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  1. I wish to God that every time Hillary does an interview, the goddamn interviewer doesn't ask her about Bill's cheating. This is constant humiliation of a person for what their partner did and has zero to do with anything. I am still mad a Bill...so mad. But he isn't my husband so it's not up to me. Everyone remember when the former slimy inhabitant of the White House invited those women from Bill's past to one of the pre-election debates to sit in the audience? So does Hillary have to carry that shit around forever? I hate that Sunny brought it up and I'm glad Hillary/Chelsea didn't really answer her and pivoted to another topic. There were lots of other clips that Sunny could have commented on. Compassion much, Sunny? (nothing to do with whether you like/agree with HC politically, I just think it was a cheap shot). For the record, while I'm no fan of Melania, I also think it was shitty when paparazzi asked her about Slimy's past peccadilloes a few years back - as much as I loathe him, it's her business, not ours. How are we liking the new chairs? The ones they replaced because everyone (ok, maybe just Joy) kept falling off? These new ones don't look super-comfortable either. I guess they can't use regular chairs as everyone would appear all squashed down.
  2. Thank God it's not just me. I appreciate Sunny's legal commentary, her intelligence (most of the time) not to mention her gorgeous hair. But I am over her rants. She wasn't even coherent today. I was drinking coffee while watching the show and literally was holding the mug halfway up to my mouth in shock while she was talking. She added nothing to the conversation. And Ana...I'm without words. I've never seen her be like that. You don't have to care about or like the Royal family. But if you're paid to share your "view", then you'd better bring something worthwhile to the table. There was an important kernel of truth somewhere in there, but it was completely washed over with the verbal garbage. And while we're at it, as nothing more than a casual observer, do I like Camilla & Charles's history? Not really, not prior to their marriage (or more specifically, not till after both Camilla & Charles were divorced from the previous spouses and were "free"). That's the Catholic in me. And the organizer - finish one "project" before you start another. But the only person who should really care (besides the now grown-up kids) died in a car crash...it's no one else's business besides her. The fact that William & Harry appear to have a more-than-cordial relationship with Camilla now says a lot. We can all learn, grow and forgive, Sunny...even royals! On a shallower note...I am so jealous of Sara's toned arms! Talk about guns of steel. Mine are currently mashed-potatoey. I'm usually in awe of Ana for her flawless hair & makeup, but due to today's craziness, I completely missed noticing if it was nice or not. PREACH!!!! Ouch.
  3. Yes we are...someone make a Costco run and get a mega-pack of Kleenexes please!
  4. Oh Miguel....we hardly knew ye. I didn’t realize I kinda needed this episode. I hated Miguel and his weird hair the first couple of seasons. Like all of us, Miguel has/had many sides. Some very moving and gorgeous moments this episode...and I’m ok with sentimentality at this stage of the game for this show, so bring it. For many of us, I’m sure there were some moments that absolutely resonated...we are not young forever and we should take comfort where we can, we shouldn’t be afraid to grow, we should leave room for the other guy’s point of view, love people for who they are (not who we want them to be). I’m a little sentimental right now as I just saw some close friends and family for the first time at a bridal shower this past weekend - first time in 2 yrs seeing most of them so the emotional floodgates are still open. My future comments might be a bit less mushy, lol.
  5. I’m trying to enjoy every minute of this show so will sit through some irritating scenes if I have to. I did enjoy Nicky with the ice bucket trying to put horrible images into Kevin’s head, LOL. I do wonder, as someone upthread just asked, why Nicky hasn’t interacted much with Randall or Kate since he’s seemingly become besties with Kevin. I was kind of hoping all the hints in Kevin’s room with the pink bra and the shawl and the poetry on napkins and all that would end up being red herrings, and that Kevin ended up alone (I mean, not forever, just that night). He and Cassidy wouldn’t have lasted long as romantic partners - I think they’re great as friends and coworkers. To me, their baggage would always be front & centre in a romantic relationship - who needs that drama? (I mean, we all go into relationships with some baggage, but we’re talking Pearson-caliber baggage). And I’m glad he didn’t end up with that dippy wedding singer - not a fan. And a terrible singer if you ask me! . And finally, I don’t buy that Sophie and Kevin have been pining for each other for 20+ years, I’m sorry, I just don’t. That kiss and everyone clapping in the background was dumb. Question - when Little Kevin wrote Sophie’s name on that Valentine card, did he never give it to her? If he did give it to her, presumably she would have kept it, for awhile at least (not 35 years!), so how would Kevin have it? Or did he write it but not give it to her, explaining why he would still have it in his possession? The mind boggles.
  6. Please yourself. Did I say anywhere I my comment that I think people don’t die in regular houses and then those houses get sold? Because I’m pretty sure I didn’t. We all have our own reasons for thinking or feeling whatever we think or feel. I reserve the right to call hoodoo. I am no stranger to death - my parents never hid that stuff from me and I've seen it close up. I ain't scared of no ghost. I respect that you feel differently. I'm actually glad that people brought up that Roseanne died in her home - that is a good point.
  7. Yeah, continuity isn’t a strong suit of this show. I don’t understand why Patton Oswalt doesn’t just sell his business to another funeral home company? Isn’t that easier and less wasteful? I agree it’s a shame to tear down a perfectly good building. I don’t really get that Becky & Darlene were “hung-up”, but surely it’s a bit weird to go house-hunting somewhere that is, I would posit, a bit unusual. Also that funeral home did not look home-like to me - like I wouldn’t walk in and think, hmm, I could really cozy this up. Nothing to do with hang-ups about the building and its previous occupants...we held a rollicking reception for friends in the basement event room at the Funeral home for my late dad. A few people were freaked out at first, but it was a lovely bright room and it turns out that lots of families used it. I still would not in a million years move into it though and I’m not superstitious about anything except for using a specific coffee mug on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays (is that weird? 😂 ). Different strokes for different folks, for sure.
  8. I look forward to this show every week. Even when it’s bad. And honey, sometimes it’s really bad.... I still do not buy that Darlene has enough money to buy a home/pay a mortgage. It wasn’t so long ago she could barely scrape together money to buy Mark a laptop. I’m willing to suspend my disbelief a bit (because otherwise I’d spend the time staring at the wall every Wednesday at 9pm instead of watching the show) as to the financial aspect of this storyline (the way I must suspend my disbelief when I watch When Calls the Heart, where women supposedly living in the early 20th century walk around town in full makeup with their hair down in beachy waves - but I digress). And I like the idea of Becky and Darlene teaming up to buy a house. But - as much as I love Patton Oswalt and happy to see him on the show - I HATE the idea of the girls buying a former funeral home. Just no. Seriously, you’ve waited this long, give it a few more months and see if any “normal” houses come on the market that you can afford. Who needs that bad hoodoo??? Stained glass and beautiful wood floors wouldn’t be enough to make me forget what it used to be - even if you renovate the crap out of it. And no Louise, having your barely-hangin-in-there husband in his late 60s try to build a house is not a good idea. If he were just sort of consulting/advising the girls, given his construction experience, that would be fine. But as other folks above have mentioned, he cannot “build” a house on his own. A house isn’t a Lego set. And Louise and the family are going to “help”, are they now. Um, how exactly? Do they all have secret construction skills we don’t know about? The dialogue and storylines are so uneven...most of the actors have such a weird way of delivering their lines...I don’t get it. I still want to watch though because I loved the original show from way back. And I so miss the old original Jackie. This Jackie is a complete wackadoo. And not in a good way.
  9. Oh, please don't mature-up Mark so fast! I have a nephew approaching that age and kept seeing him in my mind's eye during Mark's storyline. This old cool auntie can't take it, so soon! Plus Mark is so much taller than that "friend" of his, it weirded me out. Still love the actor playing Mark though (I'm a sucker for any actor with such clear diction - so many people on screen generally are mush-mouths). I'm probably most interested in Becky's story overall...I really hope she sticks with college and keeps building her confidence. I really like Lecy Goranson, yet her way of speaking still drives me a bit crazy...she yells all her lines and sometimes she isn't even directly facing her scene partner - it's weird. I hated, hated, hated when she slept with that old high school friend...it was so forced and a stupid path for her story. Loved that she connected with the youngsters in her class...not easy, been there and good on her for doing it. Yes, Jackie's hair is much improved in this episode.
  10. This episode gave me a headache. The sliding back & forth between the various "shades" of the various Joes...too much. I do not buy Joe being what, 32? Seems older to me. On a shallow note, I also do not buy any of the hairdo's he has in any scene...they all look like hairpieces. The letters from Joe's dad....I was expecting something earth-shattering....kind of a let-down. Neither Jenny nor Amy is interesting enough to hold my attention...they are both so annoying, in all three Joe lives! I cannot see what Joe sees in them. Jenny is a blend of wishy/washy/bitchy (wishy??). Amy doesn't know what she wants and is boring. Though the other week when she expressed how she felt about kids probably not being in her life and her being ok with that, I thought she did a great job in that scene. Not a huge fan of the Amy actress generally though, from other shows...she has a grating quality when she's on screen. I do like the Eric character - he kind of lights up the screen a bit, which none of the other actors really do for me. Will I watch next week? Why yes, yes I will....I gotta see this show through and see whether the premise holds till the end of the season. I can't imagine being interested past this season, though.
  11. Yes, it's not like Rory not to check the start time of the meeting herself instead of just relying on what Paris (at the time her archenemy) told her. But this brings me to the stupid, powerless teachers at that school. Miss Whats-her-face in that newspaper meeting and then on other episodes there is a male teacher (the whom Paris calls "Bedwetter") - they just sit back and let Paris talk to her peers like that? Yeah, yeah, they're trying to teach kids how to act in the real world, how to speak up for yourself, etc. - here's an idea, how about modeling that for the kids and not letting them poop all over each other?
  12. Yeah...except money isn't everything. Randall has a hole in his life story, only partially filled by the relationship he got to have with William. It's natural for him to wonder about his mother, about what could have been. William and Laurel weren't just drug addicts in a tenement - they were people first. Laurel was beautiful, young, had ambition, and William was a dreamer, a poet. Yes, in practical terms, the fact that their lives were partly consumed and then tragically altered by addiction can't be denied, and yes, practically speaking, no child should have to grow up in insecure or dangerous conditions, so yes, Randall escaped all that. But you can be raised or loved by flawed people, and still hunger for that connection, still want to know a mother or father who isn't perfect but is the reason we exist. (I get not everyone feels that, but I'm speaking for myself). I can't believe just because Randall was raised by a "nice", white family in a good home, he wouldn't have questions and heart-searching as he got older about his origins. He knows he was left behind as a baby, and it's not a coincidence that he tries to rewrite history by trying to control people, situations and outcomes. So it's not a case of "get over it". Get me? Having said that - yes, I would love for him to dial back the drama and not be the death's head at every feast (I think that is the expression?). I hope he continues with therapy with a new therapist and we get to see that evolution. I am coming around to liking Madison (mostly 'cause she's not another Pearson!). I remember the character as very brittle/fragile earlier on, and used to find her annoying. She seems more level-headed and dare I say it, grown up now. Don't know that I buy Kevin's mushy feelings for her all of a sudden, though I'm glad he's there for the mother of his child. Who knows! Toby has grown on me - I can appreciate his dad joke-like lines and I like that he called Miguel "Miggs" tonight. Still impressed by Mandy Moore's Older Rebecca - I swear I keep forgetting she's not that age in real life. Overall, I really missed this show, with its little in-jokes, musical snippets and weaving back and forth in time, and frequently, regularly, giving the feels. Hope they can get a nice full season out!
  13. Steven is disgusting. I mean his character even more than his physical junk. High and manipilative. How the hell does someone like that get a spouse and a place to live??
  14. Leneatha in the first few scenes had a heavy (pardon the pun) sadness to her - it was almost palpable. When she said later that sometimes she ate just because the food or the opportunity for the food was there and she wasn't necessarily hungry, I thought that was such an important point and one that Dr. Now didn't address (on screen) per se, but is exactly why he recommends people get therapy. She has had many disappointments and sad events in her life and we all know what happens when we bury stuff and don't (can't) deal with it. I am not now nor ever will be anywhere near 600 lbs, but I have had moments where I stuffed my face till my stomach hurt because it numbed my feelings. Food doesn't judge you. I gives you something to do when you don't want to think about other things going on in your life. When you are carrying (again, sorry for the unintentional pun) that sadness, it doesn't matter what anyone else says, you easily drown it out...people can talk all they want about, OMG, here's how many calories are in that McDonalds food she scarfed down, that's more than I eat in a day, blah blah. When she talked about her dad sharing cakes and sweets with her when she was younger, I mean, how does a little child express to her father that, hey dad, I love you even without the cakes and I'm eating them to make you happy to show you that I love you and by the way, I have no idea that I am programming my body into a damaging state. I too was surprised that there wouldn't be some resources at the hospital that she could draw on; surely that would be super-convenient since she was going there every day for work anyway, making it easier to say meet with a nutritionist or take part in a hospital study on-site on her lunch break. Having said all this, it is heartbreakingly true that only the person needing to lose the weight can make it happen - and when you think about how hard it can be for more average-sized folks to take off 10, 20, 30 lbs sometimes, imagine how much harder and much less linear the weight loss journey must be for people with hundreds of pounds to lose. Does anyone else get a kick out of hearing Dr. Now's sing-song, up-and-down voice? Puts me in kind of a trance. I thought Leneatha's little girl was absolutely precious, and her brother was an absolute sweetheart. I loved the scene where they cooked that nice healthy fish & broccoli dinner.
  15. I have a question. When we see Kevin's kids, they look like they can't be more than 10 years old. Yet both Kevin and Randall look way older than 50 in that scene. If Kevin becomes a dad at 40, then I think something is wrong with the math. Could he have had those kids with someone else and not Madison?
  16. Oh, Future Kevin - you sly, delicious silver fox, you. Yowza! Kate playing her voicemail messages to Kevin as he straight-up lied to her face at the grocery store was hilarious - Chrissy Metz has great facial expressions. Gotta say - I did not see the Kevin/Madison hookup coming. Madison does bring some pretty good snark though. It would be jarring for anyone to find out that your friend and your sibling were hooking up - give Kate a minute to get used to the idea. The Big 3 at the cabin was great, but as someone mentioned above, I wish their time there had been longer and a bit more drawn out. I felt like there was potential to really talk things out, and they kind of only hit the surface. But I really like seeing the siblings interact with no one else around sometimes. Kate and Jack approaching Randall outside in the snow, looking dead serious, with Kevin holding a shovel: Randall: "You guys gonna kill me?". LOLs. Mark at the cabin...I just knew when Kate came back with the firewood in her arms that that a-hole had locked her out. Then we see him sipping his coffee and all but twirling that disgusting skinny mustache of his while listening to Kate pound on the doors and beg to be let in. The TeenKate actress was really good and subtle leading up to and during the pancake breakfast scene - but I just knew she was hiding something (which turned out to be her cut-up hand). I really wanted Kevin and Randall to pound the stuffing out of Mark and for Rebecca to take her turn, too. As soon as Jack showed Rebecca the sketch of the house, I thought to myself, "that looks just like that futuristic fancy rustic cabin from that Old-Rebecca-Is-Dying episode". It just looked so familiar. Do we know if it's still a "family", i.e. shared cabin? I assume so, since Kevin just drove up at the end of this episode as though he were just visiting. Add me to the list of Baby Jack admirers - he is such an adorable little dumpling. We haven't seen the last of Mark yet, I'm afraid...as horrible as he's been to Kate up till now, I feel like there is something else more potentially scarring in the works for Kate. Though I really hope I'm wrong.
  17. Oy with the inconsistencies already. Regarding Richard and Emily's wealth, didn't they buy a wing at Yale in Rory's name? Don't you have to be like, mega-rich to do that? They don't strike me as mega-rich. Rich enough to be annoying, yes, but not multi-millionaires. Rory's told us that the Gilmores came over on the Mayflower and it was implied that Richard's mother, the Original Lorelai (played by the marvelous Marion Ross) had $$$ (remember when Korn rented her summer home?? LOL). But where did their big family money come from? Who was Richard's father and what did he do? How you gonna not run the dishwasher unless it's full, but then have cash to buy a wing in a university or a share in a plane? I hate when writers think we're stupid. Staying on the topic of the Original Lorelai (aka "Trix") - considering how harshly she treated Emily and how mouthy she was (remember when she trammeled Lorelai about how the Dragonfly was doing and said she must be hemorrhaging money?) - who on earth did she think she was to come back from years in London and start bossing everyone around? We have no evidence that she had a grandmotherly freak-out when she found out her only granddaughter got knocked up at 16, or had ever met Rory until she was a grown-up...if "Trix" was so family-oriented and so concerned with the good Gilmore name, why was she seemingly not involved with the second and third generation Gilmore Girls? I think Lorelai said she only met her Gran once or twice, many years prior. And this freaks me out a little too. Never once in all the seasons of Gilmore Girls did Richard or Emily ever hug their ONLY daughter. Like not even a peck on the cheek or pat on the arm. Granted Lorelai could be a pain in the butt and put them through a lot when she got pregnant and took off and mostly cut off contact. But she's back in your lives now, people. The most contact they ever had was in the last (or maybe second-last) season when Emily and Lorelai are at the real estate office looking at pictures of properties, and Lorelai has her back to Emily and tells her tearfully that she and Luke are over, and Emily places a supportive hand on Lorelai's shoulder. Also when Emily and Rory got back from their trip to Europe, they come into the kitchen where Lorelai and Sookie are and Lorelai reaches her arms out to hug Emily, and Emily brushes her off saying she has airplane cooties or something. WTF?? Rory did hug and kiss the grandparents, and that's lovely. I totally get that some families are just not big huggers, and that's totally cool.....but like, not even on birthdays or big events, you can't brush someone's cheek with your lips or give them a little side-hug? That's cold, yo.
  18. Really liked this episode and didn't want it to end. Little-girl Kate was adorable and I loved the dreamy quality of her scenes with Jack. I liked the pacing of the episode. As someone mentioned upthread, I too have a sinking feeling that Teen Kate's boyfriend will try to or succeed in committing suicide. He is clearly fighting demons and it's sad to watch. That said, he is also a dick to Kate. I get why she seems to give him a pass - he made her feel seen, though in a different way than her Dad did, and what girl doesn't desire that? Mandy Moore as Older Rebecca is....everything. She gets the nuancing and way of speaking and even her way of physically being near the actors who are playing her adult children just right. If I were a casual watcher and didn't know she was just playing older in those scenes, I wouldn't have guessed it. Last night she blew me away. I absolutely loved that while she still can, before it's too late, she shared all these detailed memories with Kate in the pool. Also kudos to the writers for making Rebecca tell Kate about the memory issues now; I was so afraid she was only going to tell Randall and then hell would break loose when the truth came out later. I mean, it seems like Kevin may not find out until later, so maybe hell will still break loose, but at least 2 out of 3 kids will have heard it directly from her. Kate/Chrissy in that red swimsuit, in the moonlight...dreamy. Gorgeously shot and not gratuitous. The whole scene had a kind of other-worldly quality to me at times. Earlier in the episode when they mentioned going to the pool, I have to admit that I did wonder whether she would physically get in the pool and what that would look like (I mean the whole scene, not just the bathing suit, but you know what I mean). Oh Toby...poor miserable, slimmed-down Toby. I totally agree with someone earlier who said (better than I'm about to say it) that Toby's pointed references to "MY SON" seemed to be him fighting between what he thought his son would be and would be able to do, and what his son will actually be able to do and not do (sorry for my awkward phrasing there). That said - I think it's fair that Toby be allowed time to "grieve"; not for his son who of course is healthy and alive and a joy, but for the loss of things that are not to be (his son will never see a sunset, etc). I am not an expert but it seems that that would be reasonably normal feelings to have. However we see that Kate is moving forward, celebrating her son and giving her all to make sure he will have the best life possible. So what is a couple to do when they are at different spots in the road? For a moment when Toby sat down and looked like he was going to throw up or something, I thought, "oh shit, he's going to tell Kate he slept with someone else". I'm glad he didn't and I hope he doesn't. That would be so trite.
  19. You know, Meghan often has interesting points to make and I get that it's sometimes hard to get a word in edgewise on that show with everyone quacking over each other. And I get that as The Only Conservative at the Table (as she's always reminding us), it can be frustrating to feel like you can't get your point across because everyone is getting more time than you and you keep getting cut off, etc. What I don't get are Meghan's tantrums...for that is what they are...making sour faces, scowling and saying "whatever!" or "just forget it". That is childish behaviour and it's disappointing to see that this is her fallback behaviour when she is not getting her way. I have no problem with people speaking passionately about a subject, but belittling others (her "I DO read the polls every day!" mumbled under her breath as Sunny spoke) and crossing her arms like a spoiled little girl is not winning her any points. I work at a place with a lot of strong female leaders, and I have never in my life seen them exhibit ths kind of petulant behaviour (for the record, I haven't seen our male leaders do so, either). It's career suicide in most places, but what's worse , it seems Meghan thinks this behaviour is sometimes called into question because she's a "strong woman". No, it's because you're not always meeting your obligation of acting like a grown-up.
  20. There is plenty to talk about. Kate and Toby absolutely DO need to talk about his new, healthier lifestyle. He doesn't need to stop going to the gym or apologize for it, and he can still throw out his old pants if he wants. But Kate and Toby are not just chums or neighbours - they are life partners, and they owe each other some honesty, even if it's painful. What's the point of marriage, otherwise? Toby's journey into (presumably) better health is his own, in the sense that as adults, we all have and can exercise choices. But you can't blame Kate for wondering, after she's been in this baby haze for the past several months, and is stressing and over-eating herself, "Who is this new Toby, and where did he come from?". As someone pointed out above, Kate and Toby only ever met because they both went to an OA meeting. So something that they've always had in common (being overweight), while not the sole defining element in their relationship, has now changed significantly - and you don't think they need to talk about it? Gosh, I sure do. And I'm quite sure that Kate is not the only partner to ever wonder, when the other partner isn't able to, ahem, rise to the occasion, whether it has anything to do with her (if he wasn't turned on by her, maybe even his hands or mouth might not be interested). I don't think anyone is confident in that department 100% of the time, at the best of times. I can't blame her for asking that question of Toby ("are you still attracted to me?"), and it was kinda ballsy (pardon the pun) of her to do so while still in the sack...she could have kept her thoughts to herself and let them fester, which would have been worse. I wouldn't want to apply a special standard to how Kate's allowed to express herself or her uncertainty. You know, Kate the character is fair game, I suppose, in that she's fictional. But sometimes I am uncomfortable hearing about how she (Kate, purportedly), should go on a diet and lose weight, etc., things that are really, in my opinion anyway, referring to Chrissy (I don't mean to point fingers, it's just how I perceive it). Ain't nobody on that journey except Chrissy, and it's her deal. Maybe it would lift her (Kate's/Chrissy's) depression and maybe it would give her (Kate/Chrissy) endorphins - but maybe not. It rings hollow to me (not because exercise isn't good - but it's kind of like when someone says "you have such a pretty face, now if you would just lose some weight". You wanna say F-you). Possibly I am projecting here. And remember, even if we are supposedly talking about Kate and not Chrissy, we don't know yet how Kate got there (it's one thing to be chubby all your life, another for it to evolve into morbid obesity). So in summary: Toby can, should and now finally has talked to Kate about his intention to be healthier (but he needs to tell her why - whether it's to avoid another heart attack, to ward off depressive feelings, to be there for baby Jack, to be able to squeeze into sexy jeans, or to just feel better, or whatever); and Kate has now started to and should continue to tell Toby she loves him and is proud of him, without feeling that she is somehow less than, or that she has to change who she is to be with him. Toby should be able to acknowledge that he is excited to work out and to explore the changes this brings in his life, and Kate should be open to accepting that...and you never know, it's possible that Toby's healthier habits can benefit Kate too. But that needs to be a natural evolution - it's not going to happen all in one episode. Aaaaahhhhh....sharing/venting in the Primetimer Forums. Better than therapy!
  21. Yeah...I get you. I don't think I would put up with shitty behaviour from potential future in-laws either. Belittling, demeaning and being unkind - that's a no go and they were jerks to Jack. They get no passes from me, in case that wasn't clear. But he could have just said "I was in the war and saw people being murdered, etc., so yes, it WAS real". He could also have told them their comments were hurtful and inaccurate. His pontificating was not necessary to me. He showed up because Rebecca asked him to, against probably all of his gut instincts. That took courage and deserves praise. Yes, he did turn out to be a good person and father and it's too bad Rebecca's dad didn't see that.
  22. Ugh... I like Patricia Heaton but I don't know if this will work for me. The character was so jittery and jumpy through most of the episode and kept shrieking in that high-pitched tone throughout the episode - I wanted to turn the sound down. I did not like the chief resident boss-lady doctor nor find her believable - she was all bluster with no real gravitas behind her, and I bet that's not the actress's fault - it must be hard to share a screen with an established star who is chewing the scenery all around you. But all she did was talk down to everyone - I realize it's just the first episode but sheesh, I wouldn't put up with that. The other actors were fairly meh. The bearded guy has a weird way of speaking and the other guy was just dopey. I like Sabrina Jalees but I'm probably just biased because she's Canadian :). I don't think her role is going to be big enough to make a big enough impression on anyone, but I salute her for getting a prime-time gig. I think if you're going to build a show around an established actor who's had success in other comedic roles, you need to surround them with other people who are already funny by themselves, not put random people and try to write funny lines for them. Geez, it must be hell to put on a new show - it's no wonder a lot of them don't get much past the pilot (not that I'm wishing anything bad specifically on this show). And yes, I think Patricia might have done something cosmetic around her mouth - I'm not liking it, though she has a right to fix what she wants.
  23. "Why'd they make you see a psychiatrist?". Ross: "On account-a my rage". Funniest delivery ever of that line, gets me every time.
  24. I love the Anne of GG analogy - a very on point comparison. Totally geeking out that anyone remembers Anne's Story Club! LOL. A of GG is one of my favourite books ever.
  25. I appreciate reading your take on it, and yours is an interesting perspective. My view is that this is the first time you're meeting someone's parents - you can stand up for yourself without giving away your life story or "taking a stand". They don't care about monsters under the kid's bed - it would have been sufficient to say that the war was very real to him and give some examples of what he saw/experienced during the war. But just like fries come with a burger, drama comes with the Pearsons. I guess that was more my point. That, and that the Pearsons never miss an opportunity to give a speech when they have a captive audience. Though in retrospect, the war was obviously still fresh for Jack and affected his view of the world, so there's that, and its effects certainly shouldn't be minimized.
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