[S01.E01: Pilot]

On 3/12/2022 at 10:13 AM, dmmetler said:

As a former Memphis City teacher, this is almost too true to be funny. From the lack of budget, to principal promoted due to nepotism and completely incompetent, to the experienced teacher who can make the entire school quiet down with a look, while new teachers struggle, to the guy who is on the administrator track (we got quite a few who taught only long enough to get the minimum experience and were promoted above long time women who had spent years in the classroom as as assistant principal).

And yes, the kids who sleep at school because it’s safe, teachers who are spending their own money to outfit their classrooms, books that stopped about the time you graduated high school, if you were lucky, and that you spend far more time on meeting basic needs than actually teaching.  

I’m on Spring Break, so I finally have time to catch up on streaming. 

I am really late to watching this show but as long time veteran middle school teacher, I am very hesitant to watching any shows about education.  This show is so spot on to teaching in a low income district that I am willing to suspend belief about lunches and bathrooms.  I have certainly worked with everyone of those characters!

[S03.E09: Coming Home]

4 hours ago, Cramps said:

Hated the North Korean twist. Nowhere have we ever been told in this alternative universe that NK is advanced enough to have already gotten a man to the mars. 

I seem to remember them mentioning earlier in the season that NK sent a probe to Mars that disappeared 

[S06.E06: Diamonds Are Forever]

7 hours ago, topanga said:

Do you mean that young Shawn Hatosy was nothing like the actor playing teenage Pope? I still like that young actor. He's channeling Pope's affect and broodiness as well as his violent outbursts. He even sounds like Pope to me. 

Yes and I agree that the actor playing young Pope does a great job, I just wish I had  not just seen Shawn Hatosy at the same age.

[S06.E06: Diamonds Are Forever]

My wife and I just watched an episode of Homicide Life on the Street and Shawn Hatosy was a guest star in his first acting credit.  Two things stood out; first I was originally impressed by the casting of teenage Pope until I saw Shawn at the same age.  Second,  as soon as they showed him as the grandson of a couple that was beat to death with a lacrosse stick, we knew he was guilty because Pope would definitely be capable of such a crime.  

We're curious if we will find out that rest of the Cody's are being set up like Pope by the strangers that are new to their lives

[S03.E03: All In]

Watching Margo and the Russian guy struggle to get to first base was more cringe worthy than Karen and Danny sleeping together last season.  I thought for sure that they were already sleeping together when they talked on the pay phones in the last episode, but no they took 6 years just to barely graze hands in the elevator.  Margo kind of reminds me of Martha from The Americans.

I agree with the previous poster about the coolness of the three different Mars ships.  

[S06.E16: Family Meeting]

I guess that I am a jaded veteran teacher,  I find it totally realistic that Kate could rise up the ladder so easily.  I have seen way too many incompetent people go from teacher to admin to the central office positions because they were new or different or Pearson-like

[S04.E07: Sanctified]

4 hours ago, DoctorAtomic said:

SATs where I am *just* went digital. I can see there are still some states that aren't technologically in the 2000s, let alone the 2020s. 

In Missouri, the ACT has been digital for at least 6 years, not sure about the sat since both of my boys only took the ACT

[S04.E07: Sanctified]

While I love this show. I sometimes wonder why parts of it seem like it is set in the late 80s-early 90s.  I mean Charlotte was taking the SAT on a scantron sheet (both the SAT and scantron sheets are so out of date)  and the vibe of the Lake area is exactly like Lake of the Ozarks was back then (I spent a lot of time there then, as I still do now)

[S06.E03: Four Fathers]

4 minutes ago, Leeds said:

I hated the driving lesson scene:

The learner needs to be fully concentrating on driving and driving alone.  No distractions like music/the radio, never mind bickering about what to listen to.  No chitchat.  The learner's phone should have been turned off before the lesson started.  The learner should have been taught that you glance at your mirrors -- the amount of time Deja spent looking at her mirrors would have had her swerving off course/rear ending someone.  (Same with all the scenes in films and TV shows when the driver and passenger have long conversations while looking at each other longingly/angrily/confusedly.)

Maybe this belongs in the Pet Peeves thread!

 

4 minutes ago, Leeds said:

 

 

 

This is totally what I said to my wife as soon as Deja mentioned music and then Randall just keeps talking and not watching the road.  I taught my boys to drive in parking lots first not big city streets and still there was no music and very little conversation other than about driving

[S06.E02: One Giant Leap]

There is a line in a Jean Toomer poem about incandescent lips.  If only Malik was taking 20th century American Lit instead of Russian lit

 

[Season 9 Discussion]

did anyone else notice that Murray looks like he is not actually in the scenes with the rest of the family last week?  It looked like he was edited in.

[S05.E06: Home Sweet Home]

10 hours ago, Auntie Anxiety said:

Wow. And not in a good way. In addition to pretty much going nowhere and making no sense, this show has gotten boring. When I start wondering about how the guys are keeping that house clean, it’s not a good thing.

LOL, I actually said something to my wife about how clean the house looked

 

[The Americans - General Discussion]

We just finished our second watch of the series.  As much as I liked the first view a couple of years ago, I found the series even better the second time around.  I do disagree with those who think P & E will get executed in USSR.  Their side won, Gorby retained his power and became stronger.  Poor Oleg was probably screwed for a few more years since he was stuck in America.  

I did find it funny that with all of the clues Stan failed to put together, his light bulb lit up over E smoking when many many women were smoking at that time compared to now.

[The Chi - General Discussion]

Wow, this show just keeps getting worse.  we really loved the earlier seasons.  What was up with that scene of Kevin running around sweating and moving quickly?  It looked like an early 80s Mtv video from one of the British one-hit wonders.

 

[The Chi - General Discussion]

we could not find one entertaining aspect of last week's episode.  All of the sudden this season, Chicago has gotten much smaller

[S05.E14: The Music and the Mirror]

2 hours ago, TV Diva Queen said:

 

 

 

Too much TV for me......when they showed Toby's dad, I was like "isn't he dead"  and then I thought..."No Kevin Arnold's dad is dead"  LOL  

Thanks G  you totally made my day!!!!

[S05.E14: The Music and the Mirror]

Just now, ECM1231 said:

YES!!! I don't know why, but this bothered me a whole lot more than it should have. To the point that I was screaming at the TV. Lol

It's a really slow process.

Funny because I would have no idea how to do the work they did, BUT, I do know it is not a couple  hour job start to finish

Just now, ECM1231 said:

 

 

 

 

[Season 2 Discussion]

6 hours ago, ahisma said:

Yes, Kelly likely grew up in an orphanage. She’s approximately Shane’s age/a year or two younger than Danny. She was old enough to be helping the younger children when the Baldwins first saw her.

The paperwork Kelly was sent said that her father was in the army. Perhaps her other relatives were already killed in the war and he wouldn’t have been in a position to care for her. 

She told Karen her birth father had a restaurant in Arlington—that’s about a four and a half hour drive from Houston. So coincidence that he didn’t end up in California, but most Vietnamese immigrants did end up in CA and TX. 

thanks  that makes sense

[Season 2 Discussion]

What a great and intense season finale!!  I figured that Gordo would die saving Tracy but I did not see both of them dying.   

I am very confused by the timeline for Kelly Baldwin.  Was she an orphan for many years in Vietnam before coming to America?  How could her father not know about her and how coincidental that they both end up in Houston

 

 

[S05.E13: Brotherly Love]

18 minutes ago, OdinO. said:

There is plenty of individuals who discriminate against white men. It's everywhere. Also Kate, in the real world, would experience much more discrimination than Randall does.

 

I know poor oppressed white christian males

[S05.E13: Brotherly Love]

3 minutes ago, OdinO. said:

Randall is clueless about Kevin's pain. You know, everyone experiences discrimination.

that is like saying everyone gets sick when comparing my cold to someone else's brain cancer.  

As a white person, I have always found it to be funny (in a sick twisted way) how white people are so quick to tell people of color to just get over any discrimination because it happens to everybody.

[S02.E02: I need a Goat]

I love the Saint Elsewhere references they throw in occasionally    

[Season 2 Discussion]

3 hours ago, theschnauzers said:

There was historically an Apollo-Soyuz joint mission in our reality, before the space shuttle and the international space station was ever launched.

It was Deke Slayton's only space mission

 

[Season 2 Discussion]

I love how much more quickly technology advanced because of the bigger emphasis put on the space program by the government and military and that is not all that far-fetched.   It seems like the all of the plans NASA had to abandon like launching and landing Shuttles in Florida and California came true in this alternative reality.

Also, I have to add that we have been forced to watch hockey games on a fox sports ap since Hulu does not carry our local fox sports channel anymore and they rotate 5 or 6 commercials during a game and my wife and I recite the commercials like they did with the Bob Newhart show on the first Jamestown.