Anonymous wrote:It’s not Juliana Margulies being pale that makes her so severe looking - I think her coloring is beautiful. She’s done something to her face and I can’t put my finger on it. She just looks extremely gaunt.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s overly dramatic—-especially the scene with Alex, Chip and her assistant. Also, I cannot get over how Jennifer Aniston’s face looks.

That said, I’m still going to watch.

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What was that scene?!? Alex and her constand, "Oh my GOD!! Oh my GOD!!!" I mean, I get that she was startled, but she so overacted in that scene. Bizarre. I like Jennifer Aniston, but get very tired of her constant verbal tics: sighing, mm-hmmming, addressing everyone as "honey" like she did in Friends, etc. It's beyond old.

You do realize what she says on screen is what is written and she has to say it?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the new season. This is probably my favorite guilty-pleasure soap right now. Spoiler-y stuff below so don't read if you haven't watched or don't want to know anything.

I love Jon Hamm generally but he didn't do much for me in the first two episodes. He's playing this role a little more tough guy and with less humor -- definitely feels distinct from both Don Draper and the more recent comedic roles he's played. But I'm curious to see where it goes especially with the past link to Stella.

Speaking of Stella, I hope we get her character rounded out a bit this season. Looks likely. It's shallow but I love her look and her style on the show. One thing I like about the show is how stylish many of the women are, and not just in that TV news way (like Alex and Bradley). Stella, Laura, and Mia are all versions of very stylish, well-off, powerful NY media women and I love their clothes.

I am very glad to be done with Mitch. I think moving the show forward totally past Mitch and past Covid will be refreshing. I was still hooked last season but it was weird and didn't always work. I think they are back in their groove now.

I loved the Tig Notaro sighting and hope she comes back. This show manages to cast the most randomly delightful people sometimes. Tig, Mark Duplass, Greta Lee. It's kind of a silly show with really high production values and then the casting always feels like a weird stunt but I love it.

Tig is great. A few years ago she had her own show, can't remember where-maybe HBO. it was slow to get into but really sweet and funny. I love her cast in this role with Jon Hamm since you would expect her would only hire hot young women as his "assistants"

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Anonymous wrote:Also, I would like to state that while Aniston's face looks effed up, it totally works for me because I also think that's EXACTLY what Alex would have done to her face at this point in her career. Which doesn't mean I think Aniston did it intentionally for the role, more that sometimes life imitates art imitates life, you know?

That's a great point!

Gd this show is awful. I can't wait until the next episode.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Bradley's "look" is not nightly news, especially the long blonde hair.

Can someone explain the hacking storyline? Did Corey actually have the network hacked to suit his ends, or was Cybil's email just a "happy" result of the hack?

Wow! Anyone against a woman with long blonde hair to be a professional newscaster? Or are you just a misogynistic“

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the new season. This is probably my favorite guilty-pleasure soap right now. Spoiler-y stuff below so don't read if you haven't watched or don't want to know anything.

I love Jon Hamm generally but he didn't do much for me in the first two episodes. He's playing this role a little more tough guy and with less humor -- definitely feels distinct from both Don Draper and the more recent comedic roles he's played. But I'm curious to see where it goes especially with the past link to Stella.

Speaking of Stella, I hope we get her character rounded out a bit this season. Looks likely. It's shallow but I love her look and her style on the show. One thing I like about the show is how stylish many of the women are, and not just in that TV news way (like Alex and Bradley). Stella, Laura, and Mia are all versions of very stylish, well-off, powerful NY media women and I love their clothes.

I am very glad to be done with Mitch. I think moving the show forward totally past Mitch and past Covid will be refreshing. I was still hooked last season but it was weird and didn't always work. I think they are back in their groove now.

I loved the Tig Notaro sighting and hope she comes back. This show manages to cast the most randomly delightful people sometimes. Tig, Mark Duplass, Greta Lee. It's kind of a silly show with really high production values and then the casting always feels like a weird stunt but I love it.

Tig is great. A few years ago she had her own show, can't remember where-maybe HBO. it was slow to get into but really sweet and funny. I love her cast in this role with Jon Hamm since you would expect her would only hire hot young women as his "assistants"

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, Bradley's "look" is not nightly news, especially the long blonde hair.

Can someone explain the hacking storyline? Did Corey actually have the network hacked to suit his ends, or was Cybil's email just a "happy" result of the hack?

He didn't cause the hack, it just happened.

But then he wanted to get rid of Cybil and used the cover of the hack to leak the racist email. If he'd leaked it without the hack, it would have been more transparent than he'd done it. With the hack and all these other internal docs getting hacked, no one would suspect him. We see him calling someone to make it happen at the end of the second episode.

I'm not sure how Stella knew her done it though. Maybe we're just supposed to recognize fnize it as an example of her being very savvy. Curious to find out her background with Hamm's character.

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Anonymous wrote:What episode is this scene you all are taking about with JA, Chip and her assistant?

In the last episode, when Alex asks Chip and her assistant to go to her home studio and retrieve her device for the hack, and then she comes home and finds them en flagrante. And then they tell her it's been going on for a while but they didn't know how to tell her.

I actually thought the scene was funny because its as very much about how Alex has Main Character Syndrome and once she's over her initial shock, she's like "let's all go out together to celebrate! this is so great! how can I be involved!" and there's some great subtle face acting from Duplass and the actress playing the assistant where Chip is almost ready to agree because he has a grossly codependent relationship with Alex, but the assistant is like "haha, no."

I love Mark Duplass in that role so that sells a lot of the show for me. He is so, so good at playing this guy who is likable and loyal but also entirely careerist with almost no actual morals. To me the show is very much about how these people can say all they want about "journalism" or even entertainment but at the end of the day, they are entirely in it for themselves and their own egos. It rings extremely true to me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s overly dramatic—-especially the scene with Alex, Chip and her assistant. Also, I cannot get over how Jennifer Aniston’s face looks.

That said, I’m still going to watch.

+1
What was that scene?!? Alex and her constand, "Oh my GOD!! Oh my GOD!!!" I mean, I get that she was startled, but she so overacted in that scene. Bizarre. I like Jennifer Aniston, but get very tired of her constant verbal tics: sighing, mm-hmmming, addressing everyone as "honey" like she did in Friends, etc. It's beyond old.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching the new season. This is probably my favorite guilty-pleasure soap right now. Spoiler-y stuff below so don't read if you haven't watched or don't want to know anything.

I love Jon Hamm generally but he didn't do much for me in the first two episodes. He's playing this role a little more tough guy and with less humor -- definitely feels distinct from both Don Draper and the more recent comedic roles he's played. But I'm curious to see where it goes especially with the past link to Stella.

Speaking of Stella, I hope we get her character rounded out a bit this season. Looks likely. It's shallow but I love her look and her style on the show. One thing I like about the show is how stylish many of the women are, and not just in that TV news way (like Alex and Bradley). Stella, Laura, and Mia are all versions of very stylish, well-off, powerful NY media women and I love their clothes.

I am very glad to be done with Mitch. I think moving the show forward totally past Mitch and past Covid will be refreshing. I was still hooked last season but it was weird and didn't always work. I think they are back in their groove now.

I loved the Tig Notaro sighting and hope she comes back. This show manages to cast the most randomly delightful people sometimes. Tig, Mark Duplass, Greta Lee. It's kind of a silly show with really high production values and then the casting always feels like a weird stunt but I love it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, Bradley's "look" is not nightly news, especially the long blonde hair.

Can someone explain the hacking storyline? Did Corey actually have the network hacked to suit his ends, or was Cybil's email just a "happy" result of the hack?

Wow! Anyone against a woman with long blonde hair to be a professional newscaster? Or are you just a misogynistic“

Anonymous wrote:Also, I would like to state that while Aniston's face looks effed up, it totally works for me because I also think that's EXACTLY what Alex would have done to her face at this point in her career. Which doesn't mean I think Aniston did it intentionally for the role, more that sometimes life imitates art imitates life, you know?