Bad skin and fuel shortages — it’s the 70s, baby!!! Really, though, this is how I wish all period pieces felt: natural, lived-in, but also immediate.

PTA famously cuts his own trailers. 

Good call. Collateral plus Four Christmases plus Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

The Fly actually signaled something about the ongoing BB story (Walt realizing the problem that Jesse represents to his life and livelihood — the fly of the episode title). It’s a bottle episode but its import actually impacts the show significantly beyond its borders. This Ted Lasso episode truly did not.

“Too out-there for prime time” somehow manages to sound even less cool than “this ain’t your grandma’s newsletter.”

Please let Pratt be funny again. Funny Pratt + Richardson cannot lose. 

The Good Fight does all this better. Instead of trying to play “remember when” with the news, it dives head-first into the insanity of the current moment and isn’t afraid to throw in a few surrealist twists to get closer to the emotional (if not factual) truth of living in this era. It’s way more fun and emotionally…

This sounds like a parody of what a streaming service thinks “smart people” want to watch. 

The norms set by the wealthiest/most powerful directors, actors, etc. helps establish norms/rights for people down the pecking order. UNIONS WORK!

Andrew Callaghan knows how to just let people talk and spin their own dumb magic. 

Rebecca and Sam just make no sense. Ted and Rebecca makes better sense on a common life stage level, but I’m not rooting for that, either. We need more Ron Swanson-Leslie Knope dynamics in TV. Platonic cross-gender love is so under-explored!

You had me at margin controls. 

Insurers should be exempted from covering any COVID-related medical bills for eligible unvaccinated people. That would be a small price to pay for taking up a hospital bed or care capacity away from people who are ineligible or facing other health problems. The number of heart and other critical procedures NOT…

Just cannot wait for Susie’s bedazzled masks. 

Weird that there is 0 mention of the truck’s drive and the charges they face?

Ted’s mention that everything would work out, just now how people expect, seemed like some sort of underlining of where this show is going. Ted simply isn’t going to last as coach. Roy is a much better fit as a leader.

There needs to be a genre name for this type of show (BLL, White Lotus, etc.) in which the settings are glam while the storylines (ostensibly) tackle the ugly underbelly of society.

Paula and Rachel were essentially on the same journey all along. They flirted with rebellion but ultimately ran right back to the safe harbor of privilege.

I will take Christmas eps any time of year — summer, particularly. The show definitely pushed the limits but it was a nice breather to let everyone hang out, have fun and just enjoy each other without having to advance plots.

Get ready for White Lotus: Cincinnati Edition