CleoCaesar

Miguel and Madison, run far away from these people. You are too good for these immature, tiresome drama queens with their stupid monologues and neverending selfishness. What a boring, pointless episode. Of course they weren't going to kill off Kate or the baby. So what was the point of it?

Randall continues to be a self-centered ass. Stop the presses. Because Randall and Beth are annoying yuppie helicopter parents. There's literally nothing about their three smart, sweet, well-adjusted daughters that screams "We need 24/7 adult supervision!!!" and yet here we are. Randall's permajackassery aside, nice episode. The teen Big 3 really do have the adult actors' mannerisms down pat. Madison inventing the mojito was a nice touch too.

Let's see what fresh creative ground the writers broke tonight. Haley and Dylan are too dumb to be good parents Menstruation is utterly hilarious and worthy of a mass panic attack Phil is somehow physically unwell Wow.

Tal? Gordova? Nemec? Does Hollywood have any idea what constitutes a real Russian last name? Rhetorical question, obviously. Because none of these are it, and it's ridiculous. I smell cancellation after a season, maybe two. Shepherd's reasoning why she never told anyone why she divulged the agents' names was just absurd. I did like the Anna Cruz twist, though.

I've always liked Beth and I enjoyed this episode quite a bit. It was a refreshing change from the exhausting, selfish, drama queen Pearsons. Phylicia Rashad has real gravitas and is a pleasure to watch. Beth's dad was a sweetheart. Really good casting for young Beth too. Even Adult Zoe was likeable. All of that being said, I'm not sure the writers’ strategy of “Pick a family member somehow connected to the Big 3 and flesh out their story” is a viable long-term strategy for writing a show. William. Nicky. Rebecca’s parents. Toby’s mother. Beth’s parents. Others I’m forgetting. It adds to the feeling that the writers are treading water this season.

So Randall can’t help Nicky because he has to get home. Why? “My wife is unemployed and all over the place.” What? How can anyone NOT want to just smack him in his stupid face? Beth is in no way the problem here, and not spiraling like someone driven insane by unemployment. He is such a sanctimonious ass with so little actual respect for his wife. I hope a divorce there happens at some point. Kevin really shouldn’t have apologized to him for commenting that usually Randall is first to save everyone, with the exception of Nicky. It’s true.

I only got into B99 this past summer, so when I finally found the forums I was really surprised that seemingly every fan hates Gina. She's grating but I've never really minded her and think she's had some great lines/comedic timing. The show will be just fine without her, but she wasn't the worst, IMO. I reserve my hatred for Hitchcock/Scully who have yet to make me even crack a smile, and Adrian Pimento, the character so aggravating I actually started fast-forwarding his scenes and praying he wasn't ever going to become a regular.

Hot Hiker is better than Jared as a romantic interest. He and Eyebrows actually have chemistry. Similarly, Saanvi is better than Wretched Grace in every way. She and Ben are actually pleasant to watch together.

Okay, I actually liked this one. Felt early seasons-ish, and no one was too obnoxious for a change. It was well-paced and everyone got something to do. It was the perfect amount of all the kids – a few lines, but no separate storylines. Phil and Gloria play well off each other and I've always liked their scenes together in previous seasons: shopping for shoes and pretending Gloria was his wife to impress his old rival, going to her old hairdressing job, them being cast as extras for a commercial that they were awful at, etc. The last shot of them, Gloria as the college student and Phil with the creepy blinding white teeth, was sweet. And Cam and Mitch weren't sniping for a change. Although I did a double take when Mitch shouted at the principal "We're in a committed relationship!". Uh, you're married. Just say that. Who knew it was that easy becoming vice principal of a big public high school in LA? Oh well, this show has never portrayed any careers realistically.

So in the dozens of postcards Nicky sent Jack, he couldn't have written "What happened to the kid was a total accident. I tried to warn him but it happened too fast. It's haunted me for years." on ANY of them? I knew the show wouldn't have the balls to have Nicky do something truly wrong. Really cowardly writing. Having his big sin be an accident is weak tea. If he'd committed treason or a war crime, now that would take skill to write and be affecting. So now Nicky is moving in. Yawn. It's like William: The Sequel. Like, mix it up, writers!

I don't understand how Ben didn't push Grace into traffic during their conversation on the street. First with her "If we were living under one roof, Cal wouldn't have run away" bullshit and then responding to Ben's reasonable "You kicked me out" with "And you left! With no objection!". I just loathe her. She is scum. And frankly at this point Ben is coming off worse for not telling to go to hell. Ugh. So it was an episode colored by hatred for one character. But my little heart fluttered when I recognized the hiker guy as Matt Long. Jack & Bobby was such a great one-season wonder back in 2004 and now I feel old.

The good: Phil and Claire being close, affectionate, on the same wave length. They're honestly my favorite married couple on TV. Well, tied with Jake and Amy on B99. The bad: Mitch and Cam are sniping at each other over something stupidly minor. That makes it, what, 9 seasons? The ugly: The writers still forcing us to believe Manny as a ladies' man. No. Just no. Just ugh. I second WhosThatGirl's opinion.

Wait, what? The guy bought them fair and square on eBay. They're his lawful possessions. What exactly did he do to warrant being called snot-nosed and hypothetically slapped? Calling his mother for what?

I wish Randall gets run over by a truck at some point this season. I cannot stand his self-absorbed ass. His stupid sappy speeches. His getting the effing blueberry pie after hassling the cashier. His turning off Anderson Cooper – that his family was actively watching – to perform – oh yes! – yet another cheesy monologue. I suppose his enormous self-absorption makes sense, from his constantly being fawned over by Rebecca and Jack in childhood and by Beth in adulthood. For what, I do not know. And of course he won. How could Randall Pearson, saint that he is, son of even bigger saint, NOT win an election in a district he doesn't live in? At least I loved that the guy who bought Toby’s collectibles wasn’t even a little bit moved by Kate’s cringy guilt trip monologue to get them back. (Then again if the writers are self-aware about the repetitive emotionally manipulative monologues they write, maybe they should stop writing them.)

At this point I say put a tracking device - maybe a shock collar - on the little brat and call it a day. Probably. But he's so pretty I don't even care.

That scene always irritates me for that exact reason. Similarly, the third-season episode "Aunt Mommy" where Claire realizes she left the kids home alone for half an hour and freaks out in the car while talking on the phone with Phil. ("Aren't you at home?" "No, I left right before you did." "Phil, the house... the – the kids... Oh, God, the squirrel.") Again, 2/3 of these "kids" are teenagers. She's acting like they're newborns who can't feed or entertain themselves. Or when Claire had to teach teenage Haley how to bake cupcakes from a mix. Or dozens of other examples. With their hovering and babying, Claire and Phil raised three incompetent, maladjusted young adults. Luke is the only one who seems he'll land on his feet in time.

‘Modern Family’ Season 11 Renewal In Sight As Adult Cast Closes In On Deals Huh. I'll watch season 11 if it happens, but it seems like they've done all they could with most of these characters. If they focused the new season on the adult characters and got rid of (or severely minimized) Manny, Luke, Lily, and Joe, I'd be on board.

Even if that's the case, flipping out, yelling, and storming off when someone sincerely tries to do something nice for you is a completely toxic reaction.

My dislike of Cam began way back when Mitch surprised him with the flashmob. Mitch was just adorable, putting in the effort, going out of his comfort zone, and saying it was his "love letter to Cam." In response, Cam flipped out and accused Mitch of "cheating on him with choreography." What a whiny, impossible to please diva. And he's only gotten worse as they years have gone by.

I've never watched Young Sheldon but still found the young Sheldon and Sheldon's dad cameos sweet and moving.

Yeah, this episode made Claire sound like a frumpy, asexual housefrau. She's a very attractive woman with good fashion sense and can easily pull off "sexy". Felt like a bit of a retcon.

Really enjoyed this one. Felt like a good blend of all the families, and fun pairings (Jay/Cam, Mitch/Phil). Plus minimal Manny! No Luke! No Joe! No Lily! Are the showrunners finally answering my prayers? Alex: “I’m comfortable in my sexuality.” Claire: “Hearing you say that makes me more comfortable with your sexuality.” Gloria: “If I had a gun in my purse, I’d shoot myself.”

So Rebecca is the "her"? Well color me massively underwhelmed. What's the over-under on her having Alzheimer's or something of the sort? Kate’s scene with Tess last week was fairly sweet, but Kate’s back on my shit list for betraying Tess’s trust by blabbing to Rebecca. I really liked the Randall/Beth/Tess scenes. The actress who plays Tess has talent. The Pearson parents handled it well. Randall needs a hard smack in the head. His "promise to the community" [that he does not belong to by virtue of never having lived there] is really his massive ego and hero complex. Beth has far more patience with him than he deserves, quite frankly.

That was kind of a low-key finale. I didn't even realize it was the finale until the "Returns January 7th" promo. Not buying Vance is dead. This is TV. No body, no death. Ah, extended machine-gun fire in small enclosed places. Everyone in those scenes should have ruptured eardrums and profound hearing loss. But nope, they’re fine. Shit like that just takes me out of supposedly intense scenes. I wish they’d stop having the actors do hysterical blubbering scenes when there clearly aren’t any tears. It looks goofy. Eyebrows in particular can’t cry convincingly. But most importantly, Grace needs to be run over by a car. I loathe her.

No, in that case this would be called the Negative Opinions thread. The point of Unpopular Opinions is voicing opinions that go against the majority of fans'. Overwhelmingly, people who watch This Is Us love Jack, love William, cry multiple times every episode, etc. So people who dislike those characters and don't cry have this thread to say so and talk about their minority opinions. In, for example, the main episode thread saying "William is annoying and unnecessary in season 3" feels a little contrarian and antagonistic, whereas here we're on the drier, more sarcastic side and that opinion would be well received.