S02.E06: In a Lonely Place

[chitowngirl]

Paul and Jimmy look for Sean's dad. Gaby tries to keep Liz from sinking. Alice is surprised to find out who Brian has been spending time with.

[SoMuchTV]

A very minor point, but I was surprised Liz was using a random handkerchief for protection when she was doing her rock tumbling or whatever. Girl, don’t you have a drawer full of cute masks from a couple years ago? 

Glad to see Alice made some progress with [Roy Kent]. I kind of wondered about the story he hinted at, but maybe the point was that it didn’t matter. 

[Blakeston]

Does this mean Liz is cheating on Derek? I didn't realize they could make her even more unbearable. She should be spending every day thanking god that such a nice man is willing to tolerate her personality and bankroll her overprivileged lifestyle.

Brett Goldstein's beautiful fiancee was an odd touch, considering that Brian said that he's living a Requiem for a Dream-esque life, but I'm guessing we'll learn more. Maybe the engagement is up in the air because of his issues, and his storyline will end with them resolving things.

Gabby being bitter toward Jimmy is getting really, really old.

[SoMuchTV]

13 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Glad to see Alice made some progress with [Roy Kent]. I kind of wondered about the story he hinted at, but maybe the point was that it didn’t matter. 

 

9 hours ago, Blakeston said:

Brett Goldstein's beautiful fiancee was an odd touch, considering that Brian said that he's living a Requiem for a Dream-esque life, but I'm guessing we'll learn more. Maybe the engagement is up in the air because of his issues, and his storyline will end with them resolving things.

I was wondering a little bit if somehow the fiancee was also killed in the same incident, but I guess we would have known that already so probably not.  Did he say that's my fiancee present tense? I don't remember the specifics.

[Good Queen Jane]

Paul and Jimmy in the canoe has brightened up my whole week. I would never have guessed that Harrison Ford could be so wickedly funny.

Louis seemed very skilled at bringing out Alice’s emotions. I wonder if it will turn out that he was a therapist before the accident.

Edited November 14, 2024 by Good Queen Jane

[BusyOctober]

I do like this show. Every character is great... except for Liz. I can't stand her. Hated her in Season 1 and she's been nothing but insufferable Season 2. Are we supposed to feel bad for this spoiled privileged bully? She's miserable and mean, yet everyone loves her? They are all complicit in making her feel she is so superior to them. I know Christa Miller is married to the show runner, but her character needs to take a backseat in the caboose of a very long train. And she really needs to stop the injections and fillers and botox. She speaks as if she has lockjaw because her facial muscles are so frozen.

[juno]

3 minutes ago, BusyOctober said:

I do like this show. Every character is great... except for Liz. I can't stand her. Hated her in Season 1 and she's been nothing but insufferable Season 2. Are we supposed to feel bad for this spoiled privileged bully? She's miserable and mean, yet everyone loves her? They are all complicit in making her feel she is so superior to them. I know Christa Miller is married to the show runner, but her character needs to take a backseat in the caboose of a very long train. And she really needs to stop the injections and fillers and botox. She speaks as if she has lockjaw because her facial muscles are so frozen.

Funny, she played essentially the same character in Cougar Town. Horrible character on that show as well. She seems to always get the work because of being married to the showrunner.

[Blakeston]

20 minutes ago, juno said:

Funny, she played essentially the same character in Cougar Town. Horrible character on that show as well. She seems to always get the work because of being married to the showrunner.

And on Scrubs!

You would think her husband would give her a somewhat different character to play, so that she can show that she has range, but maybe she doesn't have any?

Gabby would never be best friends with Liz. That's even harder to buy than Jimmy and Brian being BFFs. And at least in that case, they've given us a backstory to help explain how they got close (with Brian having been a very different person when they became best friends in college, because he was still closeted then).

[Corgi-ears]

She barely has the range to play this character. At least it was (unintentionally) hilarious when Brian said, about Louis, that "sometimes it's easy to see when someone really needs help. It's written all over their face." And then the show cuts to Liz, so that we get The Message that poor Liz also has her troubles, and, why, we can see the toil, the cares, the struggles written all over her super expressive face:

 

Christa Miller is also the "music supervisor" on the show, seemingly because she once listened to Death Cab for Cutie, and thus thinks she has hip alternative tastes.

Edited November 16, 2024 by Corgi-ears

[Girl in a Cardigan]

On 11/13/2024 at 9:34 PM, Blakeston said:

Brett Goldstein's beautiful fiancee was an odd touch, considering that Brian said that he's living a Requiem for a Dream-esque life, but I'm guessing we'll learn more. Maybe the engagement is up in the air because of his issues, and his storyline will end with them resolving things.

I thought he said "That was my fiancee" past tense, so I was thinking that either she was killed in the accident too or she was having another kind of emergency which is why he drove after drinking. It seems like there's gonna be a "good reason" for him drunk driving and causing the accident (and yet, as others have mentioned in previous threads, not in jail or mentioning legal stuff whatsoever, even though we saw him put into a police car in a flashback).

I've also had a tiny thought in the back of my head that Tia was actually responsible for the accident in some way but Louis had been drinking, so Jimmy and Alice had the narrative that Tia was killed in accident BY a drunk driver instead in an accident WITH a drunk driver. It just feels a little too easy that Alice is just going over to this guy's house, telling one story about Disneyland, forgiving him and it's all over.

(I was also very distracted by the mole on Brett Goldstein's cheek that is usually hidden by his beard. And at one point, his eyebrows were crazy a la Roy Kent, but he reined it in quickly. I dunno, having him be the drunk driver is pulling me out of the scenes more than any others.)

I wish I could care about Liz's empty nest ennui, but I'm just not here for it. The thing with the dog photos was ridiculous to start with and the fact that it's a multi-episode plot is crazy. I mean, has she ever seen dog adoption photos on Instagram? What are you doing? And like @Corgi-ears said, it was hilarious that they cut to her when Brian is like "someone needs help" and she's just blank. I'm also for more Josh Hopkins, though, so if she needs to get her yayas out, then let's roll.