One Imaginary Girl

I don't even understand the philosophy behind this. The anarchists in my city seem to be on the left side of the political spectrum, but this scene seems to be hate paying taxes + spring break for adults + cryptocurrency + New Age-y stuff.

I liked the irony of Nathan complaining that Jeff drank a lot at the convention when there were multiple shots of Nathan taking swigs from his flask. And then he was filmed driving home!

Agreed about it being so soapy. It seems like all of the plotlines now are about who is going to couple up with who. I didn't even get far into the most recent episode, so maybe there was more later, but I just turned it off when it seemed like the same old same old.

Yeah. During the montage of Gene cultivating the security guys, I felt a bit sad about it because Gene doesn't have anyone in Omaha, and this could have been an opportunity to develop a friendship. Instead he's just using them and could land them in trouble. Then when he gave that sob story to delay Jerry from checking the monitors, it was an act but also true.

I don't think I've ever identified with a character so much in my life as Deborah pulling out all the stops to get her hands on as much as possible of a favorite discontinued item.

He also went out with Rachel once on Friends.

I might be just talking to myself at this point, but... something I'm wondering about is that Trig and Jake's mother is back and they are all reveling in being together again, but no one mentions Reg, not even once. He doesn't have to be a big plot point, but it would be realistic to show that some sadness remains.

That looked like the best sorority initiation ever, especially when the dancing broke out.

Yeah. A big point of this movie is about how the class of 1977 are now becoming the big cheeses at school (now that the class of 1976 has moved on) and how they treat the new kids, the incoming freshmen. Do you want to be cruel, like Darla or O'Bannion and the other guys who beat up Mitch and his friends? Or like Pink, Jodi, and Tony, taking them under your wing? This is a situation that crops up throughout life, being the new person at work, in the neighborhood, in a social group.

The promo I've seen seems like it concentrates a lot on the kids, the women, and Trig and Imani, so I would be OK with that. Just eliminate any of the riiculous stuff about Otis, a mayor who was shot (which would be a huge thing anywhere) but then recovers enough to actually beat a man up (which would also be a crazy thing to happen in real life).

The captions strike again: it said 1939 shortly before Mrs. Roosevelt took that flight with a Tuskegee Airman, but that was in 1941. I don't know if the Airmen had been founded by 1939, but it might be time to revisit the HBO movie about them. That was a wonderful scene in it.

The cast and brass of This Is Us are still tweeting like there's no tomorrow. Well, I guess there is no tomorrow for the show. Anyhow, maybe I'm being too gullible to PR, but what comes across is that the cast seem to really like each other, which is nice.

I only expected last night to be a denouement because the big episode was Rebecca's death, so I thought it was a sweet ending. The time spent on their Saturday off showed the value to a family of parents who like each other and like spending time with their kids and, most important, who listen to their kids. These aren't always givens.

Maybe this is too basic an interpretation, but I've been wondering if a theme of this season is a refutation of white supremacy, because there have been a whole lot of weird white people, mostly Europeans, in it.

To me, one of the worst--meaning hardest to watch--scenes in Breaking Bad was at the beginning of the episode "Buyout," in which Walt, Mike, and Todd deal with Drew Sharp's body and his bike. I suspect the next episode will be similarly awful: sure, it's not an innocent child, but certainly an undeserving victim who, unlike Drew, has been suffering for a while.

And the more I think about Howard, the worse I feel, so it's going to be seven somber weeks BCS-wise.

Thank you! I wondered why Susan was discussing end-of-school-year things like the prom and graduation in 1974 when the Fords didn't even move into the White House until August of that year. On the other hand, at one point a White House staffer suggested that Ford mention the evils of "revolutionaries" in a regular speech, not a campaign speech, but we were definitely before 1976. Another thing that bothers me is the music choices. Some of the songs for the Betty segments have been from the early to mid '70s but not really right for older people in those days, such as "Coconut," "I Shot the Sheriff," and "Rock the Boat." Plus I don't get why "Enola Gay" at the end of this episode--it was from the early '80s, not 2015, and did the person who chose it think that because the word Gay is in the title that it's about an LGBTQ matter and not the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb?

Tyrell was worried about Rome and Regina dealing with his depression alone, but hasn't he noticed that that group of friends will meet up at the drop of a hat? Plus they both have their parents around and seem to have mended their relationships with them. There was a flicker of an older-seeming Theo at the end when he was teasing Greta about using chopsticks, in contrast to that kids' book he was reading at the beginning of the episode. Since the show won't be back on until 2023, it'd be great if Tristan Byon had some growth spurt or other maturation before they start filming again, and they'd have to confront the fact that he is not a little kid anymore.

There are a lot of This Is Us-related tweets on Twitter nowadays from the official show account but also from the cast. I really like the ones from the young actors interacting with the older versions of their parts, or vice versa.

I'm glad that the episode when Trevor goes back to South Africa was re-aired this week (still need to watch my recording of it, though), because I'll never forget the ending, with Trevor's mock-shocked reaction when Dave Chappelle turns up at the grandmother's house.

I guess you might already know, but it seems this week is all reruns.

And before that, she lived in Jersey!

Sorry, but I laughed out loud at the amazing convenience of Madison and Elijah moving back east. It was the equal of Philip's wife being hit by a car.

Shout out to Knots Landing, which wasn't even an NBC show. *off to see if it's available anywhere*

I wonder if in fact the woman who knows about Valentina Tereshkova is smart enough to catch on to a stranger who shows a lot of interest in her late husband.