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GingerAntics
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Mehso-so

This felt like 6 shows that had adults playing teens, and 1 that actually cast teens. After Fresh Prince, So-Called, and Dawson‘s, it felt like the book deteriorated into ways show business is horrible to people - people in show business, fans, and people in general - and how that was expressed in the next four shows.
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GingerAntics There was a lot of “no one had ever done this before,” but she said the exact same thing about the show before it when it did pretty much the same thing. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d
GingerAntics Maybe I‘m not the target audience? I grew up watching Fresh Prince and Dawson‘s Creek. The rest of the shows I never watched and hadn‘t even heard of some of them. I have seen some episodes of Friday Night Lights, but everyone I knew who watched that show was a middle aged woman, so I never saw it as a teen show. When I asked these fans now, they were all baffled that anyone would call it a teen show. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d
GingerAntics “It had teens in it, but it wasn‘t specifically aimed at teens. It was a family show maybe” was the general consensus. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d
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GingerAntics If Glassman was trying to bring new fans to these shows, she utterly failed. At first, I thought I‘d check out the shows I hadn‘t seen before, but that quickly deteriorated. I do want to check out My So-Called Life. Hearing about the crappy way Apatow treated the Freaks and Geeks cast, I‘m not about to support that. Five minutes into the discussion of The OC the creators were quoted as saying “too Jewish” twice. Nope. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d
GingerAntics Then it turned out the directors and crew talked crap about the actors behind their backs. Double hope. I was actually really excited to watch Glee. I knew several fans when it was on the air, and I just didn‘t watch it for whatever reason. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d
GingerAntics Then she talked about the writer/creator of Glee venting his own body shaming, homophobia, racism, and general bad humanity through the characters - making actors say and do horrible things to each other for his own joy? Hard pass. 6d
TheBookHippie 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 I‘ve watched zero of these shows 👵🏼 I did see a few Fresh Prince episodes 🤷🏻‍♀️but that‘s it. 6d
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I'm intrigued because I've watched 5 of the 7 (not Glee nor FNL), but not sure if care enough about them to read behind the scenes drama. 15 years ago, sure. Today? Meh. If you can watch My So-Called Life, I'd suggest that one of the bunch. One short season, a 90s time capsule, and pretty Jared Leto if you're into that. 5d
GingerAntics @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick yeah, it‘s less BTS and more (supposed) cultural importance. There is a bit of BTS type stuff. I don‘t think I would have gotten through the whole book if it was just BTS stuff. My favourite to hear about, honestly, was Fresh Prince. lol 5d
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie lol that‘s fair… this was pretty niche watching, so if you didn‘t have someone in the right age group who actually watched these shows, you‘d really have no reason on to watch them. This was definitely a millennial anthem in a sense. Glee probably did have some gen Z and Fresh Prince had some younger gen X, mostly millennial shows. 5d
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I find it interesting my childhood shows still run 😂 I mostly watched old movies with my grandma and I‘m so grateful. I watched Gilmore Girls with my daughter, Fraiser with Mr BookHippie- but we mostly watched VHS BLOCKBUSTER 😂 I worked more than two jobs 14-40 so not much TV for me 🙃 5d
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie yeah, long work hours do make it hard to do much outside of work. Gilmore Girls was a brilliant show. I really love that show! VHS Blockbuster seriously brings back memories. lol 5d
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I feel like Gilmore Girls would have made a better teen show than some of the nonsense that was listed in this book. Maybe more men need to get comfortable with that show, because seriously that is a show full of powerful women and girls! 5d
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GingerAntics
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Perhaps Glassman should have called ANY Celtic Thunder fan, ANY Damian McGinty fan, ANYone involved in creating Celtic Thunder or literally ANYone in all of Ireland. It‘s really bad when you mispronounce the name of an internationally famous band. Just saying. This ain‘t Boston where they are so disconnected from the Irish Celtic roots they think a C sounds like an S. 🤦🏼‍♀️
#TheaGlassman #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #CelticThunder

GingerAntics Never mind the multiple Celtic Thunder DVDs where they are literally introduced correctly as Celtic Thunder. Oh my god, I liked this book, but now I‘m questioning my feelings. 6d
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GingerAntics
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This was the BIGGEST show among my friend group when it first came out. We. Were. Obsessed. Somehow, I don‘t remember a lot of it.
#DawsonsCreek #TheaGlassman #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #90sTV

Caroline2 Me too!! I‘ve been rewatching it on Prime, nostalgia heaven! 😂 3d
GingerAntics @Caroline2 I‘ve been meaning to look up where to watch it. Thanks for saving me the trouble! 🧡🧡🧡 3d
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GingerAntics
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This show still holds up! The 20-something at my daycare back in the early 90s laughed so hard when I did the whole theme song. Everyday, he‘d say “do it! Do it!” And I‘d do the whole theme song again.
#FreshPrince #WillSmith #TheaGlassman #FreaksGleeksAndDawsonsCreek #90sTV

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 6d
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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🎞 1940s P & P. I could let it go that the clothes and hair are all wrong, if they hadn't cut so much of the story. It made Elizabeth and Darcy falling in love come out of nowhere.

It's been a long time since I rewatched the complete Masterpiece Theatre 1980 P & P that introduced teenage me to Jane Austen. I liked Elizabeth! Had forgotten how uptight Darcy was in this one. ⬇️

Crinoline_Laphroaig

🗓 I've got Thursday blocked off for my Date with Colin Firth Darcy. And then Friday I'm heading to theater with neice for 2005 Mathew McFadden Darcy.

#janeaustenthenandnow
#datewithdarcy
#pemberlittens

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BarkingMadRead I‘ve been stalking my theater, but so far no mention of playing P&P! 1w
Crinoline_Laphroaig @BarkingMadRead mines and AMC theater not sure if that's meaningful. 1w
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TheKidUpstairs
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Forget Angel vs Spike. #TeamGiles Forever! Library Power!

monalyisha I may or may not have written my MLIS grad school application essay about Buffy. 😏 1w
Ruthiella Absolutely! 👍 1w
lil1inblue 🙌 🙌 🙌 I need to rewatch this show. 💓 1w
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Beatlefan129
Lucky Man: A Memoir | Michael J. Fox
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Pickpick

For a celebrity memoir, I was pleasantly surprised at how eloquently this book was written. A blend of his journey into acting and his diagnosis with Parkinson‘s, it struck just the right tone between serious and gossipy. Although he unfortunately didn‘t succeed in his foundation‘s goal of finding a cure for Parkinson‘s in 10 years, he has made a tremendous impact in bringing awareness and support for this horrible disease. Good on audio

MemoirsForMe Great review! Michael is such an inspiration. 🙌🏻 2w
Bookwomble I love seeing your user name ? I'm currently listening to The Beatles Ballads compilation album, track "All My Loving" just ending, "Hey, Jude" just starting ?❤️? 1w
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LiseWorks
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April 10th #DynamicDs Dog Another tv show I grew up with. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 2w
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MemoirsForMe
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Pickpick

Oh George, you can read to me anytime with that deeply mesmerizing voice of yours! This amazing Star Trek actor/activist shares such moving stories: spending his childhood imprisoned in American “relocation” camps during WWII(as depicted in his stirring graphic novel), meeting Gene Roddenberry, landing his most iconic role aboard the Enterprise & remaining longtime friends with the cast. Even tho Shatner tried to steal all the best lines!😁🖖🏻

iread2much Ooo, I don‘t normally like biography but this might be worth listening too 😊 2w
MemoirsForMe @iread2much You‘d love the behind-the-scenes stories! 😊🖖🏻 2w
iread2much @MemoirsForMe 😁 thanks for the Rec! 2w
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Leftcoastzen
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Ok , who remembers this ? 😁

Avanders … did it work??? 2w
Avanders Crazy - I definitely could have benefited from something like that! 🫢 2w
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Leftcoastzen @Avanders they still make them . Looked them up !😁 2w
Avanders 😯 ooooh will have to check that out! 2w
dabbe 🎯💙🎯 2w
Leftcoastzen @dabbe I told my friend , she started telling me about her mom‘s Bedazzler ! Remember those ? 2w
Leftcoastzen @Avanders they have old ones on EBay , of course I‘d be asking if they work !😁 2w
vlwelser Um no but I sort of want one. 2w
dabbe @Leftcoastzen My grandma had one and make t-shirts for my sister and me! 🪩🪩🪩 2w
AnnCrystal 🧵🔘🪡🆒💝. 2w
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