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This ep didn't ask Hader to do much, and so he did well. Not sure what might happen if he is asked to carry more. Already not a fan of watching shows about actors, and if his character now becomes successful as an actor, not sure Hader can handle that. We'll see. I hope the show focuses more on the hit man stuff, with the acting being secondary and the fact both exist being the main point. Root's commentary about a mark recognizing Barry during a hit was spot on. More of that approach, please. I have no interest in yet another sad tale about the lives of actors. OK, let's not get crazy after one episode!

Another ep I stopped watching halfway through. These shows where everyone acts so ridiculous are not enjoyable for me. Going to Oprah's as a life goal was bad enough, but stealing something from her house? ALL of them traveling on vacation together again? Really? Needing to look more prosperous, or feel more special ... ugh. MF is best when they are dealing with real family events, that mirror real life (graduation, running into an X, careers, etc.) and then adding their own little quirks and personality as family members. These eps where they all act like cartoon characters are not funny.

I've arrived at a system that makes this show 100 percent better. Any scene with Franny or Carrie's sister, I FF through. The rest is good stuff. So Dante's conclusion after seeing Carrie was investigating him was ... To bang her? Does that mean he doesn't suspect she suspects?

Oh yeah - between this, and Mulder suddenly becoming a bad ass and taking out trained, armed mercenaries, I felt like something had happened off screen that I missed that accelerated the plot around Mulder, William and the fate of the world from "it's coming eventually" to "do whatever it takes RIGHT NOW." Mulder was starting to sound like that dad from Lost ... "Walt! Waaaalllllt!" And then he became Charles Bronson. Neither of which were in character. Meanwhile, Scully was calmly processing her way through whatever was going on, and I felt like I was following along with her, while Mulder's arc became weird and cartoony.

Dude or dudess, Blu Rays are like 80 bucks. A gofundme should get you over the top! I don’t know what we just watched. So the pandemic is stopped because William is believed dead? Or it has started and now there is no cure because William is believed dead? i actually found the opening, narrated by William, to be one of the most interesting parts of this season. Given his awareness, it also meant I couldn’t buy that he would keep running from Mulder and Scully. Skinner is alive. He went down on purpose, with a strategy.

This season is completely uninteresting. This is a soap opera, not a Marvel super hero show. Jessica and her mom(s), Trish and her mom, Malcolm and his addiction, Trish and her addiction and past demons, Jeri and her terminal illness ... this is Days of Our Lives. Even the villain is a sympathetic character ... who happens to be Jess's mom. Give me an actual threat to the city, something that Jessica has to help stop. Or that she somehow started. Complexity is good. It just has to be about something beyond people battling their personal demons. Jessica already was doing that quite nicely in the role of anti-hero. We don't need *everyone* doing it.

That whole ep was unnecessary. The biological mom is a creation of the doc, already knew that. Jessica has bad taste in men, was adopted and became bitter about her powers years ago. Uh-huh. She and Patsy fought in the past. Yep. A rando died. OK. If we had skipped the entire episode, would we have missed anything important? It’s a good thing the doc keeps getting lucky with the needle to the back of the neck of the super powered survivor. I still don’t find the villain scary. She is more a victim of what was done to her than a purposeful bad guy. At least so far.

This show offers many opportunities to multi task. The wedding proposal, the discussion with the super and his mom and kid, Malcolm and the former friend, these go on a long time for no real payoff. I don’t find the villain scary. Not yet, anyway. Inez is pretty perceptive. Also, enough anvils about how Jessica has no friends and is alone. Super Patsy is super unnecessary.

I just watched the last 10 minutes of this episode. I assume Jeri is going to choose to become IGH powered? And I am really, really, really tired of our powered heroes being mistaken for criminals by cops.

ITA (except I liked Daredevil season 1 more). But as much as I liked JJ season 1, I actually just quit watching it about 5 episodes from the end. The villain was terrific, but for some reason I lost interest. I didn't watch the last 5 eps until almost a year later. It struck me during this current episode that much of JJ is different characters lamenting/complaining/whining about their situations. JJ and her moaning about having powers against her will is reaching new levels in season 1. The landlord is an ex-con on probation, afraid of losing his kid. Malcom is a former junkie who keeps reminding us that he has to stay busy, or else. Trish is ashamed of aspects of her past. And now Jeri has a disease that not only leads to death, but first makes you go through a scary and terrible decline. I would love to find a character whose life is either OK, or who is OK with who they are and their past. My favorite characters in this ep were the hookers.

If Trish is worried she might be a target, she may not want to listen to videos with ear buds while alone in her apartment. Would also have spared Griffin’s nuts. What does a brown liquor drinker look like, Jessica? Papparazi are easy to fool. Well, most are.

Trish and Jeri’s lead prostitute bear a close resemblance. Also, those were some professional hookers. Took Jeri’s 180 in stride. I get why Jessica wants to know about her past, I guess. Maybe she wants to hold someone responsible. It’s not very interesting, though. A bad guy created people with powers, and the powers cause angst to physical distress. Got it. Would love to move on to something interesting. What the director did years ago was wrong and possibly illegal. I didn’t find him awful in that scene with Trish, however. She played a role in what happened apparently, and I’ve known plenty of mature 16 year olds (not in that way tho!). ”Scroty sense.” Ha.

I would really like a powered super hero who isn't filled with self doubt and who is confident in their purpose.

This is what the show has been missing, IMO. Both Carrie and Saul seem to have blind spots on their own. Together, they see much more. Watching them screw up individually isn't much fun. That was the moment when I became very interest in this ep. It finally seemed to be saying something. I also liked the verbal battle between the two Russians and the "old way" and the new way, and the meaning for the rest of the world.

This is the first episode this season that interested me. I was about to give up.

I will never understand the love for Stefan. I have tried to watch that character a half dozen times over the years. It isn’t funny. What is funny about saying a Chase bank was a CVS and then a Chase bank? And talking about seizure inducing Malaysian music? It’s just random comments. Is it a NYC thing? Everyone seemed way out of practice doing The Californians. The accents were all over the place. Did love Horace and the crazy wheelchair, and then the breaking. I should like Arcade Fire. They have that sort of 80s vibe I like. But I don’t. They seem only half committed or something. Now I have to look up these Walmart robot bees.

What was the conversation at the end about? Mulder was right there, and Scully decided what?

Man, I wish in my job that when my boss gives me a new assignment, I could say, “Pass” because I had something else I wanted to do. Good thing Lizzie had a connection to this one. Lizzie “obsesses over the need for justice?” When did that start? She was about to pass on an opportunity to pursue justice. She works with a man who has killed many people... all of which were justice, Lizzie? This seems kind of inconsistent. And I’m only 15 minutes in.

Yes. This practice is what so confuses me about this show. If the show is trying for an allegory with real life, there are enough oversights and too much emphasis on drama for me to follow it. Something happens and it doesn't fit the nascent story line I'm trying to build, so I wonder if I have the story wrong or the show screwed up. And this is the kind of story line I'm trying to build in my mind. But I don't see an O'Keefe rising as he did, or survivalists protecting him as they did, or the FBI acting as it did, or Saul being so impotent. And I don't know the reason why the Adal-led forces would prefer war to such a degree, they would attempt a coup.

As Saul has become more ineffective, my interest in the show has waned. And as Carrie has become more manic, the same. And I have little interest in this president and Brett what’s his name. And the militia dorks are not a compelling bad guy. So I’m not sure I will continue to watch. I don’t know what this show thinks it is doing exactly.

Line of the night was about the Amelia Earhart Barbie... well done. Cold open managed to be both boring and irritating. Don’t watch Bachelor and never going to start. Monologue .... I tried to watch This is Us, didn’t like it for the same reason this monologue seems to highlight. Fast forward through monologue. Keenan is always a joy. Shrek vs Coco... why? Lots of yelling. Dr Love... why? Nickelback (I guess, never heard the song)... why? Sasquatch... thought that was going somewhere, nope. The host was into it. And I liked that there were some oddball bits. They just weren’t very interesting or funny or clever.

Don’t like Groundhog Day episodes. So much uninteresting repetition. Mudd is as annoying in the version of ST as he was in TOS. Can’t we find someone interesting from the past? This ep felt like filler.

Maybe it was my mood, but all the skits just seemed sad. Gun issues, mental health issues, sexual harassment issues, gender issues, White House issues.... I wanted to laugh, but couldn’t get there. The musical guest was different... bits of Cameo, raggae, rap, and a little south of the border.

That was an hour of my life I would like back. I thought maybe at the end it would be a dream or a novel one of them was writing. It was boring, nonsensical and didn’t say anything.

I hate any plot about Carrie and her kid. After that, I hate plots about her illness being out of control. After that, I hate domestic doofuses taking up screen time. That left the deep Russian spy in the White House I guess, Wellington.