I’m weird. Only explanation.
amazing our reviewer can get a couple thousand word review out of a half hour comedy. still, I read it all. great show, still wondering how they can credibly milk more than one more season out of it though.
I am entertained with every episode of this show regardless but, I think too much happened this episode. And I feel like it was out of character for Nathaniel to be so hostile to Rebecca early in the episode since he has been really understanding about Rebecca’s personality disorder. And at the end it did not make…
Hah! We’re on opposite sides once again! I *hated* last episode with a passion (form may of the same reason you dislike this episode) and much preferred this one. This to me was very much mid-first-season Rebecca, the live-action looney tunes cartoon.
No, it’s not weird. Because we know how much it cost him.
I always had problem with the idea of Hell not just because no one deserves eternity of torture but because it also makes the whole idea of Heaven suspect. If you are a good person - the one like “real” Eleanor was supposed to be - how can you enjoy your paradise knowing other people are being tortured at this very…
Is it weird that I was proud of Chidi for choosing a hat despite the comically long time involved? Baby steps.
One of the things I love most about the show as it is, right now, is how it’s stuck so firmly with its characters that, even when they do something surprising, it DOESN’T surprise, either? Does that make sense? I mean this in terms of Eleanor’s sacrifice at the end. When she makes up a story so that her friends won’t…
Alex Borstein is so amazing in this — as glad as I am that Brosnahan got the Golden Globe, I’d love to see Borstein get some Supporting Actress Emmy love.
I also loved how impressed Eleanor was with Tahani’s somehow American demon character.
Amy Sherman-Palladino’s protagonists have a bad habit of making randomly dumb decisions just to move the plot along. Midge’s decision to insult Sophie, knowing her agent was in the audience, was one of those moments. It’s never explained why she did it, and it totally went against her character of making pretty…
I would argue that she followed the path of using Herb Smith’s cards so willingly because she had already begun questioning herself after her first performance in the episode was such a failure and she was desperate to find the answer to her creative block. However, that desperation maybe would have been more…
I just read on Vulture that when Amazon picked up the pilot, they ordered TWO SEASONS!!! HUZZAH! I had to email my Mom to tell her because she just finished watching and was so worried there wouldn’t be a second season.
If I was an Amazon exec, I’d renew for another 3 seasons based on Borstein’s delivery of the word “Horsefucker” alone.
I really hoped Joel would leave after the pilot, but I can of see now why it was more realistic to have in this season. I hope he’s just a minor character next season though, but I think one thing that ASP never lets her characters do is move-on-dot-org from their first loves.
Personally, I think Joel’s arc is over. He doesn’t deserve Midge, and he’s a hack who steals other people’s comedy. He deserves to slink off into the night. Midge should never get back with him, and the series should move on and be about her rise.
It apparently was an improvisation from Mary Wiseman, and then Anthony Rapp improv-ing his reaction. I was kind of wary going in, but I actually thought it worked in context. Considering that Tilly is just so enthusiastic and bubbly about everything, it felt...natural, I guess.
On the one hand, it was kind of cute. On the other, it reeked of “because we can and no one can say no.”
All hail, Team-Tilly.