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Post by cheesecake on Jun 3, 2020 10:12:35 GMT
Yeah, the final shot of the last episode instantly made me think of it.
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Post by cheesecake on Jun 3, 2020 10:14:38 GMT
I watched the whole series last weekend and the cast really knocks it out of the park. I was especially mesmerized by Blanchett who is playing such a garbage person but had me hooked the whole way through. The text at the very end was such a gut punch, too. Really well done all around.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 5, 2020 3:43:49 GMT
Burned through this over the last 3 nights. Really great stuff. Blanchett Is just phenomenal here. The little moments were the cracks would start to show and she’d smile through them was just a clinic of A+ acting. The rest of the cast was really great as well. Ullman and Martindale really stood out and Byrne brought such a warmth to her performance. And so many great smaller performances beyond that (Graynor, Paulson, Slattery, etc...). The story is obviously relevant as ever also.
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Post by Viced on Jun 30, 2020 23:21:09 GMT
Finally finished it... has there ever been a better ensemble in a miniseries? Blanchett is obviously brilliant... but Tracey Ullman, Ari Graynor, and Sarah Paulson all blew me away in the episodes where their respective characters got the focus. Loved almost everyone else too -- especially my hero Margo Martindale. The show was nearly great overall... one or two clunky episodes and the writing was weak at times (wife acts a tiny bit strange -- "did you sleep with someone in DC?" ) but undeniably powerful overall. So much focus on the delusional and dangerous hypocrite Phyllis Schlafly (despite Blanchett's brilliance) was kind of hard to watch though... I prefer my anti-heroes to be murderers tbh. Thought episode 8 was by far the most interesting and entertaining. The finale was great too... and one hell of an ending... Hard to fathom there are still 12 states that haven't ratified the ERA...
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Post by cheesecake on Jul 10, 2020 5:12:27 GMT
Wanted to give a shoutout to this amazing channel. Great video!
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Post by Javi on Jul 20, 2020 6:31:48 GMT
Been loving Blanchett so far. 4 episodes to go.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 30, 2020 18:50:37 GMT
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Sept 5, 2021 23:12:55 GMT
Extremely late to the party, but finally got around to watching this over the past week. Couldn't really binge it because every episode was sort of like eating dense cheesecake - a lot to take in and digest, and covering a whole slew of issues... idealism vs. pragmatism, the cost of compromise, the cost of doing what is unpopular in pursuing one's convictions, how our focused pursuit of a cause can make us blind to other issues that are wrapped up in it, etc.
Don't have much to add to what's been said already about Blanchett. It's a great role and a complexly written one, so it's not surprising that she knocked it out of the park. Phyllis is a fascinating character - not just a villainous, deluded hypocrite, but one whose internal contradictions are delineated in a way that makes sense and is believable.
I think there's two key scenes that inform her character - in the first episode where she is asked to take notes during a meeting and pivots to expressing sudden interest in the ERA, and the symbolic pool scene with her daughter later on. In the first scene, she is shut out from doing what truly matters to her (participating in issues of national security and foreign policy), and quickly decides that she will need to pursue a different path in order to make her voice heard - one that ensures a safety net for her and others like her because she not only realizes her position in society and the futility of trying to break that ceiling, but accepts it. In the pool scene (which is a little contrived in how it's placed immediately after the mock debate with her husband), we see her need to believe in the existence of that safety net, even if it means deluding herself. She has to believe that women like her are currently protected because she's afraid to imagine the absence of that safety net, even though it never existed in the first place. What's especially devastating about the show's conclusion is that Phyllis, in a way, ends up where she began on multiple levels - as a housewife, but also shut out from doing what truly matters to her like in the first scene I mentioned. Only this time it's the result of her attempt to play the system, and her own devious agenda to become something more than a homemaker (ironically trying to keep homemakers in the home) fails her own personal goals in the long run.
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