Irlandesa
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I don't think Kim was oblivious, I think she knew exactly what he was proposing.
Exactly. That's why she went into the kitchen. "Oh look, they have stainless." She really wasn't interested in stainless. She was deflecting.
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I loved this episode too. It had me smiling from start to finish. I think the thing I loved the most was seeing how often Josh smiled. He has a beautiful smile and I think it's a surprisingly rare talent to make amusement and happiness feel real. Yet, that's what I get from him when he was smiling or laughing at something in the background. It came across as genuine reacting to whatever was going on.
But I don't buy this family as lower class - they're lower-middle/middle class if anything.That's where they are now, which is a credit to Ama. But it's quite possible that's not where they started.
I don't think 100% of the appeal is JUST Alonzo, but there certainly are places it can be even more ambitious with the race/class commentary and isn't. But I do think there are some surprisingly complex characters--the boss' daughter for example, where they've actually avoided the easy road with her and written her quite cleverly.I agree. Alonzo is great but I like this show for more than her. I think her family is great. And I like her work place too. I don't think the rich people are cartoons. Like you said, Maddie has been somewhat surprising at times. She walks a fine line between spoiled ditz and clever, almost-caring co-worker. Even her father, who has a lot of the cliches of an older, white, rich lawyer, is often portrayed as being on the same wave length as Cristela.
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Poor Martha. She has to go with what she knows, right? And what she knows is that she loves Clark and sincerely believes that he loves her. When he tells her "I will do anything to protect you", is there really anything else she can ask for? Although I don't see how you go to having sex right after that.
I don't think she believes in anything right now. But what she knows is that Clark isn't who he said he was. She knows that she did some very illegal things, that are now getting exposed, because she trusted that he was that person. If she turns him in, she's facing jail time and will definitely lose her job. She could also be in a lot of danger from Clark if she even hints as if that is the way she's going to go.
I don't think she knows for sure that Clark is KGB but she knows that she is pretty much screwed if she takes any action. Her best bet is the status quo. Although if I were her, I'd just ask him to disappear. She doesn't know who he is, what he does, where he lives and there's no way she'd be able to find him. The most she could provide is a wigged description if they ever realized she was married.
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I liked the move too, although I think I would have been more satisfied if the three of them had gone to Paris but that's because I love Paris. It'd be a good experience.
I do think they went a little over-the-top with the wife complaining about how little she sees her husband. It was clearly only meant as character color, which would have been fine had they left it at one mention or two at the most. But once they had her bring it up every time she was on screen, it started to feel like there should be some resolution to the arc.
But hey, that's a minor complain. I can't remember the last Hallmark movie with two POC in roles with a significant amount of lines.
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I don't remember when or why I started watching this last season. It looked like it was going to be another bland, lame sitcom with an awful title.
But I did watch and maybe it's because I set the bar very low, but I saw something I liked in this show. It's not great. It is very simple. Heck, it could even be bland but it's the kind of bland that makes me laugh. I guess the fact that it has a pretty funny casts helps it out. I also like that they have genuine nice moments between Justin and Danny like at the end of tonight's episode.
I don't know if it has quite made the leap to better than average but I do think it has the right elements to do so.
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Irlandesa: From my perspective, re the potential business fallout re Patrick & Kevin, the public may not care about the more boring, business-related details of things, but one thing can change that: sex. A juicy sex scandal can get even the dullest business story more attention, for better and for worse. Case in point: while I'm no follower of the stock market, seeing The Wolf Of Wall Street, with all the sex, drugs and insider trading, was a fascinating portrait of the rise and fall of Jordan Belfort, aka the title role.
The Wolf of Wall Street was intriguing because it was about sex, drugs, money and power.
Under the perfect storm, yes, sex scandals blow up but it's rarely just about sex. I'm not saying it's not a problem or can't hurt the company's productivity and morale, but this is not the kind of thing that will blow up until someone sues.
As for Patrick not getting a chance to defend Richie. When he described him to his mother, he failed. So I'm not sure he would have passed the test given a minute or two. Even he didn't make that argument later on.
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I think at the :16 mark, I think we see Dom's "Defying Gravity" hook up at the party Kevin & Patrick are at. I hope he sings again.
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Mike's adventure tonight reminded me of when he broke into the warehouse in Full Measure. Similar funky mood music too. I loved it. I could easily watch ten seasons of Mike being Jimmy The Lawyer's PI. A modern day Perry Mason and Paul Drake.
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Are we supposed to find him appealing?
I don't think so. Will Forte (who I actually find appealing) specializes in characters who are decidedly not appealing. At least when he creates them. Kristen Schaal said we're supposed to go back and forth about whose side we're on in the Carol/Phil spectrum. While I do think the first two episodes were tilted towards Phil's side of things, I think the last two have largely favored Carol.
Then Phil asked her what kind of man was her type and she said "a provider"-- now, that does sound like she wants a man.
I too was on the lesbian train but I think she also said "a man's man...a provider." So no, I don't think that's where they're going. Honestly, I don't think it's because FOX is too conservative either. I just don't think that was the plan. Having a lesbian on the show is far less radical than the weird overall premise of the show.
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Wow. The scenes with Patrick, his mom and sister are the most ham-fisted and horribly acted in the sad history of this show. Could his family be any more cartoonish and waspy?
Yeah, those scenes were not good. I am so desperate to have someone hold a mirror up to Patrick and while Megan had her moments, she was the wrong one to do it. The audience has no investment in her and Patrick finds it pretty easy to dismiss her. And that's unfortunate because she did offer some truths. Patrick is a naracissist. And it was nice to have some sense about Jon because you'd never know about how ugly breakups are by watching Kevin and Patrick despite Patrick's lame protestations that he thinks about John. Whatever.
Instead, it was mostly about petty sibling arguing and the mother discussing how she's leaving their father for another man. That twist is a bit too pat, a bit too relevant, but I will give props to Dana for how she timed it. Knowing what Patrick did with Kevin, it was nice emotional blackmail. He had no ground to protest.
But goodness I am so sick of Kevin and Patrick. There hasn't been one episode this season without them.
The Dom and Doris fight could be a good one but it feels like the intensity of it came out of nowhere.
The best part of the episode was Agustin and Eddie. That's one conflict that has built nicely over the season. Agustin has pursued and Eddie has tried to keep him at a distance. Seeing Frank (beautiful Frank) again brought that to a head but it was handled well by both.
I've tried to be patient but I miss Richie. I know they feel they can barely spare a minute or two of Patrick's life for the other characters but it would be nice if we got to see a Patrick-less Richie. A Richie without that tension.
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I'll give them credit: I absolutely did not see the haircut and shave coming. Half the shows on the air now would have spoiled that way ahead.
I saw it based on the commercial where Melissa and Carol were obviously reacting to something Phil did. I kind of love that it backfired.
Kristen Schaal did some really good work at the dinner they all had together. Will Forte is doing an excellent job to making Phil so creepy. He may be "trapped" in marriage but he's not making himself super attractive either.
I enjoyed Carol and Melissa together.
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If Brady decides to write that cover story about Patrick & Kevin and he interviews Jon, it could turn into a full-fledged shitstorm that could destroy the company.
I think Kevin and Patrick, mostly Patrick, have their heads in the sand about why people in their lives don't think their relationship is as miraculous as they seem to, but I do not think it has the power to destroy the company. Writing about the fact that they're dating might be considered a human interest part of the app's story. The fact that they started as an affair? Comes off as an expose off topic from what Brady was covering there. The public isn't going to care about Patrick or Kevin and therefore the stockholders, if they even exist, won't care about Patrick or Kevin.
The board? If they care, they will fire one or both of them.
What I'm more surprised about was the fact that when they came up with the game, Kevin told Patrick to keep it on the down low because Dangerous Games could assert ownership over it. I don't know what their contracts look like but they still work for Dangerous Games. Even if they didn't develop it at work, often times there are clauses that whatever you develop while in the employ of a tech company like that, wherever you worked on it, is property of that company.
If Doris is in love with Malik, then she, Malik and Dom will have to find a way to make it work so that Doris can strengthen things with Malik without losing her friendship with Dom.I don't think Malik presents a danger to the Doris and Dom relationship. The fact that Dom and Doris aren't there for each other 100% of the time is what is going to present a danger to their relationship. The fact that they have been in the past has been both healthy and unhealthy. I don't think Doris abandoned Dom. She already had plans that she shouldn't have to change because Dom needed her help with his restaurant.
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My kids are 11 and 13 so maybe I shouldn't let them watch the show because of all the cursing but they get a huge kick out of it and they totally get the substance behind it too.
I agree with others that language shouldn't be the issue but you still may want to pre-watch it before you show it to them. They can probably handle the language but you may want to put off them seeing an old man penis until they're old enough to have one.
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So much "Yes!!" to this. From what we saw of Patrick's mother, she would've had zero problem with Richie. Heck, they probably would've smoked a joint together and got on well. Patrick projected his issues about Richie's race and social standings onto others. And that was hardly the first time we saw his prejudices showing when it came to Richie.
I don't know that she would have had zero problem with Richie. Patrick's prejudices didn't pop up out of nowhere and she admitted that someone with Kevin or Jon's background is more what she envisioned for Patrick than how he described Richie.
She bemoaned the state of the church lawn, how it would look in pictures and the fact that one of the guests had made a comment about it. So appearances matter to her. And she is married to a man who, rather crassly, praised the fact that his new son-in-law had his own money. Money probably matters to her.
But because they matter, she likely would have been unfailingly polite to Richie. It is not like Patrick risked being kicked out of his own sister's wedding because if his choice of date.
She likely would have had her reservations. That said, the conversation she had with Patrick on the deck indicated she had also started opening her mind and it's quite probable she would have grown to like Richie after she got past those reservations and readjusted her outlook, especially since Richie is much better than the extraordinarily low bar Patrick set.
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I've seen him do that in mentoring sessions, but it seemed especially designed to humiliate him on the spot on live TV. I was glad he DID know what it meant.
I am too. And he should know what it meant. It's not a made up word he's singing about. These contestants should look up words they don't know if they don't know them. They should also research the song to at least get a sense of its origins. I don't know why that's so hard.
Jet, is a song that doesn't make much sense to me in general, by the way. It was about a puppy. Or a pony. If I were a contestant, I'd make sure I knew what the song may have meant and what it now means to me.
I loved Joey but Fancy feels like a song that is better sung. I wish she would have gotten up. Otherwise, it was by far my favorite performance of the night.
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Even Amy realized it when Sheldon told her (in the car) that he had been asked a series of questions and one of those questions clearly would have highlighted Leonard as a big part of the project (I can't remember the exact wording anymore.
The writer of the article made the assumption that Sheldon was the lead researcher and Sheldon didn't correct him which wasn't great but it's a far cry from deliberately trying to push Leonard out of the picture.
Considering how over-the-top they usually write Sheldon, I actually appreciated how they developed the story in this episode. Sheldon's goal was not to exclude Leonard. He even seemed to feel empathy--actual empathy--once he realized how Leonard might feel about not being mentioned.
This is an instance where Sheldon legitimately may not have realized the consequences of not correcting the record even if he were more aware than he usually is. If I recall, the "team" is Cooper and Hofstadter. I know of no citation style that doesn't recommend naming both authors if there are only two. Even with the uncleared up misunderstanding of who was "lead," I would think Sheldon would assume the SA author would mention Leonard.
Finally, what was up with Sheldon explaining everything at the dinner to Penny? It was very condescending and not in line with their friendship.Oh I think it is. He was explaining things he didn't think she'd get.
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And John is Gus's "best friend" yet not in the wedding party.
He was in the wedding party. He was getting his picture taken with the bride and groom while Kevin & Patrick were talking and he was wearing the same bowtie/white flower in his lapel that other wedding party members were wearing.
Patrick was willing to take Richie to the party, even though he knew his mother wouldn't like it.
But I don't think Patrick's reaction to that was bad enough to make Patrick and overall bad boyfriend to Richie. And i come back to the fact that Richie basically bailed at the first struggle.Richie didn't walk away over one incident, though. It was a cumulative effect. Patrick invited Richie to the wedding only after the awkward birthday park day. He wanted to prove he was ready to do it. Richie didn't think he was. And when Patrick, a man who had been smoking a joint at the beginning of the episode, snapped at Richie for having marijuana, Richie reached the conclusion that his initial misgivings were right. Richie did overreact to that one moment and admitted it. But the reason he was keyed up to overreact was because he knew what was underneath Patrick's nervousness. He'd already lived through it.
Like I said, I believe lateness, stained shirt...etc. would have bothered him under any conditions but the reason I believe Patrick and know he was speaking the truth when he told his mom what happened was because Patrick's reaction to Richie's "otherness" was a recurring theme in Season 1. His words were supported by the contextual narrative of the season.
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But to disown her brother or not try to talk with him about it civilly is wrong.
How has she done this? All I remember from the ep is that Patrick said he doesn't think his sister will ever get used to it. She wouldn't be the first to dislike an in-law. That's a far cry from disowning Patrick.
She's known John/Jon for, at max, a month, because that's how long it's been since Patrick and Kevin hooked up, and she'd never met Jon before that.Gus (Patrick's brother-in-law) met Kevin a week before the wedding. But Gus and Jon had been best friends since Dartmouth. So we know that she has probably only known Kevin for about a few months (however long it has been since the wedding). But I don't remember any indication that she just met Jon around her wedding. She seemed pretty familiar with him.
But Patrick wasn't uptight about Richie.
Yes he was.
Patrick [to his mother in Looking for a Plus One]: You're the real reason he's not here tonight. Richie's not sick. I was a jerk to him today because I was so nervous about introducing him to you because I know he's not the kind of person you want me to be with.
Groff did a great job reacting when he was on the computer with his mom early in the ep and she said the place saved was for "Richard."
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And don't get me started on Meghan. I'm sorry, it should be bros before hos, and she's supporting a man she's just met over her own brother. And this is the person Patrick is supposed to listen to, even though she doesn't think much of him? I don't think so.
But what if your bro is the ho, yo?
I think there's a difference between supporting Patrick and accepting his actions blindly. Not only did her brother's actions hurt someone she seems to care about but now her brother is with someone she knows to be a liar and a cheater.
But I don't think Patrick will pay her heed. He's not paying anyone heed. He's in some kind of bliss bubble, ignoring even Kevin when he tries to point out that that some of what they're doing isn't smart.
Knowing that Patrick was feeling uptight.I don't care that Patrick was uptight. Not one bit. And here's why...when Patrick invited Richie to the wedding, Richie said "no." It was after the disasterous birthday party and he didn't think they were ready for meeting the family. Patrick insisted it'd be all right. So when the day of the wedding came around, Richie got himself ready from shaving, a suit...heck, even the marijuana to deal with the nerves. Patrick, on the other hand, didn't do what he needed to do to get himself prepared. And since he did the inviting and the insisting, it was incumbent on him to step up and make the process smooth. He failed.
Patrick's fault in both relationships has been failing to see the bigger picture.
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Thanks editorgrrl. The live viewing has come down a bit but when I speak about it holding viewers, it's that the Live viewing, plus 3 days after, indicate that viewers are only shifting when they watch the show. They haven't given up on it.
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I don't think it was a pity renewal as much as HBO tends to give its comedies a second shot. (Maybe its dramas as well.)
I think it could go either way. Getting On was renewed (and canceled) for a third season even though it had pretty low ratings.
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For a show on the verge of cancelation, some of the Looking actors are doing a lot of promotion lately. There's the Paley fest. They apparently did a radio interview on Sirius FM. Raul and Jon Groff have been doing some interviews. I'm hoping this means HBO is at least considering a third season, even if the third is the final season.
Jonathan took over Raul's Instagram as they hung out on Sunday. There are some cute videos/pictures and they watched the show with Murray Bartlett.
Monday, Jon and Raul were on "Ask Me Another" which isn't up yet but I imagine you can find it here.
Ausiello also has something about the [hopefully season] finale.
I’m dying for any scoop on Looking! —Renata
Gay hookup app Grindr plays a supporting role in the March 22 Season 2 finale, which, not so coincidentally, is very much focused on Kevin and Patrick’s nascent relationship. Also, the C-word is thrown around quite a bit. Just a heads-up.I could be wrong but I'm guessing Grindr is related to Patrick & Kevin and Patrick deciding what kind of relationship he wants to be in. Grindr was so not what I was expecting. I thought he'd find out Jon dumped Kevin, not that Kevin was picking up dudes online.
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I know there has been a lot of discussion about whether or not this episode or that episode would appeal to BrB viewers/non-BrB viewers but in terms of overall viewers, it looks to be holding pretty steady--only losing 300K viewers in L3 from the second episode to the 5th.
Not quite sure how the 18-49 translates when it comes to ratings/# of viewers but I'd imagine AMC is pretty pleased with this for a Monday night show.
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Just an update on the ratings:
http://twitter.com/TVMoJoe/status/575033328509849600
Last Monday's #BetterCallSaul jumped a whopping 115% in L+3, to a 2.7 A18-49 and 5.5M viewers.
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Better Call Saul Podcasts
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I like it too. I think it's a gift to see all the awesomeness that your co-workers bring as I feel he does. Or at least Podcast Vince does.
I especially like that he usually can name someone like the "wonderful" assistant to the key grip in episode 3 of Breaking Bad if it comes up. But I do think he has a thorough list of who had a part in creating the episode they're discussing. It must be thrilling to get a shout out on the podcast.