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    S02.E09: Beard After Hours

    in Ted Lasso

    On 9/18/2021 at 9:37 PM, Domestic Assassin said:

    This season has 12 episodes instead of 10, so there will be 3 more this season. But I agree that the pacing has been off this year. I know that they had a 10 episode season mapped out when Apple asked them for 2 more episodes, and that they expected that the first 3 would be released together on the first week. So the original plan was that the rom-com episode where Roy comes back to coach would have aired in the second week instead of the fifth week, and yeah, that kind of threw things off IMO.

     

    On 9/19/2021 at 8:05 AM, Trillium said:

    There’s 3 more episodes this season. They had 10 episodes for S2 planned, Apple asked for 2 more so they added this and the Christmas ones as more stand alone. 

     

    That explains a lot, thanks guys! I hope Apple won't mess too much with the flow of the show in the future though.

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    S02.E09: Beard After Hours

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    The pacing of this season is so weird. It's the penultimate episode of the season, and although I love the idea of a Beard-centric episode in theory, it just felt weird and out of place. It didn't build up any momentum for the last episode, while last year we had Rebecca confessing the truth to Ted and Roy being benched. Instead we have Beard being back again with Jane for like the third or fourth time? The stakes are at an all-time low  for me.

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    Season 1 & 2 Discussion

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    · Edited by WorldWarIV

    I'm really not feeling this season so far, and it breaks my heart. There's no tension at all.

    In the first season, Rebecca was actively working against Ted, and as soon as she stopped, Rupert took her place. Fans were against Ted, journalists were against Ted, the players were against Ted, everyone was against Ted. Jamie was poisoning the locker room, Nate was being bullied, Ted was going through a divorce, Rebecca was treating Higgins like dirt, Jamie and Roy hated each other.

    And now everybody loves everybody. There are no stakes. Why aren't the fans and journalists pissed that the team was relegated? Isn't that humiliating? Why aren't we seeing Ted and the team desperately trying to rack up some wins so they can go back to the premier league instead of smiling when they tie or lose a game? Why doesn't the team have any money problems? Didn't they lose sponsors when they were relegated? Surely it's less prestigious to be in the league below? Is the attendance as big as it was before?

    Ted has no friends, no hobbies, no life. Where is his son? Does he date? Does he ever go out with coach Beard for a fun night off? Does he do any sight seeing at all in this new country he barely knows? Ted barely feels like a real person at the moment.

    But maybe the biggest crime of this new season is the following one: not enough Roy Kent.

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    S06.E04: Four Movements

    in Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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    Well I hope the writers understand now why the Gina character is not well-liked. How can they write the other characters so well and always screw up Gina like that? That was barely an episode, it was more like a container not even related to the actual season to showcase how awesome Gina is one last time. There was no plot at all; only that the 9-9 will be less awesome without Gina, to which I completely disagree.

    Sorry to her fans, but good riddance.

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    Arrested Development - General Discussion

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    Well, that wasn't very good. I barely laughed. Where was Lindsay? Where was Buster? None of the plots were very interesting. And they all relied on secrets and lies. I rewatched season 1 not long ago and what I liked was the different dynamics with the different family members. Of course, they were all mean to each other in different ways, but at the end of the day, you knew they cared about each other. Most of the plot points revolved around one family member and his relationship with a secondary character, like Tobias and is new, totally useless son. Why was Maeby never interacting with her father or grandmother, and instead she had this totally uninteresting thing with the old guy? Why is she not allowed to progress in her relationship with her parents, like when she realized that her mother had it rough with her grandmother? All in all, very disappointing. The family is kind of together, but not really. They just update each others on their lives.

     

    Worse of all, I found GOB boring. I never would have thought that possible.

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    S04.E17: Spiderhunt

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    That sauce looked positively disgusting. I was cringing when he was squeezing an entire bottle of mayo into it.

     

    More and more it strikes me what a fifth wheel Coach is on this show. The fact is, the character is just so superfluous he's not only unnecessary but a distraction. He always feels shoe-horned into the show, because basically, he is. It was a case of Damon Wayans Jr. losing his job when Happy Endings was cancelled and New Girl being nice enough to give him his old job back, but whatever time the episodes spend on him feels like a waste.

     

    I loved Coach in the pilot and I was so disapointed when he left and we got Winston instead. When Happy Endings ended I clamored for his return and the departure of Winston. But I have to agree here, not only does the present Coach not ressemble at all the Coach I loved in the pilot (he seems more a mix of Brad/Damon) but Winston is alot funnier and Coach just seems out of place.

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