Aryanna

I'm like you. I'll keep watching but it's not nearly as fun as it once was. It really feels like they should wrap it up. I'd like to see a good finale with some old characters coming back for a nice send-off to the series.

I loved Tina's response when Linda said her canoe sank. "Of course it did."

I saw that on a newsfeed. The headline said Heartland actor dies. I was like who is it? Didn't recognize his name. Looked it up and he was on one episode.

Bev has definitely been more tolerable this season. I agree that Adam was a jerk to Dave Kim. Also calling people by their first and last name has been a Goldbergs thing since the beginning. If it's a joke, I still don't get it. I don't remember who but one of the friends asked why do we come here. I agree. The Goldbergs were particularly jerky to their friends on this episode.

Is it just me or does Hasselhoff look like Caitlin Jenner wearing a Bruce Jenner wig? I liked Bev's liar shirt. Adam staying home is such a sitcom contrivance.

Gene: You wrote queef instead of queen. Fishoeder: That wasn't s typo. lol

meh The show felt sad and not because Murray was gone. It felt sad bc it's a shadow of its former self. All the sit-commy tropes used to get everyone under the same roof was lame. All the kids have outgrown their roles. It's obvious most of them are pushing 30 now. My willing suspension of disbelief is seriously waning. I miss Lainey. I miss George Segal. Judd Hirsch's character is pretty much 180° from Segal's Pop Pop and that's not a character that I wanna spend time with. I miss Murray (i know there are issues there but i haven't really paid attention to that. I just know the character i see on my tv). I miss Johnny Atkins and all the other colorful side characters. The Goldbergs have become too insulated and their world feels empty bc of all the characters they've lost. The JTP was the best part of this episode. I'm not sure I can make it through this season. I'll probably watch the next episode though.

Didn't even know it was back on yet. I'll check it out to see how it goes. I was bored with at the end of last season. I hope to make through this season but idk...

I agree with you in the real world. I just read it as the show being humorous and taking a jab at her insignificance.

I may be wrong here but I think Poppy going back to Oklahoma and not being noticed/recognized is a comment on how insignificant she is/was.

Steve Martin moving in slo mo is classic Steve Martin. Even though I don't always follow the plot well, I love this show. I'm excited for season 3.

I'm just glad the Oliver and Teddy elevator fight didn't end up like the elevator fight in Drive. Can you imagine that? A lighthearted, funny who-done-it turning into an ultra violent, bloody action show from there on out. My mind goes to some wierd places. I think I may need cliffs notes when this is done.

I've got a lotta thoughts... I get that the coming out party at the deb ball is supposed to be analogous to Belly's coming out of a dorky childhood to a pretty young adult so I expected her to be the belly of the ball, so to speak. I mean...it is the summer she turned purdy. But it ended up being more about everyone finding out about the cancer. That seemed an odd choice. But this show seems to be filled with odd choices. It feels exactly like what it is, a coming of age story written by people much older and it's written from their perspective now rather than as it really is when you're young. They've either forgotten what young adulthood is like or it's a fantasy of what they wanted it to be like. The underage drinking is one thing that shows it's written from an older person's perspective. I agree with what others have said on here about that. Underage drinking happens but not like on these shows where the parents know about it and are okay with it. And getting alcohol was much more difficult for me and my underage friends when I was a teen. And as others have said on this thread, the smoking was handled poorly as well. Which I know sounds odd coming from me, a smoker (trying to quit). But when I was young you'd still get in trouble for smoking. Especially smoking weed. I know it doesn't have the same stigma now as it used to but I still find it odd that teens can smoke weed when they want and their parents don't mind or don't do anything about it. Some of this show feels like a middle aged woman's fantasy. Susannah making out heavily with a dude at a bar. Laurel having sex in a car. And then for her daughter to say "I think my mom got railed tonight." Eww. Who says that? And about their mom. I know my parents had to have sex for me to be here but I didn't even want to give that a seconds thought. And then Belly turning pretty and toying with three different guys feels like a middle aged woman's fantasy of what her teen years would've been like if she had just taken her glassed off and gotten her braces off and been pretty. At first I got a Kissing Booth vibe from it with her growing up with these brothers and crushing on one of them for years. And the beach setting reminded me of the last Kissing Booth movie. But this seemed to deal more in melodrama. Conrad being all moody didn't work for me. Yeah I get why he was but it came across as teen girl angst of "I'm obviously upset but I'm not gonna tell you why because I want you to notice and ask me" rather than being heartbroken bc his mom is dying. I liked the location but I feel it should've been used more and better. Like on Breaking Bad how the desert was used as a character itself. This should've used the locale as a character. Idk maybe the production didn't have the money to do that. As it went on I found myself having this show on in the background while I folded laundry or scrolled Insta rather than paying attention to it. I didn't love any of the characters. The storyline wasn't great. I don't think I'll be back for season 2.

I love their kitchen. All the boys in the house are super douches. Especially Conrad. He was getting drunk on white wine? Is he a suburban mom? If this doesn't get better quick I may be having to drop out of this one.

So Belly is one of those dorky girls who takes off her glasses and then she's pretty. Kinda cliché.

Yeah if they'd accept what their lives became in a healthy manner and made the best if it. Maybe try to correct their mistakes and grow as a person instead of going back in time to fix it.

But social media wasn't like what it is today. Back then Facebook was still a big deal and most people interacted with it on a computer instead of their phone. Remember the iPhone was only 2 years old in 2009 and quite expensive. And there weren't a lot of good, cheaper options available. I turned on CC for that and still didn't completely understand it. The actor playing Cam spoke so fast and not very clearly.

With time travel stories there's always the question of cause and affect. This show also throws in the question of expectation vs reality. At 12 years old these girls have grandiose ideas of what they will become and how their life will turn out. Pretty much every 12 year old does. But seeing their older selves is making them face reality. Erin certainly didn't think she'd grow up to be estranged from her sister or be a middle aged single, paralegal, alcoholic. But those are the mundanities of life. Now that she's seen this, can she change the outcome? Can she prevent herself from dying in the robot? Mac thought she could eventually get out of her home life situation and get out of town but found out that she doesn't even make it out of childhood. She doesn't want to die but it she doesn't then does her brother continue down a dead end path? Does her stepmom drink herself to death? If Tiffany never gets expelled from MIT then her institute may never be established. Does that mean time travel is never discovered? Tiffany thought she'd grown up and realized all of her childhood dreams but did achieving that cause the time war and possibly the unraveling of the fabric of time? If KJ had never seen her older self would she show any interest in film or film studies? Would she be a lesbian? There was really no indication of either before she saw her older self. I just hope they don't go the direction of all four girls growing up to live out their dreams now that they've seen a possible future. That's just not how life works and it's a trite lesson to try to teach. Not everyone can be special. There are middle age paralegals. KJ will probably not be a famous filmmaker. She would probably end up a YouTuber and a slave to the algorithm suffering from burnout. Although for Mac growing up and living a normal life is probably a dream for her.

I guess I was wrong in my theory about Tiffany growing up to be the priores. It got a little confusing for me too. I do hope it comes back bc I don't like being left hanging. As for streaming vs the old days, 10-15 episodes seems to be the norm now. I was on peacock browsing through shows and saw the old Leave It To Beaver was like 40 episodes per season. Crazy!

This felt like real girls. I'm a little tired of movies and TV shows writing male characters but casting a female in the role because they think that empowers women. No, write women as they actually are. That makes them relatable.

Am I the only one thinking that Tiffany grows up to be the lady that's hunting them?

That's where I know him from. I haven't watched Riverdale in a minute. I've heard the most recent season is bad so don't know if I'll ever watch it.

I think that's what we're supposed to think. Really it's all just a retcon.

I think Cara Delavingne is pretty but it's like she's doing everything she can to counteract her attractiveness. I know you could make the argument that it's for the character but I think that's just how she is in real life.

Ummmm...what? It was the key to the entire film. It explained why CFK was like he was. I like her. Yeah, I think she can be smug when it comes to her politics but I think she's really clever and funny.