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Senior Critic at | @OfficialTCA and @CriticsChoice Member | Writer | she/her | “Fix your hearts or die” - David Lynch

New York, NY
Joined July 2009
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Meghan O’Keefe
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1 year
The better pull quote imo? “Everything changed with streaming and everyone should be compensated for their work. It’s fucking easy. I don’t get it.”
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1 year
Amanda Seyfried on the potential WGA strike: "My writer friends think it's going to happen." #MetGala
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
I’m drunk enough to vent this: I FUCKING SEE AND LOATHE ALL OF YOU CASUALLY SAYING CALI DID THE PANDEMIC BETTER THAN NY. Yeah, no shit. Californians have cars and more in unit appliances and outdoor space and don’t live on top of each other and didn’t have 2 STRAINS.
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Meghan O’Keefe
10 months
Fran Drescher saying "Eventually the people break down the gates of Versailles and it's over. And we're at that moment right now" is not something I ever envisioned watching NANNY re-runs as a kid.
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9 months
Why bother with deep fake de-aging CGI when the answer to the problem of how to do convincing flashbacks is to simply have a son with Goldie Hawn?
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First look at Wyatt and Kurt Russell in the ‘GODZILLA’ spin-off series ‘MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS’. They will play the same character, Army officer Lee Shaw, in different eras.
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2 months
Does anyone remember when they sent Kelly Clarkson to represent America for the Pop Idol World comp and it was so embarrassing for the rest of the world, the concept was never tried again??? (At least not with America's involvement!)
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American Idol had the mission of finding the best singer in America — and they literally found her in Season 1
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
If you're shocked to hear that Thoreau's mother did his laundry during his Walden period, you won't BELIEVE how many wives/mothers/daughters/sisters/lovers TRANSCRIBED (aka copy edited) the work of geniuses over the centuries.
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Meghan O’Keefe
1 year
Colin Farrell literally shoved a man out of the way to shoot his shot, I mean, help Jennifer Coolidge up the stairs.
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Meghan O’Keefe
2 years
I don't know what's cooler in the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 7 trailer: Rebecca Ferguson in an eye patch with a sniper rifle or Rebecca Ferguson with a sword on a bridge.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
ALSO! ALSO! Like, New Yorkers don't en masse say, "Wow, why is NYC better than LA at dealing with wild fires." WE GET THAT THE GEOGRAPHY CREATES A HARD SITUATION.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
Amy Sedaris in a brillo pad wig holding Baby Yoda is the big chaotic "Virgin Mother and Child" energy I needed this holiday season.
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
That's right: no one told Gwyneth Paltrow she was the fourth-billed star in a Spider-Man movie.
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3 months
Issa López pitched an original crime mystery to HBO and they asked her to edit it to fit the TRUE DETECTIVE universe. She did so by adjusting her vision to be a photonegative of Season 1, with the emphasis on gender. I found it fascinating and refreshing. Strange who doesn’t.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
As someone who lives in what was a hot bed in the beginning, full of closely knit cultures who were at risk, I have seen firsthand behavior change and NYC is fighting this with a love and passion and fury that makes me proud to be here.
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Meghan O’Keefe
2 years
No thoughts, just listening to Rosé's "Hard to Love" from BLACKPINK'S BORN PINK on repeat while I sip my tea and speed-write articles about THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
I'm just so proud of my neighbors and so entrenched in this, and when you joke about how NYC's response sucked, I formally beg to disagree. It's bad here and yet we pulled off a fucking miracle not making it worse.
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Meghan O’Keefe
2 years
Okay, now I'm just waiting for Lindsay Lohan to guest on ABBOTT ELEMENTARY as one of Melissa's shady Philly relatives.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
Ugh, I just needed to vent. You think you are being cute, but people are fucking dying, and working, and adjusting, and suffering, and it's actually hateful. /end thread.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 months
Ladies and gentlemen, you’re familiar with the “Irish Goodbye.” Let me introduce you to the far more culturally accurate “Irish Entrance”
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me arriving at the plans i made when i was feeling extroverted #goldenglobes
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
Also...I see you comparing governors...JESUS CHRIST...this is not time for that. To quote the fucking Disney Channel Wildcats, "We're all in this together." Calm down and have a purely pop culture take instead. Like...rank those extroverts in the sanctioned Disney special.
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
"I was just in a phase where I listened to BTS," Cena says when asked about this BTS playlist for SUICIDE SQUAD. #TCA21
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
I know the internet hates Michael Che, but when I first moved to NYC 10 years ago, he was one of the few dudes in the comedy scene who looked out for me. He accompanied me to parties, gave me advice, and literally saved me from being roofied. So I will always love him.
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
JAMES GUNN: King Shark is chewing the skeleton of a human person, maybe a person you even know. TWITTER:
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Meghan O’Keefe
7 months
@kibblesmith We were also taught that Charles Lindbergh was an American hero because he flew across the Atlantic Ocean, and not that he was, in fact, a really evil and terrible fascist racist sexist dick. Why were our elders so dazzled by early aviators???
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
I personally *love* #WatchmenHBO and am thankful for what it taught me about the horrific 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. I am so honored director and EP Nicole Kassell spoke to me about the experience of recreating it.
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
People who say genre fiction isn’t real literature are just jealous they don’t have the imaginative range.
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What’s your hottest literature take?
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
🚨THE EWOK ADVENTURES and the TARTAKOVSKY CLONE WARS are coming to Disney+ APRIL 2. 🚨
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Meghan O’Keefe
7 years
@annetdonahue It's so hard to actually place this because there have been so many dudes who have tried so many things at so many points in my life.
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
I poop on auteur theory. Even in literature. Great work comes from communal help, be that in the edit process, source of inspiration, emotional support, and domestic help.
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Meghan O’Keefe
10 months
btw she also mentioned that everyone who worked on the NANNY made money off the NANNY commensurate with the show's success in the ratings, in those re-runs.
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
Netflix's The Chef Show is well-made, celeb-saturated fare that is more interested in the "hang" than the recipes. That means it's meh as a cooking show and GREAT for celeb gossip. Case in point:
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Meghan O’Keefe
2 years
RRR…the title sequence…when bros become bros…spectacular.
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Meghan O’Keefe
6 years
BLESSED BY CORGIS.
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Meghan has met The Queen and the corgis took to Meghan the first time she met them. Harry: "I've spent the last 33 years being barked at; this one walks in, absolutely nothing …"
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Meghan O’Keefe
6 years
@dorseyshaw The Weather Channel fucks.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
Watching younger generations get super into Friends and The Office must be how my Gen X sisters felt when I told them the coolest movie in my 1998 8th grade class was Grease, and they were like, "The fuck?"
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Meghan O’Keefe
1 year
I got the wording slightly wrong - everybody vs everyone - but I was transcribing from memory off of a tweet.
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Meghan O’Keefe
6 years
I’ve always wanted to see a day devoted to how much we love Jessica Walter, but not like this. She deserves better all the way around.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
My friend Jake is either the best or worst father.
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The Ring (2020)
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
Okay. It was fuzzy in the Twitter version, but confirmed. SASHA BANKS: LEGIT JEDI
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4 years
I wrote about how WATCHMEN hits harder in 2020 and how it is time to examine who makes up our police force, and why.
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1 year
“Everybody needs to be compensated.” I hate my own typo. Did not expect this to travel. To also quote Seyfried, “Whatever.”
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Meghan O’Keefe
6 years
I read that the new Jurassic Park movie has more "practical dinosaurs," and I was like, "Cool, we need some raptors who can balance a check book and change a flat tire."
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
In honor of Mother’s Day weekend, I want to shoutout my father’s mother, who met my grandfather on the boat from Ireland. When they landed in NY, she sent a telegram to her fiancé in Chicago that family gossip says read, “Sorry, met someone on the boat.” LEGEND.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
As a society, we need to normalize talking about miscarriages, normalize talking about grief, and normalize letting people grieve however they choose.
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2 months
The final season of THE CROWN is by far and away the worst season of THE CROWN, but Peter Morgan was not wrong here!!!
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3 years
I wrote about how Selena Gomez proves she's a truly timeless talent in ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
Just remembering that time Obama lost his shit over the baby dressed up as the Pope for Halloween. No reason. Just a pure memory for the timeline.
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
What...song is Rita Ora lip synching? Because it's not the one playing
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Meghan O’Keefe
1 year
I wanted to title my SUCCESSION S4 review: ‘Succession’ Season 4 is Going to Win All the Emmys, but was somehow overruled by my editors. The four episodes I’ve seen are SO. FUCKING. GOOD.
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Meghan O’Keefe
6 years
When you realize that Solo is going to be American Graffiti in Space.
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
My favorite part of the GOOD OMENS S2 announcement email that every entertainment journo just got:
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
So... #FalconAndWinterSoldier preview thoughts! (Critics got to see 2 scenes!) Sam Wilson is getting the most brutal (and bloody!?) action scenes we’ve seen in the MCU to date. Wouldn't call it Hard R, per se, but the action does go HARD. (1/2) #TCA21
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Meghan O’Keefe
7 months
Me watching the #WheelofTime Season 2 fan reactions roll through after I've been sitting with my feelings for almost a week.
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4 years
I wrote about the curious case of #AnneWithAnE 's "cancellation," and why the fans have cause to not give up on renewal hopes.
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6 years
Thandie Newton is basically the steely spine of actual human emotion that supports the rest of whatever the hell Westworld is, so yeah, I'm fucking cool with her winning this one.
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
Christopher Guest’s DUCK HUNT, starring John Mulaney and Bill Hader as competing duck hunters in a small town in Alberta, Canada.
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Meghan O’Keefe
1 year
Netflix is doing precious little to promote Joe Cornish's LOCKWOOD & CO., which is a shame, because I'm tearing into the show now and it's good. It's very good. Sharp scripts, fun world-building, great cast, and a version of fantasy London where youths are chewed up for profit.
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Meghan O’Keefe
7 months
I've always enjoyed Amazon's THE WHEEL OF TIME as a pure fantasy nerd and book reader, but the backhalf of Season 2 has catapulted it v v close to GAME OF THRONES for me in terms of quality, style, and ability to get me hooting and hollering at the screen.
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
And if you liked the way #WandaVision dug into the trauma of being a superhero, you’re going to get a way more grounded version of that in #FalconAndWinterSoldier . And Sebastian Stan remains the MCU’s hot emo boi. (2/2) #TCA21 .
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
@rajandelman Shortly after I got hired at my first full time entertainment journo gig, I was asked to go to a screening of a short film and told to try to work the party and get a quote from Michael K Williams. I was so nervous and intimidated but he was SO KIND and THOUGHTFUL and GRACIOUS💔
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Meghan O’Keefe
8 years
What Bowie taught us: Be kind. Be weird. Be creative. Be alien. Be open to transformation. So let's do that.
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2 months
I second the overall sentiment that we are ghouls, but they def need better comms, my god
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
I would honestly watch a GoT spinoff about Gendry constantly sending Sansa panicked scrolls asking for help managing Storms End. An epistolary political comedy, GIVE IT TO ME.
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6 years
@taralynnebarr I saw the photo and was like, "ELMO LOOKS LIKE HE KNOWS." (Also I separate Elmo as a muppet from whatever weird shit his muppeteer did.)
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
IIRC Lord Byron saw the transcription work Mary Shelley did on Shelley's poems and specifically asked her to transcribe his.
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Meghan O’Keefe
2 years
I interviewed #Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey about all things Anthony in Season 2, including THAT wet shirt scene and "You are the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires." He implicitly challenged me to a Julia Quinn nerd off.
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
This is 100% the tourism ad Looking Glass panned in WATCHMEN.
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New York is back. New York is unbeatable. We want you to be a part of it.
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1 year
Something is happening astrologically...and I love it.
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Lady justice had herself a DAY
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3 months
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU I SPECIFICALLY ASKED JACOB ANDERSON ABOUT THIS AND HIS ANSWER WAS INCREDIBLE (and tragically under embargo until closer to the premiere)
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THE WAY THEY ARE HUGGED UP IN THE MOSt CODEPENDENT FASHION TAG TEAM BULLYING AN OLD MAN IVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
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Meghan O’Keefe
8 months
@intothecrevasse For Andrew Barth Feldman’s “Maneater” scene, yes?
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Meghan O’Keefe
10 months
I literally overheard a quartet of normal young professionals gush about SUITS this week. SUITS is the show of the summer!
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Bonkers.
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Meghan O’Keefe
7 years
The most surprising part of Twin Peaks has been how it's made me want to be adopted by two gangster brothers who believe in me.
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Meghan O’Keefe
1 year
Wrote about the one part of HARRY AND MEGHAN I had absolutely never even heard the whisper of a rumor about... how Samantha Markle's tomfoolery threatened Meghan's relationship with her niece (and immigration lawyer!) Ashleigh Hale
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I really want to invest in a nice, new rollerbag for overhead compartments, but every guide/review disagrees on what's best, and this morning I was thinking, "I wish there was an in person place I could see and touch all the options," and folks, she invented a store.
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@brianvan See, my thing with the nepo baby discourse is no one minds a talented scion who fully embraces their family's legacy - ergo Wyatt Russell is not a problem.
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Meghan O’Keefe
5 years
When Milton went blind, his daughter became his secretary and transcribed his later works on paper (think she made edits?)
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@rhymeswithbeg I swear it happened! Because the show was called Pop Idol and franchised globally, they did an international all-stars edition and the gulf between Kelly and the rest of the Idols was insane. HOWEVER...she lost!!!
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Meghan O’Keefe
3 years
My timeline is full of (mostly male) critics curious why the SNL audience was so “on” tonight and (mostly) women so fucking thrilled to be enjoying themselves watching the hot guy from BRIDGERTON doing silly sketches not about our last President
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So, you know how I hear a lot of gossip? I’ve heard some GOSSIP about this set 👀
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Meghan O’Keefe
1 year
Mentally I'm baby Princess Eugenie who slipped in the snow whilst trudging to a forced photocall in Switzerland and is left to just sit there while the paparazzi make jokes about her falling behind.
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8 years
Heading into the weekend like...
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"Everybody passed. I know you all passed. You all passed on this show." - Mike White giving the Golden Globes audience a real "Big Mistake. Huge" PRETTY WOMAN moment after his WHITE LOTUS win.
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4 years
When you're definitely a time traveling sorceress battling the dark forces hiding in plain sight.
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1 year
My coworkers: No one thought 'RRR' was getting nominated for Best Picture, Meghan. Me: I DID.
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2 years
Disney+ sent this to me for some reason and I wish there was a teen girl in my life I could at least gift the duffle. (I’ll keep the vinyl though.)
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Initial #Ahsoka thoughts: Dave Filoni lovingly brings his rebels to life in a story that embraces mythology, magic, and lore in a way that could turn off, say, ANDOR fans. Slower paced than expected but still enthralling for this Rebels fan. Natasha Liu Bordizzo is my early MVP.
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Meghan O’Keefe
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Last month a guy I know who does background work told me a wild bit of goss: a certain star/EP was so awful to the crew that the lighting team had literally started lighting them terribly as an act of revenge. Watching screeners now and I believe it!
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Meghan O’Keefe
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@anylaurie16 My weird rule for switching airplane seats is if you don't ask me, I'll probably volunteer (if it's just aisle to aisle or window to window), but if you ask me and guilt me, it's a hard no.
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Meghan O’Keefe
2 years
Not gonna lie...these photos that I just peeped on THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER's press page have me way more hyped than a teaser of people looking at a comet.
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Dealing with the Twin Peaks Emmys shut out like
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1 year
All I want for Christmas is to know when BRIDGERTON S3 is coming out.
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Meghan O’Keefe
4 years
There's a new docuseries on @Netflix today that I ATE up last week and am still thinking about. It begins as a behind-the-scenes look at the country's best collegiate cheer team and ends up as a searing look at physical and emotional trauma.
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3 years
Horrified to report that I am now 100 pages into the first WHEEL OF TIME book and I am enjoying yet another high fantasy world.
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5 years
At least Robert Caro consistently calls out the emotional and strategic support of his wife Ina (and how she facilitated some of the most important interviews for his LBJ bios).
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Meghan O’Keefe
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Jeffries recalls wanting to nail Annabeth. She asked "Mr. Rick" what she had to get right and he said, "Just be yourself." Says when he said that, her whole face lit up. She jokes that like Annabeth, she is the "mother of the group." #TCA24
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2 years
Dear lord, #RRR is the closest cinema has gotten to capturing THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH. The insane feats of strength, the mythic language, the bros being bros except when they are not bros but they are still bros!!
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Meghan O’Keefe
2 years
RRR…the title sequence…when bros become bros…spectacular.
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