I’m stunned people did not know this. Honestly. Even I have seen Jeremiah Johnson. 

2003, actually. She was assigned in 2002. 

Dr. Reisman is a solid television therapist

Slightly later (2005), there’s also Infamous>=<Capote. Both are praiseworthy (though Infamous doesn’t get nearly enough credit), they’re very different from each other, and I cannot pick a winner. E.g., PSH’s performance as Capote is incandescent, while Toby Jones does a fantastic job and looks more like him; the…

People didn’t stop dying from AIDS. People stopped dying from AIDS as often. And no, I’m not in favor of another time jump. 

I’m waiting for that weird story ML told Madeleine about her short fake former bestie from school who betrayed her to come back around with a Chekhovian bullet. 

No one will ever top this. But I sure can’t wait for someone with prodigious amounts of talent to try. 

No. 

Oh me too. 

Is Fosse/Verdon actually ending tonight? Is this a one-and-done show? Because there’s actually quite a bit left after All That Jazz in the Fosse/Verdon timeline. Not sure a whole season’s worth, though. And it certainly seemed clear they were planning to wrap with his death, since they started eight minutes before it. 

I really doubt it. The source material makes a point of establishing how much Nicole looked like her dad. I mean ... Exhibit A:

You should read Fosse, on which this miniseries is based. Fosse came out of the heart attack experience with a weirdly heightened hostility towards Verdon, right out of the gate. 

Yeah, no. She’d probably not have been quite as revered - something about “a whole lot bigger than the sum of its parts” springs to mind - but it wasn’t Fosse or nothing for Verdon. 

Fair enough! 

This criticism confuses me. Every episode so far (AFAICR) has used the work he was doing “at the time” as a narrative frame and metaphor for the personal crap.

With us all, my friend. I was a musical theater student in college (right after ATJ came out) and a friend had the soundtrack but hadn’t seen the movie. She kept wondering what that sound was and figured it had to be him getting a blow job. I didn’t have the heart to tell her. :ba-dum-tish:

Yes, because titles must be analytically and factually pristine.

You’ll get no argument from me. I’m also stunned by Rockwell but good LORD, Williams inhabits Verdon like she’s a skin suit or something. (That ... that came out way creepier than it sounded in my head.)

This is such a well-made show. By which I mean it’s crafted well, if I can use that word without sounding too precious. All the moving parts align so perfectly together that in a rare occurrence for a biopic-style show, I actually forget the actors behind the personas for a bit. I looked at Michelle Williams in that…

Those terms came from Ashley’s self-description to the author, she says. I’ve read the book - it’s not quite as icky as (I agree) it looks on first blush. But yeah, it induced some serious side-eye here.