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The Underground Railroad (2021)
The Underground Railroad is a visual treat and incorporates elements of magical realism that really bring Cora's story to life. 3.5/5 stars overall. More in the link.
Rating: 3.5/5
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 94% Critic, 74% Audience
Overview: When Cora flees from the plantation in the Georgia where she has been a slave since birth, she is startled to find the Underground Railroad is in fact a railroad, complete with trains, conductors, and tracks to take you better places, and worse ones, and perhaps, if she’s lucky, it might take her all the way to freedom,…
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#Amazon Original#Amazon Prime#Barry Jenkins#Historical fiction#Magical Realism#The Underground Railroad#The Underground Railroad (2021)#TV reviews#TV Show Reviews#tv shows
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What's an obscure piece of media you wish more people knew about?
hi! I'm honestly so bad at judging what's obscure and what's not. In high school, I genuinely thought my music taste was alternative because I was the only person in my group of friends who listened to the Jonas Brothers. so idk if this is obscure media but it's media I love that I wish I could talk to people more about:
Some Girls (2012-14) - this sitcom series about 4 high school besties who live around the same housing estate was EVERYTHING to me. think Derry Girls/Sex Education but in the early 2010s with working class poc. I still quote this show at least once a week and miss it dearly even tho it ended exactly as it should!!
While The Men Are Away (2023-?) - lesbian period drama comedy about a bunch of Australian lesbians on the WW2 homefront in regional Australia. Beautifully horny show that also has STUNNING representation of immigrant and Indigenous experiences of the time.
Clarice (2020) - silence of the lambs sequel series that follows Clarice Sterling on a case 2 years after her encounter with Hannibal Lector. so sad this was cancelled but it's still a great season of tv!
The Underground Railroad (2021) - limited series on Amazon Prime about the Underground Railroad. Tw for literally everything, BUT it's directed by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins and his hands down some of the most beautiful TV I've ever seen.
The Silent Sea (2020) - limited series on Netflix about some astronauts sent to a mining station on the moon where something has infected all the crew.
The OA (2016-18) - difficult to describe this show but it's everything to me. theeeeee show about multiverses. Ahead of its time, gone too soon 💔
But 2 genuinely obscure pieces of media I think people should watch, especially rn, are Salt of this Sea (a film about a Palestinian-American woman heisting an Israeli bank to get her grandfather's money back) and the 2019 sci-fi short film In Vitro about an elderly Palestinian woman in an underground bunker trying to pass on why she's here to another Palestinian woman but neither can remember.
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My favorite Black couples in Period Films/Series.
An anon recently asked me about my favorite Black couples in period films/series. I have a few! Some of which come along with trigger warnings and a bit of a heads up on not so happy endings. Some of these couples have happy endings, some have endings that leave you wondering, and some have beautiful relationships that ended tragically.
Happy Endings (To me anyway.)
Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) & Rachel Robinson (Nicole Beharie) in 42 (2013).
Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) & Colonel Jim Johnson (Mahershala Ali) in Hidden Figures (2016).
Chicken George (Regé-Jean Page) & Matilda (Erica Tazel) in Roots (2016).
Marie Ste. Marie (Nicole Lyn) & Richard Lermontant (Jason Olive) in The Feast of All Saints (2001).
The characters in this miniseries go through a lot. TW for SA.
Not So Happy Endings (SPOILER-ISH!!)
Rosalee (Jurnee Smollett) & Noah (Aldis Hodge) in Underground (2016-2017).
Canceled on a cliffhanger.
Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne) & Alonzo 'Fonny' Hunt (Stephan James) in If Beale Street Could Talk (2018).
The ending isn’t definite. I choose to think positively about their story.
Cora William (Thuso Mbedu) & Royal (William Jackson Harper) in The Underground Railroad (2021).
This story ends tragically.
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) has generations of a few sweet relationships that I enjoy watching.
#Black in Period Films#Chadwick Boseman#Nicole Beharie#Hidden Figures#Katherine G. Johnson#Taraji P. Henson#Mahershala Ali#Roots 2016#Chicken George#Rege Jean Page#Erica Tazel#The Feast of All Saints#Jurnee Smollett#Aldis Hodge#KiKi Layne#Stephan James#If Beale Street Could Talk#Thuso Mbedu#The Underground Railroad#William Jackson Harper#Roots the Next Generation
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Thuso Mbedu as Cora in The Underground Railroad (TV Mini-Series, 2021).
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Thuso Mbedu & Aaron Pierre in The Underground Railroad E8 (2021)
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US-centric racial bullshit is even a problem in Canada. We LOVE pretending that we’re so much better than the United States and that our prejudices aren’t nearly as bad, but the way we’ve treated indigenous peoples has been abysmal for centuries, and most Canadians who aren’t Gen Z weren’t even aware of the worst of it until 2021. I’m not sure how many people outside of Canada know this but in 2021 they found a mass grave of 215 indigenous children outside an old residential school in Kamloops in BC, and everyone was scandalized for approximately two weeks. They’ve since searched like maybe five more schools out of over a hundred and found thousands of more bodies, and the initiative to even look has kind of fizzled out. This was my parents’ first exposure to the idea of residential schools, we’ve been sweeping this shit under the rug for decades, and we still get off to “not being the US”.
All this to say that Canadian history isn’t as flashy as the US but is still worth taking a look at. There’s a lot of harmful institutions still in place left over from like 1873 that symbolize incredibly tense political situations that continue to this day. And even our black history gets boiled down to “Underground Railroad”, oh aren’t we nice, when that’s really not all that happened.
Because I read international news and follow international politics, I am personally aware of the Canadian residential schools scandal, but it absolutely is something that fizzled out after a few weeks and was attempted to be covered up with a few boilerplate apologies and nothing in the way of real change or action. I would therefore gently question your phrasing of "US-centric racial bullshit," since the whole point of your ask is that while Canada pretends to be better than the US, it has its own specific racial and cultural blind spots relating to its own practice of racism. So would this not be more accurately called "Canada-centric racial bullshit?" After all, you're talking about something that happened in Canada, was perpetrated by Canadians, is directly related to the modern Canadian state, and as such as has been denied by white Canadians. After all, the big Trucker March of right-wingers that shut down Toronto took place in Canada, not the US. So yes, there's definitely a need to talk about Canadian racism in and of itself, and not just Canadian racism as a corollary of the US.
Canada is likewise a white settler-colonial state founded by Europeans (English and French, a split still prominent in modern Canada), and that therefore involved equally horrendous legacies of displacement and genocide against the First Nations people. Because Canada is so much smaller population-wise (300 million+ in the US vs just 38 million in Canada), it has thus to some degree been forced to expand its population by relying on immigrants and refugees. And to its credit, it has been more proactive about accepting refugees than the US. But there are still plenty of right-wingers who think that a geographically enormous and empty country like Canada, with only 38 million people, is getting too "crowded" with "foreigners." Likewise, Canada is still officially a part of the Commonwealth, aka the lightly rebranded British Empire, so its formal head of state is the UK monarch. And to the best of my knowledge, there haven't been any serious conversations about breaking that link and reorganizing as a republic, the way there have been in Caribbean Commonwealth countries like Jamaica and Barbados (which in fact just did it). That is because white first-world Canadians can see association with the British Empire as a "prestige," instead of the legacy of slavery and exploitation that was the British Empire against majority-black countries in the Caribbean.
Anyway: Canadians are always stereotyped as the nice people who apologize for everything and mind their business, and yes, the flaming dumpster fire of America would make anyone feel superior about not being that. But it doesn't mean there's no problems or that it's a perfect society free of its own flaws and failures, and Americans are also definitely guilty of treating it as some magical escape valve: witness the "I'm going to move to Canada" refrain when something political goes wrong here. In some ways, yes, that would be preferable, viz. free healthcare and strict gun laws. But yeah.
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Happy 43rd, Barry Jenkins.
On the set of The Underground Railroad (2021).
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My media this week (25 Feb - 2 Mar 2024)
nancy is the superstar of this show. she's in it for 5 seconds, drops the best line, steals the scene
📚 STUFF I READ 📚
🥰 What I Used To Be (thepinupchemist) - 117K, stucky, omegaverse trauma recovery fic - a relatively light tone, mostly escapist fic focusing on the recovery, not dwelling overly much on trauma details, kidfic but I really dug it
😍 The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi #1) (Shannon Chakraborty, author; Lameece Issaq & Amin El Gamal, narrator) - just gonna KJ Charle's review bc she's better with words than I'll ever be: "Good god, this was incredible fun. Absolutely cracking. A sort of take on Sinbad but with more historical accuracy (apart from the demons, marids, etc), with a middle-aged retired lady pirate getting the crew back together to take on a Frankish coloniser/sorceror/baddie. It's just fabulous exuberant fun." I cannot wait for more!
😊 The Werewolf Companion (MargaretKire) - traumatized derek hale, intriguing larger worldbuilding, hot, wet, messy sex that really leaned into the 'definitely not human' aspect of werewolf fucking without going full xeno. super enjoyable
🥰 My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1) (PG Wodehouse) - our intro to Bertie & Jeeves 💖 [via Serial Reader app]
💖💖 +50K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖
A Fine Cure from Fennel Seed (Lucius Parhelion (Parhelion)) - original work, 10K - absolutely delightful amuse-bouche of an original fic; short, hot, slapsticky hilarious, set in the '30s
📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺
Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi read a FIERY letter exchange
Hot Ones - Quinta Brunson
D20: Adventuring Party - s3, e1-5
D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "The Mystery of the Haunted Subway" (s7, e3)
D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "We Need to Talk About Cody" (s7, e4)
D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Trouble at the Tunnel" (s7, e5)
D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Collaborators" (s7, e6)
D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Parade of Peril" (s7, e7)
Ghosts (US) - s3, e3
Um, Actually - s9, e1
D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Fracas at the Frostyfaire Folk Festival" (s21, e8)
D20: Adventuring Party - "I See Your Butt Plug and I Raise You a Fist" (s16, e8)
🎧 PODCASTS 🎧
Up First - The Sunday Story: The Diaspora's Troubled African Dream
How To! - How To Let Go of a Friendship
⭐ Switched on Pop - Beyoncé's Country
The Sporkful - Gary Gulman’s Ice Cream Joke Was A Cry For Help
Overinvested - West Side Story (2021)
Consider This from NPR - How The Underground Railroad Got Its Name
⭐ It's Been a Minute - Da'Vine Joy Randolph on 'The Holdovers' and becoming a matriarch
⭐ 99% Invisible #438 - The Real Book
⭐ Vibe Check - Be Forreal!
Pop Culture Happy Hour - Wendy Williams
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Jerry’s Hat Museum
Short Wave - Is It Possible To Feed To World Sustainably?
Decoder Ring - The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Off Menu - Ep 228: Ray Winstone
⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - All About That Bass
I Said No Gifts! - Oscar Montoya Disobeys Bridger
Throughline - The Right to An Attorney
The Assignment - Polyamory Is Having a Moment
The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Black History in Plain Sight with Places Editors Jonathan and Michelle
Short Wave - Could Dune Really Exist? What Scientists Think of Our Favorite Sci-Fi Worlds
What Next: TBD - The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation
Dear Prudence - Am I a Bad Father If I Don't Want to Acknowledge My Kid Publicly? Help!
Welcome to Night Vale #243 - Lost and Found
You're Dead to Me - The Inca Empire
Today, Explained - It’s Shotime!
It's Been a Minute - Three ways to think about journalism layoffs; plus, Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation
Consider This from NPR - Are We Alone In The Universe?
99% Invisible - Roman Mars Describes Santa Fe As It Is
Under the Influence - Seeing is Believing: The Power of Demonstration Commercials - Part 2
🎶 MUSIC 🎶
CREDITS: Carole King
Chromeo Radio • Party
Pop Radio • 1990s
"Easy" [Commodores] radio
Steely Dan Mix • Focus
'90s Dance
Billy Joel Radio • 1980s
#sunday reading recap#bookgeekgrrl's reading habits#bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks#fanfic ftw#the adventures of amina al sirafi#dropout tv#d20#dimension 20#um‚ actually#letters live#hot ones#ghosts (us)#carole king#billy joel#chromeo#steely dan#commodores#20k hz podcast#99% invisible podcast#vibe check podcast#it's been a minute podcast#switched on pop podcast#the atlas obscura podcast#welcome to night vale#you're dead to me podcast#decoder ring podcast#what next: tbd podcast#the sporkful podcast#overinvested podcast#off menu podcast
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The 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century
BBC Culture polled 206 TV experts from 43 countries in order to find the greatest TV of the 21st Century – here’s the top 100
01 The Wire (2002-2008)
02 Mad Men (2007-2015)
03 Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
04 Fleabag (2016-2019)
05 Game Of Thrones (2011-2019)
06 I May Destroy You (2020)
07 The Leftovers (2014-2017)
08 The Americans (2013-2018)
09 The Office (UK) (2001-2003)
10 Succession (2018-)
11 BoJack Horseman (2014-2020)
12 Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
13 Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
14 Atlanta (2016-)
15 Chernobyl (2019)
16 The Crown (2016-)
17 30 Rock (2006-2013)
18 Deadwood (2004-2006)
19 Lost (2004-2010)
20 The Thick Of It (2005-2012)
21 Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-)
22 Black Mirror (2011-)
23 Better Call Saul (2015-2022)
24 Veep (2012-2019)
25 Sherlock (2010-2017)
26 Watchmen (2019)
27 Line Of Duty (2012-2021)
28 Friday Night Lights (2006-2011)
29 Parks And Recreation (2009-2015)
30 Girls (2012-2017)
31 True Detective (2014-2019)
32 Arrested Development (2003-2019)
33 The Good Wife (2009-2016)
34 The Bridge (2011-2018)
35 Fargo (2014-)
36 Downton Abbey (2010-2015)
37 Band Of Brothers (2001)
38 The Handmaid's Tale (2017-)
39 The Office (US) (2005-2013)
40 Borgen (2010-2022)
41 Schitt's Creek (2015-2020)
42 Peep Show (2003-2015)
43 Money Heist (2017-2021)
44 Community (2009-2015)
45 The Good Fight (2017-)
46 Homeland (2011-2020)
47 Grey's Anatomy (2005-)
48 Inside No 9 (2014-)
49 The Bureau (2015-)
50 Halt And Catch Fire (2014-2017)
51 Small Axe (2020)
52 This Is England 86, 88, 90 (2010-2015)
53 Call My Agent! (2015-2020)
54 Happy Valley (2014-)
55 The Shield (2002-2008)
56 The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019)
57 The Young Pope (2016)
58 Dark (2017-2020)
59 The Underground Railroad (2021)
60 House Of Cards (2013-2018)
61 Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)
62 The Good Place (2016-2020)
63 Pose (2018-2021)
64 Detectorists (2014-2017)
65 Orange Is The New Black (2013-2019)
66 Mare Of Easttown (2021)
67 RuPaul's Drag Race (2009-)
68 Stranger Things (2016-)
69 24 (2001-2010)
70 Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)
71 Enlightened (2011-2013)
72 Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)
73 Planet Earth (2006)
74 Utopia (2013-2014)
75 Babylon Berlin (2017-)
76 Rick And Morty (2013-)
77 American Crime Story (2016-)
78 The Killing (Denmark) (2007-2012)
79 Mindhunter (2017-2019)
80 House (2004-2012)
81 OJ: Made In America (2016)
82 Big Little Lies (2017-2019)
83 Insecure (2016-2021)
84 Normal People (2020)
85 Narcos (2015-2017)
86 How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)
87 The Comeback (2005-2014)
88 The OA (2016-2019)
89 Dexter (2006-2013)
90 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (2005-)
91 Westworld (2016-)
92 Show Me A Hero (2015)
93 Treme (2010-2013)
94 Louie (2010-2015)
95 Luther (2010-2019)
96 Catastrophe (2015-2019)
97 Hannibal (2013-2015)
98 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019)
99 Steven Universe (2013-2020)
100 The Queen's Gambit (2020)
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Over the past few weeks, I have been consuming a steady diet of period shows and movies, most of them centered on 19th C America. Glory (1990), 12 Years a Slave (2012), and The Underground Railroad (2021) are a few examples. Most of these stories feature villains who are racist White men. This has given me an opportunity to think in particular ways about how villains work and what makes them effective and also put me in an interesting frame of mind for my yearly The Patriot rewatch.
What all of these racist White villains have in common is not just their brutal actions but their conviction that Black people are intrinsically inferior to and less human than themselves. This is not an individual belief each respective villain holds; it is the foundation of the chattel slavery-based culture in which they live. Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave has a wife who pressures him to be even more brutal than he is and neighboring planters who, while they may treat enslaved people with less overt cruelty than Epps, do not censure his practices. Due to this system, the odds are stacked in Epps’ favor to such an extent that protagonist Solomon Northrop is only able to get away in the end because a White friend comes from New York to prove Northrop is who he says.
Colonel Tavington, on the other hand, simply wants to win the war at any cost. His goal is to stop the South Carolina militia from preventing the British Army’s progress north, and he has no problem will murdering civilians in service of that goal. He has no particular hatred of women, children, and old Patriots, but he can find them. They are defenseless against the Green Dragoons because, well, the dragoons are heavily armed, but the movie’s protagonist is not. Tavington tells General O’Hara that Benjamin Martin and his militia have killed as many as eighteen British officers in two months. Cornwallis has tasked Tavington with finding the militia; how hard would it be for them to let him?
While Epps’ villainy relies on the support system of White supremacy to make it effective, Tavington’s relies almost wholly on his personality and the shock value of his actions. The most shocking aspect of violence against Black people in 12 Years, ironically, is how mundane it is. Just before he goes to the Epps plantation, a lynch mob strings Northrop up from a tree branch, his toes barely touching the ground. Even after the overseer stops them, he leaves Northrop there for hours while everyone goes about their daily activities around him. That Epps administers more violence than others is owing to Northrop spending more time with him than anything else. There are many White men, and one White woman, inflicting such violence, and bystanders simply ignore it. What else can they do?
What is actually shocking about Tavington’s violence against civilians is how many times the militiamen, and the audience by proxy, are shocked by it. Tavington murders Thomas five minutes into his first appearance in the movie. An hour and a half of run time and many months of story time later, after Tavington and the dragoons have burned seven militiamen’s homes and murdered the inhabitants, Martin sends the militia home, marries off his son, sends his new inlaws home to conduct business as usual, and you won’t believe what happens next! Even Tavington draws attention to how expected his propensity for violence should be at this point after locking Martin’s in-laws and their neighbors in the town’s church. When his subordinate informs him that the regiment is ready to fire the town, Tavington is confused by his confusion. “The town? Burn the church.” Honestly, Wilkins. Get your head in the game.
If what makes villains effective is simply wrecking havoc on the lives of the protagonists and their loved ones, then Epps and Tavington both fit the bill. But I find that to be truly effective as a villain, a characters’ violence has to be supported by something other than their own individual whims. Epps is able to commit so much violence against enslaved people, including the protagonist, because his society supports the beliefs that underpin his actions. Tavington is able to commit so much violence against civilians because the protagonist cannot be bothered to stop him. If what is most chilling about 12 Years is how little value Black people had as human beings in the antebellum South, what should be most chilling about The Patriot is how little value even White women and children, who make up the bulk of Tavington’s victims, had in Colonial America.
#the patriot#12 years a slave#edwin epps#william tavington#steve mcqueen#roland emmerich#of course there is the question of intention#mcqueen is making A Point about the horrors of chattel slavery#emmerich uses women and children as little more than props#but that is a whole other post
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✊🏿#ArtIsAWeapon
#Artist: FAITH RINGGOLD @faithringgold
#Art: Coming to Jones Road Tanka #1 Harriet Tubman, 2010
Acrylic on canvas
65 x 44 in.
Happy Juneteenth Black People!!! I'm celebrating today honoring our ancestors, reflecting on our journey to liberation, and learning how I can best continue the fight for justice!
In the words of U.S. Representative @coribush:
"It's Juneteenth AND reparations.
It's Juneteenth AND end police violence + the War on Drugs.
It's Juneteenth AND end housing + education apartheid.
It's Juneteenth AND teach the truth about white supremacy in our country.
Black liberation in its totality must be prioritized." (June 19, 2021)
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"Slavery.
Black codes.
Jim Crow.
Redlining.
Mass incarceration.
Every step of the way, Black Americans have been intentionally pushed back economically. A debt is owed.
It’s time to pay that debt. It’s time for reparations." (May, 2023)
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Image and caption reposted from @acagalleries JUNETEENTH
Three years ago, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law officially making June 19th, known as Juneteenth, a federal holiday as a way of commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans.
Also known as Emancipation Day, Black Independence Day, or Jubilee Day, Juneteenth commemorates the official abolishment of slavery.
Today is a day of celebration, education and reflection.
Today we want to share with you Faith Ringgold's work, 'Coming to Jones Road Tanka #1 Harriet Tubman'. It is from Ringgold's series that narrates the journey of runaway slaves migrating North with focus on the underground railroad.
As Arwa Mahdawi said in her article about Faith Ringgold, "Coming to Jones Road, Ringgold tells the story by harking back to the experience of runaway slaves migrating to the north. “Out of every awful thing is something beautiful,” she says. “As an artist I want to see the beauty, especially in situations that I can’t change and that are so prevalent.”
#EmancipationDay #BlackLiberation #BlackPeople #BlackJoy #ReparationsNow #FaithRinggold #CoriBush
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Cristin Milioti, William Jackson Harper, Luis Gerardo Mendez, Nina Bloomgarden, Gabriela Cartol & Andy Siara
Getting to the Heart of the Mystery of The Resort at San Diego Comic-Con 2022!
by Lindsey Blick
According to its new broadcast home Peacock, The Resort is a fast-paced mystery disguised as a multi-generational love story. Series creator Andy Siara describes it even better. "It's a very weird show," Siara joked during roundtable interviews at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. Essentially, a fifteen-year-old unsolved mystery entangles an unhappy couple Emma (Cristin Milioti) and Noah (William Jackson Harper) on their anniversary trip to the Yucatan.
The Resort’s all-star cast consists of Harper (The Good Place, The Underground Railroad), Milioti (Made for Love, Palm Springs), Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation, Pam & Tommy), Skyler Gisondo (The Righteous Gemstones, Licorice Pizza), Luis Gerardo Méndez (Narcos: Mexico, Murder Mystery), Nina Bloomgarden (Hot Pink, Jane), and Gabriela Cartol (La Camarista, Hernán).
According to series creator Andy Siara, the idea for the show was envisioned nearly a decade ago. Siara kept going back to the script and rebuilding it. He said it wasn’t working for him until he got a little older. Only after about seven or eight years had passed, was when he realized he was seeing both himself and the script through a nostalgic lens, what really helped The Resort come to life was seeing things differently in his 30s than he had in his 20s.
In anticipation of The Resort's debut on Peacock – which comes out on July 28th – Pop Entertainment sat down with the cast and creators at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to get the scoop. Below is what they had to say!
Can you tell us a little bit about the characters you play in your new show?
William Jackson Harper: (Jokingly) No!
No? Nothing?
Cristin Milioti: Emma is at a real crossroads in her life. Whether she would admit it or is conscious of it or not, [she] is trying to figure out what went wrong.
William Jackson Harper: Noah is relatively content and probably not interrogating certain things. He’s probably at a place where he thinks he has reached his allotted amount of happiness and anything beyond that is asking just a bit too much. Final answer. (They both laugh)
The story revolves around solving a mystery. Would that be something that would interest you in real life?
Cristin Milioti: It depends on where you are in your life. I think the show does [that] well too. They need this in order to not talk about the elephant in the room. Maybe if I found myself in that energy, I would also be a bit more open to figuring out a murder.
William Jackson Harper: (laughs) Murder most foul. I would probably leave a lot of stuff alone if I found a phone in the woods or something like that. If it’s brand new I’d see if someone needs it back. If it was old, I’d probably just recycle it and just let it go. But the thing about this story that’s interesting is the fact that in spite of all that stuff there is this need to waken things up. In a way I think it’s a subconscious thing for Noah. I know that I’ve switched off in a lot of ways. It’s tough to admit that when you’re in that place. I know I’ve cashed out and given up.
Can you talk a bit about the process of putting together your show from conception to its launch on Peacock?
Andy Siara: To start off, this show was entirely written by me. I had some people read it after it was completed, and they really liked it! I worked with them for about a year or so, and around that time, I told Cristin about it. After that, they took it to UCP, which was their studio. Once COVID hit, things slowed down, but I created the entire roadmap during that time. In March of 2021, we pitched the show to Peacock, and they picked it up!
Why do you think your character of Baltasar is the most important character in the show?
Luis Gerardo Mendez: Baltasar is the head of security of this resort. He has all the secrets and all the information of what happened in this resort in the golden days when everything was perfect. Then this horrible thing happens.
Can you tell us what the horrible thing is that happens?
Luis Gerardo Mendez: Well, I don’t know if I can give any spoilers! Umm, yeah, I shouldn’t. It’s a secret. But you’ll see! It’s not that horrible, it’s just mysterious.
Okay, well we had to try.
What excited you most about the script when you read it?
Nina Bloomgarden: It’s just so bizarre. There are so many little quirks in it that are so funny. Our incredible cast has taken that and improvised with it and just made it unbelievable. I just think people are going to laugh so much and they are going to cry, it’s just so full and has a little bit of everything.
Gabriela Cartol: Yeah, but it’s also deep, and it’s smart, and really good! So much is being done and it’s just really good! When I watched the first episode I wanted to cry because I couldn’t believe I got to be a part of this show. Because as an actress, this is the kind of show I want to work on and to be able to be a part of it. With this cast, it’s a dream come true.
Peacock premieres The Resort on July 28, 2022. Make sure you go check it out!
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#Cristina Milioti#William Jackson Harper#Luis Gerardo Mendez#nina bloomgarden#Gabriela Cartol#The Resort#2022#Actor Interviews#Lindsey Blick#Ashley Foster#andy siara
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🖤♾⚫️ ❖ Happy Black History Month Opera： ___ ❶ Follow along throughout February as we highlight operas by Black composers. First up is Champion by Terence Blanchard. This groundbreaking piece combines the disciplines of opera and jazz and depicts the life of boxer Emile Griffith. Don't miss the Met Opera debut of Champion this spring! ____ ❷ The Central Park Five by Anthony Davis tells the true story of five teenagers wrongly accused of a crime, then sentenced to years in maximum security prisons. The opera's harrowing account of these convictions, incarcerations, and eventual exonerations remains a devastatingly relevant indictment of the racial injustices in America. ___ ❸ Troubled Island by William Grant Still portrays Jean Jacques Dessalines and the corruption of his leadership in the Haitian revolution. This work was the first grand opera composed by an African American to be produced by a major company - debuting at New York City Opera in 1949. ___ ❹ Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom by Nkeiru Okoye depicts the life of the legendary Underground Railroad conductor. Based on recent Tubman biographies, the story is told in the context of Tubman’s tight-knit family of lively characters. ___ ❺ Treemonisha by Scott Joplin takes place in 1884 on a former Texas slave plantation and tells the story of Treemonisha - a young freedwoman. Joplin was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1976 for this unique "ragtime opera." ___ ❻ Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Terence Blanchard follows Charles, a boy of "peculiar grace," as he finds his place in the world and heals from childhood trauma. The work made history in 2021 when it became the first opera by a Black composer to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera. ___ ❼ We close out our #BlackHistoryMonth features with X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X by Anthony Davis. Based on the life of the civil rights leader Malcolm X, this work is set to make its Met Opera debut next season - don't miss it! ___ ✦ The Metropolitan Opera ᰽ The Metropolitan Opera Guild ► [ nk.bio/metopera / metopera.org ] ___ #BlackHistoryMonth #TheMetropolitanOpera #TheMetropolitanOperaGuild #MetOpera #MetOperaGuild （在 The Metropolitan Opera Guild） https://www.instagram.com/p/CpKx6ZRvE-d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Thuso Mbedu as Cora in ‘The Underground Railroad’ (TV Mini-Series, 2021).
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Thuso Mbedu in The Underground Railroad E1 (2021)
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