That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.

Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Streaming 1: There Goes the Weekend

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Steph L. - Oct 17, 2021 7:30:44 pm PDT #1343 of 2156
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

For me, S02.E09 really undercut the momentum that had been building, but my favorite part of it was getting to see more of Baz, Jeremy, and Paul.

Yeah, I didn't care for episode 9 (except for Beard's pants [well, his second pair of pants]), even though I really like Beard in general, and I adore Baz, Jeremy, and Paul.

I guess S02.E09 was an homage to

About 5 minutes in to the episode I went "Wait...I've seen this movie!" (Because yeah, the title of the episode didn't tip me off to the homage. No, seriously. It didn't.)

I cannot believe that the Trent Crimm The Independent actor doesn't have his current look as his IMDB headshot.

Right? It's GLORIOUS. (I showed Tim the first episode last night, and I hit pause at Trent Crimm The Independent's first question and said "That man's hair is GLORIOUS" and Tim replied, reverently "God DAMN.")

I know people are shipping Ted/Trent, and I get it and would be all for it except for how much I am a 110% unrepentant Ted/Rebecca shipper and it had better fucking happen in S3.


Trudy Booth - Oct 18, 2021 8:09:53 am PDT #1344 of 2156
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Tom Scola and megan walker's talk in Natter about Bennington College ( [link] ) and Donna Tartt gave me a Jamie Tartt (doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo) earworm, which made me look, again. I wish juliana would come back and post her theories.

Similarly... I was watching Marvel's What If... and in Episode 4 someone says "__________ is here, __________ is there..." and started singing "__________ is every-fucking-where" and I'll bet I'm not alone in that.

I don't know when I have watched a show which created this level of character development in such a short time. Heavy-duty stuff there.

OK, so back when I was doing a whole lot of improv... The first big rule of improv is "Yes... and" - what ever someone says you go with and don't try and undo it. Its frustrating because sometimes you can't see any possible good outcome to the dumbass thing - but you're really not supposed to look ahead or PLAN anything at all. You need to just commit. Commit to the bit, they tell you, and you will almost definitely make them laugh. If you're lucky, you'll make them cry.

So back when Jason Sudeikis was on SNL I liked him fine (which is actually a rave from me because most of those square-headed-white-boys work my nerves eventually). Then one day I actually watched him in What Up With That? and I realized the. man. is. brilliant. He is the king of committing to the bit and if I were teaching improv I'd tell my students to watch those sketches EVERY DAY. The whole sketch is commitment and he is, as I said, the damn king.

Ted Lasso, the character and the series, are inherently so damn absurd - but they all lean into the characters and the story so hard. The writing is so tight and the actors are so so so very good. It makes me teary to see something so damn good. And I really should marry Jason Sudeikis.


Topic!Cindy - Oct 18, 2021 9:28:41 am PDT #1345 of 2156
What is even happening?

I know people are shipping Ted/Trent, and I get it and would be all for it except for how much I am a 110% unrepentant Ted/Rebecca shipper and it had better fucking happen in S3.

I didn't know people were shipping Ted and Trent, but I don't go to many fannish places these days. Trent's hair is glorious though, and I just love him. I wonder how they'll * incorporate him into next season. I find it hard to believe they'll just let him go. James Lance is fantastic. *

I've been trying not to ship (and not to root against ships that aren't my first choice) at all, because overall, I love how Ted Lasso treats relationships (romances and friendships), and I'm enjoying the ride. This tact has been the least successful when it comes to Ted and Rebecca, but I keep telling myself to keep on enjoying the ride, even if it goes somewhere I didn't want/expect.

When HIMYM first aired, I felt it was Ted and Robin's love story. I felt it so much, that I "knew" it, but when it dragged and dragged, I got over it. I also figured I was wrong (or that Thomas and Bays didn't realize how they'd presented Ted and Robin at the outset). Thank goodness Ted Lasso is only going to be three seasons, and not nine. Even though I love it far more, with only three seasons, I can't get overly invested, because I already know it's almost over.

I feel about Ted and Rebecca like I did about Ted and Robin in the beginning of HIMYM. It might just be because I want it, but Ted Lasso seems to telegraph that Ted and Rebecca will end up together. Those daily homemade biscuits in a pink box are a romantic gesture that is never recognized as such, but it's the kind of thing a couple tells kids about later. "And grandpa made me shortbread every day, and gave it to me in a little pink box. My only regret is that it took me so long to see what was standing right in front of me the whole time."

Ted's immediate recognition of and visceral reaction to Rupert, and subsequent looking out for Rebecca in "For the Children" felt meaningful. Realizing what a bastard Rupert is, is one of the times we've seen Ted consciously choose to push down his feelings with alcohol. He decides to trade his beer for a shot of Jack on the rocks, and by the time he's finished telling the bartender what he wants, his order has increased from a single, to a double, to a triple shot.

Also from that episode, when Ted and Rebecca are outside the fundraising venue, he offers to take her on a rickshaw ride (to get her out of there and away from Rupert), her response is something like, "Not right now." That is a reasonable way to refuse a kindly offer, but it felt like it could have meant that someday the right time will arrive. I know it's only a bicycle rickshaw ride, but it pushed the fairy tale significance of horse-drawn carriage button, in my brain.

"Make Rebecca Great Again" saw Ted end his marriage legally, and then psychologically (by sleeping with Sassy), while Rebecca took a waiter back to her bed. Until the last moment, it seemed like the show could be setting up a surprise Ted-and-Rebecca-sleep-together reveal, and I can't help thinking they did it to make us want Ted and Rebecca.

In S02.E10, * "No Weddings and a Funeral," the show jumped between Rebecca and Ted's confessions regarding their complicated feelings about their fathers, but that parallel doesn't have to have a romantic significance. What did feel significant, though, is that Ted is the one who first helped Rebecca with the "Never Gonna Give You Up" lyrics — in church no less. It felt like they were reciting vows. *

Anyhow, I could go on longer, but I keep telling myself, "No, you want Ted and Rebecca, but that's not what this is," and then I keep seeing TED AND REBECCA 4EVA in so many scenes.


Topic!Cindy - Oct 18, 2021 9:33:36 am PDT #1346 of 2156
What is even happening?

Similarly... I was watching Marvel's What If... and in Episode 4 someone says "__________ is here, __________ is there..." and started singing "__________ is every-fucking-where" and I'll bet I'm not alone in that.

Trudy, the Roy Kent song constantly plays in my brain. It's an earworm I enjoy, though.

I feel a lot like you did (except the marrying part) about Sudeikis. He registered as an SNL white boy, and no more, although it took Ted Lasso for me to see him as more.


dcp - Oct 19, 2021 4:31:32 pm PDT #1347 of 2156
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

Leverage: Redemption

Just finished watching the series. I enjoyed it. Pretty light, pretty fun, some good lines.

I'm not sure how I feel about how they left Eliot and Maria's story.


Dana - Oct 20, 2021 3:24:45 pm PDT #1348 of 2156
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Trent Crimm The Independent made some serious eyes at Ted in their last scene together in the finale.


dcp - Oct 20, 2021 5:13:02 pm PDT #1349 of 2156
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

Only Murders in the Building

Watched the finale. It was okay. A pretty thorough wrap-up. Some smiles, no laughs, no shocks. Meh.

However, the twist at the very end got me.

It did its job -- now I'm wondering if they will get a second season.


Steph L. - Oct 21, 2021 7:33:42 am PDT #1350 of 2156
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Trent Crimm The Independent made some serious eyes at Ted in their last scene together in the finale.

And got so flustered that he locked his keys in his car.


Steph L. - Oct 22, 2021 9:33:33 pm PDT #1351 of 2156
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

What We Do in the Shadows: I was not expecting that at all! Dang.


-t - Oct 23, 2021 8:10:29 am PDT #1352 of 2156
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

No indeed