Corgi-ears

C'mon, Sam. Charity is a c*nt, but don't waste that good butter pecan ice cream. And this is not a drill, this is not a drill: Hot Neighbor is back! And not a total drug pusher.

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It was a lovely subtle touch to have Joel, while walking with Sam in the final scene, pause to pick up a stick. Some kid with perfect attendance is going to get a nice plaque, and two other guys are going to get lucky.

https://giphy.com/gifs/Friends-season-5-episode-105-the-one-with-all-thanksgivings-MC9Jy4O0gG98fxq6Ka

Tim Gunn voiced the sewing machine!!! That, um, stitched me up.

"This is Chandra. She has a degree in Sociology, she speaks five languages..." Enhance. Enhance! ENHANCE!!!

Maybe she glued two pages of her recipe book together. It tastes like feet!

I love how this show seems to think that football strategy merely consists of pondering, "Should we go 4-5-1? or 4-3-3? Or maybe 4-4-2?"

The great thing about the medium that is television is that anything can be a miniseries if we watch it that way 😂

Cancelled.

Ariana was in London in part to do the BAFTAs, but her breathtaken (sic) performance hadn't happen yet when she taped Graham's show.

Nope, it was a silly ep, plot-wise. This is a hangout show, and I think that such shows are often terrible at plotting -- but they often throw in a bunch of plot at season's end for the sake of a cliffhanger. And then, of course, the first ep of the new season has to resolve things, reset things, etc. I'm hoping the show will get back to its shaggy dog style.

The one thing I didn't like was the whole "I already put your name on the form" bit. The only reason for the counsellor to do that, and to tell Barbara that, was to prove that she was right and knew all along that Barbara would benefit from a day off. A good counsellor wouldn't privilege this kind of I-told-you-so gesture over just helping Barbara.

Scoot down the sofa a little, Siobhan. I would like to recognize Graham's deployment of an excellent but seldom-used color combination, purple and chartreuse.

I have the same problem as @fishcakes. My font size keeps going to "normal" even when it shows that I've selected "larger." I'm on Mac OS 11.6.8, Safari 14.1.2.

I can kind of understand why the writers thought it was a good idea to focus on the sting operation, because it provides a justification for the exposition-heavy dialogue. "Oh, you paid me, a henchman, to kill Nick, your business partner, played by Murray Bartlett?!" Hey, it's not that we are bad at writing dialogue, we're just pretending that Ray had to talk like this for the purposes of the sting. Now, why an audience would need exposition in the last episode is another matter; are we meant to not have understood or remember the precious seven? But to have exposition-heavy dialogue be performed by two of your show's worst actors? Why didn't they also put Denise in the room, to complete the horrible acting trifecta? However, "and a brick just in case" is one of the (unintentionally) funniest lines I've heard a pseudo-hitman utter.

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Tanya, to herself: "You've got this." *Thud* Meanwhile, somewhere in Hawaii: https://tenor.com/view/growth-you-know-what-that-is-gif-9771762

He said that the sign for Matt Hancock is *jerk off motion*

I thought the idea (perhaps a retroactive justification) behind Jennifer Beals leaving taking a reduced role is to transition the show to focus more on the young generation, and that was therefore why the previous episode broke the tradition of having every episode title be an L word, in favor of a Q word ("Quiz Show"). So why are we now back to L word titles?

Still hilarious.

It was a good season, though I prefer the first, which felt more intimate. This season did introduce quite a few new characters, and they were unfailingly interesting and well-drawn. But they were fairly "big" personalities, and I felt that the focus tilted away from the more down-to-earth members of Sabi's family. There wasn't much attention paid to Sabi's mom Raffo (she had, what, one scene with her husband?), and even the newly introduced Sabi's dad was...well, you know. Likewise, Paul and Bessy and the kids didn't get as much screen time as I would have liked. One effect of this is that, though I know Sabi and Bessy had a history that started before the beginning of the series, I never thought I was shown the depths of their relationship as much as I was told it, and the climax felt kind of unconvincing to me. And while I get that it is important to show Sabi in lots of relationships, I was kind of amused by how everyone in the show seemed to be falling in love with them.

"I love your giant pupils." 😂 My eyes are down here, Tanya.

I mean, this is quite different from The Love Boat.