Why was the film greenlit at all? Even on paper, it sounds like a terrible idea. I just have such a hard time picturing someone pitching this movie and the studio saying “we love it! go ahead!” which I guess shows just how out of touch movie studios are....

Pictured: the average Egyptian at the time:

They didn’t greenlight this film with the thought of having one film. They greenlit it hoping to get three films out of this.

My mom was (is) a nurse, and was always very matter-of-fact about sex and bodily functions. I never felt embarrassed to ask her anything, she was very frank, despite being a conservative Christian in the Bible Belt. Our discussions about sex (at least in my high school years) were more like “Well, I think you should…

Kate Bosworth, Sienna Miller, Blake Lively, Monica Potter, Gretchen Mol, Elizabeth Shue, Katherine Heigl, LeeLee Sobieski. And Chloe Sevigny. How can I forget Chloe.

Also known as the starlet Vogue was obsessed with before Blake Lively. Someone who knows more about Vogue’s history can tell us a long list of boring blondes that survived on Vogue’s support alone, I’m sure.

It ended up not really being that kind of horror movie- that was a marketing ploy I guess. It actually was more of a historical/psychological thriller, not a BOO jumpscare movie.

Molly’s dad was fighting in WWII.

Haha yeah. The other books did deal with some sideplots that were a little darker: Samantha made friends with a sad poor child factory worker I think? And Molly had an English girl come stay with her who escaped the London bombing and was worried about her dad dying in the war? But they were definitely side plots to…

I’m glad they’re putting out a black doll with a lighter backstory, really. Addy was compelling, but her story was incredibly dark, comparatively. Molly had to deal with her brother ruining her Halloween costume. I seem to remember Samantha having some kind of a problem with ice cream. Addy fled slavery and got hunted…

The magazine is still great. My daughter gets so excited the day it arrives in the mail.

I’m a huge fan of her hair, and I think the Motown focus is a great way to emphasize Detroit’s cultural heritage. But it also makes me think the focus will be the early 1960s, I.e before the Detroit riots of 1967. I’ll also be interested to see if the books address redlining and school segregation in Detroit in any…

I never had an AG doll as a kid, but I had a lot of the books. The scene in which Addy is forced to eat a handful of tobacco bugs by an overseer because she is working too slowly or something gave me nightmares for months.

Take the kids! It’s just like a Pilgrim Petting Zoo!

Spoiler alert!

I could have sworn I’ve seen something like this in a movie before...

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Several inches. They’re long (longer than a typical human male’s) and skinny.

Are you then saying that you find the rest of the question perfectly reasonable?

It can't be that baaaaaaad.