I have a thing for period dramas

Raise your hand if your post-break up routine is more like: hermiting, watching horror or romance or comedy films, crying into your comfort food and declaring that you’ll never love again.

Versailles was so bad it was good. I still didn’t finish it but I found the Guardian’s episode guides and those alone are worth a read. I always post them when people bring up Versailles. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/series/versailles-episode-by-episode

Two points:

“Vignette?” Does that mean she gets dark and blurry around the edges?

I would watch the hell out of this premise if either of the actors cast could do more than look gorgeous.

“Eyebrow model turned actress turned “singer” Cara Delevingne is starring alongside Orlando Bloom in what sounds like a real mess of a TV show on Amazon.”

this sounds like a weak ripoff of the (wonderful) comic book series “Fables”

I assume this is an attempt to ride Game of Thrones’ fantasy coattails? But the combination of grit and whimsy and the faerie analogues to real-world crises seem risky/unlikely to work out.

To me it feels more like he’s giving the middle finger to Universal for not optioning him the Creature From The Black Lagoon entry in their non-starter “Dark Universe”. I’ll take a del Toro creature feature over any of those proposed trainwrecks any day.

I saw that. I don’t know what in the fresh hell is going on over there lately. Oy.

The NYT has really been trolling lately. If it were any other publication, I would wonder why she was still being given a platform.

kinda like a half Japanese pierce brosnan

I guess it’s easier to say “No” when it’s a minor role (ergo “less money”), but still this puts other actors who just went along with it to shame (yeah, Tilda Swinton, I’m talking about you.).

The positive PR hell get for this might end up better for his career than the part would have been, as well.

You could make the opposite argument that it’s harder when you need every minor role you can get to keep your rent paid, the lights and water on and food on the table. But I don’t think it takes anything away from Skrein if he decided “You know what, I don’t need to get my arse dragged through another whitewashing…

I guess it’s easier to say “No” when it’s a minor role (ergo “less money”), but still this puts other actors who just went along with it to shame (yeah, Tilda Swinton, I’m talking about you.).

I wonder if Emma Stone is busy.

The irony of being offended by someone else’s comments and then demanding that they not be offended. You can’t make up this level of cognitive dissonance.

Me too, and the one from Malin + Goetz is pretty boss. SPF 30, broad spectrum via oxybenzone/avobenzone and accompanying stabilizers, no white cast, no oil slick, about $38 for 1.7oz. My writing partner loves Biore UV Watery Gel stuff (a Korean import), but her skin is quite different from mine (acne, but severely dry…