Agree with all of this, and Allison’s general feeling that knowing this is the final season has freed the writers up to celebrate the show at its best instead of making Oliver to unlearn and re-learn the same life lessons over and over again (Oliver needs to open up more! Oliver needs to trust more! Oliver can’t do it…
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I also read the Edge of Tomorrow vs. Groundhog Day references to be a subtle bit of “OK Boomer,” if you will. Sure old man, your movie from 26 years ago is hella relevant!
At this point Frost is undoubtedly the more interesting character to portray, unless Caitlin’s parents are around to give her something to play besides sweet, helpful and adorable, but I really miss Cait. She’s like a link back to the more light-hearted and whimsical version of the show that is ultimately what it does…
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I usually express this distinction as the difference between an “excuse” (I do not accept blame for this behavior) and an “explanation” (I accept blame, but request that my actions be evaluated in a larger context.)
The main thing that leads me to agree with you is when I ask myself “Is this an episode that was worth waiting two years for?” I haven’t seen one of those yet in this new season. If they needed two years worth of polish to feel like the product we’ve seen so far was ready to go out into the world, I can’t imagine this…
The dog’s job is to tire out the visiting children, and vice-versa!
So much of NFL journalism is kabuki (at best) that I don’t think it’d really hurt anybody to wait for 10 minutes while people shower and change before the platitudes start a-flowin’. But if you’re gonna give access, you’ve gotta give equal access to anyone with credentials, and not drum up a bunch of macho nonsense to…
I think the answer depends a little on whether your primary goal is to shut down further conversation or gain approval; at least with the old folks in my orbit, there really isn’t a way to do both.
For those like myself who are lazy but often dragooned (explicitly or implicitly) into potlucking something for a family meal, holiday or otherwise, I offer this tip: cut fruit assortments! You can pick these up at the grocery store already prepared in their own display tray/bowl, even on your way to the event, and…
As far as I’ve cared, the last time the locker room journalism issue was relevant is when we* were fighting to get female journalists equal access to it. Those were the lofty ethical hills we had in our sights at the time.
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* For a value of “we” that places me on the right side of history, as a person who did…
The jobs weren’t funny as such, but they were an opportunity for some pretty fun guest stars, especially nemeses like Rob Riggle as Phil’s real-estate tormentor or Jon Polito as Jay’s long-standing closet business rival.
In the early seasons they used to pull at that thread with little moments where Gloria reminds Claire that she’s her stepmother, but thankfully that’s been almost totally dropped, along with Phil’s inappropriate (though perfectly understandable) crush on Gloria.
Indeed, she won both the Oscar for that film and an Emmy for Mad About You in 1998.
Black metal is a particularly difficult to listen to sub-genre of heavy metal (he said affectionately) mostly deriving from cold northern climes in Scandinavia; it is characterized by vocals that are guttural/shrieked to the point of unintelligibility, crushingly heavy guitar riffs, and lyrics that generally run the…
To be fair, she also quite implausibly stopped a continent-wide tidal wave with... dream rays? So maybe she needed a nap after that?
It’s also a little precious to be concerned about ecology when, by your own admission, your arrival on the planet caused a massive chain of global extinctions. If the K-T Event didn’t upset your agenda, I’m not sure why some melting ice caps are something that demands your urgent attention.
But that would have complicated the unnecessary clueless Boomer dad reaction to the unnecessary “Snowflake Generation” reference. That line required a middle-aged white guy in a suit drinking whiskey, and everything was clearly crafted backwards from there.