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Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 1.01. The Simpsons 31.11. Carol’s Second Act 1.11. Grace and Frankie 6.01-6.06. When We Rise 1.03-1.05. Modern Family 11.11. Modern Family 11.12. The Goldbergs 7.11. The Goldbergs 7.12

26 Sunday Jan 2020

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New year, same old me. My family and I are rewatching Desperate Housewives and I’m honestly so happy. This show has been a part of my life for so many years, and this refresher was just much needed. It will probably take us 6 months to watch it all and I cannot wait for these Wednesday and Sunday evenings. Back when it was still on air, my favourite characters were Lynette, Bree, Edie, Katherine, and Andie. We’ve only rewatched season 1 so far, but I seem to like Bree more than Lynette now? It’s been 9 years, which is more than enough perspective and even though my goals haven’t really changed, I have learned a lot about myself in those 9 years, I now know what I want from life, and I know what makes me happy. I’m also healthier, and as a result, happier, which is the most important thing in the world.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 1.01

Gilmore Girls’s Lauren Graham and Suburgatory’s Jane Levy are back on my TV in this musical comedy. Lauren’s character’s name is Joan and action takes place in my favourite city,  San Francisco, so I’m sold. Lauren and Jane work at a start up and Jane is hoping Lauren’s character promotes her to a managerial role. One of the characters is going through a rough patch, and sings ‘Mad World’. The main character’s dad had a stroke and cannot communicate or react to anything that’s going on around him. It’s quite predictable, as her gift lets her know what her dad is feeling. It’s hard to rate this episode, because I…cried through the entire thing? The depression and dad’s health issues storylines moved me.

Why are you singing to me?
Child, I’m completely baked. I got nothing going on in my head now.
The song he sang only to you may have been his cry for help.
We live in a really mad world, but if you open up and express what you’re feeling to others then it’s gotta be better than what you’re doing now. Living you whole life in your head, like this prison my dad is in now, it’s torture.

6/10

The Simpsons 31.11

I have watched all 31 seasons, and it struggles to find new storylines and be funny at this point. In this episode, Marge’s ex-boyfriend emerges and builds a robot that looks exactly like her and then attempts to marry her.

Don’t you see why I hate this?
Because you hate everything?

1/10

Carol’s Second Act 1.11

I was really disappointed to learn there’s no episode this week. This episode wasn’t the show’s best though.

They don’t just care, they care intensively.

3/10

Grace and Frankie 6.01

Grace has secretly gotten married and is moving out.

If it helps, I’m giving you away now.

5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.02

Frankie’s smile when she saw Grace’s name come up on her phone. Frankie getting Grace off the toilet is ultimate friendship goals.

Give me a hug.
Hi Mom!
I don’t even let my kids call me that.
Tell me why we should keep this Happy Meal toy from 1988?
It’s a collector’s item.
What about these welding woman magazines from the 1970s? Do you weld?
Not as much.
Where would be a good place for it?
The floor? But I know that’s not right.
How many necklaces do you need?
Some of them are belts.
If you were a good teacher, you would know every child learns differently.

6.5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.03

Death row inmates are entitled to their last meal.

5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.04

Princess stuck on the can.
The bottoms up.
Designed to gently lift you with a single touch of a button.

5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.05

I told you I’m not gonna do a sex podcast with you.
I wouldn’t know, you won’t let me see you perform.

5/10

Grace and Frankie 6.06

The response from customers at Costco.
Where is the chicken in that place?
Shitter beat toilet.

5/10

When We Rise 1.03

Rachel Griffiths and Mary-Louise Parker star as grown up versions of the main characters. When Parenthood’s Sam Jaeger’s character dies, his family kicks his partner out of the house. The third main character looks after a baby, and when he wants to foster him, social workers find his HIV medication and take the baby away.

I am proud of my son and his friends.
The president and Mrs Clinton.
You sir can end this.
We’re lesbians.
We support students of all backgrounds.
When did we become such dykes.
We were always dykes.
His wife took him this morning.
We have to take this baby.

8/10

When We Rise 1.04

Did you travel abroad?
I traveled with a broad.
Take a lap around this ward.
We were in love. The kind of love that makes people cross the oceans, have babies and grow old together. And if we were straight, we would have designed our entire lives around that. But two women, then, we had no words for it, no paradime, nothing and you’re right. It’s my lack of vision that’s kept me from having this, a family. The truth is we’re not done yet.

6/10

When We Rise 1.05

This generation has grew up with Ellen and Will and Grace.

10/10

Modern Family 11.11

Finally a fantastic episode. This show is so much better without Phil and Claire’s kids. Phil’s dad dies and he never met his great grnd children.

All this childhood memorbilia.
But there’s no room for my baby teeth.
When all the dogs get back their income tax return.
I just came through the unsecure back door.
BJ – Blue Jeans.
I see light. Should I go towards it?
I was ready to bite my own arm off.
I still have the tooth you lost to a marshmallow.
Oh so that one you kept.
Your mother could have been a competitive eater. No foof ever expired in our house.
Guys I just saw a ghost.
Oh, girls, grab your things, we’re going.
11 year old Manny would feel disgusted by me.
Well now you know how 12 year old Lily feels.
A swooper.
A swooper? Lily grab your things. Not a smoke demon that terroroses farm children.
Back up, back up. Keep going.
Joe save up 6 months allowance and donated it all to charity. It’s one of those rare moments as a dad when you realise you really dropped the ball.
How you survived the golden age of bullying I will never understand.
I can get into this CSI train.
Locating my diary from ’83.
Everybody warned me this would happen.
Hi Cam.
You wish.
I never even saw Gloria go into the dressing room.
Maybe you should try the dress on that lady’s wearing.
You paid the speech specialist to shame it out of me.
Not the hot one.
Will you throw in a puppy?
It’s a miracle you didn’t need police escort to school every day.

10/10

Modern Family 11.12

And…. we’re back to mediocrity.

I came in here to die.
He’s making plans for the future.
That’s why you have rivals, it’s something to live for.
Hold on, let me write this down.

1.5/10

The Goldbergs 7.11

Murray learns he’s actually a year younger than he thought he was and celebrates his 50th birthday, once more. Surprisingly good, the show hasn’t had a good episode in a while, so this was a nice surprise.

10/10

The Goldbergs 7.12

And we’re back to it being bad again. I didn’t even write anything down about Schooled, because it’s not memorable at all.

Jodie Foster?

0.5/10

Captain Phillips. Dallas Buyers Club. August Osage County. Saving Mr Banks. 12 Years a Slave. Her. The Wolf of Wall Street. American Hustle. Revenge. Blink. China Moon. Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

31 Friday Jan 2014

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Captain Phillips

10/10

Dallas Buyers Club

10/10

August Osage County

10/10

Saving Mr Banks

10/10

12 years a Slave

10/10

Her

8/10

The Wolf of Wall Street

7/10

American Hustle

7/10

Blink

8/10

Revenge

8/10

China Moon

8/10

Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Good until she married the old guy. I really thought it was going somewhere.

4/10

Fall TV Season

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by Joanne in amy brenneman, camp, dexter, Go On, Kate Walsh, Laura Linney, private practice, Rachel Griffiths, The Big C, the killing, tv series

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I am so ready for the fall season to start. I hope I will be able to mourn Dexter but still get excited about other shows. I have made my peace with The Big C ending and Cathy dying. I still haven’t seen the finale of Private Practice, I’m still too fragile to say goodbye. I am waiting for some special occasion, but yesterday was my 20th birthday and the finale was right there on my dvr and I chose to watch earlier episodes of the season instead. I’m starting to think I’ll never be ready. I just think It needs to be a special day, and I simply haven’t had one since January. I miss Addie and Violet and seeing Kate and Amy on my screen. I hate that so many of my shows are ending, like I haven’t had enough changes. I have said goodbye to The Big C, I still haven’t recovered from The Killing cancelletion. I truly don’t feel like starting a new show. There are too many changes and disappointments in my life right now. Private Practice, The Big C ended. Dexter ends in 2 days. Go On, not the best, but my favorite new show of the fall 2012 got cancelled. The Killing, a great show that I have started watching less than 2 months ago got cancelled. Camp, a cute and fun summer show won’t probably make it and a half of the shows I watch don’t come back till January. I was desperate to find a new show to fill this empty space and started watching shows I promised I never would and there are only two shows still on air that I love unconditionally and never fail to surprise me. And I hate that. I hate changes, feeling like I’ve failed at life and have no purpose and most of all, I hate being an adult.

Camp Season 1

14 Saturday Sep 2013

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What a great show, hoping for the second season. A great companion for summer 2013. It was a sweet show and seeing Rachel Griffiths back on my screen every week of the summer was amazing and if there won’t be a season two, and summer ahead will always feel like it is missing something.

1. 10
2. 6
3. 3
4. 10
You made a mistake. But this isn’t who you are, don’t let it be.
Is it better to regret the things you did or the things you didn’t?
5. 10
6. 10
7. 3
8. 4
9. 10
10. 5

7.1/10

Index of all the films reviewed on this blog.

08 Sunday Sep 2013

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Index, starting with the latest and ending with the oldest. All the films reviewed since October 2010. I will make an alphabetical index soon.

Vera. Jury Duty. Defiance. Joy Division. The Perfect Husband. The Laci Peterson Story. Converstations with Other Women. A Case of You. All Roads Lead to Rome

The Girl in the Book. Lions for Lambs. Gone. My Sweet Audrina. Admission. Charlie’s Farm. Containment. The Abandoned.

Fathers and Daughters. Anesthesia. Miss You Already. Max. The Barefoot Executive. Bushwacked. The 33. Vacation. Wicked Little Things. The Killing Room. Charming Christmas. Indigenous. Jamie Marks is Dead.

Me and Earl and The Dying Girl. House Arrest. The Little Rascals. I Spit on Your Grave 3. Hocus Pocus. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Shutter. Window Wonderland.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Paper Towns. The Man Who Knew Too Little. When Calls the Heart. Hidden. The Visit. The Gift. The Gallows. Sharknado 3

Driving Miss Daisy. Bad Santa. The Pacifier. Apollo 13. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2. Because I said so. Kon-Tiki. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. The Clearing. Sweet November. Plots with a View. Lucky 13.

Little Miss Sunshine. This is Where I Leave You. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. The Myth of the Fingerprints. Titus. The Assault. My Sister’s Keeper. Evan Almighty. Violet & Daisy. Annabelle. The Purge 2 : Anarchy. Deliver Us from Evil. Poat Grad. Mr Woodcock.

The Help. Everybody’s All American. The Babadook. Take Shelter. Night and the City. The Guilt Trip. Before I Go to Sleep. If I Stay. As Above, So Below. Snakes on a Plane. Ouija. Horrible Bosses. Into the Storm. The Turning. Stage Fright.

Now And Then. The Manchurian Candidate. The Proposition. The Maze Runner. Child’s Play 3. The Dorm

Spy. The Fault in Our Stars. Tomorrowland. Insidious 3. Recess: School’s Out.

Clouds of Sils Maria. Clockwatchers. Manglehorn. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.

Delivery Man. Bad Words. Lemon Tree Passage. The Alphabet Killer.

Little Birds. Cape Fear. The Secret Lives of Dorks. Swiss Family Robinson

Hope Floats. American Reunion. Independence Day. Parental Guidance. Yours, mine and ours. Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th Remake. It Follows

Flash of Genius. Heller in Pink Tights. Ghosts of the Abyss. Nightwatch. Mixed Nuts. Grease 2. The Bling Ring. Jesse Ston: Thin Ice. First Daughter.

Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade. American Pie. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. Who is Clark Rockefeller? Rachel Getting Married. The Wedding Pact

Welcome to the Dollhouse. At Middleton. The Calling. Mom’s Night Out. The Family Stone. Babysitter’s Black Book. Nothing Like the Holidays.

Birdman. Cake. Paddington. Alexander and the Horrible Terrible Not so Good Nad Very Bad Day. The Gambler. Adult World. The Notebook. The Best of Me. Dear John.

The Theory of Everything. Boyhood. The Imitation Game. Unbroken. Whiplash. Big Eyes. Into the Woods. Selma. Inherent Vice.

The Goonies. The Apartment. Jaws. The Social Network. Along Came A Spider. Death Valley. Wind Chill.

Gone Girl.

Mockingjay Part 1.

Philadelphia. Quartet. The Painted Veil. When Harry Met Sally. Down and Out in Beverly Hills. Fireflies in the Garden. Evil Dead. Evolution. Sixteen Candles. Pregnancy Pact. Body of Evidence. Octane. Mirror Mirror. Life-Size. Prosecuting Casey Anthony. The Cat in the Hat.

The Heat. Europa Europa. Blue is the Warmest Color. Standing Up. Speed. Speed 2. Freaky Friday. Children of Men. Freedomland. Very Good Girls. Dead End. Stuck in Love. Miss Congeniality. Miss Congeniality 2. The Haunting in Connecticut 2. A Daughter’s Nightmare. Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. All About Steve. Texas Chainsaw 3. The Possession. Oculus. Candleshoe. All about Steve. But I’m a Cheerleader. Consent. G.B.F. Tarzan. Starving in Suburbia. Haunt. Blindness. Excision.

Absolute Power. The Details. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Sometimes They Come Back Again. Thinner. Cat’s Eye. Inside Man. Twelve Monkeys. The Governor’s Daughter. Closet Land. Being Flynn. The Big Lebowski. Marie and Bruce.

Howards End. The Bridges of Madison County. Ironweed. Inside Daisy Clover. Eastern Promises. Out of Africa. The Last Picture Show. All is Lost. Deliverance. Timepiece. Silkwood. The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Non-Stop. The Assassination of Richard Nixon. Acceptance. Fireflies in the Garden. The Ladies Club. Vacancy.

The Way We Were. The Electric Horseman. An Unfinished Life. Ordinary People. Educating Rita.

The Good Student. I Know What You Did Last Smmer. Flirting. Helter Skelter. The Crush. Unlawful Entry. Helter Skelter. Can’t Buy Me Love. The Babysitter. The Crush. The Simpsons : The Longest Daycare. Frozen. Monsters, inc. Toy Story 3. Dear Dumb Diary. Lipstick.

Captain Phillips. Dallas Buyers Club. August Osage County. Saving Mr Banks. 12 Years a Slave. Her. The Wolf of Wall Street. American Hustle. Revenge. Blink. China Moon. Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio. A Map of the World. Laws of Attraction. Don Jon. Carrie. Next. Rommates. The Shipping News. Diana. Mysterious Skin. The Best Little Girl in the World. Clueless. Kramer vs Kramer. Gravity. Say anything. Girls just want to have fun. Loverboy. Ice Princess. While you were sleeping. Arthur Christmas. Trust the Man. The Sounds of Music Live Musical.

Ellie Parker. Catching Fire. The Outsider. The Shaft. King Kong. Bermuda Triangle. My father the hero. I heart chuckabees. Movie 43. Children of the corn IV. Tank Girl. The Others. A wish upon the star. Pretty Persuasion. Eden Lake. Jewtopia.

Saving Private Ryan. Heavenly Creatures. 3096 Tage. Fast times at Ridgemont High. Adore. The Girl. Jaws 2. Carrie. We Were Soldiers. Mary and Martha. Avenging Angelo. Bad Girls. Short Cuts. The Addams Family. The Addams Family 2. Crazy in Alabama. Curse of Chucky. Resident Evil 2. Revolutionary Road. Vampires. House of cards. White Squall. The Way Way Back. Cherry Falls. The Happening. The Sleepwalking Killings. The Blue Eyed Butcher. Static. Ramona and Beazus. Pora Mroku.

The Breakfast Club. Terms of Endearment. Lost and delirious. The Departed. Insidious 2. Mama. Cracks. We’re the Millers. You’re Next. Don’t say a word. I Spit On Your Grave 2. The Interpreter. Something Borrowed. License to Wed. Resident Evil. Made of Honour. Perfume: The story of a murderer. A Fish called Wanda. This Means War. Scary Movie 5. Albino Farm. Train. Fun Size. Liz & Dick. Dark Tide. Kraken.

The English Teacher. What Maisie Knew. Children of a Lesser God. Restless Virgins. Blow Dry. Me myself I. Hotel New Hampshire. Mental. Muriel’s Wedding. Maverick. The Conjuring. Elysium. Trespass. The Departiate. The Descendants. Frequency. The Suicide Shop. Simpsons The Movie. Frankenweenie. Easy. The Space Between.

Lincoln. Silver Linings Playbook. Not Without My Dayghter. Mrs Doubfire. Catch Me If You Can. Sinister. Nine Miles Down. Taken 2. The Assassins. Losing Isaiah. Unknown. The Cave. Freshman Fall. Little Black Book. Girl Fight. The Internship. Rogue. Bunnyman.

Stoker. Contact. Hitchcock. The Laramie Project. Anna and the king. Smokey and the Bandit. The conjuring. The Purge. The Call. The Big Wedding. World War Z. World traveler. The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Benny and Joon. Monsters University. Enchanted. Snow White and the huntsman. Hangover 3. Spring Breakers.

The End of The Affair. Hannibal. Psycho. Crazy. Stupid. Love. Savage Grace.

Midnight Cowboy. Lost in Translation. The Kids Are All Right. The Truman Show. Martha Mary Marcy Marlene. Sala Samobójców The Suicide Room

The Morning After. The China Syndrome. Interiors. Testament. The Day After Tomorrow. Missing. Fargo. Capote. The Graduate. Megan is Missing.

They shoot horses, don’t they? Les Miserables. The Impossible. Hyde Park on Hudson. Jindabyne. Maze. Coming Home. Tommy. The face on the Milk Carton. On the Edge of Innocence. Daughters. Confessions of a Go-Go girl. Why my daughter? Selling innocence.

Trust. Poker House. The Perfect Family. The Prime of Miss Joan Brodie. Sinister. The Hunger Games. Eye for an Eye. Punchline. Kika. The Perks of Being A Wallflower. Augusta, Gone. The House at the End of the Street. The Pitch Perfect. Beyond the Blackboard. ATM. The Crazies. Underground The Julian Assange Story. Mom at Sixteen.

Born on the 4th of July. Klute. Chloe. Schinler’s List. Loving Annabelle. Far From Heaven. Magnolia. A Single Man. The Unforgotten. Shelter. The New Daughter. Game Change. Elevator.

Hilary and Jackie. The Hours. Carnage. The Beaver. Little Man Tate. Foxes. The Iron Lady. Erin Brockovich. North Country. Frozen River. Winter’s Bone. In the Bedroom. Plain Truth. Breathless. The Grey. Dead Man Walking.

Steel Magnolias. Enter Nowhere. Sybil. Carriers. Detention. The Art of Getting By. The 19th Wife. Brake. The Awakening. Doubt. Funny Games US. The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer. Mulholland Drive. World Trade Center. The Accused. Taxi Driver. Nell. The Dangerous Lives of the Altar Boys. Flight Plan. The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane. The Brave One.

Secretary. A Lonely Place To Die. Norma Rae. Painful Secrets. Carjacked. The Yellow Handkerchief. Welcome to the Rileys. The Messagner. The Woman in Black. Panic Room. Chernobyl. The Treatment. Silent House. The Innkeepers. I Don’t Know How She Does it. New Year’s Eve. Head Of State. The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker. Invention of Lying. Piranha 3DD.

Very Annie Mary. Cabin in the Woods. Hell. Beautiful Kate. Seven Below. Off The Map. Lake Placid. Butterfly On a Wheel. History of Violence. Answers to Nothing. Blood Runs Cold. Kaboom.

Cold Creek Manor. Devil. Anonymous. The Human Stain.

Feast of love. For Lovers Only. Stiletto. Bond of Silence. Angel’s Crest. Remember Alice Bell?

Dream House. Contagion. Hidden 3D. 21 grams. Stay.

Kinsey. You can Count on Me. Squid and the Whale. The Mystic River. The Savages. P.S. The Other Man.

Downloading Nancy. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her. Mother and child. Shark Night. The Runaways.

Valentine’s Day. PuppetMaster. Life as we know it. Gifted Hands. 27 dresses. Easy A. Anacondas Haunting for the Blood Orchid. The Resident. Conviction. Chopping Mall. Insidious. Step Up 3. The Amityville Horror. Village of the Damned. Jawbreaker. 30 days of night. Triangle. Frozen. Stake Land. The Shrine. The Reef. The Ruins. Case 39. Final Destination 5. The Betrayed. Choose. Held Hostage. Derailed. Piranha. When a stranger calls. The quiet. Speak. She fought Alone. Eat Pray Love. Rec. Quarantine. Mr. and Mrs. Killer. Road Train. Don’t be afraid of the Dark.

I Saw the Devil. Harry Potter 7 part 2. Monsters. Somewhere. Tomorrow when the war began. Old school. Cyberbully. Moonlight Mile. Daredevil. Fright Night. Night Fright. Sleepaway Camp. Super 8. I spit on your grave. Descent. Creepshow. Descent 2. Last House on the Left. Last House on the Left remake.

Hanna. Black Swan. Rest stop. The Strangers. Secret Window. The Age of Innocence. The Uninvited. The Hills Run Red. Valentine. The Mesmerist. Alice Sweet Alice. Pleasantville. Maniac. Devils rejects. Night of living dead. Basket Case. Grinhouse, Planet Terror. Sugar and Spice. Melancholia. Larry Crowne. Donnie Darko. Soul Surfer. Bubble Boy. Odd Girl Out. Saw 5. Minority Report. Ice Cream Man. The Haunting In Connecticut.

Dead Silence. Fame. Water for elephants. Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Evil Dead. Silence of the lambs. Exorcism of Emily Rose. An American Haunting. The Orphan. The Ward.

Scre4m. Just Go with It. The Switch. Little Nicky. Red Eye. Ghost World. Cursed. The Dark. The Husk. My soul to Take. Lymelife. Broken. Butcher House. Imagine me and You. The Haunting. Hatchet. Blair Witch Project. Lost things.

How Do You Know? Hit and Run. Amusement. Insane. The Cycle. Glory Road.

Boogeyman. It’s kind of a funny story. Birds. I Spit on your Grave. Tourist. Harry Potter 7.

Black Christmas. Happy Hell Night. Slaughter High. Under the Tuscan Sun. The Heat. Nancy Drew. Santa Claus 3. The Proposal.

American Psycho, The Shortcut, Night of the Demons, Asylum

Ring. Ring 2. Silent Hill. Grunge. Flock.

Daylight. Wit. 88 minutes.

Not Another Teen Movie, Repulsion, Forget Me Not, Prayers for Bobby, 4.3.2.1, Antichrist

Hills Have Eyes, Resident Evil, Legion

The English Teacher. What Maisie Knew. Children of a Lesser God. Restless Virgins. Blow Dry. Me myself I. Hotel New Hampshire. Mental. Muriel’s Wedding. Maverick. The Conjuring. Elysium. Trespass. The Departiate. The Descendants. Frequency. The Suicide Shop. Simpsons The Movie. Frankenweenie. Easy. The Space Between.

05 Thursday Sep 2013

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I am going through some serious withdrawals, and I’m forcing myself not to start a new show. Thankfully I finally have time to watch some films, better or worse ones, still make me incredibly happy.

The English Teacher

What does he think of all this?
He said I should go to law school. I have to do something and law school is something.
Oh no.
So I’m probably gonna do that.
Oh Jason.
All great art comes from pain, remember that.
You can’t go three feet in this school without hearing about you and Shakespeare doing it in the classroom.
Hey, Miss Sinclair, I wanna bend you over your desk.

6.5/10

What Maisie Knew

I need the soundtrack.

8.5/10

Children of a Lesser God

10/10

Restless Virgins

The final monologue was amazing.

I watch a lot of Grey’s Anatomy.

It’s not often you have a moment when you actually feel yourself throwing up, figuring out that what we wanted was less important than who we were. I wanted to get into an ivy league school, but not at the cost of my soul.

Now none of us new exactly what the future held. So much for the five year plan. Although maybe that was the best that come out from all of this. Figuring out that life doesn’t stop just because plans change. George Bernard once wrote ‘Youth is wasted on the young’. Hey George, you can have it.

7/10

Blow Dry

Excellent.

9/10

Me myself I

It reminds me of Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow, where she did and didn’t make it to the train, it’s just better.
When is mommy gonna be home.
It’s like another life.
Sure seems like one.
Damn you, cannot take away her life.
Absolutely loved it.

10/10

Hotel New Hampshire

What a great movie.

8/10

Mental

Hilarious.

5/10

Muriel’s wedding

So much love for this one.

Now my life is as good as dancing queen.

10/10

Maverick

The poker parts and the wit.

8/10

The Conjuring

7/10

Elysium

Without Jodie this film would suck, and why the hell did they kill her off?

4/10

Trespass

Loved it.

7.5/10

The Departiate

Fine, but nothing special.

4/10

The Descendants

A fine film.

7/10

Frequency

The flashbacks and the calls were great.

4/10

The suicide shop

Loved it until they all decided to live happily.

6/10

Simpsons The Movie

If only it was realistic.

7/10

Frankenweenie

I haven’t seen the original so I can’t compare it to anything, but the Tim Burton drawings and the creepy atmosphere were truly intriguing.

5/10

Easy

The low budget screams through the movie, but it was not that bad. I was streaming take off that neck thing through the entire film.

Shes the one and in just an easy chick.
I just don’t wanna do what I ve been doing it hurts too much.
Im celibate.
What’s that like?
Remember you showed me your lisense you looked like homer Simpson.

5/10

The Space Between

Good, though at times too slow.

You wanted a happy lady you should have hired Mary Fucking Poppins to take you home. Yes I know I said a bad word.

7/10

Dexter 8.03. Dexter 8.04. Dexter 8.05. Dexter 8.06. Camp 1.05. Switched At Birth 2.19 Pretty Little Liars 4.09

07 Wednesday Aug 2013

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Dexter 8.03

Harrison ate all the popsicles and it looked like a crime scene. Late night eating, we’ve all been there.
Deb keeps getting wasted.
Exactly what my reaction would be if I hit that pole.
It’s just so unusual.
Are we done I need a fucking nap.
How do you know I’m hangover?
Awesome, fucking awesome.
Fuck Dexter I don’t have time for this, you know? I have to find out if some rich asshole is banging some chick which he probably is so that I can tell her and she can get a killer divorce settlement and they can move on with their stupid fucking boring lives. And I can move on with mine. Cause this is my life now.
He could be hunting me right now or he could be selling fitness equipment at the mall.
Yeah its really fucking classy.
When your sister found out who you were and what you were doing why didn’t you kill her?
I would never kill Debra, she’s my sister, I love her.
Selfless love is hard enough for typical people and for psychopaths it’s impossible.
I want you to revel in what you are. I told you you’re perfect.
You’re perfect as a psychopath, all this talk about helping Debra and loving her is like you’re Michaelangelo trying to play banjo.
What the fuck are we doing in this hell hole?
I’ll take a bourbon neat.
You’re a good person. You brought a lot of good to the world.
Have a nice day at the mall.
She just didn’t wanna see it. People get used to living in denial. Its just easier you know.
That’s why the kitchen is so clean, it’s a kill room.
Wasn’t checking my body fat for my own fitness, he was checking to see if I was fit to have as a main course.
Fuck Deb confessed to killing La Guerta.
When Debra killed LaGuerta it was real selfless love. She sacrificed everything she believed in for you.  Can you see that?
That was interesting.
Hold this.
I am perfect, but only at one thing.
You’re disgusting, cannibal consumer of human flash.  There was a time when I couldn’t imagine anyone being what you are, doing what you do, but now I realise I’m just like you, I consume everyone I love.

10/10

Dexter 8.04

Dexter’s need to kill was born in a container much like this one. And he’s been trapped inside its walls ever since. As a psychopath he will never be able to break free, but you can by reliving the events of that night over and over again.
There are countless ways to inflict physical trauma on a human body and sometimes the deadliest wounds are the ones we barely see they run deep like the ones I inflicted on Deb.
Dexter is fucking Dexter.
That night in the container Dexter was exactly who he was meant to be and so were you the loving sister.
Now that mirror is cracked an the only reflection you see is one of darkness.
You are no monster, you never have been.
Anyone on my table would disagree.
Dexter. Monster by definition is outside of nature but you’re a part of natural order of things.
I’ll still want her in my life.
Want her but not need.
Dexter can’t help who he is. He has no conscience Unlike you. You knew the moment you pointed at gun on La Guerta it was wrong and still you pulled a trigger. You shot a woman in cold blood you let her bleed out and did nothing. You shot an innocent woman for simply doing her job.
Because of Dexter.
And that’s what terrifies you the most. You so desperately want to believe that if you had just shot dexter then you wouldn’t have to face the hard truth. That if you had to do it again you’d still choose him, because in your heart you know you’d always choose Dexter.
How do I make it right?
By finally accepting that you are a good person who was forced to do a terrible thing. And that you made the best of an impossible situation. You can walk out that door, you can move forward, the choice is yours it always has been.
Masuka has a daughter!
Somehow he’s deluded himself into thinking his feelings for his sister are genuine unaware there are no real emotions behind them.
Do you understand or do you need to write it down?
I don’t think I can live with this.
Fuck and i’m supposed to?
Vogel believes I’m just like all her other experiments, psychopath who can’t form real connections but she’s wrong, Deb isn’t a prop like Yates’s father was to his son. She’s more than a mirror. She’s family. if I have a purpose, and value and a right to exist, so do my feelings for Deb.
The body forms scar tissue to close a wound. Has my sister began to do the same? Eventually scars fade. Who knows, with enough time you may not even remember how you got them.
Did dad killed himself?
Yeah. He od’d on his heart medication. Thought he created a monster.
I think I know how he felt why he killed himself. But he only got it half right.
Nothing says family like shit.

10/10

Dexter 8.05

So I’m not perfect.
You are not even listening to me. You don’t understand I’ve been trapped in a fucking fog.
I’m stupid that way I’m limited.
I don’t hate you.
Why did you save me, why didn’t you let me drown?
I saw the car go into the water I knew you were gonna die I couldn’t imagine my life without you in it.
I was expecting that.
Yeah we’ll get him. Dexter will.
Serial killer bested by 100 pound nanny.
That’s why he’s taking the shoes.
Which little piggie won’t be making it to market?
She slapped him around like his mother used to.
It’s a search for the same connection.
Poor boy.
Fuck you, Dexter.
Debra, are you okay?
I’m good really I’m good.
We’re the family that kills together.
You’re doing well Debra you’re very resilient.
You never gave up on her. I’m impressed I know Harry would be too. He was always concerned that as you grow older you may drift apart.
We never really had a choice. If anyone ever really knew us they’d run screaming.
A few days ago everything seemed hopeless between me deb a d me but through Dr Vogel and Yates I’ve got my sister back. Not like things were before. Its something different, but for now its enough.
Its beautiful out here Dexter.
I like it. It’s peaceful, alone on the water.
Tonight you brought us.
Yes. Why?
I wanted to be with family.

10/10

Dexter 8.06

He’s drawn to blood like me.
I remember that feeling ‘oh’, wonder, it only fed the urge.
What do you like to do for fun?
You know normal stuff.
That’s it?
That’s all I can tell you.
Dating is harder than I remember.
Families fuck you up that’s just the way it is.
He treats the blood like a swim suit model.
Wow very colourful.
Forgot it’s a crime scene. Keep thinking that dead chick spilled all that blood just for me.
He’s streets smart.
Just like old times, huh?
It was worth living for.
He’s 4, duffus.
Jesus Christ how many pictures of fucking women in tights does this pervert need?
Someone’s shitting is somebody’s cheerios.
How weird was that she confessed to killing La Guerta?
I should have stayed in my office.
You look incredible.
Don’t look so fucking surprised.
I just don’t wanna touch anything i’m not supposed to.
He deserves nothing but my table.
To take a living person and make them dead, imagining that you can actually hear the moment when their heart stops beating, smell the blood as it pulls across the floor.
I can’t help it, it just builds up inside me all these years.
How was it once you killed her.
It felt like this huge weight was lifted off my chest. This release of something horrible inside me.
Like you’re finally in control.
Yes just go ahead and kill me
Why?
Because if you don’t, I know I’ll do it again. I don’t want to be like this but I can’t help it. I just am some kind of freak.
Monster.
Yes.
You never had a harry. Someone to talk to. Someone to teach you.
Some things happen to us by accident others are choices. There are parts of me that I can never share with my own son, but with Zack, could I teach him? Am I ready for this? To be a spiritual father?
He likes me cause he doesn’t know a fucking thing about me. Yeah I killed two people and tried to kill myself and my brother i’m sorry what kind of wine would you like to order. I mean what the fuck.
but Hey life is good i’m feeling optimistic for a while i’m even thinking about taking on a kinda intern.

10/10

Camp 1.05

Sorry, grown up stuff.
Hey mom look what dad got me for my birthday he must love me so much.
At least my other parent cares.
What can I do? Get a little jerk a better present.
Shopping I love shopping.
No you don’t.
The way he grabbed her.
Yeah we all remember valentine’s day.
I’m asian adopted and my parents are gay how do you like that kind of pressure?
Who looks great? My dads do.
Also grace honey you should probably go through vocabulary again when you get a moment.
What about an electric guitar?
Are you ready to listen to smells like teen spirit at a 1000 dwxiblws?
Have you eaten today?
No why? Cause You’re getting a little irritable.
A pop singer. Super bubbly. Hopeless romantic. Rights songs about her breakups.
Katy perry. Kelly Clarkson. That awful girl that broke Justin Bieber’s heart.
No she’s dated literally every guy under 30 in America. She wears sparkles and too much red lipstick. Kanye west stole the microphone from her.
Britney.
What kind od a gay are you? Taylor Swift. Pick up a people magazine why don’t you. Taylor swift. It’s Taylor Swift you idiots.

You’re right food does help especially this crap. Which is awesome. Double cheese I dont eat like this anymore.
Every day I like to have 3 awesome things to happen.
why life is hard. It just gets harder and harder.
Life is awesome Mac. Focus, 16, what you were doing when you were 16?
Me? Getting high, roaming around the mall looking for posters trying on clothes. Go to the arcade. God it was so fun.
Of course we’re playing truth and dare.
I think its my second awesome thing.
The fact that its your second awesome thing make s it my second awesome thing.
Sure you can afford this. You’re not using your food money or anything.
What are you my mom? No im not using my food money.
I was born cool.
And you’re stoned. You guys got stoned together.nice thats fun isnt it getting high at work?
Follow me stoners.
This leather is so soft which is a total deal breaker I don’t know why so many animals need to be killed to make car seats.
Parenting advice from a childless man.
The white gay dude got stung by a bee.
Okay I ship them.
And them too.
Clearly that had to happen.
Would have been criminal if it didn’t.
You really made lemonade out of that leukemia.
You made my crappy day awesome.
Oh oh what’s happening.
Can You hear that? I don’t like it.
Happy sweet sixteen man were gonna die!
One time I list him at the mall.
When?
It doesn’t matter.
Yesterday was still fyn though. I like three awesome things every day.
Why not?
All kinds of reasons.
Let me know when you think of a good one.

I haven’t have so much fun all summer or even a year.

10/10

Switched at Birth 2.19

Ask the right parent.
John and Regina.
Remind me to thank him.
You should go with your stomach next time.
Sure I’m good down here.
I don’t have the Kennish gene for atlethics, okay? I don’t.
Can you ask Daphne?
There is a special place in hell for boyfriends like you.
Because of what happened with Chef Jeff.
Melody and that doctor.
We’re very 2013.
You jump.
Bay almost shat herself.
Not surprised she got pissed.
Shit, it didn’t work.
This is sound, Darling.
Emmett’s father is my favorite character together with Melody.
‘Hello’, I can hear that.
I’m the wizz with the copy machine.
I don’t know who I’m more scared of you or him.
Bay mentioning the helicopter that went down.
She’s broke her ankle.
Emmett’s dad listens to him play drums.

7/10

This was simply the best episode of the second half of the season. It is probably worse because it’s not based around school or Bay’s art anymore and girls don’t live together and Angelo’s child storyline is not very solid.

Pretty Little Liars 4.09

Ezra’s watching Aria and his girlfriend’s going to Washington.
A bail of 1mln dollars.
I was wondering where did the preacher go.
Preacher posted the bail!
Take Malcolm and get back with Aria.
What if he takes the paternity test and it turns out he’s not his father.
He was a corrupted cop, Ashley.
Everyone has their limits.
Jenna got thrown into the pond.
It was Ted.
Maybe you could let someone navigate for a while.
I knew it was Cece.
Mona’s back where she feels most comfortable.
And we know Jenna is not A for sure. Shonna isn’t probably either.

3.5/10

Trust. Poker House. The Perfect Family. The Prime of Miss Joan Brodie. Sinister. The Hunger Games. Eye for an Eye. Punchline. Kika. The Perks of Being A Wallflower. Augusta, Gone. The House at the End of the Street. The Pitch Perfect. Beyond the Blackboard. ATM. The Crazies. Underground The Julian Assange Story. Mom at Sixteen.

28 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by Joanne in movies, Oscar nominee, Rachel Griffiths

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I should have posted it before after Christmas but somehow I got all wrapped up in other things, and here I am posting it today.

Trust

I was impressed, not at first, but then everything went just the way it should. Not too brutal and just the enough amount everyone should know and David Schwimmer did great job directing it. Definitely will rewatch it. There were many scenes that were compelling, my favorite the girl’s realization that he raped her not loved her, her father apologising at the end, family being all everything is normal, her thinking he loves her and will call her back, the rape scene, when her father saw her picture on the wall along all other hal fnaked models and father’s flashbacks. We did not need that scene during the ending titles though, but I really thought him taking the video would lead to somewhere like they would find him or something.

10/10

Pokerhouse

The rape scene was incredible, and mother all drunk and not caring, loveed Selma Blair in this, and Jennifer Laurence was great too, the last scene, girls singing in the car.

8/10

The Perfect Family

The mother just got used to the whole situation too quickly, yeah and it was too happy in general. Favorite scene, the first one at the dinner table.

7/10

The Prime of Miss Joan Brodie

Maggie Smith is spectacular in this, oh my, absolutely incredible. The film was marvellous too, though sometimes that kid was too annoying and self confident.

10/10

Eye for an Eye

Absolutely perfect, kind of a rape and revenge film and Sally killed it.

9/10

Sinister

I was really disappointed, as it was only tense at the beginning when he watched the tapes and the only creepy scene was when the face was revealed in the reflection of the water, other than I really thought it would be the next Insidious and it was pretty much disastrous.

6/10

The Hunger Games

And somehow I did end up watching it, though I said I would not and was surprised cause I thought It would be just another Twilight, but the whole story, sacrifice two kids from a district, and all the kills.

7/10

Punchline

I am always gonna laugh at this one, absolutely amazing. Sally was spectacular. My father used to talk about this film all the time when I was a younger teenager. He still quotes the scenes like Tom’s character medical exam or dinner at the table with the priest. Hilarious. I will watch it with him when I’m home in 3 weeks.

10/10

Kika

The rape scene was incredible, may have been a little too much for most of the audience, but really perfect. The whole film was so beautifully crazy. Kika was pretty annoying in a good meaning of the word. Not as perfect as Bad Education, but one of Almodovar’s best.

10/10

The Perks of being A Wallflower

The only thing I did not like about the film is that Kate Walsh did not have enough screen time, other than that film was incredible. I was really glad when I saw where the film was going, the sexual abuse storyline. Kind of a teenage version of The Silver Linings Playbook.

And at this moment we were infinite.

9/10

Augusta, Gone

6.5/10

House at the End of the Street

7/10

The Pitch Perfect

5/10

Beyond the Blackboard

Not music for the heart good, but good enough.

6.5/10

ATM

I actually really enjoyed it, what an intriguing ending, when it really looks like no one was there.

8/10

The Crazies

7/10

Underground The Julian Assange Story

Rachel Griffiths was the only good thing about this film.

4/10

Mom at Sixteen

6.5/10

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  • TV Reviews: Absentia Season 2
  • TV Reviews: Greys 17.20. 911 3.14. How To Get Away With Murder 6.10. How To Get Away With Murder 6.11. How To Get Away With Murder 6.12. 911: Lone Star 1.09. The Resident 3.19
  • TV Reviews: How To Get Away with Murder 6.05 – 6.09
  • TV Reviews: When Calls The Heart 7.10. Station 19 3.06. Station 19 3.07. Station 19 3.08. How To Get Away With Murder 6.02. How To Get Away With Murder 6.03. How To Get Away With Murder 6.04
  • TV Reviews: Schooled 2.19. Schooled 2.20. The Goldbergs 7.20. The Goldbergs 7.21. One Day at a Time 4.04. One Day at a Time 4.05. The Simpsons 31.18
  • TV Reviews: Greys 16.19. SVU 21.17. Modern Family 11.16. Modern Family 11.17/18. Schooled 2.18. The Goldbergs 7.18. The Goldbergs 7.19. One Day at a Time 4.01.One Day at a Time 4.02. One Day at a Time 4.03
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  • Film Reviews: Reaching For The Moon. Bombshell. Dance Academy: The Movie. The Jack Bull. King Lear. Like a Boss. Dark Waters. What Did Jack Do?
  • TV Reviews: Greys 16.13. Greys 16.14. Modern Family 11.14. Station 19 3.04. Carol’s Second Act 1.16. Schooled 2.15. The Goldbergs 7.15. When Call the Heart 7.01
  • TV Reviews: SVU 21.12. SVU 21.13. Grey’s Anatomy 16.10. Grey’s Anatomy 16.11. Grey’s Anatomy 16.12. Station 19 3.01. Station 19 3.02. Station 19 3.03. Carol’s Second Act 1.13. Carol’s Second Act 1.14. Schooled 2.13. The Goldbergs 7.13. The Simpsons 31.12
  • Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 1.01. The Simpsons 31.11. Carol’s Second Act 1.11. Grace and Frankie 6.01-6.06. When We Rise 1.03-1.05. Modern Family 11.11. Modern Family 11.12. The Goldbergs 7.11. The Goldbergs 7.12
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About me

I am the dark and twisty Meredith Grey, the mad Dexter Morgan, hoping to grow up to be a little more like the wise, but fun Nora Walker. I am an aspiring filmmaker. My favorite actresses are Jodie Foster, Sally Field and Julianne Moore. Favorite genre – psychological drama. I watch anything with a sexual or mental abuse plot. I used to be a horror freak. I am obsessed with Grey’s Anatomy, SVU and many more. My other interests include making oil and pencil portraits and wildlife conservation. I cannot say no to beautiful landscapes, travel, Aussie accent, TV/film quotes and avocados. I have recently moved back from Australia to the UK. I’ve been running this blog for the last 9 years. Here I comment on films and episodes I watch. Enjoy! – Joanne

The 140 Shows I’ve watched and am writing about

  1. Private Practice
  2. Greys
  3. SVU
  4. Bones
  5. Desperate Housewives
  6. Gilmore Girls
  7. Dexter
  8. The Big C
  9. Friends
  10. Judging Amy
  11. Parenthood
  12. Brothers and Sisters
  13. Cougar Town
  14. Castle
  15. Shameless
  16. Full House
  17. The Middle
  18. Revenge
  19. Bates Motel
  20. Orange is the New Black
  21. Lost
  22. American Horror Story
  23. Fuller House
  24. Downton Abbey
  25. The Killing
  26. Chase
  27. Sex and the city
  28. The Good Wife
  29. Six Feet Under
  30. Switched at Birth
  31. My So Called Life
  32. Nashville
  33. Party of Five
  34. Suburgatory
  35. Surviving Jack
  36. Scandal
  37. Big Little Lies
  38. Camp
  39. The Carrie Diaries
  40. The Goldbergs
  41. How To Get Away With Murder
  42. Everybody Loves Raymond
  43. Married With Children
  44. Scream
  45. Younger
  46. Grace and Frankie
  47. Freaks and Geeks
  48. When Calls the Heart
  49. Arrested Development
  50. Pretty Little Liars
  51. Past Life
  52. The Simpsons
  53. Bunheads
  54. Puberty Blues
  55. No Ordinary Family
  56. Weeds
  57. Sharp Objects
  58. Bad Judge
  59. Awkward
  60. Go On
  61. 30 Rock
  62. Dirt
  63. Close to Home
  64. Thirteen Reasons Why
  65. This is Us
  66. Modern Family
  67. Riverdale
  68. One Day at a Time
  69. Top of the lake
  70. The Leftovers
  71. Ozark
  72. Killing Eve
  73. Good Girls
  74. 911
  75. The Resident
  76. Crikey! It’s the Irwins
  77. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
  78. Veronica Mars
  79. Dead to Me
  80. Schooled
  81. The Handmaid’s Tale
  82. Station 19
  83. Red Band Society
  84. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
  85. Little Fires Everywhere
  86. The Act
  87. The Morning Show
  88. Everything Sucks
  89. Mad Men
  90. For the People
  91. Unbelievable
  92. Bloodline
  93. Gypsy
  94. Liar
  95. The Insatiable
  96. Carol’s Second Act
  97. Chernobyl
  98. When They See Us
  99. The Society
  100. Girlboss
  101. When We Rise
  102. Locke and Key
  103. Russian Doll
  104. The Loudest Voice
  105. Soundtrack
  106. Sugar Rush
  107. V
  108. Grandfathered
  109. Faking It
  110. Secrets and lies (only season 1)
  111. Eye Candy
  112. The Whispers
  113. The Slap (AU)
  114. The Good Place
  115. The Good Fight
  116. Hollywood Darlings
  117. Off the Map
  118. Scream Queens
  119. Friday Night Lights
  120. Thirteen
  121. The Family
  122. Absentia
  123. F is for Family
  124. Starved
  125. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
  126. Fargo (only season 1)
  127. 90210
  128. Dead of Summer
  129. Amber
  130. Degrassi Next Class
  131. Looking for Alaska
  132. The Catch
  133. Mr Mercedes (only season 1)
  134. Light as a Feather
  135. American Crime Story
  136. 23.11.63
  137. Divorce
  138. American Crime
  139. The Politician
  140. Ravenswood
  141. Save Me
  142. Wet Hot American Summer

currently following on tv

currently (re)watching

return to eden
six feet under season 2
last man standing season 3

shows I need to catch up on

Feud
Transparent
Killing Eve
This is Us
The Good Fight
Gentleman Jack
I Am the Night

films that have been on my watchlist for years and years

The Rose
Agnes of God
Music Box
The Golden Pond
Rambling Rose
The Contender
Airport
Women in Love
The French Connection
California Suite
Chariots of Fire
Amadeus
The Accidental Tourist
A Woman under the Influence
The Happy Ending
Travels with My Aunt
Sounder
Hedda
The Turning Point
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Last Summer

will watch at the cinema

unhinged

Last films watched at the pictures that I loved

the hunt
the lighthouse

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my twitter bios

15.04.2011 ‘You forgot the number one rule about remakes: never fuck with the original.’ (Scream 4)

01.06.2011 ‘We need to become doers.’ 2×16 ‘You’re a doer, remember?’ 5×22 (Greys)

5.08.2011 “It’s just… Meredith always makes me think screwed up people have a chance.” (Greys)

9.10.2011 ‘You be wowed, I’ll be drunk.’ (The Big C)

10.11.2011 ‘George is dead and Izzie is gone and we’re all different. We’re different.’ (Greys)

17.12.2011 ‘I thought I was headed in the right direction. My Dark Passenger back behind the wheel. But if I was so sure I knew where I was going…How did I get so lost?’ (Dexter)

23.01.2012 ‘You’re drowning, Grey.’ (Greys)

18.11.2012 ‘You’re a serial killer and I’m more fucked up than you are.’ (Dexter)

7.05.2013 ‘I think my antidepressants just kicked in.’ (The Big C)

10.05.2015 ‘The sad widow is my friend. My best friend.’ (Greys)

My tumblr titles

10.10.10 – ‘Like I said, I’m screwed.’ (Greys)

15.04.11 – ‘It’s just a good story.’ (Greys)

22.06.11 – ‘I should have fought for you, Violet.’ (Private Practice)

20.12.11 – ‘I am a father, a son, a serial killer.’ (Dexter)

8.08.12 – ‘You have to pick the girl who lives.’ (The Big C)

5.10.12 – ‘You are my person. You will always be my person.’ (Greys)

10.11.12 – ‘Thirty second dance party. Dance or you’re fired.’ (Greys)

19.02.13 – ‘There’s nowhere on Earth I’d rather be right now.’ (Castle)

29.07.13 – ‘The family that kills together.’ (Dexter)

15.01.15 – ‘Let’s go home.’ (Parenthood)

20.05.2015 – ‘The sad widow is my friend, my best friend.’ (Greys)

What I’m tweeting about

  • Turning up to another 9am online workout class to learn it's not on. Then why is it on the app?! It's 4th of Jan fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 weeks ago
  • Just googled why they don't put little toys in cereal boxes anymore. Is absolutely everything going downhill? 2 weeks ago
  • Taylor saved Christmas! twitter.com/taylorswift13/… 1 month ago
  • I think we all see where this is going. Can we please not kill Koracick off? #GreysAnatomy 1 month ago
  • RT @GreysABC: Framing these 😍 https://t.co/Tj9NiR1P3w 1 month ago
  • RT @EllenPompeo: Fun Fact ...I love TR Knight 1 month ago
  • We all hoped for it to be George and it was George! I'm so happy! #GreysAnatomy 1 month ago
  • Jodie's back!!! twitter.com/IMDb/status/13… 1 month ago
  • RT @peopleschoice: A McDreamy appearance AND #TheFemaleTVStar of 2020?! This is a big week for #GreysAnatomy stans. 😍Congrats to our favori… 2 months ago
  • RT @peopleschoice: If I just lay here 🎶 @would you lie with me and just 🎶 binge watch #TheShow of 2020?? Congrats to @abcnetwork's @GreysA… 2 months ago
  • RT @peopleschoice: Two wins? That's just (Mc)Dreamy! 😍 @EllenPompeo @GreysABC #TheDramaTVStar #TheShow #PCAs https://t.co/4Pl2KrzooA 2 months ago
  • RT @enews: In a city of stars, she is the SUN. Congrats to Ellen Pompeo on her win for Female TV Star at the #PCAs! https://t.co/JiCQLfK6UH 2 months ago
  • RT @peopleschoice: Only The Young can stan this hard. 😍 Swifites, you did it! @TaylorSwift13's #OnlyTheYoung wins #TheSoundtrackSong of 202… 2 months ago
  • RT @peopleschoice: Oh, you want MOORE? Here you go 😉 @TheMandyMoore's acceptance speech for #TheDramaTVStar of 2020! #PCAs https://t.co/6T… 2 months ago
  • RT @eentertainment: This Is Us cheering @themandymoore on for her win for The Drama TV Star of 2020 at the #PCAs! 🎉 https://t.co/rPFvxJ6xGT 2 months ago
  • I was watching @skincarebyhyram's videos, as one does, and in one of them Hyram says 'Your skin does not define you… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 months ago
  • I don't understand why we're going backwards. I know it appears the majority of the country is very religious and c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 months ago
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favourite film and tv quotes

‘When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to ABBA songs. But since I’ve met you and moved to Sydney, I haven’t listened to one Abba song. That’s because my life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.’ (Muriel’s Wedding)

‘I used to think about
your life in New York. I tried to imagine your room. I kept track of the time difference, so I  knew when you were awake and when you were asleep.’ (Disobedience)

‘Nothing’s clean, Howard. But we do our best, right?’ (The Aviator)

‘No, I’m not quitting. I don’t quit things.’
‘No, actually you do. Your mother quit your father. Your father quit you. You quit your boyfriend and if I read your hospital chart correctly you quit your life momentarily on a couple of occasions. You quit. It’s what you know how to do.’ (Greys)

‘Where the hell was I that year?’
‘Your were watching television’. (Everybody Loves Raymond)

‘It’s impossible to worry about anything else when there’s blood coming out of you.’
(Short Term 12)

‘I wanted it to happen. And when we were girls… Even then, it was the same. It’s always been this way! I have always wanted it.’ (Disobedience)

‘Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes you play games in your head. You make up someone, someone good.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a moment when our lives change forever. The moment we admit our weaknesses, the moment we rise to a challenge, the moment we accept a sacrifice, or let a loved one go. And sometimes the change in our lives is an answer to our prayers.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Yesterday I went to the movies all day by myself. One after the other. I’ve never done that before. I had a really happy day.’ (Doing Time for Patsy Cline)

‘I just need something to happen. I need a sign that things are going to change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed a feel like I might die today.’ (Greys)

‘She saved me my whole life. Without her, I’m nothing.’ (The Favourite)

‘Don’t wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don’t. In face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that make us hold it together.’  (Greys)

‘Bree sobbed quietly in the restroom for five miutes, but her husband never knew, because when Bree finally emerged, she was perfect.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘I am not food, you cannot just eat and eat.’ (The Favourite)

‘I don’t love him.’
‘Of course you do.’
‘No!’
‘Don’t take me for a fool Olive,  I’m many things but I’m not a fool.’
‘I know that, you’re brilliant.’
‘Don’t you see, it’s over. Whatever this is, was, it’s over.’
‘I love You.’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing, is reason enough to celebrate.’ (Greys)

‘Many years ago, a neighbour and a good friend of ours took her life, and that left us all heartbroken and perplexed. But somehow, when I was alone in that hotel room, I forget about all the pain that she caused. In those awful moments, I thought maybe she had the answer.‘ (Desperate Housewives)

‘What happened last year when you fell in the water?’
‘I almost drowned. Do you think I did that for kicks?’
‘You put your hand in a body cavity that contained unexploded ammunition.’
‘I was trying to save a patient!’
‘Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to hit the deck? You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.’  (Greys)

‘This is the street where I used to live and these were the people with whom I shared my life. I met them the day they moved in. And I saw what they brought with them. Beautiful dreams for the future. And quiet hopes for a better life. Not just for themselves, but for their children, too. If I could, would I tell them what lies ahead? Would I warn them of the sorrow and betrayal that lie in store? No. From where I stand now, I see enough of the road to understand how it must be traveled. The trick is to keep moving forward, to let go of the fear and the regret that slow us down and keep us from enjoying a journey that will be over too soon. Yes, there will be unexpected bends in the road, shocking surprises we didn’t see coming, but that’s really the point. Don’t you think?’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Was your life not working when you let that slip out from under you?’
‘When are you going to stop suggesting that I’m suicidal?’
‘When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive.’
‘Give me my chart.’
‘Why?’
‘Because I’m not suicidal, and if it says that I am, then it’s wrong.’ (Greys)

‘There is nothing wrong with me.’
‘Then show me your arm.’ (Degrassi)

‘Look, my whole life, I have been the freak. The girl who nobody picked for dodgeball. The girl who didn’t have a mom. The girl who dressed funny because it was her dad buying her clothes. And then, tonight I looked at these people, and I thought maybe there’s a future where I don’t have to be a freak. Maybe I can be who I am and that’s okay.’ (Everything Sucks)

‘Dr, I have been this way since…since I can remember. There is no cure.’ (American Horror Story)

‘He was so crazy about me, I couldn’t breathe. So we tried drinking our way back into love, but it never made sense in the morning. So I ran. And every time I came back, he was here. And he was still crazy about me.’ (My Blueberry Nights)

‘Bree van de Kamp had always wanted to live her life with elegance and grace. That is also how she wanted to die. Her plan was to pour herself a glass of her favorite chardonnay, put on her most stylish nightgown and leave behind a note on embossed stationery.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘All we have is this moment. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So be… here…. now.’ (Six Feet Under)

‘On the train coming here, we were in the same cart, I saw you, you were reading and you feel asleep. I didn’t dare to look at you, you were so beautiful, it was scary. Afterwards,  I couldn’t stop thinking about you. It made me smile. Then I thought of all the men who would get to hold you, who’d make you laugh. How lucky they were.’ (Enemy at the Gates)

‘It was a good day. Maybe even a great day. Even when it was hard, I was the me in my head. There was a moment when I thought I cant do this, I cant do this alone. I close my eyes and imagine myself doing it, and I did, I blocked out the fear, and I did it.’ (Greys)

‘There comes a time when we must expose our weaknesses. When our secrets can no longer remain private, when our solitude can no longer be denied, when our pain can no longer be ignored, but sometimes we feel so alone that a weakness we thought we’d overcome suddenly becomes too strong to fight.’ (Desperate Housewives)

‘Why did you get married, Esti? Why didn’t you just leave? So everything was all right when I left?’
‘No. I was ill.’
‘What sort of ill?’
‘In my head.’
‘If I had to sleep with a man, why not with our best friend?’
‘Oh, Esti…’
‘It hasn’t been a complete disaster.’
‘And that’s enough?! Do you have to have sex every Friday?’
‘It’s expected.’
‘It’s medieval. What happened to you?’
‘Nothing. You happened to me. And then I started teaching and that became important. I give them ambition.’
‘To do what? Push out seven babies and be a good wife?’
‘Don’t. Don’t. I help them to value themselves.’
‘Okay, but what about you?’
‘That is me. And you? Are you happy?’
‘Yes, I am.’
‘Have you been with other women?’
‘No. Not really. And you?’
‘No.’
‘But, Esti… Do you still
only fancy women?’ (Disobedience)

‘OK, then, listen. Let’s not get caught.’
‘What are you talkin’ about?’
‘Let’s keep goin’!’
‘What d’you mean?’
‘Go.’
‘You sure?’
‘Yeah. Yeah.’ (Thelma & Louise)

‘She let me live at Nora’s house. She let me believe that I was a part of their family. I fell in love with that family. What am I supposed to do, just sit there, pretend I’m related to them? I was happy. For the first time in my life I was happy.’ (Brothers and Sisters)

‘You will be left all alone with your bitterness and your rage and your knowledge that you loved her and she loved you and you threw it away for them.’
‘Do you love her?’
‘Yes.’
‘And Have you always?’
‘Yes.’
‘So then ask her.’
‘Olive, will you forgive me?’ (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women)

‘No razors, no scissors, no fucking freedom.’
(Short Term 12)

‘You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.’ (Six Feet Under)

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