Meanwhile... had a revelation last night - and have a new favorite actress....

As I was being drawn to the passion and accent both.... watching episode 6 of A Gentleman in Moscow, very powerful, where Sophia (daughter of Nina) has a near-fatal accident and both the Count and 'the actress' have their lives torn apart....

This is the actress playing the actress in the series (Gentleman In Moscow). Suddenly clicked, she seemed familiar - though far from comedy, soap operas, or her "Queen of Screams" horror movie days.

Fantastic range and maturation....

No, not a Bette Davis or Dame Judi Dench (Shakespearian level), but warm, 'genuine', and did I say, 'versatile'. Great in my 2 favorite mini-series, the grand Gentleman in Moscow, AND the very funny, upbeat, zany & prescient,

Brain Dead

#GentlemanInMoscow #BrainDead #actress #MaryElizabethWinstead #film #television #literature #novel

And here we are...

This was a summer-mini TV series in 2016 - months before an 'unusual' election. About the thinking (&/or brain invasion) in Congress.

Synopsis: A prescient and camp film - TV actually - portraying Congressional brains being taken over in insidious ways. In what was a very favorite TV mini-summer series, starring “Monk” (Tony Shalhoub) in a very different role - a #GQP fascist type Congressman who is infected with an alien worm making him that way - and infecting large swaths of Congress. As some horrified, uninfected ("woke") staffers watch.

Brain Dead

Haven’t seen it since. Mind-blowing. Accurate! (as metaphor). Funny. And YES! Here’s a collage I found of a few short trailers. Thanks for the memory. Sure sounds like Congress today too, no?

#USC #Congress #BrainDead #television #TonyShalhoub #parody #politics #MakeAmericaSaneAgain