Mildred Pierce

Such good birth control.

Lily Schmidt

Imagine pushing a kid out of your cooch and it grows up to be this snake.

𝚮𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖉𝖊 🙏🏻

Wrong kid died.

mattheweg

HBO gave Todd Haynes like $20 million to shoot a 5.5 hour adaptation of Mildred Pierce on 16mm. we used to be a proper country

Kyle Turner

I probably would have enjoyed this more if I wasn’t consumed by my rising blood pressure and instant skin breakouts every time Veda opened her mouth and Mildred tolerated it.

ilinca

I can safely say this is the only time I’ve ever cheered on a mother choking out her daughter.

Connor

72/100 Mildred Pierce isn't a particularly long book—my Black Lizard reissue wraps up on page 307. Yet it takes Haynes well over five hours to do proper justice to it, which explains why most literary adaptations constitute tasteful garbage. (As I noted a couple of days…

Mike D'Angelo

Parts 1-2: She was a waitress wearing a white dress  Parts 3-4: Look how she does this, look how she got this  Part 5: Down at the men in music business conference

Matt Erspamer

Veda Pierce is an all-time villain. An evil child who's not the literal spawn of Satan is not explored enough. And Todd Haynes' framing of her nude body walking deliberately in front of her mother to sit down and brush her hair is melodramatic torture. Love it! BTW the…

Brian Formo