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Squishable Morning Thread

by Betty Cracker|  June 1, 20238:23 am| 43 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, TV & Movies

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Patricia Arquette in High Desert

Apple TV has a new series called High Desert. It features Patricia Arquette as a quirky fuck-up/scam artist who’s pursuing a career as a private investigator. I got sucked into it because it also features Matt Dillon as Arquette’s character’s felonious husband. I’ve had a crush on Matt Dillon since we were both teenagers. Bernadette Peters is cast as Arquette’s character’s late mom and another woman who’s a mom-lookalike.

There’s a quote from a recent episode that kind of captures the essence of the series so far. Arquette is addressing the teenaged step-daughter of Arquette’s best friend. The bestie is a permissive and indulgent stepmom, and Arquette doesn’t think the step-daughter appreciates that sufficiently, so she says to the girl, “Do you know what MY stepmother was like? Mussolini with a perm and a nose job.” I laughed!

Somehow, I got incredibly lucky with the two intra-female relationships that are historically most loaded with fraught potential: stepmother and mother-in-law.  Both of mine are absolute darlings! Whew!

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    June 1, 2023 at 8:30 am

    I’ve had a crush on Matt Dillon since we were both teenagers

    TMI.
    :)

  2. 2.

    Another Scott

    June 1, 2023 at 8:31 am

    Wha?? Isn’t Matt Dillon about 200 years old now??

    Oh… Nevermind.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    June 1, 2023 at 8:32 am

    Did you watch it on your new TV?

  4. 4.

    satby

    June 1, 2023 at 8:32 am

    We’re at day three of a five day +90° weather stretch and I’ve already lost the will to live. How do people live where weather like this is normal? I broke down this morning and put the air on, which I normally wouldn’t do while overnight temps are in the 60s, but the house was staying at 85°.

    Thank god temps are falling back to normal starting Sunday.

  5. 5.

    JPL

    June 1, 2023 at 8:38 am

    @satby:  It’s finally going to warm up here, Saturday will be 89.

  6. 6.

    Tony Jay

    June 1, 2023 at 8:41 am

     

    Apple TV has a new series called High Desert. It features Patricia Arquette as a quirky fuck-up/scam artist who’s pursuing a career as a private investigator US Senator.

    Kyrsten Sinema the Series?

    Who plays Manchin? Fred Gwynne is dead, right?

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 1, 2023 at 8:41 am

    Rabbit rabbit rabbit

    🐰   🐰   🐰

  8. 8.

    lowtechcyclist

    June 1, 2023 at 8:42 am

    For a second, I thought that might be the car that went flying off the tow truck’s ramp.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    June 1, 2023 at 8:49 am

    Happy opening day of hurricane season.

    A different type of Hurricane.

  10. 10.

    sab

    June 1, 2023 at 8:49 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: Rabbit rabbit rabbit.

    I didn’t know anyone elsewhere did that on the first of the month.

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    June 1, 2023 at 8:50 am

    Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊

  12. 12.

    Betty Cracker

    June 1, 2023 at 8:50 am

    @JPL: No because even though I ordered and paid for the TV to pick up at a store some distance from our residence, it wasn’t actually in stock. The store offered to ship it to me from a different location, but I’m pissed about the bait and switch, so I got a refund and am starting over. Le sigh.

  13. 13.

    Soprano2

    June 1, 2023 at 8:52 am

    @Betty Cracker: That’s a good call anyway. When I was researching TV’s to decide what to buy, I saw a lot of comments about delivery of broken TV’s. We got a 55″ LG TV, and so far I’m happy with it.

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    June 1, 2023 at 8:52 am

     

    No….just no….
    BWA HAHAHAHA 🤣😂🤣

    Lady Whistledown in the Hood (@colorfullstory) tweeted at 7:00 AM on Thu, Jun 01, 2023:
    They cannot ban TikTok!
    Why is there a chicken gang war happening on TikTok?!?? https://t.co/eXYhU7wP4Z
    (https://twitter.com/colorfullstory/status/1664240425845116930?t=Lms5l0huga2_hAQyxRgIEQ&s=03)

  15. 15.

    Betty Cracker

    June 1, 2023 at 8:55 am

    There’s already a blob in the Gulf of Mexico? Sweet Jeebus, I hate summer.

  16. 16.

    japa21

    June 1, 2023 at 8:57 am

    @sab: Mrs. Japa and I have a contest to say who says it first.

  17. 17.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    June 1, 2023 at 8:58 am

    @sab: I read about a character doing that in a novel recently, but I can’t remember which book.

    ETA: I’d never heard of it .

  18. 18.

    Another Scott

    June 1, 2023 at 8:58 am

    @Betty Cracker: I hate it when that happens, but it’s much, much worse on special occasions!  :-(

    Good luck with the search.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  19. 19.

    Salty Sam

    June 1, 2023 at 8:59 am

    Matt Dillon, eh?

    I guess I’ll have to confess to having a serious crush on Bernadette Peters ever since she played Montana Wildhack in “Slaughterhouse Five”…

  20. 20.

    JeanneT

    June 1, 2023 at 8:59 am

    @satby:  I feel for you!  Even up here in GR we’ve been trying for the 90 degree mark.  I am not ready for this kind of heat – and I don’t have my window AC installed yet for the summer.  Thank goodness for my big window fan at night..

  21. 21.

    Betty Cracker

    June 1, 2023 at 9:00 am

    I’m just learning about the rabbit thing today. I was confused by several comments, including the rabbit thing, and briefly wondered if I was dissociating but then decided y’all are just weird. ;-)

  22. 22.

    sab

    June 1, 2023 at 9:00 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: We started doing it in middle school and I don’t know why.

  23. 23.

    sab

    June 1, 2023 at 9:05 am

    @Betty Cracker: I just googled it. It’s in the Farmers Almanac!

  24. 24.

    lowtechcyclist

    June 1, 2023 at 9:06 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    I’m just learning about the rabbit thing today.

    This is the first I’d ever heard of it too.

    I was confused by several comments, including the rabbit thing, and briefly wondered if I was dissociating but then decided y’all are just weird. ;-)

    I think you already knew that. :-D

    ETA: I was tempted to respond with “badger badger badger.”

  25. 25.

    getsmartin

    June 1, 2023 at 9:06 am

    Matt Dillon’s character in Drugstore Cowboy was bloody amazing. Hardly an uplifting story, though…

  26. 26.

    oatler

    June 1, 2023 at 9:14 am

    “Mussolini with a perm and a nose job.”  copyright Joan Rivers 1974?

  27. 27.

    Uncle Cosmo

    June 1, 2023 at 9:17 am

    @Salty Sam: I guess I’ll have to confess to having a serious crush on Bernadette Peters ever since she played Montana Wildhack in “Slaughterhouse Five”…

    Then you’ve been blind most of your life – that was Valerie Perrine. (Not that in the day [1972 – AD not BC] she wasn’t seriously crushable to a growing boy…)

    Speaking of “needing glasses,” here’s a German ad for your viewing pleasure… :^D

  28. 28.

    laura

    June 1, 2023 at 9:18 am

    @Salty Sam: I think that was the also lovely and talented Valerie Perrine.

  29. 29.

    Elizabelle

    June 1, 2023 at 9:18 am

    Good morning, jackals.

    In previous thread:  I put up a WaPost gift link on the initial article on The Talented “Captain” Morgan Murphy, the food advisor now former staffer to Tommy Tuberville. https://wapo.st/3oAKbFw

    It’s a good read.  Murphy sounds like a serial fabulist.

  30. 30.

    satby

    June 1, 2023 at 9:29 am

    @Elizabelle: Murphy sounds like a serial fabulist.

    Thank you! He fits right in with the liars and grifters party then.

  31. 31.

    Concerned Citizen

    June 1, 2023 at 9:31 am

    I’ve been in love with that woman since True Romance.

  32. 32.

    Ken

    June 1, 2023 at 9:32 am

    @Elizabelle: Murphy sounds like a serial fabulist.

    You mean that’s not a requirement of the job?

    A few years ago, someone noted that much of the Republican party’s current problems were because for decades prior, the leaders had been lying to their base and telling them all sorts of ridiculous things to secure their votes. And now there’s been a generation raised believing those lies and ridiculous things, who are becoming the new leaders of the Republican party.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    June 1, 2023 at 9:33 am

    @satby:  He does indeed.  He worked for a while at Vanity Fair.  (Which does sound like a publication that hires the rich and connected’s kids.)

    Or how he told me that, when working for Vanity Fair after college, he was the “personal assistant” to the legendary editor Graydon Carter.

    “Morgan was never anyone’s assistant,” said Aimee Bell, who worked for the magazine at the time, in an email. “He was far too, well, Morgan-ish for that sort of position.” (Later, Murphy told me: “I assisted him, but I was never his full-time personal assistant.”)

  34. 34.

    Craig

    June 1, 2023 at 9:39 am

    Thanks BC. I Wasn’t going to bother with that show, but sometimes I just need one review to push me. Plus, Bernadette Peters- she’s a national treasure.

  35. 35.

    JPL

    June 1, 2023 at 9:55 am

    @Betty Cracker: I found a good deal on a Sony from Amazon.   They included set up for free.    That was right before the super bowl though.

  36. 36.

    rikyrah

    June 1, 2023 at 10:04 am

    @satby:

    I feel you, satby.

  37. 37.

    Sean

    June 1, 2023 at 10:37 am

    @satby: It probably won’t fall much below 90 for day time highs where I live until October. I just hope it keeps raining to delay the 100’s as much as possible.

  38. 38.

    Elizabelle

    June 1, 2023 at 10:53 am

    @Ken:  Race to the bottom, for sure.

    But they’ve taken the Confederate ethos nationwide.  We are held back, again, by the South and traditional Southern values, wherever they may be found.

  39. 39.

    satby

    June 1, 2023 at 11:03 am

    @rikyrah: and I for you 😂 and the other Chicago area folks getting the same weather as me.

    @JeanneT: The air in my old house doesn’t do the second floor well and I may break down and get a small window unit for my bedroom this year. I tossed and turned all night even with a fan. It’s time.

  40. 40.

    Salty Sam

    June 1, 2023 at 11:09 am

    @Uncle Cosmo , @laura :

    You are both correct, and I stand embarrassingly corrected.

    TBH, I’ve always crushed on both of them…

  41. 41.

    Abnormal Hiker

    June 1, 2023 at 11:15 am

    @Salty Sam: For me it was Pennies from Heaven

  42. 42.

    eclare

    June 1, 2023 at 12:11 pm

    @satby:

    We consider it absolutely necessary to put the air on, nothing “breaking down” about it.

  43. 43.

    RaflW

    June 1, 2023 at 1:06 pm

    I kinda liked the show Medium. Arquette is a curious actor. She’s sort of stiff, but eventually I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t bad acting, but probably the essence of the character.

    Don’t have Apple TV so alas I likely won’t see this new series.

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