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This ain’t King of Queens. I don’t think the show presents itself as only a sitcom. I think it tries to be more like “All in the Family.” How long have we been visiting the hospital now? All four episodes this season? The Connors doesn’t reset each episode. Also, many things that happen in the show aren’t funny. Having a preemie isn’t amusing. Having a drinking problem isn’t ha ha. Cheating on two people who love you isn’t a laugh. As a result, it doesn’t make sense to view it simply as a sitcom. Hence my earlier comments.

It’s impossible to get into this show when it continues to dive deeply into consequences of stupid actions, and expects viewers to have any sympathy for anyone. Darlene, don’t want “a messed up life?” Make a decision. Jackie seems pretty spot on. Even David figured it out before you did. Can we return to issues that they have to figure out, that aren’t caused by them acting like idiots? The high cost of health insurance or medicine maybe. The city putting a crappy project in their poor neighborhood. A car accident with a celebrity driver. Dan approaching retirement age and trying to figure out what to do as his body aches. More on gender identity. So many options. Something that allows the characters to show their perspective from who they are, and maybe we can all learn something and appreciate it. Right now it’s like watching someone drive recklessly and wreck their car, and then complain endlessly that they don’t have a car.

Awful. Characters making dumb decisions and having to - surprise! - deal with consequences. If you all would just act like adults your lives would be much better. “I didn’t plan any of this” is a load of avoidance horse shit. Katy Segal is great.

Chance the Rapper was very natural and up for anything. But the sketches were all meh. Space Mistake? I kept waiting for it to go somewhere and it just kept repeating the obvious, which actually was just the truth (mistakes in space can be deadly). Everything seemed to take forever to develop. Tasty Treat was probably the best but once the joke was apparent... nada. Jason Mamoa... let your freak flag fly!

But I recall Happy telling the brothers that "I was supposed to kill them both; I screwed up." Isn't that what he said? And if Dita is signing the checks, then I'm asking why Dita would have wanted the man she loved killed. That's just shrewish, and maybe that's what it is meant to be. But seems odd given Dita still seems to care for Felipe.

Heh. I watched almost all of SOA, heard that Sam Crow term multiple times, and still never put that together. I just thought it was a weird nickname for white bikers. Thank you for that. I don’t know how any of these clubs get business done with all the infighting. Loved seeing The Scotsman again. He was the only one who seemed to have a strategic grasp. Potter losing it in front of the brothers was a good thing. They are getting to him. Why would Dita issue a hit on both Felipe and his wife? She loved Felipe when he walked away. Seems like it would be more her style to take out the wife and try to then move in. Is she that vindictive?

Given his new role as minister of state security, he could say almost anything - including that he had confronted the deceased about suspicious behavior and when confronted, the deceased killed himself, proving Whiterose is in fact an excellent security minister. This would also allay any suspicions anyone had about Whiterose being gay and that person was his partner. Did we? Did he look different? I didn't notice #3, but I was in and out of the room. Elliott definitely has more overall confidence at times in dealing with Mr. Robot. Putting aside perception is often reality, so maybe, your take was my take as well. But by going with what was surprisingly working, Elliott avoided a dead end. I kind of liked it because I like when characters do smart things. I like to think he pulled it off by finding a way (we didn't see yet) that didn't implicate the woman, but I guess we'll see. WTH is the Congo project?! Bringing back the dead boyfriend? It's something that can be shipped. DNA? His body? Unformed clones?

Emily gets dumber every episode. If someone asks you if a “suicide” won’t happen again, and you as far as anyone knows had nothing to do with it, the answer “of course it won’t” makes no sense. Instead, you just confirmed that you did have something to do with it. Miguel should have called her on it. i didn’t believe Coco’s daughter from the moment she gave her story to her dad. EZ is right, they don’t know if they really are the good guys yet. Nor do we. And what’s the plan now? Let them sleep in the yard? And the whole “we let Vatas move in, nothing else happens until we kick ass!” thing was amusing.

It was good to see everyone again, but also, El Camino was indulgent. While sociopath Todd was no doubt fun for the show to return to, those flashbacks weren't necessary (the show contrived to make them important by tying in Todd's hidden money and Jesse's attempt to find it, but there were 100 other ways to go) and we already knew what happened to the people in them, so meh. Meanwhile, just about every "current" scene with Jesse took forever to unfold. This is BB's pacing at times, but it seemed constant in El Camino. The genius of BB has always been attention to detail around how seemingly small actions or events become much larger in meaning, and there was a lot of that here. This works when it plays for humor (Skinny Pete and Badger) or meaning (Old Joe scanning the El Camino for LoJack). Other times it just seems pointless. I most enjoyed the "previously" segment, walking us through BB. So many awesome moments and memories. Aaron Paul's head is a lot more round than I remember.

I’m really enjoying this season. It feels like a bit of a reset from the mess last season. And if finally gets us past the Original Sin of what the hell F Society thought would happen after they brought down the system. The fact there is another personality is meh for me. If there are two there could be three or more. Maybe a lot of characters we have seen are Elliot. How this show touches on White Rose’s long-term plans and the parallels to China IRL interests me.

Oscar was wonderful and brilliant. Bert and Ernie ... wow. That bit belongs in my favorite SNL bits of all time, along with Dick in a Box. They could have just used the actual SS characters, but the reimagined then. Liked Snuffy a lot. David H was game for anything, nice job.

That was fantastic. It was like a movie. I love how they moved away from some of the convoluted plots of last season and made it more about people who are doing simple things and dealing with consequences. Much more impactful.

That ep didn’t have the usual eye rolls for me. Most of the actions made sense. It all played out without any ridiculousness aside from Potter lining up Good n Plenty. I did chuckle when Marlin knew EZ from high school. EZ can never catch a break. I didn’t understand the mercs. They seemed to focus on silly things. The hook of SOA was Jax, who seemed like a decent person, wanting out of the club and starting a straight life. Mayans doesn’t have that. Everyone is a criminal or corrupt or weird (Potter). EZ seems to like the club. Emily is just a cartoon. There’s no one to root for.

Agree. Haven’t cracked a smile through the gas station heist. Oh wait, “white male” shows promise. Ok, the news skit with keeping score by race was good. Like a synopsis of online society. I remember when Taylor Swift first appeared and performed live on a daytime show... Good Morning America maybe, on a stage in a street. And I thought she was a terrible singer, just off key and weak voiced. And I remember thinking, “she won’t amount to much.” And she took off. She has improved since then. The lyrics to the first song was sophomoric though. Did Trump actually suggest a moat at the border? Loved the Trump and Lenny comparison. “Strong,” heh. R Kelly joke... ouch. It’s funny because it’s true! Wait, no it’s not. A sophomore at Vassar who drinks out of a metal straw and its such a performance? So many great lines in that WU segment.

Wow, virtually nothing happened in this episode aside from family drama. This was the least testosterone fueled ep on the season. Why does anyone care that EZ and Angel age related to Miguel? It’s a thing I guess. But what difference does it make?

I can see a difference between the original post and yours, without either being wrong. Yes, Roseanne, and then The Connors, have always been about blue collar, lower socioeconomic people. But my recollection of the original show, and some of the beginning of this reincarnation, is that the family dealt with things that happened to them more than dumbass decisions by them. One of the most pointed and impactful (and brief) statements from the return of Roseanne was when Roseanne matter-of-factly noted how all the neighbors had to share and trade medications because they were so expensive. That's a real thing, and it's cause isn't the Connors being dolts. Sure, they might have gone to college and had careers that allowed them to pay for meds, but also they are just people who didn't and that's OK. But having babies while single at a late (for babies) age and with no real career to support them, and being dishonest to two men you ostensibly love, and leaving your kids alone to do whatever while you are two-timing, are all boneheaded choices. And this show seems to skew that way now, and it's more annoying than anything else.

I’m not sure we know when Harris made the cookies and who was home and charged with watching her. Given Harris’ age (she should be able to stay home alone at this point), I don’t know that there was any clear expectation that Dan should notice anything or even be home. In addition, do pot cookies smell different than regular cookies or are they mostly regular cookies with some pot in them? Maybe there wasn’t much to notice. Darlene’s kid buys weed, says it isn’t a big deal and then, among other things perhaps, makes cookies with it. That’s a parenting issue, though admittedly this family sort of co-parents (badly).

I don’t know who is writing the show these days, but they would be hard pressed to find plots I like less than a premie baby and whiney guilt, a snarky teen selling pot cookies and not caring it is illegal, and a love triangle with a decent guy and a proven loser from the past. I’ve posted before that these characters make stupid decisions. Fine. But if you make them, own them. Try to be a baby machine at what, 37? 40? Yep, there are risks. Complain about men but then don’t be honest to two who love you? You get what you deserve. Refuse to follow basic laws? Go to jail and get suspended. And Darlene blames her dad? Good grief. Next.

I enjoyed BE, and understood most of her lyrics. There was a lot of breaking up at the end... the audience enjoys it but supposedly Lorne doesn’t. I do wonder if wardrobe lady will be fired. I hope not. I also kind of enjoyed WU with straight jokes and no characters. Most of the characters annoy me and I FF through them. Oh wait... Big Papi was on. I FF’d through it.

That was both horrible and annoying. Crying babies and accusatory Cam and needy Manny. Ugh. I did like Cam’s double entendres.

OK, for some reason my phone posted the text below in a thread for "Chesapeake Shores," which is hilarious. I don't know what that is, but it doesn't seem to be anything like Mayans MC! Anyway: So none of the Mayans who ran into the Swole Boys before told anyone else in any of the MC’s about them? And so when they appeared in the same territory there was no plan. Also, the Swole Boys are dumbasses. And also? The way Bishop and the T-1000 each manage to avoid accusing, or even accepting, that anything was the other's fault was so much like like in the corporate world, between people trying extra hard to "lead," that it cracked me up. That allows saving face but is hugely inefficient and creates a blameless culture. Meanwhile, Angel and EZ get into a fight in front of Happy, and then have a heart to heart about it that he can hear? For a moment I really hoped it was a ploy to get Happy to say something. Should have known. Happy should have lied and fingered anyone but the actual shot caller. It would have caused all sorts of issues for the brothers and he wouldn’t have been a snitch. And the analyst thinks lying to Galindo is a better idea than going to him with the truth? Ugh. Can Felipe simply refuse to meet Dita? He doesn't seem to enjoy the meetings.

So none of the Mayans who ran into the Swole Boys before told anyone else in any of the MC’s about them? And when they appeared in the same territory there was no plan. Also, the Swole Boys are dumbasses. Meanwhile, Angel and EZ get into a fight in front of Happy, and then have a heart to heart about it that he can hear? For a moment I really hoped it was a ploy to get Happy to say something. Should have known. Happy should have lied and fingered anyone but the actual shot caller. It would have caused all sorts of issues for the brothers and he wouldn’t have been a snitch. Heh, the T3 appears in Mayans! And the analyst thinks lying to Galindo is a better idea than going to him with the truth? Ugh. The IQ of the characters in this show is very low. I forget, why is Bishop now in a suit and no patch and bike? EDIT: What the heck is Chesapeake Shores and why am I here? Damn you, iPhone! Looking at some of these posts, could there be two shows more different? This is hilarious. Cheers.

The Wilmington Beach woman has a problem with reality. It’s a vacation house. You’re what, 30? 34? You want a big house, on the beach, with a layout that resembles what you liked as a kid, for an affordable price? Think about it, lady. “And I have wanted forever” a beach house. Yeah, forever. The husband was trying so hard to be realistic, including flood insurance costs, though given they want a place by the ocean, yeah, you’ll have to have some, dude. I feel sorry for the guy.

A sensible, dramatic story at the close fell way, way behind trying to be clever and poetic and tie loose ends together. Bye, show. Some good moments. Our characters live on.

One thing I’m sure of is that Emily is going to screw up this bribery thing, and/or she is being set up. She’s so full of herself, for no reason. Was Potter’s female agent partner on the show last season? I don’t remember. I find her very attractive, with the attitude. Anyone else expect the cop’s mom to say, “Owen, get me a Coke!” My goodness, do all of these people have a past together? At least the poor hooker is still alive. And the music continues to be depressing.