#jeff perry

[one-time-i-dreamt]

not a dream

if you get the chance - watch Alaska Daily

ABC cancelled it after one season, but this show was so, so, so important, a small show with a big heart and a huge story

it tried raising awareness about missing and murdered indigenous women and I'm so glad an indigenous woman, Grace Dove, got to tell their story among other stellar cast

[davidhudson]

Happy 70th, Laurie Metcalf.

With fellow Steppenwolf Theater Company members in 1978. Back row (from left): John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Metcalf, Joan Allen, Gregg Winters, and Alan Wilder. Front row (from left): Moira Harris, H. E. Baccus, and Jeff Perry. Photo by Lisa Howe-Ebright.

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Voting ended onMar 25

[clubhoops]

Is there anyone Paige doesn't know???

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Wild Things (1998) John McNaughton

May 1st 2025

[atlantisview]

rewatching scandal and i didn’t really process during my first watch just how much cyrus was fighting for his damn LIFE all the time 😭 these people have him STRESSED lmao

[greysanatomy-bts]

[dotthings]

1x06 of Alaska Daily was heartbreaking and scathing. The ep addressed systemic inequalities in searches for missing white women are treated vs how searches for missing Indigenous women, after a white woman falls overboard from an Alaska cruise ship and an Indigenous woman goes missing in the woods.

Stanley and Roz’s deadpan exchange where Stanley (the paper’s editor in chief) is required to do an obligatory reprimand of Roz after she raises questions about the inequalities at a press conference and says he is “talking” to Roz about her “behavior” was gold.

“Are you done ‘talking’ to me?”

“Yeah. Good chat.”

And then Stanley heads out to the woods to join Roz in the search for Jade. I appreciate Stanley.

The gala having Indigenous performers while a million dollars is being spent on the search for one white woman and almost nothing spent on the missing Indigenous woman — Jade’s search gets done by the community, not official forces. A gala attended by the wealthy who are profiting off the governor’s puff PR “task force” where most of the money is spent on PR not resources.

The rapid-fire dialogue and the wry or deadpan humor of the team of reporters and the friendships among the reporters at TDA is enjoyable and the show finds humor while being raw about a range of issues from corruption to inequalities. I also liked that this ep developed Stanley and Roz’s friendship, the mutual respect, Stanley being a mentor and ally.

It’s interesting how the show depicts Roz, Eileen, and Stanley’s different kinds of angers. Roz’s anger is deep and quiet and stirred higher by being not listened to, not heeded, being overlooked. Trying to get people to listen. Eileen’s is sometimes a bulldozer and at times, well-intended white liberal crusader but she doesn’t always stop to think about the real personal impacts, she latches onto causes, but genuinely cares. Stanely’s anger is a tired anger. He knows how broken the system is. He’s given almost no budget to run the paper. He believes in the power the press has to bring about change, uncover truths, so Stanley tries to push and encourage his team to do work past the external limits set on them. Stanley and Roz in different ways both live in frustration, boxed in, but they know where the hidden cracks in the walls are and how to apply pressure to get them to crumble. While Eileen rams her her way head-on at every wall.

The whole cast is stong, and Hillary Swank, Grace Dove, and Jeff Perry (who plays Stanely) deserve a ton of critical attention of their roles in this. The show itself deserves a lot more attention. I hope it gets a S2.

Don’t sleep on Alaska Daily.