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It’s a teeny note but A LITTLE PRINCESS was one of my favorite books and Angela is wildly too young for it. It’s not a chapter book it’s really just a YA or middle grade and you have to be at least 10. Yes Sara is 7 at the beginning but most of the book takes place later on when her father is dead and she lives in the attic of the school. It may have been his wife’s favorite book but not when she was 2-3 which is what Angela seems to be (she seems barely verbal) and it didn’t help that the child actress was clearly not comprehending the story at all. Even a really awful dad- and Lawrence seems to have good instincts with kids- would know that book was too old for the child. Shoehorned in to show Lawrence kept illegal artifacts, still loved his wife, and for the words of the chapter itself which are all about little Sara’s old soul. I must say the language of the book sounds amazing. I’m due for a reread. another note: are they still dressing by station? Rose was but Serena is wearing normal clothes.

A few years ago my mom (in her 80s then now in her 90s) summed up the show like this: she gets out. She gets caught. She goes back. She gets out. She goes back. shes still right. i had high hopes because episodes one promised something so different in everybody’s fate. But here we are. The Serena nearly got the lithe ru (Shirley Jackson) treatment is gone and forgotten. And apparently it takes no time at all to get back from Alaska. Geography is never a tv writers strong suit. i too am waaaaay more interested in new Bethlehem and the possibility of a better Gilead than in the rebellion. i hope the commander isn’t playing Serena mostly because i am BORED WITH THAT STORYLINE. I mean come on Serena and Lawrence cannot be the only two adults bringing wistfully if ready to wear clothes, store bought pie and reading a good book. the scene at Jezebelles was completely disgusting. And quite strange to me because not all men by ANY means even those who enjoy power would actually enjoy a scene like that and the show is suggesting that MOST of these religious guys do /would. Which I just do not believe. which makes me bored.

I have no trouble at all believing that June loves Serena and Serena loves June. For one thing, Serena isn’t the architect of Hana being ripped out of June‘s arms, if she were, yes, I would find it hard to believe. For me it all goes back to the what was it a week? Were the two of them work together editing and publishing and like normal people in the 21st-century. And I think that in a normal world, these two women would have gotten along and even kind of liked each other. I don’t think they would’ve been friends because they’re interest would’ve been too different, but I think they would have enjoyed one another’s company when they were thrown together. It’s important to remember that Gillian hasn’t been around all that long. That every single woman of a certain age by a certain age I mean over the age of 21 in Gilead knows how to read despite the fact that they are having to pretend that they don’t.People remember the time before. People remember the time before. Yes, Serena was an idiot to spout all that stuff on the train, but she was in an absolute fighter flight moment where these people were coming at her. It really reminded me of the end of the lottery, people do all kinds of things when they think they’re about to be killed by the mob. And make no mistake those angry women were a mob,there’s no coming back from doing something like that and I’m very glad for their own sake’s they didn’t do it. The doctor and the policeman ushering everyone off the train who didn’t want to see it, that was just levels of evil. There’s no coming back from doing something like that and I’m very glad for their own sake’s they didn’t do it. The doctor and the policeman ushering everyone off the train who didn’t want to see it, that was just levels of evil. Was anybody else terribly moved by the flag with two stars on it? I was.

Why can’t you write would not only be… but also be… I understand not only but also of course.

But in an ELEMENTARY school such as Abbott elementary- teachers DO have only one class and they’re with that class all day long (exceptions exist of course). it’s irritating that this show seems to think Evan has one class of about 25 when IRL he’d have five classes and 74-100 kids. Desks in rows are not a thing anymore (small group all the rage(; we went back briefly for Covid but that’s it. and what’s with all the TYPED PAPERS??? I mean come on even at the college level we use canvas and blackboard and kids submit in Google docs. my school has a push to have them do some handwriting once a quarter to get away from cheating but it bugs. Similarly blackboards instead of smart boards? it’s as if the show were about newspapermen and they all had electric typewriters. It’s super lazy. i wrote this in the wrong thread but did anyone notice how they just had the one bus? Isn’t it meant to be a large school? That wasn’t even the whole senior class. i do enjoy the show but it has no relation to my job. Maybe that’s why I enjoy it. i can’t even watch Abbott elementary until a longish break. Despite outlandish characters it’s still too close to home. You can see she knows that world well.

I’m a total grammar nerd and between you and I is INFURIATING. It’s not in the curriculum but I also teach sentence diagramming. However I am unfamiliar with your first correction. It’s not a split infinitive. Would you provide a link? I’m not understanding why you cannot separate the helping verb and verbs.

Loving this more and more. It’s a bit more sad than I wanted but not overwhelmingly so. The little dog is interesting and now he pats it. Love the three kids being more human at the end.

Ted Danson is such a good actor. I literally teared up just at the first shot. I watched with my elderly mom who was very interested! This tugs at the heart a good bit.

Teacher here- a few fact corrections- teachers don’t eat in the cafeteria with students. For one thing there isn’t space for another most schools have staggered lunches for a third lunch is the teachers own time. we have this thing called faculty lounges… Abbott elementary more realistic there. I realize the writers want to have running gags and have a way the teachers are able to interact but this one does not work. because it’s our own time, unlike prep or duty, a principal cannot walk by and summon you to a meeting. teachers unions in Texas are weak but not non existent; there’s just no way the principal wouldn’t say speak to your union rep. The fact that the writers didn’t even throw in one line about the existence of legal counsel or unions is absurd. And even in Texas this would much more likely be at most a written reprimand than a firing offense. that said I did enjoy the performances, markie especially…

Yes, I was expecting a bit more from that and not expecting where it went. I was just beginning to get a little bored of watching them play games, but then that is very much in the spirit of reading the original book.

I really enjoyed the series so much. I read this in college during the 80s, so the 80s soundtrack was particularly pleasing I remember being shocked at how bawd the actual original is, full of perverted, monks, and nuns, along with some touching stories, and I thought this adaptation captured that just perfectly. The combination of the ridiculous the haphazard the cheeky servants. Everything was just perfect. I loved the way it ended going back to the Decameron itself, which is a collection of people telling stories to pass the time. Did the villagers reject sirisco because of what happened to their friend or was their friendship always fake? I really hope it’s the former. And I was glad that the survivors sort of adopted him.I thought Tindaro was quite redeemed by his love for Stratelia and Jacopo, and his lack of snobbery was lovely, and I was sad that she could not return it. I thought it was quite amazing that he didn’t insist that she did death. She did respect him, and I am inclined to think that maybe they would have eventually gotten together had he lived just because of the practicality of it. Did not quite believe that she would have rejected being a nonle woman , but that’s minor. I have to say it didn’t go where I was expecting. I thought they would be a lot more stuff with Dioneo, and internal courtships, wasn’t expecting what happened with Rugero and all of the sudden deaths and then the mercenaries. the dead bodies were shocking. I wish there was more conversation about this.

I was really excited to see a Rome Drama that takes place after the Claudians and long after Christ, and to see that Anthony Hopkins was in it. But this is just hard to follow. Which way too much stuff going on and unclear what was happening where and what the significance was. Hopefully that clears up future episodes, but I wasn’t hooked.

Anyone else thinks that the whole rest of the class we’re going to permanently be eels after last episode? Just me? OK then.

I’m also generation Jones- great take- but I also teach high school and I can say for sure that music knowledge is not true for all teens. Like literally last year I had teens who didn’t know who the Beatles were. I used to have some hang out in my classroom at lunchtime, and the rule was that I got to pick the music on the SmartBoard. But sometimes I’d allow them to make a choice too and once in a while, some kid would pick an eagle song or something. But yeah, the day that they didn’t recognize the Beatles was a kind of sad day for me. But the Beatles is a case of point I mean the Beatles broke up when I was three? I’m not complaining really I’m just curious. It seems like almost all the music is from the 90s or earlier. not true for all teens. Like literally last year I had teens who didn’t know who the Beatles were. Also, I definitely grow up learning some songs because they were used in commercials or they became familiar to me from those snippets on the Krono commercials. Remember those? For albums with the best of the 50s and 60s and things like that?

Yes I agree. It’s one of those Emmy and Oscar categories that the public and half of the voters know next to nothing about (I’m a theater voter lol so I know). it also helps remind us of how rough this character has been to herself. Since Nat is I think 36? If my math is right? Donna shouldn’t be maybe 66? JLC is the right age for the role but they’ve aged her so she looks even older. Which “tracks” with what we know about her character.