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Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'The Righteous Gemstones' Season 4, Episode 6 recap: Young Kelvin just wants his Tiger Beat magazines
With last week's episode of The Righteous Gemstones Season 4 ending with Lori Milsap (Megan Mullally) telling Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) that they have to talk about her ex-husband, this week we learn more about Cobb, played by Michael Rooker. And it's through another famous Righteous Gemstones interlude episode, where we go back to 2002. The Righteous Gemstones continues to prove that it does a flashback better than any other show. It moves the story forward, it's exciting, and Sunday night marked another great episode for Danny McBridge's series. SPOILERS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES SEASON 4, EPISODE 6 INCLUDED BEYOND THIS POINT Going back to 2002, we first see Eli and Aimee-Leigh (Jennifer Nettles) trying to get approval from Rogers County to expand their worship centre with a 10-acre parking lot. It's a plan that isn't sitting well with the community, wth protestor outside the municipal building who throw cream pies in their faces as they leave. But Eli has plans to take Aimee-Leigh to the lake house, Galilee Gulch, which will hopefully cheer them up, bringing Lori, her then husband Cobb and their son Corey (Sean Ryan Fox). Amber (Keely Marshall) is also at the lake house, because she's pregnant with her first child with Jesse (J. Gaven Wilde). Watching their husbands out on the water, Aimee-Leigh and Lori decide they should record another album together, and we get to see them write songs in Aimee-Leigh's home studio. While Judy is in the studio watching Lori and her mom, Kelvin (Tristan Borders) takes his unsupervised time to go into Judy's room, and take out a box hidden under her bed filled with Tiger Beat magazines, admiring pictures of stars like Hayden Christensen. But then Kelvin finds Judy's diary and reads an entry about a crush she has on a teacher, Judy walks into her room and catches him, chasing Kelvin out to his treehouse. After church the Gemstones, along with the Milsaps, have a meal at Jason's Steakhouse, where Jesse announces the name that will be given to his "bastard baby" with Amber will be Stallone Gemstone. An announcement met with sarcastic remarks from his family. But baby names aside, as the album writing for Aimee-Leigh and Lori continues, Lori says she really needs this record, sharing with her friend that her marriage to Cobb isn't going well, and she wants a divorce. Their arguments have gotten so bad that they have a fight in the driveway of the Gemstone home. When Cobb, who's clearly drunk, starts putting his hands on Lori, Eli comes out and hits him, but then Corey leaves with his dad to make sure he gets home safe. Visiting Cobb at the gator park he owns and operates, Eli apologizes for hitting him. Cobb says that while he has $1 million in the bank, Lori likes fancy, and that's just never going to be his style. When Eli offers for them to pray together, Cobb says he'd rather jump in the water with the gators, and says he never wants to see Eli's face again. But one night Eli, Aimee-Leigh and Lori go out for dinner, leaving their kids at the Gemstone home to entertain themselves with Monopoly and karaoke to "Kryptonite" by 3 Door Down. Then Amber has the idea for everyone to go out for tacos, while Kelvin wants to stay home to take a bubble bath and look at Tiger Beat magazines. Calling his son to find out he's not at the Gemstones' house, Cobb decides to rob the home, unaware that Kelvin stayed behind. Cobb breaks in, drinks Eli's bourbon and pees in the bottle. Cobb then smashes the glass case surrounding the gold-plated bible. Yes, it's the one Elijah Gemstone stole in 1862, in the season premiere. Kelvin is watching a masked Cobb, concealing his identity, break things around the house, and Kelvin eventually hides under his bed. When Eli, Aimee-Leigh and Lori come back to the house and see the damage,hbo Aimee-Leigh finds Kelvin still under his bed, who then sobs in her arms. While Eli and Aimee-Leigh talk to the police, Corey is sitting at the their dining room table. When Lori comes to check on him he lies and says that he saw his dad that night, that he had truck troubles and they gave him a boost. As the episode winds down, Jesse asks his dad if he thinks he'll ever divorce Aimee-Leigh, and Eli says that's never going to happen. Jesse says he wants things to be the same with Amber, and their baby Stallone. But then Eli says the strength Jesse wants for his son sounds like a Gideon, with Eli explaining he was "called upon by God to save the Israelites." "The Israelites wanted to make Gideon king, he turned them down. He said, 'There is no king but God,'" Eli tells his son. And that's how Jesse and Amber named their first son Gideon. As Cobb is at his home looking through the valuables he stole from the Gemstones, he opens the gold-plated bible, looks at a picture of Elijah, and sees all the signatures of the Gemstones that took possession of the bible after Abel Grieves and Elijah.
USA Today
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Avan Jogia dissects the dark side of Nickelodeon and teen stardom in 'Autopsy'
When Avan Jogia turned 17, his life changed in two ways. He moved to Los Angeles after landing his first acting job as teenage heartthrob "Beck Oliver" on Nickelodeon's "Victorious," and his mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Abruptly thrown into Hollywood, Jogia faced an unsettling juxtaposition — he was at the start of a promising career, simultaneously navigating newfound independence amid his mother's cancer diagnosis. But before he could establish his identity, an idealized version of himself was being fawned over in Tiger Beat and J-14 magazine spreads. 'I was having a more serious experience than I probably should have been,' he says. 'There's an unreality that orbits Nickelodeon. Everyone's like, 'Wow, these kids got picked out of obscurity and they're going to be stars, and all of their backstories are normal and everyone is healthy.' It doesn't allow for reality, for humanity to occur.' Jogia turned 33 on Sunday. On Tuesday, he released his second book 'Autopsy (of an ex-teen heartthrob),' a collection of poetry and prose chronicling his coming of age under the spotlight. Ahead of his sold-out launch party at The Strand in New York, Jogia and I spoke over Zoom. His voice — pensive and composed — has hardly changed since his Nickelodeon days, which he says he also realized while rewatching old interviews from "Victorious." Behind him, an abundance of black, silver, and gold birthday balloons still decorated the walls. He turned the camera to show me a display of decadent mochi donuts, and it seemed like one celebration had bled into the next. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Unlike the festive décor, "Autopsy" is pretty serious. It doesn't shy away from themes of death, exploring suicidal ideation and mortality bluntly alongside the perils of fame. Teen fame creates a 'weird fantasy relationship' Jogia says the illusion of unconflicted success is what creates a 'weird fantasy relationship' between the 'teen idol' and the audience member, or the fan, and ultimately disconnected his experience of fame from reality. Jogia always felt like an outsider — even with a front-row seat at parties in Hollywood Hills. "Hollywood is a fraternity, a boys' club I've never felt comfortable or included in," he writes in "Autopsy." 'I'm a poor kid from Vancouver who grew up in government housing, who, as soon as the show started, my mom got cancer,' he says. 'When you remove that context, I think it's a disservice to both myself and to the audience member experiencing me.' 'I imagine Jennette (McCurdy) must have felt the same way about her life," he adds. 'I'm Glad My Mom Died':How Jennette McCurdy escaped her narcissistic mother's 'excruciating' abuse Jogia got creative with his promotional videos for "Autopsy." In one, he sits in a sterile room as an old interview of him is projected onto a white sheet, draped over a gurney. He lip-syncs to his younger self: "What I love about my job is that I get the chance to hopefully brighten people's day." In the interview, Jogia is indistinguishable from his "Victorious" character Beck, who also had aspirations of being an actor. 'I was Beck at that time," he says. "Those are little Avan's dreams that I'm saying. It was part of the nauseating amount of promo they made us do at that time.' In 2023 Jogia made his directorial debut with a Canadian film "Door Mouse," and finally "found his role" in the industry. However, "place is a different thing," he says. "I think that what's changed for me is the delusion, or the (idea) that the work that I want is out there for me. I don't feel that anymore. I feel like if I want to be a part of it, I'm going to have to make that personally." Avan Jogia on filming 'Victorious': 'We weren't seen as the kids we were' The second to last piece in the book, 'I am on set getting yelled at,' takes place in 2010 during the filming of 'Ice Cream for Ke$ha,' a Season 2 episode of 'Victorious." 'I am still a teenager, and I am shaking with rage. The kind of quiet anger that makes you change… I am tired, I am hungover, and I am bored,' Jogia writes, detailing his frustration as he continuously mispronounces Kesha's name. 'There's a famous 'Victorious' blooper of me messing that line up. That was a horribly embarrassing day for me,' he tells me with a slight laugh, like he is still masquerading the discomfort the reel brings. And while in past interviews Jogia has said he doesn't look back on 'Victorious' fondly, he wanted to be very clear in our interview that it was 'so much fun on set.' His co-stars — Ariana Grande, Elizabeth Gillies, Leon Thomas, Daniella Monet, Victoria Justice, Matt Bennett and more — are his 'college friends,' and the most important part of his Nickelodeon experience. This week, there's been an outpouring of love between the former co-stars. Grande commented on Jogia's Instagram that she 'couldn't resist' ordering a copy of his book ("i love you," she wrote), and Jogia previously shouted out Thomas' latest album 'MUTT,' which entered the Billboard Top 100 on Feb. 8. The years spent filming 'Victorious' were 'some of the best years' of Jogia's life, spent with his best friends, but it was also 'grueling' and ultimately a job that required 'long, exhausting hours.' Often, he 'felt alone in L.A.' 'We weren't seen as the kids we were,' he says. 'When I look back at those moments that were embarrassing for me and joyful for others, I'm more interested in how that kind of dichotomy can exist. That my reality and someone else's reality can be so disparate.' 'Autopsy' examines mortality, remembrance and celebrity death Writing 'Autopsy,' Jogia didn't realize how often thoughts of death landed on the page — the word appears 15 times throughout the book's 225 pages. In the poem 'it's important to die in a cool way,' he writes: 'They say fame is immortality / But it's not really … In order to matter after your death / Firstly, your death must be untimely.' 'A book about self-dissection and looking at an old version of yourself sort of requires you to talk about and look at death for two reasons,' Jogia explains. 'One being, you have to kill off the older version of yourself… and two, your legacy is so closely tied to your mortality.' But Jogia doesn't believe in immortality, and he's not scared of being forgotten. That's inevitable, he says. But when I ask him if the thought of being remembered as a former Nickelodeon star scares him, he says yes. 'We encapsulate people in general for a single portion of their life,' he says. 'When something really human happens (to a celebrity), like their death, you boil down their entire life to an aspect of their life, and in doing that, you remove their dignity.' Poetry and what it means to Jogia At the end of our call, we talk about how a sector of poetry has taken a dark turn towards appeasing the masses — Instagrammable squares that refuse to ignite discomfort. 'It's losing a tiny bit of teeth,' he says. I tell Jogia to read 'Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper' by Richard Siken, who he hasn't heard of. There's a line I cite from 'Birds Hover the Trampled Field' that resonates: 'The enormity of my desire disgusts me.' 'Autopsy' wasn't written as an act of healing, or in hopes of virality, but rather as an act of self-discovery and self-dissection, Jogia explains. He attempted to be entirely honest with his lived experience — facing the enormity of his desires and fears as a naïve actor at the start of a burgeoning career, and as a young man who was trying to find his way in the world, just like anyone else. If his writing makes you uncomfortable or forces you to look inward, that means it's working.
