Johnny Dollar

I love when Omar orders Marty to do something that is as close to impossible as it can get and then threatens his life if he can’t do it. Omar meets with Maya and can’t intimidate her to get him a deal, so what makes him think Marty can do any better? And who would launder his drug money if he has the Byrde family killed.

I’m glad this show is ending because I can’t take much more of the Whiney Three. They treat every problem that arises like they just awoke from a thirty year coma and don’t have a clue what they’re dealing with. Plus, most of the problems are of the “Welcome to the real world Pearsons!” variety. Sorry, Kevin, but there are a lot of working parents who don’t get to witness some milestones in their children’s lives. Sorry, Kate, but no one forced you to adopt another baby when you already were struggling caring for the one you already had. Sorry, Randall, but teens have sex and the fact that your daughter wasn’t already on birth control is a crimes. Sorry, St Jack, but the problem isn’t that your kid got lost in a mall, the problem is that you’re such a shitty parent that he didn’t know better than to walk off on his own. And you’d think since the other two kids who were so self aware that they knew what was happening with the Challenger explosion might have alerted you to the fact that their brother walked off. Having Kevin hook up with his TV daughter would do wonders for the fake tv show and his career when the news got out. And why does his new tv family need a manny anyway? Two adults and a 17 year old can’t handle two babies?

Sometimes this show creates mysteries through the flash backs and flash forwards that don’t pay off. Either Fogelman forgets about them, gets bored with them or runs out of time. Case in point is the mysterious person exiting the car at the cabin for Rebecca’s deathbed scene. Unless they’re going to devote half of the remaining episodes to Nicky and the flight attendant’s relationship, there just isn’t enough time for the viewer to care about this woman or why it was so important for her to be there.

These people are insufferable, self-pitying narcissists who quite literally think the world should stop for them. Kevin: “Oh! Why do bad things have to happen to our mother! Oh, why does my former not-girlfriend think that she can move on from me! Oh, why am I forced to make millions of dollars in a stupid sitcom instead of being able to practice my art?” Randall: “Oh! I’m a 41 year old man with a hot wife and gorgeous kids. How can someone like me have lost three parents (one I didn’t know and one I barely knew) and now am losing a fourth! Let me go give that robber a piece of my mind! Oh, he’s a drug addict who could’ve been any one of us (not really)! Why didn’t he feel the Randall magic and come to the shelter?” Kate: “Oh! Poor me has a husband who has to work hundreds of miles from home making a decent salary because we can’t live off of my part time minimum wage gig as a classroom aide! Oh, what kind of loser husband gets his stressed out wife a child free day at home along with a massage! I though he’d do something bigger from hundreds of miles away!” Even Nicky got into the act: “Oh! Poor nasty misogynistic me! Why isn’t this woman, who a had a four week fling with fifty years ago (and probably barely remembers) not searching the globe for her one true love!” This entire family needs to get over themselves. Bad stuff happens to everyone. Get therapy if you need it and move on already! Random thoughts: Even the reporters on the scene and the control tower didn’t know what was going on when the Challenger exploded. There were no Hindenburg “oh the humanity” proclamations at the time. The idea that 6 or 7 year old kids grasped what was going on before the teacher turned off the tv is ludicrous. Sorry, but the idea that the British guy left his “intelligent and beautiful” girlfriend because she was boring and eventually ended up with Kate is far-fetched at best. When did Kate become some sparkling conversationalist? And why would she go for such an arrogant prick like him? I find it hard to believe that he would last one minute with her once the Pearson Family drama begins.

I love that the worst thing that could be expected of the Roy children is that they be subjected to an honest and unbiased rating of their abilities. Heaven forbid! I love Tom’s angle, but I don’t know why he needs Greg. What does he bring to the fight that makes him an attack dog?

I got the impression that the guy Iggy was hiring was not a doctor but a cheaper assistant to replace Gladys. I still can’t believe the show got rid of Casey and Gladys, the only two likeable characters. The hospital’s negligent maintenance policies led to the avoidable deaths of about a dozen people. The whole facility would’ve been shut down to see what other shit they’ve got growing in there. Plus the lawsuits for negligence would’ve bankrupted the whole place.

I used to like Shiv because she reminds me of a friend who has the same hair, speech patterns and killer snarkiness (although significantly less money). But the way she treated Tom this episode and essentially threatened Gerri, who has to put up with her pervert brother, ranks her right up there with the shittiest behavior of dear old dad.

Max didn’t fire 148 people so his three friends could keep their jobs. That was the total number of staff that was fired to balance the budget. But Max did decide to save his three friends’ jobs at the expense of others that were not on the initial list. All the while knowing that he will be jetting off to London without having to deal with the consequences. What a great guy! Not sure why Bloom’s girlfriend wasn’t among those let go. Anyway, I’m sure Casey and Agnes and probably Kao will be back after the mid-season break. They’re some of the few likable characters left on this disaster.

Iggy - “You can’t unlock memories. That’s not a thing.” Helen - “Well what about my memory about my father pushing me and breaking my beads?” Iggy - “Not a thing. Are you sure he wasn’t pulling you towards him when the beads broke?” Helen - “Oh my God! He was pulling me towards him! Thanks for unlocking that memory for me.” Iggy - “Your welcome. What kind of a shrink would I be if I couldn’t help patient unlock repressed memories.” Me - 😑😑😑

It’s more likely a one of a kind piece by an up and coming artist that Bradley thought looked like something you buy at Crate & Barrel

Laura after Bradley gives her a $300 Crate and Barrel gift card: “That vase cost $30,000.”

Corey didn’t exactly come out of nowhere to take over for Fred. His backstory was that he was the hot shot, up and coming star promoted from their entertainment division to bring some life to the news. Having him promoted from the head of the news division to network president isn’t exactly a stretch. On the other hand, I have no idea who Stella is. And where was the Holland Taylor character last year when all this shit was going down. I want to know more about these characters before I can be expected to care about them.

Instead of just reminding Bradley that he’s the boss, Corey should’ve told her she’d be fired if she ever acted like that in front of the other staff again. Who the hell does she think she is? I feel they’re ruining the Corey character. They need to provide some back story for the Stella character to explain what she’s done to merit being the head of the entire network news department. But characters coming out of nowhere to take on major roles seems to be normal on this show (Hasan Minhaj, Holland Taylor, Stella, Julianna Margulies). Why is it that the background views of Manhattan always make it look like they’re in Hoboken? (the Alex/Laura interview, Alex’s apartment).

I must have missed the high rock faces suitable for climbing in the lower east side of Manhattan. Assuming the guy did his climbing somewhere more exciting, how many hospitals and ER’s did he have to pass to get to NA? I didn’t get the ICU story. Isn’t that just a ward where seriously ill patients recover for a bit after getting treatment somewhere else in the hospital? Why wouldn’t doctors from various depts just walk to the ICU to treat patients as needed? Are there really separate “ICU doctors”? And that extra complicated procedure that needed an entire team of highly trained medical personnel took less time than it takes to get an ekg. And don’t get me started on why Max was performing the procedure and not Floyd. I am already bored by all three of the Love Connections this season. All six of these people need to cool it already. Who acts like this at work? They’re not horny teenagers at the junior prom. Iggy’s brand of psych treatment hasn’t exactly been winning awards recently, so who thought it was a good idea for him to be passing on his questionable methods to the next generation of doctors? And where did all of these doctors come from anyway? I will assume that Lola was with Agnes while Max was doing his young lovers routine with Helen. Please let’s not give Ryan Eggold any kids in future projects. Karen seemed to have Max’s replacement first on her contacts list. It’s like she can’t wait to replace him. I miss Vijay. He was the heart and soul of the show and I’m surprised they haven’t tried to replace him with a similarly “veteran” character.

Roy is the epitome of an open book. If any part of his personality irks Keely, he has shown several times that he is more than willing to work on it. Since this show is being praised for being somewhat unconventional, it’s OK to have at least one of the main relationships succeed, without introducing a cliched triangle or forced conflict. Come on show. You’re better than that.

I was impressed that Freya didn’t launch into a lecture when she was required to make fresh butter. And I had no idea you could make butter with a mixer. Matt constantly tries too hard. He needs to learn that not all contestants can take his distracting shenanigans. Paul seems to be getting a little spongey. They don’t have a young, humble student this year, but Giuseppe will do.

So Masha’s super expensive therapy essentially boils down to “Here, take massive doses of hallucinogenics to deal with your grief” and “Hey, stop complaining about your problems. At least you’re not dead.” Seems like that could’ve been done for much less money in a day or two.

Jamie can claim that he’s knowing acting like the man he can be, but he still can’t hold a fucking candle to Roy Kent. If Keely even looks Jamie’s way then they’ve been misrepresenting her character all season.

The ending was definitely how Frances’s book would read. They showed her taking down notes, then they cut to everyone’s happily ever after, then they cut back to the restaurant with Tony falling asleep in his seat. A very disappointing finale. I don’t know how the book ended but this was a big letdown.

This show, Brooklyn 99 and The Blacklist were the last shows I was watching on network or cable TV. Everything else I watch is on a streamer. B99 has ended and I wrote off The Blacklist last year when they killed off both Lizzie and the whole reason for the show to exist. After this first episode, I should start sharpening my cord cutting scissors.

Is it really that difficult to believe that people fall so easily for this scam when you see how many people believe that the election was “stolen” or get their information about the COVID vaccine for their cousin‘s friend’s husband’s enlarged testicles?

So, Bradley was plucked out of obscurity to co-host TMS. The show blew up, but she was left standing. After being there less than a year, with the ratings tanking, she thinks she deserves to be be the anchor of the nightly news? She’s lucky she still has a job. And if the way she got Corey’s job back is by simply telling the board what Hannah told her, she’s no great hero for simply speaking the truth. She should be kissing Corey’s ring for sticking up for her.

The portrayal of Atlantic City was depressingly spot on.

With all the hallucinating going on, we don’t know if Masha was imagining Carmel was her shooter. However, with only one episode left, it’s gotta be somebody we’ve seen before. I’m hoping it’s Glory who feels slighted for not getting enough credit for the great smoothies they’re whipping up. But if it is Carmel, why wouldn’t she go after her ex husband’s new wife instead of some woman who had a meaningless fling with her husband?

Is it possible to get a contact high from watching a tv show, because I can’t remember if I hallucinated some of the shit from this episode. Was there a scene where Carmel was dancing to Xanadu one minute, and then put a white colored contact lens in her eye in the next minute? Adult Frances still feels the loss of her father when she was ten, but eleven year old Frances was the life of the party. The Jessica and Ben characters’ sole purpose seems to be to fill out the slate to make the title accurate. While many fatal heart attacks are caused by undiagnosed pre-existing conditions, overdosing on acid ain’t helping matters. Taking hallucinogenic drugs so that you can imagine being with your dead kid seems like a very short term solution to a literal lifelong problem. Aren’t they getting to the end of the week-long stay already? Masha keeps talking about adjusting doses like she’s still got a few months to get it right. Every actor in the cast deserves an Emmy for not busting out laughing over some of this dialogue. Except Nicole who’s been in too much of this kind of shit lately to not take some of the blame.