jason Hervey

Contains: Dendrology, Wonder Years reunion

Official description: "Olivia is Connecticut's resident expert on evergreens who, just days before the holiday, agrees to help Jack, a fourth generation Christmas tree farmer in Avon. A mysterious illness has befallen their firs, causing them to die out and threatening his family's 100-year business. As Olivia tries to get to the root of the problem and extends her stay in town, she and Jack spend more time together and feelings begin to develop."

Boyfriends of Christmas Past

Premieres: Oct. 23, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Catherine Haena Kim, Raymond Ablack, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee

Contains: Business exec who needs to get her priorities straight, A Christmas Carol vibes

Official description: "Leading up to Christmas, marketing executive, Lauren, is visited by the ghosts of four ex-boyfriends. She must learn to open her heart or risk losing her best friend, Nate."

Christmas in My Heart

Premieres: Oct. 23, 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Heather Hemmens, Luke Macfarlane, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Contains: String instruments, a classical-meets-country romance

Official description: "Concert violinist Beth tutors the daughter of reclusive country music star Sean to prep her for the holiday concert. They are joined through the connective power of music."

The Santa Stakeout

Premieres: Oct. 24, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Tamera Mowry-Housley, Paul Campbell, Joe Pantoliano

Contains: Heist-based intrigue, undercover couple

Official description: "Tanya is a police detective who is reluctantly partnered with fellow detective Ryan to solve a recent string of heists taking place during high-profile holiday parties around town. They go undercover as newlyweds Tasha and Rupert, moving into the vacant house next to Mr. Miller, the jovial chair of the community's Christmas committee… and the prime suspect in the case. As Tanya and Ryan partake in the neighborhood's holiday happenings to keep up appearances and crack the case, they get swept up in Christmas. Before they know it, their cover story as a couple in love starts to become reality."

Christmas in Harmony

Premieres: Oct. 29, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Ashleigh Murray, Luke James, Loretta Devine, Michelle Williams, Basil Wallace

Contains: Reigniting of old flames, lots of singing

Official description: "Harmony is tricked into auditioning for the Holiday Chorus — directed by an ex-boyfriend. By Christmas Eve, they could be harmonizing in the key of love."

Coyote Creek Christmas

Premieres: Oct. 30, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Janel Parrish, Ryan Paevey

Contains: A "Christmas Around the World" party

Official description: A "Christmas Around the World" party helps two people find love at home.

The Christmas Promise

Premieres: Oct. 30, 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Torrey DeVitto, Dylan Bruce, Patrick Duffy

Contains: A new twist on the widow/widower protagonist, carpentry

Official description: "Nicole learns to deal with grief, with the help of her grandfather and a carpenter she hires to renovate the home that was once meant for her and her fiancé."

Christmas Sail

Premieres: Oct. 31, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Katee Sackhoff, Patrick Sabongui, Terry O'Quinn

Contains: Homecoming, elder care, reigniting of old flames

Official description: "When Liz returns home to take care of her estranged father, she is determined to give her daughter a perfect Christmas and reconnects with her best friend."

Gingerbread Miracle

Premieres: Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. at Hallmark Channel

Stars: Merritt Patterson, Jon Ecker

Contains: Wish-granting cookies, reunion of old friends

Official description: "Two old friends from high school work together over Christmas to sell his uncle's Mexican bakery famous for its magical gingerbread cookies that grant wishes."

Next Stop, Christmas

Premieres: Nov. 6, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Lyndsy Fonseca, Chandler Massey, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd

Contains: Time-travel train, Back to the Future reunion

Official description: "Angie wonders what her life would be like if she had married a former boyfriend who became a famous sportscaster. She takes the train home to spend Christmas with her family and inexplicably finds herself 10 years in the past. With the advice of the train's enigmatic conductor, Angie has the chance to revisit that Christmas and learn what — and who — is truly important to her."

Debbie Macomber's A Mrs. Miracle Christmas

Premieres: Nov. 6, 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Kaitlin Doubleday, Steve Lund, Caroline Rhea

Contains: Down-and-out family, return of Mrs. Miracle

Official description: "When a family faces loneliness and loss of faith, Mrs. Miracle swoops in to renew their Christmas Spirit, and they experience a holiday of heavenly proportions."

A Christmas Treasure

Premieres: Nov. 7, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Jordin Sparks, Michael Xavier

Contains: The past, a chef, dreams of writing

Official description: "After opening a 100-year-old time capsule and meeting a charming chef, Lou questions whether or not she should move to New York after Christmas and further her writing career."

Open By Christmas

Premieres: Nov. 12, 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Alison Sweeney, Erica Durance

Contains: Christmas card mystery

Official description: "When Nicky finds an unopened Christmas card from a high school secret admirer, she and her best friend Simone search to find and thank the anonymous author."

One December Night

Premieres: Nov. 13 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Peter Gallagher, Bruce Campbell, Eloise Mumford, Brett Dalton

Contains: Rival music managers, rock-star dads

Official description: "Two music managers must put their history aside to oversee the televised reunion performance of their rock star fathers with a fractured past."

My Christmas Family Tree

Premieres: Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Aimee Teegarden, Andrew Walker, James Tupper

Contains: DNA-fueled intrigue, new family members

Official description: "When Vanessa receives the results from her Family Tree DNA test, she discovers a family she didn't know existed and travels to their home for Christmas."

A Holiday in Harlem

Premieres: Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Olivia Washington, Will Adams, Tina Lifford

Contains: Family-minded grandma, Christmas jamboree

Official description: "After her grandmother, Mama Belle, turns away her usual gift delivery, expecting 'presence over presents,' jetsetting executive Jazmin heads uptown to Harlem for a quick visit. However, when Mama Belle is injured, Jazmin agrees to stay in the neighborhood and take over co-chairing their block's annual Christmas Jamboree with her old best friend Caleb. A successful corporate fixer, Jazmin expects the job to be easy but quickly finds that she has a lot to learn about the community and her heart."

Every Time a Bell Rings

Premieres: Nov. 18, Hallmark Movies Now

Stars: Erin Cahill, Brittany Ishibashi, Ali Leibert, Wes Brown

Contains: Scavenger hunt, sisterly bonding

Official description: "Three sisters reunite in their hometown of Natchez, MS, at Christmas after a long time apart. They're surprised to discover their late father had planned one last scavenger hunt for them to find the family's wooden wishing bell, a beloved, annual holiday tradition when they were young. As they search for clues in the days leading up to Christmas, the trio visits local childhood haunts around Natchez that hold special meaning for them. In the process, their sisterly bond is rekindled and each learns an important lesson about what they want in life and in love."

Nantucket Noel

Premieres: Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Trevor Donovan, Sarah Power

Contains: Wharf in jeopardy, romance complicated by business

Official description: "During the Seaside Noel celebrations, Christina learns of a developer who is planning to tear down the wharf that is home to her toy store. Tensions rise as she falls for the developer's son, Andy."

A Christmas Together With You

Premieres: Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Harry Lennix, Laura Vandervoort, Niall Matter

Contains: Road trip, double love search

Official description: "During the Christmas season, Megan and her father-figure Frank head out on a road trip to find his long-lost love. Along the way, Megan finds the love of her own life."

Five More Minutes

Premieres: Nov. 20 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Nikki Deloach, David Haydn-Jones

Contains: Grandpa's journal, romantic revelation

Official description: "Inspired by Scotty McCreery's song, 'Five More Minutes,' a woman's Christmas wish is answered in unexpected ways when her late grandfather's journal turns up and reveals an untold romance."

A Kiss Before Christmas

Premieres: Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: James Denton, Teri Hatcher, Marilu Henner

Contains: Desperate Housewivesmini-reunion, wish gone awry

Official description: "When nice-guy Ethan casually wishes his life had taken a different course, he wakes up the next day to find nothing is the same – he's not married to his wife Joyce, he doesn't have two teenaged kids and he's CEO of his company. If he wants to reclaim his original life and the family he loves, he must convince Joyce he's telling the truth and win her over… and he only has until Christmas Day."

The Nine Kittens of Christmas

Premieres: Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Brandon Routh, Kimberley Sustad, Gregory Harrison

Contains: Reigniting of old flames, excessive cuddliness

Official description: "Cat lovers Zachary and Marilee are thrown back together at Christmas when they're tasked with finding homes for a litter of adorable kittens."

Christmas CEO

Premieres: Nov. 26 at 6 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Marisol Nichols, Paul Greene

Contains: Toy-company consolidation, ex-business partner drama

Official description: "A small toy company CEO gets a once in a lifetime offer to merge with a mega toy company but will need her estranged ex-business partner's signature to seal the deal. What he helps her rediscover will change both of their lives."

An Unexpected Christmas

Premieres: Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Bethany Joy Lenz, Tyler Hynes

Contains: Fake dating, reigniting of old flames

Official description: "A writer convinces his ex-girlfriend to pose as a couple for Christmas."

Making Spirits Bright

Premieres: Nov. 27 at 6 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Taylor Cole, Carlo Marks

Contains: Warring families, decorating competition

Official description: "The son & daughter of rival holiday decorating families help mend their fathers' decades-old feud, finding romance along the way as they compete in the town's holiday decorating contest."

Christmas at Castle Heart

Premieres: Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Lacey Chabert, Stuart Townsend

Contains: Lacey Chabert on another international Christmas adventure, mistaken identity, an Earl

Official description: "Brooke Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for her Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslough. Mistaken for an elite event planner, she's hired to host his castle's epic Christmas party."

Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas

Premieres: Nov. 27 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Jessy Schram, Brendan Penny

Contains: Christmas festival, teaming up of amnesiac and nurse

Official description: "During the holidays, a woman with amnesia catches a ride with her handsome nurse to investigate the only clue to her identity: a newspaper clipping for a Christmas Festival with a cryptic invitation."

Christmas in Tahoe

Premieres: Nov. 28 at 6 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Laura Osnes, Kyle Selig, Pat Monahan, George Lopez

Contains: Christmas show in jeopardy, Train frontman Pat Monahan

Official description: "To save her family hotel's Christmas show, talent booker Claire must ask for help from her ex-boyfriend Ryan, the lead guitarist of a now-famous band that fired her as their manager years ago."

The Christmas Contest (Working Title)

Premieres: Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, John Brotherton, Barbara Niven

Contains: Reigniting of old flames, competition, Fuller House mini-reunion

Official description: "Exes Lara and Ben compete in a Christmas contest to win money for the charity of their choosing. The city watches them battle and choose what is more important, victory or love."

Sugar Plum Twist

Premieres: Dec. 2, Hallmark Movies Now

Stars: Jamie Gray Hyder, Ektor Rivera, Laura Rosguer

Contains: Determined ballerina, reimagining of Nutcracker dance

Official description: "After failing to get the coveted role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in this year's production of The Nutcracker, Vivíana Serrano, an aspiring ballerina, joins forces with Natalia, a retiree from the New York Ballet, to create a surprise reprise of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy…with a Latin twist."

Eight Gifts of Hanukkah

Premieres: Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Inbar Lavi, Jake Epstein

Contains: Secret admirer, Jewish people

Official description: "A woman journeys to find her secret admirer during Hanukkah."

The Christmas Journey

Premieres: Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Holly Robinson Peete, Lyriq Bent, Nik Sanchez

Contains: Single mom, autistic son

Official description: "As a single mom and her teenaged son with autism come to a crossroad during Christmas, she must learn to let go so he can flourish as she finds her own heart healing in unexpected ways."

A Very Merry Bridesmaid

Premieres: Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Emily Osment, Casey Deidrick

Contains: Bridesmaid celebrating big birthday, reconnection from childhood

Official description: "Leah's 30th birthday is on Christmas Eve, the same day as her brother's wedding. Her childhood crush is back in town for the wedding and he is determined to make sure her birthday does not go by the wayside."

A Godwink Christmas: Miracle of Love

Premieres: Dec. 11 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Katherine Barrell, Alberto Frezza

Contains: Aspiring nurse, medical miracle

Official description: "Now that Joy has completed her education, she's ready to fulfill her dream of becoming a nurse and follow in her late mother's footsteps. Back at home before the holiday and with no job on the horizon, Joy's interest is piqued by a volunteer opportunity out of town. There, she meets Eric, who is also at a crossroads. As they become immersed in the effort to build a new home for a family at Christmas, Joy and Eric both find a new sense of purpose. Through a series of coincidences – or, Godwinks – and a medical miracle, they begin to believe in destiny."

Sister Swap: A Homestown Holiday

Premieres: Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Kimberley Williams-Paisley, Ashley Williams, Mark Deklin, Susan Yeagley, Kevin Nealon, Keith Robinson

Contains: Widow, bakery, cooking competition, memories of a different dead person, sisterly bonding

Official description: "In these interconnected movies, Jennifer and Meg Swift are sisters who couldn't be closer despite living hours apart. Jennifer is in Salt Lake City, running a successful restaurant she started with her late husband and raising her teenaged son Simon. Meg stayed in their hometown of Hazelwood, helping their parents run the local bakery. This Christmas is the family's first since the passing of Uncle Dave who owned the town's beloved theater, The Madison, where many memories were made over the years. When Jennifer and Simon return home for the holiday, they become wistful for one more Christmas at The Madison, despite that it's for sale and in need of repairs. Meanwhile, Meg is helping Jennifer's restaurant staff in Salt Lake prepare for a Christmas competition among local restaurants with the winner earning money for the charity of its choice. With the sisters switching cities leading up to the holiday, they find a new sense of purpose and discover what they both truly need in life and in love."

A Dickens of a Holiday!

Premieres: Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Kristoffer Polaha, Brooke D'Orsay

Contains: Victorian festival, Hollywood action star

Official description: "To make the 100th anniversary of her hometown's Victorian festival a success, Cassie invites action movie star and former high school classmate Jake to play Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol."

A Royal Queens Christmas

Premieres: Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Megan Park, Julian Morris

Contains: Christmas show, prince

Official description: "A prince finds his way to Queens during Christmas when a local woman enlists his help with a children's Christmas show."

Sister Swap: Christmas in the City

Premieres: Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Kimberley Williams-Paisley, Ashley Williams, Mark Deklin, Susan Yeagley, Kevin Nealon, Keith Robinson

Contains: The same things from the other end of this interconnected pair of movies

The Christmas House 2: Deck the Halls (Working Title)

Premieres: Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Robert Buckley, Ana Ayora, Jonathan Bennett, Sharon Lawrence, Treat Williams, Brad Harder

Contains: Brotherly competition, decoration montages

Official description: "The Mitchell brothers compete to see who can create the best Christmas House."

Christmas for Keeps

Premieres: Dec. 18 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Stars: Ashley Newbrough, Ryan Rottman, Christa B. Allen, Marielle Scott

Contains: 10-year homecoming reunion, tribute to high school teacher

Official description: "At Christmastime, a close-knit group of childhood friends return home after 10 years to take part in the celebration of life of their beloved high school teacher."

‘Tis the Season to Be Merry

Premieres: Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, Hallmark Channel

Stars: Rachael Leigh Cook, Travis Van Winkle, Karen Malina White

Contains: Romance between aid worker and writer, Vermont

Official description: "Looking for a fresh angle to her book on relationships, Merry heads to snow covered Vermont. She finds a new perspective and Christmas cheer with charismatic aid worker Chris."

https://ew.com/tv/hallmark-christmas-movies-2021-schedule-photos/

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Taylor Swift broke all her rules with Folklore — and gave herself a much-needed escape The pop star, one of EW's 2020 Entertainers of the Year, delves deep into her surprise eighth album, Rebekah Harkness, and a Joe Biden presidency. By Alex Suskind

“He is my co-writer on ‛Betty’ and ‛Exile,’” replies Taylor Swift with deadpan precision. The question Who is William Bowery? was, at the time we spoke, one of 2020’s great mysteries, right up there with the existence of Joe Exotic and the sudden arrival of murder hornets. An unknown writer credited on the year’s biggest album? It must be an alias.

Is he your brother?

“He’s William Bowery,” says Swift with a smile.

It's early November, after Election Day but before Swift eventually revealed Bowery's true identity to the world (the leading theory, that he was boyfriend Joe Alwyn, proved prescient). But, like all Swiftian riddles, it was fun to puzzle over for months, particularly in this hot mess of a year, when brief distractions are as comforting as a well-worn cardigan. Thankfully, the Bowery... erhm, Alwyn-assisted Folklore — a Swift project filled with muted pianos and whisper-quiet snares, recorded in secret with Jack Antonoff and the National’s Aaron Dessner — delivered.

“The only people who knew were the people I was making it with, my boyfriend, my family, and a small management team,” Swift, 30, tells EW of the album's hush-hush recording sessions. That gave the intimate Folklore a mystique all its own: the first surprise Taylor Swift album, one that prioritized fantastical tales over personal confessions.

“Early in quarantine, I started watching lots of films,” she explains. “Consuming other people’s storytelling opened this portal in my imagination and made me feel like, Why have I never created characters and intersecting storylines?” That’s how she ended up with three songs about an imagined love triangle (“Cardigan,” “Betty,” “August”), one about a clandestine romance (“Illicit Affairs”), and another chronicling a doomed relationship (“Exile”). Others tell of sumptuous real-life figures like Rebekah Harkness, a divorcee who married the heir to Standard Oil — and whose home Swift purchased 31 years after her death. The result, “The Last Great American Dynasty,” hones in on Harkness’ story, until Swift cleverly injects herself.

And yet, it wouldn’t be a Swift album without a few barbed postmortems over her own history. Notably, “My Tears Ricochet” and “Mad Woman," which touch on her former label head Scott Borchetta selling the masters to Swift’s catalog to her known nemesis Scooter Braun. Mere hours after our interview, the lyrics’ real-life origins took a surprising twist, when news broke that Swift’s music had once again been sold, to another private equity firm, for a reported $300 million. Though Swift ignored repeated requests for comment on the transaction, she did tweet a statement, hitting back at Braun while noting that she had begun re-recording her old albums — something she first promised in 2019 as a way of retaining agency over her creative legacy. (Later, she would tease a snippet of that reimagined work, with a new version of her hit 2008 single "Love Story.")

Like surprise-dropping Folklore, like pissing off the president by endorsing his opponents, like shooing away haters, Swift does what suits her. “I don’t think we often hear about women who did whatever the hell they wanted,” she says of Harkness — something Swift is clearly intent on changing. For her, that means basking in the world of, and favorable response to, Folklore. As she says in our interview, “I have this weird thing where, in order to create the next thing, I attack the previous thing. I don’t love that I do that, but it is the thing that has kept me pivoting to another world every time I make an album. But with this one, I still love it.”

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: We’ve spent the year quarantined in our houses, trying to stay healthy and avoiding friends and family. Were you surprised by your ability to create and release a full album in the middle of a pandemic?

TAYLOR SWIFT: I was. I wasn't expecting to make an album. Early on in quarantine, I started watching lots of films. We would watch a different movie every night. I'm ashamed to say I hadn't seen Pan's Labyrinth before. One night I'd watch that, then I'd watch L.A. Confidential, then we'd watch Rear Window, then we'd watch Jane Eyre. I feel like consuming other people's art and storytelling sort of opened this portal in my imagination and made me feel like, "Well, why have I never done this before? Why have I never created characters and intersecting storylines? And why haven't I ever sort of freed myself up to do that from a narrative standpoint?" There is something a little heavy about knowing when you put out an album, people are going to take it so literally that everything you say could be clickbait. It was really, really freeing to be able to just be inspired by worlds created by the films you watch or books you've read or places you've dreamed of or people that you've wondered about, not just being inspired by your own experience.

In that vain, what's it like to sit down and write something like “Betty,” which is told from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy?

That was huge for me. And I think it came from the fact that my co-writer, William Bowery [Joe Alwyn], is male — and he was the one who originally thought of the chorus melody. And hearing him sing it, I thought, "That sounds really cool." Obviously, I don't have a male voice, but I thought, "I could have a male perspective." Patty Griffin wrote this song, “Top of the World.” It's one of my favorite songs of all time, and it's from the perspective of this older man who has lived a life full of regret, and he's kind of taking stock of that regret. So, I thought, "This is something that people I am a huge fan of have done. This would be fun to kind of take this for a spin."

What are your favorite William Bowery conspiracies?

I love them all individually and equally. I love all the conspiracy theories around this album. [With] "Betty," Jack Antonoff would text me these articles and think pieces and in-depth Tumblr posts on what this love triangle meant to the person who had listened to it. And that's exactly what I was hoping would happen with this album. I wrote these stories for a specific reason and from a specific place about specific people that I imagined, but I wanted that to all change given who was listening to it. And I wanted it to start out as mine and become other people's. It's been really fun to watch.

One of the other unique things about Folklore — the parameters around it were completely different from anything you'd done. There was no long roll out, no stadium-sized pop anthems, no aiming for the radio-friendly single. How fearful were you in avoiding what had worked in the past?

I didn't think about any of that for the very first time. And a lot of this album was kind of distilled down to the purest version of what the story is. Songwriting on this album is exactly the way that I would write if I considered nothing else other than, "What words do I want to write? What stories do I want to tell? What melodies do I want to sing? What production is essential to tell those stories?" It was a very do-it-yourself experience. My management team, we created absolutely everything in advance — every lyric video, every individual album package. And then we called our label a week in advance and said, "Here's what we have.” The photo shoot was me and the photographer walking out into a field. I'd done my hair and makeup and brought some nightgowns. These experiences I was used to having with 100 people on set, commanding alongside other people in a very committee fashion — all of a sudden it was me and a photographer, or me and my DP. It was a new challenge, because I love collaboration. But there's something really fun about knowing what you can do if it's just you doing it.

Did you find it freeing?

I did. Every project involves different levels of collaboration, because on other albums there are things that my stylist will think of that I never would've thought of. But if I had all those people on the photo shoot, I would've had to have them quarantine away from their families for weeks on end, and I would've had to ask things of them that I didn't think were fair if I could figure out a way to do it [myself]. I had this idea for the [Folklore album cover] that it would be this girl sleepwalking through the forest in a nightgown in 1830 [laughs]. Very specific. A pioneer woman sleepwalking at night. I made a moodboard and sent it to Beth [Garrabrant], who I had never worked with before, who shoots only on film. We were just carrying bags across a field and putting the bags of film down, and then taking pictures. It was a blast.

Folklore includes plenty of intimate acoustic echoes to what you've done in the past. But there are also a lot of new sonics here, too — these quiet, powerful, intricately layered harmonics. What was it like to receive the music from Aaron and try to write lyrics on top of it?

Well, Aaron is one of the most effortlessly prolific creators I've ever worked with. It's really mind-blowing. And every time I've spoken to an artist since this whole process [began], I said, "You need to work with him. It'll change the way you create." He would send me these — he calls them sketches, but it's basically an instrumental track. the second day — the day after I texted him and said, "Hey, would you ever want to work together?" — he sent me this file of probably 30 of these instrumentals and every single one of them was one of the most interesting, exciting things I had ever heard. Music can be beautiful, but it can be lacking that evocative nature. There was something about everything he created that is an immediate image in my head or melody that I came up with. So much so that I'd start writing as soon as I heard a new one. And oftentimes what I would send back would inspire him to make more instrumentals and then send me that one. And then I wrote the song and it started to shape the project, form-fitted and customized to what we wanted to do.

It was weird because I had never made an album and not played it for my girlfriends or told my friends. The only people who knew were the people that I was making it with, my boyfriend, my family, and then my management team. So that's the smallest number of people I've ever had know about something. I'm usually playing it for everyone that I'm friends with. So I had a lot of friends texting me things like, "Why didn't you say on our everyday FaceTimes you were making a record?"

Was it nice to be able to keep it a secret?

Well, it felt like it was only my thing. It felt like such an inner world I was escaping to every day that it almost didn't feel like an album. Because I wasn't making a song and finishing it and going, "Oh my God, that is catchy.” I wasn't making these things with any purpose in mind. And so it was almost like having it just be mine was this really sweet, nice, pure part of the world as everything else in the world was burning and crashing and feeling this sickness and sadness. I almost didn't process it as an album. This was just my daydream space.

Does it still feel like that?

Yeah, because I love it so much. I have this weird thing that I do when I create something where in order to create the next thing I kind of, in my head, attack the previous thing. I don't love that I do that but it is the thing that has kept me pivoting to another world every time I make an album. But with this one, I just still love it. I'm so proud of it. And so that feels very foreign to me. That doesn't feel like a normal experience that I've had with releasing albums.

When did you first learn about Rebekah Harkness?

Oh, I learned about her as soon as I was being walked through [her former Rhode Island] home. I got the house when I was in my early twenties as a place for my family to congregate and be together. I was told about her, I think, by the real estate agent who was walking us through the property. And as soon as I found out about her, I wanted to know everything I could. So I started reading. I found her so interesting. And then as more parallels began to develop between our two lives — being the lady that lives in that house on the hill that everybody gets to gossip about — I was always looking for an opportunity to write about her. And I finally found it.

I love that you break the fourth wall in the song. Did you go in thinking you’d include yourself in the story?

I think that in my head, I always wanted to do a country music, standard narrative device, which is: the first verse you sing about someone else, the second verse you sing about someone else who's even closer to you, and then in the third verse, you go, "Surprise! It was me.” You bring it personal for the last verse. And I'd always thought that if I were to tell that story, I would want to include the similarities — our lives or our reputations or our scandals.

How often did you regale friends about the history of Rebekah and Holiday House while hanging out at Holiday House?

Anyone who's been there before knows that I do “The Tour,” in quotes, where I show everyone through the house. And I tell them different anecdotes about each room, because I've done that much research on this house and this woman. So in every single room, there's a different anecdote about Rebekah Harkness. If you have a mixed group of people who've been there before and people who haven't, [the people who’ve been there] are like, "Oh, she's going to do the tour. She's got to tell you the story about how the ballerinas used to practice on the lawn.” And they'll go get a drink and skip it because it's the same every time. But for me, I'm telling the story with the same electric enthusiasm, because it's just endlessly entertaining to me that this fabulous woman lived there. She just did whatever she wanted.

There are a handful of songs on Folklore that feel like pretty clear nods to your personal life over the last year, including your relationships with Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun. How long did it take to crystallize the feelings you had around both of them into “My Tears Ricochet” or “Mad Woman”?

I found myself being very triggered by any stories, movies, or narratives revolving around divorce, which felt weird because I haven't experienced it directly. There’s no reason it should cause me so much pain, but all of a sudden it felt like something I had been through. I think that happens any time you've been in a 15-year relationship and it ends in a messy, upsetting way. So I wrote “My Tears Ricochet” and I was using a lot of imagery that I had conjured up while comparing a relationship ending to when people end an actual marriage. All of a sudden this person that you trusted more than anyone in the world is the person that can hurt you the worst. Then all of a sudden the things that you have been through together, hurt. All of a sudden, the person who was your best friend is now your biggest nemesis, etc. etc. etc. I think I wrote some of the first lyrics to that song after watching Marriage Story and hearing about when marriages go wrong and end in such a catastrophic way. So these songs are in some ways imaginary, in some ways not, and in some ways both.

How did it feel to drop an F-bomb on "Mad Woman"?

F---ing fantastic.

And that’s the first time you ever recorded one on a record, right?

Yeah. Every rule book was thrown out. I always had these rules in my head and one of them was, You haven't done this before, so you can't ever do this. “Well, you've never had an explicit sticker, so you can't ever have an explicit sticker.” But that was one of the times where I felt like you need to follow the language and you need to follow the storyline. And if the storyline and the language match up and you end up saying the F-word, just go for it. I wasn't adhering to any of the guidelines that I had placed on myself. I decided to just make what I wanted to make. And I'm really happy that the fans were stoked about that because I think they could feel that. I'm not blaming anyone else for me restricting myself in the past. That was all, I guess, making what I want to make. I think my fans could feel that I opened the gate and ran out of the pasture for the first time, which I'm glad they picked up on because they're very intuitive.

Let’s talk about “Epiphany.” The first verse is a nod to your grandfather, Dean, who fought in World War II. What does his story mean to you personally?

I wanted to write about him for awhile. He died when I was very young, but my dad would always tell this story that the only thing that his dad would ever say about the war was when somebody would ask him, "Why do you have such a positive outlook on life?" My grandfather would reply, "Well, I'm not supposed to be here. I shouldn't be here." My dad and his brothers always kind of imagined that what he had experienced was really awful and traumatic and that he'd seen a lot of terrible things. So when they did research, they learned that he had fought at the Battles of Guadalcanal, at Cape Gloucester, at Talasea, at Okinawa. He had seen a lot of heavy fire and casualties — all of the things that nightmares are made of. He was one of the first people to sign up for the war. But you know, these are things that you can only imagine that a lot of people in that generation didn't speak about because, a) they didn't want people that they came home to to worry about them, and b) it just was so bad that it was the actual definition of unspeakable.

That theme continues in the next verse, which is a pretty overt nod to what’s been happening during COVID. As someone who lives in Nashville, how difficult has it been to see folks on Lower Broadway crowding the bars without masks?

I mean, you just immediately think of the health workers who are putting their lives on the line — and oftentimes losing their lives. If they make it out of this, if they see the other side of it, there's going to be a lot of trauma that comes with that; there's going to be things that they witnessed that they will never be able to un-see. And that was the connection that I drew. I did a lot of research on my grandfather in the beginning of quarantine, and it hit me very quickly that we've got a version of that trauma happening right now in our hospitals. God, you hope people would respect it and would understand that going out for a night isn't worth the ripple effect that it causes. But obviously we're seeing that a lot of people don't seem to have their eyes open to that — or if they do, a lot of people don't care, which is upsetting.

You had the Lover Fest East and West scheduled this year. How hard has it been to both not perform for your fans this year, and see the music industry at large go through such a brutal change?

It's confusing. It's hard to watch. I think that maybe me wanting to make as much music as possible during this time was a way for me to feel like I could reach out my hand and touch my fans, even if I couldn't physically reach out or take a picture with them. We've had a lot of different, amazing, fun, sort of underground traditions we've built over the years that involve a lot of human interaction, and so I have no idea what's going to happen with touring; none of us do. And that's a scary thing. You can't look to somebody in the music industry who's been around a long time, or an expert touring manager or promoter and [ask] what's going to happen and have them give you an answer. I think we're all just trying to keep our eyes on the horizon and see what it looks like. So we're just kind of sitting tight and trying to take care of whatever creative spark might exist and trying to figure out how to reach our fans in other ways, because we just can't do that right now.

When you are able to perform again, do you have plans on resurfacing a Lover Fest-type event?

I don't know what incarnation it'll take and I really would need to sit down and think about it for a good solid couple of months before I figured out the answer. Because whatever we do, I want it to be something that is thoughtful and will make the fans happy and I hope I can achieve that. I'm going to try really hard to.

In addition to recording an album, you spent this year supporting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the election. Where were you when it was called in their favor?

Well, when the results were coming in, I was actually at the property where we shot the Entertainment Weekly cover. I was hanging out with my photographer friend, Beth, and the wonderful couple that owned the farm where we [were]. And we realized really early into the night that we weren't going to get an accurate picture of the results. Then, a couple of days later, I was on a video shoot, but I was directing, and I was standing there with my face shield and mask on next to my director of photography, Rodrigo Prieto. And I just remember a news alert coming up on my phone that said, "Biden is our next president. He's won the election." And I showed it to Rodrigo and he said, "I'm always going to remember the moment that we learned this." And I looked around, and people's face shields were starting to fog up because a lot of people were really misty-eyed and emotional, and it was not loud. It wasn't popping bottles of champagne. It was this moment of quiet, cautious elation and relief.

Do you ever think about what Folklore would have sounded like if you, Aaron, and Jack had been in the same room?

I think about it all the time. I think that a lot of what has happened with the album has to do with us all being in a collective emotional place. Obviously everybody's lives have different complexities and whatnot, but I think most of us were feeling really shaken up and really out of place and confused and in need of something comforting all at the same time. And for me, that thing that was comforting was making music that felt sort of like I was trying to hug my fans through the speakers. That was truly my intent. Just trying to hug them when I can't hug them.

I wanted to talk about some of the lyrics on Folklore. One of my favorite pieces of wordplay is in “August”: that flip of "sipped away like a bottle of wine/slipped away like a moment in time.” Was there an "aha moment" for you while writing that?

I was really excited about "August slipped away into a moment of time/August sipped away like a bottle of wine." That was a song where Jack sent me the instrumental and I wrote the song pretty much on the spot; it just was an intuitive thing. And that was actually the first song that I wrote of the "Betty" triangle. So the Betty songs are "August," "Cardigan," and "Betty." "August" was actually the first one, which is strange because it's the song from the other girl's perspective.

Yeah, I assumed you wrote "Cardigan" first.

It would be safe to assume that "Cardigan" would be first, but it wasn't. It was very strange how it happened, but it kind of pieced together one song at a time, starting with "August," where I kind of wanted to explore the element of This is from the perspective of a girl who was having her first brush with love. And then all of a sudden she's treated like she's the other girl, because there was another situation that had already been in place, but "August" girl thought she was really falling in love. It kind of explores the idea of the undefined relationship. As humans, we're all encouraged to just be cool and just let it happen, and don't ask what the relationship is — Are we exclusive? But if you are chill about it, especially when you're young, you learn the very hard lesson that if you don't define something, oftentimes they can gaslight you into thinking it was nothing at all, and that it never happened. And how do you mourn the loss of something once it ends, if you're being made to believe that it never happened at all?

"I almost didn't process it as an album," says Taylor Swift of making Folklore. "And it's still hard for me to process as an entity or a commodity, because [it] was just my daydream space."

On the flip side, "Peace" is bit more defined in terms of how one approaches a relationship. There's this really striking line, "The devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me/Would it be enough if I can never give you peace?" How did that line come to you?

I'm really proud of that one too. I heard the track immediately. Aaron sent it to me, and it had this immediate sense of serenity running through it. The first word that popped into my head was peace, but I thought that it would be too on-the-nose to sing about being calm, or to sing about serenity, or to sing about finding peace with someone. Because you have this very conflicted, very dramatic conflict-written lyric paired with this very, very calming sound of the instrumental. But, "The devil's in the details," is one of those phrases that I've written down over the years. That's a common phrase that is used in the English language every day. And I just thought it sounded really cool because of the D, D sound. And I thought, "I'll hang onto those in a list, and then, I'll finally find the right place for them in a story." I think that's how a lot of people feel where it's like, "Yeah, the devil's in the details. Everybody's complex when you look under the hood of the car." But basically saying, "I'm there for you if you want that, if this complexity is what you want."

There's another clever turn-of-phrase on "This is Me Trying." "I didn't know if you'd care if I came back/I have a lot of regrets about that." That feels like a nod toward your fans, and some of the feelings you had about retreating from the public sphere.

Absolutely. I think I was writing from three different characters' perspectives, one who's going through that; I was channeling the emotions I was feeling in 2016, 2017, where I just felt like I was worth absolutely nothing. And then, the second verse is about dealing with addiction and issues with struggling every day. And every second of the day, you're trying not to fall into old patterns, and nobody around you can see that, and no one gives you credit for it. And then, the third verse, I was thinking, what would the National do? What lyric would Matt Berninger write? What chords would the National play? And it's funny because I've since played this song for Aaron, and he's like, "That's not what we would've done at all." He's like, "I love that song, but that's totally different than what we would've done with it."

When we last spoke, in April 2019, we were talking about albums we were listening to at the time and you professed your love for the National and I Am Easy to Find. Two months later, you met up with Aaron at their concert, and now, we're here talking about the National again.

Yeah, I was at the show where they were playing through I Am Easy to Find. What I loved about [that album] was they had female vocalists singing from female perspectives, and that triggered and fired something in me where I thought, "I've got to play with different perspectives because that is so intriguing when you hear a female perspective come in from a band where you're used to only hearing a male perspective." It just sparked something in me. And obviously, you mentioning the National is the reason why Folklore came to be. So, thank you for that, Alex.

I'm here for all of your songwriting muse needs in the future.

I can't wait to see what comes out of this interview.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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la casa de papel / money heist (2017-) nationality: spanish created by: álex pina main actors: úrsula corberó, álvaro morte, itziar ituño, pedro alonso, miguel herrán, jaime lorente, esther acebo, alba flores short summary (imdb): "an unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the royal mint of spain." seasons: 4 - (season 5 is coming in september + december 2021) why i love it (in a few words): it's thrilling, all the characters are perfectly written, i love listening to spanish speech, the actors are awesome, SO INCREDIBLE PLOT, uncountable twists, i got attached so fast, i binge watched it, it never feels forced

band of brothers (2001) nationality: american created by: tom hanks, steven spielberg main actors: damian lewis, ron livingston, ross mccall, rick gomez, james madio, kirk acevedo, neal mcdonough, scott grimes, dexter fletcher, donnie wahlberg short summary (imdb): "the story of easy company of the u.s. army 101st airborne division, and their mission in world war ii europe, from operation overlord, through v-j day." - based on the book band of brothers by stephen e. ambrose seasons: 1 why i love it (in a few words): it's ww2 and i'm a huge ww2 enthusiast, i love hbo war, it shows the good and the bad, we follow the whole journey of these soldiers and it's amazing, the actors are absolutely incredible, their friendships are 100/10, the cinematography is beautiful, it's based on a true story

downton abbey (2010-) nationality: english created by: julian fellowes main actors: hugh bonneville, maggie smith, michelle dockery, dan stevens, robert james-collier, allen leech, penelope wilton, matthew goode, lily james short summary (imdb): "a chronicle of the lives of the british aristocratic crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century." seasons: 6 + 1 movie (the second movie comes in december 2021) why i love it (in a few words): it has phenomenal actors, the plot is exciting-thrilling, there are twists you don't expect, so many love stories and i love them, fantastic characters, it's often so funny i can't stop laughing, dame maggie smith and her performance as the dowager is just incredible and i love her, costumes on point, tom branson o.o

broadchurch (2013-2017) nationality: british created by: chris chibnall main actors: david tennant, olivia colman, jodie whittaker, arthur darvill short summary (imdb): "the murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart." seasons: 3 why i love it (in a few words): david tennant, his scottish accent i can't-, olivia colman, their duo oh my god these two together are something extraordinary, it's such a thrilling show wow, SO MANY PLOT TWISTS, cinematography is phenomenal and gorgeous, it's so funny at times oh lord (especially david), it's impossible to stop watching

the pacific (2010) nationality: american created by: tom hanks, steven spielberg main actors: joe mazzello, jon seda, james badge dale, rami malek, ashton holmes short summary (imdb): "the pacific theatre of world war ii, as seen through the eyes of several young marines." seasons: 1 why i love it (in a few words): hbo war, it's ww2 and i'm such an enthusiast of it, joe mazzello is incredible oh my, it's a bit graphic (for some people it's too graphic and i can see why) but i love it, it makes you feel you're there fighting and like wow, actually all the actors are amazing in it, we see three different story lines so we get to know different aspects of the whole thing

the crown (2016-) nationality: british created by: peter morgan main actors: claire foy, matt smith, olivia colman, tobias menzies, vanessa kirby, helena bonham carter, josh o'connor, emma corrin short summary (imdb): "follows the political rivalries and romance of queen elizabeth ii's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century." seasons: 4 - (season 5 and 6 are in the making) why i love it (in a few words): i've always been interested in queen elizabeth's life, this is a look inside the royal family that you don't often have, the actors are SO AMAZING, honestly sometimes it's so funny and then the next minute it's heartbreaking, it teaches me more about them than anything else, i guess it gives you their point of view so you can understand them a lil bit better, as a child i loved the british royal family so baby me is happy inside when i watch it

the falcon and the winter soldier (2021) nationality: american created by: malcolm spellman - stan lee main actors: anthony mackie, sebastian stan, wyatt russell, daniel brühl short summary (imdb): "following the events of 'avengers: endgame', sam wilson / falcon and bucky barnes / winter soldier team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities - and their patience." seasons: 1 why i love it (in a few words): i'm a huge marvel fan, my fav characters are sam and bucky, SEBASTIAN STAN, it's funny (honestly which marvel movie/series isn't?), the cinematography is gorgeous, the plot is great, fight scenes on point

biohackers (2020-) nationality: german created by: christian ditter main actors: luna wedler, jessica schwarz, adrian julius tillmann short summary (imdb): "a fast-paced thriller following medical student mia akerlund who discovers the use of highly advanced biohacking technology in her university town." seasons: 2 why i love it (in a few words): exciting, plays in a city i know, plot twists, the cinematography is amazing, a beautiful show honestly, the plot is interesting and one of a kind imo, the actors are pretty great

the mandalorian (2019-) nationality: american created by: jon favreau main actors: pedro pascal short summary (imdb): "the travels of a lone bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the new republic." seasons: 2 - (season 3 is coming) why i love it (in a few words): i love star wars and the star wars universe, pedro pascal is amazing, honestly i fell in love with pedro just by his voice literally without even knowing his face, BABY YODA, the character development, exciting plot, pretty awesome fight scenes, great actors

the queen's gambit (2020) nationality: american created by: scott frank, allan scott main actors: anya taylor joy, thomas brodie-sangster, harry melling, jacob fortune-lloyd short summary (imdb): "orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert beth harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s usa. but child stardom comes at a price." seasons: 1 why i love it (in a few words): cinematography is beautiful, anya taylor joy is gorgeous, and she's such a talent oh my, i love chess, the plot, TBS is in it, it's a show you can't not binge watch it just pulls you in

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peaky blinders (2013-) nationality: british created by: steven knight main actors: cillian murphy, paul anderson, helen mccrory, joe cole, finn cole short summary (imdb): "a gangster family epic set in 1900s england, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss tommy shelby." seasons: 5 - (season 6 is coming) why i love it (in a few words): i love mob stuff in general, so amazing actors oh my, cillian murphy, helen mccrory, it's so dark i love it, plot plot plot, the soundtrack is phenomenal (especially when it's arctic monkeys shhh), it's british (yay)

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