This. Week. Was. Bananas! From Donald Trump serving fries at McDonald's to Beyoncé set to appear with Kamala Harris at a rally, the world of politics and pop culture are seriously blending together now. I'm breaking it all down on the Parting Shot podcast, you can listen and watch wherever you get podcasts.
But even beyond that, the world of reality TV was also bananas this week. On House of Villains, Richard Hatch of Survivor fame got voted out. I chatted with him about that and how House of Villains changed his life. (Yes, he said that.) On other reality shows, Joan over at The Golden Bachelorette chose her final bachelors and those folks stranded out there on that island of Survivor voted out Rome, a controversial cast member this season. I spoke with Rome about his unique game play.
If that weren't enough, it looks like the Menendez brothers are one step closer to getting released. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón is recommending to the judge for Lyle and Erik Menendez to be resentenced. He even said that part of reason for doing this was because of new evidence and renewed interest in the case because of the Ryan Murphy Netflix series Monsters.
So yeah, bananas week! That's it for me today. Keep scrolling for more. I'll see you on Monday!
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By H. Alan Scott
Bridget Everett never thought she'd be the lead of a TV show. "I come from the downtown world in New York, a cabaret singer, and these things just don't happen, you don't find yourself with three seasons of HBO. It just doesn't happen." But it happened. On Somebody Somewhere (October 27), Everett plays Sam, a woman struggling through a midlife crisis with the help of her family and colorful friends in rural Kansas. Set in her actual hometown, Everett says, "it's a lot of me that you're seeing, warts and all."
"Even if you don't look like the people on the screen, you can relate to the things that they're going through.... Whether we're fat or we're short, or we're queer or whatever—we happen to all be those things—but that's not the focus. The focus of the story is just the human condition." And in season three we see just how far Sam has gone in her funny (sometimes uncomfortable) journey to find herself. "Her in season three is learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all. Whitney [Houston] said it first, Whitney said it best, but you know what? It's still true."
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