I'm only halfway through S2 of Slings and Arrows. Back in love with it, although it seems more...far-fetched than season 1. I do love the whole idea of the boxes of notes, and that tension, as a beautiful manifesting of the whole idea of the baggage that a play comes with, outside of itself.

What about it seems more far-fetched? I'm curious, because I get overwhelmed with directorial OMGWTFANGER at the insubordination, but I also think the continuation of the older man-brilliant younger man-difficult woman triangle was lovely (and how much do I love that it ties into Shakespeare's real life? So much), and the showing of the director vs. actor war (as compared to Ellen defending her director in S1).

I am looking forward to S3 so much - I've tried not to get too spoiled, but IMDB is verra tempting. I know the beginning of the A & B plots, I'm just trying not to read the episode synopses.

I am looking forward to S3 so much - I've tried not to get too spoiled, but IMDB is verra tempting.

I'm not even going near IMDB. I am just spoiled enough to know that the Richard plot involves him being emotionally dom'd and victimized all over again in his peculiarly Ricardian manner, and who the dom is, but nothing else. I've even managed to make myself forget which play they're doing.

In actual movie-related news, more or less, it should be noted that, out of sheer tremendous love, Hec actually submitted a few nights ago to watching Jim Carrey in How The Grinch Stole Christmas. He lasted a little over an hour before bailing with cries of pain and outrage; it was, as exactly everyone on the planet who isn't a 10-year-old boy could have predicted, just as awful as you'd expect and more. I saw seven minutes and had to cloister myself in the front bedroom so as not to punch the TV. Emmett was completely happy with it -- he kept saying joyfully, "That's so Jim Carrey! That's classic Jim Carrey!" Ach.

Emmett was completely happy with it -- he kept saying joyfully, "That's so Jim Carrey! That's classic Jim Carrey!" Ach.

I never thought I'd say this, but, in the words of Hank Hill, that boy ain't right.

There are no words for the travesty of Jim Carrey as the Grinch.

Unless you're a ten-year-old boy or similar, I guess. I know Ben liked it, too. *And* the tragedy that was Mike Myers in The Cat in the Hat.

Jim Carrey is, sadly, very, very kid-pleasing. As long as movie executives are hoping to turn a profit, no classic of children's literature is safe from him.

::imagines Carrey as Ben Weatherstaff in a new production of The Secret Garden; never stops screaming::

::imagines Carrey as Ben Weatherstaff in a new production of The Secret Garden; never stops screaming::

Shame on you!

::runs away to find brain bleach::

::imagines Carrey as Ben Weatherstaff in a new production of The Secret Garden; never stops screaming::

There would be some killin' to be done if that were made. Killin' and hurtin'.

All of us with torches and pitchforks, marching on the studio, muttering...

Marching on the studio merely means that he could go somewhere else and despoil another children's classic.

Juliana, the thing that's really OTT is the advertising, which seems even more so than Richard's thing last year. The other thing, though to a lesser extent, is the interns (though that is likely largely an age-of-actors thing), but Momolly works for me.

I am loving basically everything actually connected to the play great. I am especially fond of the tension with the lead actor (and what's his face who Geoffrey fired).