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yodoozy01 · 2 years

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10 Must-Watch Political Dramas To Stream Right Now

There would be nothing like a political drama series to get you addicted and give you something binge on. Be it a series inspired by true events or a fictional story of a heroic personality, a great political drama can show us some complicated aspects of humanity through its gripping plot and impactful storytelling. Political drama has become a TV genre as popular as politics itself, with plenty of hilarious as well as thrilling shows. If there is something that politics has always taught us, it is that you can’t make everyone happy all of the time. This applies to political dramas, as not all the shows would be appealing to everyone. So, to make your task easier, we have narrowed it down to some of the best political dramas that you should stream right now.

Designated Survivor

Designated Survivor is a gripping political thriller series created by David Guggenheim. It revolves around a true government backup in the US in which Thomas Kirkman, a low-level Cabinet member, becomes President of the United States after a catastrophic explosion kills everyone ahead of him in the presidential line of succession. He is chosen to stay at an undisclosed secured location, away from events such as State of the Union addresses and presidential inaugurations.

Bodyguard

Created by Jed Mercurio, Bodyguard is a contemporary political thriller series set around the corridors of power. The series tells the fictional story of David Budd, a heroic but volatile war veteran now working as a Specialist Protection Officer for the Royalty and Specialist Branch of London’s Metropolitan Police Service. Budd finds himself torn between his duty and a few other distractions as he is assigned as the principal protection officer (PPO) for the ambitious and powerful Home Secretary Julia Montague, whose politics he despises.

Pine Gap

One of the best political dramas of all time, rhis six-part spy-thriller by Greg Haddrick and Felicity Packard is based on the intensely secretive world of intelligence and the enigmatic US/Australia joint defense facility in central Australia. Loosely based on a true story, with Pine Gap quite literally a US satellite surveillance base, the series delves into the famously strong alliance between the two countries. The show itself follows the real lives of the analysts at Pine Gap and the crumbling relationship that begins to separate the historically strong alliance.

The Politician

The first political comedy-drama on the list, The Politician follows the story of Payton Hobart, a wealthy Santa Barbara student. Created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan each season of the series revolves around a different political race involving Hobart. Having been born into a rich family, Payton was sure that he was going to be President, but he had to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: high school.

Secret City

Secret City is a political thriller based on the bestselling novels The Marmalade Files, The Mandarin Code, and The Shadow Game by Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis. Set in the “Secret City” that lies beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America. Senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers dangerous deals, interlocked conspiracies, divided loyalties, lies and opportunism that are putting danger in the innocent lives of “Secret City.” Secret City is a bit of an underrated series but is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Borgen

Those who love intriguing Scandinavian shows shouldn’t be missing this multi-award-winning Danish political drama series by Adam Price. This landmark Nordic Noir drama revolves around the shocking turn of events that puts Birgitte Nyborg as the first female Prime Minister of Denmark, and the machinations of those within and outside her circle. Compelling political intrigue combined with unexpected twists and turns, Borgen is sure to keep you more on your couch.

Veep

Created by Armando Iannucci, Veep is HBO’s long-running political satire comedy series that is blended with a worthy yet uneven final stretch of episodes. The hilarious series revolves around the whirlwind day-to-day existence of the US Vice President Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Each episode focuses on her political fires, public juggles, and private demands and defense for the interests of the chief executive, with whom she shares a uniquely dysfunctional relationship.

Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation is a political satire mockumentary series created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. The series started its run as a fairly typical mirror of The Office, but became one of the best sitcoms of all time with the release of its third season. Parks and Recreation tops the list of classic sitcoms with its perfect and equally important cast. The show has has flourished this year for its unique and interesting characters.

The Wire

Created by David Simon, The Wire is a political crime drama series for HBO that revolves around the Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement officers. The series expands its social canvas through each season, with the police department, politicians, school teachers and journalists getting locked in a vicious cycle of high-minded ideals beaten down by harsh realities. It is a great work of art that portrays a deeply pessimistic big picture.

The West Wing

The West Wing is a political drama series created by Aaron Sorkin that revolves around the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House. It is about everything that the current American politics is not. The show centers around President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet, who has the folksiness of Jimmy Carter, the wide grin of Bill Clinton and the politics of an Episcopal priest. The West Wing is a great show to watch when reality’s politics goes awry, as it reminds you of the noble dream of what American politics could be if everyone was a little nicer to each other.

We hope that the political dramas on this list become your favourite! Do you think that this list should have some more titles? Let us know in the comment below?

You’ll also love these true crime documentaries.

#Political dramas #popular politics #Popular TV shows #yodoozy

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ramblingroommate · 10 days

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Watching 9-1-1 for the first time

Ok the canonically bi firefighter got me. I’ve been seeing gifs of “the gay firefighter show” for around two years and I gotta be honest… I never gave it a chance. It was fun seeing people post about the show here and there but I mentally categorized it as “yet another queer coded queerbaiting show tumblr goes crazy for… been there done that”. But making one of the characters from the main ship (from what I understand) CANONICALLY queer after SEVEN SEASONS? A MONTH BEFORE PRIDE? Okay now I just have to watch it.

So here I am. Watching it for the first time and writing about it. This is more exciting than I expected tbh. Oh! Just to make it clear: I have never seen a single episode of this show but I have heard quite a few things about the characters over the years. But I never paid that much attention? So I’m not even sure what I actually know… I’ll figure it out when I get to it I guess.

Episode 1x1: Pilot

I like that straight off the bat the VERY FIRST thing they say is that there are two types of emergencies: the immediate abrupt ones and the long term slowly corroding ones. This character (Abby?) is a 911 operator and has a mother with Alzheimer so she’s pretty familiar with both types of emergencies. What a way to introduce a character! Also I like her voice, it’s soothing.

Here they are! Nice to finally officially meet you guys. Oh, I guess that’s something I know: I know all the characters names even tho I can’t really match most of them with a face. I obviously recognize Buck. And I know Eddie gets introduced in season 2. I’m guessing the older guy that seems to be in charge is Bobby? I think he’s like their boss or something? I hope the bits and pieces of info I know won’t start to mix in my head.

Also those are the worst compressions I have ever seen in my life. Can we put a little more effort in this cpr?

I mean… yeah? Mmmh. Okay that line threw me off for a moment. On one hand, of course they hang up after help gets there, that’s why they called in the first place. THEY are the ones in need, it’s about them not about you.

On the other hand, I think I understand what they’re trying to say… it has to be hard to not know if you actually helped or not, not have that closure. A nurse, a doctor, a firefighter know if the person they were called in to help was actually saved or not. Whether it’s good or bad, at least they get the closure of knowing. A 911 operator might be there for the worst part and then that’s it. On to the next one. Never thought about that before.

Oof that’s not gonna work. I mean I understand why he would say it and i remember an article talking exactly about this but… that’s not something that’s gonna help her in the moment.

… yeah

Tho I gotta say… they actually showed her fall, I didn’t expect it. It shows the kinda budget this show has, doing a stunt like that for a character you see for 3 minutes. Maybe a bit cold on my part to focus on that but oh well

Mmmh… a black book with names written inside. Either this has suddenly become Death Note or he has a Secret Past TM. There are also numbers… probably the number of people he couldn’t save in some tragic accident and somehow feels responsible for? And now he wants to make up for it by saving the same number of people. If that’s the case then it’s peak tv drama.

Ok wait wait slOW DOWN THERE, I CAN’T KEEP UP. Twenty seconds of conversation and I learned Bobby is a devout christian ex addict (alcohol and painkillers) who got in trouble with the department and spent ten years in and out of rehab AND has only been back for 18 months??? I wasn’t expecting to be told so much backstory so soon.

And then they immediately cut to Buck… is he a sex addict? Is that what they’re implying here? Gonna ignore everything else that happens on screen because firehose? Really?

WAIT A FUCKING SECOND

THIS SHOW IS MADE BY RYAN MURPHY?!?!???! AND BRAD FALCHUK TOO, THE TWO GUYS WHO ALSO MADE GLEE?

WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME WHAT THE FUUUUUUU-

Okay so I have much more to say about this show than I thought so I’m gonna split my comments in more parts (part 2 here)

#i have just received psychological damage from this revelation #911 #911 show #911 fox #911 season 1 #911 s1e1 #ro watches 911 #should I tag spoilers for something that came out 6 years ago?

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warblest · 1 year

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rules.

independent, selective kurt hummel from glee ( season 2 ).

my main genres are drama, romance, and horror. i write primarily in novella format. i write both light and dark content, with an emphasis on character exploration and relationship building.

i will only write with those who are 18+. i only write with mutuals. i will not write with duplicates.

i require the usual basic rp etiquette: no godmodding, no pressuring for replies, no character bashing, and so on. i have no tolerance for vague posts or call out posts. if you’re interested in plotting, i can be reached through my inbox. i'm always open to discussing plots, threads, and ships.

SHIPPING AND SMUT

shipping is allowed: m/m and m/f. all types of relationships are allowed, whether light or dark. a relationship can be unrequited, dubiously-consensual, or non-consensual. due to kurt's orientation, m/f ships would be inherently one-sided, and could involve dubious consent and/or orientation play.

smut is allowed: m/m and m/f. smut could involve discomfort, reluctance, and consent issues, considering kurt is sexually repressed and sexually dysfunctional. dubiously-consensual and non-consensual sex is allowed.

TRIGGER WARNINGS

this blog may contain content which can be potentially triggering:

psychological, physical, and/or sexual abuse.

dubiously-consensual and non-consensual sex.

violence, gore, incest, and/or other dark material.

the above content will be tagged.

BANNED FACE CLAIMS

face claims under 18.

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momo. 21+. she/her pronouns.

DISCLAIMER

i do not own glee. i am not ryan murphy, brad falchuk, or ian brennan. i am not chris colfer.

all of the writing on this blog is mine. theme, coding, and icons by butscrewmefirst.

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sarcasmandships · 3 years

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why derek hale deserves better:

derek hale’s character had so much potential to bring attention to male survivors of sexual violence, particularly when perpetrated by an older, attractive female and break away from the ‘oh but she’s hot, you’re so lucky’ (looking at u ryan murphy) trope that is disgustingly common in media but jeff davis is a weak ass bitch and just introduces a character with endless trauma but refuses to recognise or develop it??

he also has endless trauma from his family being hate crime’d to death and his surviving sister being murdered and having her body mutilated but apparently derek is unaffected with this and the only time we see him express a feeling about it is when the plot needs tension between the werewolves and the hunters??

throughout teen wolf we see examples of bodily autonomy and consent being taken away, most notably with stiles and the nogitsune and lydia being controlled by peter - but the same attention never seems to be given to derek who was taken of advantage to by kate (twice!!) so that she could burn his entire family alive and then use him to control her were-jaguar impulses - a series of events which leads to him (temporarily) losing his powers and making him feel overwhelmingly helpless and vulnerable as he becomes more human/loses a key part of his identity

tw: rape mention

not that the weird kate/derek dynamic needs to be pointed out but he was an emotionally vulnerable teenager and she was a grown woman who committed statutory rape (im not sure of derek’s age to say whether it was legally statutory rape but in my brain she took advantage of someone much younger and more naive than her and im going to consider this statutory rape from my own moral standpoint) against him whilst actively hunting people like him

even when derek is an adult the dynamic between them is toxic like when she shoots him with a wolfsbane bullet and that weird scene when she has him locked up and licks his abs? their dynamic always has derek in a vulnerable position regardless of his age, and show kate to have the upper hand, and their scenes (the scene when kate reveals werewolves to allison comes to mind again) always seem to have a degree of sexual coding like was it necessary for derek to be shirtless in that scene? no - and it was probably intended to be from more of a ‘let’s show of tyler hoechlin’s abs’ perspective but (to me personally and likely for others) it doesn’t come across that way it just shows derek again in a vulnerable position, at the hands of a woman who has taken advantage of him in the past and he is being unecessarily sexualised

not sexually motivated but he was also manipulated by his uncle (who at this time he seemed to trust) into a series of events which ended in him having to kill the girl he loves (which in turn leads to being used and manipulated by another woman years later) and the only residual impact this seems to have on him is ‘ooo he has blue eyes’, this undoubtedly puts derek in an emotionally vulnerable position which may have aided in kate being able to manipulate him but we still never see any real impact of this on derek in canon

i know he his portrayed as a private and reserved character but there was so much wasted potential here and the lack of attention given to the trauma in derek’s past really minimises the horror of it and makes it easier for the casual viewer to dismiss the impact that trauma like that would have on a person if they were not a fictional character - he doesn’t even seem to get any attention from the other characters in the show who are made aware of derek’s past including kate, paige, and the fire but it’s like ‘derek will be derek’ rather than ‘wtf this guy needs help and support’, although i would’ve liked a developed plot where derek confronts and overcomes all the shit he’s been put thorough I’d have accepted a crumb of derek getting the emotional support he needs

jennifer (who we know to be a master manipulator) is the second woman who uses sex to manipulate derek as she tries to use him to help her take down the alpha pack and in the process of her plan she nearly kills derek’s sister and derek gives up his alpha powers to save her, once again leaving him less powerful than he was before and leaving him vulnerable

isaac makes a comment about how derek was ‘rolling around the sheets with the real killer’ as though derek was supposed to know that jennifer was the darach when no one else had figured it out/even suspected her - jennifer kills stiles’ friend and nearly kills lydia, but she doesn’t have as much impact on any other main character as she does on derek - we don’t know too much about the nature of their relationship but derek does go to her after he is injured episode 3x05/3x06(?) and he does have some feelings for her and wants to protect her - at the very least they have an emotional connection and jennifer uses sex and intimacy to manipulate derek like a pawn in her overall plan

continuing with the themes of bodily autonomy and consent derek’s body is repeated used against his will - like in season 2 when scott forces derek to bite gerard (although this was part of a larger plan this doesn’t take away from the fact that derek’s autonomy was stripped away again) and in season 3 when derek’s claws are used to kill boyd- not only painful for him because he is taking the life of a friend and a member of his own pack but also because of derek’s ‘im a predator but i don’t have to be a killer’ line which shows us that CHOICE is important to him and he wants to have control over the actions and path he takes (which is probably fair to say for most people but is specifially an important part of derek’s character)

overall, derek is repeatedly manipulated by people he is supposed to trust and care for - he has a whole lot of trauma for his teen years which could have been so well addressed in the show and brought awareness to male sexual violence (already unrepresented) and teen wolf could’ve really stood out against other teen dramas but jeff davis and the writers weren’t willing to go in that direction (but they still gave us the train wreck of season 4??) and instead derek’s character is left as this stoic, eye candy guy with so much wasted potential

rant over x

(soz for any spelling mistakes/bad grammar but it’s half one in the morning here n i had a lot of thoughts to get out before i went to sleep)

#Derek Hale deserved better #this was LONG so shoutout to u if u read all of my rant x #teen wolf #Jeff Davis #stiles Stilinski #Derek Hale #kate argent #lydia martin #scott mcall #derek hale deserves nice things #sarcasmandships #tw: rape mention

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suometar · 3 years

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FINNEY13S RECOMMENDS: FILMS

I was asked about my favourite film genre a while back. As I came up with great films I decided to make a separate post about them. These aren't definitely ALL the great films I've seen. I just can't remember all of them! So maybe I'll update this post whenever I do :D

My personal Top 21 films are in red. Because I just CAN'T choose any less :D

SCIFI

Gattaga (Ethan Hawke, Jude Law) - Equillibrium (Christian Bale) - The Adjustement Bureau (Matt Damon) - Upgrade - Oxygen - Archive - Self/less (Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley) - eXistenZ (Jude Law) - Repo Men (Jude Law) - The Signal - 12 Monkeys (Brad Pitt) - Prospect (Pedro Pascal) - Star Wars (3 first ones) - Star Trek: the motion picture (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy) - Downsizing (Matt Damon) - The Martian (Matt Damon) - Dune (Kyle MacClachlan) - District 9 (Sharlto Copley) - Sunshine (Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans) - Primer - Moon - Snowpiercer (Chris Evans, Tilda Swindon) - Edge of Tomorrow (Tom Cruise) - Vice (Bruce Willis, Thomas Jane) - Looper (Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - Inception (Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy) - Coherence - THX 1138 - The 5th Element (Bruce Willis) - Fahrenheit 451 (1966) - Source Code (Jake Gyllenhaal) - The Abyss (Ed Harris) - Arrival (Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams) - Ex Machina (Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander) - Brazil - Clockwork Orange - 2001: A space Odyssey

SCIFI/ODD

Repo Man (Emilio Estevez) - Predestination (Ethan Hawke) - Dark City (Kiefer Sutherland) - Under the Skin (Scarlett Johansson) - Open your Eyes (Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz)

SCIFI/FANTASY

Coma (a Russian film) - Upside Down (Kirsten Dunst)

SCIFI/ACTION

The Matrix (Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne) - Terminator & Terminator 2 (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton) - Predator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - Predator 2 (Danny Glover) - Boss Level (Mel Gibson, Frank Grillo) - Elysium (Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley) - Hardcore Henry (Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth) - Totall Recall (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

SCIFI/HORROR

Alien & Aliens (Sigorney Weaver) - Prometheus (Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender) - The Signs (Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix. NOTE: pay attention to music ;) ) - Life (Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal) - The Thing (1982 version) - The Fly (Jeff Goldblum)

SCIFI/COMEDY

Idiocrazy - Galaxy Quest (Tim Allen, Sigourey Weaver, Alan Rickman)

ACTION

Lethal Weapon (Mel Gibson) - Kick-ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicholas Cage) - Stretch (Chris Pine, Jessica Alba) - Fight Club (Brad Pitt, Edward Norton) - Unbreakable trilogy (Unbreakable, Split, Mr. Glass. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy) - The Bourne trilogy (Matt Damon/Jeremy Renner) - Mission: Impossible (1st one from 1996) - Die Hard (Bruce Willis) - Lucky Number Slevin (Bruce Willis) - Red (Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren) - All Bonds with Sean Connery and Roger Moore - Smoking Aces (Ryan Reynolds, Chris Pine)

COMICBOOK FILMS

The Dark Knight (Christian Bale, Heath Ledger) - Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) - The Crow (Brandon Lee) - Blade (1998 version) - Iron Man (Robert Downey Junior)

HORROR

The Shining (Jack Nicholson) - Saw (the first one) - Interview with the Vampire (Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt) - Bram Stoker's Dracula (Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves) - The Martyrs (watch IF and only IF you want to lose your sanity. My hubs is the sanest person I've ever met and even he was disturbed) - The Machinist (Christian Bale) - Cube

HORROR/COMEDY

Shawn of the Dead

JUST PLAIN ODD FILMS THAT CAN'T BE PUT INTO A BOX (Almost guaranteed to make your head spin)

The Fountain (Hugh Jackman) - High-Rise (Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans) - Black Swan (Natalie Portman) - Pi - Blue Velvet (Kyle MacLachlan) - The Congress - Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) - Requiem for a dream (Jared Leto) - Mother! (Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence)

DRAMA

Leon (Natalie Portman, Jean Reno) - Titanic (Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet) - Gambler (Mark Wahlberg) - Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon) - The Wrestler (Mickey Rourke) - 1492: Conquest of Paradise (Gerard Depardieu, Sigorney Weaver) - Only Lovers Left Alive (Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton) - The Invitation (Michael Huisman) - Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet) - What's eating Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio. Later makes the best performance of his life in this – THIS is the film he truly deserved and Oscar from) - Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves) - The Sixth Sense (Bruce WIllis)

COMEDY

Some like it hot (Marilyn Monroe) - Burn after reading (Brad Pitt) - Dogma (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck) - Wayne's World (Mike Myers)

OTHER

Moulin Rouge (Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman)

#finney13s recommends #films #my favourite films #not all of these are on top10 obvs but all are worth the watch #imo #Film rec

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smokeybrandreviews · 4 years

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Malpractice

I wanted to write a proper review of Ratched on Netflix. I powered through those first eight episodes and had opinions. My notes were as plentiful as the plots holes and abandoned narrative threads in the show, itself. I wanted to give an honest opinion on what i saw but, as i began to type out my impressions, realized how conflicted i am about this show. I enjoyed what i watched but it wasn’t good. I loved the narrative we were given but this doesn’t like up with what we know about the could One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest built in both book and film form. I love how this thing is shot, the use of color and atmosphere to distinguish but it’s in stark contrast to the bleak, plain, feel of the original story. I loved watching this show but i hated every bit of the content. How was this possible? Why did this show resonate and alienate at the same time?

I actually had to stop writing my review and think about this contradiction. I don’t speak much about this aspect of my life, but i am a voracious reader. I love stories. I love literature. I’ve digested all of the classic, some more than once. I’ve read Clockwork and Lolita as well all the requisite Shakespeare and Marlowe. I’ve consumed Orwell, Austen, Tennyson, Hemingway, Capote, and Twain. I adore Wells, Plato and Dante while respecting the craft of Rowling, even if i don’t particularly like or agree with her politics. My tastes run the gambit which allows me to recognize great storytelling in other media. That’s probably why i enjoy RPGs and cinema so much. Some of my favorite books are The Illiad, War of the Worlds, The Count of Mote Cristo, Dante’s Inferno, The DaVinci Code, and, more to the point, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I love that book and have read it several times. It’s an absolute classic. It’s film adaption is one of the best I've ever seen and it’s in that understanding that i realized why i hate Ratched so much. This ain’t her. This ain’t the same character or story or world. This show is something wholly different, masquerading as something that i know and love.

Ratched is a derivative Bates Motel clone, dressed up in Ryan Murphy’s familiar aesthetic, slathered in a superficial coat of Cuckoo paint. There is a distinct Hitchcockian influence that runs through this entire production, but one that clumsily steals not reverently homages. Calling Ratched, American Horror Story: Poor Man’s Hitchock, is not far from the truth. That's both good and bad. Independently, this is a dope show. The characters are compelling. There’s enough melodrama to keep you interested. Certain levels of intrigue beguile the audience into returning episode after episode. And I'd definitely be lying if i said this show wasn’t some of the most gorgeous production i have ever seen. Ratched is f*cking gorgeous. But, just like Murphy’s flagship AHS, there is no substance under all of that shine. I’ve heard a lot of reviewers comment about how, as a period piece, it should be more faithful to the racial tension of the era but that stuff doesn’t bother me as much. If this was some sort of re-enactment, like an autobiography, I'd expect that level of realism. But this sh*t is a fever dream recalled through a Mildred Ratched filter so you have to take that sh*t with a grain of salt. It’s unfortunate that the entire show was produced with a whole lot of salt. I enjoyed what i watched, divorced from what it’s pretending to be.

If Ratched was it’s own weird, period, macabre, bloodbath, then sure, I can see this narrative working on it’s own. It would definitely work better as part of an established franchise like AHS. That’s what this show is. As a Cuckoo's Nest prequel, it's f*cking awful. I love Sarah Paulson. She's f*cking exceptional at her craft and doesn't disappoint here. Her Ratched, however, is not the same woman from the film and definitely not the character from the book. I stated before that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of my favorites. Nurse Ratched is my favorite character in that story, after Chief. I know more about her, who she is, how she feels, than i do McMurphy, and it’s his f*cking story to tell. The character presented in this show is not the character presented in the original narrative. I understand that Ratched takes place several years before we meet her in Cuckoo but there is such a stark discrepancy between the two characters that they simply cannot be the same woman. I cannot see Paulson’s Ratched growing into the book’s Ratched. This Ratched is is completely different in both demeanor and presentation. They are near opposites. There is just way too much thematic dissonance to bridge these two characters organically and no amount of scripted episodes will ever be able to broach that gap. This show missed the entire point of who Ratched is supposed to be. This is the origin story of a serial killer, not a dictator. This Ratched could become the Hannibal Lecter, not Joseph Stalin.

This ain't Nurse Ratched but it's still a pretty dope character to see and Paulson plays her mad sinister. The world around Paulson’s impostor is rich with conflict, drama, and tension. It fails as a period narrative in so many ways but, using that era as more of a loose framing for a cast that is way more diverse than it would have any right to be if this was true to the time, works. There are great costumes an sets that ring true to the look of that time. Even if it's just an artificial facade, all of it is incredibly easy on the eyes. This show carries some pretty strong characters outside of Paulson’s impostor, all performed just as great, all worth experiencing. I can’t say that i was completely gripped by the plot but i wasn’t overly hateful of it either. I mean, i was at first, but the second i stopped thinking of this thing as a Cuckoo prequel and more of an AHS loosely based on the book, i was okay with it. Ratched is an easy, gorgeous, watch filled with enough character shenanigan to keep you engaged as long as you can disconnect from the source material and accept that Ryan Murphy is TV’s Zack Snyder. I wasn't impressed with the first season but I liked it enough that I won't fight about it getting a second.

#Ratched #Netflix #American Horror Story #One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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darrencrissarmy · 4 years

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Writer, producer and director Ryan Murphy has been making his mark on TV for decades, turning his queer lens on every genre imaginable: medical shows, horror anthologies, musicals, and political dramas. Now, he's tackling the greatest cinematic behemoth of them all: Hollywood.

After the success of his FX series Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story, and American Crime Story, as well as the success of his FOX musical drama Glee, Murphy began producing straight-to-streaming content for Netflix with 2019's The Politician. Now, he's teaming up with Netflix on a new project entitled Hollywood. Here is everything known so far about this forthcoming series.

10 Darren Criss Will Star And Serve As Executive Producer

Darren Criss won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of serial killer Andrew Cunanan in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace. The talented young actor is also known for his performances in Glee and in various Broadway performances, as well as for his musical talents.

Criss announced via Instagram that he will be cast in and producing Hollywood. All that is known so far is that his character's name is Raymond.

9 The Series Will Be Set In The 1940s

The 1940s were an interesting decade for Americans. They spent the first part of the decade at war, and then the second part of the decade reeling from that war. While World War II provided an economic boom, the death and destruction perpetrated by it in both the Pacific and in Europe left many people feeling dismayed.

While Hollywood spent the first part of the 20th century evolving into an innovative cinematic hub, things began to change in the 1940s.

8 The Show Focuses On The Golden Age Of Hollywood

The 1940s signaled the decline of the Golden Age of Hollywood, where the possibilities for cinema seemed endless. Due to World War II and then the Hays Code, which sought to censor lascivious content, Hollywood's creative abundance began to dwindle by the end of the decade.

It's uncertain how the show will incorporate this history into its narrative, but it's bound to include a lot of glitz and glamor and, maybe, some struggles.

7 The Normal Heart Cast Members Jim Parsons And Joe Mantello Are Participating

Jim Parsons is best known for playing the theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper in the long-running CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, while Joe Mantello is a seasoned Broadway and stage actor who has worked on productions of Wicked, Take Me Out, and Angels in America.

Ryan Murphy adopted the play The Normal Heart, which focuses on the NYC AIDS epidemic during the early 1980s, to film for HBO in 2015. Both Parsons and Mantello acted in the film, and they will work with Murphy in Hollywood. Parsons will play a man named Henry Wilson, and Mantello will play a man named Dick.

6 It Covers Multiple Narratives, Like American Horror Story

It's been revealed that Hollywood will cover multiple narratives and intertwining story arcs, a dramatic technique already on full display in Murphy's well-known horror anthology series American Horror Story.

Even though the details of Hollywood's plot have been kept from the public, Murphy has called it a "love letter to Tinseltown." The cast, much like the cast of American Horror Story, will be composed of mostly young and attractive actors whose characters are hoping to make it big in the motion picture mecca.

5 Tony-Nominated Actor Jeremy Pope Is Involved

Jeremy Pope made his Broadway debut just two years ago in 2018, starring in a production of Choir Boy and then in the musical about The Temptations, Ain't Too Proud. Although he didn't win, Pope received two Tony nominations in 2019, one for each performance.

All that is known about Pope's role in Hollywood is that he will play a man named Archie. This will be Pope's television debut, and it's bound to be an exciting one.

4 It Will Debut On Netflix In May 2020

Fans won't have to wait too long for Hollywood. An exact date has not been released, but it's slated to drop on Netflix sometime during May 2020. Like Murphy's other ventures, it will be a star-studded affair, featuring actors like Dylan McDermott, Laura Harrier, Maude Apatow, Jake Picking, and Holland Taylor.

Taylor is the partner of Sarah Paulson, who has appeared in every season of American Horror Story. She also won an Emmy for her performance in the Murphy-produced American Crime Story: The Trial of OJ Simpson. She is not slated to star in Hollywood.

3 The Tone Will Be Exciting And Optimistic, Like Glee

While some of Murphy's works can be dark and gory, Hollywood's tone will be uplifting and fun, much like Glee. Actor David Corenswet describes it as "sexy and optimistic. It's really about young people and the excitement of young people seeking opportunity."

No information has been released yet as to whether or not the show will have a musical component, but considering the cast, it may be hard for some of them to not break out into song.

2 The Legendary Patti LuPone Has Been Cast In It

Patti LuPone is a Broadway legend. Anyone who has seen the Will & Grace episode where Jack meets her by chance will also know she's an icon for gay men all over America.

She will play a woman named Avis in Hollywood, but that is all that is known about her role so far. LuPone has won Tonys and Grammys for her contributions to stage musicals, and she is famous for her take on Evita Peron in the Broadway play Evita.

1 The Politician's David Corenswet Will Also Star And Executive Produce

Corenswet is a relatively unknown actor who landed his first leading role in Murphy's 2019 Netflix series The Politician, set to return at some point for a second season.

This exceedingly handsome young man, who plays the sexually fluid and sensitive River Barkley, will play a man named Jack. Corenswet, despite his lack of experience, was promoted to executive producer for Hollywood by Murphy, who hopes to give the new star insight into how making television shows works.

#darren criss #ryan murphy #hollywood netflix #patti lupone #david corenswet #jeremy pope #jim parsons #joe mantello

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Do the wlw end up together : YES!

I don’t review every book that ends up on this site, so here is a big long list of books where the characters do in fact end up in a relationship (that’s not to say that the book is without drama or violence, simply that the characters’ relationship withstands it).

Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (YA)

Soft on Soft by Em Ali

Jam Jars by Yonnette Anderson (tw: H)

The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett (tw: R, SV)

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (YA)

The Prince and Her Dreamer by Kayla Bashe

Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista (tw: H)

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (YA) (tw: R, SV)

The Normal State of Mind by Susmita Bhattacharya (tw: H)

Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (MG)

A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (tw: H, R)

Dare Truth or Promise by Paula Boock (YA) (tw: H)

Clean Slate by Andrea Bramhall (tw: H)

Waiting in the Wings by Melissa Brayden

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown (YA)

Far From Home by Lorelie Brown

Double Exposure by Chelsea M. Cameron

Marriage of Unconvenience by Chelsea M. Cameron

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron (YA)

Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta

Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (YA)

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (YA)

Dreadnought and Sovereign by April Daniels (YA) (tw: T)

The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (tw: SV)

The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer

Landing by Emma Donoghue

The Dirt Chronicles by Kristyn Dunnion (tw: H, R, SV)

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (YA)

Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (YA) (tw: H)

Moonstruck by Grace Ellis (graphic novel, MG)

Unicorn Tracks by Julia Ember (YA)

Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge

Motor Crush by Brendan Fletcher (comic)

Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin (YA) (tw: H)

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin (graphic novel)

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (YA) (tw: H)

Good Moon Rising by Nancy Garden (YA) (tw: H)

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard (YA)

Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman

Being Emily by Rachel Gold (tw: T)

Love & Other Carnivorous Plants by Florence Gonsalves

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Challah and Callaloo by La Toya Hankins

Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann (YA)

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (tw: H)

The Weaver by Emmi Itäranta

Paper Love by Jae

Robins in the Night by Dajo Jago (tw: T)

Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha (YA)

The Afterward by E.K. Johnston (YA)

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston (YA)

The Dime by Kathleen Kent (tw: H, R, SV, T)

Run by Kody Keplinger (YA)

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan (tw: H, R, SV)

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (YA)

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

The Paths of Marriage by Mala Kumar (tw: H)

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour (YA)

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (YA)

Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo (YA)

Ash by Malinda Lo (YA)

Huntress by Malinda Lo (YA)

Ship It by Britta Lundin (YA)

37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon (YA)

Dating Sarah Cooper by Siera Maley (YA)

The Ada Decades by Paula Martinac

In the Silence by Jaimie Leigh McGovern

Heart of Brass by Morven Moeller

Sappho’s Bar and Grill by Bonnie J. Morris

Falling Into Place by Sheryn Munir

Gretel: A Fairytale Retold by Niamh Murphy

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (tw: SV)

Roller Girl by Vanessa North

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (tw: H)

Idaho Code by Joan Opyr

The Year of the Knife by G.D. Penman

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy (MG)

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult (tw: H)

Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen (YA) (tw: H)

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield (YA) (tw: SV)

Final Draft by Riley Redgate (YA)

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan (YA)

I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif (tw: H)

The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif (tw: R)

She Is Me by Cathleen Schine

Tell it to the Bees by Fiona Shaw (tw: H)

Everfair by Nisi Shawl (tw: R)

Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley (tw: H, R, SV)

The Abyss Surrounds Us and The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie (YA)

The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

Edge of Glory by Rachel Spangler (tw: H)

Thaw by Elyse Springer

The Princess Deception by Nell Stark

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (YA) (tw: R)

Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (YA) (tw: H)

Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin (comic, YA)

Beauty and the Boss by Ali Vali

The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi (H, SV)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (tw: H, R, SV)

24/7 by Yolanda Wallace

Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace

Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward (YA)

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (tw: H)

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (tw: H)

Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (YA)

Trigger warning key:

H - homophobia

R - racism

SV - sexual violence

T - transphobia

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so i’ve sat on last night’s episode overnight, gone through the lone star tag and i guess i just want to take a moment to work through my thoughts on the show? and it’s under a cut bc i rambled for forever

off the bat i don’t think that i would go so far as to be in the camp that the spinoff takes things that people have established in fanon to make canon here. i don’t think ryan murphy was out here trying to remake the bobby/buck dynamic with tk/owen or remake buddie with tarlos.

that said, if you want to go down that road who am i to stop you.

continuing on with things that i do like, i like most of the crew? do i know their names? not without a wikipedia search, but that’s fine. i’ll get there. paul and marjan have me the most excited. i like mateo [ shoutout to julian who already appeared on a couple episodes of 911 + was in titans ], that said i’m still confused about the whole let’s hire a man who didn’t pass the academy four separate times. i also think that there show had coded him to be some kind of neurodivergent, maybe that’s just me reading into stereotypes, in which case, y’know my bad. but i felt that’s what we were playing with.

if nothing else i could continue watching just for liv tyler’s character. i don’t think i’m invested in her sister being missing and the man she thinks killed her not being brought to justice, but i thought she was easily the most interesting character and her scenes really stole me. the tag doesn’t seem to like the work she was doing, but oh well.

by now i think it’s pretty clear the things i don’t like or am really just in different about.

i could not care less about tk. it rubs me the wrong way that we met this character the way we did. i still feel like there aren’t a lot of dark skinned queer men in most media, having one fuck over the white protagonist and not be given any kind of story outside of being a cheater just doesn’t do it for me. i also actively do not care about well off white gay drug addicts. i’m sorry, but also not. like that’s just who i am. so when we met tk overdosed i just didn’t care?

owen? his dad, whatever his name is. don’t really care about him either. obviously your medical history is your medical history and you should disclose that to whoever you feel comfortable doing that. i just don’t like miscommunication that is done solely for the drama. it’s one thing in a show where the focal point is a romance, the stakes can be but so high. but here it just didn’t work for me. it also just feels like an easy out for rob lowe bc he can die whenever and it’s because he has cancer so. there’s maybe a ticking clock? there was also just something about the way his diagnosis was weaponized against judd that rubbed me the wrong way. i know it was the pilot, but i also just really don’t fuck with narratives surrounding how well off white parents continue to allow their children to abuse drugs without any kind of meaningful intervention even though they clearly have the means to do more than force them to live in the same house.

really i think that judd was the worst thing about this show.

several other people in the tag seem to really be here for his interracial marriage to sierra’s character. i think her name is grace. and i’m just patently against it. i think that grace certainly deserves better. or if they wanted to have a black woman married to a white man it shouldn’t have been judd.

the man is introduced in either the most stereotypical way possible, complaining about how the team is no longer just a bunch of white people. and then at the end of the episode rob just gives him a job even though he’s done nothing to suggest that judd could actually work with these people. plenty of racist white men spend their time fucking black people. putting your dick in a black person doesn’t absolve you of your racism.

but it’s also so strange to see owen give in so easily to judd after seeing him cry. especially when it’s clear that judd is still traumatized and hasn’t been getting help. i know you can live in a nice house and have nice clothes and i have no idea what kind of benefits firefighters have in terms of being able to see a therapist, but i think that the show makes it clear that the financial reality of seeing a therapist wasn’t really what was stopping judd from actually getting help. and now he’s out there in the world with a crew of people from the begining of the episode we saw he doesn’t really respect and is not in the headspace needed to do his job., massive liability.

it’s also again, just the laziest kind of tension you can have in a show set in the south. which i think is why the end of the pilot was the way that it was. i dunno. i don’t like him. i would have rather watched sierra grieving the loss of her husband than his dumb ass.

after that, i don’t really care about tarlos rn. i reserve the right to change my mind bc i think carlos was one of the characters that got the short end of the stick in the pilot. but i don’t feel any strong opinions. but i also wasn’t one of the people out here thirsting over them for the past year while they were used to really promo this spinoff

#monte does life #911 lone star

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what's cordelia's thoughts on those currently living or appearing regularly at robichaux's?

okay let’s see, first off there’s asa! cordelia is generally very chill with asa because asa is generally a very chill witch. the concept of like... male witches who aren’t pieces of shit isn’t really new to her despite her dealings with the mra warlocks because coven had already preestablished that like. normal male witches existed. which i guess ryan murphy either forgot about or decided to ignore for the drama, but either way,

anyway yeah she’s not really concerned about asa’s gender, just if anything, the fact that he had some previous exposure to the shitty warlocks. which they’ve discussed before and she’s very glad asa didn’t come out too damaged for it, but yeah! she really likes him and his enthusiasm for magic and wants to help him feel more at home in the coven because in her opinion he’s earned it. he’s a pretty trustworthy, good, stable kid

myrtle, of course, cordelia knew well beforehand! myrtle is essentially delia’s mother figure because her actual mother was. not very present and pretty shitty, but cordelia and myrtle have always been really close. delia absolutely trusts myrtle’s judgment and she’s like, the one person in the world that delia frequently goes to for advice and guidance and reassurance and just generally... lets herself display a lot of vulnerability in front of. sarah paulson once referred to myrtle as cordelia’s “true north” which is both very sweet and very true.

it’s honestly... an immense relief to have her on denny because cordelia is kind of dealing with. a lot and myrtle makes her feel like she’s not quite so weighed down and also that she has someone to turn to if she ever starts to doubt herself. cordelia would Die for myrtle. in some cases literally!,

harry is a newer student who cordelia is still getting to know but i like, honestly can’t see her not liking him IMMEDIATELY. harry is just such an earnest, courageous, good-intentioned kid and honestly the kind of person cordelia would sense a lot of inner strength in. she might... worry a little bit about him, especially once she starts to hear about some of the stuff he’s been through, but i think that would just make her more determined to provide some stability for him and like. a place alternate to hogwarts where he can study and advance his magic and feel like he has a home and just be happy!

she’s also really curious about his magic and interested to learn more about it and compare it to the magic of people from her world? and see how compatible it might be? like, could harry take part in some of the rituals/spells the coven does?? either way he definitely has an honorary place with them at the academy

and then for people who visit the school either regularly or semi-regularly... first it feels appropriate to mention takumi! obviously they got off to a shaky start but like... having come to understand the situation better, cordelia doesn’t hold it against him, especially since she has a lot of indication that takumi is a pretty decent person at this point. meeting kazane obviously informed a lot of her insight regarding him as we’ve already discussed, but also just... his clear attachment to his family?? or the way he reacted to the pennywise situation by immediately coming to warn her and also expressing concern for like, innocent bystanders and how to help them?? yeah, despite takumi’s wariness and his sharp edges and loner tendencies, delia is pretty confident in her opinion that he’s a decent person inclined to do the right thing tbh. and as she starts to trust him more she’s... fine with just taking their dynamic at whatever pace he wants and letting him ease into being a little more open around her, that doesn’t really bother her

eddie also stops by at least semi-regularly for reporter stuff/whatever weird friendship he and delia are developing. josh joked last night that cordelia thinks he’s a loser which may technically be TRUE,

but in all seriousness i think she at the same time has genuine respect for eddie’s capabilities as a reporter (who are people she is not always inclined to trust right away) and his stance as... a vigilante. granted the whole “eating people” thing makes her a little wary but, honestly cordelia is not super beyond dealing with Really Bad People however you have to deal with them, and she trusts eddie not to violate the code he shares with the symbiote even if... the symbiote itself is still something she’s getting a read on. they’re still kind of sizing each other up, but it’s at least getting to a place of... idk what you’d call it. mutual acknowledgment or respect?? that will eventually play a part when eddie and venom get separated...

and also lastly i think cordelia really just, enjoys eddie’s company for the simple reason that he has a way of getting her to kind of lighten up and be more playful, and she kinda has fun hangin around him

madison... still only drops by occasionally i think, but cordelia has tried to make a point of letting her know that the academy’s doors are always open to her if she needs anything or just... decides that she wants to be there. the whole situation is really weird and complicated because madison is from a much earlier canonpoint than delia. so delia... has a certain amount of faith in madison, and affection for her that she can’t really go into without revealing some messy stuff about the future, while madison is kind of stuck at this really, really low point in her character arc and is kind of an isolated disaster who doesn’t want to deal with any of the heavy shit in her life. whoops!

cordelia... genuinely does want to help her, though -- not only that, but she feels like she owes that to madison at this point (none of this ryan murphy “oh let’s leave madison in hell for a little while!” as a punchline bullshit,) so we’ll see how that plays out

and then lastly the legends pop in and out occasionally. or well -- delia hasn’t met naruto or ratchet yet, so idk about them, but she’s on friendly terms with maive and kind of sara and is actually sort of friends with laurel at this point. i feel like cordelia likes... well, she definitely likes some of the legends individually, like she finds maive really endearing and sara... a bit strange maybe but pretty chill, and laurel she actually respects a lot for helping her after michael attacked her and being so overall decent about that. the legends as a group, or like a concept.... she still likes, but kind of in the way you have to like something in moderation, or at a bit of a distance. they’re a little nuts and high energy for her,

#idk if im forgetting anyone???#is nico still at the academy??#idk if jay decided he was apping him #but anyway THANKS GIZ #cuts dennys lvad wire #tailsthesales

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dianna agron, cis female ( she/her ), lesbian. did you hear ? QUINN FABRAY, a ( canon ) character in ( GLEE ), went deviant SIX MONTHS ago ! now they’re a 19 y/o student. people either think they’re [ INTELLIGENT & CHARISMATIC ] or [ MANIPULATIVE & INSECURE ] but associate them w/ cross necklaces, cold glares, floral skirts, the ashamed shift of green eyes, a stack of books, signed documents, too many yellow cardigans & pompoms either way. they DO remember going to yale ( pace, she/her, gmt. )

and saving the character i’ve played the longest until last, here’s quinn ! usually i wouldn’t admit that i got into rping via glee rps, but since it’s pretty relevant, there’s that little nugget of information ! quinn was my main girl for such a long time, and i’ve been playing her for about,,, seven years now ? give or take ? so naturally i couldn’t leave her out, so here’s my girl !

CANON FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW:

tbh i assume everyone on this hellsite has the misfortune of being familiar with glee ? guy in a sweater vest has too much of an emotional attachment to the misfit bunch of teens-played-by-twenty-five-year-olds in his glee club ? showtunes, journey, offensive ‘representation’, and both quinn fabray and dianna agron being used as a chew toy for six seasons straight ?

quinn’s a complicated girl with a Yikes history and canon life but tldr: she spent her middle school days being ridiculed and made fun of, which lead to her being miserable and painfully insecure. after reinventing herself, she transferred to a new school and quickly and firmly found her place at the top of the social ladder and did everything she could to keep herself there, hurting people in the process as it meant they’d be less likely to hurt hurt her in return. her life was seemingly perfect, until she got pregnant at sixteen, and her life essentially fell apart from there. she got kicked out of her home, lost her social status, and learned the value of real friendship within the glee club. after giving the baby up to give her a good life, quinn tried to get on with her own, but her struggles continued. postpartum depression is a bitch, and life is still Hard, and she was still ryan murphy’s chew toy, so y’know, punk phase, car crash, more cheating, more drama, a bit of hell here, a bit of hell there, you know the drill.

because of how much glee’s writing pisses me off, quinn’s canon up to just after the end of season three. she went off to yale ( that was supposed to be here happy ending, y’all,,, she was supposed to be able to start fresh,,, and yet....... ) and tried to start new, but everything was familiar and like she knew where it was going and thus,,,

FUNKY RP STUFF:

she figured it out. quinn’s a smart girl, despite her questionable life choices, and eventually cracked the code just as everybody else did. she ended up in blue creek with the vast majority of her memories still in tact. the missing ones are piecing together slowly, and it’s more,,, when people ask questions, she suddenly realises that she doesn’t know the answer ? it’s more that than anything else, but once she does realise, it bothers her endlessly

since Breaking Free, she got herself into college just as something to keep her grounded, and because it still felt like the right path. i’m gonna say she lives on campus just to make life easier since GIRL HAS NO MONEY AND COULDN’T AFFORD A PLACE TBH

she’s also putting the gay in quinn fabgay. honestly,,,, watch glee and tell me that quinn isn’t an entire lesbian. like,,,, that’s a lesbian. watch her have a crisis if/when she comes to realise that, lmao, but yep ! her jumping from man to man is equal parts heteronormativity, knowing that marrying a nice man to please her christian parents is what was supposed to be done, insecurity, liking feeling wanted/desired, and naivety.

she can be your sweetest dream or your biggest nightmare, it all depends on how the relationship came to be, and what her intentions and motivations are. she can be kind and warm, or she can be cruel and calculating. underneath it all is just a sack load of insecurity and the deep need to be loved, wanted, and to have a purpose. she’s a ball of identity issues, poor mental health, charm, peroxide, and a questionable collection of shoes. and i love her with my whole heart.

aaaaand, that’s quinn ! like the others, i’m probably missing vital information but it’s nearly midnight and these took way longer than i hoped/thought they would. but here’s her pinterest board,,,, and i just realised i didn’t link the others’ on their intros so here’s jenna’s, claire’s, and emma’s. whoopsie !!!!

#dev:intro #﹡ﾟ· ˚ ★ ᴀ ʙᴀᴅ ʀᴇᴘᴜᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɪs ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀɴ ɴᴏ ʀᴇᴘᴜᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴀᴛ ᴀʟʟ ﹙about quinn.﹚#pregnancy tw #car crash tw #mental illness tw

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The True Lesson of This Year’s Oscars Diversity: Equality Requires Focused, Intentional Effort

I don’t know movies as well as I know TV, so I’m probably being a bit naïve about this.

But I’ve been asked a lot over the past few days to talk about the increased diversity of Oscar nominees. And I think, more than anything, it reveals a simple truth that Hollywood’s film industry has managed to weasel its way out of until this cultural moment.

Success in diversity requires focused, intentional effort. Period.

Of course, as an editor of mine likes to say, correlation does not prove causation. So we can’t directly prove that all the crap the Oscar academy has taken for two years over the lack of diversity in its acting nominees actually pushed them into changing how they evaluated films and performances for nominations.

Perhaps the field which this year gave us Hidden Figures, Fences, Loving, Lion and Moonlight was better for showcasing people of color than the year we had Beasts of No Nation, Creed, Straight Outta Compton, Sicario and Samuel L. Jackson’s bravura turn in The Hateful Eight. Let the film geeks battle to the death on that one.

Still, for those of us who argued part of the problem was that worthy performers and films were simply overlooked, it was heartening to see the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences not only invite an additional 683 people to the organization last year, but publicize who those people are, so we could see the gender, racial and age diversity for ourselves. (It’s a peculiar kind of Hollywood-level irony to see Idris Elba invited to vote on the Oscars right after getting snubbed for a nomination for Beasts of No Nation, but whatever).

Is it a coincidence that right after that change, we saw the most nominations for black actors ever and a record 7 acting nominations for non-white actors? After two successive years with NO non-white acting nominees? Even for the correlation-isn’t-causation crowd, that seems a stretch.

Octavia Spencer, center, in Hidden Figures.

To me, Hidden Figures feels like the kind of black-centered, civil rights-era movie the Oscars once tipped a hat to but mostly overlooked (see, snubs for Lee Daniels’ The Butler and acting/directing snubs for Ava DuVernay’s Selma). To see it get three major nods as Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay feels like a certain sort of victory.

This is something Hollywood learned the hard way on the TV side awhile ago, though the lesson still needs refreshing time and again.

Only old heads might remember this, but back in 1999, the Big Four TV networks – ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox – advanced a slate of 26 new shows in which not a single non-white person was cast as a significant character for ANY show. We’re not talking starring roles; just regular castmembers. None.

The NAACP threatened a lawsuit, which produced loads of headlines and concern about FCC licenses and then we got vice presidents of diversity at the big broadcast networks. And then some networks, like Fox, made their diversity goals more specific and explicit. And now we have a TV landscape where Black-ish and Fresh Off Boat co-exists alongside a Latino-centered version of One Day at a Time, an edition of 24 starring a black male, TWO network TV dramas starring black women for the first time in history (ABC’s Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder) and fresh, new black-centered shows like FX’s Atlanta and HBO’s Insecure.

We even have a black Bachelorette. Finally.

In TV, we’re now seeing the same push for increased diversity applied to women, especially behind the camera. Both the cable channel FX and producer/director/showrunner Ryan Murphy have pushed to get about half of their directing jobs filled by women – and both Murphy and FX president John Landgraf have told me it wasn’t particularly hard to make it happen, once they made their goals clear inside and outside the company.

None of this means diversity problems in showbiz are solved. Too often, the word diversity is seen as code for “black,” which needs to stop. Hispanics remain the most underrepresented non-white group in television or film. Women still struggle with unfathomable inequities. All that has to stop. And more.

But this year’s Oscars may be an important lesson for a Hollywood system which has always been squeamish about conducting itself the way other businesses do in America – namely, looking at its diversity levels and then aggressively recruiting top people until quality hires who broaden their mix of employees are on staff.

Specific effort, applied fairly and sensibly, produces great results. And now that you know this, Hollywood, it’s time to really step up the effort.

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Best Online TV Series On Netflix of March 2020

Best Online TV Series On Netflix Of March 2020

Several hundred authentic collections, totaling over 1000 hours — and that's just those it makes every year. Netflix is a behemoth in the international of tv, spending billions of dollars on lengthy-shape content, be it the ones produced in-residence (Stranger Things) or ones it acquires from others (Friends). No marvel then that it is the king of streaming services globally, with over 167 million subscriptions across a hundred ninety countries. But if you had been to depend by myself on Netflix's algorithms, you'll in large part be recommended in the direction of its originals. And it truly is why we've compiled this listing, that will help you discover suggestions from all around the globe — be it the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, Germany, Canada, Iceland, or Israel.

To select the great TV indicates on Netflix, we started with Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and IMDb ratings to draw up a shortlist. The last of them turned into desired for non-English programming given the shortfalls of critiques aggregators in that branch. Additionally, we used our very own editorial judgment to feature or take away a few. This list might be updated once every few months if there are any worth additions or if a few TV suggests are removed from the provider, so bookmark this page and preserve checking in. Here is the satisfactory collection presently available on Netflix in India, sorted alphabetically.

Archer (2009 – Present)

The clever, titular undercover agent and his colleagues at an intelligence agency spend more time bickering with each apart from they do solve cases. Evolved in later years to take on an anthology format, allowing the adult lively collection to test with new settings and new characteristics for its ensemble. Seasons 2 – 5 & 7 are the coolest ones.

Alias Grace (2017)

Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel of the identical name, about a 19th-century Canadian lady convicted of a double murder who will become the subject for a crook psychologist — a profession that failed to exist in the call then — adapted for the screen as a six-element miniseries.

Adventure Time (2010 – 2018)

A younger boy, and his fine buddy and adoptive brother — a dog with magical powers — cross on surreal adventures within the publish-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, which mechanically contain a princess, an ice wizard, one thousand-12 months-antique vampire, and a sentient robot amongst others. Seasons 5, 6, and three have the best range of first-rate episodes.

Ash vs Evil Dead (2015 – 2018)

Bruce Campbell reprises his position from the authentic trilogy in this sequel series set three decades ahead, who takes up palms once more along with his loyal sidekick, a moody young girl, and a mysterious parent.

The Affair (2014 – 2019)

Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Drama in 2015, a struggling novelist (Dominic West) and a younger waitress (Ruth Wilson) embark on an extramarital affair that adjustments their lives, and people around them. Final season not but available, use Amazon or Hotstar. Early seasons are the good years.

American Crime Story (2016 – Present)

A real crime anthology series from prolific manufacturer Ryan Murphy, which follows famous occasions that ruled the United States media, from the trial of former sportsman O.J. Simpson to the assassination of style clothier Gianni Versace.

Big Mouth (2017 – Present)

A bunch of center schoolers navigates the wonders and horrors of puberty on this person lively comedy, with ‘hormone monsters' serving as over-sexualized shoulder angels that personify their mind and fears.

The Big Bang Theory (2007 – 2019)

This long comedy, loved and hated in the same way, is ready for the lives of scientists, their aspiring actor, and scientist friends, the aerospace engineer and the astrophysicist. Added two ladies — a neuroscientist and a microbiologist — because it went on. Seasons through six were the coolest years.

Better Call Saul (2015 – Present)

This spin-off prequel to Breaking Bad follows a small-time legal professional (Bob Odenkirk) with the inclinations of a con artist as he transforms into the morally-challenged criminal lawyer most knew him as, Saul Goodman. Some don't forget it advanced to the authentic.

BoJack Horseman (2014 – 2020)

Set in an international wherein people and anthropomorphic animals stay alongside each different, a washed-up sitcom celebrity plans a comeback to repute with help from a ghostwriter, his ex-female friend who is additionally his agent, and his freeloading roommate, whilst coping with his rival who's a relationship the ghostwriter.

Black Mirror (2011 – Present)

Charlie Brooker's anthology collection which includes standalone episodes — this means that an ever-converting forged, further to new settings and storylines — explores the unanticipated effects of recent technologies, often in dark and satirical ways. Seasons 1 to 4 is appropriate.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013 – Present)

The lives of a group of detectives in a fictional New York precinct — an ensemble presenting Any Samberg, Andre Braugher, and Terry Crews — get the sitcom remedy from The Office co-author Michael Schur.

Bodyguard (2018 – Present)

After stopping a terrorist attack, a British Army war veteran (Richard Madden) operating with the London police is assigned to shield a senior government professional (Keeley Hawes), whose politics stands completely at odds along with his.

Breaking Bad (2008 – 2013)

Diagnosed with lung cancer, a struggling excessive faculty chemistry instructor (Bryan Cranston) decides to get into the business of creating and promoting meth to secure his family's monetary destiny, with the help of his former scholar (Aaron Paul).

Broadchurch (2013 – 2017)

A take a look at how violent crimes affect a small seashore city in Britain, through the eyes of two investigators (David Tennant and Olivia Colman), and the effect of media attention, suspicion, and grief on the close-knit network.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015 – 2019)

A hit younger girl attorney (Rachel Bloom, also co-author) who suffers from despair and anxiety uproots her life in New York and movements to a suburb in California to find love and happiness.

Crash Landing on You (2019 – Present)

Praised for its authenticity and humanizing portrayal, a South Korean Chaebol heiress accidentally crash-lands in North Korea, in which she falls in love with a Korean People's Army captain who hails from a powerful own family.

The Crown (2016 – Present)

A take a look at the lifestyles of Britain's longest-ruling monarch Queen Elizabeth II, from her wedding ceremony in 1947 to the present day, inclusive of the political rivalries, romances, and international-changing activities at some point of her reign.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006 – 2012)

In a changed timeline in which the all-effective Holy Britannian Empire has conquered Japan, this anime follows a teen bestowed with the energy to make everybody obey himself, as he units out to take revenge and placed a quit to the tyranny.

Dark (2017 – 2020)

Initially described as a German Stranger Things, it follows 4 households across 3 generations and 3 time periods as they frantically search for two lacking kids. All of its miles linked to a supernatural thriller.

Daredevil (2015 – 2018)

A blind man fights injustice as a lawyer via the day and a masked vigilante with the aid of night in gift-day New York, even as suffering to deal with the Catholic guilt that arises from his moves.

Dear White People (2017 – Present)

Set in a fictional predominantly white Ivy League college, Justin Simien turns his a successful satirical movie right into a broader series approximately black college students handling social injustice while figuring out who they're.

Derry Girls (2018 – Present)

Set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland's political tensions within the Nineties, 5 high college friends navigate the demanding situations of being a teen.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019 – Present)

A big name-studded ensemble voice cast powers this prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson film that channels the authentic's aesthetic by using relying only on puppets. There's no need for CGI. Set on the earth There, it's approximately 3 exploited Gelflings who revolt in opposition to the taxing Skeksis destroying their global.

Death Note (2006 – 2007)

In this Japanese anime, a high faculty-student starts to erase people who he deems unworthy after entering ownership of a supernatural notebook that permits him to kill each person with the aid of actually writing their name in it, prompting an elite police force to discover and stop him.

Delhi Crime (2019 – Present)

An anthology series — starring Shefali Shah and Rajesh Tailang — whose first season follows the Delhi police's research into the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case, which saw all six suspects nabbed in much less than per week.

The End of the F***ing World (2017 – 2019)

Two teenage outsiders — a budding psychopath and a rebellion hungry for the journey — embark on an avenue trip in search of the latter's actual father, and end up concerned in a sequence of increasingly violent events.

Fauda (2015 – Present)

A former professional Israeli agent comes out of retirement to seek a Palestinian militant, with the show cleverly following each aspect of the conflict and drawing from actual-world occasions.

Friends (1994 – 2004)

The display that needs no creation follows six 20-some thing pals dwelling a not possible existence inside the New York suburb of Manhattan coping with the misadventures of affection and the pitfalls of work. Bumpy start blossomed into a hit, and completed on an excessive, barring an ill-counseled ninth season.

Fargo (2014 – Present)

The Coen brothers' acclaimed movie of the equal call is the muse for this black comedy/crime anthology series, presenting quirky characters across unique eras handling deception, intrigue and murder amidst the cold of the American Midwest.

Flowers (2016)

Olivia Colman leads this brief-lived black comedy that follows the titular, dysfunctional own family: a track trainer (Colman), her depressed kid's author husband, their adult dual youngsters — an inventor and a musician — and the husband's senile mom.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009 – 2010)

This direct edition of the famous manga centers on two brothers searching out a Philosopher's Stone to restore their bodies after a failed experiment tries to resurrect their mom goes awry. But they may be no longer the only ones after the stone.

The Good Place (2016 – 2020)

The Office co-writer Michael Schur spun his sitcom internet into the afterlife with this collection, following a woman (Kristen Bell) who is mistakenly assigned to a Heaven-like utopia after which attempts to be a higher individual to hide.

GLOW (2017 – Present)

An exploration of the real-lifestyles Nineteen Eighties ladies' expert wrestling — the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling, or GLOW — through focusing on the personal and professional lives of the fictionalized Hollywood misfits worried in it.

Godless (2017)

In the 19th century, a murderous outlaw and his notorious gang hunt for the ex-protégé who betrayed them, and discover themselves in warfare with the town that shelters him, whose residents are specifically women. A seven-episode miniseries.

Grand Hotel [Gran Hotel] (2011 – 2013)

Not the American remake of the same call, that is the Spanish unique that is set in the early 1900s during the reign of King Alfonso XIII. It follows a working-elegance man who disguises himself as a waiter at a circle of the relatives-owned aristocratic motel to analyze his sister's disappearance, who served as a maid.

The Inbetweeners (2008 – 2010)

A coming-of-age sitcom whose achievement led to two films, following four British young adults in the course of their final yr at school, and a chain of misadventures related to the uncaring school body of workers, male bonding, and failed sexual encounters.

Hilda (2018 – Present)

A fearless, blue-haired woman (Bella Ramsey) movements from her home in the wilderness to a bustling town that looks like it's in overdue 20th-century Scandinavia, where she befriends human beings and monsters alike, on this animated collection.

Hannibal (2013 – 2015)

This cultic horror series, canceled after three seasons, explore the relationship between a forensic psychiatrist (Mads Mikkelsen) and his client, the young FBI crook profiler, who has remarkable ability to sympathize with serial murderers.

The Haunting of Hill House (2018 – Present)

In this contemporary reimagining of Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel that alternates between timelines, five adult siblings confront the ghosts in their beyond that stem from developing up inside the maximum famous haunted house inside the country.

House of Cards (2013 – 2018)

A betrayed US Congressman works with his Similarly conniving spouse to climb the political ladders in Washington, doing whatever this is needed — manipulation, deceit, and even homicide — to acquire their dreams. Good until season 4. Star Kevin Spacey stands accused inside the #MeToo movement.

The IT Crowd (2006 – 2013)

The British cult comedy has been followed by socially thrilling IT professionals and their technically alien boss, who stand in a colorless and untidy cellar, in sharp contrast to the workplace of contemporary workers.

Jane the Virgin (2014 – 2019)

Gina Rodriguez (Annihilation) stars as a devout Catholic and operating younger Latina virgin who turns into pregnant after unintended artificial insemination in this rom-com satire.

Jessica Jones (2015 – 2019)

Suffering from PTSD, an exquisite-powered female rebuilds her lifestyle as a personal investigator in New York and is pressured to conflict her past demons each step of the manner when all she needs is to appearance past them. The first season was excellent.

Kingdom (2019 – Present)

With a mysterious plague sweeping medieval Korea and a sick king powerless to stop it, the Crown Prince (Ju Ji-hoon) should set on a brand new venture to determine out what is occurring while battling a coup that places the relaxation of his family in threat.

Line of Duty (2012 – Present)

Until he did the Bodyguard series, Jed Mercurio demonstrated best, portraying a demoted counter-terrorism officer who worked with an undercover specialist, in this police operation, set in a counter-corruption unit. A variety of recommendations are the ultimate police TV.

Little Things (2016 – Present)

Starring Mithila Palkar within the lead, this comedy-drama approximately a 20-some thing couple — author Dhruv Sehgal is the alternative — dwelling in Mumbai and managing life's ups and downs have consistently stepped forward over its 3-season run, having begun calmly.

Mad Men (2007 – 2015)

Set in 1960s New York, a sluggish-burn drama that gives a peek internal a fictional advert organization, specializing in one in all its extremely proficient executives (Jon Hamm) who is bored by using his easy private lifestyles.

Master of None (2015 – Present)

Loosely primarily based on Aziz Ansari's existence studies, a 30-yr-antique struggling actor attempts to get his lifestyles in order on private and expert fronts, some of which is tormented by his Indian ancestry.

Mindhunter (2017 – Present)

In the overdue Seventies, two FBI agents push their superiors to increase studies into crook science, which includes them getting up close and private with imprisoned serial killers to recognize how they assume.

Money Heist [La Casa de Papel] (2017 – Present)

A criminal mastermind units his eyes on the most important financial institution heist in records: input the Royal Mint of Spain in Madrid and print 2.4 billion euros. All while they preserve several hostages and address the Spanish police.

Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969 – 1974)

The influential British comedy group got their begin with this surreal caricature series that focused lifestyles on the island in a highbrow style, with humor so extensive-ranging and particular that it gave start to the time-period "Pythonesque".

Narcos (2015 – 2017)

A gripping look at the violent and powerful drug cartels of Colombia, along with the infamous Pablo Escobar, and the corroborative efforts of numerous regulation enforcement whose process turned into to carry them down.

Narcos: Mexico (2018 – Present)

Serving underneath the determine label and from the same creators, this sister series movements the focal point to the titular united states of America within the 1980s, as it chronicles the upward thrust of the Guadalajara Cartel beneath Félix Gallardo (Diego Luna), who unites the small-time traffickers with something large in mind.

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995 – 1996)

In this cherished anime that ended pretty controversially, a teenage boy, dwelling in put up-apocalyptic instances, is pushed with the aid of his father to enroll in an elite group of pilots who perform large mechs and war massive extraterrestrial evil forces.

On My Block (2018 – Present)

Four American teenagers, of African, Latinx, and Mexican descent, must deal with the evolving nature of their lifelong friendships as they start excessive school inside the hard inner-metropolis of South Los Angeles.

One Day at a Time (2017 – Present)

This reimagination of Norman Lear's ‘70s original sitcom follows a Hispanic circle of relatives — an Army vet unmarried mom, her feminist teenage daughter and baseball-gambling son, and her Cuban mother (Rita Moreno) — and navigates intellectual contamination, immigration, homophobia, and greater. Available until season 3, destiny seasons might not be as it became canceled using Netflix.

One-Punch Man (2015 – Present)

Saitama, a superhero who can defeat any enemy with a single punch, seeks a worth opponent as he battles boredom and despair on this Japanese anime.

Orange Is the New Black (2013 – 2019)

The lives of incarcerated ladies at a minimum-safety federal jail in upstate New York, along with a typically regulation-abiding privileged female who is sentenced for a decade-antique crime.

Orphan Black (2013 – 2017)

A con artist (Tatiana Maslany) assumes the identity of a woman who dedicated suicide and regarded just like her and is then pulled into a conspiracy wherein she learns she's a clone.

Outlander (2014 – Present)

Diana Gabaldon's great-selling books approximately a married nurse in World War II who's transported returned in time to 1743, and unearths herself stuck inside the Jacobite risings and between very extraordinary men.

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

Two brothers (Elijah Wood and Collin Dean), lost in an unusual wooded area referred to as the Unknown, try to locate their manner home with the help of a mysterious, aged woodsman and an irritable bluebird. The lively miniseries won an Emmy.

People Just Do Nothing (2014 – 2018)

This award-triumphing British mockumentary follows four guys in their early thirties going for walks a pirate radio station was known as Kurupt FM from a tiny flat in west London.

Peaky Blinders (2013 – Present)

The exploits of the Shelby crime circle of relatives in Birmingham, England between the 2 World Wars, with elements borrowed from the nineteenth-century gang of the identical call, which legend goes used to stitch razor blades into their caps.

Please Like Me (2013 – 2016)

After being dumped via his female friend, an Australian man living in Melbourne realizes that he's gay. But it's simply one new assignment alongside looking after his depressed, suicidal mother. At least his ex-female friend is being supportive.

Peep Show (2003 – 2015)

The lives of very special, dysfunctional twenty-somethings sharing a flat in South London, and their daily farcical antics that made it a cult preferred.

Pose (2018 – Present)

Set inside the eighties and nineties, prolific creator Ryan Murphy gives an examination of the underground LGBT subculture booming in New York, alongside the rise of the prosperous adolescents and the evolving social and literary scene. The second season no longer but to be had, use Hotstar.

Rake (2010 – 2018)

A smart defense attorney (Richard Roxburgh), addicted to cocaine, playing, and women, takes up the maximum outrageous cases — from cannibals to intercourse offenders — available in Sydney, Australia.

Rick and Morty (2013 – Present)

An adult lively sci-fi collection in which a cynical and alcoholic mad scientist Rick and his susceptible-willed easily stimulated grandson Morty cross on a chain of misadventures across dimensions and universes.

Russian Doll (2019 – Present)

Amy Poehler co-created this comedy-drama wherein a 36-year-antique female (Natasha Lyonne, additionally co-author) continues dying and reliving the night time of her birthday party, and ought to parent out how to interrupt the time loop.

Sex Education (2019 – Present)

Lacking in lovemaking enjoy however complete of recommendation thanks to his sex therapist mother (Gillian Anderson), a socially awkward British teen (Asa Butterfield) agrees to begin a college intercourse therapy medical institution with a rebellion (Emma Mackey) in need of money.

Schitt's Creek (2015 – 2020)

After a wealthy own family loses their fortune, they — a video save tycoon, a former soap opera superstar, and their grownup youngsters — should rebuild their lives inside the tiny town they once purchased as a funny story present for the son. Created by using stars and father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy.

Shtisel (2013 – Present)

The daily lives of a Jewish own family — focused on a pious patriarch who teaches at a neighborhood traditional organization, and his creative, single son — residing in a strictly orthodox, Internet-unfastened neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.

A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017 – 2019)

Three imaginative orphans — an inventor, a reader, and an infant with sharp enamel — should outsmart an evil distant relative who is after their full-size fortune, while seeking to find the mystery at the back of a secret society that their dad and mom have been concerned in. Based on the famous children's book series by Lemony Snicket.

Sacred Games (2018 – Present)

Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui lead the forged of this edition of Vikram Chandra's 2006 novel, which follows a sincere cop (Khan) looking to shop Mumbai from the plans set in motion with the aid of a gang lord (Siddiqui). Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane are on the helm. Suffered in season 2.

Sherlock (2010 – 2017)

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman play the well-known detective and his physician sidekick in this contemporary-day variation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales. Terrific and compelling in the first few years, even though it derailed in its fourth season.

The Sinner (2017 – Present)

Bill Pullman's police detective has been the most effective consistent for this anthology crime mystery drama that started life as an ebook edition but has for the reason that charted its adventure. Stars Jessica Biel (season 1), Carrie Coon (season 2), Matt Bomer and Chris Messina (season three).

Star Trek (1966 – 1969)

Gene Rodenberry's original series about the adventures of a starship within the 2260s led with the aid of Kirk, Spock and McCoy doesn't age nicely visually, however, its storytelling endures, set apart a first-rate dip in first-class inside the third season.

Sky Castle (2018 – Present)

Set in an eponymous expensive neighborhood in suburban Seoul, this Korean drama revolves around the lives of four housewives, who will do something to get their kids admitted into the town's pinnacle prestigious scientific universities.

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 1994)

Rodenberry took his imaginative and prescient to an even more far-off destiny — the twenty-fourth century — focusing on a new technology of Starfleet officials (Patrick Stewart among them) on a new ship with a recognizable call. The bad first season, sluggish 2nd, and peaks in season five.

Steins; Gate (2011)

A self-proclaimed “mad scientist” probabilities upon time tour on this quick-lived anime series, after which have to journey via time and area to battle evil, a worldwide organization to do something to get their palms on the brand new tech.

Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017 – Present)

Netflix's first Italian-speaking show is acting as a prelude to the 2015 film Suburra, the fight for power between the Mafia, the politicians of Rome and the Vatican. This comes from an investigation into the real-life Mafia Zone.

Stranger Things (2016 – Present)

A nostalgia-heavy love letter to the 80s set in a suburban small city wherein secret scientific experiments into the magical and supernatural, at instances with human subjects, begins to wreak havoc on the ordinary lives of its citizens.

Still Game (2002 – 2019)

Two pensioners and exceptional pals from Glasgow, Scotland get into all varieties of problems as they cope with the trials and tribulations of modern life. A cult hit within the UK, it concludes its run later this year.

Stories via Rabindranath Tagore (2015)

Anurag Basu directed numerous episodes of this anthology collection that attracts from the Bengali author and Nobel laureate's works, in large part centered on confident girls protagonists suffering in a conservative Indian society in pre-Independence 1920s Bengal.

Trollhunters (2016 – 2018)

Guillermo del Toro turns his love for monster tales into an animated series for all ages, following a teenage boy who stumbles onto a mystic amulet and then should defend the arena of people and trolls. First a part of del Toro's Tales of Arcadia trilogy.

Trapped [Ófærð] (2015)

The chief of police in a tiny, remote Icelandic town ought to conflict the climate as he tries to resolve a homicide regarding a dismembered, mutilated frame. It's the maximum high-priced TV collection to be ever made in Iceland.

That '70s Show (1997 – 2006)

The comedy that fueled the Hollywood careers of stars Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, approximately a group of six high faculty friends going through ordinary teenage problems and trying to parent out their identities. Peaked in season 5.

Unbelievable (2019)

Based on a news article that chronicled the 2008–2011 collection of rapes in two US states, a dramatization that follows a teenage sufferer charged with lying about rape and the 2 detectives (Toni Collette and Merritt Wever) who drive for the fact.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015 – 2019)

Rescued from a doomsday cult after 15 years, a younger girl armed with a nice mindset decides to begin a new life in New York, with assistance from a homosexual wannabe-Broadway actor roommate, a street-sensible landlady, and a depressed out-of-contact socialite.

Violet Evergarden (2018)

With a ghastly battle in the back of her, a young girl — with bionic palms — raised to be a living weapon, decides to emerge as a ghost-writer as she attempts to discover her beyond and that means of the final phrases spoken to her by her adoptive father in this anime collection.

The Walking Dead (2010 – Present)

Based on the popular comic collection, a horror drama set in a put up-apocalyptic destiny in which the survivors search for a haven in a global overrun by zombies. Hit its top within the 5th season, and never recovered.

Wentworth (2013 – Present)

Locked up even as waiting for trial for the attempted murder of her husband, a woman adjusts to lifestyles in Australian prison and rises via the ranks. Gripping until season 4, submit which the lead actress left.

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Best TV of 2019 so far

Back to Life

Daisy Haggard’s downbeat gem took on a tough topic – a woman’s return to her home town after a stretch behind bars – and turned it into a meditation on grief, regret and the passing of time, though with enough gags to keep things zipping along.

What we said: A few episodes into Back to Life, I felt like pushing it away in protest. “No, no!” I cried inwardly. “It’s too much! It’s too good!” Read the full review

Barry

In its second season, this black comedy about a hitman who catches the acting bug took its story into darker territory, with Barry’s attempts to extricate himself from his past life only dragging him further into oblivion. Things aren’t going to end well.

What we said: Though it’s a comedy rather than a thriller, Barry replicates much of what made Breaking Bad irresistible. Read more

Broad City

After five virtually flawless sitcom seasons, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s millennial kweens went out in the same way they came in: with gross-out gags, madcap surrealism and one of the greatest on-screen friendships in TV history.

What we said: This season has given Abbi and Ilana the best possible send-off. It has been joyful, silly and wild, and while it feels like the perfect and necessary time to wrap up their adventures, it is poignant that they’ve done so by reminding you just how good those can be. Read more

A fitting, shocking end ... Catastrophe. Photograph: Channel 4

Catastrophe

Another comedy that went out on a high, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s tale of floundering parents managed to deliver more home truths about the family unit, pay fond tribute to late guest star Carrie Fisher – and offer up one of the most shocking endings in recent TV history.

What we said: From first to last, Catastrophe has been an unremitting triumph. Read the full review

Chernobyl

Already sitting atop IMDb’s top 250 TV shows list before the final episode has even aired, Sky and HBO’s restaging of the Soviet nuclear disaster captures the ineptitude, corruption and horror at its core.

What we said: Chernobyl is a disaster movie, a spy movie, a horror movie, a political thriller, and a human drama, and it spins each plate expertly. The terror is unflinching and explicit, and its images of burned bodies collapsing into putrid decay are impossible to forget. Yet it never feels shocking for the sake of it, only as haunting and horrible as its subject matter demands. Read more

Finally ... David Attenborough lays bare our greatest threat in Climate Change: The Facts. Photograph: BBC/Polly Alderton

Climate Change: The Facts

After years spent hinting at the damage done to our planet by the climate crisis , David Attenborough finally laid out the threat in all its magnitude, in a documentary that may just have turned sceptics into believers.

What we said: This is a rousing call to arms. It is an alarm clock set at a horrifying volume. Read the full review

Dead Pixels

E4’s comedy accurately captured the loneliness and mundanity, but also the sense of community, that comes with picking up a controller. All that, and it was as addictive as an all-night Fifa session to boot.

What we said: This wickedly entertaining new sitcom may have been inspired by the massive success of online games like World of Warcraft but, thankfully, you are not required to know your Azeroth from your elbow to enjoy it. Read more

Derry Girls

One of last year’s surprise hits, Lisa McGee’s Northern Irish comedy didn’t let things slip in its second season, with its quartet still finding teenage kicks in the midst of the Troubles. The scene in which teens from both sides of the sectarian divide unleashed a barrage of stereotypes about each other (“Protestants hate ABBA!”) is among the year’s funniest.

What we said: Derry Girls’ magic remains intact. The evocation of the 90s is as lightly done as ever (Elizabeth Hurley is fleetingly referenced – “She’s a total ride, but she paperclips her frocks together”) and the Troubled setting never overwhelms but simply throws into relief the ordinariness of the girls’ lives in the middle of extraordinary depths of conflict. Read the full review

Don’t Forget the Driver

Bleak comedy … Toby Jones in Don’t Forget the Driver Photograph: BBC/Sister Pictures

Pulling off a state-of-the-Brexit-nation series looked a tall order, but Toby Jones’s understated comedy-drama was taller, finding humour and pathos in its tale of a coach driver who discovers a refugee hiding in his wheel arch and a body washed up on the beach.

What we said: If it is a comedy, it is one with the bleakest tragedy at its heart. But whatever label you put on it, it is a fine, fine piece of work. Read the full review

Fleabag

Back for its second (and, as it turned out, final) outing, Fleabag added a hot priest into the already heady mix of biting wit and family dysfunction – and it built to a heart-rending ending with a wedding, a mad dash to the airport … and a fox. Unforgettable.

What we said: Series two raised the bar. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s risks were so impressive all one could do was shake one’s head in appreciation. Read the full review

Game of Thrones

Unquestionably the TV event of the year ... Game of Thrones. Photograph: HBO

Did the gargantuan fantasy drama stick the landing in its final season? That’s an argument for the comments section, but both in the scale of its six episodes, and the fevered discussion they prompted, it was unquestionably the TV event of the year.

What we said: The ending was true to the series’ overall subject – war, and the pity of war – and, after doing a lot of wrong to several protagonists, it did right by those left standing. When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. Overall, I think, it won. Read the full review

Gentleman Jack

Sally Wainwright travelled back in time for her latest piece of thrillingly human Yorkshire drama, with this real life tale of Anne Lister. Suranne Jones has received rave reviews for her portrayal of the 19th-century industrialist and diarist, who developed a code to hide her lesbianism.

What we said: It’s Regency Fleabag! Because the heroine occasionally breaks the fourth wall and exteriorises her inner monologue. But it’s set in Halifax in 1832, so it could be Northern Jane Austen. Then again, it’s about Anne Lister, who has been dubbed the first modern lesbian, so maybe it’s Queer Brontë ... You can afford to have a little fun with Gentleman Jack; Sally Wainwright clearly has. Read the full review

Ghosts

The Horrible Histories team offered up more unashamedly silly comedy with this spirited sitcom about a group of ghouls going to war with the new owners of a crumbling mansion.

What we said: In making us giggle at the supernatural, Ghosts is very British. But it is American in the sense of having a gag-to-airtime ratio much higher than British sitcoms normally manage these days. Read the full review

I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson

This deliriously absurd sketch show from a former Saturday Night Live player was hailed immediately as one of the greatest Netflix shows to date.

What we said: I wolfed down the entire series in one sitting, genuinely incapacitated with laughter. And then I watched it all again. I’m at the stage where I’m cherrypicking sketches now, but I’ve seen my favourites six or seven times. I’m fully obsessed at this point. At its peak, I think I Think You Should Leave might be one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Read more

Leaving Neverland

A devastating four-hour exposé of alleged child sexual abuse by Michael Jackson. Wade Robson and James Safechuck chillingly and plausibly outlined their accounts of childhood grooming by the man that they, and the whole world, worshipped.

What we said: An astonishing piece of work. Relentlessly spare and unsensationalist, it manages better than any other in its genre not to let its attention wander from the survivors’ testimony. Footage of Jackson is confined almost wholly to that of him with the boys themselves on stage, private calls between them and family snaps. He is never allowed to overwhelm the story. Read the full review

Line of Duty

Complex … Martin Compston and Stephen Graham in Line of Duty. Photograph: BBC/World Productions

Jed Mercurio’s police corruption masterpiece returned for a fifth outing after a two-year wait, bringing with it a stunningly complex performance from Stephen Graham, more urgent exits required … and heartstopping, jaw-dropping action to the last.

What we said: As ever, nothing is wasted; not a scene, not a line, not a beat. It fits together flawlessly – you can imagine Mercurio sitting like a watchmaker at his table with the parts spread before him and fitting the loupe to his eye before assembling the whole thing and listening for its perfectly regulated tick. Read the full review

Mum

Stefan Golaszewski’s sitcom tour de force ended on a heartwarming high. Over three lovely series, Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan as Cathy and Michael gave us the gift of a quietly epic romance that will echo down the ages – and kept the tears in our eyes.

What we said: Mum might have looked like it was just a sitcom, but it had something beautiful to say about love and loss. It’s said it. Read the full review

Pose

Assembling the largest collection of trans actors in televisual history, Ryan Murphy’s big-hearted drama about the voguing scene in 1980s New York had style, grace, swagger and sass for days. What’s not to love?

What we said: Razzle-dazzle showmanship isn’t Pose’s only source of infectious joy. Watching the slow, still-unfolding process of these characters becoming more and more their true selves is as exhilarating as the opening bars of Cheryl Lynn’s Got to be Real. Self-actualisation isn’t easy, but it sure is beautiful. Read the full review

Pure

Frank and fearless ... Pure. Photograph: Sophia Spring/Channel 4

Following a young woman with a form of OCD called Pure O, which manifests as constant invasive thoughts about sex, this comedy-drama was among the year’s frankest and most fearless TV.

What we said: The drama and the gags are never sacrificed to worthy exposition, virtue-signalling or finger-wagging, but, at the same time, the series has so evidently been made in good faith that you can surrender to it entirely, never fearing that it will put a foot wrong. Read the full review

Russian Doll

A hipster Groundhog Day, but also so much more, Natasha Lyonne’s comedy about a thirtysomething trapped in a time loop of death and rebirth proved a truly mind-bending proposition.

What we said: Russian Doll is an acquired taste. But do persist: there is such a fine, idiosyncratic, impressive show nested within. Read the full review

Sex Education

Gillian Anderson starred as Jean, a sex therapist whose son Otis (Asa Butterfield) – though too anxious to masturbate himself – sets up a sex advice service at school. A punchy, horny comedy, with the added bonus of the fantastic Ncuti Gatwa as Otis’s best friend Eric. Worth watching for his heroic prom outfit alone.

What we said: Endlessly and seemingly effortlessly funny, in a naturalistic way that doesn’t have you listening for the hooves of the next gag thundering down a well-worn track but, like Catastrophe, catches you almost unawares and makes you bark with laughter. Read the full review

The Last Survivors

Sam Dresner, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Frank Bright and Susan Pollack ... The Last Survivors. Composite: BBC/Minnow Films Ltd

Arthur Cary’s thoughtful, wonderful and always dignified 90-minute documentary heard the stories of some of the last living people who survived concentration camps as children. A very important work indeed.

What we said: For an hour and a half, I was crying, especially when Cary followed three generations of Holocaust survivors to Auschwitz, knowing all the time that tears are not enough. Nor guilt. Read the full review

The Other Two

How would you react if you could barely get cast as Man Who Smells Fart in an advert while your kid brother became a Bieber-esque teen hearthrob overnight? That’s the premise of this brilliant satire, which skewers our pop-culture-obsessed society spectacularly.

What we said: It has heart, charm, steel, belly laughs and a gimlet eye. Get on it. Read the full review

The Victim

John Hannah and Kelly Macdonald starred in an intelligent drama about a vigilante attack on a potential child killer that managed to ask ever more challenging questions as its episodes rolled on.

What we said: It is a drama that resonates with its time by asking what constitutes a victim and how much leeway we allow in bestowing that status. Do they have to be perfect? How sure do we have to be? And what happens when the perpetrator becomes a victim too, of a different kind? Read the full review

The Virtues

Shane Meadows reunited with This is England star Stephen Graham for an unflinching drama about a troubled dad attempting to reunite with his long-lost sister and process childhood sexual abuse.

What we said: Unspoken pain infuses every scene, every gesture and expression from Stephen Graham and in doing so lays the foundations to do justice to the suffering of victims everywhere. Read the full review

The Yorkshire Ripper Files

Liza Williams’s three-part documentary revisited one of the biggest – and longest – murder manhunts in British history, taking us back to a time so different it seemed almost foreign.

What we said: At its best, Williams’ series – with its mixture of archive footage and new interviews – is a social document. The hindsight it offers is not primarily about the mishandling of the investigation, but of the grim tone of the times. Read the full review

This Time With Alan Partridge

Appalling company ... This Time With Alan Partridge. Photograph: Colin Hutton/BBC/Baby Cow

The excruciating monkey tennis-pitcher went back to the BBC for a One Show-style magazine programme. Inevitably – and hilariously for viewers – it wasn’t the smoothest of returns.

What we said: We get the heroes we deserve, and as you finish writhing in agony and lie limp from laughter, hatred, panic, despair or in awe at the end of another half-hour in his appalling company, you can only reflect that if Brexit means Alan then the whole business just got more complicated still. Read the full review

Veep

A last hurrah for Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s mendacious yet incompetent vice-president, in a political satire that was perfectly attuned for these most buffoonish of times.

What we said: Louis-Dreyfus has won a record six Emmy awards for her role as Selina Meyer, and, frankly, it’s no wonder. She is magnificent, brittle and furiously amoral. In this seventh and final season of Veep, it appears to be getting out while it still has a hope in hell of making its fictional world look more comedic than the real one. Read the full review

When They See Us

Almost unbearably harrowing ... When They See Us. Photograph: Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix

Ava DuVernay’s staggering miniseries about the Central Park Five showed how a group of young boys came to be falsely convicted for raping a young white woman in 1989. It is unbearably harrowing to watch the boys, as young as 13, get violently coerced by police into giving confessions.

What we said: The performances are uniformly astonishing – especially from the central five, Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Ethan Herisse, Marquis Rodriguez and Jharrel Jerome, most of whom are just a few years older than the teens they are playing. They capture the innocence, in all senses, of children, and the permanence of its loss. It feels like a great privilege to see them. Read the full review

Years and Years

Russell T Davies’s hugely ambitious drama followed a family through the next 15 years of British life, taking in the migrant crisis, terrifying technological innovations and Trump’s increasingly fraught face-off with China.

What we said: For a series that compresses 15 years into six hours, it seems to pass in the blink of an eye thanks to Russell T Davies’s trademark humour, compassion and the kinetic energy with which he infuses every project. We do not deserve Davies, but thank God he’s here. Read the full review

100 Vaginas

Following her projects about breasts and penises, artist Laura Dodsworth photographed a range of women’s vulvas, then showed the sitters their vaginal portraits and interviewed them for their responses. The result? Intimate, empowering television, unlike anything that has ever aired before.

What we said: A gently but relentlessly radical documentary. It’s not until you see a full set of female genitals filling your screen that you realise how little you see anything of or about them in wider culture. Read the full review

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/03/best-tv-of-2019-so-far

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