Women Crush Wednesday
Salutations, Henchmen!
I have a little confession to make. This week’s Woman Crush comes to you from a rather embarrassing movie selection I made on a dreary Monday evening when all I wanted to do was devour a bag of all-dressed chips beneath a fuzzy blanket and watch chiselled men clash swords. It’s a mood. It happens occasionally. I am but a mortal woman with primal needs and desires. DEAL WITH IT. So yeah, this time the chiselled man with a sword happened to be Jason Momoa in the Conan the Barbarian reboot. (I know, I know, I should have just gone for the Schwarzenegger original and it would have boosted my enjoyment of the shirtless sword-clashing like, ten-fold but alas, my selections are limited to the mediocre offerings of Amazon Prime Video.) I’ll spare you my thoughts on a shitty sword and sorcery flick from 2011 and instead focus on the woman that was cast in the archetypical “innocent priestess who is somehow integral to the bad guys’ evil ritual” role. It was none other than Rachel Nichols, a.k.a. the star of one of my favourite TV shows. No, I’m not talking about Rachel Nichols the sports broadcaster. I’m talking about Rachel Nichols, the actress who, after a quick Google search, you come realize is in quite a few things that you enjoyed in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s.
Remember her? No? Well, try picturing her with green skin, red hair and a lacy bustier in Star Trek (2009). Or nerdy and leather-clad in the G.I. Joe (2009) movies.
Starting to ring a bell? She played the cute hacker chick character on TV in Alias and Criminal Minds for a while, too. So obviously she had that smart, sassy, severe look with icy blue eyes that was sort of emblematic of TV ten years ago. Which brings me to the real reason why I chose her for your Women Crush this week (besides her gorgeous eyes and curves, of course), being her starring role in quite possibly one of the greatest TV shows of that era: Continuum. If you’ve never seen Continuum, I highly recommend it. It’s seriously binge-able and only four seasons long, so it’s quality content fodder for a weekend in bed. Essentially, it’s a police procedural set in Vancouver (eh!) but replace the usual cops and criminals drama with a cop that’s secretly from 2077 and time-traveling, anti-capitalist terrorists. LOL. Okay, hear me out though. It’s not just another hokey variation of a police drama with a poorly crafted time-travel twist. It actually ended up being an intriguing time travel story that fearlessly explores time-travel-related paradoxes with care. Yeah, at the end of the day it is still a drama that aired on Showcase but their casual yet thoughtful handling of a multiverse and time-travel kind of blew me away. WATCH IT. SERIOUSLY. DO IT.
Sooooo….Anyway, your woman worship this week ended up being hijacked by a trip down memory-lane of 2010-era action movies that are probably better to remain forgotten and the unabashed promotion of an underrated sci-fi TV series…oops. Hehe. Well, how about a few more photos to show you why she’s a worthy Woman Crush, eh?
I think it’s safe to say the takeaways from this week are that your Overlord has a penchant for icy blue eyes AND well-written time travel stories. Thank you for reading my isolation-induced ramblings on the movies, TV and starlets of 2010 that not a single person asked for but now exists anyway (okay, you can go ahead and stare at my titties on OnlyFans now. See, I haven’t completely lost touch with what my audience wants). Teehee.
Until next time, Henchmen! Stay evil and WATCH CONTINUUM.
