Testaments to the Boom Times to Come

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Anonymous asked:

Hello?:) I was wondering if you have or know any theories on Leopold Essence? I can’t stop thinking about him and I’ve been trying to figure out who is he, what or who does he represent. Thank you in advance!!

Anon I full-up left this ask hanging until I finished the season thinking maybe I’d get SOME clue, but NOPE, just an ENIGMATIC, creepy CREEPY MAN. He works with Bauer, but who does Bauer work for???? The intrigue!!!

Anyway the fact that I am a person who adores not getting answers for questions means that Lenny’s final address on the beauty of ~Mystery~ and how he isn’t gonna tell you shit because the answer to holiness doesn’t matter just love and feel joy, really sealed that this series is my perfect art project

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THE NEW POPE - 1x09

POPE SHOW WRAPS

Jen and I heralded the (final?) finale by watching it together, à la this time last season, little knowing that a memorable element of that would have a very welcome reprisal!!!! Somehow that song is like, this show’s spirit at its best.

Not to mention the return of Lenny perched on a papal throne making this face:

Missed you. You magnificent Catholic fae.

New Pope Live Bloggin’ No. 9

Sofia holding down a press conference alone in front of some priceless work of art the Vatican just tossed up in this conference room—respect.

Jen had her excitement at seeing these fabulously dumbass Swiss Guard outfits again be swiftly supplanted by excitement that the show is letting SIR JOHN get the opening credits walk in the finale!! And then when they cut to Lenny in his aquamarine fantasy beach walking towards him from the left….LORD. Responsive credits I swear!!!

Me: “I’m obsessed with how Jude Law can’t wink.”
Jen: “How many takes do you think they tried before they were like, that’s gonna be good enough.”
Me: “Just like, snarling his face up…”

It’s good.

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THE NEW POPE - 1x08

I can’t believe these bitches are waiting until the FINAL EPISODE to put Law Pope and Malkovich Pope in the same room, but also that’s exactly what I would have done. I’m bitches.

Anyway the scene where Lenny and Voiello are plotting together and they bring back the Levo song from The Young Pope fueled me with a pure energy that burned bright and clean.

New Pope Live-Bloggin’ No. 8

Wait BALDY commands Essence?? In what capacity and to what ends???!

Describes Leopold Essence as “a ghostly figure.” God I’m so into the way Bauer sees the world. Who are you. And what do you do. For whom.

Me when I’ve moved on to a new show

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Just posting this as a trial balloon to see if tumblr will allow it in my Pope Notes — booty below the break

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THE NEW POPE - 1x07

At this point, The New Pope Episode 7 is this season’s Young Pope Episode 9: nearly a standalone, and glorious. 

GOD IS   BACK

New Pope Live-Bloggin’ No. 7

OH my god it’s gonna just open with that promo shoot in the white speedo isn’t it, that’s how he’s gonna WALK OUT OF HIS COMA, like Venus from the sea
* s c r e a m *

his bikini bottom is GLOWING, literally glowing !  ~luminescent~

Immediately, it’s just Lenny all over again—constantly sexy, never sexing. You think maybe he’s reaching out to touch Ester’s boob, but he just scoops up the crucifix from her chest and pulls a cigarette out of it. Then you think maybe he’s leaning in to kiss her, but nope, brief papal forehead smooch and he’s oUT. Fuck! It’s so good!

aaahskdjfak it’s HIS YOUNG POPE THEME SONG, RETURNED WITH HIM. THE PROFILE STROLL, ALL BACK. Only Paolo Sorrentino understands what I want from credit sequences. I want them to be a dynamic part of the narrative of the show! Like this!!

Just dropkick my soul into that turquoise sea to be honest about it

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THE NEW POPE - 1x06

Peak waiting for Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks: The Return, peak David Lynch in many ways actually. Artistically there was a lot I enjoyed here! But emotionally, we’ve gotten rather glum haven’t we! But that is probably the point: I’d said to my Pope Show work friend, I said: “the seventh episode, that’s when I’d bring Lenny back,” and I won that bet.

Sorry to this episode, but it was aaaalll about the Next! Time! On!

New Pope Live-Bloggin’ No. 6

I guess it’s about time this show introduced a priest with a piratical eye patch

I’m shrieking, the Vibe of this scene….! me approximately every seventh minute of a Paolo Sorrentino project, at full volume: “I LOVE ART”

What the Fuck!

Same Sofia!!!

Eye patch priest, holding a limp green bean he has picked up from Sofia’s plate, speaking slowly like a cowboy: “They’re all distortions of love. Hysteria, of one sort or another.” I was unready for any of this.

He is so uncomf-inducing, and his name is LEOPOLD ESSENCE

A cockroach just scurried from his hand into his cuff and Sofia saw it!! Is this his dæmon???! Crossover crossover!

What, what, omg who does he consider the most intelligent man in the world? I mean the answer to that question would tell us…so much about him.

Holy shit the Abbess tapping her foot, smoking one of her cigars, listening to the nuns’ dance song coming through the ceiling!!! Obsessed forever with how this season’s credits both do not and do occur in the world of the show. Few things I’ve seen are more graceful at holding all of these realities at once, letting them all be true, and somehow not contradictory. I Love Art.

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THE NEW POPE - 1x05

I had a realization last time that I forgot to share but it’s still true so: The New Pope is like Twin Peaks: The Return: there are interesting new things going on, but we all know we’re just waiting for our main character to wake up again. And as we learned from Twin Peaks: The Return, the longer you hold on that, the more satisfying it is when it happens. Which is why I still think that Lenny won’t come back until Episode 7 at the earliest.

The question is though: would Episode 7 be Lenny Belardo: The Return, or would we first have AN ENTIRE EPISODE IN HIS COMA DREAMS. I think you can probably tell by the capsing which one I would like!!!!

New Pope Live-Bloggin’ No. 5

Oh My God

I’m so obsessed with the difference in the sexiness quotients of the two popes. Lenny’s massive This Pope Fucks energy only amplified by the fact that he super does Not, contrasted to the utter dearth of This Pope Fucks energy coming off mild, talky John Brannox, whom nonetheless spends a considerable amount of that talk on his own sexual attraction to people. They’re the two opposite definitions of His Horniness!

Just, fucking SHARON STONE killing the delivery of “Sure.” Her Louboutins….

She said she thought her presence was gift enough and this priest in the center background just silently gave a fervent nod while closing his eyes

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THE NEW POPE - 1x04

As I said to my coworker pal Several drinks into the work happy hour when he asked if I’d seen the latest episode of our Pope show: [TIPSY SHOUTS OF CONFUSED FEELING]

New Pope Live-Bloggin’ No. 4

Marilyn Manson looks…..extremely freaky these days. I say that even with him being introduced showing pictures of his baby nephew to the Pope on his phone.

MARILYN MANSON THOUGHT HE WAS PIUS XIII AND GOES “Oh.”
I’m DEAD.

Oh amazing, it had not even occurred to Brannox to visit Lenny until Marilyn asked if he had. Honestly this feels like maybe the most instructive thing we’ve learned about Sir John yet.

Yesss the dancing sexy nun with the glasses gets a solo

DP I love you

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THE NEW POPE - 1x03

After two different kinds of introductory episodes, this one got underway with setting up where we’re gonna go from here, and ultimately I didn’t lose my mind as much with this one as I did the first two, however, that could be because at this point my mind just entirely left my body and never returned:

Paolo SIN CERE LY

New Pope Live-Bloggin’ No. 3

If you are reading this without having watched this show i need you to imagine the following exchange being spoken by two small boys in caps with the most English accents imaginable:

“Do you know what it is?”
“It’s a millipede.”
“No. It’s God.”

What’s in the box John, what’s in the fucking box!!!!

Cardinal John Malkovich’s butler is receiving a phone call on his mobile from Meghan Markle, the Meghan Markle, and I feel like I just got dropped into the ocean, whaet is happening