shameika said i had potential

The Wire 1x07 / 4x07

ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - Songs [10/10]

Angel Reese & A'ja Wilson

Philip: When they first asked me... he said it'd be a hard life. Didn't want me to think it'd be some big adventure. I said I wasn't afraid of that.

Elizabeth: Who knows what would've happened here. [...] Maybe we would have met. On a bus...

"We had the same exact dream and we carry the exact name, Dwyane Tyrone Wade. To know we hustled all the way to the Basketball Hall of Fame is God’s will. So Pops, I know your knees are a little sore, but will you join me on stage as we take our rightful step into basketball heaven?"

DWYANE WADE and his father at the 2023 Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement

Black Sails | XVI.

Paul Henreid and Bette Davis in Now Voyager (1942) dir. Irving Rapper

House M.D. | 1x18 Babies & Bathwater

THE AMERICANS — 2x02 ‘Cardinal’ | 6x10 ‘START’

Black Sails - II. Odysseus, on his journey home to Ithaca, was visited by a ghost. The ghost tells him that once he reaches his home, once he slays all his enemies and sets his house in order, he must do one thing before he can rest. The ghost tells him to pick up an oar and walk inland. And keep walking until somebody mistakes that oar for a shovel. For that would be the place that no man had ever been troubled by the sea. And that’s where he’d find peace.

i understand why they changed it in production because this is a little wordy but also HELLO???????????

god... poor mike hearing that the lab was destroyed after being operational for like what, four months? werner ziegler died for this?? good night no more hurting myself with gilliverse it's already tomorrow and time to hurt myself with normal broadcast american television sitcom

im trying to articulate how heart-wrenching it is that jesse gets punished for being vulnerable and open all the way through the series but i think it’s best encapsulated by the fact that hank forces jesse to film a confession tape where jesse has to relive the trauma of shooting gale and todd killing drew sharp, crying and in clear mental anguish the entire time, and that experience accomplishes literally nothing in the end. the tape doesn’t protect him or get anyone responsible convicted or punished. hank still doesn’t see him as anything more than a resource, a disposable junkie, even as jesse’s sitting on his couch sobbing. the neo-nazis find the tape and sit around literally mocking this footage after they enslave jesse, laughing at his display of emotion. he’s constantly exploited and punished for being open about his feelings. i guess that’s why its so effective and beautiful that jesse doesn’t ever let this stop him from continuing to show emotion. why it feels so cathartic when he sobs and screams as he speeds away from the compound: they didn’t take that part of him away from him. he was laughed at, tortured, used as a bargaining chip, but he still cries and shows his cards and is a messy, emotional human all the way to the very end. they could’ve ended el camino with the shot of him driving into alaska with that kind of peaceful, but not super emotive expression, but they didn’t. they ended with him looking over and imagining jane with him. one final show of his love and emotions and how it has caused him suffering and pain, but didn’t ever break him. 

THE WEST WING 1.05 – “The Crackpots and These Women”

john cassavetes on gena rowlands, 1978