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I was a little on the fence about watching it at first, but it actually turned out to be a surprisingly fun and touching show. Tbh I was mostly interested in checking it out because of Gillian Anderson, but then I ended up getting more invested in the teen characters instead. The promotion was a bit misleading actually as I got the impression that Gillian and the Otis actor we going to be co-leads, instead it was really mostly a teen-focused drama, and Gillian was more of a supporting player as the snooping mother. It reminded me a lot of Skins actually, although I must say that sixth form was never that scandalous and sex-obsessed when I was at school, some of the sex and nudity was certainly a bit eye-opening!

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'Buffy the Vampire Slayer': Jordie Bellaire, Jeanine Schaeffer Talk Taking the "Ultimate Marvel" Approach to the New Series


JB: I think me and Jeanine when we first started talking about the project, we both talked about how we both love Willow. I think Willow definitely has a lot of charm being this sweet, quiet, bookish girl, but she really came into her own confidence in the later parts of the show. I just think that's the thing that young girls need today, you know, I think we need strong female characters who are confident, not just shrinking violets. Not to say that obviously there aren't women who are like that, still confident, but I just thought it would be a nice flip and a nice change for once to have somebody smart, to have somebody sweet, who is also confident and who can speak her mind and can be honest, and open, and frank


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JB: Well again, I think like the reversal of Willow, I really liked Dru and her journey throughout the show and the books and stuff, and I really wanted to start her off strong and maybe a little brazen and arrogant. I think that her being a strong character and kind of being frightening, not because she's so unhinged because of what had happened to her in her history. I really wanted her to come off just completely like dominant, completely controlling, really frightening, just like The Master. Again, reversing the idea that there is a male antagonist to Buffy, but actually that her greatest foe could actually be a woman. That's sort of why we went with that for Dru. In my mind, I just want to see her starting off kicking ass, like right away. I don't want us to think, "Oh poor Dru." I want to kind of be like, "I don't want to be in the same room with her at all. She's horrifying."


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JB: Well, I think Spike is a sweetheart. He's a big old sweetie pie. I'm a big Team Spike. I really like Spike, and I think that he is a poet. I mean, imagine how a poet's gonna get on with a domineering lady in his life. It's probably not going to be super great for Spike. I don't think he's gonna have a lot of agency. I don't think he's gonna have a lot of his own say or control of things. So that's sort of the relationship I'm interested to explore.

I think maybe originally he kind of pretended that he was a bit more equal than I think he actually felt comfortable. I think we're gonna lean into the fact that he's an outsider, even among outsiders, especially near Dru


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And my final nitpick is that I read on ONTD that the Prophecy has been changed? It’s no longer "Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer."

It’s now

-"Into every generation a slayer is born; A Chosen One. They alone will wield the strength and skill to fight vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. They are the Slayer."

That’s one of the most bizarre changes to me in fact, it’s meant to be more inclusive to use neutral pronouns I guess, but the whole concept of Buffy from the beginning was celebrating female power?


To be a little more positive though, I do like that the art looks miles better than the artist they used for the season 8 comics (the article has lots of examples of the inside art). I just wish they didn’t feel the need to completely change preexisting characters, while still giving them the same name. It’s interesting that I haven’t heard them discuss Buffy much actually, so I assume that means that she hasn’t been changed as much as the supporting cast?

My Struggle was just urgh such a bad way to start the season off unfortunately. Lol at the super unnecessary Mulder voiceovers, like you really don’t think you couldn’t have just shown him spotting that someone was tailing him, you have to have a whole voiceover of his inner thoughts to tell us what’s happening?! The car chase scenes felt weirdly small-scale as well, it seemed like Chris Carter used to be a much better director back in the day? And then you can tell that he thought it was such a genius twist to throw in a retcon based on an episode from 17 years earlier, but first time around the whole thing was so sick and disturbing that I honestly believed that CSM must be lying, that all would be explained later :(

And I noticed that Agents Einstein and Miller got *very* short shift in this one compared to all of the time spend on them at the end of last season, I wonder if CC really was originally thinking of setting them up for a younger spin-off, and then changed his mind after audience feedback proved to be so negative?


On a more positive note, I remember an interview with CC talking about one complaint they took onboard with season 10 was the lack of Mulder/Scully interaction disappointing fans, and I think it really comes across that they’re making an effort to correct that in This. They’re having Mulder/Scully work together in nearly every scene, as well as throwing in some cute asides for the fans like Mulder’s joke about handcuffs, or telling Scully how adorbs she looks when she’s sleeping. Shipper me lapped it all up naturally lol, and of course I loved seeing them sleeping on the sofa together <3 The scene by Deep Throat’s grave was a nice touch too.

In fact this was actually an episode that I overall found a lot better than I remembered once I started getting into it. I wasn’t always a fan of their virtual reality episodes tbh, but this one turned out to be pretty fun in the end. It felt a bit like a Black Mirror episode even. Aww poor Skinner though, Scully and Mulder were super rude to him in this one!


Plus One was a mixture for me. I wasn’t a big fan of the main plot, it felt like it was mostly there as an acting showcase for the actress playing the twins. CC seems to love episodes with doubles, but it didn’t quite work for me, it all seemed so random and didn’t come together as a proper case at all. However I loved the Mulder/Scully scenes naturally, so they pretty much made the episode for me :D Admittedly I was kind of frustrated that they didn’t get even one onscreen kiss this season, but I actually really liked how Plus One handles them sleeping together. I mean it probably would have felt a bit weird and out of the blue if we had actually seen Mulder and Scully rolling around in bed together lol, instead their scenes here were very sexy in a more understated way which is perfect for them really

One thing that stood out to me this time around though was that, not only did Judy guess Scully’s age as 40’s, but also Mulder asked Scully what was stopping her from having another kid, so it almost feels like CC wanted the audience to forget Scully’s real age in order to set up the pregnancy reveal in the finale? At the time I thought that Mulder was just being kind after Scully brings up that he could meet someone younger and have kids, but now I’m wondering if CC actually meant for Mulder to be throwing it back to her as a serious option? It’s well-known by now though that Gillian has always played older than her real age on The X-Files, Scully should be well into her 50’s by now, and in the context of the series (William being 16, Scully already being a qualified Doctor when we first met her) it just doesn’t work to try and retcon that...


And The Lost Art Of Forehead Sweat is an all-time classic for me! It felt a bit like Darin Morgan’s attempt of a sequel for Jose Chung’s From Outer Space when it comes to looking at how objective truth can be, and really it had too many hilarious moments to count (Mulder in his Bigfoot outfit, ‘I’m Fox freaking Mulder you punks!’, the butterfly net and the straightjacket, ‘bing bing bong bong bing’, Scully tuning out Mulder’s Bigfoot ramblings, the Twilight Zone opening parody, Mulder falling on the floor in a tantrum and kicking his legs, and well I could go on and on really lol). I especially loved the flashbacks incorporating Reggie in all of the classic episode clips, and taking a shot at themselves with the comment on this one had better not be about killercats 😂

It was nicely self-aware too with Scully drawing attention to Mulder maybe losing his taste for conspiracy after all the birther theories from this century, this was basically The X-Files wanting to make it clear that they don’t want the classic conspiracies of their show to be associated with the current far right. (I remember there were a few angry murmurs at the time when season 10 incorporated vaccinations into season 10 as part of the government conspiracy, even though that was always something that the show traditionally did.)

I’m not sure how much some of the references in this episode are going to date it in the future mind you, but lmao you gotta love the commentary on ~fake news~ with the little evil Dr. They in the red MAGA cap among the ‘hundreds of millions of people at the inauguration’, and well I think the hilarity of the following moment speaks for itself 🤣



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Which TV shows did you start watching in 2018?

Feud, Sharp Objects, Peaky Blinders, Killing Eve, and The Haunting Of Hill House. All brilliant shows that had me totally enthralled <3 I don’t think I said anything about Killing Eve or Peaky Blinders at the time though actually, but I really want to start using my LJ more next year and keep it up to date with what I’m currently watching. I may rewatch some of them next year anyway and talk about them then, these shorter seasons of 8 or so episodes make binge-watching so much easier!


Which TV shows did you let go of in 2018?

I’m not sure if I’ve quit all of them for good or not, but at the moment I don’t have any plans to keep up with iZombie, Empire, Wentworth, Suits, or Doctor Who. It used to be a struggle for me to quit shows that I had been invested in, but there’s so many promising shows being brought out by streaming services now that it makes it really hard to stay motivated for a season of tv that you’re not that excited for, and have to force yourself to keep pushing through episodes. I probably will pick up Suits and Doctor Who again at some point though...

And The Americans and The X-Files both ended this year, as well as the premature cancellation of Daredevil :(


Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2018? Why?

The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina was one that I was intrigued by, but then ended up dropping after the fourth episode because I found it all a bit slow. And I ended up dropping out halfway through The Handmaids Tale just because I had problems with my Internet connection, and by the time I was back online again they had already taken episode 205 down 🙄 I’m hopefully going to catch up on that sometime though if C4 ever get it back up!


Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2019?

Too many! I just renewed my Amazon Prime and they have quite a few interesting shows. At the moment Runaways, Homecoming, Castle Rock, The Good Fight, Lucifer, and Person Of Interest are all on my watch list. Ooh and seasons 1-12 of Supernatural are on there as well I recently discovered, so I want this to finally be the year for me to catch up with seasons 10-12. And I noticed they have Buffy in HD, so I’m really tempted to have a Buffy rewatch this year as well. I know that fans hate the changes and how the lighting has been messed up etc, but truthfully I can’t deny that I find that clear picture super tempting when I’m skimming through season 2 episodes to admire the difference. Willow running through the woods in Phases say, or Buffy and Spike’s confrontation in the darkened hallways in School Hard, WOW it all looks soooo much clearer than the grainy and fuzzy old video tape kind of quality that I have on my DVDs.

And with Netflix I’m interested in checking out the new Black Mirror episode, You, Maniac, The Alienist, The Crown, and the second season of The Sinner

And I’m thinking of checking out the first couple of episodes of The Perfectionists which is the follow-up to Pretty Little Lies, but I’m not sure if it’s going to be airing in the U.K. or not? Fingers crossed that Netflix pick it up!


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And Happy New Year, I hope that everyone who is celebrating has a good one :D

Eliza Dushku: I worked at CBS. I didn’t want to be sexually harassed. I was fired

By Eliza Dushku

The narrative propagated by CBS, actor Michael Weatherly, and writer-producer Glenn Gordon Caron is deceptive and in no way fits with how they treated me on the set of the television show “Bull’’ and retaliated against me for simply asking to do my job without relentless sexual harassment. This is not a “he-said/she-said” case. Weatherly’s behavior was captured on CBS’s own videotape recordings.
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I feel compelled to chronicle what actually happened after The New York Times published a story about how CBS handled my allegations. I declined to be interviewed for that piece because I wanted to honor the terms of my settlement with the network. I was under the impression that Weatherly and Caron would also not respond per our settlement. Instead, all commented to the Times in what amounted to more deflection, denial, and spin.

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Late response, but what an absolutely wonderful show that was, definitely one of my favourite shows to come out of Netflix this year. Admittedly sometimes it was a bit too scary for me as I’m a total wuss who hates jump scares, I often found myself watching through my fingers because the tension and buildup were becoming too much, but what I really found myself loving was the family drama, and following the past and the present as we found out how it all came together

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Apparently the second season isn’t going to involve the Crain family at all? I’m hoping that it will get into the history of the house though maybe, and spend more time exploring the ghosts there and their stories

First Look: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Cast Gets a Gen-Z Makeover From BOOM!



BOOM! Studios today unveiled the first look at characters designs from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER by Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan Mora (Klaus, Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers).

Debuting in comic shops on January 9th, 2019 in partnership with 20th Century Fox Consumer Products, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #1 reimagines the groundbreaking pop culture phenomenon from the very beginning!

Alongside Mora, Eisner Award-nominated writer Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and series creator/story consultant Joss Whedon (the visionary writer/director behind Firefly, Marvel’sThe Avengers, and more) invite readers to meet a Buffy Summers like the one they know – trying to make friends at her new school, get decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil. But the Slayer’s world looks a lot more like the one outside your window, as this new series brings her into a new era with new challenges, new friends...and a few enemies you might already recognize (including fan-favorite Drusilla’s debut as THE MISTRESS).


Hmm not sure how I feel about some of the redesigns, the art is certainly well done and looks good, but I don’t recognise what they’ve done with the original characters in some cases...For example it seems a shame to completely lose Drusilla’s Victorian look, I can’t see the original character in suits at all? And Buffy looks cool, but it’s a little bit strange to see her more practically dressed in flannel and jeans when there was such an emphasis on her wanting to be traditionally ~girly~ during the high school years of the tv series, that conflict was a pretty big part of the show, no?

Willow is the strangest to me though, again she looks cool, but literally nothing like how high school Willow would ever dress? It was always bad fashion with that character, brightly coloured tights and garish pink jumpers, and here she’s in short skirts and midriff bearing tops? That just seems like the exact opposite of how Willow was portrayed before, she was certainly way too embarrassed to wear anything revealing when Buffy suggests it for Halloween, so how drastically are they rebooting here?

Nice to see that they kept Spike’s classic look the same as ever though *g* And apparently no designs released as yet for Giles, Cordelia, and Angel?

‘Veronica Mars’ Revival Series Near Deal At Hulu With Kristen Bell Reprising Role’

Rob Thomas’ cult favorite noir mystery drama Veronica Mars starring Kristen Bell is making another comeback, this time as an eight-episode limited series at Hulu.

I hear the streaming platform is finalizing deals for the new installment, with star Bell set to reprise her role as sleuth Veronica Mars. I hear there have been preliminary conversations about bringing back a number of the other cast members from the original series and followup movie


:incoherent screaming and hyperventilating:

Urgh sorry to have disappeared for so long, I’ve finally managed to resolve the issues with my home broadband :shakes fist at TalkTalk:

So what does everyone think about the news that’s just come out on a Buffy reboot?

One of the most beloved TV series of the past two decades, Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is making a comeback. A reboot of the supernatural drama is in development at Fox 21 TV Studios, the cable/streaming division of 20th Century Fox TV, the studios behind the original series, which ran for seven seasons, first on the WB and then on UPN

Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen has been tapped as writer, executive producer and showrunner of the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with the original series’ creator and showrunner Whedon set to executive produce alongside original series’ exec producers Gail Berman, Fran Kazui and Kaz Kazui as well as Joe Earley from Berman’s Jackal Group.

The new version, which will be pitched to streaming and cable networks this summer, will be contemporary, building on the mythology of the original. Per the producers: “Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today.”

According to sources, the diversity in the show’s description reflects the producers’ intention for the new slayer to be African American. The sources cautioned that the project is still in nascent stages with no script, and many details are still in flux

(Article from deadline which LJ won’t let me link)

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