#television diary

[mikazuki-juuichi]

Lesss try some blurbs of stuff I watched / read these past days, weeks, months... just trying to get back on the habit. So fully and random:

MOVIES

- Hereditary. I don't think I'm digging director Ari Aster. This and Midsommar were like... yes, powerful images but it's not enjoyable in the way I want my Horror to be, ya know? It's not at all like, uh, Jordan Peele's thought-provoking thrillers (Get Out; Us; Nope) or Robert Eggers spectacular fables (The Witch; The lighthouse; The Northman) --these felt more like the kind of exploitation thriller that loves to bite the hand that feeds it Oo.

- Sing. Second watch --it helped a lot to find a version with the actual lyrics on screen, hehe. Still a slim and somewhat forgettable musical... but I like musicals and it is pretty entertaining. So there is that.

BOOKS

- Written in the stars. Lois Duncan. Collection of early short stories by a genuinely good YA writer. These might seem quaint, written around the 50's --would you believe they are not? Some of this tales manage to resound even more now... harsh life lessons for Puriteens and Tenderqueers about just how fickle human life truly is, how hard it really is to grow up. So no, yeah, quite recommended.

TV SHOWS

- Uncoupled. Loved this gay drama way more than I expected. I am going to state the obvious but: Fellow gays, queers... DO watch gay and queer media. NOT a popular show with the one really cool couple / character. Media ABOUT, FOR, and maybe BY us (there's exceptions). You'll always have to look hard for it. That's life. That's being a Minority. But believe you me --you WILL feel so much better bit by bit. Yes, even with heavy dramas, as you discover that is not and has never been all there is to it. 

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[montanabohemian]

honestly, the people bitching about an objectively insane episode of wwdits are SO BORING. it's just a silly little comedy about some idiot vampires that live together and commit atrocities in new york. like what is so difficult to comprehend about that.

of course lazslo would create horrifying animal lab experiments that can talk that guillermo has to take care of.

of course nandor and colin are besties.

of course nadja makes 50 dunkin runs for a crazy lady.

it's just a weird show that is outrageous and funny and sometimes carries an emotional wallop. it's not fucking rocket science.

[tvandfilm]

[cowtiekentos]

KAT GRAHAM as BONNIE BENNETT THE VAMPIRE DIARIES 6x03 "Welcome to Paradise"

[vegaseatsass]

So the way I assume at least some number of people felt about Pit Babe ("not sure this is hanging together narratively, but OMG THIS SHIT IS CRAZY! I HAVE TO GO TELL TUMBLR!") is the way I feel about Blank the Series. Well, I was right that the younger Nueng (who I will call Anueng) is named after the older Nueng (who I will call Nueng), because Anueng's mother was in love with Nueng. HOWEVER! Fah named her daughter after Nueng as an act of SPITE. Nueng didn't reciprocate her affections, so Fah ended up fucking Nueng's fiance - maybe as a way to feel close to her unrequited love ?? - and getting pregnant at age 16. Nueng encouraged her to abort the child for the sake of her future. So 20 years later, Fah tells Nueng YES I named my daughter after you: because you RUINED MY LIFE! By 1) breaking my heart when we were kids 2) almost causing me to miscarry my daughter, whom you are now in love with!!!! So both of Anueng's parents were and probably are in unrequited love with Nueng. They produced a baby who has decided her only mission in life is to get with this older woman... who both her parents are/were in love with. Now if that is not enough melodrama for you, Nueng left her fiance at the altar but he is still like, into her and likes hanging out with her. As soon as she told him he's Anueng's father he wanted to become a part of his daughter's life. So Nueng becomes like the gatekeeper of time with Anueng. Fah is like "help me bond with my estranged daughter (who wants to fuck you just like I do)". Chet, the father, is like "will you allow me to see my daughter (who wants to fuck you just like I do)?" as if it's Nueng's call... So in response to the epic guilt Nueng's feeling about Anueng's almost-miscarriage (it wasn't actually her fault btw, Fah is lying to chain Nueng to her out of guilt), Nueng arranges an amusement park date between her two exes, their daughter, and a guy who likes their daughter, even though the daughter in question only wants to be there with Nueng. There's one hilarious scene where Nueng tries to set both mother and daughter up on an age appropriate heterosexual date through a haunted house while she fades into the background, and they both rush through while the men jump and gasp in fear, because the women only want to get back to Nueng waiting outside. I just don't think I can express how weird this is. Nueng sets up a birthday party for the girl who has been professing her love for her since they met, where all the attendees are intended to help Anueng move on from her, but there is NO distinction between "people who can parent you instead of me" and "person who wants to fuck you instead of me". Nueng makes a sincere comment about how easy it is to fall in love with Anueng, TO HER FATHER. Anueng's MOTHER is jealous that her daughter likes Nueng better than her. It's just all sooooooooooo fucking weird and psychosexual. 20yo Anueng's babyishness remains incredibly offputting to me, but my friend has pointed out she only does that when she's around Nueng, so it's very obviously a performance. When she's around literally anyone else she kind of just looks like she's dissociating 24/7. Plus her abusive grandmother has kept her so sheltered and isolated and abused that it's not surprising she doesn't really know how to socialize authentically. So even if it's not my bag I'm like, narratively compelled by whatever the actual fuck is going on in this GL. And did I mention: Mon and Sam are there, too!!!! There's a whole plotline where Anueng is jealous of Sam because she thinks Nueng and Sam are girlfriends. When she finds out they're actually sisters (and she double-checks onscreen: ACTUAL, biological sisters? This isn't a pseudocest situation?), she's like oh! So you like beautiful rich women! All I have to do is replace your sister by becoming a beautiful rich woman myself!!!

[mexicanblanket]

We used to be a proper country. 🥺

[high-quality-tiktoks]

“BECAUSE IT SENDS A MESSAGE” actually lives in my head rent-free

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Dear Diary… by Tiger Electronics (1996)

[bestoftweets]

[power-chords]

Hollywood/TV studios could also stand to hire the MANY Black women stylists/colorists who have decades of professional expertise working with wigs and making them look both glamorous and natural. I guarantee you the jump in quality would be immediate and astronomical.

[mikazuki-juuichi]

January 2022 extras.

More stuff finished in the last month.

- Voir. A collection of film essays ranging from genre to format to design to cultural impact. Thoughtful and ponderous, quite recommended --each of the six essays.

- Sailor Moon Eternal. I re-watched the entire "Sailor Moon Crystal" anime, then these two movies  --it holds up much better than we remember all in all, away from pointless discourse and seen more as its own thing.

[debuts]

mikey being the one who always told carmy let it rip and carmy desperately wanting to open a restaurant with him but never getting to, and then carmy coming back years later and eventually opening the restaurant with syd and her choosing to say his brother’s words let it rip right before opening. the cans of tomatoes with hope hidden in them. mikey being the one to find and hire the bear crew and bring everyone together. mikey’s dead before the story even begins and he’s haunting the narrative. mikey’s still in the kitchen cooking. mikey never left. his fingerprints are all over everything and, yes, the heartache and chaos his actions caused are very much there, but the love from him echos down too. the love never goes away.

[disneytva]

Aliki Theofilopoulos Inks Overall Development Deal At Disney Television Animation

Zombies: The Re-Animated Series Executive Producer, Showrunner and Disney Television Animation veteran Aliki Theofilopoulos has inked a overall development deal with Disney TVA this thanks to the Animation Guild's magazine "THE KEYFRAME"

Under the deal Aliki will develop new animated series, specials and films for Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney+, additionaly Aliki will have full access to legacy Disney IP for potential new animated series based on heritage characters across the company. Aliki Theofilopoulos currently serves as showrunner and executive producer of Zombies: The Re-Animated Series based on the popular DCOM franchise "Zombies" slated to debut 2024 on Disney Channel and Disney+, previous work included being Showrunner and Executive Producer of Descendants: Wicked World and served as Storyboard Artist and Writter on Phineas and Ferb , Additionaly Aliki served as hand drawn- animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios on the feature films Hercules, Tarzan and Treasure Planet.

Beyond Disney, Theofilopoulos work can be seen at Dreamworks Animation Television on the series Harvey Girls Forever!,Doug Unplugs and Dew Drop Diaries.

Theofilopoulos joins these 30 talented animators,artists,storyboard artists and showrunners on inking overall development deals to create new shows,films and specials for Disney across Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney+.

[cowtiekentos]

KAT GRAHAM as BONNIE BENNETT THE VAMPIRE DIARIES 7x09 "Cold as Ice"

[jryno]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)

[hellenlens]

I started watching “Shadow and Bone” and found out that Netflix cancelled the series after season 2.

I like the characters and the magical world described; though I don’t know what is going to happen in season 2 yet, and I haven’t read the books.

I saw so many beautiful fanarts and actually fanarts inspired me to watch the series. It is devastating to know that there will be no continuation of the story (yet?)