with Kevin Fallon Everything we can't stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture.
This Week:
Cry-Watch These Speeches With Me There are two words that trigger me into a puddle of tears the second I hear them: "Helga B." I don't know why it is a thing that gay men love to binge award acceptance speeches over and over again on YouTube, but it is a thing. I don't make the rules, I just embody them.
Louise Fletcher delivering part of her One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest speech in sign language for her deaf parents will always get me. Jack Palance doing one-arm push-ups after winning for City Slickers is iconic. Whatever you think about them now, watching Ben Affleck and Matt Damon win for Good WIll Hunting is still electric, every time.
The Sex Education Bus Scene That's Making Everyone Cry I've been binge-watching the new season of Sex Education on Netflix at night after my boyfriend's gone to bed—truly curious what has been going through his mind when, seconds after he shuts the bedroom door, he hears loud sex noises coming from the TV in the living room—which means that I'm a few weeks behind fans who sped through the new episodes of the remarkably smart and heartfelt series when they came out last month.
If you're unfamiliar, Sex Education stars Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield as a sex therapist and her awkward son, who discovers crucial social capital by doling out sex advice to classmates that he gleans from her work, despite his own sexual inexperience.
The next morning, despite not all being friends or particularly liking each other, they rally together to take the bus with Aimee, so that she can reclaim her agency and triumph over the fear. It is incredibly moving, and one of the more powerful depictions of a #MeToo storyline I've seen on a teen drama, which so often tend to sensationalize or exploit graphic violence in order to make a statement. (Ahem, 13 Reasons Why.)
J. Lo Poledanced and the Lindas Couldn't Handle It In the wake of my rapturous review of Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's sensational Super Bowl Halftime Show performance, I was sent many (many) complaints from people who felt that the duo had degraded and objectified themselves by dancing in leotards and crop tops during the show. In the Year of Our Lord 2020, we are still having this debate over female pop stars' sexuality—and having it a year after Adam Levine came out on the Super Bowl stage completely topless and none of these morality policemen and (mostly) women blinked an eye. (Most were too busy drooling and—oh, hey there!—objectifying him.)
This The View Exchange Made My Day Alec Baldwin was on The View this week and briefly talked about when he co-hosted the Oscars in 2010 in this exchange flagged by writer Evan Ross Katz on Twitter. "When I did the show 10 years ago with Steve…" he begins, when Joy Behar interrupts to clarify for the audience that he is referring to Steve Martin.
So Did These Town & Country Cover Lines Marveling at the wildly one-percent-skewing—or perhaps escapist fantasy—of the Town & Country cover lines is one of the Media Twitter's favorite monthly traditions. This month's version is truly something.
The Sinner: Matt Bomer and Chris Messina stage a Kevin's Crushes Convention. High Maintenance: It's always so good. Birds of Prey: In this house we support Margot Robbie! Tommy: Someone send our condolences to Edie Falco. Horse Girl: This movie is truly wild. You might like it more than I did.
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