To start off, I love me some Angelina Jolie. She’s perhaps the only actress I will line up opening day to see, she’s incredibly sexy, a great celebrity whose life is endlessly fascinating, and she’s extremely philanthropic. In short she’s this generation’s Elizabeth Taylor and we all stand in awe of her. Yesterday, she released an op-ed in the NY Times speaking about how she arrived at the decision to have preventative double mastectomy surgery after taking a test that revealed she had the gene for breast and ovarian cancer. She speaks at length in the article about her mother who died from the disease, her children asking her if she would have the same fate and her partner Brad Pitt sticking by her side. Angie ends the piece by talking about how women should be proactive in their health as well as subtly critiquing the health care system for the cost of this test.
Oh Smash, you make it so hard to continually tune in every week. I have resolved to go. This season has traded in the batshit crazy bravado of the first season for more streamlined stories that lack ambition. They’ve sort of buried the craziness in a shallow grave, but it could only remain there so long. On last night’s SMASH titled “Phenomenon” the show took a dip back into that pot of foolishness and created a storyline that while somewhat dramatically compelling, just stank of tired clichés, bad writing, and the ultimate demise of the show.
Oh Glee, you continuously find new and interesting ways to frustrate/enrage/engage the people that watch your show. How else could one explain that tomfoolery that was the recent episode of Glee? Everywhere you looked on the internet were people saying how this was Glee’s most intense episode ever, yet by the end of the episode I just felt emotionally abused and cheated. So much so that it’s taken me this long to even write up my thoughts because I was just too done. But here at last is my sternly worded blog post.