Well, I consider it a victory that I got my wife to watch Ted Lasso at all (Roy Kent is the first person to say “fuck” that has made her laugh instead of blush and turn away), so I figured the pegging discussion was probably nowhere near on the table.

Man, the word “romantic” is doing a lot of heavy lifting with regards to Jack, dontcha think? For me, there’s no romance at all in what she’s doing. By her own admission, she’s “get-away-with-murder-rich” and it really looks like she’s doing whatever she can to acquire another asset. Rebecca seems to feel the same way…

You’re a braver man than I was.

Agreed. I think anyone who believes that AFC Richmond is actually getting any better at football over the past three seasons hasn’t been paying enough attention. What I do see is the team winning small victories - mostly moral victories, like scoring a goal so that Arsenal didn’t shut them out in their latest game -…

For most of last season, I grew less and less interested in Nate because he was turning into a real prick. But over the off-season, I had a chance to think it over, and I realized that his arc is more realistic than I had thought. The arrested development he suffered by having a distant and authoritarian father and a…

The gaffer-tape beard slayed me.

Comment from my wife after last night’s episode: “Who knew that an episode that kicked off with a pegging reference and continued on to footballers with red string around their gentlemen’s regions would be so great?”

Sometimes it’s picking the right music and then finding a good editor to match the clips to it.

That’s actually a really good point!

That’s not my argument, no, but it feels useless to pursue this tangent because we’re starting to channel a different world war here.

Here’s the thing, though - you can apply any number of historical lenses to the present. Selecting just one limits your perspective.

“All of which were a result of WW2.”

By 1975, the most influential event globally was Vietnam. McCarthyism, the Red Scare, the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis had already pushed World War II into museums and history books. Even the heroes of WWII had faded to societal irrelevance by that time (hell, the advent of the Jet Age had made the flying aces…

I think I was able to take the endless sex stuff with S1 Keeley in stride because, outside of the oral sex, bed swapping, winking lipstick-lesbian references, and etc. that seemed to leak into every episode, she was independent, fiercely loyal, refreshingly honest and direct, and vulnerable. In S2, it became a little…

Agreed. With an ensemble this deep, you have to allow them interplay - otherwise, you’re mortgaging your greatest narrative strength.

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Well, to extend your metaphor, what if, today, in 2023, every single important thing that happened had to be viewed through the lens of World War II? And then, too, every historical story had to lead into World War II? That’s what Star Wars and other franchises like Harry Potter have done. Why? Because Hollywood…

It just aggravates me that Grogu is 50 years old, has learned to use the Force, and yet he still can’t figure out language. Are the Yodas bereft of language centers in their brains? (It would certainly explain Yoda’s problems with grammar.)

The AV Club’s parent company doesn’t pay freelancers well enough; otherwise, I’d love to do the job!

I got it immediately - I even yelled at my wife, “Where’s Roy’s bowler hat!?”