Technically, one interesting thing - the fight scene was done in a single take using a wide shot showing both characters. Which is 'daring' for a TV show because there's no way to then fix it in editing if something goes wrong. No cutting to a reaction shot as they splice together multiple takes to get the scene right.

I don't think Rebecca is an awful person, I think she's an introvert. She keeps things bottled up. I once saw a great introvert's greeting card "I like being alone with you almost as much as being alone" (credit to Stevie Nelson). Jack's love seems suffocating at times. Tone it down, dude. Let your wife climb down off…

Long ago I worked with a young coworker who said she *specialized in married men*. Because married men don't reek of desperation like single men do. She wasn't in it for meeting the parents or moving in together or sharing a Costco card..

I had a supervisor from Jack's generation. He and his wife had 'dated' for 8 years before getting married. For some couples 'marriage' doesn't come into the equation until one is compelled to jump on a spouse's workplace healthcare plan. Then all of a sudden its 'Oops! Time to get married I guess!"

A fair number of reunion/revival shows recently have given off the strong odor of "We're throwing this together because we need the money." If you haven't heard an actor or show runner's name in 3 year it might be because they haven't had a job in 3 years

High achieving nerd school girls is coming to be regarded as a low-grade anxiety disorder, an offshoot of OCD. Instead of anxiously washing your hands all the time you're study-study-studying because anything less than perfection means you're dog poop. Look at Rory Gilmore. High achieving nerd-girl whose life simply…

That father in Sound of Music was totally into weird S&M sex stuff. You can just tell.

Viewers are being nickel-and-dimed to death these days. Not only has the cost of cable shot up (thanks for that, Trump) but every little service is a subscription service now. We went from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, and now we're transitioning to a *parasite economy*. Compulsory use of corporate…

Hopeful comedians signing up for SNL is like high school sports players signing up for the 'big league'. They come in with dreams of fame & fortune, most of them eventually get spit out after being used up and damaged beyond repair. There's not that many Michael Jordans or Bill Murrays out there in the world. There's…

A word of advice, if you're arguing with you middle-aged wife DO NOT scream her true age to her face. You're liable to find a fork stuck in your neck.

Eh, I used to work nights in the North End of Boston around the time period depicted in the show. It was indeed a living cliché. Thick necked mob guys wearing dark glasses indoors, and the ever-popular silk shirt/track suit combo.

Its got so whenever I see a woman with Kevin I cringe for the unhappy fate that awaits her. It sounded like his latest/ex has caught on to that. She really didn't sound too enthused as they were saying their goodbyes. Like yeh yeh, you're going to carelessly hurt me again, just like all those other times, aren't you.

There's a theory that 'free will' is a myth. We're the sum of our genetic predispositions and early learned behavior. Most of what we think we 'choose' had been imprinted long before. Rebecca is predisposed to withdrawing and withholding. She's not a type A personality. Asking Rebecca to get out there and make a life…

You don't see that many stay-at-home working class moms these days, especially with teenage children. Its easy to forget how isolating it can become. Does Rebecca have any women friends? If her life has been the house, the kids, and the husband coming home to eat supper and go to bed at 10 then yeh, she was about due…

Jack does not know how to handle his alcohol and Rebecca does not know how to handle a drunken Jack. Lack of practice, I suppose.

Well, what's your alternate script? Give me a middle-aged man's profession of love for his wife and mother of his children that wouldn't sound hackneyed. Jack is standing there in the living room in front of Rebecca and he says…

So what happened with the darned egg play? Is it still running? is Sloan going to be stabbed in the back again, or is she entirely gone from the series now? Even an unreviewed stage play will be able to keep going for awhile if there's a TV star from a popular series in the lead.

Oh, do you mean the drunk-cameraman fight scene in 'Bourne Identity' was influenced by the incoherently cut fight scenes in 'Gladiator'?

Some shows see their job as setting up expectations and then reliably fulfilling them. The only surprises that viewers want to see are (incongruously) surprises that they expect. Expectations going unfulfilled and surprises coming unexpectedly disorients them. This episode sets us up for a drunken car crash then…

Even at the time the show was dumb and overly-cutesy with an annoying pushy laugh track. This was back when "Oh, Calcutta!" was playing on stage in NYC and Hugh Hefner was a celebrity. They were trying to have it both ways, sexy without being sexy, dirty without being dirty, faux rebellious when it was just tame. It…