Filmed in high-def Schlub-O-Vision

First off, Myles, I appreciate the interrogation of this show. I don’t need all my opinions ratified, only something to reflect on.

If they want awards they should work at Sudz

Gilmore girls has this too. You can spot crew arms, booms, lights, all kinds of stuff. 

Nate is toxic as hell. He’s outwardly sympathetic but inside he’s nothing but rage and resentment. This is the same arc as Walter White, whose petulance and insecurity destroyed his family. Beware the “meek” man who lives under the impression he’s owed more and better. 

Sins & Blessings:

Boom

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. 

Just cannot wait for Susie’s bedazzled masks.