Bruce Miller having The 100 on his resume is a red flag for me. I have such a negative reaction to the show, it goes beyond disliking, and made me rethink life choices and triggered some anhedonia. It was a strong reaction.

The book's epilogue definitely speculates that the commanders were made infertile by experiment in biological warfare. Assuming the TV show isn't planning in a 200 years later epilogue they are going to have to explore the effect more in the present day.

They said that it was to emphasize how acute and ongoing the fertility crisis is. Also having Serena Joy older is tying her with Offred/June's mothers generation and competing movement in political activism, and the mother isn't (yet) a character.

I just re-read the book, and it's weird how some of the plotting seems to be moving backward, ie the Salvaging was near the end of the book, but is right here in the first episode, the second one has the birth scene which is also near the end of the book but before the Salvaging etc. It's helpful in keeping the…

There were a lot of "we're living in a simulacrum" movies coming out around 1999. The Matrix, Dark City, ExistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, arguably Fight Club. Now isn't the first time that people have acted like reality is fake.

It also does play into the type of tragedy of Crawford in Feud. Her character is an alcoholic with no ways to express the pains that she's been through in life (those briefly mentioned first two marriages). Even the passion with Garfield's character can't overcome the threat that she's just in a vicious cycle. Really…

She said Joan didn't deserve that treatment.

Both of their sons were completely un remarked upon in the series.I get that they were more interested in the relationships between women, more mother and daughters than mothers and sons. However Christopher Crawford supported Christina's Mommie Dearest claims, (which was completely overlooked in the end credit) and…

Murphy has said that he doesn't want to do another showbiz one (at least for a while) but would love to see one about the studio heads back in the day. Mayer v Thalberg, The Warner Brothers

I'm a fan of surrounding oneself with happy colors.

I watched Humoresque for the first time on Saturday. She was great in that, I recommend especially if you like classical music.

When I try to be optimistic about what we are living through (pessimism is for better times) I tell myself that this is just the boiling off of the misogyny and racism, xenophobia before we can really move on from them. Things like this happen and I'm like maybe it's true.

While I like Bette more than you, I find myself uncomfortably empathizing with Joan here. I know if I were her, I would do the same "phony" reach outs on the sets. The never feeling respected enough, not really being able to relax with people and over compensating in formality… I get all of that to an uncomfortable…

Also Leigh would have been very unhealthy 1964 (she died in 1967) and hadn't made a film in years so it seems odd that she'd be considered.

Also To Each His Own, her first Oscar win and a terrific "women's picture."

Complete with a very young Steven Spielberg cameo?

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People act like actress who have a hard time finding work in movies is a new thing. It's as old as the medium.

I only recently realized that Baby Jane was produced by Seven Arts, which would buy Warner Brothers just five years later. I'm hoping that they include reference to that (and the fact that the first big hit they had after the purchase was Bonnie and Clyde, a film Jack didn't understand or like) in this series.

I was hoping for a scene where Davis and De Havilland compared their respective "Joans" , so thank you Feud, for providing me with what I wanted.