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It is a lesson of redemption and courage, second chances and taking chances. Her story of brutal rape, of slavery, of dungeons, of "50 Shades of Grey" bondage gone horribly awry, was so dark and harrowing that one wondered how she had even survived, much less summoned the strength to stand before us.Īs I came to know her over the years, to enjoy her dry sense of humor, her keen intelligence, her blunt manner of speaking that forces you to take off every mask, I learned the other side of her story too.

Standing behind a podium ironically flanked by crosses, the tall redhead delivered a presentation so spellbinding that the audience seemed to breathe and gasp in unison. It goes an entire episode acting like they didn’t have the budget for a proper monster and were just going to get by with some CGI wooshes, and then they reveal an absolutely gorgeous design just for that moment of the Doctor being in “I’m reuniting lovers!” mode and then coming face to face with this thing.I met Jill Brenneman in 2011 at a conference for sex workers in Asheville, North Carolina. I mean, the confidence the series has in its visuals these days is just mind-blowing to anyone who watched the classic series. Mac: No doubt, those scenes looked amazing! Moffat’s definitely overseen a quantum leap in the show’s visual texture.Įlizabeth: And I love the very late reveal of the monster. And that’s quite clever too-switching from haunted house to Hound of the Baskervilles midway, which doesn’t change the tone of the story but just makes the whole thing feel even bigger and more of a roller coaster.

Mac: There’s almost a sense of writer Neil Cross and director Jamie Payne hurrying us through the obligatory haunted house exploration bits so they can get to the sci-fi explanation.Įlizabeth: Well, if only because the sci-fi explanation lets you get to those gorgeous wooded sections.