Indeed. My great-uncle died during that offensive, though he was 4th Division.

Was a good season, and I hope they get to continue. Rhys is really good in an understated way and there is so much territory to mine in 1930s Los Angeles.

It helps that the show is a Robert Downey Jr. passion project - he was originally going to star in it and he's still producing it. Keeping a good relationship with a top A-lister is good business and it's the kind of show that hopefully will help fill up the award cabinet.

I don’t think cancellation is a sure thing... it’s an HBO show, not a streaming exclusive, and it skews to an older audience that still watches cable. But I won’t be surprised if it happens.

* Keeley and Jack: I hate this whole relationship. Further, I hate how Keeley’s sexuality has been used over each season as a narrative engine rather than part of who she is. Keeley has been three different people over three different seasons, and while some might say that it’s someone going through personal change, I…

Your comment is a better review than the review. Thank you for providing some context and analysis that we (or at least I) would have missed otherwise.

I know it’s called Total Football, I’m sure if I was talking with my friends about it in my relatively rural area I would recognize it as Total Football. However, after this episode, when it’s shown in the episode it’s probably going to stick in my brain as the triangle offense. Thanks, Tex and Phil.

With the whiff of a filler set piece, this subplot had all of Richmond’s players remembering that the best way to spend a curfew-free night in Amsterdam is to not go see tulips, not eat Dutch food, not attend a private party, and definitely not bear witness to a sex show and instead to have a pillow fight(?).

This was definitely an episode that either one went along for the ride or fought it most of the way. I see Manuel is holding court in the latter. But I was all in. First breaking up the group so one had these mini-adventures was a blast. Roy & Jaimie, sure Roy learning to bike was an amusing part of it, but the…

Considering this was every bit the filler episode that ‘Beard after Hours’ got slated for, there was so much to love this week.

Yet we still don’t know who voted to see tulips.

The psychic also predicted that Rebecca would be upside down and drenched, but also be safe. It’s pretty obvious the Amsterdam meeting was the fulfillment of the main part of the psychic’s prophecy.

...once Rebecca lets herself enjoy her life she finds the most peace...

I love they are bringing up the issues of concrete sand (it’s true, you can’t use desert sand, it’s shit.) because in the coming decades it’s going to become a REAL issue. Hopefully this will help start a larger conversation and help us shift to alternative building materials. Concrete is just not tenable in the long…

The D&B shit was fucking gold.

WHY DO THE HUMANS SPEND SO MUCH TIME TOGETHER WALKING OUT-OF-DOORS WHEN AN AUTOMOBILE IS A FAR MORE EFFICIENT FORM OF CONVEYANCE? AND WHY HAS THE WORK ASSOCIATE OF THE ONE HUMAN BECOME THE FRIENDLY COMPANION OF THE OTHER HUMAN? AND WHY HAVE A GROUP OF HUMANS GATEHRED TOGETHER AT THE HOME PLACE OF ONE OF THE HUMANS FOR…

‘Shrinking’ an heir apparent to a show like Ted Lasso.

I’ve never seen someone so dedicated to calling out common sitcom tropes in the exact system in which they’re explicitly supposed to exist.

“Why are these things happening in the thing they’re supposed to happen in? It’s very upsetting!”

I think S1 of this show was very much like “It’s okay not to have strong boundaries” and S2 will pivot to “Okay, perhaps *some* strong boundaries are necessary”

These reviews have been a real education in how there exists at least one person in the world to whom human interaction outside family and work is a completely foreign concept, and it’s been a fascinating dive inside that alien mind.