Kellie Martin & ER theoceanblooms.substack.com/p/kellie-mar...

Spent yesterday screening the first 6 eps of #TVL. This writing team keeps its narrative so tight that, season after season, it’s a masterclass on how to fit so much into compact space. I’m in awe; I dislike too much excess/distraction. No useless digressions here; every second pulls its weight.

this is so important

On who Samira Mohan was in S1 of #ThePitt, who she became in S2, and why I was shocked to discover the show was writing her off when it felt like the finale was setting her and Robby up for a major arc in S3

also, from me, about the reveal of what's been up with Dr. Al-Hashimi. yeah, I didn't love it. spoilers, obviously. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

People talk about “redemption” and “comebacks” for men who never faced real material consequences or, more importantly, actually stopped harming other people in the first place

I knew about some shitty people in the industry a decade before I had enough sources to publish anything. People come forward on their own time & getting informed consent every step of the way is key. Even with all that, it's stressful for sources. They don't need to do a damn thing. But they do.

90% of the stories I know about the entertainment industry have never been published. 90% of the talks I have with sources never end up in the published work. There is so much agonizing that goes into all of these conversations, the reporting, the fact, checking, the lawyering, I just don’t know man

I guess the only thing to do is to point you to this essay I wrote about the man in the industry who assaulted me and what happened after I reported him. This is the only sentence that really matters: “Could you imagine being autopsied while you’re still alive?” variety.com/2017/tv/colu...

No human being’s path to their own survival looks like anybody else else’s. Everyone who comes forward against a powerful abuser is setting off a bomb in their lives. I think a lot of armchair “experts” have not been in the trenches with survivors, or have not been a survivor, and it fucking shows.

scrolling this account is an interesting experience, why is this the place I come to be completely and utterly insane

okay. I have a follow-up question.

annoying people online: I’m sick of james cameron wasting his life on his passion project he needs to make something else that’s not avatar to satisfy me personally james cameron: here is my billie eilish concert movie :)

One thing I never understood about Les Miserables is how Javert managed to convince the higher ups at the police department to commit nearly unlimited time and money to the Bread Crimes Unit.

does mcq know that he’s contractually obliged to take james cameron shooting at his personal gun range if he wants to make a conan movie with arnold schwarzenegger

mirrored from the other place because people are pissing me off again.

a reminder that vanessa marquez accused noah wyle and others of daily racial harassment on ER, and said that john wells had her blacklisted when she complained. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

god everything reminds me of ER.

they are over on twitter cancelling françois arnaud for liking an instagram reel of this clip

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

vanessa marquez said noah wyle (along with julianna margulies and anthony edwards) subjected her to DAILY racial harassment on the set of ER so if you think I said something too mean about him you can really keep that to yourself because I don’t care.

exactly

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

😭

posting online,

I was correct.

seeing the trailer for that new animal farm, immediately questioning who the fuck owns the film rights to that book, and almost passing out after looking it up

also fire & ash does have some structural issues that are kind of an unavoidable product of them splitting this huge story into two parts but I feel like if I view a double bill of way of water and fire & ash it will be almost structurally perfect with a little wobble at the changeover point

fire & ash was so interesting and I’m glad I have a week to think about it before everyone else goes to see it because I think there is a chance I land on this as the best one but I really don’t think that will be a common opinion

they didn’t understand what they watched jksjkshsjksh

it’s not “too much plot” so much as “too many ideas” like this movie almost has Too Much to say, it could almost have been split in two again to give it more space to breathe, and I’m someone who already thought the first two had a much higher idea density than people ever give them credit for

like no offence but way of water was a bit less confronting in some respects than the first avatar so I kind of assumed he’d gone a bit soft in his old age and from working with disney. even I am not immune to doubting james cameron.

kind of surprised again that james cameron invited us to evaluate fire & ash as a commentary on real-world events because there is stuff in that movie that is so inflammatory if you view it through that lens

on the bus thinking about james cameron sitting up at night cooking up new slurs for white people

that was not at ALL the movie I was expecting but I loved it. very fucking weird (complimentary)!

girl who is going to london for empire magazine’s vip screening of avatar: fire and ash accompanied by a q&a with simon franglen, deborah scott, and stephen lang

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This description of It's a Wonderful Life from Apple's store is technically accurate in every detail yet also somehow very funny.

sorry to report the version of terminator 2 they’re screening at the bfi is the 2017 studiocanal master

this being every single avatar hater

you should aim to live your life in such a way that it never ever results in anya taylor-joy looking at you like this.

here it is, my favourite part of the titanic director’s commentary, about the music for one of the best scenes in all of cinema

sometimes I read my own text messages back and I’m like can you calm down a little bit please

is james cameron skipping the london premiere of fire & ash because he is annoyed at the bbfc for refusing to certify the abyss

did not win a single emmy for this show btw the television academy has been on fraud watch for decades

george clooney on ER is so fascinating because amid all the stories about him hiding script pages around the set and pulling practical jokes it’s easy to forget he was also giving a weekly masterclass and making it look effortless, and the writers were giving him the material

no fear “fire and ash gets bogged down with excessive plot” one fear

fire and ash getting criticised for having Too Much plot is killing me honestly but unfortunately that is the one thing that concerns me I might not like it as much as the other two