yeah also weird to be like ‘she had a good paying job 30 years ago so she’s fine’

I enjoyed so much about the first season, that I feel like such a grouch for how much it also annoyed me—especially as it went on. Look, I’m a Sondheim fanatic so I don’t need my musical leads to be “likeable” but Josh, especially, was so off-putting, I have no idea why we were meant to want him and Melissa to be…

I am also very glad to see it return, as I was delightfully surprised by the first. The Schmicago idea is genius, I think. Schmigadoon was fun and lasted just long enough to mine the setting and move on.

I loved the first one. I am so glad there is a second.

I mean this in the most positive possible way, but I am truly baffled as to how this show got a second season. It feels like a show for like 15 people that exit in the world and I’m one of them.  I am excited to have this back in my rotation. 

Yeah I thought calling their deaths “untimely” was a little weird, unless the implication was that they should have died much sooner. 

THEIR DEATHS WERE NOT “UNTIMELY”. THEY HAPPENED PRECISELY ON SCHEDULE.

Yup. The whole series is a hell of a watch.

I fucking haaaaaaate performative religion demagogues. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them.

I get ya, but the argument is even simpler than that: anyone who doesn’t realize that art is and has been intertwined with political discussion - and has been for all of recorded history - is a fucking moron, whether they’re actually stupid or just pretending to be.

Agreed on all points. But I do have to say I am thrilled that Jennifer Coolidge, Natasha Rothwell, and Murray Bartlett got nominations.

Well White Lotus was fun escapism with some excellent performances by industry veterans whereas Station Eleven was about the aftermath of a global pandemic. Don’t think it’s hard to see why viewers and voters drifted towards the former.

Rhea Seehorn is relegated to the supporting category since agents and Academy insiders who don’t watch a lot of TV decide these things, which is both unfair to others in the supporting category, and to Seehorn, who would have an excellent chance of winning in the lead category if given the chance.

I really wish the Emmys had a “Best Ensemble” award - there would so many contenders this year (my personal vote would go to White Lotus). 

Politics likely played more of a role than his “star power”.

Just watched it and also agree. I found it a lot cleverer than the review and most of the older comments give it credit for.

The actual audio-animatronic dinosaur stuff was (at the time) pretty fantastic. I don’t think many people paid much attention to the opening video at all—in whatever iteration of it they saw (and of course originally—pre-Ellen, it fit into the EPCOT “World’s Fair” concept of having corporate and nationally sponsored…

And clean oil! Don’t forget that the ride was funded by Exxon. Also, while the ride itself dates back to 1982, the Ellen/Nye version only dates to 1996. It wasn’t all bad -- it also features Alex Trebek back when he looked like Alex Trebek -- you know, with the Tom Selleck mustache.

If you haven’t seen it you need to check out an NBC show called The Good Place, she is great on it.

This sounds like a show that Tahani would make Eleanor watch