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Anne Hathaway and Billy Crystal co-hosting would be fantastic. I think the Oscars is totally fine without a host and doesn't need one to work well.

At first glance, it may have looked like a date, but they explained quickly and early in the scene it was not a romantic date. If the goal of the Jimmy Buffett plot was to promote the new Margaritaville hotel in the area, they should have mentioned the hotel in the episode. Have the real Jimmy Buffett say something like "I'm in town to check in on the new Margaritaville hotel."

Part of me wondered if that was where this was going. If this was some sort of really bad back-door pilot for the teens to have thier own show about thier lives before the events of this episode. Abercrombie and Fitch is way too preppy and upscale for the bikers. The bikers are more Hot Topic/Spencer's Gifts. I had the same thought. I was so excited to see what sort of cool moves and tech they had built into thier bodies from droids, but we didn't really see much of it. I had serious Back to the Future Part 2 vibes during the chase scene.

I think that is part of my problem with the episode. Dean's love life/social life storyline could have happened at a school dance or a field trip. Brad's storyline, which should have been amazing and had much more of an emotional impact didn't get the time and space it needed. The 1980s Wonder Years often had episodes that focused on one of the other characters and Kevin was mostly observing. This should have been one of those episodes where Dean doesn't have a major storyline and another character takes the spotlight.

I am convinced there was a deleted scene in this episode. Maybe it was written and not filmed, or filmed but cut for time, but I am absolutely sure it exists. Jamie suddenly enforcing the old rule came out nowhere. They needed to set this up and give Jamie a reason for doing it. There are many possibilities that would have worked. Garrett and Anthony are both Regean whisperers. They are outside the family, but understand what makes its members tick. I now want to see Garrett and Anthony getting drinks and comparing notes. "How do you react when Frank does___/ Does Erin do this too" type of stuff. It also occurs to me that Jamie doesn't have one. Eddie doesn't count. (Danny has Baez). Eddie working as a direct report to her husband is awful for so many reasons. We've already seen why it doesn't work, and at this point it just feels like a larger disaster waiting to happen. I loved finding out what everyone at the dinner table's first concert was. It seemed pretty true to who they were.

YES! I was trying to find a way to express this exact sentiment, and you did it perfectly. I would love to see what a session between Hazel and a therapist would be like. I also think Hazel would be willing to give it a try (not just do it because her parents are making her) if she knew that her father was currently seeing a therapist, and that her grandfather had seen one years earlier.

Yes. I won't argue about football positions, but Billy needs a man that he admires and trusts telling him that he is good at something. I love the idea of Billy on the football team. He's such a sweet kid, it would never occur to him to take advantage of his situation. Teachers might give him higher grades than he deserves, but he would never ask a teacher for special treatment. Billy being admired for something he is good at; Billy having friends on the team. I didn't realize how much I wanted this until you mentioned it.

Agreed. There is a huge difference between having a dream about something (because we can't really control what we dream about or what happens in our dreams) and what we do when we are fully awake. George came very close to having an affair. Mary's dream is not the same as what George almost did in any way, shape, or form.

The sad thing about Danny is that he is probably repeating what he heard at home from his parents or other relatives. I loved that Riley told a story where Al was the absolute hero who saved the day. I loved that Art managed to find the loophole in his own rule of "I have never called a repairman" and Lizzie was more than willing to play along instead of calling him out on it. Lizzie was right to point out that things are only going to get worse with Hazel and it's good to figure things out before the problems are more serious. When Hazel asked for an iphone, I expected one of the parents to offer a flip-phone/basic cell phone. Shallow end of the pool: More scenes of Riley in a tank-top working out please.

So the relationship between Georgie and Mandy is technically legal, but at the same time a bit icky and questionable. I'm sure Missy told all of her peers that the way to get rid of Sheldon is to play sardines, hide and seek, or a similar game. Mary had a fantasy/dream about Pastor Rob, but she has shown no signs of acting on it. If things get worse with George, I can see Mary going to Pastor Rob for advice (and only advice). It seems like he could be another adult in her life she could go to for honest relationship advice.

I love the idea of a storyline focused on Dean trying to navigate having a girlfriend and a girl who is a close friend. I love the idea of a storyline focused on the idea that Dean and Brad are both outsiders and especially a storyline that focuses on what it means for Brad to be Jewish in that time and place. I hate that they put those two plotlines together in the same episode. It didn't work for me at all. Dean is 12 or 13. He's not an idiot. In that time and place (1960s Alabama), I imagine that he would be well aware that racist white people exist. I can believe that Dean has never inside a synogague and Brad has never been inside a church. If Dean and Brad are as close friends as we have been lead to believe they are, religion would have come up as a topic. Not necessarily deep theological discussions, but basic stuff such as what is inside the building, what happens during a service, and similar topics. I get they wanted a big dramatic event, but starting towards the end of the school year (April 1968) seems like a huge mistake, especially since it's the first year the middle school was integrated. This episode raised so many questions that if they had done a different/better subplot the episode would have had more time to explore them. I have many, many questions that I am hoping the series answers at some point. (If they have already been answered and I forgot or missed it, please let me know) Were Brad and Dean friends before they started going to school together? If not, did they become friends and bond because they were outsiders? Did the parents become friends because thier kids were friends? I want to know if the parents have a link or connection to each other beyond thier children.

If there were able to get one full season from outtakes, I don't see why they couldn't it again from an earlier season. I've been enjoying seeing the four performers do what they do best and not have to work around whatever "celebrity" CW/CBS wants to promote.

I loved that moment and feel it should be required for every adult over 60. I'm close to in age to Missy and older people are always shocked that I am familiar with older sitcoms and I'm always thinking variations of "did they forget syndicated reruns exist? are they totally unaware of what Nick at Nite was in the 1990s? do they have no idea that TV Land used to show nothing but series from before the 1980s?" Trying to do stories about Sheldon's social life in college do not work for the exact reason you mentioned. I think stories that focus on his academic life and stories about the classroom work better.

I was going to post a variation of the exact same thing. A pantsuit in 1968 would have been a shocking, daring, and controversial fashion choice, which is not Lillian at all. Slightly on-topic/slightly off-topic: Everbody Hates Chris had an episode where the organization standing in for "Jack and Jill" was named "Hanzel and Gretel." I like the idea of an episode centering on mother-daughter tension. I like the idea of an episode dealing with classism and/or colorism. I like the idea of Lillian wanting to join an organization, which everyone else in the family resists but then enjoys far more Lillian. Trying to do all three in the same episode didn't work. It felt too disjointed and disconnected

I had the same thought. It's nice to know I'm not alone. I always assumed Jabba's massive size was a subtle reference to Marlon Brando in The Godfather. I know Goodfellas came out decades later, but this quote from part of Henry Hill's narration describing another gangster also sums it up/explains it pretty well: "Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody." I think the word series is like "sheep" in that singular and plural are the same word. You have one sheep or or you have seven sheep. It's the same with series. She was on a series that aired in 1975 or he made five series that aired during the 1980s. This made me feel so much better. Since I've only seen the movies and The Mandalorian I was worried I was missing something. My problem with the flashbacks in this episode was that they did not connect to the present day story at all.

I wasn't wowed by the episode, but I understand it's the first episode and had quite a bit of set-up to accomplish. I am willing to give this a few more episodes to see where it goes. I hope the series improves, because I thought this episode was a tad boring.

"Cool" and "Gee, Officer Krupke" are about how the Jets deal with incredibly tense emotional moments. Personally, I think the songs work equally well in either act ("Cool" works both pre-rumble and post-rumble, and "Gee, Officer Krupke" works both pre-rumble and post-rumble,) but each song takes on a different meaning depending on which act it is in. When "Cool" is placed in Act 1, it illustrates Anita's line in the play/original movie (I can't remember the exact dialogue) but it's about the boys having energy and needing to get rid of it quickly. When "Cool" is placed in Act 2, it's about how to deal with all of the stress and anxiety post rumble. When "Gee, Officer Krupke" is in Act 1, it is about killing time before the war council and goofing off. It's how they deal with pre-rumble tension. When "Gee, Officer Krupke" is in Act 2, it is the Jets attempting to use humor to deal with thier anger. They are mad at society and the world, that anger is expressed in "Gee, Officer Krupke."

In this version, Chino wants to be part of the gang, and he saw this as a way to do it. If he avanged Bernardo's death, he thought the other Sharks would welcome him into the gang, despite what Bernardo wanted. I agree that "Somewhere" works better as a duet between Tony and Maria. Rita Moreno is amazing and a national treasure. If they wanted to give her a song, let her sing "Somewhere" or something else over the end credits. If they wanted her to sing "Somewhere," it would have worked better if Doc's death had been due to prejudice. I liked the way they placed the movie within a specific historical context. The Jets' desire to hold onto turf takes on more meaning when the neighborhood is being destroyed due to slum clearance and new immigrant groups moving in. I thought Schrank's comment about the Jets being the dregs of society and that it was thier parents' fault for not being able to do better and move out of the slums, especially since many other people white ethnics had moved out of the city slums and into the suburbs was a great addition. It also helped set up "Gee Officer Krupke" later in the movie. They made yellow a Shark color, which I am okay with because they were consistant with it. They set up the color scheme in "Prologue" and continued it throughout the movie, so especially in the dance at the gym, you could take one look at someone and know which group they belonged to. The cinematography was wonderful. They understood that you have to shoot the songs/dances in full frame or close to full frame and that rapid/modern/MTV editing does not work for this movie. Cutting Anybodys introduction after "Prologue" before "Jet Song" was a mistake. (I am going to try to refer to the character without using pronouns, because it makes sense to use female pronouns when talking about the character in original play or movie but male pronouns when talking about the 2021 movie). The short scene (it's really just a few lines of dialogue) establishes that Anybody wants to be a Jet, but the gang will not acccept Anybodys and rejects Anybodys. This sets up the scene later when they call Anybodys "buddy-boy" after the rumble and Anybodys has brought the gang valuable information. Calling Anybodys "buddy-boy" establishes that they have accepted Anybodys. Without demonstrating earlier in the movie that Anybodys wanted to bet a Jet but was not allowed to means the later acceptance doesn't have the emotional impact it should. Did anyone else think that Anybodys was in the police station unrelated to gang activity but for cross-dressing? I think there was a New York law against cross dressing. I can't remember the specifics now, but the law had something to do with requiring people wearing a certain number of clothes associated with thier biological sex. Who was the woman on the bench next to Anybodys at the police station supposed to be? Like any remake, there were changes I liked and changes I disliked. Overall, I enjoyed the movie.

I hadn't thought of that explanation but that works well too.

My guess is that is because we only saw Danny drink at Sunday dinner. While married, he rarely went out to a bar, and we didn't see too many romantic date nights with Danny and Linda. I don't think there has ever been an episode where no one was drinking alcohol because the adults usually have alcoholic beverages at Sunday dinner. My problem with the Henry plot was that it was conflating mental and physical decline. Jamie can't do anything about mental decline, but he can try to mitigate problems with physical decline. The beginning of the end for my grandfather was when he tripped and fell in his house. Fixing a floorboard and other things so Henry doesn't trip made perfect sense to me.

My guess based on nothing more than pure speculation is that the next season will feature Harry Wilson. He will try to help clients at his new law practice, but there may be some cases he refers to the Leverage team. I could also see Team Leverage calling on him for his business/legal skills. Someone can hack into the records and bring up the financial documents, but Harry Wilson can explain why certain transactions/accounts/structure are important and what thier greater significance is. Since there was a time gap between when the original series ended and when the new season started, they could have Nate stay dead in the current timeline, but bring him back if they want a flashback of what happened between the end of the original show and the start of the new show.

The original series was totally cheesy, and the reboot understands that the cheesy is what made the original show awesome. This version acknowledges the cheesy, but also apperciates it. It's also great that the showrunners understood that legacy fans would be part of the audience, so each episode has a storyline with the new teenagers and a storyline with some of the adults.

I feel like I missed something. Was there any indication that Brenda was actively breaking things as an excuse to get George to come to her house? My guess is that George is going to teach Billy basic home repairs, and then Billy will be able to take care of most of the simple stuff. My understanding is that George was not doing super complicated stuff that only a professional should be handling. Also, I think it's good for Billy to learn how to do things safely and that while he probably doesn't get good grades at school, there are other things he can do. I don't think Brenda should try to turn him into an adult and give him responsibilities beyond what he's capable of. I do think he is old enough to have some basic chores/responsibilities around the house.

They could hire the ADA. To be honest, my gaydar is horrible. I think the ADA was hinting that he wanted a romantic relationship with Chunk, or at least wanted to meet for drinks and see if a romantic relationship might be possible. (It's a CBS procedural so it probably won't happen) Unless the show had major budget cuts, they could hire the actor and add another lawyer to the cast. The show had two awesome lawyers when Chunk and Benny were part of the show. I don't see how adding another laywer decreases Chunk's ability to practice law.

Something the original series did well was showing Jack's unhappiness with his work and his job was a major recurring theme through most of the series. It was not an issue that was dealt with in one episode and never spoken of again.