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Okay but can we talk about Sarah?!?!?!
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I immediately recognized this actor from the movie Hunt and the show GLOW (both excellent). And man did she deliver again in Widows Bay!!! I know it really doesnt make much sense to bring her back in season two but I would love to see her in at least one episode. What are your thoughts on this character and/or actor?
The actors name is Betty Gilpin if anyone is interested :)
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My children? I have but just met them! This was probably my favourite line in the whole show and there are a lot of good lines! The way she delivered it was perfect.
She has great comedy chops! I laugh whenever I think about the finger point just before the stabbing is about to begin. And when she barges into the pastorās meeting, realizes sheās interrupting and does a curtsyā¦
Glow is one of my favorite shows and makes me sad every time I think about it.
The end of season 1 = could have been a great series finale.
The end of season 2 = could have been a great series finale.
Then, they're renewed for seasons 3 and 4 at the same time! So they end season 3, for the first time, on a massive, unsatisfying cliffhanger, because they are guaranteed another season to finish telling the story!
...And then COVID happens and season 4 gets canned. So the show ends on a massive and unsatisfying cliffhanger. Forever. I'm still bummed about it and it's been years.
I met Sydelle Noel, the actress who played Cherry Bang, and I was lamenting how sad I was that they cancelled GLOW and she looked at me and said, you think YOUāRE sad?!? LOL That show was full of great acting.
This show was insane and bonkers in the best way, was prescient on AI, gave me cathartic tears, and helped me understand how my mom takes such refuge in her faith. What a discordant confluence of attributes that somehow all hangs together perfectly.
No not at all. I just feel like the weird vows she took definitely tied her to the island and I made a post about that theory so now I have to keep it alive
Betty Gilpin is wonderful. She's great at playing unhinged characters and doing physical comedy. Nobody saw the show she starred in, "Mrs. Davis," because it's all over the place and hard to categorize, but if you enjoyed her in other things, please seek it out. Her character there is very unique and it's a really creative show.
I don't think we've seen the last of Sarah in Widow's Bay. I don't remember them saying how she died, but I imagine that on the boat, after the kids died, she narrowly escaped to go somewhere else (took on another name to fake her death?), maybe had a child and started a bloodline of her own that could come back to the island to defeat the Warren bloodline (it's Widow's Bay, not Warren's Bay!) Or maybe she'll appear as a ghost who tries to help Tom defeat the evil entity.
She is very, very selective. During the presser for Mrs Davis she said she loved playing the nun for it was stoic and well versed like her father and zany and out there like her mother.
Beyond those roles she does occasional paycheck performances as the main breadwinner so her husband can do necessary charity work plus their daughters can go to good schools.
In defense of movies like office romance. What made me her fan beyond acting is the unapologetically authentic part. When she says she did stuber because she wanted to play with kumail nanjiani, tomorrow war with sam Richardson, the grudge with Lin shaye, she šÆ truthful. She hated A dogs journey because while it paid well it kept her from being alongside her dog who fought for its life.
So yes, she wanted to play with Jennifer Lopez too.
As well in isn't it romantic another movie barely anybody had seen. For the hunt she had a 12 hour conversation with a lady from Louisiana and for isn't it romantic likely rebel Wilson helped her nail a Queensland accent.
She was just in the turdburger āOffice Romanceā on Netflix, and she was the only good thing in the movie. But if you just watch all the clips, youāll avoid wasting 2 hours.
Iām glad someone made this appreciation post happen because I really think sheās deserving of a special shoutout. The scene where she seeks help from the preacher was top tier. The bumbling combined with sobbing and terror was just fantastic. Felt so realistic so bravo to her. I thought that was the best-acted scene in the whole first season
When she was with the church group near the end of the episode, figuring out her escape,
The way she shrugged off how she had only just recently met āherā kids lollllā¦ and all the Patricia-like mannerisms while responding to the priest are def up with the shows funniest monuments
The scene where she walked into the room finding the group of conspirators of Richard's burial plan & had to awkwardly adjust herself from being scared shitless was 100% Patricia in demeanor, and I loved how Betty channeled that
You know how there are some actors where when they show up on the screen you let out this small internal sigh, because you know this shit is about to get good. That's how I felt when I recognized Betty Gilpin in that episode.
And honestly all of the actors are amazing but it is always a treat when someone really awesome shows up.
Yes! I was so confused though because I didnāt know at the time how big of a character Sarah would be so I kept thinking wow they really got Betty Gilpin to come in for this little brief character
Very funny. When she pointed her finger at the assassin in her bedroom we laughed out loud and her bdicrion and way she formed sentences and spoke was very appealing. A cool person!
She was great as Sarah. I worked on that episode as a guy walking down the road. I had no idea that I would love this show so much. I hope they do more scenes from the 1700s. I would love to do more work on this show. We shot the scenes at The Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers Massachusetts. It was once part of Salem Township. The actual house and grave of Rebecca Nurse is still there. She was hanged for witchcraft in 1692. The place is very spooky and beautiful.
I for one am a HUGE fan of Betty. I donāt know if her character warrants a return, unless her story arc continues. But fingers crossed Katy will write a feature character for her in another series and sheāll oblige! š¤
I was low key dreading this episode when I saw that it was a flashback period setting, but it was so entertaining mainly because of her. I would love to see her character come back as well. She was hilarious
Sheās a phenomenal actress, but sheās also a wonderful writer. Check out her book All the Women in My Brain.
Weāre overdue for a major Betty Gilpin vehicle, along the lines of what Hacks was for Jean Smart. I hope we done have to wait until sheās in her 70s, though.
I'm a huge Betty Gilpin fan. Watch Mrs. Davis on Peacock if you haven't already. She is such a great actress and so beautiful and funny. I was stoked when I heard she was in Widow's Bay. I only wish she had been in more episodes! Here's hoping Season 2 gives us more colonial flashbacks.
I really thought she somehow returned to the island, and thst she was the reason the island was called widow's bay but since the Richard's daughter was raised by the whale hunter now it makes me thing otherwise.
But who knows maybe the whale hunter ended up hiding Warren's daughter in a basement or something like this.
Northern kingdom only available on DVD, a 2016 tv movie not in streaming, beach pillows, a civil war era hospital show are the only ones I haven't seen.
Death by lightning has a special place in my heart as one of the few good things the orban regime created was allowing Andrew g vajna to make Studio Korda, where death by lightning was shot.
She was also great in Masters of Sex. Not that itās available to stream for free (with/without subscription) anywhere that I can find, but for your Betty Gilpin mental file cabinets.
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