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    S01.E07: Train Court

    in Night Court (2023)

    3 hours ago, Nashville said:

    Could not agree more.  One of my most memorable schticks from the original series was a case where an 80something woman was being charged with prostitution - apparently she was trading tricks for treats at her nursing home:

    Mrs. Smith : [about her prostitution]  Sometimes I do it for pudding.

    Dan Fielding : Sometimes I do it *in* pudding.

    Mrs. Smith : Sometimes I do it for green stamps. And sometimes I do it just for kicks.

    Bull Shannon : [to Roz]  Can you imagine degrading yourself for green stamps?

    Roz Russell : Sure. By now I would have enough for that sail boat.


    Name me one scene of NC’s current incarnation which could hold its own against this 15-20 SECONDS of dialogue from the original.  
    G’head, I dare ya.  
    Don’t mind me - I’ll just stand over here and wait….

     

    If anyone is unfortunate enough not to recognize this, it is of course the original's classic "A Day in the Life."

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    S01.E07: Train Court

    in Night Court (2023)

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    I didn't really laugh, but also didn't really mind. It was cute and a pleasant enough 20 minutes.

    I know it's been said before, but the show really needs more characters, especially since it technically has five but really only has four. Neil is there, but they haven't given him any storylines, so it's the other four being paired off into plots in each episode, with Neil just being there too. This time we had Abby/Olivia and Dan/Gurgs...with Neil there too.

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    S01.E08: Craig

    in Alert

    I didn't mind the healing circle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Of all the things she's done, it may be the only one that made sense to me. Healing was exactly what these people needed in these circumstances.

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    S01.E08: Craig

    in Alert

    Was that...legitimately good? I think it was. Not perfect, of course. I can't believe they had Kemi give that tedious speech about how when somebody seems like they don't have anything to hide, they really don't, which was all just a stupid preamble to "I did a basic internet search and found a copy of this photo on someone else's social media." Like, lady, why are you wasting our time with bullsh--?

    But both the procedural plot and waiting for the Keith test results were legitimately tense. And I'm not at all sure where the Keith plot is going to go next, which is exciting. It really doesn't seem like they'd put the family through all this in one episode--Jason and Nikki trying to accept their son's death only to not have to and all the apologies and forgiveness--just to tear the rug out from them again in the last two episodes. That really would be too cruel. So I guess we're going with him really being Keith after all. So who kidnapped him? What's really going on? Exciting!

    Mike is still the best character, even if they're trying to make him cross the line the way the others do.

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    S01.E07: Shannon

    in Alert

    The case was really obvious way too early, but still not a terrible episode, mostly because none of the characters were really annoying this week. Was that the first time? Amazing!

    With only three episodes left, glad we're getting some movement on the Keith story, so there might actually be some resolution, since this show looks unlikely to get renewed. Terrible Sidney finally came clean!

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    Night Court Media: Feeling MUCH Better Now…

    in Night Court (2023)

    It's this one:

    https://www.avclub.com/john-larroquette-1798214118

    Three's Company (1979)—"Cop"

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    JL: Two things about that were fun: I got to meet John [Ritter] and we became close friends. I found out at that time that we shared a rather obsessive compulsion with The Beatles. So we traded a lot of anecdotes about the Beatles and tried to stump each other with questions, which was fun. He and I got along well. And the other, which proves what a true thespian I am—there's one scene where John is breaking a window, and the cop runs in. I grab him and we exchange lines, the gist of which is "You're living here with these two beautiful women and you're trying to break out? You're crazy!" But it occurred to me that sitcoms are all lit from above, because there are four cameras working, so there are no lights on the floor looking directly at you, like there are in movies. And walking into this apartment with a cop's hat on, nobody's ever going to see my face. So I had to figure out a way to get my hat off. And this is all completely selfish and premeditated. So inside my hat, I've written the Miranda rights. So I take my hat off and tell him, "You have the right to remain silent." So my hat is off for the remainder of the scene, which allows you to see my face and my confidence, as it were. Had I not thought of that, it would have just been this hated cop figure for 30 seconds or whatever, and no one would have really known who he was. Being the man that I am, I had to find a way to make sure my entire face was shown. If anybody complained about it, I would have said, "You know what, the cop doesn't remember the thing…" but they were like, "Oh, that's funny."

     

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    S01.E06: Tim and Amy

    in Alert

    That...was actually pretty entertaining?

    Ramirez is still a bad actress, and some of the lines they gave Kemi were absolutely awful, and I don't care about the ME's crush or whatever...but otherwise, I thought it was pretty decent. Dumb at points as usual, but exciting and entertaining. And no Sidney! Easily the best episode yet.

     

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    All Episodes Talk

    in Frasier

    More confirmation that the show will likely be taking place at a college:

    https://deadline.com/2023/02/frasier-toks-olagundoye-paramount-sequel-series-kelsey-grammer-1235246471/

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    Olagundoye will play Olivia, head of the psych department at an Ivy League university. She projects confidence, warmth, and professionalism—in other words, the opposite of how completely unglued she feels on the inside. Olivia must contend daily with her colleague (and Frasier’s old college buddy) Alan (Nicholas Lyndhurst), who resents Olivia’s seniority over him. The two of them disagree on just about everything, but they both admire Frasier—and each hopes to use him to further their own aims.

     

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    S01.E04: Dan v. Dating

    in Night Court (2023)

    Watching Larroquette and Malick together was a pleasure, even if they're so clearly better actors than the rest of the cast it made everyone else look worse.

    Nice moment between Olivia and Gurgs in the end. The rest was...fine.

    Abby still needs a personality. I commented after the first episodes that I rewatched the pilot of the original and in the first five minutes we knew exactly who Harry was. After four episodes Abby has barely moved past "woman who won't stop talking about her father" to "woman obsessed with Dan's life," neither of which is a personality.

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    S01.E03: Long Long Time

    in The Last Of Us

    The Last of Us’ Gorgeous Gay Love Story Could Not Be More Timely

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    This brings me to the “urgent” part I mentioned earlier, about why this episode arrives at an opportune moment. Right now, in the real world, queer people—most prominently the trans and gender-diverse among us—find ourselves in a dangerous quagmire of our own. According to many on the right, we are the fungus spreading through society, our tendrils of “gender ideology” and sexual deviance infecting and “grooming” children so that we might create more like ourselves. Like any such infection, we should be stamped out—definitely ripped from the public square, ideally eradicated from existence entirely. How powerful, then, to see not only a gay couple given an entire hour of a marquee show, but a gay couple who are held up as the keepers of civilization, as stewards of beauty, as emblems of human dignity and possibility. As furry, affectionate reminders that queers, whatever our circumstances, can flourish, fight, and win. As maybe not the last of us, but certainly the best.

     

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    S01.E05: Miguel

    in Alert

    8 hours ago, Lady Calypso said:

    I still like her. I think she made bad choices, but everyone on this show has sucked to some degree, even Mike (and Mike's my favourite character). Plus, Sidney's the only skeptical one of Fake Keith, who is so obvious with his manipulations, it's unreal. Every time Fake Keith is questioned in any way, he goes on the defensive or distracts his dumbass parents with something else. He did it several times in this episode alone.

    Also, I think I just hate every other character so much (besides Mike) that I'll take any somewhat redeemable character. 

     

    I guess for me, I don't think she's remotely redeemable. Believing her brother was dead, she let her parents believe he'd been kidnapped, destroying their marriage and forcing them to live with the uncertainty--which is so much crueler than knowing--while she said nothing. Then, when an apparent impostor shows up and is invited into the family home, potentially jeopardizing their lives and her own, she pouts and flounces instead of telling them EXACTLY why she knows they shouldn't believe him. Even when she decides the truth is finally her only option, she contrives a situation to have her brother's body discovered rather than simply telling them what happened, which is just dragging things out more since the body still has to be identified (because she still won't just say who it is).

    She may be the most loathsome character on the show for me. She's awful.

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    S01.E05: Miguel

    in Alert

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    I kind of want to be impressed that the writers are using Nikki's reckless behavior as a deliberate character point and it's not just bad writing...but she's so unlikable and the actress so grating I can't care. I have a feeling we're supposed to be sympathetic because of what she went through with Keith's disappearance...but nope. She, her (ex?) husband, and her sour-faced daughter are all awful. I'm sick to death of the daughter's bitchface. It's hard to sympathize with her fake Keith suspicions when she believes she knows what happened to real Keith and never told her parents.

    Check on "bringing our babies home" again...but considering their first missing person died, does that count as her not bringing one home?

    The case was creepy and unpleasant...but also kind of predictable and boring?

    Kemi's mystery man at least kept her away from her usual magical nonsense, but it just made her look unprofessional and unable to focus on her job (like everybody else...)

    Mike is still consistently being written as the only non-annoying person on the show. Can he adopt (real or fake) Keith and get on a better show?

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    S01.E03: Long Long Time

    in The Last Of Us

    Another long backstory about the episode. I found this particularly interesting, because I admit it was something I'd wondered about.

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    Bill might have limited himself to the bare necessities, but he also exhibits an epicurean delight — the kind of guy who appreciates sturdy fence construction as much as a good bottle of wine. The production team originally approached Con O’Neill, who played engineer Viktor Bryukhanov in Mazin’s previous series, Chernobyl, for the role. “I was pretty invested in the notion that if we’re gonna be telling the story of two middle-aged gay men, then it would probably be good to have two middle-aged gay actors doing it,” says Mazin, who notes many creatives involved in the adaptation were middle-aged, married gay men. “I was maybe slightly more insistent about that than a lot of the people around me.”

    But O’Neill’s gig as Izzy Hands on Our Flag Means Death rendered him unavailable. That’s when producer Carolyn Strauss suggested Offerman, whom Mazin knew casually. “I figured, Well, if we’re gonna open this up, that’s where you go. I sent him the script and said, ‘Nick, if you don’t like it, I’ll never send you anything else ever again, because it won’t be better than this,’” he recalls. But Offerman also had a scheduling conflict. “I read the script, and I was like, ‘Oh no, what a dilemma,’” Offerman remembers. “Thankfully I have a perspicacious wife named Megan who I asked to read it, and she said, ‘Buddy, you’re going to Calgary.’”

     

    https://www.vulture.com/article/the-last-of-us-episode-3-long-long-time-bill-and-frank-explained.html

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    The Last of Us in the Media

    in The Last Of Us

    S01.E04: Andy

    in Alert

    Based on the ending I'm assuming the sister believes Keith drowned in the lake, and her phone call at the end is an attempt to finally have the body discovered.

    At this point I hope Keith isn't a fake...I hope he's a vengeful spirit from the grave (or lake)! Going full on X-files couldn't make the show any crazier.

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    S01.E04: Andy

    in Alert

    5 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

    Funny thing is, I think it's the best episode so far (not that I don't have the same problems). Either I've gotten used to it, or they're just a tiny bit better. 

     

    34 minutes ago, secnarf said:

    Wow this episode was both the best one yet and absolutely terrible all at the same time.

     

    Yep, this was exactly what I came to say. It was the best episode yet...but still bad. The sister stuff was at least interesting, and the case was interesting enough. Badly executed, but it went down fairly smoothly. I wasn't as actively aggravated throughout as I was through the previous episodes.

    They really do like shooting into cars, don't they? At least no one was in this one. (See? Less aggravating.)

     

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    S01.E01: Pilot; S01.E02: The Nighthawks

    in Night Court (2023)

    · Edited by TheOtherOne

    I would hate if they made Christine Dan's wife and killed her off. That would absolutely suck. Just because the actress is dead doesn't mean the character has to be. I don't need closure. Let Christine be happily living her life off-camera (Mac too).

    I thought I'd read that Marsha Warfield hadn't been approached to come back, but she apparently had some supportive things to say about the show and wished everyone the best, so she would likely be open to it if they did approach her:

    https://tvline.com/2023/01/18/night-court-revival-marsha-warfield-roz-reaction-video/

    Ten years ago Richard Moll said there was no way he'd be involved in a reunion. Would he feel the same about a scripted reboot a decade later? (I thought I'd read he'd turned them down, but like the above, I can't find a link.)

    https://www.tmz.com/2013/01/23/night-court-richard-moll-no-reunion-video/

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    S01.E01: Pilot; S01.E02: The Nighthawks

    in Night Court (2023)

    6 hours ago, Twilight Man said:

    Neither Harry or Dan were involved in any relationship at the end.   Harry spent the final season teaching law at a night school and in the finale decided to quit being a court judge and focus on teaching full time.   Dan announced that he too was quitting being an ADA and was going to pursue Christine to Albany (Christine had just received a government job at the state capital).  Oh, and Bull got abducted by aliens.

    Harry changed his mind in the end and decided to stay at the night court. Christine had been elected to Congress and was moving to DC, so that's where Dan was following her to.

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