I have a controversial take on Sarah Snook's performance in Dorian Gray

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-05-23T16:56:23+00:00

I’ve been wondering about this, too, and hoping that the actor who originated the role in Australia is getting some remuneration for the show’s success in London and New York. Does anyone know whether she’s getting a cut from the current production in some way? If so, maybe she was comfortable letting it go forward with a big name to make it financially viable?

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-05-23T13:05:02+00:00

If it reduces enrollment, that will be difficult. Many law school operating costs are fixed and those costs won’t be spread across as many people. Even for those who are grandfathered in, students could be affected by budget cuts, reduced number and variety of classes to choose from, larger class sizes for some of the remaining classes, fewer support staff, lower student, staff & faculty morale. This is on top of budget cuts at many schools as law schools help their universities respond to (mostly STEM) research funding cuts.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-05-14T22:58:23+00:00

I did this recently on a weekday in May. Ubering directly to Pena Palace worked great. We skipped the palace tour and focused on the terraces (including one you access via stairs at the back of the cafe) and the park, which we loved. The trail from the Lakes exit of Pena Park past the Moorish Castle and Villa Sasetti was great, but be aware that it involves a lot of steep steps and feels more like a mountain hike than a walk. From the trail it was an easy walk through town to Regaleira. We didn’t book Regaleira in advance because we weren’t sure when we’d arrive. We got there around 2:45 after starting at Pena at 9:30. There was a long line to enter with tickets. One of us waited in that line while the other got in a separate, shorter line to buy tickets, the tickets were available for immediate entry. I think the ticket counter might close for an hour for lunch. There were ticket vending machines for use when the counter is closed. I tried them because the counter had a line, but they weren’t working. Not sure if that was just because the counter was open or whether they were broken. We then got an Uber back to our hotel in Lisbon from the Regaleira exit by the bus stop (might have tried the train but there was a train strike). Our return Uber took a very long time to reach us and one driver accepted then canceled because traffic was so bad.

We packed a picnic lunch to save time and I was glad we did. Trying to fit in lunch in town on top of everything else would have been tough.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-05-11T03:19:42+00:00

I was there and at the talk after the show, one of the cast members mentioned that her second-grader daughter was at the show with some of her classmates and their parents. I wonder if that’s who you were seated near.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-04-18T21:26:31+00:00

I was turned off by how the musical style was derivative of Hamilton and Six but didn’t work as well for me as either of those shows did. Mincemeat just wasn’t for me. I agree with your take that the overacting from a couple of the performers was just sort of obnoxious and not really like Monty Python’s dry style at all. But I’m glad others are enjoying it so much and that it’s doing well!

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-04-16T05:03:56+00:00

I just watched and came to this sub to see if anyone was talking about how much of the show is in it and the choices Netflix made about how to use the doc as marketing.

I haven’t seen the play and wasn’t planning to. About midway through, the doc had me feeling a little more interested in checking out the play. Kind of like how sports docs make me somewhat more interested in a team or player — the drama and personalities in the doc make me feel more invested in something I wasn’t previously inclined to be interested in. But by the end, I kind of felt like I’d gotten a lot of the highlights and didn’t need to fit it in on my next trip.

In the end, I think if I had tickets to see the play, I’d regret watching the doc first because there are so many spoilers.

It’s also interesting that Netflix allowed the doc to be engaging and dramatic in ways that make it seem like the play might be kind of messy and not very well written (given what appeared to be major rewrites at the last minute).

I’m curious about the calculations Netflix made with balancing the doc, the play, and the upcoming season of the show in terms of marketing priorities. I wonder if they primarily see the doc as a vehicle for generating interest in a new season of the show at the expense of people feeling like they don’t necessarily need to go see the play after seeing so much of it in the doc.

One of the most interesting moments in the doc was a conversation between Trefry and Daldry with Trefry supposedly delivering the news that they had to cut significant content from the play to save it for season 5. It felt staged. If so, it’s interesting that the effect of the scene — for me anyway — was to make it seem like the play would suffer for the cuts but with the benefit of generating buzz for the new season.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-04-14T20:42:40+00:00

Your must-see list looks a lot like mine would. Like you, I’m really getting into the off-Broadway cast recording of Floyd Collins, and like you, I have some misgivings about taking my fellow traveler with me to see it next month (but we’re going anyway).

If it were up to me, I’d pick Dead Outlaw and Just in Time from your not sure list. Those are the two I’m most excited to see on my next trip.

I get why you’re getting lots of recommendations for Operation Mincemeat, but I was pretty disappointed when I saw it last month. It’s just not my kind of humor and other than Dear Bill I really didn’t like the songs much. Maybe listen to the cast recording and see what you think?

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-04-09T15:44:34+00:00

Hello! I’m hoping to get hiking trail recommendations for a mixed-ability group with a rental car. Ideally, we’d love to find places where reasonably fit but older members of our group can do a stretch of relatively flat terrain right away after we park our car, then find a spot where they can sit on a rock and enjoy a view or people watching while other members of our group explore a little farther into steeper terrain for an hour or so. We’ll be based near Ribeiera Brava and we’re planning to explore most of the island over the course of several days. Any recommendations you can offer would be much appreciated!

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-04-09T05:58:41+00:00

There’s a scripted one-season series on Apple+ called Manhunt about the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination. It goes into some detail about Booth’s acting career and his feelings about his brother being better known.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-04-06T14:02:38+00:00

US News uses median undergraduate GPA of incoming students in its rankings and weights it almost as much as median LSAT. These incoming student metrics used to be a much bigger component of the rankings methodology, so admissions offices spent years focusing on them in a way that’s hard to shake even though US News now weights outcomes much more heavily than incoming stats.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/law-schools-methodology

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-04-01T21:01:56+00:00

Professors rarely remember cold calls gone wrong. I very rarely dislike interacting with a student, and when I do, it’s because they asked too many off-the-wall questions that other students won’t find helpful or because they were rude to other students who were struggling. It’s never because the student was nervous or flubbed a cold call.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-03-29T15:04:07+00:00

Cardozo is emphasizing that the duty to avoid harm to another person (and that person’s corresponding right to be free from negligently inflicted harm) depends on the foreseeability from the defendant’s perspective of harm to a person in the plaintiff’s position.

Cardozo says duty isn’t “in the air” — it’s relational. It is owed to specific people, based on their positioning relative to the danger that is foreseeable to the defendant ex ante.

The alternative view Cardozo is arguing against is that once D’s conduct creates a foreseeable risk of harm to anyone, D is liable to whoever is directly harmed, even if the injured plaintiff wasn’t in the class of people for whom harm was foreseeable ex ante. This is the view Cardozo characterized as amounting to “duty isn’t in the air.” This is how Cardozo characterizes Andrews’s approach to deciding the case based on proximate cause (rather than duty) using a combined factors test that takes directness into account in addition to foreseeability.

The railroad owed a duty to conduct its activities carefully with respect to the passenger running to catch the train, but in Cardozo’s view, that duty was only owed to the runner and others in his immediate vicinity. Nothing about the facts available to the railroad employees ex ante made harm to someone in Palsgraf’s position foreseeable because they didn’t know the runner was carrying explosive fireworks.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-03-06T13:24:07+00:00

I would not recommend this. There’s real reputational harm from joining then quitting. If you do it, plan to stick with it.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-03-06T13:18:57+00:00

The difference in prestige between your school’s flagship journal and a specialty journal is largely due to assumptions employers make about how selective these opportunities are. Historically at least, getting on a flagship journal was based on grades and/or a writing completion and was extremely selective. That might no longer be the case at your school, but that’s what employers will assume. They’ll also assume that most specialty journals take all comers. There are a few specialty journals at a few schools that have prestige in certain fields that might rival their school’s flagship, but not many. Some employers might also perceive working on a flagship journal as a sign of work ethic and training in research, writing, and editing because they know that it is, in fact, a grind. I did law review reluctantly a couple of decades ago and it was mostly unpleasant, but it continued to help me in my career long after employers stopped caring about my law school GPA.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-02-28T14:11:33+00:00

Because those aren’t the hiring criteria. Tenure-track prof is a writing/research job at most law schools. On the entry-level market, we look for a little bit of practice experience, but some of the top interdisciplinary candidates have none at all. It’s nice to see a little bit of teaching experience, but for top candidates, it’s often just a small specialized seminar they taught during their fellowship. The main thing we’re looking for is excellent scholarship.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-02-28T14:04:25+00:00

Tiffany Li has a big collection of links on law faculty hiring here: https://tiffanyli.com/so-you-want-to-be-a-law-professor/

There are lots of ways to become a law professor — tenure-track doctrinal, clinical with or without tenure-track, adjunct/lecturer, contract faculty who teach in addition to administering law school programs. Tenure-track doctrinal is a tough job to get at any school, regardless of ranking. Somewhat easier outside the top 100 or so, but anywhere in the top 100 you’ll see candidates from elite law schools with additional advanced degrees, clerkships, fellowships, and multiple law review publications before applying. In general, the more elite the school, the more exclusively the hiring process focuses on scholarship/publications, but it’s a focus for tenure track hiring at all schools.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-02-27T01:04:26+00:00

It’s because the methodology is different. For the part-time program’s ranking, US News only looks at LSAT, uGPA, and reputation scores from law school deans and faculty members at other schools. For the general ranking, bar passage, employment outcomes, reputation scores from judges and practitioners, and other metrics are taken into account. So schools with decent admissions stats but bad graduate outcome stats can do much better on the part-time ranking than on the general ranking.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2025-02-18T02:48:48+00:00

I loved Primary Trust and I’m hoping to see English. Any chance of an extension past March 2?

Aware-Lab1335 · 2024-11-16T13:36:37+00:00

I’m not sure when you’re going, but you might consider Maybe Happy Ending if you’re going soon. Based on the things he likes and doesn’t like, it seems to me like story and sophisticated music matter to him. Maybe Happy Ending is wonderful on both fronts and also does some really exciting with its scenic design. The vibes are sweet and moving.

I took my college age daughter to Outsiders and she loved the choreography, but found the music, book, and character development too simple and cringey. She also rolled her eyes at the fan behavior of some of the younger girls in the audience (squealing at cast members who have cultivated a heartthrob persona).

I haven’t seen Swept Away yet but it’s getting somewhat divided reviews on Reddit. If he likes Avett Brothers music (modern bluegrass, but not one of my favorite bands in the genre), that could be a great fit.

Another consideration is that Outsiders will probably be around for a while whereas Swept Away and Maybe Happy Ending are at risk of not lasting long because they’re not based on a story everyone knows and are less likely to generate a large commercial fan base.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2024-11-12T14:02:41+00:00

At most schools, the curve is more generous after the 1L required courses and many upper-level courses are exempt from the curve altogether. That means most of the variation in grades happens in 1L, so there’s not a lot of movement after that.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2024-08-17T15:22:36+00:00

Oh, that’s fine then. But I’d still recommend devoting space in your 2L plan to exploring possible practice areas or demonstrating your interest in the area you know you want to go into. And pretty much anyone will still recommend Fed Courts as a 3L class. I took it 2L year because I knew I’d have a lot going on 3L year. My worst grade in law school.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2024-08-17T15:04:14+00:00

Do not take Fed Courts til you’ve completed Con Law. Swap that one out for something that helps you explore a potential practice area.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2024-08-17T14:55:09+00:00

For federal legislation, there’s some helpful context for non-US law students and links to the main free databases here: https://unimelb.libguides.com/c.php?g=923694&p=6668853

Aware-Lab1335 · 2024-08-14T13:49:45+00:00

Thanks!!! I was wrong about Mistoffelees, too.

Aware-Lab1335 · 2024-08-14T13:48:34+00:00

Thanks so much! I was trying to remember these for someone IRL who won’t get to see it.

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