Abra

I'm pretty sure that was KT calling people to the stage over the intercom, including I think Charles with an added "God help us" or some such added to the request for his Pickwick Triplet's number 😂

Gut Milk sighting! Also a reminder that there's a Speculation Without Spoilers thread you can use instead of putting them in the individual episode threads:

What AI writing? The only thing they used AI for was the opening credits.

All of those pods to store humans in to get their brain goodies, but G'iah has to look up Rosa Dalton info on a computer from the 90s? Okay. Also I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but if I'm supposed to feel sympathetic to G'iah because she's suspecting Gravik isn't all he's cracked up to be then they really missed the mark when they had her feed false info to her father and help murder 2,000+ civilians. The best way she can redeem herself is to die at the end of the series doing something 'noble' to make up for all the horror she's helped to cause. I supposed Rhodey could be a Skrull, but I was also wondering if his attitude was either a way of protecting Fury or like a preset routine the two of them had to throw off his Skrull Security. Love Olivia as Sonya. I would have liked a scene of her quipping her way along that escape route. I also thought she was going to pop up somewhere right in front of G'iah as she was sneaking around, but alas. I'm not surprised Nick is married to a Skrull, but it's curious that he looked around the entryway as if it was newly decorated to him, and yet his wife wasn't surprised to see him. And how was she feeling about him being in space all that time since the Blip? Unless he snuck down to see her over the years (?) and didn't tell anyone else. And yeah, I have to say I wasn't expecting to see them showing someone's finger getting tortured off, even if it became Skrull green. I'm still pissed that they fridged Maria. Really hoping she turns out not to be dead later on, but that's no doubt my wishful thinking. I'm wondering who her mother is supposed to be, aside from I guess a member of the US government?

But does he have an avocado farm?

I think that's probably old, because he still has long hair as of a couple of weeks ago per his Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/drneuter/). He did mention a lung+lymph node biopsy in a recent post, and responded to someone mentioning treatment on his lymph nodes in another post. Edit: Just a warning that his IG has a lot of graphic unblurred animal wound photos if you're squeamish.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences, or “ACEs,” quiz asks a series of 10 questions about common traumatic experiences that occur in early life. Question 1: Did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often… Swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you? Nate easily has at least one check mark on this quiz, clearly from a lifetime of this from his father. And then all the team bullying until Ted came along. We don't get to decide if someone's life experiences are "worthy" enough of being traumatic to them (and that goes for ourselves as well); our bodies and our nervous systems decide if something is a trauma and those get reflected outward by our physical responses and our behaviors if we don't process that trauma. Now, just because Nate is an asshole - and there's no excuse for that behavior, truly fuck him for how he's acted and his "redemption arc" or whatever the hell the show is doing with his plot is not nearly good enough to address/acknowledge his behavior - that also doesn't mean he didn't experience emotional abuse. I'd guess he's got a good amount of emotional neglect from his dad as well, another potential point on scale.

All right I can't take this anymore. Dr. Jacob is the unethical one. You know, the guy Michelle trusted with her hopes and dreams and fears and insecurities and vulnerabilities that he maintains full knowledge of to present himself and his actions to her in the best light possible - that guy?

Wait wait wait Keeley's dress was brown/beige with polka dots and not maroon...right? This isn't another instance of The Dress, is it?

There's no way Coach Beard hasn't been pegged. He just knows better than to tell Jane, so he has to let her leave her little hints so she doesn't get crazy jealous. Again.

My emetophobic ass is begging the Ted Lasso gods to not include another puking scene ever again (although the bit with the whole Cheerios gave me a chuckle). I needed the team to help clean up Sam's restaurant and then I thought it wasn't going to happen and then it did and then we found out the restaurant was named after Sam's dad? Oh, my heart. I miss little Phoebe; she had scenes before Roy got with Keeley so there's no point in hiding her away now that they've broken up. Although I kind of feel like the show is having trouble handling some of its larger cast of characters with storylines, even with these much longer episodes. But that's partly because I don't like the way some of those storylines are being handled (Keeley, Nate, even Rebecca). Me watching season one would never believe I'd love Jamie Tartt the way I do now, but here I am.

The team isn't doing well because they haven't been trained to be a team since Zava came on board. They were trained to do whatever needed to be done to help Zava score. Now that Ted's had a moment where he knows can handle a panic attack and he's speaking up about less happy feelings and gave his rousing speech this episode, hopefully we're moving forward in getting our boys back to winning shape together. I don't like the idea of an easy Nate redemption arc. I know this is a feel good show but his bad behavior is so toxic across multiple levels that I'm concerned that it's just going to be baklava with Jade and realizing Rupert's a dick and then he's all apologetic to Ted and everything's forgiven. Keeley and Jack is not a good look given their work everything. Hopefully it can be just a one-time fling and they handle it maturely and move on, because - like Sam and Rebecca (for more than one reason there) - it's inappropriate. The woman who plays Jade was not in Love, Actually - what in the world? She had to have been born in the 90s. I want all the good things for Colin and his coming out. I saw a Tumblr post referring back to Nate's horrid comments in season 2 about how Colin doesn't inspire or move anyone. I don't think that will be the case this season.

Someone please explain why people are assuming an episode written by Brett Goldstein is a way to process the end of Jason Sudeikis's relationship with Olivia Wilde? And that therapist Dr Jacob is a stand in for Harry Styles? Anyone? Someone is going to pull something with all the reaching. I hate Nick Mohammed for being so good that I enjoyed bumbling Nate this episode (I hooted at the site of him in the corner of the elevator like he was in the damn Blair Witch Project), and let me tell you I really hate Nate right now. I respect your talent Nick, but you have a lot of work to do!

The mom and whatever home environment she has for her poor kid to be acting out like that the entire school year is the problem, not Janine. Please replace the character of Ashley with anyone else played by June Diane Raphael, who was a gem as she always is. Ashley isn't even fun in sporadic doses. I had to rewind and watch Jacob's reaction to Barbara requesting help from him several times. I love them together.

Are you saying they're cutting out parts within scenes, or just cutting the ends of scenes to allow for commercials? I have ad free Hulu and I've always noticed that they clearly end scenes a certain way so they can cut to commercials for the ad-tier subscribers, but I just never saw the ads because of my subscription plan. Or are you recalling specific parts from the show that just don't exist on the rewatch?