Night Cheese

I wish they'd keep Mr. Johnson in the background more because I do not find him funny at all. The Jill Scott stalker thing was super creepy. I think the show would be better suited if his character were like Creed from The Office. Very weird, full of weird and random life experiences, but never in the forefront of any storyline or eclipsing the main characters. I loved him popping up last episode as Ava's hype man slash t-shirt launcher. That's the perfect type of use for him. Ava, on the other hand, has somehow become one of my favorites, which I never would have expected during the first season. Poor Gregory. He really isn't suited for social interaction. I kept thinking about the scene a couple weeks ago with him rehearsing a basic greeting and small talk for his Uber riders. Poor guy.

The woman who is overseeing the Ratliff's trip (a wellness concierge? I don't remember her name) warned them about it in the first episode when she was taking them to their suite. I think it was when she was explaining the no phones policy.

I understand that from a storytelling purpose, Chekov's poisonous fruit adds suspense/intrigue/drama, but seriously, why would a health spa have any poisonous vegetation on the property that is very easily accessible to guests? It completely takes me out of the scene.

I loved even the medical professionals fangirling over NW (an actor) visiting. I'm not a medical professional, but i feel like I'd react the same way.

Lol yeah, I won't argue that she's not a little spoiled, shallow, and/or vapid.

Same! When she walked into the classroom I started humming "if you wanna be somebody, if you wanna go somewhere, you better wake up and payyyyy attention". I also just recently treated myself to a Sister Act double-feature so the songs from both movies have been stuck in my head for days now.

I thought Piper wanted to go on this trip herself, but her parents were all, "let's make it a family vacation!!!" I may be misremembering, but I thought she told her parents she needed to go to Thailand for her senior thesis (lying about that as we know now and actually wanting to scope out a new lifestyle), and her parents decided to tag along and bring the whole family. I didn't get the impression that Piper was the one pushing a 5-Star family vacation to Thailand.

I hope something got lost in translation in her interview, because I 100% agree that they're actors and to have that sort of genuine reaction to that is very unprofessional. Unless Patrick is super method, and he really got into his character and looked at the actor playing Locky as his real brother, he should find another occupation because that kiss wasn't something that should cause a professional to have that reaction. When he auditioned for/accepted this role, did no one brief him on his character's storyline? This is a short, limited series, it's not like they are 6 seasons in and come up with an incest story out of nowhere to boost ratings. This had to be planned all along; it was hinted at in episode one.

And I Never would have guessed that. Thank you @atomic! Google tells me he's a gospel singer so that explains my unfamiliarity. My first thought was Barbara might know some Michelle Williams (arguably the third best child of destiny, not the Oacar winner) songs, but a 90s gospel artist makes sense for her too.

I watch this show on Thursday mornings while I'm getting ready for work, and let me tell you, I was JAMMING this morning! I was loving all the song choices, although I didn't recognize Barbara's song. Can anyone clue me in? Jacob's Papa Roach choice was a funny surprise, but I would have never, ever guessed Melissa would pick a 20+ year old pop/alt-rock song from a one-hit wonder. Barbara crying over the lyrics of What Would You Do? was a mood. We tend to brush aside or even normalize stuff like that, but when you really think about those lyrics and remember that this is the reality for some women/families, it's really sad. Anyway, I was having such a good time with the songs that I forgot to pay attention to the stroylines. I'll have to go back and watch the non-karaoke parts. Sounds like Ava and O'Shon had a little two steps back, one step forward happening, but will hopefully keep working on it.

I remember my dad proudly showing me the scrubs he got from either my birth or my sister's. I thought it was so cool that he got to keep the scrubs. He occasionally wore the scrub pants as pajama pants.

That seemed odd to me as well. If you want to fill in the background of a character to suggest that the character has become more conservative and religious - and also concomittently divergent from her still-coastal friends - why have her move to one of the few places in a very large, and otherwise generally conservative, state that remains stubbornly still liberal? At least the other two friends didn't directly diss her or shun her for seeminly voting as she apparently did (but refused directly to admit). Though maybe that would have been preferable to gossiping about her in her absense, as she saw them do later. I was confused as well. I wonder if the writing team is aware that Austin is a very blue (only blue?) part of TX? I can see them writing her as living there to demonstrate how much money her husband has because the cost of living in Austin is so high, but to be a wealthy, church-going Trump supporter, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex would have made more sense.

In those stills, Piper is a spitting image of a young Brie Larson. I had to do a double take because I thought it was her at first glance.

I wish I could figure out how much of this show is scripted. Sometimes it feels real(ish), but more often than not I just feel like it's all set up for fake drama. I can't root for anyone because it will probably end up in a tie or something. Just like Christina winning last week was just about tying her up with Tarek and Heather.

Well to be fair, Michael Crichton wrote the pilot for ER in the 70s (originally conceived as a movie). It was based on his experiences from med school in the 60s. John Carter is loosely based on Crichton himself. St. Elsewhere the TV show came before them all, but the idea of portraying life in the ER came first. That said, it's still weak, IMO, to sue for copyright infringement. Medical shows are medical shows. I was just telling a buddy (ER fan who didn't want to watch The Pitt cuz he thought it was an ER rip off) that it's really good and outside of Noah Wyle appearing in both series, it doesn't have the same feel as ER at all.

Grey's Anatomy probably will, so why not The Pitt? 😉

Well this hour was rough. I watched during my lunch break and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to concentrate on anything after that sob fest. I guess a silver lining is that my son wanted to watch Paw Patrol with me this morning and I wasn't able to watch this before work like I usually do on Fridays. My whole day would be shot, if so. The potential sex trafficking woman is interesting. I liked the theory upthread about her being a surrogate sex partner for the boss's husband. That would be an interesting twist. The way they played her answering the doctor and nurse's questions was very ambiguous. I couldn't tell if she was really conditioned to not say anything or give any details or if the two ladies were really off in their line of questioning. Kind of reminded me of the daughter from last episode. When Santos questioned her about her dad, she vehemently denied it, but it wasn't clear if Santos was way off base or the girl was in denial/protecting her abuser. I was most looking forward to a resolution on the influencer storyline, but it seemed lackluster. Last ep the young doc (I don't know many names yet) seemed to be onto something when she ordered labs for mercury testing, but Dr. Rabby seemed angered that she didn't turf her to Psych like he said. This episode starts with a positive mercury poisoning diagnosis and Dr. Rabby seems proud that she figured it out. I thought there was going to be some fallout there, but no. The different cases in each episode are so cool that it reminds me of peak ER. But I can't help but wonder if it is normal to have such a wide range of unique cases over the course of one shift. Accidental OD x2 (one death), accidental child OD, woman pushed in front of a subway, mother of an incel who made herself sick to have her son seen, family overrides elderly fathers DNR, sickle cell woman, teen medical abortion, elderly dementia woman, black widow bite, mercury poisoning, nail gun to the chest. Plus all the new cases from this episode as well as the dozen or more that I'm probably missing. Probably several more children storylines that I had to fast-forward through and promptly forgot. And Dr. Robby's ptsd is flaring up because it's the anniversary of his mentors death, also Dr Collins is pregnant and miscarries. This is supposed to be a normal weekday right? Incel boy ran off to school in the first or second episode and the OD college kids took Xanax to relax and study for finals or something. Oh, and a stolen ambulance and high-speed chase. What a day! And we still have like 5 hours to go! I'm loving this show and am here for the long haul, but my goodness. What an exhausting ride this has been.

"We're a normal family. You'll see." Oh boy. 😬

I really loved it. I can't say that I've ever enjoyed anything that Miley has ever sang, but I thought this was a great rendition. I've been a Brittany fan for a while so I was super pleasantly surprised by this duet. I too wish it was on Spotify. If you liked Brittany's sound, her band Alabama Shakes is great. She's lead singer and guitarist and is awesome. I don't have much to add that wasn't covered already. Sandler's song made me tear up. It's crazy how great of a performer he is when he's not doing his silly "skipidoty doo, blamity boo" nonsense. I thought Kim K was Nasim Pedrad (whom I think is naturally very beautiful) at first and asked Mr. Night Cheese what she'd done to her face. He had to tell me it was a Kardashian (he can't tell the difference between the 3 or know their first names), not Nasim. Was Nasim there? Did anyone catch her in the goodnights?

The scene with Santos and the dad reminded me of the ER scene with Mark in the elevator alone with the Rampage gunman who he pretended to shock and let die. Intubated, unable to talk, eyes wide with fear. Nevertheless, it did nothing to make me like her more. She just seems like a bully and a jerk. Child molestation storylines on any show or movie make me sick to my stomach, so I'm choosing to believe her talk scared him enough to stop, but I don't know why she would think that would actually work. It's not like she can check up on the daughter later.

This was my only gripe with the episode. It was obvious that the random parking lot guy was going to be puzzle guy. But how the scene overlapped with the Roman info, I was like, "holy crap, Roman is puzzle guy!!" And then went, "wait, no, that doesn't make sense. Roman is not a psychopath, he was getting diapers when he disappeared." I'll have to go back and watch when I have the chance, but I didn't think they executed the last couple minutes very well. Aside from that, I did kind of side-eye the gala time frame. It looked like when Morgan showed up it was mid-afternoon, but the next scene it was dark dark. Daphne said Oz hadn't been answering his phone for an hour, so even if it this was happening in mid-summer when the days are long, it takes a couple hours to go from bright and sunny to dark dark. Then it looked like it was basically dawn when Oz was recovering in the back of the ambulance? I dunno... I liked the episode a lot though.

Thank you. I realized from your post that I meant to type Henri-Christian, but you've confirmed that he's in the show too. I'd also prefer of he didn't die in the show.

I just started this a few days ago. I think I'm halfway through season 1. I'm finding the show pretty good. The basic concept of generational culture clash more or less transcends time, only the details change, so this holds up pretty well. I would have been 26 or 27 when the show started, so it's not lost on me that if this show were made today it would feature my gen (millennial) pretending to be a gen-Zer and navigating the world of TikTok and whatever other genZ stereotypes they want to throw in there. I was shocked at first that this wasn't an Amy Sherman-Paladino show, but now several episodes in I realize it's not nearly witty enough to be an ASP project. It definitely had her writing style and overall vibe at first. The wonderful-as-always Sutton Foster plays Liza as a fish-out-of-water that is still somehow effortlessly cool. I guess that's because Sutton Foster is effortlessly cool. That said, how long can this pretend to be in her 20s act hold up? SF, while beautiful and youthful, doesn't pass for 26 at all, so the whole premise is pretty unrealistic. Will we see Liza in her mid-40s having a "dirty 30" party just because she has to keep up the pretense? Does her daughter ever return from India and wonder wtf is going on? I'm going to keep watching because it's an easy background show, but I hope that in future seasons more characters learn about her con.

Thanks for sharing that. I don't follow any of DG's social media or blog because I find her sense of self-importance extremely off-putting, so I appreciate when people share things like this that I would never see otherwise. It's interesting to me that she's been publicly throwing Roberts under the bus following the finale. I wonder how much consulting or involvement she and the Exec Producers have in this show, because from her recent comments I get the sense that he's the only one calling any of the shots here. Caitriona and Sam are both executive producers and Diana has a consulting credit. Does anyone outside of Roberts have any input? Is Marill still involved at all? Also, she's really ramped up her objections after the internet outrage at/fallout from the storyline, whereas in the immediate aftermath she acknowledged that it was a storyline for a work that never materialized and that she gave Roberts the idea. I found that interesting. Anyway, her publicly nitpicking and crapping on the show is basically in line with what I expect from her, so this comes as no surprise to me. What is interesting though is that she's really hitting hard how displeased she is with Roberts changing the Faith storyline, which makes me think it won't be walked back in the Prequel, but will in fact be a part of the show's canon. Because surely she's knows what's going to happen in the Prequel series and wouldn't be so public about her unhappiness if she knew it would be resolved in the Prequel series, right? I agree. Does Germaine even exist in the show? I think I asked that in another episode thread but no one answered. He's such a great character in the books.

In the show (and real life? I don't know) there is a prophecy that a Scot will rise to the throne after a 200 year old baby is killed. In season 3 when Claire runs into Geillis in Jamaica, she learns that Claire went back through the stones while pregnant, and gave birth in 1948. Geillis believed that Brianna is the 200 year old baby because she was conceived 200 years before she was born. So she wanted to kill Brianna (by going back to the 1960s, I guess?) to kill Brianna and allow a Scot to ascend to the throne. That's why Claire killed her.