Dammit, beat me to it. 

Just ten years previously Edie McClurg was herself playing a high schooler in Carrie. Blows my mind.

Jesus, who came up with this theory, the St. Elsewhere writing staff?

I think she’s great and she and Harry absolutely made the right decision.

God forbid a black actress got Harry before she could.

Tamir Rice—police “thought” he was armed, he was shot down.

I LOVE THIS. Ever since I posted my last thing, I’ve been turning it over in my head and one thing that occurred to me was—okay, in the original timeline, George and Lorraine somehow got together because “Grandpa hit him with a car”? And then they went to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance? We can imagine Biff did…

And—thinking about it some more—not only has the script changed from Marty to Biff being there, from a staged confrontation whose outcome is pre-determined but a very real and terrifying and violent one—Biff is about rape Lorraine—but George has everything to lose from not “just going away,” from making a stand. At…

Aren’t we all?

We used to get horrified looks from the other teams. I remember one girl asking me “How can you play in those conditions?” It sucked.

Yes, yes, yes!!! Ever since I first saw this article I’ve been composing in my head a post about how this movie may be Marty’s story but it’s George’s arc. He was nervous enough to approach Lorraine in the diner (and yes, I love that moment where she first really sees him and how it’s essential, that moment, because…

Unless I misunderstand you, the screaming guitar part comes out of Johnny B. Goode, not before. He plays the intro, sings the first verse, sings the chorus, then repeats the chorus. Then he starts riffing at the beginning of which is when Marvin calls his cousin. He continues to riff more spectacularly while the band…

I mean, FFS she’s getting assaulted in the high school cafeteria and the principal does fuck-all. Seems as though Biff’s behavior was pretty normal and honestly, even in the ‘80s this was still happening. Tangent warning: anyone remember the rape case in the late ‘80s in Glen Ridge NJ—a bunch of HS athletes sexually…

“It is not our way.”

I didn’t remember that—is that in the movie or the book? Either way, fucking brilliant.

Did not remember that--brilliant.

This is why he won’r release his tax returns, and why Bloomberg is able to own him effortlessly. Bloomberg is an actual billionaire (and self-made, at that) whereas Covfefe just cosplays as one.

It’s actually quite a respectable sequel. Damien’s coming to terms with what he is, and his anguish over how this affects his relationship with his cousin, is great. And who doesn’t love the history scene where he owns the jerk teacher!

The whole backstory on this is so fucked. Friedkin abused the shit out of his actors—all of them—to get the perfect, “real” take. He slapped them in the face, fired guns next to them, Linda Blair was in a thin nightgown in a freezing set for days and days. And they dubbed Mercedes McCambridge for some of the demon…

Just the name Captain Howdy is fucking brilliant. So bland, so innocuous—it sounds like the host of a kids’ show.