ilya crying in absolute relief and so many other feelings when shane said he loved him too is such an inspired change because i think the happier vibe of the moment works for the book because we have a lot more insight to his thoughts and feelings when reading. in the show it really showcases how hockey is very much not his priority and that it’s main point was always escapism from russia in his life. never going back to russia, going no contact with his family and everything after his dad died AND getting shane’s love is so overwhelming for him because he has been treading water for so long and repressing his love for shane for so long and finally like coming up for air for the first time since he was 12. he made it to his new life. he has love again. he escaped. it kills me. that’s such a big feeling.
Ilya acting like he’s totally a nonchalant super cool bisexual playboy but actually being so disgustingly boyfriend coded is insanity. Like ok Mr. Tender Loving Kisses you are stupid as hell!!!!
genuinely i do think it’s crazy how this show hit every single mark for no reason other than pure love of the game. like this wasn’t a money grab and it didn’t think it would be a big success, jacob just read a book he enjoyed and thought huh i think that would be a cool thing to make into a tv show. and then he brought on hudson and connor and they’re fresh and passionate and not bogged down by the industry yet and they instantly became best friends and wanted to just have fun bringing these characters to life. and they didn’t have a huge budget but they did the most with what they had and everybody took the show seriously and everybody took the book seriously. the cinematographer worked his magic. the music supervisor managed to snag a well-known queer hit and an up and coming new release and old school gems that have been around since the 2000s. it’s canadian to the core, built from the ground up. it takes russians and the russian language seriously. it uses sex in such a specific, meaningful way that almost no other show has done thus far, and especially not in a queer context like this. they interlaced every episode with callbacks and parallelism and self-references. they didn’t take themselves too seriously. they took everything so seriously. there is love and care baked into the core of this show and it’s deeply queer and it doesn’t shy away from the horrors of toxic masculinity and hockey culture but it is also, always, a story of joy and love and happiness. and on top of everything, it’s almost word for word, the original source material from the book.
like damn it’s no wonder this thing has made us all insufferable and become a huge fucking success! so few productions in hollywood are doing it like this!!!
Hot take but actors are allowed to lie about their personal lives if that’s what it takes for them to have some privacy. Stop being nosy bitches they don’t owe you anything.
The standoff with agents happened on Jan.8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook.
The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.
“You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”
ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”
“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”
