19I fell in love with Kerry Washington a little bit last night. Hilary Rhoda was interviewing her on the livesteam — and, listen, Hilary Rhoda is lovely, but a gifted celebrity interviewer she is not. Can’t they hire Coco for this sort of thing? — and she mentioned that she loves going to the Met, because of how much she loves From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. You had me at “Frankweiler,” Kerry Washington. Can we get together and talk about awesome childhood books? What are your feelings on Harriet the Spy?
I think she looks great from the neck up. I LONG for them to allow Olivia Pope to look like this more often (Olivia has looked tired lately, although I guess with good reason. It’s more that I feel like if Olivia Pope got to look a weeeeee bit more Kerry Washington every now and then, her personal life would not be such a disaster). I appreciate the nod to theme with the fishnet in her cleavage (that sentence is much uglier than the actual dress) and the leather gloves, and you KNOW I love a pattern. Am I 100% sold on this little number? I’m not sure.
Loading ...I have to admit that I have no idea why any of these people are invited to an event that’s designed for White House Correspondents — although I TOTALLY know why they all accepted their invites. But I kind of wish someone would let Amy Poehler report from the Front Lawn now and then. I saw SNL. I know she can do it.
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Much like an episode of Scandal, Kerry Washington’s clothes are occasionally crazy-wacko, but damn, are they watchable. Fortunately, in this case, their sanity is not in question.
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@thebestjasmine I want to high five her - J
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Fugs and Fabs: The ABC Upfronts
I know this is sacrilege, but y’all, I was really super bored by the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip from upfronts. The Once Upon A Time spinoff even looked better, and that — while potentially legitimately okay in some aspects — involves a lot of really serious utterances of the word “genie.”
Lotto show Lucky 7 seems blah (didn’t we already do this when it was called Windfall and it starred Luke Perry and Lana Parilla?); Killer Women has a terrible title and may not be lighthearted enough about itself to make up for it; Resurrection seems more like a miniseries but I was surprisingly moved by parts of it; Betrayal looks like it will be incredibly dull when stretched across 13 (much less 22) episodes; Mind Games seems promising but maybe that’s just by comparison; and Mixology… looks like a total shitshow in the vein of the rapidly canceled and widely reviled My Generation from the 2010 season. The tagline is basically One Season, One Bar, One Night, and thirteen to twenty-two hours set inside one bar with those characters sounds so claustrophobic that I almost tunneled out of my house just from the clip alone.
As for the comedies… OH WAIT, Mixology IS supposed to be a comedy, which is the funniest thing about it from what I can tell. Super Fun Night appears only to embody one of those words, and it’s neither of the first two (sorry, Rebel Wilson); Trophy Wife is very whatever, Back In The Game meh, and The Goldbergs just makes me want to go stream some Wonder Years episodes and regret that Dan Lauria wasn’t immortal and ageless because every nostalgic show about childhood should involve him. Jeff Garlin’s unmodulated barking stresses me out in this context.
Potential Fug The Show candidates: Zero, as far as I can see. Sigh.
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