#fuck I love this show

[hamable]

Brennan pulling out Real Test Papers and a Real Two Minute Timer is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen on this show

[ronithesnail]

Ive been going insane doodling screenshot redraws so i figured id dump them here fuck it we ball sjdhdjdbdjdndjdbd

[cupparosielee]

I've just rewatched Interview With The Vampire and I have things to say about Claudia and Lestat's chess game!

Their game at the end of S1E6 perfectly mirrors how the finale pans out. It tells us exactly how the plan to kill Lestat will go.

First:

Lestat becomes arrogant. He thinks he knows exactly what Claudia is going to do. He thinks he can read her moves perfectly. And this arrogance leads to him underestimating her as an opponent.

Next:

Claudia uses this to her advantage. She knows he is predicting her, and uses that to outsmart him. She plays as though she's doing what Lestat predicts, all while secretly setting up to outplay him later on.

Lestat even comments on how she appears to be making pointless moves.

He thinks what she's doing is useless, right up until the moment she overpowers him. She is silently putting her plan into place and he is totally oblivious to it.

Then:

When she does make her move he is completely taken by surprise. He was sure he knew her plan, he thought he could read her play and win easily, but now he is trapped and she is poised to win the game.

BUT THEN THE MOST GENIUS MOMENT OF FORESHADOWING:

Claudia leaves.

She was about to win, she only needed to make one more move to put Lestat in checkmate, and she leaves. The game is left unfinished, Lestat is left hanging with no conclusion because Claudia never makes her final move.

JUST LIKE THE FINALE

Claudia and Louis were one move away from killing Lestat. All they had to do was incinerate or decapitate him, and he'd be dead for good. Checkmate.

But they didn't. They left their plan unfinished.

[justsomefunshit]

I’m really curious to see how the show will deal with Roy’s aggression (and aggression in general). Like, just two episodes ago we saw Jamie flinch and recoil away from him, because he slapped a fork out of Jamie’s hand.

Last episode he (and beard) encouraged the rage inside the himbos against the west ham players. I know intention is more important than causation, but you cannot tell be that if Roy was still a player he would have head butted every single one of those west ham players (who did nothing wrong).

This episode he was just so fucking psychopathic that Trent dropped his mug and even beard looked freaked out. He’s scaring grown men in they’re workplace. That’s just fucking harassment. Trent doesn’t know him. They’re not close.

It’s been really disconcerting to me how much more aggressive this season is. How haven’t we seen the aftermath of the last game? What the fuck did ted say to the himbos? What will be the breaking point? WHAT happens to make it inexcusable anymore?

[themistymountainscold]

"there you are, how's that?"

"fuck you."

"lovely."

[kingsofgaytham]

What I love most about the final sequence in episode 3 is that it actually isn't Stede simply rescuing Ed. In the purgatory, he doesn't pull him up or unties the rope. In reality, Stede also doesn't touch Ed's body until his hand starts twitching and he starts fighting to stay alive - before that he just sits near and talks, and he manages to reach the last bit of life left in Ed. The vision of Stede in purgatory gives Ed hope, a promise of a future, of a home - warmth, food, intercourse (orgasm). Things he knows he'll miss. Ed chooses to live because now, the one person that understood him to his core, is there - and the scene with Izzy, where despite them not being together for who knows how long, Stede knows Ed would either watch the world burn or die trying, and he still loves Ed and chooses him. Izzy thinks he knows Ed best because they've worked together for so long and he believes (used to believe?) Stede was the worst possible thing for Blackbeard and that's the moment it hits him - he is the one that doesn't know the true Ed, he couldn't even imagine it would be so bad because his idealised version of Blackbeard didn't consider the person under the pirate. Stede met Ed few weeks earlier and already fully understand the way his brain works. He doesn't have to see Ed to know how he'll react.

And then Edward. Poor, broken Edward that believes the worst about himself and materialises it in Hornigold who in this version left the piracy and lives a peaceful, quiet life, something that Ed wishes he could have. He is deeply mentally unwell, the drugs and alcohol sure made it worse but still, Ed wants to live. Just not as Blackbeard/the Kraken. He just doesn't see a reason for it.

Mermaid Stede appears and brings in the light that was so painfully absent from Ed's life. He doesn't choose to live just for Stede, but now he knows there is at least one person that cares for him and that means, maybe - just maybe, he can learn to care for and love himself. The fact Stede stays with him underwater for as long as Ed needs to think it through and figure it out for himself - the rope unties itself, the smile that was gone so long finally appears again. The feeling of being known and the hope that he can become Ed, or Jeff, or whatever version he wants, because despite it being incredibly hard - now he isn't walking that road alone.

[allthingsobrien]

colin robinson spending an entire episode trying to get the “updog” joke to land is the most relatable thing ever lmao

[ckerouac]

Each time I think Andor can’t get any better, a new ep comes out and I’m gutted all over again.

And today’s question is what are you willing to sacrifice for rebellion?

Kino Loy, there’s only one way out but it’s a way you know you can’t follow. Do you fight anyway?

Lonni, you want to keep your family safe but you’re in too deep to leave. Do you stay knowing the risk?

Luthen, you have a cause but no peace, no community, nowhere to rest. Does that matter?

Mon Mothma, you have your price. Does your daughter’s choice matter more than the billions of people suffering under the Empire?

[grntaire]

thinking abt company and bobby’s simultaneous desire to connect with someone and his fear of doing it and how aging only makes that fear and desire worse and more at odds with each other but in trusting your friends you learn to trust yourself and what you want and how beautiful that is

[infernalbarbarian]

i'm watching the new fiona & cake and bmo saying, "oooh, butt stuff" while they shove a tape into their vhs player is my new favorite thing in life.

[tillthelandslide]

I'm not the muse okay? I'm the somebody

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Best line of the latest Righteous Gemstones ep (3.7 Burn for Burn, Wood for Wood, Stripe for Stripe) goes to Skyler Gisondo as Gideon saying, "Let's see how fast you fuckers run" while sitting in his daddy's monster truck about to mow down his cult leader uncle.

Weird-sweet moment of the episode goes to Tiffany, who is forever my favorite because she truly loves the Gemstones and brings those little dolls to comfort everyone, and I will protect her with my life.

Fucking lost it laughing moment to Baby Billy rolling Lionel in the stroller and just letting go the moment he hit dead center on the doorway to the next room. Born showman, that boy.

I don't post about it every week because then I'd post nothing else all week because literally I will call Sean the rest of the week going, "Another thing about Gemstones." But, like, this show FUCKS. I grew up adjacent to this megachurch nonsense, and it's so dead on in the satire while being bone deep sincere about who these characters are.

I am VERY curious to see where things go with Gideon reading Eli's latest autobio. Something big is brewing there. And I'm still curious where the BJ and Judy situation is going to end up, and I really want to see Jesse properly grovel at Amber's feet for being a dick this season because she's having success outside of him and it clearly chafes his asshole.

And, look, yes, I need Keefe and Kelvin to realize they are full of the gay feels, but it is a sitcom trope to have double pining idiots, and it's saying a LOT about repressed queer sexuality within restrictive religious structures. So, I'm not putting any money on the two of them moving beyond their painful, dumb lust and adoration of one another.

[cinaminrolll]

DAVID PRODUCTIONS REALLY MAKING ME CRY ENDING IT WITH ROUNDABOUT

[grootiful]

the fact that louis said “let go of me” instead answering either way has me shaking god there’s so much to unpack there

[sav-art]

red guy with a gun????

what!! who gave him that?!?

[underclerysclock]

Once again thinking about my favourite scene in The Newsreader (Gerry and Cheryl in the make up room discoursing about the best Madonna album)