someone linked this here a while back, and it feels like appropriate methadone for the situation https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I actually recognized Routh…but only from Scott Pilgrim. So the superman boyfriends joke was totally lost on me.

It felt real but not very well-conveyed that she could do this well, but it was EXHAUSTING. I know sometimes i'll find myself at a party, and after the initial dread goes away i remember i'm actually fine at parties, and can even be funny and likable for a few hours. But then after those few hours i basically need to…

There are definitely some touches that are very identifiably Mitch. It feels like Maria put a lot more into it on the whole, but the child soldiers thing later on is pure Hurwitz for example. Ditto the terrible charity dinner.

I've just got vanilla depression, and this show has really made me realize that, as shitty as that is, at least it's not nearly as hard to correct for. Like, intellectually knowing i should do things that don't feel worth doing and that i'm doing better than it feels like i am etc doesn't really _fix_ anything, or…

The way the pilot opens with Diane voice was the first time i had heard her do it without the context of being an impression in the middle of a standup routine i think. And it suddenly struck me that, if i didn't know better, i would totally bet on Diane being someone's natural voice and Maria being a put-on character.

Oh sure, the child that took a bullet for me is a "hero." I prefer children who don't get shot.

That's a good class of claim to discount across the board.

The main cast continues to be mostly white people and pugs, but she does have multiple further misadventures fucking up and hurting people of a wide variety of races.

That's not how i came away from the end of it, but i was almost certain that's where it was headed until it didn't.

I don't think i've ever actually seen the Lucas brothers do…standup? Is that their main form? I've seen them play themselves on multiple sitcoms with the understanding that they are comedians, but somehow i've never actually seen the material that led to them running in these circles in the first place.

In other words, the most obvious thing being the right thing is a real threat to managerial job security.

It's very cargo cultish. Soaps were the main serials then, and soaps were bad*, therefore being serialized like soaps was bad. Now prestige dramas are the most prominent serials, and prestige dramas are prestigious, so being serialized like them is prestigious.

That is a fascinating failure to frame a problem well. Instead of "We can't use 'Good Christian Bitches,' so what's the best thing we call this instead?" They asked "..what's the closest thing to 'Good Christian Bitches' we can call it instead?" It's like they thought they were coming up with lyrics for a song parody.

I did feel some real melancholy for Bob finding peers only after he's too busy and tired to enjoy them. Because let's face it, Bob has some real friends in the important sense that will show up when he needs them, but he doesn't really have anyone he has anything in common with to hang out with.

So you just make the fruit-chopping the act 1 chore-based training that will be called back during the real action later, ala Karate Kid, and then make any ninjutsu story you want.

unnnngggghhhhh

I'm confident most of that will still be there while you're sober.

This is out there in Quentin Dupieux territory, where sometimes it's delightfully weird and other times it's so disjointed i'm not sure it actually counts as a show. I honstly can't tell if some parts are genius or lazy or trying too hard, despite those seemingly they should be mutually exclusive.

Don't worry, they assure me the new spot will be _much_ more violent.