Yeah, for me, a psychic in a story works best when they aren’t actually predicting the future, but more like Higgins described his belief in them— someone who has an intuitive sense or ability that allows them to help us see things in ourselves that we couldn’t/didn’t see otherwise.

I was similarly whelmed (not over, not under) by the finale.

I can buy not making Nate a coach, but it does feel like they would have / should have asked him for some insider info on West Ham’s players and tactics.

Apparently they were the two Beard ran into in “Beard After Dark”— borrowing pants from the wife, being chased by the husband, then the husband saving him from Jamie’s dad and his goons.

Ha, yeah, right now I’m on that “6 weeks for $1" plan, which I will probably not continue once it ends.

Ooh, wonderful, I’ll have to make the time to read all this.

Ahh, I meant to see season one and never did. Maybe I will, if I can make the time in between all the other stuff coming back to air.

Hmm, maybe I’ll be around for True Detective, but I’m not sure. It’s Always Sunny is starting back up in June, but I don’t know if the AV Club covers the show anymore.

They did Gemstones here last year and I thought they were pretty good. Hopefully they stick with it. But I do have a Vulture account, at least for the time being (it’s pretty much impossible to comment without a subscription, so I’ll have to see how much I want to spend on that sort of thing).

Right! It’s just wild that this seems to be never addressed or taken seriously by the show. I don’t have to watch Dr. Jacob lose his license; I just have to have somebody on the show realize that this is a serious enough breach that he could lose his license.

Huh, that’s an interesting point and a good observation. On the other hand, does Ted even know about Amsterdam Guy? I take it his reunion with Rebecca at the airport was real, but I don’t know if Ted would have known enough to imagine them together in the future.

I thought the ending worked well enough for me; any problems I had with it are more problems with the season overall, and it was more or less too late to deal with them in the finale.

Me too, although I’ve predicted that for a while. I think it just makes a lot more sense. Even if, somehow, you were able to leave out the manner in which Nate left and came back: Roy is a better natural leader, he commands more respect from the players than Nate does, and he understands the player mindset better,…

The way it played out, I’m not even sure the writers are aware of what a huge ethical violation Dr. Jacob is committing.

“Get a fucking grip” doesn’t really land when you write a bad-faith answer with all-caps mixed in, FYI.

That’s good. I’m almost thinking about it even more from the other end. I think Ted has at least grounds to file a professional complaint about Dr. Jacob. “He was my wife’s therapist and then he was our couples counselor (red flag one) and then we got divorced (some therapist!) and he started dating my ex-wife (HUGE…

Oh, and I want to read Roy’s “very brief foreword” to Trent Crimm’s book. I imagine it’s something like “Oi! I used to think Trent was a prick but it turns out he’s all right. READ THIS!”

On the one hand, it was more or less exactly what I expected the finale to be, in terms of how everything resolved and the sheer amount of sentiment dripping from it. On the other hand, it did not really fix my biggest problems with the season as a whole, although I did not terribly expect it to by this point. On the…

I got the impression she did, in fact, lose him. I just wish the show had honestly dealt with the severe ethical issues at play of Dr. Jacob dating Michelle at all, rather than just having Michelle and Henry get tired of him because he’s a guy who sucks.

I’ve mostly agreed, but I thought the ending landed about exactly where it should and exactly where I expected it to. I think it would’ve hit a lot harder if the plotting up to this point had been executed more carefully. But as a finale I thought it was a good finale.