Angela Bassett vs. The Oscars, Round 2
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Even before boarding the cruise ship, Athena sensed that danger was on the horizon, mostly because The Poseidon Adventure scarred her as a child. She shared her concerns with her therapist, even adding that the movie earned Shelly Winters an Oscar nomination — and that she should have won.
If you interpreted this as a less-than-subtle reference to Bassett not winning her Oscar for 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, well, you’d be exactly right.
“When I wrote that line, it just made me laugh so hard,” Minear says. “I thought, ‘How is she gonna take this?’ She read it and ran over to her husband and went, ‘Look what Tim wrote!’ She’s got a sense of humor about herself, which is one of the things I love about her.”
Minear knows all too well, from working with Bassett on both 9-1-1 and American Horror Story, that she’s “game for anything.” He notes that she was “up to her neck in water the night of the Oscars this year,” filming the conclusion of the cruise ship crisis. “She worked all night, and the more we threw at her, the more excited she got.”
I really liked that they brought back “Shannon” for that scene. Cruise Director Julian is definitely behind it! I’m so glad that Natalia is gone…that whole meeting on a 911 call doesn’t seem to end well for Buck. (I wonder if he got a new, new couch…) Now if only Marisol would leave too since she was also met on a 911 call.
Can we please get rid of Marisol? The actress’ transphobic comments didn’t affect her job, but maybe her acting could lose her this job. She is not a great actress and it is painful watching her scenes. Her chemistry with Ryan even got worse! She is not needed and inserted in scenes that she doesn’t belong in. How much longer are we going to suffer this terrible actress being paired with one of the fan favorites?
Don’t pretend that your hate for the actress is about a meme she posted unless you also want Ryan Guzman to be fired for his previous comments. You just come across as a hypocrite.
The reason you hate Marisol is because she’s standing in the way of your ship. Don’t pretend it’s about something else just to make yourself feel like you’re actually in the right. What the actress posted was wrong, there’s no question about it. But the harassment she’s faced from the fandom is also wrong. I don’t know if people need to go back to kindergarten, but 2 wrongs don’t make a right
The harassment she faced was wrong, but she still hasn’t apologized! Don’t blame the majority that were pissed at her comments for the few that crossed the line! Ryan apologized, but she didn’t, there is a difference!
Back to what my comment was originally about, she can’t act to save her life! Someone needs to tell her that she isn’t playing a preteen and to quit the giggling. Edy had more chemistry with the actor who played her brother than she does with Ryan, and that is a problem if we are supposed to believe that this relationship is going anywhere.
Not true. She did apologize. She just didn’t do a particularly good job of it. And then she didn’t follow through on doing a more thorough apology on a live which is what most people are angry about. But being real, I wouldn’t have opened myself up to that either considering the hate filled harassing comments she was receiving at the time. People seem to forget that actors are real people. They’re affected by people’s words just as much as anyone else, and there’s only so many messages anyone can see telling someone they should kill themself— something the LGBTQ community knows full well.
As for your comments about her ‘chemistry with her brother’ you’re letting your racism show. Other cultures have closer relationships between their family members than what’s considered normal in America. It’s not weird or gross. And it’s not like they were making out with each other.
Anon, or maybe it’s because a big chunk of fans are part of the LGBT community and feel genuinely hurt and offended? I don’t condone harassment, and I believe in grace when people show remorse and apologize, but that didn’t happen here. In any event, no one thinks this character is standing in the way of a ship – if it doesn’t happen, it’s what the people in charge of the show decided and not the fault of the actress. Let’s not minimize the real issue at hand, please.
Sorry, 9-1-1 fans. Due to severe weather coverage on my local affiliates, I wasn’t able to check for myself if 9-1-1 had VITAC closed-captions or WGBH-Media-Access-Group closed captions.
Same! The premiere got pre-empted by local tornado coverage. I’ll catch it on Hulu today. Can’t wait!
No snark intended…Out of true curiosity… what’s the difference??
Which vendors provide the closed captioning for programs will depend on that program’s network and distributor, and I’ve seen every major closed-captioning vendor have their own distinct style.
When American Dad! left FOX for TBS a decade ago, it changed CC vendors from Media Access Group at WGBH to VITAC, and it also went from sentence-case to all-uppercase (which is seriously backwards, IMO). Big difference, alright. Thankfully, AD! did go back to sentence-case after its second year on TBS. To “Anthony”, thank you for giving me a clear answer. Can 9-1-1 still switch to VITAC eventually, or is it going to be with WGBH for the duration no matter what? And I still resent the All American shows for continuing to have their CC done in all caps (which their producers have decided on from the very start. Shame on them.)
Jim, I should say that what I know about captioning is based purely on observation and Internet research, not from insider knowledge. I’m not sure if WGBH will caption this entire season or if it will switch to VITAC at some point. I guess it’s a wait and see sort of thing.
For instance, I remember near the end of last season, all of ABC’s shows made the switch from VITAC to CaptionMax, which I had though was going to continue into this new season, but only The Connors is still captioned by that vendor, while others, like Not Dead Yet, Abbott Elementary and Grey’s Anatomy, have returned to being done by VITAC. I had noticed that for many years, ABC seemed to be the one that had final say on which captioning vendor to use, usually sticking with one (NCI, VITAC, CC Services, VITAC again) but it seems lately they’ve started to loosen the reins on that.
I read on the National Captioning Institute website that a show may stick to only one closed-captioning style because of consistency (for example, all-caps). 9-1-1 does not have to be strong-armed by the network into changing CC vendores to VITAC if it doesn’t want to. I thought ABC’s contract with VITAC was going to expire soon. I’d rather see 9-1-1 stick with the Media Access Group at WGBH for the duration of its run no matter what network/channel it’s on. If that had been CBS 9-1-1 was moving to, I wouldn’t be worrying about a CC-vendor change at all. Accursed vertical integration.
You and me both, Jim. Between the two, Media Access Group at WGBH is the captioner for me. I don’t know about you, but their captioning style just works for me. And also, consistency is always best.
The episode was captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH, which surprised me, I fully expected it to be captioned by Vitac, who captions all of ABC. But for some reason, 20th TV and FX are having WGBH use a slightly different style.
Screaming at the (deserved) Oscars shade. I personally find potential conflict for Athena and Bobby intriguing…I have faith that they will work through it, but I want to see *how.* I was really curious to see how the show might change with Tim Minear returning, and it definitely feels “back” to the utterly delightful absurdity that I so enjoyed and missed.
911 is one of my favorite shows. I wish they would have done 2 hr season premiere. It’s hard to wait a week to see what happens. Love, love, love this show, especially Christopher’s story line!! He’s just so darn cute an his acting is amazing!
It’s a three episode premiere
I don’t get the whole Buck and Eddie “ship”. I don’t see it at all. They’re like brothers – that’s it.
Same. I see a family connection not a romantic one but milage varies I guess.
When true friendship goals are represented on TV by two people of the same sex some people think the characters sexuality should suddenly change and a romance between the two should start, not the way real life works and I respect the show for not giving in.
9-1-1- is a great show with alot of suspend you are always on the edge of your seat waiting for the next thing to happen, love this show
I enjoyed the Opening episode. I had to rewatch it again this morning because of severe storm cut it out from my DVR. I especially am finding the Norman and Lola storyline interesting. Then that terror began on board the ship! Now, the mystery begins! Can’t wait for next installment of this exciting show! I liked the Christopher shifting his interest toward girls storyline! The Shannon appearance was good. Christopher is now a lot more mature and can process his Mom’s leaving and then her death.
I am so excited for this season
Angela should just be thankful she was nominated. She aint deserve and neither did Jamie Lee Curtis BUT if they were insistent on giving a career award, then the rightful person. JLC’s filmography is way more impressive than AB’s. Anyway here is my ranking based on performance:
1. Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Hong Chau, The Whale
4. Angela Bassett, Wakanda Forever
5. Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Why couldn’t Athena just be honest with her husband instead of making him feel like she didn’t want to be left alone with him. Communication is a very strong point in any marriage. If her husband did her like that I don’t think she would’ve liked that.
Have they ever had good communication, though? A lot of their conflicts have been over them not talking (Athena not retiring, Bobby sponsoring the drunk driver, etc)
Long Time viewers knew full well we were not getting the real action from the commercials until weeks 2 and 3. This is the build up episode.
Let 👏 Buck 👏 and 👏 Eddie 👏 happen👏👏 already.👏
👎 NOPE.
We really don’t need another gay couple.
All these shows seem to have at least one couple in every current TV show.
Sadly some of us don’t care for these match ups
I’m getting real tired of episodes being promoted as big event episodes for them being 40 minutes of a normal episode and the last two minutes being the “event” part.
Just watched the seventh season premiere on streaming. And I must say I’m impressed. This was my first time watching “911” & it felt like the piolet episode of a brand new show.to me. It was fun, it was entertaining & surprisingly funny, Definitely sticking around for the next episode.
Being a viewer that watches every rerun of previous 9-1-1 episodes, even enjoying them up to Part 1 of the new episode yesterday, I must say I was surprisingly disappointed.
What happened to the energy and suspense previous episodes have given the audience without a touch of an evening soap opera? The “invasion” of the smugglers at the end of part one was lame!
And Athena seemed out of character from the heroine we’ve come to admire.
So, should I watch part 2 of episode 1 or my recorded reruns?
A loyal but concerned fan for another season!
Remember, this was a semi pilot like episode since the show has gone to a new channel. They had to write the premier in a way to bring in new audience from a new channel while holding onto their established base. I bet the next episode will feel more like the OG 9-1-1.
Did they forget Maddie and Chimney have a baby? Or that Hen has a wife named Karen?
We wanted to be sure to watch, but because of a bad storm, giving the weather, took priority, and they continued way past the showing of the new 911
Omg … the ads overshadowed the show.
I’m just trying to find out who was that singing when tonight’s episode of 911 went off?