Buffy is wearing a brown velvet neck scarf with a velvet spaghetti strapped tank top, plus a multi-ringed silver bracelet that I covet.
“I knew you’d like it. I found it in a quaint little shopgirl.”
“Oz has his cool hair today. I think I’m a groupie!”
Now Buffy is wearing a freaking adorable baby blue tank top with a yellow duckie and the words “hug me.” SLAYER OF TANK TOPS.
Ominous flower delivery a la The Real World: London.
“You know what’s a good day to break up with somebody? ANY day except Valentine’s Day. Were you running low on dramatic irony??”
It’s interesting that Xander is the first of the Scoobs to resort to the supernatural for revenge.
Buffy’s teeny-tiny leopard print mini versus Cordy’s preppie corporate conservative pinstripe look.
Aw, that high neck is because Cordy was secretly wearing Xander’s necklace.
Ooh Lordy the deeply uncomfortable moment when Buffy begins flirting with Xander. “Funny how you can see someone every day and not really see them...”
“I want you Xander. To be my first.”
“Baseball. Please tell me you’re talking baseball.”
SLO-MO GOT THE LOVE SCENE
This episode is such an interesting mix of darkness—first roofie magic—and hilarity. Such great shots of the Xander-besotted randos.
Jenny Calendar: “Have you been working out?”
“Oh no, I’m twice the fool needed to do something like this.”
The Pack and Bewitched Bothered make for a very interesting pairing for Buffy/Xander scholars.
“Be quiet. We have to catch the Buffy Rat.”
Giles is pretty frickin nervy getting so mad at Xander, given his history, but maybe that’s the point.
They work the escalation to Joyce beautifully. My kids are squeaking in horror. “And keep your mom-age mitts off my boyfriend. Former!”
Haha oy now Dru. “Your face is a poem. I can read it.” “It doesn’t say ‘spare me,’ by any chance?”
Genuinely romantic earned Xander/Cordy moments in this ep.
The Lunch Lady is one of the Xander-obsessed. Earshot foreshadowing.
“I remember coming on to you. I remember undressing. And then a sudden need for cheese.”
“I’ll date whoever I want to date! No matter how lame he is.”
BEWITCHED, BOTHERED & BEWILDERED: Another perfect episode! Uses *every* cast member, puts them all through the wringer, hilariously yet meaningfully, Rat Foreshadowing, plus Angel gets kicked in the balls.
I tweeted so much during that episode and I still missed so many good lines. It’s a real corker.
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Attention: I am watching an ep of SATC in which Miranda goes to a comedy club, where a sexist comic makes douche jokes. Who kidnapped her & erased her memory & replaced it with “comedy concert?”
Related: I enjoy the high-bitter ketchup-red mullet Miranda of S2.
It’s always been striking (& realistic) that unlike her finance-addled buddies, Miranda dated so many documentarians, editors, journalists & architects plus some lawyers & the occasional sandwich
Luv 2 have a plane speed up to take off—then stop, followed by an announcement that a generator didn’t work & we’re heading back 2 the gate… Better than the alternative, I realize, but YIKES
Pretty impressed by how chill everyone is on this flight, which has STILL not taken off—we deplaned after it went past 3 hours, waited at gate, reboarded, refueled.,. & now we’re waiting for the baggage crew? I was/am fully expecting a Liz Lemon/Carroll showdown in the aisle
On the one hand, I live on a plane. On the other hand, I am watching wonderful 30 Rock clips. “Noooo! Mortality!!”
I know little about Ukraine, but I watched Zelensky's TV show 3 years ago, to contextualize his meeting with Trump. This is a lighter piece, but it's useful to know his origins—it's as if Tom Hanks starred in The West Wing, then won the WH in a landslide: newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
& if you don't want to read it, just to clarify: Z played a humble school teacher who went viral w/ a rant abt corruption, which got him elected President. The actor then ran for President, off that brand. I'm sure there are better pieces on this, so hook me up & I'll link 'em
I remain confused by the deranged pro-Anna final episode of INVENTING ANNA, maybe grifterella hacked into Shondaland and wrote the episode herself
Sad thing is, if instead of trying to sympathize with this fake, the show had steered hard into the satire of “hustle” & “bad bitches,” tech jargon & new age blather, it could have landed on a cool Millennial It’s A Scam Scam Scam Scam World VIBE
I keep thinking about how both Hamilton & Mrs. America offer a uniquely effective artistic model for political art. Take a lesser-known figure who is the linchpin of a revolutionary structural dispute—
Could be a villain, like Phyllis, or a flawed hero, like Hamilton... then exploit that odd premise to pivot out to a broader, richer ensemble portrait of real-life figures debating their way through the crisis. If you do it well, you skirt the cheesy glowing-biopic cliches...
But also, avoid the pedantry of a preachy manifesto, while still dramatizing the grandest ideals & conflict of the period, and if you do it well, it illuminates the structural moment that made change hard to achieve, instead of just A Person.