It is alas our last supporting episode! After almost six years, we are looking back on our Top 10 favorite episodes, performances, quotes and new obsessions born out of hopping on microphones every week to talk about women (and sometimes men!) in supporting roles that we love. As a wise woman once said, it was never a burden, it was an honor. But as another wise woman once said while accepting an award for best supporting actress, I gotta go, bye!

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It’s the end of the world, or at least the end of the world as Hannah, Prior, Louis, Harper and Joe know it. Roy is left with nothing but the haunting of Ethel Rosenberg in the end, who herself finds peace through tradition (and believe it or not, Louis). While Joe’s fairy tale comes crashing around him, Prior chooses life, Harper chooses San Francisco, Belize chooses forgiveness, and Hannah chooses to stay in New York with her gays. Great Work, indeed. 

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The Angel, some ghosts and Mother Pitt descend upon New York. Harper vanishes to Antarctica by way of Prospect Park, Prior turns prophet, Hannah ends up in the Bronx, and Joe and Louis kick off a situationship straight out of East Hell. Speaking of which, Roy Cohn has become the demon of St Vincent’s, but Ethel Rosenberg has arrived to keep him company. Nevertheless, Belize persists.

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We are taking on the heaven-sent HBO television event of 2003, “Angels in America” and specifically the first two episodes this week. Not only is it a Big Important Gay Story, it’s directed by Mike Nichols and stars Meryl Streep, Mary Louise Parker, Emma Thompson and a series of straight men playing impeccably gay, especially Jeffrey Wright. And then there’s Al Pacino as Roy Cohn, in one of the biggest performances we’ve ever gotten to queen out on. Plus Thomas Newman’s score, the scope of Tony Kushner’s storytelling, that prosthetic work on Meryl as the rabbi and a lightning fast pace for a six hour miniseries.

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Edie, get some ice cream! We’re celebrating 2009’s “Grey Gardens” with that fine HBO polish, impeccable prosthetics, a sweeping score, the wild range of Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore working harder than anyone to bring Little Edie Beale to life in all her glory, misery and resilience. Jeanne Tripplehorn’s Jackie O, Malcolm Gets’s Gould and Ken Howard’s Phelan Beale, to say nothing of those Maysles and that Baldwin, buoy the Beales through a thoroughly quotable, heartbreaking and hilarious rise to cult stardom.

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How wonderful for us, to spend another 8 weeks in a season of “The White Lotus”, a show made up of essentially all supporting characters. We’re counting down our favorite guests, staff and scene-stealing accomplices as we pack our bags and head off towards whatever becomes the next pop culture moment to feed the meme machine and produce endless TikTok theories.

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The 2018 Mary Kay Place vehicle “Diane” may be a bit of a gloomy drive around a weathered stretch of the Northeast, but luckily it includes a bevy of character actresses and Broadway legends in the passenger seat. Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin, Joyce Van Patten, LaChanze, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Phyllis Sommerville, Dierdre O’Connell and Glynis O’Connor bring life to a movie essentially about the inevitability of death and what it takes to make peace with yourself before it’s your turn.

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Pull up a park bench at a bus stop cause we’re talking about a true 20th century American classic, “Forrest Gump”! Despite its comedic quotability and punchline of a lead character, it taught millennials with cable in the 90s so much about Vietnam, drugs, dad rock, and just about every way you can have shrimp. Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan is everything you want from a Best Supporting Actor, Jenny’s journey is a whole other movie, and Mrs. Gump sure does care about her son’s education. Also Tom Hanks completely earned that second Oscar as Forrest, and that’s all we have to say about that.

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We’re heading all the way down to that mansion in Mill Basin for 2024’s Best Picture, “Anora”! Mikey Madison is the lucky lady having a wild two weeks on the arm of Ivan the Terrible, before Best Supporting Toros comes knocking. Yuriy Borisov gives a Sister Agnes style BSA nominated performance as Igor, Diamond shines, Lulu helps, Garnik barfs and that ending hits.

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It’s gonna take more than a bus full of nuns, a few cans of smoke and a good copier to elect a new pope in 2024’s “Conclave”. Isabella Rossellini makes a meal out of what is essentially an extended cameo as Sister Agnes, quietly instrumental in helping to bring down potential papal candidates and making way for a somewhat hopeful twist ending.

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