Johnny Dollar

I just finished The Morning Show. Martin Short played a “Woody Allen” like director friend to Steve Carell’s “Matt Lauer” type morning show host.

I seriously can’t recall a more boring character in a somewhat “prestige” show than Masha.

Every one of her recent roles seems to call for a character who is very enigmatic. With the way her face doesn’t move anymore, she can’t help but appear enigmatic! I read that Nicole stayed completely in character at all times on set. Since Melissa seems to be the type to keep things loose, I wonder how that went over with the others?

This might be a stretch, but Napoleon Marconi = Ted Lasso

Maybe she can join up with Dr Max Goodwin in the NBC Extended TV Universe. Agnes and Luna can be sisters. I, for one, will not miss her. They should pair Red up with Donald and let hijinks ensue.

St. Jack Pearson sure did turn out some seriously messed up adults. Beth missed an opportunity to teach her daughter all about selflessness. The world doesn’t revolve around her. Nobody wants to wear brides maids dresses so suck it up for a few hours. I predict that Toby cheats on Kate, which leads to the breakup. Heaven forbid a Pearson would ever be blamed for screwing up their life.

I stopped watching this show when the idea of Lizzie becoming some super criminal with the ability to take on both the feds and Red Reddington became too preposterous. But I have one question for the brave souls who have stuck with it. What happened to Agnes?

Next on New Amsterdam. Max solves global warming by getting Elon Musk to give everyone a free Tesla. Hey Max. All people need to get online is a Chromebook and Amazon has them for about $200. No need to give them $5,000 laptops to watch YouTube. And giving someone access to the internet to better educate them is kind of an oxymoron. If Helen can afford to live in a ballroom with a full wall of windows, and Bloom has a room big enough to grow a redwood, then Max should be able to afford a nanny for not-Agnes. The neurology department seemed to be staffed with quite a few veteran doctors that might have been a better choice to be interim chair than a kid just out of med school The title of this episode is “Disconnected”. Which is very appropriate considering how disconnected from reality this show is getting.

Two quick surveys: Who has the worse parent: Luna (daughter of Max Goodwin) or Agnes (daughter of Tom Keane)? Is Iggy worse at being a psychologist or being a friend?

Well, she sleeps with the show’s creator, so I imagine she gets a lot of this at home. Just imagine what their conversations are like when discussing what to have for dinner. “Well, my dad once said that a real man isn’t afraid to let his wife grill a steak...”

Giving up part of your job and breaking up with your boyfriend because your 16 year old niece who you’ve never met before will be coming to live with you makes about as much sense as leaving your wife and job because your mother can’t figure out how to give herself an insulin shot despite having two other children fully capable of helping her.

Brett Goldstein is perfect as Roy, so the fact that he was initially hired only as a writer is quite impressive. He’s like a literal “Nate the Great”!

The show lost a few episodes last season when COVID shut everything down, so the DDK/Helen relationship must’ve started at the end of last year. The state limits how many opiates can be prescribed at one time, so I don’t know why Max felt he had to control how many pills he’s doling out. And once a patient has left the hospital, why aren’t they seeing other doctors for follow up care? Does the guy in Long Island schlepp into the city every time he needs a refill? Pardon the pun, but Ella was more like Ella-phant with her 15 month gestation. Couldn’t tell if Floyd’s hospital lost three patients or three staff to COVID. Seems like they should’ve clarified that.

New drinking game. You take a shot of tequila every time someone calls their SO “babe”. If you can make it through the “This Is Us will be back in exactly one minute” break, you win.

While I can’t complain about the quality of the actors in S3, the transition from S2 to S3 was quite jarring. S2 ended with the birth of Andrew in March of 1964 and S3 picked up with Wilson’s ascension to PM in October of the same year. I love HBC but even she can’t pull off playing a 34 year old Margaret. And poor Michael Adeane looked like he aged forty years over those seven months. It would’ve been better to age the main actors from S2 then carry on the story line so soon from 2 to 3.

I haven’t read the books, but I understand that each one concentrates on a different Bridgerton child. I predict that future seasons will feature story points from more than one book because they could never film eight series before the actors start to get too old. As it is now, Hyacinth looks like she’s fifteen. Plus they would want to keep the hot Duke and Duchess in more of the story, and not have them off at Clyvedon popping out babies.

You forgot about Franklin’s maid. She looks guilty as sin.

Thanks for that. You are doing God’s work. Mrs Dollar commented that this show could’ve been a two hour movie. It seems she was off by about an hour. It could maybe be stretched out to an SVU episode.

I guess Henry would rather be in the percussion section of the school orchestra and not strings.

I’m confused by the flashback scenes of Beth and her mother before the suicide. Wasn’t Beth much younger when she was first sent to the orphanage? Wikipedia tells me that there was a five year old version of Beth. Why was it the older Beth in the flashback?

The scene of Grace on the video in Elena’s neighborhood reminded me of two Jason Batemans on The Outsider. Maybe Cynthia Erivo’s character from that show will pop up. Lord knows this show could use the excitement.

I’ve seen rainbow colored bagels at plenty of shops in NJ. Other than that part of the challenge, I though making a basic plain bagel wasn’t much of a challenge. And Paul’s bagels looked much to puffy and roll-like for my taste. I don’t know about Matt yet. His interactions with Noel are childish, and when he accompanies P&P to judge the contestants, he never seems to add much.

All style and no substance. And the 1930’s style background music was very distracting.

Abbey Lee cannot act. I assume that her character will become more important as the story unfolds, and I don’t have faith in her ability to keep up with the others actors. Wikipedia tells me that Elizabeth Debicki was originally cast in that role but had to drop out for some reason. That’s quite a drop off in talent.

Shea Whigam, Stephen Root, Tim Van Patten and now Gretchen Mol makes this quite the Boardwalk Empire reunion. Not that I’m complaining. Now if they could only find a role for Jack Huston.