Happy for Mark Ruffalo who is absolutely incredible, but wouldn't it have been something if Paul Mescal had won. I mean, what a debut. #NormalPeople#Emmys
SCHITT'S CREEK YASSSSS!!!
REGINA KING YASSS!!!!!!
Also I love John Oliver (he is literally my favourite talk show host of all times) but this year Trevor Noah really should have been, particularly for his video on George Floyd's murder.
I'd have gone with Jovan Adepo for all the incredibly powerful flashback sequences in #Watchmen, but Yahya is a bigger name, and this is the Emmys, so I guess it makes sense. Well, as long as Watchmen got this one. #Emmys
Uzo Aduba is as deserving a winner as anyone else tonight, but I'm disappointed that #Unbelievable hasn't won anything. Toni Collette was brilliant, and so was the whole cast. #Emmys
Watchmen was prescient to what 2020 is going to look like and it completely deserves to have won, but I #Unbelievable is just as important a show and even if it hasn't won, please don't miss it. #Emmys
JEREMY STRONG!!!!!!!!!!
I wish there was a rap song though.. But YASSS Jeremy strong!!! #Succession#Emmys
Oh wow.. that was unexpected.. but GO ZENDAYA!!! What a complete star she is. #Emmys#Euphoria
BILLY CRUDUP? WHAT BULLSHIT. WAIT WHAT. WHAT. WHAT. #Emmys
(Oh fuck, vote split :( :( :()
Alright the #Emmys has lost it. Julia Garner wins it over Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Thandie Newton, Sarah Snook, Samira Wiley and Helena Bonham Carter?!?!!? WHAT!!? Even she didn't believe it. PLEASE STOP THIS UNHEALTHY OBSESSION WITH OZARK WHITE FOLKS WOW.
It makes zero sense. ZERO sense. The people obsessed with Ozark literally don't watch any other TV. I mean.. THANDIE NETWON IS A GODDESS ON WESTWORLD! And SARAH SNOOK IS A QUEEN!!!! Ugh, so disappointed. #Emmys#Bullshit
Succession obviously wins Best Drama but the Best Supporting Actor categories have been such a letdown. UGH. But okay, as long as Jeremy Strong won - next year #Succession will clean sweep it!!! #Emmys
Good rest of the morning, folks. Watch these shows if you haven't:
Succession
Schitt's Creek
Watchmen
Unbelievable
Normal People
The Morning Show
The Good Place
Ramy
Euphoria
Mrs America
The Crown
Pose
Big Little Lies
Better Call Saul
Insecure
This is Us
(You can skip Ozark ugh)
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Wow, so #PoonamPandey is alive. A friend of mine told me in private last night that this is a campaign by a digital agency, but I was skeptical. Because could we really fall this low? Looks like we have.
So many things wrong with this. #Thread
There are hundreds of thousands of people who die from cancer every year. To use a cancer-led death as a tool for a publicity stunt is one of the most insensitive, thoughtless, vile ideas anyone's come up with. You've diminished real deaths & suffering, and made a mockery of a terrible illness.
Beyond that, you've turned the HPV vaccine into a punchline. I really hope that every woman who was considering taking this vaccine after the news of the death yesterday, goes ahead with it, because chances are that this will have the opposite effect: people will not want to be associated with anything Poonam Pandey was.
Spoke to @shrutisonal26 for a @timesofindia piece on 'The rise of alpha males' thanks to films like Animal, Gadar & <name the South blockbuster>.
While I don't disagree that hypermasculinity has made big bucks, I have a contrarian view on its rise. The reason? @iamsrk
#Thread
If there's a trend about so-called alpha males, and the associated misogyny, aggression and violence, I urge everyone to look at another trend: the giant success of the 'softboy' masculinity of SRK's 500 Cr+ blockbusters of this very year, Pathaan and Jawan.
Some examples:
In Pathaan, the introduction to Deepika's character is through an action scene where she saves SRK's character. And at no point does 'Pathaan' try to 'take charge' (or even try to cut himself loose).. he knows Rubina is very well in charge, and she's kicking all ass!
#Thread on the memeification of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial:
Alright, so I know I'm going to get hate for this thread, but I'm a bit fed up of seeing the hundreds of (mostly Heard) parody videos + memes from the trial, and I'm a bit sick about what they represent.
1/n
First: everything I know about the trial, I know against my will. I've never sought out, read up on, or watched videos of the trial - until it started seeking me. Until I wasn't able to escape it. Until it became pop culture the same way Trump did, *before* he was elected.
2/n
Second: I'm not going to get into the facts of the trial, because at this time, everyone has their own facts (her truth, his truth, the truth).
Irrespective of the trial's outcome, Heard has already lost. She's not a survivor, she's not even a perpetrator, she's a meme now.
3/n
I keep thinking about the 23-year-old software engineer from IIT Hyderabad, who has been caught and jailed for giving a rape threat to Virat Kohli's infant daughter.
I'm glad he's being held accountable - but it's disturbing and tragic to see: this is who we are now.
His background seems antithetical to his actions:
- He studied in a premiere Indian education institution
- He worked at a top-tier food startup
- He is a software engineer who was studying to do a masters in the US
- He is from a higher socio-economic background
- He is 23!
And yet, why would a young Indian, who was well on the path of achieving the Indian 'middle-class dream', peddle in and pursue such horrific hatred?
What's more disturbing is: this is not even a question being asked, because of how normalised and endemic this hate has become.
For the last few days, I've not been thinking of Aryan Khan, the son of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, but of Aryan, a 23-year-old young Indian, who was caught by an investigative agency for an alleged misdemenor. And I've been thinking about his mental health.
This is a young Indian, who has allegedly broken a law, with an offence that ultimately harms no one else but his own self.
Yes, there is no legal justification for what he did, but the criminal ramification of it must be a punishment commiserate with the scale of the offence.
But this young man is now the topic of discussion on every media channel, all debates, on trending topics, at homes, on Whatsapp groups and in some very mean memes. Everyone has an opinion on him. MANY want him to be held accountable for the allegeged misdemenor (still unproven).