This week: Sally Reed, romanticizing the pioneer lifestyle and I read a book.
Somehow I always end up talking about recently-single man Bill Hader. Congrats to him on all the nominations for “Barry” but who cares he’s already won and I celebrated that. I have to be honest and say I did not like Sally in Season One (it’s the internal misogyny) but she was supposed to be an annoying over-eager actor type so she got on my nerves. I know the whole point was to make people sympathise with the serial killer while hating on the perfectly normal harmless girl and I fell for it! I was very Team Barry and still am. Sally was messing with Barry’s murderer vibes and I didn’t like that. Now that Season Three has aired, however, I am so Team Sally I’m about to wear buttons with her face on it. Yes, Sally did become a worse person this season so this revelation checks out.
Spoilers for “Barry” Season Three ahead so if you don’t want to read that just skip to the meme roundup.
Sarah Goldberg put all of her underlying evil blonde-girl tendencies into playing Sally Reed. Blondes are always a little sociopathic and Ms. Reed is no exception! She became an egomaniac with a lust for fame when her show Joplin was being made and I clapped. She verbally assaulted her former assistant and actor friend in an elevator and I cheered her on. She asked Barry to help her exact revenge on her former assistant by terrorizing her and making her fear for her life and I laughed. She literally killed a man by bashing his head in with a baseball bat and I cried. Sally did all of these things and yet she was not deserving enough of an Emmy nomination. Meanwhile we have men from prestige HBO shows being nominated again when their characters never said anything nearly as good as “you are nothing without me you are nothing nobody stupid piece of shit”. Now I finally understand all the film bros who think great acting is just when a man yells. Sarah Goldberg is my Daniel Day Lewis basically.
Sarah, we’re going to rally the troops and we are going to get you that Emmy so help me God. If Billy Crudup gets to have one for that joke of a program they call “Morning Show” you deserve that award x 10. We need to be celebrating characters who are twisted and sad not third graders in writing rooms. Just thinking about one of the little babies from Ted Lasso winning over Anthony Carrigan is making me so angry I feel light headed. Nobody in Ted Lasso has done a murder and it makes me sick. Sally Reed girls we ride at dawn.
Meme Roundup:
I’m obsessed with covered wagons. Just look at it. I want to get inside and go on a treacherous journey and try not to die of cholera or dysentery. There are actually places in Tennessee where you can rent a covered wagon and sleep in it. I dream about it every night. If I were rich I wouldn’t buy a jet I would buy a covered wagon. I would buy a bunch actually and get all of my friends to join me and see how long we could go without eating each other. I think we could do it. If anyone is interested in selling all your possessions and becoming a pioneer let me know.
This is what I look like when I watch The Boys and when I tweet about The Boys and when I text people about The Boys. Most of the time I’m recommending a piece of media to someone actually I look like this. This is me at peak happiness. Rubbing my little hands together in my dimly lit room laughing maniacally to myself.
Michelle Zauner AKA Japanese Breakfast dropping a pizza on stage moments before the people celebrating it realize what happened.
Instagram recently recommended that I look at “Joker Quotes” on the explore page. There were a lot of good ones but this one really stood out to me. Growing up I always thought winner winner chicken dinner was a great success. I was a fool. Joaquin Phoenix joker should say this in the next movie. He can tell it to Lady Gaga I guess.
Three Sentence Media Reviews:
🎥 Thor: Love & Thunder (2022): The person sitting in front of me came alone and brought a bottle of Jameson that was thankfully nearly empty. They were tweeting and DMing and SnapChat messaging and recording the movie on their phone the whole entire time I thought I had actually died and gone to purgatory it was so distracting. I really can’t say if the movie was good or not I’m going to see it again soon but I wish Christian Bale’s character was real and would capture this person and lock them in a cage forever.
🎥 Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022): Guy who wrote the movie also directs it and also stars in it as is his God-given right I suppose. I would also pick Dakota Johnson to be my self-insert movie love interest although she was still to pretty for him. I liked all the times he would say something and then say “I don’t know why I said that” it was corny but in an endearing way.
📺 The Boys (Season 2 now): Sorry this is the only TV show I have been watching and perhaps the only one I will be thinking about for the foreseeable future. I have been told I should not like The Deep and I know why but when he talks about his sea creature friends I feel my cold dead heart thaw a little bit. I had a coworker say she couldn’t watch past Season One because of “something that isn’t appropriate to say at work… that Homelander did” and I didn’t know what to say so I just laughed and then when home and thought about praying for salvation.
📚 Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman: I know I am a complete cynic without a single ounce of romance in my heart but just for once I don’t think it’s me, I think it’s the media. This character has an extremely successful career because of this interview she does with an actor and the snippets we get to read are so boring and unsubstantial I could not believe it. Everyone is so uninteresting and the man is just damaged and nobody understands him :( except the protagonist and the writing made me feel stupid. (Are all romance novels like this or is this one just particularly bad?)
🎵 Intuition by LIZ: This song is so good and apparently was an old Kylie Minogue demo. The 90s/00s are a huge vibe this summer for me and to have a contemporary song match that energy? Thank God.
🎤 Lana Del Rey: All of her music just on shuffle. There’s nothing quite like it. I know many people are having a Sufjan Stevens summer but personally I am participating in Summertime Sadness this year.
I’ll plug my July playlist here again since I’ve been updating it.
Nathan Fielder’s new show comes out tonight so if you need me I will be busy. Have a good week x