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Amarsir

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  1. Changing the label image probably saved her from a "brand confusion" lawsuit. This way people may think it's a spin-off or rip-off of Frankel but legally the name probably has enough distance to be distinct. (IANAL) The first investment meeting was weird. I have to assume there was more coaching to get that chorus of "yes"es. Literally everyone says "I wouldn't invest based on this presentation but I love you"? As for the second, I'd bet he was part of contacting Marcus before filming ever started. It was just too obvious of a path and so out of character with what Marcus has done in the past.
  2. I hate these predictable, formulaic shows. /s 😉 That's some incredible twisting. I'm disappointing that the Good Place folks are so unwilling to be helpful, but then again it would undermine the protagonists a lot if they did. Here's how I see it. On Earth Brent earned mostly negative points. The longer he lived, the more negative he got. So in the experiment he also continued to earn negative points. His total got worse, not his minute-by-minute rate. Until at the end when his turnaround was good enough to just about erase a year of his negative actions.
  3. As I recall, that arc started with us not sure if he was serious or sarcastic. Then he got a girlfriend and became serious. Then he started scheming to hide his past and the whole thing became a facade. Then in the next season he's just abusive, manipulative, and his old self. My take at the time was that Matt & Trey started without knowing where they were going and ended up wanting us to accept that he'd just been lying. Which doesn't really track but I guess it makes more sense than believing he respected girls in the first place.
  4. They went pretty dark, and it's hard to top themselves on that these days. But I was disappointed in how it ended with a fizzle, even if that was probably the point.
  5. It wouldn't surprise me if the same characteristics that make one appealing to Shark Tank are ones The Profit producers find appealing as well. Perhaps they just don't care about a "most-likely investment" and want someone dramatic for TV instead. Camping World has been having a bad year (although what retailer hasn't?) and they just restructured their strategy in September to focus on RV sales and not so much on other things like, say, floating tents. Their 3rd quarter revenue was up though so maybe they've turned a corner? But certainly he's not as confident in new projects as he was 4-5 years ago when Camping World was headed for IPO. There's no objectivity to the show so it's hard to tell how fair Marcus is really being. From the beginning I've seen a certain amount of what I'd call "boxing out" tactics, and some like Swanson's Fish Market make a good case that they were misrepresented. On the other hand I'm sure many of the owners have been bad in exactly the way we saw, and Marcus isn't a guy to let himself get walked on. The question for me is, do successful partners like Sweet Pete have issues with him they just won't say because of the ongoing business? Or do they like him and is it just the bad outcomes that have sour grapes?
  6. I liked it. Certainly a nice change from so much Randy. I do feel like having the PC Babies appreciate nuance at the end was a bit of a copout. But since I'm not sure where I would have wanted the story to go instead, I guess it's fine.
  7. That was hilarious and really clued me in to the fact that he's never going to get it. He doesn't want to run a company. He wants to be a mascot for one. Another thing that bothered me is that yeah, you can make a biodegradable tap and that's great. But my association with coconuts is that rainforests are being cleared to get planting space for them. And here you are using them very inefficiently. Process that coconut so that water, milk, oil, flakes, and other products are all coming out of the same ones. That strikes me as more efficient and thus better for the environment.
  8. I tried but most of it is too small. The only visual stuff that's kind of interesting is a big "Where's Linda?" and speculation that Janet is bisexual.
  9. Also that his favorite all-chocolate item was a peanut butter cup.
  10. Well this is pretty much where I hoped they were heading, but a little more zig-zag. Along the way we got that Eleanor evil laugh, which is the high point of the season. So Brent didn't become a good person, but just in the last moments he showed he can grow. Simone isn't a bad person, but she shows an unwillingness to improve. John is somewhere in-between - experiencing a bit of personal revelation but not coming through when it mattered most. And of course Chidi's the pivot point of the new group, as he was the moral center of the old one. He may be indecisive about hats and a little heavy on the almond milk, but that's a good man.
  11. That was way better than it had any right to be. A good Dee story which I've been wanting this season and a well done metaphor about the bar overheating. Good callbacks to the fish guys (who of course were the ones being flooded) and to Dee hating the bus.
  12. As I think about it, I do have a problem with this episode in that I don't know how it fits with the continuity. "The Gang Turns Black" was just a dream by Old Black Man. "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell" was just a story they were telling. "The Gang Goes to Hell" might as well be accurate, just told in a misleading way. So what's accurate here? Did The Waitress actually team up with Frank on a cherry scheme and Charlie is just romanticizing how it went down? Or was this all just his imagination? It's weird because there was no closure.
  13. Maybe they brought in Aaron Sorkin to ghostwrite the final season?
  14. Good social commentary critiques the audience itself, delivering a message that the people watching might benefit from hearing. Bad social commentary preaches to the choir about stereotypes that your audience can't relate to. Brent is bad social commentary. We know that being an entitled sexist is bad. There's no nuance to it we needed to hear. There's not much to say and the show is taking a long time to hear it. However, Simone might be more interesting - specifically how she relates to Brent. Her attitude seems to be "He belongs in The Bad Place, not with us." And that's very relatable. None of us would be surprised to see someone like that there. But that's at odds with what Team Cockroach is trying to prove - that humans are redeemable. So I'm curious to see where the show goes with Simone. If she's right then their only message is that a bad guy is bad. That's just preaching to the choir. But if it's setting up a message to not give up on the people we dislike, well maybe that's something we all need to hear.
  15. I hope they're going somewhere really good with Brent. I mean I trust that they are, but it's taking a long time and he's just more unlikable than he is funny. I do think the conclusion they're approaching makes inherent sense. If someone went their whole life getting unearned praise, actually earning some could be a new experience for them. It's also notable that he made Chidi more impulsive and is at least enabling Simone to confront her own confrontational nature. So maybe there's some good through adversity too. But for halfway through the final season they're taking a lot of time on this. We get who Brent is already and he hasn't changed in 6 episodes.
  16. I always like stylized parodies. It's part of why Community was so great. (I even watched like a season of Yes, Dear because the first episode I saw had an homage to The Usual Suspects.) This was good. They had a lot of fun with the language while keeping the characters true conversation and breaking style just often enough. My one criticism is that the red was a little too oversaturated to the point of being distracting. I know why they did it but it could have been darker while still being distinct from black and white.
  17. I didn't care for the Tegridy storyline. Too much Randy (which seems to be a thing these past two seasons). But I did enjoy all the Mummy / Butters stuff. And PC Principal very on point.
  18. Season 14, Episode 5. Family Special (although you might not notice by watching) Eve's Crackers: $9 per bag is really expensive. I wouldn't pay that. But if they have customers that do, that's a lot of room for new margin if Arlene helps bring the costs down. Hire and Fire Your Kids: I'm surprised they got a deal. I know it's just gamifying, but "fire your kids" is such harsh language it feels uncomfortable. (Which I think Jim mentioned.) Two Sisters on a Mission: Many times we've seen parents using their kids as a presentation prop and basically talking through them. But these girls were pretty confident speaking for themselves. Sounds like a decent business and perhaps with a name change can have a long future. I hope Vince's kids are actually interested in being involved on at least some minor level. Sprout Collection: Toygaroo got Mark and Kevin both on Shark Tank. And they folded because rent-by-mail is such a capital-intensive business. I don't see this business working out much better, especially when they get heavily into the stage of needing to replace worn out items. It seems like a good idea but that's a hurdle no one seems able to fix yet. Fresk-O Cheese: Tasting must be believing because I don't get it.
  19. I was fearful that "texting" as their main interaction would lead to a weak episode. But I was wrong. Great in-character stuff for all of them. Even though I saw it coming, Frank getting taunted by the ape was hilarious. The ending reminded me a bit of The Gang Dines Out. All feuding over one thing or another until their shared joy brings them back together at the end.
  20. A guy comes in with a stick and their biggest problem is that he didn't know his numbers? I kinda wanted this to be more of a trainwreck than it was. I wonder if this deal fell apart before signing. That kind of bad blood isn't a good way to start out a business partnership.
  21. His lack of growth has actually made me wonder if perhaps the conclusion will be that humans have the potential to improve but not all do? Because I agree - the character has lots of different annoying characteristics to reference but few actual jokes. Plausible, but I doubt it. First, Vicky has never been that clever and is better at self-preservation than predicting others. And second, if Michael had been swapped it wouldn't make sense for he and Jason to go off on a mission. Either he'd stay behind to keep sabotaging or he'd head off alone. I'd like to see Glenn get a bigger role with Team Cockroach now that he's demonstrated where his allegiance lies.
  22. Well then let me just say that I hope Randy was careful with the Tegridy Burger Buns so that his customer’s dicks don’t fly off. (You’ll get that one around hour 110. 🙂 )
  23. South Park is pretty famous for not coming together until the last minute. During major elections they're able to put references in the next day. It always impresses me how they get it done so quickly.
  24. I loved that Randy's t-shirt to advertise Tegridy Burgers said "It tastes like shit but you won't care."
  25. A nice revisit to Mac and Dennis being co-dependent. It makes you wonder exactly how nuts Mac must have gotten with the Real Doll Dennis during the Minnesota gap. Deathwish Dee was the funniest part to me, and I wish they'd gone a little more into that but it was a pretty packed episode.
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