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  1. Agree, this one was so close to being good. Brolin was game and had fun. And the skits were better than most weeks. "Librarian-looking ass," 'ripping cheese farts" and the bank heist with swingin customers all were nice. The pacing of the bank skit was uneven, which was a shame. It revealed the two customers as swingers too soon, and showed visual gags too early before addressing them. Better pacing might have made that one a classic. Ariana Grande finally proved to me that she wasn't a robot. I had serious concerns in some of her earlier, almost programmed, appearances. This time she seemed ... human. It was actually too good. She basically did what Britt did. It was spot on, but not new or particularly funny. The weird "singing pop tunes like a musical and then end with Happy Birthday" was boring. Not sure what the point was, or why Bowen kept breaking. The shrimp tower was amusing. The cat who loved one guy was, too. Generally the show was an improvement over every ep this season except the one about GW and weights and measures. Not quite funny, yet.
  2. I think they did a disservice promoting the show as "Warrior." It is far more than that, and belongs in a category with Peaky Blinders, Hell on Wheels and Boardwalk Empire as a snapshot of history from a (varyingly accurate) specific perspective. The title and graphics make the show seem like a kung fu fighting show when it is so much more. I suspect it would have found a bigger audience with better promotion. That said, I am halfway through season 3 (after stumbling upon this show as I browsed). Yung Jun and Mai Lin have just been arrested. This really brings to life the fact that he ducks never failed to screw the Chinese, and rich ducks screwed poor ducks. Did your average, ethical person ever have a chance?
  3. You remember correctly. I saw the original Shogun as a teen, and was mesmerized by its spectacle. I remember Anjin as basically being shipwrecked, and finding his way in Japanese society. I don't remember grubby, scummy survivors, torture for fun and gratuitous sex. And that was just in the first 30 minutes of this new version. That as far as I got, and I turned it off. Hey, I love anti-heroes and have watched and enjoyed all of Sopranos, Breaking Bad and True Detective. Dark with purpose is fascinating. Dark that is there to shout, "Hey, look at ME - I'm dark!" is a waste of time. I'm out.
  4. I'm with you on that. I kept waiting for the joke. Have never seen the host in anything, nor the musical guest. I actually thought the musical guest was the more attractive of the two, FWIW. And Sydney Sweeney (sp) was weirdly unattractive in the bride sketch, you wouldn't think changing her hair would make her eyebrows look so weird. Sweeney was fine as a host (her monologue was decent), but once again the writing was lackluster. And this ep had a weirdly conservative bent, between the Biden criticism (implied), the Hooters sketch and the dudes/chicks at the restaurant solutions (feed dudes, tell women something about their moms). I cannot believe Trump waived at immigrants and then said they like him. That is what the clip showed, though. Oddly, nothing they did was unusual, even to me, and my age begins with a 6. Person over 35? FB. Look at relatives' or friends' pages to see if they are public? Check. The dating apps require a bit more work, but nothing secret squirrel. Those cops were clueless. That skit was certainly the most subtle skit - and I don't think the audience followed it. Maybe the show's current demographic doesn't use Air BnB? The shot about a hotel and an AirBnB costing about the same but one has a camera in the toilet was well done.
  5. In comparison to those around her, Navarro was doing well. She had a good job, and seemed to be a good cop. Depending on your POV, she did something that needed to be done when she shot the abusive guy AND she was able to live with it afterward as the right call. She wasn't in and out of mental facilities, or wandering off naked in the snow, or forcing scientists naked into a storm. Now, she feared *becoming* that way as you said, for a variety of reasons. But in terms of the present, I thought she was well adjusted. And in fact at the end I had hoped that resolving the mystery and murder might get her past her demons, and she would finally break free of her worries. Sadly, I think I am with those who think she killed herself, and what we saw at the end was Navarro's comforting presence in the mind of Danvers, who understood that her friend had to resolve her own issues. Can we pick which old, white, men wander into the ice? I have a list.
  6. And why did some of the native folks feel the need to wander into the ice and sure death? I've already posted that I, like you, can ignore the plot holes. I like the vibe and the characters (unlike, say, the recent season of Fargo, which made no damn sense to me in terms of characters and their actions and I quit watching 3 eps in). But why the flirting with suicide? After thinking about it more, I suppose the message could be that the eons-old, wise ways of native people are being pushed out by progress (powered by white men, literally in this show), and that pressure is essentially driving some native people mad because they prefer the old ways. If so, fine, though it seemed highly selective as to who was pushed to madness. Maybe the show wants us to think everyone will eventually be driven mad one way or another, and Navarre did kill herself to show one of the most well-adjusted native women was not unscathed. Still turning this thought over in my slow head. If that was the point, it's not a bad one. Nor, however, is it confined to indigenous natives. Even 65yo Republican white men don't like that the old ways are changing. Though it would be awesome if a few, selected examples would wander off into the ice, too. Note: I'm an old white man, I can say that.
  7. It’s clear that the NY live crowd, and many posters, aren’t Shane’s target audience. He knew it, and he lacked confidence. I’ve seen some of his stuff online, including the Down’s bits where he has benefited from how he looks, and it’s decent to good. But those were his crowds, and he owned his material there. Not last night. You could tell by how hesitant they were to laugh at anything that felt like it “wasn’t OK.” Like the mangled Down’s jokes. Aside from that, he wasn’t a good skit performer. Timing was off. Too bad, because there were some clever skits that might have killed with different delivery. Including the Packer BP skit. And the sex doll skit. And the HR work dating skit. The Trump shoes skit was a head scratcher. It should have been way funnier given how ridiculous those shoes are. This was the rare recent ep that had some good ideas, and the execution was poor. Most recent eps have lacked ideas at all.
  8. Thank you, but my comment was less about how common it was for people of the era to smoke than about why the show focuses on it so much. People ate, drank and pooped then, too, but the show doesn’t have 6-10 shots an episode of the characters eating or drinking. It’s a deliberate choice by the show for some kind of vibe, like neon signs and lights on Miami Vice, and it’s gross.
  9. The show was far, far better without Liz.
  10. All the fun has gone out of this show. It used to be about a quirky alien, his mission and his internal conflicts. Now it is about being pregnant, an alien egg that hatched, adoption and birth mothers and two precocious kids. Somehow a scifi show became a Hallmark movie. Losing interest fast.
  11. Was this show on the CW when it aired? Because it is feeling very CW, with mushy gushy who loves who and who really belongs with who. It’s annoying. I stopped watching The Flash a few years ago because of that.
  12. Not sure if this is supposed to be cute, but basically this ep just emphasizes that this town is filled with screw ups. Asta goes back to Jimmy? Darcy can’t manage dinner as an adult with her parents? Big Black feels crippling guilt because in a suspect chase he and his bro went… different ways and his bro was shot? And now an annoying daughter. If I were the alien, this behavior would not convince me to change the plan. The story of the 59 keeps getting more ridiculous. Heroes? Uh, sure.
  13. This repeating gag about the deputy wanting a raise is silly. She is a government employee, and therefore gets a raise at regular intervals regardless of performance.
  14. ITA, and this "call of the ice" theme was the one thing I never understood. It seems to be tied to loss, and how people deal with it. But as shown, either there is in fact some kind of unknowable, supernatural, call to wander the ice that appeals only to some people (all natives), or some natives (maybe a particular family) are prone to suicide. Either way, it doesn't need to be there. Danvers suffered loss. She didn't walk onto the ice. Junior Prior had the loss of whatever father figure he had AND his crumbling marriage. He didn't consider the ice. For some reason, committing suicide by wandering the ice appeals, or has a pull on, certain natives. I'm fine that something incidental has a tangential relationship to the actual murders and mining company shenanigans, that happens. But in this case, I'm not sure what the incidental thing was trying to say. I don't get caught up in who sleuthed what detail or whatever. A lot of TD is setting and mood for me, not exact logic. I enjoyed it overall, and I especially liked Danvers and Navarre, and the quietly strong native women.
  15. Catching up to this show ... the mayor and his wife are more annoying every episode. In the first season, it seemed like the mayor was wishy washy and insecure and the wife passively aggressively resented it. Never mind that the guy managed to become mayor, which, unless his dad was the prior mayor, requires at least some confidence and ability. Anyway, now they act like latent vampires, transfixed by blood and violence, and weirdly full of themselves. The being horny stuff actually didn't bother me. Having kids often takes that from a relationship, it's healthy that they have it after all the dithering, even if the cause is weird. I appreciate the show for its farce and absurdity. Logic doesn't belong here, not even in the characters' choices and actions. But why make two characters so annoying? Especially when they seemed to fix the sheriff at the end of last season?
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