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Right, it was like, oh, this is gonna be uncomfortable, and a little scary, just how mad is she, and then
EVERY SINGLE TIME I see it I start laughing. It’s so random and half-hearted and dumb. Lord, Sterling.
Oh, thanks for the info! And the little BTS tidbits. Relying on Georgia…doesn’tttt sound like the most encouraging option. I wonder if they might decide to film elsewhere if Georgia doesn’t get its act together or if it’s Atlanta or nothing.
Seriously, whatever else everyone was going through, it wasn’t alllll this together.
There are a bunch of asks about the ending and I was gonna do them as a batch but I was just watching random scenes before bed and ended on the finale and man, the way it built up, with the mom going, I gave you everything you asked for but I wasn’t going to let you take my daughter and Dana smirking at that and you JUST HAD THAT INKLING WHERE IT WAS GOING, all the previous moments starting to come together, when she “knew” to pick up Sterling from the lock-in and was so oddly proud and was like I guess it’s mother’s intuition, and then asked for a hug.
AND THEN IT WENT INTO TWIN VISION, for characters other than Blair and Sterling and it was like, well, of course they’d have it too, and then their convo and the audience knowing what was coming, and Debbie and Anderson, and then heartbreakingly, BLAIR realized before Sterling and as you said, that “No” and reaching out for Sterling’s hand before Dana dropped the bomb. Aaah, it was so well done.
I know! I think they’re just gonna say that they’re so close, whether it’s twins, sisters, or cousins, they just grew up with this deep bond and that’s what gave them this, it didn’t even need to actually be an actual twin relationship. I assume they’re going to go in a sweet, heartfelt found family direction where at the end of the day, it’s the family you choose, birth doesn’t change that.
Yeppppp. I’d seen the trailer, of course, and kept on hearing it’d be this take on racism and scifi, but after they showed the big monsters scene from the trailer being just a nightmare and all the discussion of scifi in books and comics, I was like, oh, they meant it that way. I knew something’d happen in that scene, it was building up to something, they were all trapped with no escape but I absolutely didn’t expect THAT. Lol, I was all “what are those noises?” so innocently.
Hey! Uh, well, originally I wasn’t too keen on it but it’s grown on me. It felt like that prestige TV hollowness papered over by style and sex and violence, too busy trying to be cool and mysterious to actually establish the characters, but either it’s started doing better with them or I’ve just gotten used to it, because I am liking it more now.
Whether or not I’d fully recommend it depends on if this upcoming season finale actually resolves this case and leaves people better off, or if it’ll be the typical bittersweet “life sucks, it’s deep to point that out” thing modern TV likes so much. TMas is great, but I wouldn’t watch it just for her unless you’re a huge fan.
Haha, that must have been such a surprise! It was for me. She really is so bubbly and friendly and nice and then is SUCH a hardass as Maya, even when you say it’s acting, which, it is, of course, but for a lot of actors, when their characters are normal people there’s a lot of overlap. Not really here at all, heh. It will be interesting to see her (and Barrett) in other roles, after the amount of time they’ve put into growing these ones.
Hmm, those are all pretty fair points and really, it could very well go like that even if it hadn’t been originally planned, considering who audience feedback. But, we know how reluctant TPTB are to listen to feedback they consider as niche as this, and I also don’t know if they’re really willing to just have no young good-looking guys in a full season. Or good guys in general, since obviously Vincent can’t be trusted.
Plus, the voice over stopped because they just realized they didn’t need it as a narrative device, according to Simon Barry, so it didn’t really have any deeper meaning than that. I can see it both ways, really, that some writer will be like, it’d be weird to not bring back a character so integral to Ava’s effective reintroduction to the world while other writers will agree that his purpose has been fulfilled.
Obviously the Ellen Page part I agree with (should I have been keeping track of these?) but Hailee Steinfeld? Hmm. You know, I guess I do see parts there, but just parts. Not like some of the other names where she could be a younger version.
Yes, all jokes about her resemblances to other actresses aside, Alba Baptista did an amazing job embodying all the different parts of this character. Honestly, I think we do kind of get distracted by how hot she is, she is very much the typical pretty thin white lead, for sure, and as you said, when she dresses up or is all serious like in the cool girl walk after taking off the habit, it’s right there, BUT, Ava is a freaking dork.
Everything she thinks and feels is right there on her face, and a lot of that is just curiosity or naivete and she’s just cute in those moments. And come on, nobody who makes those puns and then like, wiggles her eyebrows to make sure she gets a laugh is a Cool Girl.