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SmithW6079

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  1. I thought last season set up Jay and Pete as friends, with their shared love of Dungeons and Dragons and basketball, but Pete seemed sidelined to the out-of-the-blue Jay/Sass friendship. I can't stand the cholera ghost, neither the character nor the actress. Why do shows always pick the most annoying, most abrasive characters to start giving bigger roles to?
  2. The Klingon bat'leth has entered the chat. 😉 It may be a way of identifying the person wearing the suit. In Ben Bova's "Mars," the first astronauts to Mars all have their own EVA suits so others can tell who they are.
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  4. Well, one does need to bear in mind the context of the times, when our understanding of mental health was not as advanced as today, so I don't dismiss the show for that. Besides, I watch it primarily for Linus's recitation of Luke 2:8-14.
  5. I just discovered SF Debris, who has been reviewing Voyager and other Trek series for years, and I've been binging his videos. He's particularly tough on Voyager and Janeway, and even does voiceovers as "Psycho Janeway," which are hilarious, as he highlights how inconsistent the character is (as noted by @Prevailing Wind above). https://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/v801.php (Some of his videos are available on YouTube, others only on his website.) I almost enjoy these snarky reviews more than the shows themselves, and it saves me from having to rewatch the episodes.
  6. So David is straight? Thirty years after gay coding Niles and Frasier, they couldn't create a out gay main character?
  7. That's a shame. That's going to be a pass for me, then.
  8. I thought Samantha and the ghosts were dicks to Todd. Yes, he's obsessed with a long-dead blues singer, but their actions went beyond "warning" Alicia not to get involved with him. And if Samantha did it in such a way that she could insult him and still have him involved in her podcast, then she's a terrible person. I wonder if Todd had been 6'2" and handsome and muscular, not short and chubby, if they would have been warning her to stay away. It actually might have been nice to have the niece see beyond Todd's quirks and discover that he's not really a bad person (even if all the ghosts think he is). As someone pointed out, Todd appears to own all his eccentricities. The ghosts' and Samantha's actions had me feeling sorry for Todd and thinking less of them. It seems that Hetty and Trevor would be a natural match, given they were both members of the 1-percent (Hetty as the daughter and wife of a robber baron and Trevor as a "master of the universe" [h/t "Bonfire of the Vanities"]). While her prejudice against the Irish is played for laughs, chances are, Hetty would have probably been anti-Semitic too. In life, there's no way she would have been involved with a Jew.
  9. Is he the leader of the therapy group? I could not figure out where I knew him from. The voice was familiar, but the modern clothing threw me off.
  10. I believe in the commercial, they stated they were only dating, not even engaged, so a different level of commitment. ** I hate the T-Mobile commercial with the "Scrubs" actors and John Travolta singing a bastardized version of "Summer Nights" from "Grease." Maybe it's just me, but it seems disrespectful to Olivia Newton-John.
  11. I reread it not too long ago, so it's still fresh in my head. Gerald fell in love with Ellen for many reasons, and while Ellen probably was fond of him in a way (as much as she could be, since it appears she no longer felt passion for anything after Philippe's death).
  12. Ellen wasn't forced to marry Gerald. He made an offer for her hand, but she was in love with Phillipe Robillard, who was her cousin. He was considered unsuitable for her, probably because he was a "bad boy" (he dies in a barroom brawl after all). When she learns of his death, she declares she will marry Gerald or join a convent. Apparently, to the Robillards, a daughter who was a nun was worse than one who married an upstart Irishman almost 30 years older than she was. It just occurred to me -- in some ways, Ellen was arrested in her love for Phillipe just as Scarlett was arrested in her love for Ashley. Maybe Scarlett was more like her mother than she knew.
  13. Just found this on YouTube. Don't know if it's the same clip as above of Gina Yashere doing her stand-up since the clip won't play for me.
  14. A lot of good shows listed here. Because I just binged it on Hulu, "Enlisted," about three brothers serving in the Army on a base in Florida. The oldest is a war hero reassigned there from Afghanistan after punching an officer, the middle is a sarcastic slacker, and the youngest is gung-ho but dumb and worships the oldest brother. (Parker Young, who starred as a Marine veteran in "United States of Al," plays the youngest brother). The show touched on the absurdities of military life, but also dealt with PTSD and the strain on the families of the deployed. It got one season of 13 episodes, but it should have gone on for more.
  15. I just binged "Enlisted," Parker Young's other military-themed sitcom. Sad that that sitcom took place in 2014, and Geoff Stults, who played Parker's older brother, had been deployed to Afghanistan, and in "Al," eight years later, Parker played a Marine who had been deployed to Afghanistan. I must confess I didn't really watch most of the second half of the second season of "Al." I didn't like the direction it took. I was sorry the show couldn't keep the promise it showed in its stunning second season premiere.
  16. I just binged the show on Hulu. What a shame it didn't come back for another season. It tackled issues of deployment and PTSD among the humor ahead of its time.
  17. I like The Orville from the start, but Charly really ruined my enjoyment of season 3. Seth needs to keep the blood in his head when making casting choices and plotting storylines.
  18. I never found the Coneheads funny. Never cared much for John Belushi either, except maybe for the "But nooooo" bit he did. ** Leslie Jordan's death is sad, and I think it's great that he had resurgent popularity at this stage in his career and at his age, but I always found a little of him went a loooong way. Maybe when he was a young man, that pixie-like schtick was funny, but not as a "mature" man. Not that he wasn't funny at times, but it's like candy corn -- a few are fine; eat the whole bag and you want to vomit. As a guest star or featured performer for an episode, he was fine. When he was one of the regular cast members, it was too much. I watched only one season of "Call Me Kat," and he did have some nice moments with Swoozie Kurtz, but the fact that he was given love interests that were way out of his league was too unbelievable (they did the same thing in that retirement home sitcom he did on Fox). He was an overweight, elderly gay man. Sorry, but in the gay world, that means he's invisible, not fighting off young studs.
  19. Relax. No one is mocking those who believe in the "sanctity" of marriage.
  20. I love that channel. I haven't seen these. Thanks for posting the links.
  21. Ha ha! it's funny to be grossed out by the thought of old people having sex. Except not. If they had been young and attractive, wouldn't that be called slut shaming? Did Bjorn say he married for love? It could have been an arranged marriage or he took his wife after a raid on her village. It was pretty obvious Hetty was playing Trevor. Trevor, you can't win against a member of the robber baron class. They're born oppressors.
  22. I binged the series today. I enjoyed it. I liked all the actors (even the Gen Z writers, whom I thought humorless at their first introduction). Someone mentioned the set-up reminded them of "Just Shoot Me." I agree -- it's one of my favorite sitcoms -- but just as in that show, the father-daughter conflict is pretty much resolved in the first episode. I think it's only the series "Step Right Up" that's supposed to be darker and edgier, not "Reboot." I have no problem that's it's just a "standard" sitcom. I like how the episodes focus on different characters and show some poignant moments between them. The basketball game made me laugh out loud, from the old sitcom trash talk to Reed's domination on the court and his apologies to the players, when it finally got to him. It was driving me crazy where I remembered Calum Worthy from. He was Dez on the Disney sitcom "Austin & Ally." He played Austin's best friend (and with a homoerotic undertone, I always thought). I like that Zack isn't as dumb as they initially made him out to be. Is it wrong that I think Johnny Knoxville has become a hot daddy?
  23. Agreed. If she was competent, it would be different, but she is so over-the-top bad at her job, it's not funny.
  24. It's not abuse if an asshole gets what he deserves. Sheldon is an asshole.
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