If you thought last week’s first glimpse of Elizabeth’s trailside panic attack was shocking, buckle up.
Picking up right where we left off, the latest episode begins with Elizabeth and Braunwyn on a hike in Lake Arrowhead, the former opening up for the first time about her experience growing up in a religious cult and how that trauma has reverberated throughout her life even as she tried to shut herself off from it with a wall of cash and Ferraris.
Say what you will about Braunwyn (everyone else does), but she was the perfect person to be on the receiving end of this revelation. She has both the demeanor and the vocabulary to make Elizabeth feel safe to start sharing; nothing can shock her. “This is your story to tell,” Braunwyn assures her. “It’s okay to tell
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Sylvie’s Love premiered at Sundance in January, the world was a different place but writer-director Eugene Ashe’s film takes viewers back even further than early 2020. “I think it’s sort of like a portal,” producer and star Tessa Thompson says of the dreamy midcentury melodrama. “And it’s a movie about love! So in a weird way, maybe it’s the perfect time [for it].”
Thompson stars as Sylvie, a young woman living in New York City in the 1950s whose life is upended the fateful summer she falls for jazz saxophonist Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha). As Sylvie dreams of becoming a TV producer and Robert pursues his music across the world, their paths diverge, but when they meet again after years apart, even having grown up into different people with incompatible lives, their connection remains as strong as ever.
1. The team
It was admittedly kind of a bummer to see Scooter Braun (which I know I should have expected, but was still taken aback), but Grande’s dancers, choreographers, musicians, stage managers, co-writers, best friends (there are various people credited as such), and everyone else who populates the singer’s world on tour are a critical part of the show’s magic. Especially knowing the pain Grande had experienced in the years leading up to this tour, the deep affection and support the whole team has for each other, immediately visible on screen, is all the more powerful.
2. “Bad Idea”