No, you're exactly right. That scene is so hot BECAUSE it walks that line so deftly. It has massive, massive potential to be super-skeevy (and probably is for some people, esp. if they or their loved ones were ever predated upon by a member of the clergy) but for me, it just works.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Vonnie K - Oct 17, 2019 1:28:05 pm PDT #647 of 2196
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Steph L. - Oct 19, 2019 7:15:28 am PDT #648 of 2196
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
And another Fleabag S2 thing: god DAMN, was Kristin Scott Thomas amazing or what? I mean, yes, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a goddamn genius for the writing, especially the "Women are born with pain built in" monologue, but even so, Kristin Scott Thomas just fucking KILLED IT.
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2019 12:31:38 pm PST #649 of 2196
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Just pre-registered for Disney+.
Glamcookie - Nov 11, 2019 8:44:25 am PST #650 of 2196
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Add me to the Fleabag lovers list! Massive crush on PWB. Massive.
Anyone watch S2 of End of the Fxxxing World? It wasn't necessary (S1 was perfection, including the ending), but I thought it was really well done. Shit, it made me cry, so there's that.
JZ - Nov 11, 2019 12:28:24 pm PST #651 of 2196
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm watching Unbelievable (Netflix) while Hec and Matilda are both out--it's incredibly difficult and enraging to watch, but so, so good. It's based on this ProPublica 2015 report on a successful rape investigation that uncovered the devastating aftermath of an earlier, utterly bungled rape investigation.
And I keep recognizing actors I've seen before and being utterly blown away by them--the snarky, socially stunted queer girl from Booksmart is riveting and gutting as the girl whom no one believed. Elizabeth, Schmidt's on-again-off-again girlfriend from New Girl who dragged the sweetness of Fat Schmidt back out from under his layers of asshole, is a bright and directed and deeply compassionate detective. Willowdean from Dumplin' has such broken, resilient depth. And Toni Collette is, of course, Toni Collette.
There are small, heartbreaking grace notes--it's unbearable to watch the young, broken girl being broken more and more by angry, doubtful questions from increasingly irritated male detectives, and then watch as the detective in the second case, speaking to the survivor, asks her permission to swab her face for possible DNA samples. No inside the cheek swabs or anything--after getting permission, she very gently brushes a pair of swabs down one side of the survivor's face and then the other. She's likely the first human being to touch the survivor since the rapist, and she is so very careful to make that touch careful and non-invasive and only after obtaining consent.
I almost can't stand to watch it, it's so angering, but it's also so well-written and every single performance is so smart and deeply felt.
bennett - Nov 11, 2019 12:46:25 pm PST #652 of 2196
JZ - I had to take breaks watching "Unbelievable", also. So painful, but so well written, acted, and directed. Kaitlyn Dever, the actress playing the girl who nobody believed, was also excellent as Loretta on the second season of "Justified".
JZ - Nov 11, 2019 1:03:51 pm PST #653 of 2196
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
bennett, yeah. Hard to watch, hard not to watch.
Dana - Nov 11, 2019 2:21:32 pm PST #654 of 2196
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Seriously, you have to watch Justified. Everyone who's on it is amazing, but Kaitlyn Dever is part of the extraordinary S2.
Beverly - Nov 11, 2019 2:35:10 pm PST #655 of 2196
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Margo Martindale, also part of S2 Justified, can go toe to toe with Dench, Smith, or Mirren, any day. She's just been given different material.
quester - Nov 11, 2019 2:59:54 pm PST #656 of 2196
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Margo Martindale, also part of S2 Justified, can go toe to toe with Dench, Smith, or Mirren, any day. She's just been given different material.
and how!