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This isn't a show we normally watch but my son is a huge Flash fan and I heard good things so we actually bought this episode on iTunes and found it really fun. There is, of course, the utter hilariousness of the fact that no one can recognize SuperGirl because, duh, glasses, and yet Scream Queen comes out in full makeup with different hair and these same folks are right way, like, 'Hey, how you doing Siobhan"
I liked the banter between Flash and SuperGirl, and both leads are super charming ... Which is hard to do when wearing a catsuit (Flash) and miniskirt cape (SuperGirl). I think super awkward would be the obvious problem.
But, when my son expressed interest in watching more, and we did so via On Demand, he got bored after an episode. Without the utter charm of Grant Gustin we just found this cast, and premise, fairly flat.
I will say though that I was transfixed at how AMAZING Calista Flockhart looks. Logically, I know she's had work done, and/or is probably being filmed via an entire jar of vaseline, but if you told me she'd discovered how to travel through time in real life, I'd believe you because, damn, she looks flawless. Exactly like herself, only much, much younger than her actual age. She's also got all the best lines. If there was more of that, I'd like SuperGirl a lot more.
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Oh my god I just can't with this show. I watched season one and found it fairly entertaining, for the most part, if frustrating at points, but season 2 has been an unmitigated disaster. Janeane Garofalo so had the right idea! I really should have walked away after the first three episodes made me feel stabby about these horrible women and their horrible choices, but being a glutton (and a completist) I pushed on, hoping it would improve. I should have bailed, because it only got worse as it dragged to this pathetic, farcical ending.
If you don't want to get married. DON'T GET MARRIED. Problem solved. You don't have to sleep with creepy guys to "work out" that issue, which you've already explicitly stated to everyone, INCLUDING YOUR FIANCE. Also, no way, no how they'd just be hanging out at the reception, still in her wedding dress, totally unnoticed, unmolested and unremarked on by the other guests, just drinking and chatting. You know, as you do, after your wedding has been revealed as a sham. As if anyone else would still be there either after A) the groom bailed, B) it was revealed why C) a party guest made a rude speech and was then tackled onto the cake and, finally, D) said tackler makes a speech declaring his love for someone else ... And an hour later there are still plenty of guests milling around having cocktails. Em hmm. Seems credible.
Oh and, what the ever-loving-hell was the point of "going through with the wedding" to avoid embarrassment, which makes zero sense since you look a lot more foolish marrying a "whore," as Gordon called her, and then getting divorced/annulled a day later, than just canceling the damn thing .. But I digress. Anyway, why go through with it and then just run away, because, duh, that's gonna cause away more "talk"? ... STUPID!!!
I don't know if I would ever say I was a "fan" of Lise Edelstein, but her portrayal of Abby has certainly made me an anti-fan now, in large part because of the limited interviewing I've seen of her, Edelstein seems far too similar to the the loathsome Abby in real life, as well. (Edelstein's, a daughter of privilege herself, first claim to fame was as one of the original "club kids" ... people in New York City who thought themselves style arbiters and partied professionally, with the goal to make everyone feel less cool than they were ... Which sounds exactly like something Abby would do.) Abby is wholly self absorbed with her entire self-worth tied up in who she knows, what she looks like and who wants her.
Don't get me wrong, kudos to Edelstein who absolutely looks ah-may-zing for her actual, or any, really, age, but I couldn't care less about who does or doesn't want to sleep with her. Ugh. Soo boring.
Locking yourself in the bathroom to sob about your difficult life -- all problems of your own making -- at someone else's wedding, who got left at the alter no less, is a pitch perfect embodiment of the me-me-me person Abby is. Grossness x12. And what the ever loving hell was her ex doing showing up at that bathroom door to, once again, rescue her? Because Abby is the center of the universe and irresistible, as the show tells us over and over.
And was that the worst fake baby holding ever to be shown on screen or what? What did they have under those blankets, a zucchini? Because they couldn't even spring for a Baby Alive? WTF????
Where the heck are your kids ladies, when you're constantly getting drunk and having sleepovers like overgrown junior high schoolers? (A comparison likely insulting to the junior high schoolers.) Or visiting strip clubs? Soliciting gigolos? Just, ugh! (I know I'm overusing the term, but I'm angry at this show for being so stupid and awful and "ugh" is all I can think.) I mean, we haven't seen Phoebe's kids for, what, a season and a half? And, as far as I know, through her many romances and sexual trauma storylines, she's never even mentioned them, other than as a prop when she didn't want their picture taken.
And, just to be clear, Delia is supposed to be a tough, wealthy, law partner, not to mention a stunningly beautiful woman engaged to a billionaire who adores her ... But she just can't keep her hands off short, bald Albert whom she can't resist having hot, kinky sex with, complete with trashy lingerie and hooker playmate for them to share? Alrighty then, male fantasy 101. Are they cribbing these plots from letters to Penthouse Forum?
I could go on and on with the dumb, but I'm really just mad at myself for actually watching all two seasons of this somehow both misogynistic and the worst sort of sudo-feminist, narcissistic mess. It's as if the writers modeled everything on the Sex and the City 2 movie. Yes, Girlfriend's Guide: It's a lesser carbon copy of one of the worst movies of all time. Kudos, and feel free to use that in your blurbs.
Ugh.
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They may not have had sex as teens at camp, but I don't think there's any reason to believe they weren't otherwise romantically involved, such that they're not "real exes". They definitely dated as teens.
My impression, though I don't know if it was ever stated explicitly, is that Josh was Rebecca's "first." Regardless if that's true or not in the history of the show, even Josh has called Rebecca an ex. There is no "they never really dated" in either of their histories. Even if it was as teenagers, they both have talked about having relationship with each other.
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Oh and, as for music, Heavy Boobs was great, and the visuals truly painful yet hilarious, but I really liked Clean Up on Aisle 4. "I'm the pimento, to your olive, I want to be inside of you," just about made milk come out of my nose ... and I wasn't even drinking milk.
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I thought this episode would be more polarizing. I really liked it. Rebecca is the newly-in-recovery person who is being very good about her addiction (in this case, Josh), and Greg also had enough self-realizations in this episode -- painfully so, poor Greg, whom I felt sorry for despite being a self-sabotaging dick through much of it -- that I think they earned the hook up with each other at the end without it feeling so much like, 'Last week she's in love with Josh, this week it's Greg.'
I think going to Greg is on the same through line as throwing away all her Josh Chan obsession stuff ... It's doing the opposite of what old Rebecca would do. Going for a guy she knows likes and cares about her instead of mooning over someone she can't have? However it ends up, that's still a way healthier choice. Do I think this is happy-ever-after? Since the show got renewed, I'm gonna say, no, just for storytelling purposes, but I'm happy to see where this takes them both.
Oh and, I've been in friendships like Rebecca's with Paula's, where you feel like best friends because you share the same (often unhealthy) obsession, and it's gonna be VERRRYYYY interesting to see how they play this string out, because the truth is those "friendships" usually are toxic and do, and should, melt away when one or both people give up on the object of your mutual obsession.
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Ok, having listened to the podcast AND looked over the visual aids I am still confused by the Dylan Cannon. Can someone please explain the reference? Who is that woman? What are we talking about? Just Carey Grant's daughter being an extra?
DYAN Cannon is an actress and one of Hollywood legends Cary Grant's many wives. Together they had Grant's only child, Jennifer, that was born when Grant was 60. Jennifer Grant played Celeste on Beverly Hills 90210. Celeste met and dated Steve during the dating game show episode and occasionally reocurrs on the series for a season or two. I had no idea Celeste was played by Jennifer Grant until Tara mentioned it.
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OK in the picture of Kelly proffering the sack of hamburgers, I ,at first ,TOTALLY THOUGHT THAT WAS DYLAN from behind, given the haircut, not Jackie, and wondered why he had wrapped the towel around his chest like a girl. OMG, Kelly is dating her mom!
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How was there not twenty minutes of discussion regarding the blooming flower pot on Donna's head? She looks like a latter day Minnie Pearl.
I have always thought that the resemblance between Tori Spelling, especially in more recent years, and the Muppet, Janice, was striking, but here it's just uncanny.
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"Audio star wipe" for the win!
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I think Brenda's breakup hair looks good. Maybe not for 1993, but for 2016, it's pretty on point. No bump-it, no bang overhang. No scrunchie.
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I always thought the breathy voices had to do with them being trying to control themselves after the makeout session. I vividly remember watching this pool scene when I was a teen and finding it "sooo romantic" ... Blurgghh! Judgement like that is why 14-year-olds (rightly) can't vote or enter into binding contracts.
Oh and, Kelly and Dylan showing up together to tag team dump Brenda is THE WORST. Here we are, a couple, come to stomp on your heart as a team and then we can make out afterwards while we pity poor you. Oh and, in case you didn't feel bad enough having lost this terrible "choice" game, let us throw some salt in that fresh wound? Still not painful enough, let's grind it in real good. Why Brenda didn't jump into Dylan's penis-mobile car and run them both over is beyond me.
Listening to you discuss them as an adult I agree 100 percent that Dylan is a Douchebag Extraordinare, but to not just tell Brenda privately is a new level of fuckwadery, even for him.
Of course, the real best ending, and best message, of this "love triangle" would have been for both girls to tell him to pound sand. Gotta wonder if Shonda Rhimes is a closet 90210 fan/anti-fan, and if this messed up shit sparked her "I choose me" moment for Olivia Pope on Scandal. Because how this whole thing went down -- clearly written by 30 and 40-something men -- is all kinds of wrong.
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How did I just now realize that Nikki is the original Audrey from Vacation?!?!? She must be eternally youthful, because there is a good decade-plus between these two teenage acting appearances.
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Trent obtained the e-mails illegally. So for Rebecca to acknowledge she had gotten evidence through illegal means would be a bad thing. So she couldn't have tried to leverage the illegal emails into a settlement. Audra would have been able to try to get her in hot water for having hacked the water company.
(We have to put aside that she should have already gotten the e-mails legally if this was a real lawsuit, or that once she had possession of the e-mails illegally she should have been able to figure out a way to get them legally.)
Not to get too realistic about this obviously unrealistic -- and I'm OK with that -- show, but the logic doesn't track in even the most basic fashion. In reality, it would be up to the other side to PROVE that not only were the emails illegally obtained, but also that Rebecca KNEW they were obtained unlawfully; that's a lot. Once Rebecca knows the email proof exists, she goes to Audra, who legally would have had to disclose them in discovery, so she's in AT LEAST AS MUCH ethical hot water for the cover-up, and it's a hard way/easy way conversation. We either settle now, or drag your client's name through the mud while we go about getting these emails legally, which any lawyer worth their salt knows they would.
First off, nothing discussed in settlement is admissible, so since Rebecca hasn't admitted those emails into evidence, Audra would have no leverage to get her in trouble. And, besides, in even the most vaguely realistic legal terms, information obtained in an arguably sketchy matter, particularly in a civil matter, is less egregious than obviously incriminating information that is willfully withheld by the defense, particularly in a class action. All Rebecca would have to do is go to the judge and say she has a source within the company who says there are emails that prove her clients' case, which the defense has hidden, and the judge could compel Audra to produce the paperwork. (They could argue about bringing forward Rebecca's source, as well, but whistleblower laws could help protect that gambit for a long time.) The truth is, once the emails are known about, the cat is out of the bag, and any even fairly poor lawyer would know that.
... Which is all why I sincerely thought the show's endgame, growth moment for Rebecca was going to be the quiet settlement that actually helps the people, instead of a flashy in-court, televised victory over rival Audra. To me, the shrug and let it go ending was baffling, both in the show's universe and any sort of a hero set-up for Rebecca. It just didn't seem to track in any logical, emotional way.
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I liked this episode and think Jap Battle Rap was one of the best of Crazy Ex-GF's many great songs, but I don't really get the high road approach of not using the emails. I mean, I thought she'd, at the least, go to Audra and say, 'Look, we could destroy you, but let's make a deal,' and get a settlement for all those people who had legit been effected by a serious issue. Settling, to me, would have been the high road, since she previously discarded an offer that was likely in her client's best interests in order to spend more time with Josh.
I'm ambivalent about the kiss. I don't really 'ship anyone on this show, and definitely think that Josh as a character has been infantilized to the point that he's really no good for Rebecca. I thought Trent was mostly funny as the the funhouse mirror reflection of herself back at Rebecca, which she mostly failed to observe, and I thought his being in love with her for years and more than willing to go along with her lie was a great twist. I loved the slammed door ending when he began to sing to her in the style of "Dear Joshua Felix Chan."
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Just love this fun, funny and joyous show and feel so grateful it got a second season. I know it's greedy to hope for a third, but would love to see it happen. This and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are my TV happy places right now! ... Which means that when I think realistically about either of their renewal chances I pretty much have to do so while covering my ears and singing, "I can't hear you! I can't hear you!"
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This makes sense to me, but just for argument sake- since Lip's RA job allows him free room and board, if they relieve him of his RA duties, doesn't that still cancel out his free housing? I mean, I guess they could let him finish out the semester there, but then what? Not that it matters, because, as you said, this is just the latest in a long endless string of plot contrivances, and by writing out this post, I've probably put more thought in the logistics of college housing than the writers have.
Well, Lip lived in that dorm room, albeit with a roommate, before he was an RA. He is, or was in the reality of the show, on a work-study program, the RA "job" just replaced the cafeteria job. So all the school would have to do is get a new RA and reassign Lip to a new/different work study program but, realistically, in the circumstances, they'd probably just waive the "work" portion of his requirement in an effort to smooth everything over. Throwing him out? Never. Gonna. Happen. No way, no how.
Though, to go back even further, with someone like Lip, whose intellect is off the charts and his family lives below the poverty line, work-study wouldn't even be a question. His family isn't working poor, they're just plain old impoverished. He'd qualify for full scholarships (tuition, fees, books and on-campus housing) on need and grades alone, no need for word-study to begin with, though he would probably get some sort of job to have spending money. Small math and engineering schools like the one Lip is supposed to be attending actively scout for the kind of diversity Lip brings, since the student body population of those sorts of institutions tend to be, statistically, white or Asian, mostly male and almost universally upper middle class, if not flat out wealthy, private education alums. I attended such a private engineering school, where the male students outnumbered the females 7-1, and I was one of the few who went to a public high school. Seriously, just mentioning it made people look at me like an animal in a zoo. These are people who think that public school equals the kind of scary, crime-ridden place Lip graduated from, not the small, quiet midwest, middle class high school I actually attended that was about as gritty as your average Gap store.
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There is no freaking way a lawsuit-fearful college would throw someone out of the dorm after a professor in their employ took advantage of them (legally) -- remove his RA privileges, perhaps, to avoid lawsuits from other parents about bad influence selection, I can see. They'd be walking on eggshells around him, getting him counseling and bending over backwards to make sure they don't get sued. Pulling his housing would be the LAST thing they would even consider.
I work in a University environment. I've seen what colleges do when a student accuses -- no proof, no police, just an accusation -- another STUDENT, someone the University didn't employ and has far less control over, of sexual harassment. The lengths they go to coddle are astounding. That they'd turn on Lip even SLIGHTLY (they'd more likely smother him) in the wake of the Helene revelation is just the latest in the supposedly gritty Shameless complete and utter unreality solely for the sake of, often stupid, plot twists. And pretty well exemplifies why I'm out on this show.
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This show has issues with several characters. Greg started off okay, but now he has veered off into some weird bitter place and only pops up randomly to dispense snark.
I don't necessarily 'ship he and Rebecca, but Greg is still MY favorite character, and the (type of) guy I'd probably be attracted to in real life. The non-hunky guy, who is a little bit bitter and incredibly sarcastic and is shown wearing a t-shirt even post-coital with the sheet pulled up to his shoulders ... This pretty much describes every guy I had a crush on in college. All the ones I'd spend a semester with with just hanging out and having fun and being sarcastic and listening to him talk endlessly about some shallow, prettier than me sorority chick he had the hots for while I sat there pining and being the funny, smart girl who liked everything he did but he never even considered dating because he was a 19-year-old idiot. Sigh. ... Hmm wonder why the bitterness appeals to me. ;)
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I, too, commented that it seemed like WyJosh would be way out of Darryl's league, but I gotta say I loved the sweet, simple explanation for the cheek kiss ... "You were being cute, so I kissed you." Lovely, romantic, appropriate given the scenario (barely sexual and not at all aggressive), but also not at all insecure on WyJosh's part (no worries about what anyone will think or say). Very well handled and adorable to see as a viewer.
I also liked, when they did have the conversation, that WyJosh was totally nonplussed discussing not only his own sexuality (no big deal), but how he didn't try and convince Darryl he was gay, or that their kiss meant anything. He was all just like, 'OK, whatever' you say. It wasn't presented as a great love, or a huge faux pas, or a mission to get Darryl to realize "the truth." It all just was. You know, like in real life. (I also like the twist, if it's not to crass to call it that, that it wasn't Darryl realizing he'd always been gay, but that he was actually bisexual, a much less represented experience, that's usually mostly seen on Cinemax after Dark movies with a creepy part-time lesbian vibe.)
I'm a straight woman, so I see my experience of a guy hugging me, or kissing me on the cheek, and then me wondering, 'Hmm, was that just his way of being friendly or does he like me?' over and over again on TV. I rarely see the, I would think just as common in real life, same sex version. Especially not handled with zero drama, no immediate relationship goals -- by the show vs those posited in this thread -- or jumping into a sexual relationship. Just a very sweet, almost chaste, interaction that gets the other party's heart fluttering and mind wondering.
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I'm guilty of this, too. Especially for wanting to see Greg's reaction afterwards. It's not so much that he would be confused about how he would feel. It's that Greg feels so many things very distinctly, and hates all of them, that makes him so much fun to watch. He's such an intelligent, perceptive, articulate self-loather. And he sings like a dream, and dances, too. (Can you tell I really loved Settle For Me?) Truth be told, I care more about Greg getting a happy ending than Rebecca.
Probably irrelevant since no-one's asking me and, moreover, how doubtful it seems that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend will even get a season two (sadly), but shows this out-there frequently have a sophomore slump, and I saw that direction as potentially a way to set up a whole new direction for the hypothetical season two.
If it does buck the odds and continue, I worry a bit about where it’s going just because eventually quasi-reality meets relate-ablity and all the how-far-can-you-really-take-the-crazy-before-we-hate-them-all question so many in this thread are already having. It’s not there yet, for me, but I can see how it could get there.
I could totally have seen Rebecca sleeping with Greg, him leaving afterwards realizing it was a mistake, because she's so hung up on Josh. Followed before season’s end by Josh realizing Valencia doesn't make him happy and them breaking up, which means Rebecca moving towards actually dating Josh and then, surprise, seeing she's really a better fit for Greg, who is now super disgusted with her. That path keeps the wants-what-you-can't-have premise going in a fairly realistic way, allowing Rebecca's crazy to expand with both her desire to live the Josh fantasy but dealing with the Josh reality, and still pine for someone else. And with Josh being rather temptable himself, they could allow Valencia to stick around and try to win him back as well, with her now being a bit of a crazy ex herself.
Anyway, I actually thought that might be a clever way to go ... Guess those silly professional TV writers disagree. How dare they! ;)
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I agree with Adam Grosswirth just about 100%, and he said it far better than I could. While I liked the Oceans 11-level plotting by Paula, involved in gerrymandering a romantic evening that turned into a group hang -- and the running joke of questioning Jalapeno Jack's cuisine was very funny -- there should definitely have been way more consequences, even in the cartoon reality that is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, from Josh's realization that Rebecca was lying to him about the "break in" just last week. While I would have enjoyed this episode before "That Text Was Not Meant for Josh," it absolutely felt like an unearned reset button immediately following.
Super dorky to quote myself, I know, but I saw this tweet from Rachel Bloom and it sort of makes the above make more sense. She says this episode's case plot was originally intended to be the SECOND of the series, and they held it. Hmm, maybe that wan't a great idea as it definitely seemed out of sync.
https://twitter.com/Racheldoesstuff/status/701983175426224128
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I agree with Adam Grosswirth just about 100%, and he said it far better than I could. While I liked the Oceans 11-level plotting by Paula, involved in gerrymandering a romantic evening that turned into a group hang -- and the running joke of questioning Jalapeno Jack's cuisine was very funny -- there should definitely have been way more consequences, even in the cartoon reality that is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, from Josh's realization that Rebecca was lying to him about the "break in" just last week. While I would have enjoyed this episode before "That Text Was Not Meant for Josh," it absolutely felt like an unearned reset button immediately following.
Daryl and WyJosh, and his very blase "coming out," were, by far, the best parts of the episode, and the whole "it's no big deal, everyone knows" was so very, very good and true and relatable and great to see on a primetime network show. I don't know if I root for them as a couple -- isn't WyJosh like, WAAAAYYY out of Daryl's league? -- but I love what that "do we call him Straight Greg?" conversation means, especially in a show that literally calls this character "White Josh." -
Also, how pathetic is it that Paula and her husband boned over their over-involvement in Rebecca's fucked-up love life?
Umm, maybe you haven't been married a long time, or maybe you and I just saw this differently, but I watched this with my husband and I when I said, 'Do you get why she is suddenly turned on right now?'
He was like, 'Because he's actually been listening and paying attention to what she's said.' And, frankly, I was little excited he even got that so quickly.
LISTENING. That's the key; not the subject matter. It's that Scott took an interest in what Paula's been interested in (OK, obsessed with), instead of just nodding and saying 'Em hmm, that's nice honey,' distractedly. His ability to fill in the blanks of the story proved he'd been paying attention which, frankly, is genuinely very, very hot (and all too rare) for a longtime coupling that's started to feel very rote, romantically.
I admit I was kind of rooting for Rebecca to sleep with Greg when he came in and comforted her. Not because that would be an objectively “good" decision, for either of them, but because adding more layers of complication, confusion and consequences to both of their lives seems like it would be good fodder for the crazy on this show to keep flying.
I LOVED the settlement conference quickly bonding together to help Rebecca solve her text-mergency. The “I’ll get a police escort” capper line almost had me crying I was laughing so hard. Was that proper legal procedure? Umm, no. Did I believe it would ever, in 1,000,000,000 years, even in the least professional law firm known to man actually occur? Also, a big N-O. Still loved it. Still so true to the show’s truly crazy core.
That moment and Paula and Scott speaking the show’s opening were my favorite moments from this very, very good episode. The random, and timely, insertion of the theme song has become one of the show’s best, and most clever, running gags.
While I get the comparisons to Ally McBeal and respect everyone’s right to their own opinion, it kind of sounds like TO ME, that some of you are taking this decidedly, and intentionally, very silly show WAAAAYYYY too seriously. I could understand, and would likely agree, if this were season 6 and it was all there’s-a-dancing-baby-I-get-it-already (or, in this case, wacky hijink #652 and Josh is still clueless), but it’s 10-12 eps into what will likely be a one-season wonder of a delightfully dark and funny musical comedy that I’m just glad ever got on TV at all.
I’m enjoying every insane, unhealthy and truly twisted moment!
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Of course, an official soundtrack for $9.99 comes out the DAY after I buy all the songs individually for more. Seems about right.
Also, Glen Wheldon of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast put out his rank order of all the Crazy Ex-GF songs. Very entertaining read. http://glenweldon.tumblr.com/post/138798955330/the-100-definitive-empirical-ruthlessly
For me, I think the Sexy Getting Ready Song (this is horrifying!), Sex with a Stranger ("please don't be a murderer"), West Covina and I Have Friends ("I definitely have friends!") are the ear-wormiest, and funniest, of the series, which I've binged in the past week, and am already mourning (sigh). I even really life California, Christmas and how they make the line "We may have Gonorrhea, but at least it’s not frostbite ... Because this is California and we do Christmas right!” actually feel festive. Definitely going into my Christmas playlist next holiday season.
S01.E18: Worlds Finest
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On Demand only has the three most recent (minus World's Finest) so that's how far back we went. We watched one episode with an evil blue alien/computer that Jimmy from Smash destroys at the end, only to find the bad guy has kept all her pieces. I asked my son if he wanted to watch another one and he was like, 'No, I think it's kinda boring without Flash.' And I agree that Supergirl could just use more fun to go with its sunny setting. By the way, we also don't watch, not even crossovers, with Arrow, because of how dull and dark and dour it all was. I strongly prefer my superhero shows/movies to not take themselves so seriously. It's flying aliens and "enhanced" humans; I think those inherently silly premises are best handled with a wink.
I do think SuperGirl could use way better sidekicks and though I definitely just dipped a toe in, the whole secret agency (a la S.H.I.E.L.D.) thing was NOT working for me. At all. Villains seemed fun-ish, and Flockhart was fantastic, but everyone else seemed so interchangeably ho-hum. Very little wit or fun, at least for us.
And, yes, I too noticed that Calista was often shot solo and framed in a radiant glow that made her appear almost angelic. Positive that was not an accident, but she still looked pretty freaking incredible when shot with others, too, so it's not JUST in her solo shots (a la Mariah Carey's Hallmark Christmas movie, which was hilariously framed to show Mimi only alone with enough camera effects we joked the title of the movie was "Holiday Lens Flare").