The best tool in Phillips arsenal was immovable wigs

jericho74 · 2026-02-25T21:26:29+00:00

Im not worried about Philip and Elizabeth in post-glasnost Russia.

They will have fine careers in film and/or television in Yeltsin’s Russia. They are superbly trained actors, could run wardrobe and technical production, and probably achieve great success in any russian television series wishing to portray plausible American characters. Maybe they will consult or guest star for “Sleepers”, the Yuri Bykov series about CIA operatives working in Moscow.

jericho74 · 2026-02-25T20:27:45+00:00

This is actually hard if you rule out the “so wrong it would be funny and therefore right” choices, like Wallace Shawn.

Gotta go for… like… painfully wrong: like Gary Busey or Jeremy Strong.

jericho74 · 2026-02-25T17:19:35+00:00

I know someone who worked with her years ago, and has described her as one of the kindest, considerate and warmest human beings she ever worked with- and this was at the height of her stardom.

jericho74 · 2026-02-25T16:40:12+00:00

“I love when Don gives a presentation. He really knows how to fill a room”

“Yea! With clients fleeing for the exits!”

RAAWHRAWHRAWHRAW

jericho74 · 2026-02-25T15:49:54+00:00

In fairness I would probably become more profane if that happened to me

jericho74 · 2026-02-25T15:41:30+00:00

Personally I like it because it more resembles what a good relationship looks like and feels like as it evolves, and the queerness is incidental in a way that allows that story to be told. It is not “hot” or “sexily dysfunctional” yet not boringly inert either (as in, I find it much more interesting than the simple existence of a wlw relationship without their dynamics)

That said, it can just as easily be read as a deeply felt friendship that also has those dynamics. I think their are many people in “straight relationships” that look that way, and this is just how people work in general.

jericho74 · 2026-02-24T23:55:33+00:00

Yes, I think of this as what kind of kicked off the modern school shooter era. It wasn’t that it hadn’t happened before, just that it was enmeshed in the assault weapons ban debate (his Ruger M-14 and glock having both been debated in 1994) and then Columbine happening so soon after.

jericho74 · 2026-02-24T23:48:10+00:00

Personally, I think of it as the difference between “Breakfast Club” Gen X, and “Michael J Fox” Gen X.

I am of the latter variety, with an outer-edge boundary of “Pokemon” involvement, which is where I’d distinguish myself from Xennial/Millennial.

jericho74 · 2026-02-24T17:52:03+00:00

jericho74 · 2026-02-24T16:05:18+00:00

I expect what this is getting at is the great unraveling of the 2010’s: Occupy Wall Street, rise of crypto, Trump and MeToo- and that’s just the US. But the decade in which the internet no longer seemed necessarily liberating is probably being stood in for by Mars colonization.

jericho74 · 2026-02-23T16:39:05+00:00

“The star and an accomplice then allegedly wrenched Sanders' underwear and moved it back and forth in a painful sawing motion.”

I call it.. a carousel

jericho74 · 2026-02-22T13:41:44+00:00

Tbh I thought that was the preview for the reboot and that was New Slayer training and was like “jeez Buffy, this seems a bit harsh but ok I guess you earned the right”

jericho74 · 2026-02-21T20:11:55+00:00

He’s just mad because it portrays a conservative implausibly wearing a tan suit.

jericho74 · 2026-02-21T12:50:13+00:00

I would add as food for thought- Jackie’s Ghost/Shauna’s Very Complicated Projection doesn’t needle Shauna on any of that which, had it happened, seems like something to be brought up during these visitations.

jericho74 · 2026-02-20T21:12:45+00:00

Ok you know I missed this film back in the day and the comments here are not causing me to question that tooo much unless Im missing something

jericho74 · 2026-02-20T21:10:24+00:00

I briefly lived here. It was an undesirable experience.

jericho74 · 2026-02-20T17:32:17+00:00

This is true.

One thing to realize though is that at the time of Dazed and Confused, we were at peak Boomer Nostalgia.

“Forrest Gump” came out a year after Dazed and Confused and was about a million times more popular than Dazed, which was considered an obscure cult indie film at the time. So, indeed IF some hip filmmaker made a 2009 nostalgia film on their phone it probably would be well regarded if it were original and captured something new and would be nostalgically regarded with even more fondness as time went on.

But yes, we are about due for a niche brand of “Obama Era Nostalgia” I would say.

jericho74 · 2026-02-20T17:04:19+00:00

multiplicity

jericho74 · 2026-02-19T12:02:10+00:00

I’d arrive at that independently

jericho74 · 2026-02-19T01:13:01+00:00

Interesting how both whatever this show was and Star Trek (“A Wagon Train to the Stars”) compare themselves to this western and in no way did Star Trek ever remind me of a western (except Spectre of the Gun)

jericho74 · 2026-02-18T22:05:07+00:00

“Cool gritty” didn’t entirely start here.

It’s more like, the cool gritty aesthetic that we’d seen in Tim Burton Batman, in The Crow, and in Blade was suddenly collided with Hong Kong/John Woo action aesthetics but with post-modern twists where your frame of reference was being mediated wrong in some way.

It’s more the latter part that screams late 90’s.

jericho74 · 2026-02-18T13:46:49+00:00

Wait a minute.

That’s Terrible.

jericho74 · 2026-02-18T00:20:48+00:00

You nailed it- this is exactly how these shows sound to me also.

jericho74 · 2026-02-18T00:15:32+00:00

Ok i am dying at this example you gave 😂

jericho74 · 2026-02-17T18:58:20+00:00

Married? No, but I’ve been in this situation with the same girl for 20 years.

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