Is No One Watching Shining Girls?

I loathe time-travel. It’s so annoying.

It's pretty good, but for a show that takes place in 1990s Chicago, I would expect stronger accents.

I will likely watch because I compromise my values frequently, but yes, she’s a creepy, raised in captivity, tithing Scientologist.

A Scientologist cunt, yeah, thanks. Who or Why,?

She has a face like a dish cloth.

Her Scientology always precedes her and the membership presumes a very high level of hatred against those who aren't Scientologists, right?

So why even bother asking?

Started to watch, but it’s like a nineties version of June so far.

I enjoyed Moss on "Mad Men" (I own the series), & have seen bits of "Handmaid's Tale". I'll just stick to watching her on "Mad Men", which I re-watch every other year or so.

I watched 20 minutes just to hear well-known Brazilian actor Wagner Moura speak English. I've only seen him act in Portuguese. Otherwise, the premise was mildly interesting but the acting was wooden.

OP Most of them don’t have Apple TV. The same ones who whine about New York Times subscription rates.

Ive watched the first three. I’m gripped. I think the billy elliot guy is creepy as hell.

Her Scientology association is such a dick wilter. Did she join before or after Mad Men?

Lol, I love reading these articles that were translated into another language and then translated back into English, they make for a hilarious description of the work at hand. I do like this title better though. They also somehow enhanced the picture of her too, she never looked better, she should have her people reach out to them.

[quote] "Her Scientology association is such a dick wilter. Did she join before or after Mad Men?"

It really is, R12. She was raised in Scientology, so she'd been a member for decades before landing "Mad Men". It's just gross, and disappointing.

^ Ahh ok and as I look at her more I can see it very clearly now.

I watched first episode and couldn't get into it. But I'll give it another shot. Unlike many DLers, I'm an Elizabeth Moss fan. Didn't her parents get her involved in Scientology when she was a kid?

Some of y’all need to separate the artist from the art, this is an amazing show and should be DL catnip. Also, anyone who liked the recent Invisible Man, this has a very similarly taut feel to it, and they’re sustaining it with each episode. I never thought Philippa Soo would be much of an actress off the stage, but she’s doing some good work here. And as loathsome as Jamie Bell is being, he’s still attractively fuckable.

Her homeliness is too distracting.

I am waiting for the finale to be up, and then I will watch the whole season

R18 Actually she’s completely without any vanity in this production and using it to her advantage as someone who’s survived a very violent crime and doesn’t care a fuck about her looks, clothes or upkeep.

Never liked her. She's gross.

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An amazing episode focused on Jamie Bell’s character’s backstory. He can look very attractive, but then very creepy with a shift of the light or turn of the head. Moss must have gotten the actress who plays Janine in THT the role in this and she is stunning, it definitely deserves an Emmy nomination and I hope she gets one. She does amazing work and deserves to breakout and get more recognition.

Time travel is so lame.

Why are all the time travel shows set in Chicago, what is it about the city that suggests that?

I tried to read the book year sago and hated it but I actually like the series. Can't stand Elizabeth Moss so this latest episode where she hardly featured was the best by far.

Jamie Bell does creepy surprisingly well. He was very good in the movie "Retreat" where he played a creepy, paranoid soldier.

[quote]OP Most of them don’t have Apple TV. The same ones who whine about New York Times subscription rates.

R10, poverty as a reason for not having Apple TV? Or just a reason to dust off some snobbery and dispense it to your inferiors?

I like little about Apple TV but have the impression - quite possibly wrong - that its programming remains in a nascent stage and has a (too?) strong U.S. bent in actors, production, locations, etc. It's far less about subscription cost than awareness of the product catalogue and bent, for which I thank OP for something to keep in mind.

[quote]Jamie Bell does creepy surprisingly well.

Agreed R27. I think Bell has an arresting presence in nearly everything I've seen of his work. I don't know why he isn't more sought after for films and TV. I've watched things simply because he had a prominent role and always felt rewarded by seeing his work.

Your programming remains in a nascent stage.

I wonder if Bell’s original training as a dancer is the reason, just the way he uses his body and can convey much of his quieter roles (there’s a physicalities to many of his performances over the verbal) perhaps is what he’s giving to his acting over other actors?

Can three people do a circle jerk?

People are finally starting to realize that Elisabeth Moss is not just a Scientologist but a full blown, from birth, insane parents, Scientologist, OP

She’s a fucking clam, and it’s a huge disconnect from her personal life to her acting in one of the deepest shows about oppression and female misery and people have problems with it. And that New Yorker article was weird and creepy, just like her religion.

It’s unfortunate, because Peggy and that first season of Handmaid’s Tale are some of the best acting on TV ever. I won’t support her anymore though. She’s fucking nuts.

Penultimate episode was so good. I can’t figure out what the end is going to be, but I have a feeling it’s going to somehow make sense and not have that fetal flaw that so many time travel works seem to fall into. There’s going to be a twist and it’s going to be magnificent!

That's because that mossy, plain Jane is an L. Ron Hubbard succubus.

No, and I refuse to watch a show about girls whose makeup isn’t matte enough!

She was one of the Radium girls, that’s why she was shiny, her makeup was saturated with the stuff and she wasn’t matte at all, she glowed.

Very satisfying conclusion, especially for the radium girl.

Ugly as shit. And in a creepy cult. No thanks.