#hightown season 2 episode 2

[nysocboy]

Hank Strong/Jericho: Bodybuilder, Firefighter, Gay Leatherman

Hank Strong (Henry Akinsaya) played Jericho, a member of Kelvin's God Squad in Righteous Gemstones Season 2. When they threaten to return Keefe to his tiger-cage prison, he defends himself by swatting Jericho's nipple.  (Actually a courageous act, since Jericho is nearly a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than Keefe).

The Brooklyn-born actor graduated from NYU and worked as a celebrity bodyguard before he was cast as the villain Lunkhead in an episode of Gotham (2018).   He moved on to a two-episode story arc as Big Dick Buster on Godfather of Harlem.  Tell me more about Big Dick...

Hank's only gay role, that I can find, is in a 2018 episode of Hightown. He plays a Leather Daddy who wants to buy meth from Junior (Shane Harper). Of course, things go terribly wrong. There are frontal and rear nude photos on Righteous Gemstones Beefcake and Boyfriends.

[juanabaloo]

hi! this is so random but I just found hightown and saw you in the tags I was wondering if you recommend it? I wanna watch something with a lesbian couple but it's hard to find shows (I tried station 19 but got bored easily besides the appears couple is on season 3). anyway would u say it's a good written show and good rep? like is it worth it? thanksss

hello hi! i highly recommend Hightown if you are a Monica Raymund fan, she plays Jackie - the supposed main character. (Monica was on the first 6 seasons of Chicago Fire if you happen to be into firefighter shows.) i have randomly seen a few eps of both Chicago Fire and Station 19 (Maya x Carina is the couple you were watching for i think?) and they were just alright.

it's hard to know if you would like Jackie / Hightown without knowing what else you also like. (related, my top 5 sapphic movie recs)

(also disclaimer while i am flattered i'm not a lesbian, i'm bi so def not an expert on lesbian rep)

OK so i'll try to pitch this without too many spoilers.

Pros for watching Hightown

it's short! 3 seasons is only 25 episodes total

Monica Raymund!! she's truly amazing and gorgeous

if you watch BTVS and like Faith Lehane, Jackie to me is like an older but still very fuct up Faith

rated TV-MA in the USA (versus TV-14 for Station 19 and Chicago Fire)

sex and nudity is rated severe in the IMDB parent's guide (versus mild for the other 2 shows)

Jackie has sex and enjoys it, with different women

Jackie is clearly a lesbian and shows no interest in men

there are other women on the show you may find attractive (Renee played by Riley Voelkel, along with fewer appearances by: Charmaine played by Imani Lewis and Leslie played by Tonya Glanz)

Jackie is in a relationship with one woman at some point in the show

the chemistry between Jackie and the one woman is really good, for both sex scenes and softer moments

MILD SPOILER: the relationship lasts for a while (more than a few episodes)

MILD SPOILER: neither Jackie nor the relationship woman die during the show

Cons for watching Hightown

there are a lot of other sex scenes that don't involve Jackie that are hetero (Ray or Frankie)

Ray takes up too much space in the story IMO (i don't find Ray very attractive, so maybe i am biased. i don't mind the space Frankie takes up, and he IS attractive.)

"lesbian couple" is too strong a term for the relationship Jackie has with the one woman

if you believe ACAB - well this is a cop show. Jackie may be a "fish cop" but she's still a cop. (i believe ACAB and just hold my nose.)

not really a con - totally separate from ACAB Jackie is not a good role model. so she might not be good rep.

the one woman has some struggles with understanding her own sexuality (related the show pretends no one is bi)

not really a con - drugs (specifically hard drug use) is rated severe in the IMDB parent's guide

not really a con - Jackie is a real mess, and her struggle with sobriety is a major theme of the show

not really a con - Jackie has a rough relationship with her Dad

there's a lot of angst and drama in this show. if you want a solid lesbian couple / sapphic couple to watch, i don't recommend this show. but if you want to watch Jackie having sex and also root for her and this one woman, you can. if that is your plan then you can basically only watch S1 and S2 and skip all of S3 except for 3x07 the finale. So that would be only 19 episodes.

i can say more but trying not to spoil things. ask if you have more questions!

[thegeekiary]

Third and Final Season of Queer-Led Crime Drama "Hightown" Gets January 2024 Debut!

Jackie being hurt by Leslie in ‘Fool Me Twice’ (Screengrab: Hightown Season 2 Episode 10) The queer-led crime drama Hightown will debut its third and final season on Starz come January 26, 2024. While I’m disappointed to see such a well-written show conclude, I’m glad that fans will get to enjoy a proper ending. Continue reading Untitled

[booasaur]

Thoughts on Hightown Season 2 Episode 6? This episode gave me all the feels. Not spoiling anything since you might have not seen it. P. S.: Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving break 😁

Thank you! I don't even remember if I had a good Thanksgiv--no, I did. And then came back to work in the middle of high priority emergency work but at least I wasn't checking in during it like the year before, so yay. Hope yours was nice too! And is this year as well. :P

And thank you for not spoiling! I actually had watched by then, I think I was watching 'em as soon as they dropped Sunday 12:00am because at that point I was so nervous about how the show was handling it all. Let me just get these other asks in too and then I'll answer:

And another anon:

When you’ve got the time I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on the latest Hightown :)

And another anon:

spoilers for hightown

everything between jackie and leslie this week was rough but the the first conversation somehow hurt me more? i think them being at work made that one stingy extra and jackie being so thrown off and genuinely adrift—‘go home if your sick’ ouchhhh. that made me feel so bad for her. the second time around i knew what was coming so i was hurt but i expected the worst. leslie insisting she’s straight didn’t surprise me and neither did her saying they had moments, because she always felt like she was holding something back to me, but jackie being so affected by their fallout did surprise me. for all her toughness when she falls she falls hard. i know jackie’s about to fall off the wagon but i really hope it isn’t a full spiral. she’s been doing so well but she had huge losses this episode and that’s hard for anyone, let alone an addict who has this much busy time on her hands.

Heh, I'd almost forgotten which ep 6 was but nowww I remember. Ugh, it was brutal! But honestly I did kind of expect Jackie to be affected the way she was, even the "mistake" with the text and her immediate reaction to it showed how frazzled and desperate it was making her. Not necessarily because Leslie was the one true love of her life, but because she'd tied so much of her recovery and doing better to her and if one thing fell apart, it all would (which she then kinda set in motion herself, self-fulfilling and all).

Against the backdrop of whatever was going on with Renee and Ray, that was doubly annoying, but this show, I don't think it's really intended to keep either Ray or Jackie happy for long. It'll be interesting to see if in the new season, some of the reactions and feedback from the audience have shifted the showrunnner's longer term intentions, though.

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SXSW Film Festival now SXSW Film & TV Festival

      The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals announced the Film Festival will now be called the Film & TV Festival, to reflect the event’s long standing and deep programming of episodics in the screening program, Film & TV tracks, and Keynote and Featured Speaker sessions in the Conference. SXSW was the first festival to program episodics a decade ago with HBO’s Girls in 2012, launched an Episodic section in 2014, and subsequently showcased the world premieres of some of television’s most iconic series including Silicon Valley, Mr. Robot, Barry, What We Do In The Shadows, and Search Party, among 68 other Episodic Premieres and 57 Episodic Pilots.

      “We are so proud of our rich history of showcasing both film and television, and wanted the festival name to reflect what we have been doing for a decade,” said Janet Pierson, VP, Director of Film & TV. “Whether in the screening program, the Conference or associated activations on our footprint, SXSW has long been at the epicenter of the best new TV, and in 2023 we will once again thrill our audiences with exciting new work from some of the most talented creators.”

      The SXSW Film & TV badge is available at the lowest rate August 2 through September 15, 2022. Registration opens August 2 to get the best hotel rates and options. SXSW Film, TV, XR submissions open on August 23 through October 18, 2022.

     Selma Director Ava DuVernay at SXSW 2015. Photo by Naomi Richard.

             History of SXSW Episodic Programming in the Festival

           2012: World Premiere of HBO’s Girls by Lena Dunham is the first episodic featured in the festival program.

         2013: World Premiere of A&E’s Bates Motel and Conference session Bates Motel: Story to Screen with Carlton Cuse.

         2014: Official launch of dedicated Episodic screening section, with six projects in the program: COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey, and the world premieres of Deadbeat, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Halt and Catch Fire, Penny Dreadful, and Silicon Valley. 

                 2015: Five Episodic world premieres: Angie Tribeca, The Comedians, iZOMBIE, Mr. Robot, and UnREAL.

      2016: Five Episodic world premieres: Outcast, Preacher, Search Party, Vice Principals, and You Me Her .

     2017: Six Episodic world premieres: American Gods, Dear White People, I Love Bekka & Lucy, I’m Dying Up Here, Nobodies, and The Son.

   2018: Seven Episodic world premieres: This Is Us Season 2 Finale Episode (special event), Barry, Condor, Krypton, The Last O.G., Vida, and Warriors of Liberty City. This year we launched the Independent Episodics section with 13 titles. The section would be renamed the independent Pilot Competition in 2019: Beast, Cleansed, Everything is Okay: Robot, First World Problems, Hold To Your Best Self, My Dead Ex, Night Owl, One Eye Small, Otis, Polar, Rapture, She’s the Ticket, and Unspeakable.

       2019: Seven Episodic world premieres: Broad City Series Finale Screening, Love, Death & Robots, David Makes Man, NOS4A2, Ramy, Shrill, What We Do in the Shadows, and Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate SXSW Event, which included Conference session and several unique activations. 12 Episodic Pilot Competition titles: Baby Love, A Cure For Fear, East of La Brea, Hammerhead, M, Maggie, Moderately Put Together, Queering, Rainbow Ruthie, Revenge Tour, Sterling, and Who You Are.

  2020: 12 Episodic world premieres were programmed: Central Park, Chad, Cursed FIlms, Hightown, Home, Motherland: Fort Salem, Outcry, Snowpiercer, Solar Opposites, Tales from the Loop, Upload, and We’re Here. 14 Episodic Pilot Competition titles were programmed: Alisa, Beached, Bored, Embrace, Everyone Together, Heart To Heart, This Isn’t Me, Bananas, Chemo Brain, Cooper’s Bar, The Dream, Homecoming: The Journey of Cardboard, Lusty Crest, and Racist Trees.

      (While the 2020 Festival was canceled due to the Coronavirus pandemic, some titles were screened among the 39 projects in Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection, and all projects remained official SXSW Selections.)

          2021: Six Episodic world premieres: Confronting a Serial Killer, Cruel Summer, The Girlfriend Experience, Made for Love, Sasquatch, and Them. Six Episodic Pilot Competition titles: 4 Feet High, Dale’s House, For the Record, Parked in America, The Position, and Pretend Partners.

             2022: 12 World Premiere Episodics: Atlanta Season 3 premiere, 61st Street, The Big Conn, Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart, DMZ, The Girl From Plainville, Halo, The Last Movie Stars, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Shining Girls, Swimming with Sharks, They Call Me Magic, and WeCrashed. Six Episodic Pilot Competition titles: Awayy, Brownsville Bred, Hidden Kingdom, My Year of Dicks, Something Undone, and We’re Doing Good.

Film & TV Conference Highlights: Robust TV programming in the Conference preceded 2012’s first Episodic screening in the Festival.  Highlights of Conference Keynotes and Featured Speakers, many covering both film and TV topics, include: Bob Odenkirk in Conversation with Fred Armisen, Elizabeth Moss in Conversation with Brandi Carlile, Silicon Valley Cast and Creators Panel.  Other Highlights include: Lizzo Keynote, Ava DuVernay Keynote, Lee Daniels Keynote, Jill Soloway Keynote, and Spike Lee with a Masterclass, and many more.

              Iconic Film & TV Activations: Each year features dozens of inventive, immersive, award-winning installations promoting work in the Festival and Conference, as well as other projects that appeal to the unique SXSW audiences. These include HBO’s groundbreaking recreation of Westworld, and subsequent Bleed for the Throne; Amazon’s Good Omens Garden of Earthly Delights, A&E’s Bates Motel; USA Networks’ recreation of Coney Island for Mr. Robot; AMC’s Preacher and Starz’ American Gods Installations, plus many others. 2022 featured Amazon's Superheroes & Superstars Experience featuring The Boys and Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, FX's Atlanta Season 3 Amsterdam style cafe pop up fittingly called The Trip, Disney+'s Outdoor Screening complete with larger-than-life characters and all-day outdoor screenings, the WarnerMedia House, the Peacock Playground and many others.

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My recap and review of "Hightown" Season 2 Episode 2 - Girl Power. Jackie and Leslie continue working on an important case and try to figure out something about their connection as case partners.

What did you think?

[lgbtpopcult]

2021 Year in Review for WLW Entertainment

Lesbian movies really took a hit in 2021 COVID times. When in crisis, studios will always heroically sacrifice women and minorities! While last year's lesbian movie selection included big players like Ammonite, The World to Come, The Prom, Summerland, Happiest Season and New Mutants, this year's selections were more muted and many came from smaller studios as well as the international film scene. Still, we had some variety this year too. TV, on the other hand, had equal or even better offerings this year with some networks and streaming services stepping up their game with female lgbt+ characters.

Let's take a closer look at what 2021 has been like for wlw entertainment...

On the movie front, Lifetime finally gave us its first lesbian romance movie with Under the Christmas Tree and Hallmark gave us its first movie with a lesbian lead who found romance in Every Time the Bell Rings. These two were our lesbian Christmas movies of the year. The Novice gathered accolades as a queer sports drama done right while The Divide gathered them for being the "healthcare in the times of Covid" movie with a same sex couple at its center. Winner of Cannes film festival Titane also portrayed its protagonist as queer but what that means in a surreal fever dream of a movie that included doing sexual things with a car I don't know 🤷‍♀️

There were, however, high profile projects as well. I Care a Lot gave us the mainstream lesbian comedy we deserve and threw in 2 big Hollywood names with amazing chemistry for good measure. No wonder it became an instant Netflix hit. Another instant hit was the Fear Street Trilogy, 3 movies that represent the best of the emerging lesbian horror movie genre. Smaller additions to the genre this year were The Retreat, Bloodthirsty and Seance. Australian coming of age romance My First Summer gave us the sweetest lesbian love story of the year. We also got our first queer protagonist in a major studio animated movie this year with The Mitchells vs the Machines. Saint Vincent made the lesbian mockumentary of the year, The Nowhere Inn.

Surprisingly, Benedetta was our only high profile lesbian period piece this year and, considering how subpar it turned out to be, maybe that was for the best. Let's hope upcoming The Chambermaid (releasing at the beginning of next year) doesn't disappoint. We may criticize the lesbian period romance a lot and often(mostly because for a long time it was all we got) but we still love it. It just needs to be done right.

Over on the TV landscape, some of last year's favourites continued to deliver while the variety we celebrated last year was a bright spot this year as well. Among the highlights: Legends of Tomorrow, that gave us a superheroic lesbian wedding only matched by the equally wonderful wedding episode of fire fighter show Station 19. Joining the Legends of Tomorrow lesbian/bi ladies on the superhero genre front, was our new Batwoman, Alex from Supergirl and Black lightning (that ended with its lgbt+ ladies married as well). Joining the fire fighter/medical drama of Station 19 were other traditional TV dramas with lesbian/bi women in lead roles like Law and Order Organized Crime, NCIS Hawai, New Amsterdam, Family Law and BBC gem Vigil. On the more hardcore cable/streaming scene one of the leads of The Morning Show came out, cop drama Hightown gave its lesbian lead a love interest, The Box gave us a surreal drama with a lesbian lead, in Dopesick a lesbian is at the center of the opium epidemic, Genera+ion gave us some interesting queer teen drama(before going the way of Everything Sucks! and Teenage Bounty Hunters) and The L Word Generation Q got slightly better at giving us couples with good chemistry (basically Dani and Gigi) even if it still, for the most part, failed to actually give interesting storylines to its lesbian characters. Network comedy gave us family sitcom Home Economics for a second season, Atypical gave us a happy ending for fan favourites Casey and Izzie, Dickinson gave us the comedy period romance we've been asking for, Queens gave us the black pop queen of our dreams, Disney+ gave us the first gay romance on the platform in Big Shot with a sweet lesbian teen couple, Saved by the Bell gave us a genuinely funny wlw couple, Spanish speaking production gave us Madre solo hay dos and Gentefied continued with the Latina lesbian representation.

Fantasy and Science Fiction was, as it often is, good grounds for gay women in 2021. This year we got a lesbian lead character and a lesbian romance of the week in Fantasy Island, a lesbian lead reunited with her love in Motherland Fort Salem, queer teens in The Girl in the Woods, our little detective that could in Nancy Drew, survival adventures in Yellowjackets and our lesbian astronauts in Invasion and For all Mankind. By far the best one of the year though was Amazon Prime blockbuster adaptation Wheel of Time. In the meantime, just like Adventure Time, Shera and Harley Quinn the animated series before it, The Owl House and Arcane dominated the gay animated scene this year. Reality and competition shows added to the mix with lesbian contestants on both The Circle and The Voice, JoJo Siwa on Dancing with the Stars for the show's first same sex pairing, a new lesbian reality show Tampa Baes on Amazon Prime and 12 Dates of Christmas on Hbomax.

In the world of video games, selection wasn't as big but it did contain some real jewels. Life is Strange True Colors, a sequel to the popular graphic adventure game, dominated the conversation of course but fans of other genres had some choices too. Farming Simulator fans got a really fun game in Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town, fans of rogue dungeon crawlers got Sword of the Necromancer and Mass Effect fans finally got the remastered version for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows. Narrative adventure Lake gave gamers who like slow paced games a sweet lesbian romance to play, while life simulator Growing Up did the same in a different way. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous gave RPG fans another game to love and Unsighted gave everyone a great action 2D game to play. The surprise of the year? Mobile choice game Scripts that finally gave lgbt+ choice game fans the front and center lesbian romance stories apps like Episodes and Choices never put on the cover of their visual novels.

One of the most important milestones of the year came from the world of comics when DC decided to dedicate an entire comic book title to the romantic relationship of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. A spinoff from the Harley Quinn animated series (season 3 coming in 2022), The eat, bang, kill Tour gave gay fans of the couple everything we wanted. A close second, the regular Harley Quinn comic title also gave importance to the relationship while other DC titles like DC Pride and the Batman comics also cemented that the relationship is canon all across the board. Comic book titles like America Chavez: Made in the USA completed the lesbian comic book mosaic.

The gay girl music world seems to be having a pop renaissance brought on, in great part, by the popularity of online creators but some mainstream musicians also contributed. Lesbian music icons Hayley Kiyoko and Fletcher gave us a new song, "Cherry". Angele, Ladyhawke and Girl in Red gave us new albums. Internet popularity gave musicians like Dodie, Grace Gaustad, Rebecca Black, Marina Lin, Hollie Col and Zolita the chance to put their music out there. The very gay new music video of Maneskin for Mamma Mia cannot be ignored of course.

Variety on the online entertainment creator scene started to stagnate. Still, we got some good content from iconic YouTube creators Rose & Rosie who had a baby this year. Some other YouTube highlights included content from beloved couple Paige and Holly, Colombian supercouple Calle and Poche, the return of Lilly Singh aka Superwoman and the wedding of the German lesbian super couple from Coupleontour. The Instagram and TikTok lesbian couple scene also grew and many couples came to have huge followings and popularity.

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On a slightly different note, if you're a fan of TikTok episodic sketch comedy, one of the most popular TikTok creators in the world, kallmekris, has an ongoing lesbian romance of her own (and on her own 😌)...

Overall, in spite the set backs that COVID-19 brought upon us, 2021 wasn't a bad year for variety and diversity in lesbian entertainment. Here's hoping (and contributing so that) the upward trend continues. Happy New Year!

[padmaddean]

Can you please gif Hightown season 2

If you're talking about the sex scene from the last episode, then unfortunately I can't. Tumblr will block that gifset. Leslie is topless and any nudity is automatically classified as adult content and blocked.

It's a shame because that scene is really good.

[gra-sonas]

Am I crazy in being scared that with so many new characters, many of the characters that we love will not get the focus that they should? They already have a big cast and so many of their stories are not told (for example, Alex's past in the military)...I fear that there will be many storylines and all of them will not be well developed (like s2)...I really hope I'm wrong...

Not crazy, nonnie, no. 

Let’s break down what we know (hahahahahahahaha 😒) about S3 so far:

There were some S3 interviews with CAM after the S2 finale, but since she’s no longer part of the show, and she herself said that the S3 outline changed “a lot” after her departure, anything she said in those interviews (and that wasn’t all that much to begin with), could no longer be valid information. 

Time jump? Will probably happen, but we don’t know for sure. 

Forlex? Could happen (for how long/to which extent, who the fuck knows), or maybe not??

Echo? Will definitelylikely get back together (probably in 3x02 or so, can’t keep the straights apart for too long...), we just don’t know when. 

Happier times for Malex? HAHAHA, as if Could happen. OR NOT. Who knows. NOT US!

WE ARE JON SNOW! ¯\_(°~°)_/¯

The few things we (kinda) know about S3 so far:

It’s likely the season will start with Liz (still) in LA (where she’ll meet one of the new guys, Heath), but it’s fairly certain she’ll return to Roswell early in S3

It’s likely the Pod Squad will have to deal with Mr. Jones. 

we know a few things about 4 new guest characters - 3 of them white, and at least Jordan Bernhardt (mayor’s son) and the new Sheriff, Brooke Taylor (WHAT ABOUT MICHELLE VALENTI?????) seem kinda shady. Edgar/Eduardo sounds like he could be a link to Deep Sky or maybe the Alighting?

going by Dylan’s extended stay in Santa Fe, it seems like Wyatt Long could have a larger arc this season

we know that Christian(Forrest) filmed at least one episode (could be more but we don’t know for certain)

Tanner(Gregory) is currently/was recently in Santa Fe to film a second episode. 

It doesn’t look like Justina (Steph)’s been in Santa Fe yet, since they’re already filming 3x04 or 3x05 (we don’t even know that for sure), it’s possible she won’t return for S3 at all.

We don’t know whether Riley(Jenna)'s been in Santa Fe yet (production of Hightown S2 recently started, maybe she’s already been in Santa Fe and filmed some scenes, but we have no confirmation about that, it’s just as likely that she hasn’t been there yet)

Jamie Clayton(Charlie)’s currently filming something else. 

Kiowa(Flint)’s also not been confirmed to have filmed any S3 scenes yet (doesn’t mean he hasn’t, the entire cast is notoriously bad at keeping us in the loop about stuff like that 😩)

So that’s what we “know”. In addition:

It could be, that Tyler(Alex) won’t be in 3x01 and/or 3x02 (it’s super hard to tell bc those eps were directed by the same director, maybe they just shifted things around and cleared his schedule for an extended period so he could go home???). 

The actor who played young Max in S2 is listed for S3, that probably means Max flashbacks

They’ve released 3 episode (incl. 2 directors) titles so far + we know Dr. Rachel Raimist will direct 3x05

Other than that we have this vague af S3 synopsis that doesn’t tell us anything substantial about S3:

In season three, still reeling from the events of last year, the Roswell aliens and their allies are drawn back together through a threat from a familiar stranger and a murder that has not yet happened.

From near and from far, amidst breakups, reunions, scientific advancements and the impending death of someone they hold dear, our heroes must grapple with two central questions: Who enters our lives and defines who we are?

And what power do we really have over our own futures?

In conclusion:

We actually don’t know ANYTHING about Liz, Alex, Michael, Rosa, Isobel, Kyle, Maria or Max and their S3 arcs!

And I think that’s the main problem here. We know more about four guest characters, their motivations and what they’ll be up to in S3, than we know about the core 8. 

And that’s probably what makes so many people anxious. We have no idea how these guest characters fit into S3 because we don’t know anything about S3. 

There’s only guessing and assuming and speculating.

Oh, there’s also S2, where so much (too much) focus was put on a million different storylines and side characters, where a main plot was missing for most of the season, where core 8 characters were sidelined and/or had little to no character development, where seemingly important scenes were cut, and so on. And the way S2 ended, doesn’t exactly spark joy and excitement for S3...

It’s no surprise that we’re fucking anxious and worried S3′s gonna serve more of the same.

With new characters (that are not even new characters we’d probably be interested in meeting, like Clay and Mindy Manes, Jim Valenti (yay, flashbacks) or perhaps Maria’s dad) being announced, and no S3 info for reference, how are we supposed to be excited? How are we supposed to not worry S3 will be a repeat of S2.

I don’t think that’s going to be the case (esp. not with Chris having taken over as show runner, I still believe that with him helming the show things will be better), but I get why so many people are worried (to the point of being utterly annoyed and ready to quit the fandom). 

One way to fix at least some of this mess (and ease some of the anxiety) would be an interview with Chris Hollier, or at least an article that provides us with UPDATED information about S3, especially details about the core 8.

Because that’s what most of us want to know. What's in store for the characters we love and care about? What about the ships (Malex and Echo in particular)? WHAT ABOUT THE FRIENDSHIPS??? What about the individual characters and their specific journeys? 

As long as we don’t know more about S3 at large, and the main characters in particular, any new characters that will be announced, will cause people to worry and/or get annoyed. 

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier 1x04 Season 1 Episode 4 watch online

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At the risk of comparing two somewhat different stories, “WandaVision” used his time to delve into two characters reduced to supporting roles in the Avengers films. "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" almost seems to be doing the opposite, spreading his narrative instead of sinking further into the psyche of Sam Wilson or James Buchanan Barnes, which is a shame when there is so much for me. Although it is the dominant subplot, it would be nice to see more of Sam's thought process in relation to his abandoned Captain America mantle. Yes, there are racial motivations for choosing him and - as he made it clear to Bucky in Episode 2 - he doesn't need to explain himself further. But it seems that there is more going on. Is Sam afraid to follow in Steve's footsteps? Is he afraid of failure? Does he yearn for a more normal life on his family's boat?

The same goes for Bucky and his list of repairs. It can be argued that there is a fully formed show "My Name Is Earl" based exclusively on Bucky and his list, with each episode revolving around a name, crossing it out and throwing away part of The Winter Soldier's luggage.

And speaking of pre-existing programs, "Power Broker" almost seemed like an exercise in prestigious action and dramatic tributes, featuring scenarios that would not seem out of place in "Prison Break", "24", "Westworld", or any of the films "John Wick" (specifically the "excommunicated" bounty call of "John Wick 2"). The episode begins with a fake commercial for the aforementioned Global Repatriation Council before moving on to New Captain America (such as New Coke) and Battlestar appearing a few days late for the Flag Knights' last known location. The deal that followed in the hideout highlights the most striking differences between John Walker and Steve Rogers, with Walker worrying about the devil, needing a translator (remembering that Cap understood and responded to Batroc The Leaper in French in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier ”) and finally being spit on by enemies who neither fear nor respect him.

The rest of the episode follows our good titular policeman and policeman armed with vibranium on a worldwide mission that sees them help Baron Helmut Zemo (played with ease by Daniel Brühl) to escape from his German prison and head to Madripoor, a fictional city in the Southeast Asia, defined predominantly in the comics as a place for the very rich and the very poor, a point that was driven by the two neighborhoods: Lowtown, where the trio began to "climb a ladder of poor people" on their march to the serum of the super soldier and Hightown, where Sharon Carter, apparently doing very well as an enemy of the state, lives in a luxurious (and massive) apartment in a stolen art gallery that has become a dance club. There is also a Flag Smashers C conspiracy that again seeks to muddy the sympathetic waters for the revolutionary group, showing the good they are trying to do before undermining it in a grotesque and unnecessary display of violence.

If there is a "Power Broker" MVP, it has to be Brühl, playing Zemo with his tongue firmly on his cheek, chewing his scene with an aristocratic presumption hitherto invisible in the MCU. It is telling that Brühl's recent directorial debut is about an egocentric actor on the verge of a big audition for a comic book movie, perhaps allowing him to have more fun with Zemo. And how fun it is! Whether supporting Sam (albeit in a culturally insensitive way) on the unchanging truths of Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man" soundtrack or having fun pretending to control the Winter Soldier again, Brühl was a joy whenever he stepped on the screen (though perhaps never more than in this brief photo of him dancing). Also, sporting Zemo's iconic mask and not looking ridiculous is a feat in itself. [Honorable mention goes to the similarly returning VanCamp, who plays his best personification of John Wick while dispensing with the endless attack of nameless assassins in the final set piece of the episode.] In short, there is a lot to like in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”, but sometimes, especially in “Power Broker”, it seems more like a collection of good scenes (even great ones) or scenarios that do not arrive well add up to a all satisfactory. An extensive narrative structure works for venerated programs like "The Wire", where a) expansion is the point (a photo of a city in danger) and b) there is still time (five seasons) to dig a little here and there, but here it may seem, to use a metaphor for the show, like adding a new staircase (or two) to the side of a building instead of climbing a step.

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[isbelevans]

It's missing Jenna Cameron hours, I know Riley Voelkel is busy filming the second season of Hightown but I really hope they can get Jenna for 1 or 2 (bonus more) episodes next season

[film-book]

TV Review: HIGHTOWN: Season 1, Episode 2: Severely Weatherbeaten [Starz] http://filmbk.me/RXPjHN

[salvatoreschool]

Yes, The Originals Fans Can Probably Expect More Of Riley Voelkel's Freya On Legacies

The Originals fans loved seeing Freya Mikaelson again in Legacies Season 2, Episode 6, and based on Riley Voelkel's new tease to CinemaBlend, it sure sounds like we can expect to see Freya back again for more family time with Hope.

Seeing Freya was a taste of home for Hope Mikaelson and fans of The Vampire Diaries' first spinoff. Actress Riley Voelkel only brought back the powerful Mikaelson witch for two scenes on Legacies -- one in New Orleans with Josie Saltzman and one in Mystic Falls to hug her niece Hope. However, we learned quite a bit about Freya's life with Keelin after The Originals finale and fans were left curious to see if Freya would remain a big part of Hope's life.

Will we see Freya again on Legacies? Sounds like there's (no pun intended) hope!

Riley Voelkel is currently promoting her new TV role as Renee Shaw in Starz's Hightown. CinemaBlend's own Nick Venable talked to Voelkel during the TCA 2020 winter press tour and asked if she would bring Freya back to Legacies. Her eyes seemed to say yes as she made this response:

“There's been...conversations. [Laughs.] There have been conversations, yes. It was so fun going back. I hadn't played the character in so many years, and so going back was just super nostalgic. It was cool to see the new generation and yeah, there's a possibility Freya may show up again. Yeah, there's a possibility”.

Yesssss. Hope Mikaelson could use more love from back home in New Orleans. Speaking of back home, in Freya's Legacies return episode, "That's Nothing I Had to Remember," Josie Saltzman went to New Orleans to ask Freya about a spell.

At the time, Freya had no memory of Hope, so when Josie mentioned she was from the Salvatore School, Freya didn't remember she had already been there to visit Hope on The Originals. Instead, she said "Yeah, I've heard of it. My wife's got an eye on it for our son."

Our son! The Originals ended with Freya and Keelin planning to start a family, with Vincent agreeing to be their surrogate. Legacies picked up from that story and revealed Freya and Keelin had a son. Not only that, Freya revealed their son's name was Nik -- as in Niklaus, named after Freya's brother Klaus Mikaelson, Hope Mikaelson's own father, who died with his brother Elijah in The Originals series finale.

The second Freya said she had a son named after Klaus -- and mentioned wanting him to go to the Salvatore School someday -- fans started hoping we'd see Nik on Legacies in Season 3, 4, 5, whatever. Maybe there could be a time jump like The Originals had to go from Hope as a baby to a child to a teen?

CinemaBlend mentioned how The Originals fans would love to see Nik on Legacies, perhaps through a time jump. Here's how Riley Voelkel responded:

“Where Nik has grown up, yes, yes. I think the fans would appreciate that, yeah”.

I don't want to geek out too hard yet, but I'm loving this hope to see Freya back on Legacies and also the idea of keeping Nik involved in the story as part of the next generation. After all, the show is called "Legacies" and it follows the children of characters from The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. Nik belongs there (and so does Stefanie Salvatore).

As we wait to see Freya again, relive her two scenes so far on Legacies, starting with Josie's visit to New Orleans...

And continuing with Freya, now remembering Hope, visiting her niece in Mystic Falls:

Here's hoping we not only see Freya Mikaelson again soon, but that we get to see Keelin, Baby Nik, Vincent, and more members of The Originals' Mikaelson family.

Legacies Season 2 returns from winter break Thursday, January 16 at 9 p.m. on The CW. The show has already been renewed for Season 3 and fans know exactly which other characters they'd love to see back on screen. Meanwhile, Roswell, New Mexico star Riley Voelkel premieres her new show Hightown this spring on Starz.

[jareaulamontagnes]

Finally going to continue watching Hightown Season 2. I’m on episode 3 :)