Not sure where I'm not chill. Just dont really get why talking about a story now means obsessed. Should people not be discussing this?
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Jussie Smollet has been indicted for filing a false police report.
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Not sure where I'm not chill. Just dont really get why talking about a story now means obsessed. Should people not be discussing this?
Is there something wrong with being obsessed? You make it sound like a bad thing.
It's almost as if you dont know the difference between the words "interest" and "obsession".
Charles! That man has a family!
I cannot wait to see who will be the first person to ask her about him on the press tour; because you know someone is going to do it.
Ok, I fucking lost it. Like literally teary eyed here.
That seems odd to me. Ignoring major stories because they don't support one's political side is a really fucked up way to live your life. It's a major story and an interesting one. Why shouldn't people be interested in it? It raised a number of important issues, both in society and on Era:
Hate crimes and people disbelieving them in general
The potential for hoaxes (however rare they may be)
C/D list Hollywood finances
Era moderation/dogpiling
The mountain of evidence that can be accumulated when you combine a massive investigation with one of the worst criminal minds seen in years.
The legitimately fucked up actions of the CPD (not in this case, but in several other notable cases)
The way in which people jump on stories for propaganda value.
People jumping to conclusions early to confirm their biases (Trevor Noah's video)
Shutting down all of that because people on the other side of the political spectrum are interested in the story is ridiculous. People who support Trump also drink water, breath air, wear clothes, and watch Game of Thrones. I'm not going to stop doing those just to distance myself from them.
I don't think it moves the needle really. I'm sure his final days on set would have been more harmonious if he had come clean, but they're quickly writing him out of the show either way, I'm sure.
CPD have mostly praised the brothers for working with them against Smollett in statements. There is likely enough evidence that they could go after the brothers for working with Smollett if they really wanted to, but since all the brothers did damage wise was beat Smollett up and they are cooperating, it's probably just not worth the effort to the CPD vs going after Smollett.
Update: Suspended from Empire
Era is as obsessed as any other outlet. People are not literally using that word to say that this story is constantly on their mind, and they cant eat or sleep without thinking about it. it is just a very interesting story that has captivated peoples attention for the time being.
You guys are too obsessed with the way people use the word obsessed.
You know what it worked. I want to watch Empire now to see how he gets written off.
The poster called it bizarre and implied it's because we're all secretly rabid right-wingers. Do you agree with that take? It sounds like you don't as you say it's an interesting story.
"I'm going to venture out on my own"
It will be a moving goodbye scene because it will be legit tears.
TMZ reported that many cast and crew members were upset at the whole thing, thinking Jussie brought bad news on the show.
Dude had a nice gig, making good money.
After everything that was laid out yesterday, that he thought he could just look his friends/family/coworkers dead in the eye and be like "i didn't do it" is some true sociopath shit.
At this point I don't think anyone knows what network produces Empire. Earlier in this thread Netflix and Hulu were tossed around. I'm sure the rest have been brought up at some point.
Maybe lawyerly advice? Still seems like a bad strategy. But I'm no Mark Geragos. He knows way more than me about criminal law and defending high profile cases.
Didnt he tell them he was innocent? That sounds like pretty good news
50 been taking jabs at Lee Daniels and Jussie while promoting POWER at the same time.
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So...in order for his plan to be successful, this had to get a ton of press coverage and outrage but not enough for the police to get involved? Yeah should have thought that through a bit more
There was probably some truth to him being written off the show. This was his way to prevent it, but it only cemented it.
For what it's worth, someone was literally shown flatlining on a hospital bed at the last 15 seconds of the midseason, so sure why not.
I always assumed it would be one of the other brothers since both of them were basically doing super fucked up shit last season, the only way Smollet's character just up and dies right now is like the good ol soap opera sudden death by car/gun/stabbing/etc or actually contracts and dies of full blown AIDS from his partner, but they've been making an effort to highlight that people who are HIV positive aren't sentenced to death all season so idk.
Whoever it was before is like "WHEW".
They should literally just put a stock photo of him in the casket for the reveal.
The fact that he thought that there will be no thorough investigation, in a city like Chicago, with a high profile and politically charged alleged hate crime, shows the guy is just not smart.
Exactly, can you imagine the backlash against the CPD if they didn't take this seriously?
I don't watch the show but I can't imagine it being anything other than anticlimactic. You've got actors who don't want to be in the same room together, a sociopath who's not really in the mood, writers who have to create a justification for his exit and the ripple effect it will have on other characters and plots.
I expect his character's exit to be ungraceful and clunky. Totally understandable at least, so don't bash the writers too hard!
I expect his character's exit to be ungraceful and clunky. Totally understandable at least, so don't bash the writers too hard!
I haven't seen Empire but it would be great if the plan was, and continues to be, someone other than Jussie's character in the coffin. Then in the 3rd to last ep have his character killed off-camera, anticlimactically lol.
If anything Jussie fuck up may have saved another cast members job.
doesn't seem surprising to me that conservatives are constantly discussing it. Smollett blamed two Trump supporters for attacking him and shouting "this is MAGA country". It was a big story with the media, and celebrities/ politicians were talking about it.
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