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This was just wonderful, Sheila. Beautiful insights and elegant narration, thank you so much.

You may have stole my law school future with lsat tampering, but all that “studying” will help me childs.

This episode raises a really good question: are we burning out our best and brightest before they even reach the starting gate of real life?

A beautiful woman, a raw actress. Her marriage to John was true love. ❤ This essay is a Valentine to her.

The best Actress and person ever. RIP with your husband .

The voiceover is more interested in her own narcissistic views than allowing the legend to speak for herself.

One of the three finest actors to have graced the stage and screen. ❤

She is breathtaking

Love her always. Fantastic actor. My favorite.

2:57 the irony 😂

Such utterly boring films

Wow! What class!

Wow! Was she not exquisite?

This is such a beautiful tribute to an actor whose strength, depth, and humanity are unparalleled and impossible to duplicate.

I fell in love with her toughness and sensitive side in the movie Gloria. She was something else!!!

This video totally encapsulates the acting talent of this amazing actress. Most brilliant.

hello, this is really a great and informative analysis. I had no idea about Williams' comment on Gena Rowlands. I think that this analysis is brilliant and does justice to the one and only Gena Rowlands. Thank you for this. We need more of these.

Thank you for sharing this insightful piece - so moving to watch it again after Gena's passing.

RIP you beautiful human

Lovely. Strong. Revealing. Genuine , Glorious actor. RIP GR⭐️

She was truly a great actress. Loved her in Gloria and in the films she did with her husband, John Cassavetes. RIP.

I would have never found this incredible essay, RIP Gena. This is such a fantastic video, so well scripted and though out

Miraculous actress! for me she is unique pure art , so inspiring and interesting human being as women! Big hug from Portugal, Lisboa

"... It's unnerving for audiences too especially when it's Gena Rowlands in front of the camera. Gena Rowlands is unusual due to the films she did with her husband John Cassavetes, as well as her almost uncanny belief in the imaginative circumstances of any given part. One needs only to watch her deliver ":The 5 Points Monologue" in "A Woman Under the Influence" as her character descends into psychosis to see how much farther she goes into a role than most other actors do. It doesn't even appear to be acting, what she's doing. You actually worry about her in ways you simply don't with other actresses." - from the video essay "Watching Gena Rowlands" by Sheila O'Malley R.I.P. Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands

Thoroughly enjoyed this insightful, authoritative, respectful piece. Great delivery and diction is the icing on the cake.

I love The film Shadows, 1959 by Cassavetes and staring Gena, about race relations in New York during the Beat Generation years.

I've often felt bad for Alex throughout the show...

100% cry rate

This episode exploring Alex character. Series: Alright Alright thats enough of that, back to basics. Can't say we didn't give her one.

As someone who has struggled with the same feelings, I have to give props to Ariel Winter's acting ability. She nailed how it is to look and respond to a lot of these questions so well.

My favourite episode

Such a great actress!

I understood her so much, the only time I feel relaxed is when I'm working out (I'm in a representative team) because it's justified time that helps me get a scholarship because of my grades, no one can take that time away from me and I blow of steam

Amazing acting by Alex! Reminds me of Good Will Hunting breakthrough scene.

0:00 I didn’t like the beginning of this episode too much.

when she said "i feel kind of alone" i instantly started crying. it is a real overwhelming, lonely and even painful process to people who live through that type of pressure on a daily basis

Watched Gloria recently…will watch these others made with Cassavettes. Too bad he passed away so early, 1989 around 60 years old.

❤

dis scene makes me cry every time i watch it

I kinda feel alex' whole anxiety and meltdowns stem from her condition of being a middle child, who is nearly invisible. And the only way she can showcase herself is through academics since she saw her older sister being a wild child, she doesn’t want to take the problem child route. She is neither the only daughter, neither the only son nor the youngest, so her fear of being forgotten as a mediocre child she pushes herself to excel studies so she can be by herself if her family members forget that she exists

I can understand her I have my birthday when the new session starts and I don't wanna waste time from the beginning because of my stupid birthday

I have to be honest. When I was a kid I was so under pressure that I dreamed about doing that once in a while I mean, I had to be perfect with perfect grades, perfect behavior and my parents were getting divorced and I had to work also to get money for school and sometimes I felt I had to let it go and I just could not. I totally get her so please stay focus in the way kids now days fell so under pressure to let them know it is going to be ok.

I don't about other people but ever since I was small, I wanted to win, to be special, to make my father proud. Now don't get me wrong, he NEVER asked me to. He is always happy about any little achievement and all he wanted for me was to have a secure future. But I wanted him not to worry about me. My classmates called me stupid for studying so hard to get good grades, they called me a nerd and laughed at me whenever I was motivated during class. For a long time, I arrogantly told myself that I would come out top, since I was putting the most effort to be "the best". And when I finished junior high and started abitur (senior high in Germany)... I just grew tired. I tried do motivate myself like I always did in junior high, but the nearer I came to my graduation, the more I realised that I had no plan for the future, that I didn't even know enough about how to continue life after school. It was the worst realisation I could come to, and then I realised that I put so much effort for nothing. Burned out, I apologized to my father because I thought that I disappointed him, that he now had to worry for his daughter who reached her 20s without a job or any prospect of her future. I'm so glad that my father always has my back and knows how hard I worked for the past years, just to make him proud. He is always proud of me 😭

"Once you start overachieving people expect things from you. The world. Teachers. Parents. Other kids." Ive never been able to put that feeling into words. Im almost 30 and I dont feel like I've ever lived up to that early potential

Alex rushing into Claire’s arms at the end was so freaking sweet. Made me tear up a little. I didn’t have those issues in high school, but once college and grad school came around, I definitely was suffering under tremendous pressures.

Man isnt that relatable... A common phrase i get is "idm where you got this brain of yours"... Took me a while to adjust to the pressure of university and take a load off... I had more breakdowns than i can count, but my family never saw any of them. That kinda hit home

This episode was so so hard on me because I'm the Alex of my family.

That last scene always gets me.