Yeah, this list is even more egregious than usual in terms of “let’s just go with whomever’s most famous!” They usually pick one or two outlier TV shows or movies to champion across the board to point to for credibility.

Not yet, but they haven’t mentioned the past much. Tina exists, Bette/Tina are not together, we don’t know why. As for the other returnees, we haven’t heard how the relationships they were in at the end of the original dissolved. No mention of any unseen people outside of Tina and Jodi (though not by name there).…

HFPA noticed Succession but I presume accidentally missed all of Jeremy Strong’s scenes?

LeBlanc is a Y&R guy, I think

While I’m not familiar with all English soaps, I’d wager that Bold and the Beautiful is the closest relative since it’s the one that peddles the least in supernatural, back-from-the-dead, personality/memory transplants, weather machines, etc. Mostly relationship/business/family drama.

Yeah, she definitely dropped a few words making it 100% clear she’s an attorney.

Yes, while I too was irritated (and can’t stand James Franco), it makes perfect sense that the only one romanticizing the good old days is the one who didn’t really live/get it.

Yeah, I do think there were more characters in The Wire that made people feel cool to watch. Quotable folks. “Badasses,” or whatever it is that gets people excited.

My thoughts exactly. It might be over-identifying as a writer, but I always see people talking about unintentional comedy on TV when I’m 95% certain it was quite intentional and it’s become quite the pet peeve.

Only just saw this as I’m catching up on last week’s TV, and granted, I half-watched it because I’ve really lost the plot (missed the last couple episodes of last season and can’t work up the energy to catch up)... but why were high school students in an MFA seminar? I thought it was just their private high school…

Absolutely. I spent a good chunk of time doing crisis counseling for a suicide hotline and a big part of it was just “buy a day” (not articulated that way in training, but that’s how it felt to me). Literally help them delay their suicide a day. And it typically works. Get them past that moment, the next moment is…

Frankly I was relieved that Eileen was definitely in the wrong here. Love her, love Gyllenhaal, but her wisdom, decency, and even introspection when she’s mistaken were at risk of making the character border on perfection, so I’m glad they circumvented that.

Most people I know aggressively loved/rewatch The Wire all the time and haven’t even tried this one yet (mostly due to the James Franco factor). It’s a shame. But I do think the binge option would help. 

The stalker definitely wasn’t really there.

In fairness, he has murdered a bunch of people....

I thought it was kind of hilarious. I hope all the characters turn out to secretly be bad guys.

Yes, that’s Leslie Grossman. She’s awesome.

FX and FXX shows use it quite liberally now. I think they gave the go-ahead on that a few years ago.

I do recall someone saying “what’s your damage” and I feel like ‘84 is a couple years early for that. (Obviously it was widely in the lexicon once Heathers came out in ‘88 but I’m not sure how early it was creeping into general speech)

I was so mad -- found my friends and they were all buzzing about the wonderful Macbeth scenes and I didn’t have a clue what they were talking about!