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I don't even watch this show really, but occasionally watch clips and I genuinely wonder if he got a midlife crisis and is taking steroids of some kind that are making him crazy. He reminds me of this SNL sketch.

You're in luck! Season Two is coming out this year (on BBC, don't know about Peacock). This time the mystery has to do with the air force. https://twitter.com/bbcpress/status/1702592961857384657

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What a dumb car accident. What the hell? I found the wedding underwhelming. Like it was trying very hard to be many things, but it all felt superficial and not truly emotive. I wanted to feel happier for Trixie than I did. Maybe it's the Matthew effect, I don't know.

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🤣 True, but even in happy moments it's like his eyes are dead and his voice is sad. It's such a pity because on paper I love him for Trixie, but he's super miscast. He was on Agatha Raisin? I have no recollection whatsoever. *runs to google*

Matthew is such an eeyore. I find him exhausting. And the problem is the actor, he has no spark whatsoever.

I liked this episode, but I kept waiting for them to explain why Joey's mom left like that. Zero explanation, note even when she came back.

I felt like there were way too many stories in this episode, all of them disconnected from the other, and none done well because there just wasn't the time.

I thought that was very weird and maybe a nod to the fact that they're in the 1960s and they might not know enough about it. But inflammatory breast cancer (which she obviously had) is VERY rare and also VERY aggressive, with a very low survival rate (iirc). So of course the breast is removed and fast, I imagine. Anyway, they kind of turned it around a little towards the end by making it a visit to her family what made Lucille leave instead of something worse and I was glad for that, but man what a depressing story they were giving her up until that point.

I like Trixie and Mathew on paper, but I agree that they don't have any chemistry. I think it's the actor who plays Mathew. I think he's handsome, but very lifeless. I keep wondering if the show wants me to believe that they're doomed or if they're really meant to be a great love story, but Mathew just cancels out everything with his dead energy.

I felt the same way. I think I've never actively disliked an episode of Call the midwife before. There were way too many plots happening, so nothing really came together and everything felt rushed. I find Lucille's story very depressing all of the sudden, both her depression post miscarriage and the sudden race stuff that they threw in there. Sorry, but after I don't know how many years of Lucille and Cyril there with very little or no problems (as well as tons of immigrants featured in the show over the years), all of that felt forced and awkward. It will be very sad if Lucille and Cyril end up leaving the show in this depressing way (I hope they don't). Then there was the suddenly racist woman giving birth who just as suddenly stopped being racist... really, it was all very badly done. There was also the weird story of the lying nun that... everyone is okay with her being a liar and she's gonna keep lying? That's weird. It was also weird to spend the whole episode going on about Trixie meeting Mathews parents, and then... we don't see the actual meeting? Wat? The one story I liked a bit was the one about the lesbians, but it felt lost in the middle of this mess. I was surprised we didn't even get to see the one with cancer actually die.

Season two scripts have been released.

Well, this season was a bunch of pretentious bullshit. It's been a while since I've hated a character as much as I hated Jamie. By episode 4 whenever he started speaking I wanted someone to just kill him already. I enjoyed reading some of the threads here, I laughed out loud for real. I tried, genuinely tried, to follow along Jamie's interminable speeches and incoherent actions to try to understand what the fuck was his deal, how the hell was he supposed to make sense. The only thing that I ultimately understood about him was his loneliness and his desire to connect with someone who "got it". Besides that, I felt that he made no sense. His existential questions about life and death were understandable, but his reactions made no sense, specially the part about him becoming a serial killer. Even if there is no God to stop you and punish you, empathy should stop people from hurting others. And what exactly did his sadism change in terms of there being "nothing but THIS"? What does it have to do with anything? How do you go from "oh there is nothing but death awaiting us" to "I'm gonna go kill some people?" He also called Nick because he hated his life and was struggling, but then later he held on to his old life desperately, so I guess he did like it after all, eh? I don't mean when he was afraid to die, but when he tried to keep his job and marriage and carry on like nothing happened. And then, after ALL of that, when he's dying he shits his pants just like everyone else, so his entire story, the murders, the thrill seeking, the interminable speeches led nowhere and could've been skipped... maybe, just maybe you psycho person, if you had just let things well enough alone you might have had decades of life left. And the people you killed were also afraid when you killed them, so 🖕you! Augh! On top of Jamie's pretentious bs, there was also everyone acting like a moron just to keep pushing this pretentious bs. I had planned to finish the last two seasons of this show, but after this one I don't know if I want to.

Yes! Anyway, Jamie is insufferable. Some of his stuff about the meaninglessness of life or thinking about what the point of it all is and fearing that nothing happens when we die are not completely off the mark. I think they're things that people do worry about at times. They're things we do fear. Maybe not everyone, but I wouldn't think that it's as completely outside of the scope of the average human experience as he seems to. I imagine it's a crisis of faith that a lot of people have when, for example, they get ill. So for that reason I thought this might be an interesting season, because it seemed to be interested in a dark topic that we tend to avoid, but that IS in the back of our minds. What if there's nothing more? What if we just die and there's nothing? What's the point of anything, then? Etc, etc. But the guy will just not. shut. up. On and on and on with the speeches. Dude, you're so obsessed with death, then just jump off the damn building and be done with it. Spare us. By now he's not compelling, he's repetitive and tedious. I also don't see how one goes from those feelings to KILLING PEOPLE. Jamie and Nick are just psychopaths who think they're better than other people, and who lack empathy. The stuff about the meaningless of life is just an excuse to do bad things with impunity, things that give them a rush. It's one thing to give yourself near death experiences, which seems to be what Jamie was gonna do when the dug the grave (I think that's what they did in college together). It's another thing TO KILL PEOPLE. Wtf does that have to do with anything? Harry spending the whole night chasing Jamie then deciding at that very moment to take a pain pill that he knew would make him sleep (he had even said so in a previous episode) was contrived and ridiculous.

Man, this season's theme is really deep, eh? Wasn't expecting THAT.

Well, so that's the end of TWD (sorta). I thought it was okay. About as good as one can expect from this show, though not truly good or truly satisfying, I guess. The story stops simply because the writers decided to leave it there, so they scrambled to try to create a sense of completion and tried to give things some sort of meaning. But at this point I can't help but think that there's no reason why this should feel like an ending. There's no reason why the Commonwealth might not collapse, or for the same thing that always happened to happen again. I guess, theoretically, that's true of every story, but with this one I feel it much more keenly. You spend 11 seasons highlighting the horrors of human nature, well, hard to believe that was solved by the end. In general, I thought the entire plot of the Commonwealth was beyond dumb. It was dumb that Lance was obsessed with getting Alexandria, Hilltop and Oceanside when he literally had the entire empty world at his disposal. If he wanted to create new communities for the Commonwealth all he had to do was pick a spot, clean it up and get people there. The end. Trying to tell some sort of revolution plot for the Commonwealth to me also didn't work because while the Miltons were corrupt and harmful to some people, for most of the 50,000 people there life would've been normal life. Flawed perhaps, but the alternative was ZOMBIES. I rolled my eyes so hard at people caring so much about some random people being disappeared by the government and being willing to REVOLT about it when there are ZOMBIES out there. If they wanted to tell that story, at least show starving people and show a totalitarian government that people are genuinely afraid of. Instead, it seemed like using the Commonwealth was an allegory to criticize OUR world, I guess? But again... THE ZOMBIES out there make it just not work. Another problem I had with this season, although I guess it could apply to most seasons, is the fact that our "heroes" don't really have a real moral compass to follow (only "survive"). The show just pretends that they do in order to paint the villain of the season as the bad ones. But most of what Pamela did I could see our heroes do as well, with perhaps the exception of bringing the horde to the city as a distraction (and her actions after that). But it bothered me to see them kill so many people this season, then act all indignant at the Commonwealth. Those soldiers they killed without remorse or doubt had families too, for example. Carol obsessed over killing Alpha when she killed Henry, and got people killed in the process (right? iirc). Is what Pamela wanted to do with Eugene all that different? I always had the same problem with the Negan/Maggie interminable plot from hell. Everyone lost people in the apocalypse, and it was grating to me how Glen was given so much more importance. Maggie herself did similar things to what Negan did, and the beef with Negan started with them killing a bunch of sleeping saviors who hadn't done anything to them (yet). But somehow killing Glen was a bigger sin than all the other sins and we must pretend that Maggie's grief is somehow bigger and more important that everyone else's. It is, but just because the writers chose to, and it grates (to me). I was glad to see Lydia survive. I really liked that actress, even though she got little to do after Alpha. Aaron was a nice dude, and I wish he had found a new husband. Maybe they could've thrown him a bone in the last episode. If they're in a 50,000 people city there's more chances of finding other gay men there. Glad to see Magna and Miko (I think they were called?) reconcile. Poor Rosita, but I guess someone big had to die. I never would've thought that Eugene and Gabriel were gonna have the most comprehensive character arcs of the show, but here were are. Heh. I understand that Michonne leaving her children behind was because the actress left, but boy do I think badly of her whenever they remind me that she's out there looking for Rick, lol.

I continue to think, over and over as I watch, that 99% of everything related to the Commonwealth plot is just profoundly dumb.

I'm finding pretty much everything after the Commonwealth arrived at Alexandria so very stupid.

Was the convoluted Stephanie BS really needed? All of that was so dumb and nonsensical. 🤡

I enjoyed the episode. I specially liked that Trixie and Matthew finally happened. It was telegraphed from the moment when his wife died, but I liked that they stretched it out for a respectable amount of time and tried to tell a good story about Matthew the rich guy becoming a better man thanks to her. Now let's see if they actually do make it to the altar.

I don't really watch this show. I only watched the first season or two back when it came out, but lately clips from it have shown up on my social media and I've become curious. So I've watched some clips. I've found Kody quite shocking. I remember him being slimy back in the beginning, but now he looks legit insane. And the scary type of insane. Is he on drugs or something? Maybe roid rage or something? Yikes!

So much narcissistic rage.

YES! I almost yelled at my tv. 🤬 I thought the whole point of that was to make Cal and Angelina both living sapphires, basically. Though I don't really know how the scar meant that Cal had sapphire inside of him or whatever. But I assume that's the idea.

I like the characters and the actors, but have always felt the real heart of the show is, or should be, the people drama (using the extraordinary situation as context for the people drama). My favorite scene from season one was Grace and Olive running through the parking lot to get to Ben and Cal after they came back. I thought it was such an emotional and wild situation, someone you loved coming back from the dead, after everything Grace and Olive had suffered during those five years. On the other hand, the whole mystery is just a convoluted mess and I don't even bother following it. So I liked the first few episodes when we were dealing more with Ben's grief and his obsession with getting Eden back. I thought that was quite emotional. I liked the scattered flashbacks, too. Then halfway through the season we got sent back full time into "the mystery" and meh. Hard to get invested when you know that they're just pulling everything out of their ass right at that moment, and they will keep coming up with stuff to doom the day and then to save it, whenever needed. It reminds me of Lost Girl in that regard.