We watch a lot of TV and movies! So yeah, we’re fangirling over a lot of things! Each week we come together to highlight all the feels they give us throughout the week. On these Fangirlish Feels of the Week, there are five categories and many thoughts! Ready?
Here we go!
Best Scene of the Week
Jeanette: Widow’s Bay just dropped one of the best episodes of television ever. You know, no biggie. Seriously, though, if you’re not watching, you should be, and if you already are, then I guarantee you had a blast watching Patricia hold the Boogeyman at gunpoint all the way to the incinerator, all while Enya played ethereally in the background.
Shana: Boyd telling the ghost of Father Khatri all about the first night he met Donna in FROM Season 4 Episode 6. There was something so very normal about him sharing his first, fond memory of her while her life was hanging in the balance from something so…well, again going to use the word “normal” here.
And yet, there’s nothing normal about talking to a ghost, or the story Boyd tells, and there’s definitely something extraordinary about Donna herself. She means everything to so many people, and even in a place where death is around every corner, the thought of losing her was—and still is—just a giant NOPE. Like I said in my review, it was a “beautiful tribute” to the character. Not to mention, the performance Harold Perrineau laid down was beyond good.
Jasmine: As sad and painful as it was to watch, I’m going with Rue’s final moments on the series finale of Euphoria. After Alamo poisoned her by giving her percocets laced with Fentanyl which she took for the pain she was in after having her hand stitched up and being dragged by a horse, she ultimately loses her life.
The moment with her and Fez really got me because we know Angus Cloud is no longer here and this was also due to Fentanyl. Combine that with the moments of her hugging her mom and dad. It was an endless tear fest for me. Rue went through so much in every season and I was rooting for her to make it out. Her addiction was a never-ending battle. What made this all so sad was in the end she really was trying to change.
Ship of the Week
Raquel: I don’t just have one ship this week, but three!!! Oliver and Josh are starting to get closer on Brilliant Minds and that makes me really happy. Also, I’m still watching Off Campus, so Garrett & Hannah are still on my list of favorite ships, but now Dean and Allie are too—I love them!
Lizzie: Agree on Brilliant Minds! There isn’t that much new on TV, but I think Oliver and Josh would have been near the top of my list anyway. Knowing this show is ending, I just hope we get the end these two deserve.
Lyra: This is where the crack ship enters the chat. Because what is even going on between Zach and Bryce on Love Island USA?! It might just be the fanvid edits making me delulu, but they have more chemistry than anyone else on this show. And then the edit of Zach asking if Bryce was thinking of him while kissing Trinity??? It’s probably editing from the producers but you know what? Good job. You saw an opportunity and you ran with it.
Best Performance of the Week
Jeanette: This might be a weird one, but I’m saying Rick from Rick and Morty, or more accurately, Ian Cardoni. Season 9, Episode 2, “Rick Days, Seven Nights,” was an existential nightmare in the best way possible. It was quintessential Rick and Morty, and Cardoni perfectly captured all the Rick nuance in this more vulnerable look into the character.
Shana: I’ve been saying, pretty much since the very beginning of AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, that Sam Reid was born to play the iconic Brat Prince, Lestat de Lioncourt. Well, at this point, I’m increasingly confused as to whether or not Sam Reid is even real. Like, is…is he…is he actually Lestat? Because with every single photo and clip I’ve seen coming out of the “One Night Only” show in NYC from earlier this week, I’ve just been like, “well, yeah. That’s Lestat.”
So, either the late Rice and her Brat Prince have played us for decades (eh, centuries in his case). Or. Sam Reid really took to the stage, totally in character—more in character than ever before, even! Like, HOW—and played a whole concert. I’m not sure what’s more impressive; I just know that nobody’s doing it like…whoever he is.
Jasmine: Colman Domingo. That man is fantastic! His role as Ali in Euphoria has always been a favorite of mine. In the last half of the finale in the aftermath of Rue’s murder he absolutely owns the screen. His monologue at the group meeting was so powerful. You can feel how tired Ali is of losing people to addiction. Especially young people.
It’s obvious how much he loved Rue and after her death he’s just done. When he made the choice to avenge her death he knew there was a risk of him also losing his life but that didn’t matter to him. Rue was everything to him. She was like a daughter so he couldn’t let Alamo get away with what he’d done. Their showdown at the Silver Slipper was so captivating.
Moment that Annoyed Us This Week
Jeanette: I know I’m a week behind with the Hacks finale, but I just watched it this week, so I’m counting it. Did I tear up? You bet I did. However, I also felt annoyed about Deborah’s cancer reveal. I love this show for not delving too deeply into big, heavy topics like this, so the fact that they hit us with it right at the end is maybe a blessing, but it also felt a bit unnecessary.
All too often, I feel like women on longer-running shows get hit with two things: surprise pregnancy or cancer. I’m glad Deborah decided to pursue treatment, but personally, I would’ve loved Hacks so much more if it ended in Season 4 with Deborah giving up The Late Show for Ava.
Shana: Is it really the week of a Drag Race makeover challenge if you’re not annoyed by the wildly inconsistent interpretation of “family resemblance”? In this week’s All Stars 11 challenge,Michelle Visage seemed to want Silky to reproduce her perfect twin, but she decided (admittedly reluctantly) to go ahead with Crystal’s chaotic closet explosion? Ok then. And yet, the song choice for that lip sync was even more annoying…because it was a CHOICE.
Jasmine: How dismissive Cassie was about Rue’s death on Euphoria 3×08. The way she said “She was an addict” but then tried to clean it up by saying “She had a nice smile” didn’t help. I know she and Cassie weren’t friends but her sister Lexi was at one point and she knew that. I will say that was a very real scene because often when someone loses their life to drug addiction that’s typically how some people react. Just to reduce the person down to being an addict and nothing more.
Lizzie: Everything about the Euphoria finale. EVERYTHING.
Quote of the Week
Raquel: Face the fact that all your life you hated a man who didn’t deserve it. – Erika to Charlie in Brilliant Minds.
Shana: “Growing up, there were a lot of times when I was afraid. A lot of times when I felt powerless. But those stories about…the djinn, Vishnu and Krishna, the Golem of Prague…I understand now why my father told me those stories. The world was so f—king scary. But if I could believe in magical things, then…that was something no one could ever take away. We have seen so much darkness, we have lived with so much fear. I need to believe in magical things.” – Fatima in FROM 4×06.
Jasmine: Alamo: “You wanna tell me who sent you?”
Ali: “Rue.” – Euphoria 3×08.
