Looking at his IMDB, man this guy just slugged it out for 10 years before landing Brothers and Sisters.  I assume he was either doing a ton of theater or working side gigs.  Anyway, I appreciate the dedication because he’s never short of great.

Liking the show as well, but I’ve been restraining myself from getting into arguments with friends who either work in therapy or have had it and their quibbles with “that’s not how it works” or “that would never happen...” as if they’re looking for realism in this show. But they LOVE Ted Lasso, a sitcom where an NFL…

Jimmy does seem to be in a bit of a “loop,” but the characters around him are not.

Jimmy is honestly making pretty realistic progress, and if you think about his introduction..,yeah he’s come a long way.

Are there really no copy editors to catch that it’s “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” by Simply Red?

Real life is people making the same mistake over and over even if they’re trying to actively change. Incremental change is still change. And Jimmy’s actually in a much different place now than he was 6 episodes ago.

Haha... Fair! I was more wistfully recalling the marvel of The Americans.

I’m not even on board with complaining that the depiction of therapy is unrealistic. A realistic depiction of therapy would be dull and awful TV.

He’s comparing Nazis to Nazis. She compared having a conservative opinion to persecution of the Jews.

Man, Peak TV has really warped our critical sensibilities when we start kvetching about a lack of character growth seven episodes into a show’s first season.

That’s what I thought! And isn’t regression and repeating patterns despite knowing what’s best for us...human nature? Despite being therapists, I presume that would follow for all humans otherwise we would never know therapists who go to other therapists for their own mental well-being.

I’m enjoying the show and all…

I’m still digging this show. It’s not the best thing ever, but the humour and emotion really speak to me in a way few things don’t. This may be an unpopular opinion, but it’s really refreshing to have a show tackle mental health in a way that acknowledges just how messy it can be. Is it realistic? God no, but I laugh…

“Was he hot?”

“Cancel culture” is just what terrible fucking people who didn’t go to college call judgment, discernment, and the invisible hand of the marketplace.

ACTUAL ANSWER: “Cancel culture” is just the latest name for social mores being enforced by society at large, which is something that has legitimately always happened, starting from the days/nights in which two or more cavemen huddled around a campfire.

“It’s not TV. We’re not actually sure what it is at the moment.”

Yeah I feel conflicted. I heard so many raves about Euphoria and its cast and I felt like sooner or later I’d need to watch this generation defining television series.

HBO has been the vanguard premium television content provider for like 40 years, and they seem determined to destroy it. It was weird when there were HBO Max shows vs. HBO shows. But with the network’s commitment to putting incest into every single show plus the “consensual rape” scene in GoT and its determination to…

Based on the article, shuttering the production would free a lot of staff from a toxic workplace.

Two thoughts,