I am pretty excited about the return of Game of Thrones. There is so much sister-loving, nephew-slapping, kid-pushing, family-murdering, dragon-mythologizing (and wintering) to come. Let’s look at them out of costume.
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I am pretty excited about the return of Game of Thrones. There is so much sister-loving, nephew-slapping, kid-pushing, family-murdering, dragon-mythologizing (and wintering) to come. Let’s look at them out of costume.
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It’s been a while since this many faces of Glee were in the same room. Not so long ago they were an inescapable dozen (or whatever). Gotta love ensemble nominations. I actually wish the Emmys did that, too. Sometimes, Hollywood, have to BRIBE the fashion out onto the red carpet.
* Note: Late adds of Amber Riley and Jenna Ushkowitz, because their pictures hadn’t turned up yet when I wrote this post.
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Men, shmen! Dresses are more fun. We’ll get to the suits eventually, but whatever the hell Diane Kruger is wearing — plus the absurd raft of other famous people in questionable outfits — is more important right now.
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I love that, with the continued proliferation of panels for shows like Glee, ComicCon has basically widened its net to PopCultureCon, or SomeMoviesAndThenOtherTVShowsWeReallyWantYouToWatch-BecauseTheyAren’tCheapToMakeCon. And I am forever grateful for it. I know summer is a huge movie season, but for some reason it also feels like a fallow period for fuggery sometimes. Maybe I’m just projecting my own desire to be on vacation all the time upon the celebrities whom I hope will never take vacations so I can look at their pants.
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Fugs and Fabs: The FOX Upfronts
We need to talk about the FOX shows. Well, I haven’t watched the comedy clips yet, but the dramas… I can’t tell if they’re a steaming pile of awful or secretly so hate-watchably amazing that it becomes love-watching. Almost Human stars Karl Urban and Michael Ealy and LILI TAYLOR WHY ARE YOU THERE, and here is my run-on sentence summary: It’s set in a world where cops have cyborg partners, but Karl doesn’t care for this, see, because he’s been asleep for two years (?) and doesn’t have anyone around him like Ironside does to shout things like “DAMMIT, MAN, WE HAVE PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED,” so he crankily throws his cyborg out of the car and it gets run over by a semi and then a “defective” old-model detective is assigned to him, and it’s Ealy, and he says things like “I WAS MADE TO FEEL,” and a grudging-respect is born and also probably some conspiracy hooey. Urban looks like he’s phoning it in so hard and so long that his roaming charges will be astronomical. Cramazing.
And yada-yada Greg Kinnear in Rake as a ne’er-do-well (not a gardening tool, though the latter might inspire Emmy voters more) is zzzzzz, AND THEN. Sleepy Hollow has to be seen to be believed. It’s like Thor (Olde-Tymey Ichabod Crane comes back to life in modern America; makes wry comments about how many Starbucks we have and whether the black cops have all been emancipated, because slavery jokes are a treasure) meets National Treasure: Book of Horsemen (“THE ANSWERS ARE IN WASHINGTON’S BIBLE, ICHABOD! ICHABOOOOOOD!!!!!”) and even includes a moment when the cops shout “PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD… oh, wait” and ends with the slogan “Heads. Will. Roll.” As Stefon would say, “It. Has. Everything.” As I would say, “It. Is. Hilarrible.” I’m virtually certain I will watch. Then again, I said that when The Cape‘s hilarrible promo came out a few years ago, and I only made it through an episode and a half.
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