Thoughts on three TV shows
Apr. 25th, 2023 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
between_time_and_42Firstly, I found out that two of my IRL friends are Heartstopper fans! We’re all hyped about the new season coming out! (My friend who has only read the first volume of the comic said “If Nick and Charlie break up, I will cry!” I reassured her that they’re not going to break up in season 2 :D) I do still need to actually watch the new trailer though…
Secondly, despite the excitement that I relayed somewhere below that a character on Ted Lasso was confirmed bi, thus turning her comments about same-sex attraction that had seemingly been played for laughs into genuine remarks… I’m actually not very happy with the relationship itself, because 1. I still ship Keeley with Roy and I feel like that’s supposed to be endgame since they broke up for such arbitrary, contrived reasons, so showing her with a new, suddenly-introduced love interest is just unnecessarily dragging things out (especially since it seems from the last couple episodes that Roy wants to be with her again), and 2. Keeley’s girlfriend is her boss?? It’s so weird how manager/employee relationships are normalized on this show, first with Rebecca and Sam from the last season (tbh I didn’t mind the age gap so much, but the fact that she his superior is where I draw the line), and now this. When Keeley told Rebecca about her upcoming date with Jack, I expected Rebecca to be surprised and gently question if this was the right relationship for her to be in, not that she would go “oooh, have fun!!” But I guess considering her past relationship with Sam, she’s not one to judge… I can’t say I’m not happy for the representation, but they could have done many things to make this relationship more interesting and less uncomfortable. (Also, I hate that Keeley can’t just be single while Roy works out whatever it was that made him break up with her… She’s got a lot on her plate as a PR manager, why not show more storylines revolving around that instead of creating a love triangle?)
Finally… I watched Barry S4E3. And I liked this episode a lot better than the first two! The humor was on point, specifically the scenes where Cousineau and his agent broke into the reporter’s house and Cousinea’s agent threw the computer into the pool, and also the climax when the gadget podcast guy showed up to assassinate Barry and only succeeded in blowing his fingers off. (I must say, I’m surprised Fred Armisen made a cameo since I had heard Bill Hader say, when someone suggested it, that he didn’t want John Mulaney to make a cameo because it would be too distracting to the audience going “haha, it’s THAT guy!,” so I assumed he felt the same way about the rest of his former SNL buddies (especially since Fred Armisen is such a well-known figure in comedy, for better or for worse), but… maybe he doesn’t care about that so much anymore, I dunno.)) I was also very surprised to find that the person I thought was Guillermo Del Toro was in fact Guillermo Del Toro, but it was a sense of pleasant surprise.
At first I was annoyed with Fuches constantly switching sides, but after this episode, I’ve accepted it as a core part of his character, and now I find it really funny. I can just imagine him sitting and staring at a picture of Barry, muttering “I hate you, but I love you, but I hate you, but I love you, but I…” As for Sally’s storyline, it spoke volumes when she tried to pull off the same “bully an actor into giving a better performance” thing that Cousineau pulled on her, only for her students to announce “That’s abusive,” and walk out. I don’t know if it’s because of a double standard (when a man does it, he’s a genius, but when a woman does it, she’s a bitch- even though the students were 100% correct that Cousineau’s method IS abusive), or if it’s because they’d already seen her screaming at her coworker in a viral video, or WHAT it was exactly, but I found it to be a very interesting take.
Finally, I just need to say how happy and proud I was when Hank basically told Barry that he’s dead to him. YES to standing up for himself!!
Now, I’m so excited to see how the jailbreak goes in the next episode (assuming that’s what’s going to happen)…
Secondly, despite the excitement that I relayed somewhere below that a character on Ted Lasso was confirmed bi, thus turning her comments about same-sex attraction that had seemingly been played for laughs into genuine remarks… I’m actually not very happy with the relationship itself, because 1. I still ship Keeley with Roy and I feel like that’s supposed to be endgame since they broke up for such arbitrary, contrived reasons, so showing her with a new, suddenly-introduced love interest is just unnecessarily dragging things out (especially since it seems from the last couple episodes that Roy wants to be with her again), and 2. Keeley’s girlfriend is her boss?? It’s so weird how manager/employee relationships are normalized on this show, first with Rebecca and Sam from the last season (tbh I didn’t mind the age gap so much, but the fact that she his superior is where I draw the line), and now this. When Keeley told Rebecca about her upcoming date with Jack, I expected Rebecca to be surprised and gently question if this was the right relationship for her to be in, not that she would go “oooh, have fun!!” But I guess considering her past relationship with Sam, she’s not one to judge… I can’t say I’m not happy for the representation, but they could have done many things to make this relationship more interesting and less uncomfortable. (Also, I hate that Keeley can’t just be single while Roy works out whatever it was that made him break up with her… She’s got a lot on her plate as a PR manager, why not show more storylines revolving around that instead of creating a love triangle?)
Finally… I watched Barry S4E3. And I liked this episode a lot better than the first two! The humor was on point, specifically the scenes where Cousineau and his agent broke into the reporter’s house and Cousinea’s agent threw the computer into the pool, and also the climax when the gadget podcast guy showed up to assassinate Barry and only succeeded in blowing his fingers off. (I must say, I’m surprised Fred Armisen made a cameo since I had heard Bill Hader say, when someone suggested it, that he didn’t want John Mulaney to make a cameo because it would be too distracting to the audience going “haha, it’s THAT guy!,” so I assumed he felt the same way about the rest of his former SNL buddies (especially since Fred Armisen is such a well-known figure in comedy, for better or for worse), but… maybe he doesn’t care about that so much anymore, I dunno.)) I was also very surprised to find that the person I thought was Guillermo Del Toro was in fact Guillermo Del Toro, but it was a sense of pleasant surprise.
At first I was annoyed with Fuches constantly switching sides, but after this episode, I’ve accepted it as a core part of his character, and now I find it really funny. I can just imagine him sitting and staring at a picture of Barry, muttering “I hate you, but I love you, but I hate you, but I love you, but I…” As for Sally’s storyline, it spoke volumes when she tried to pull off the same “bully an actor into giving a better performance” thing that Cousineau pulled on her, only for her students to announce “That’s abusive,” and walk out. I don’t know if it’s because of a double standard (when a man does it, he’s a genius, but when a woman does it, she’s a bitch- even though the students were 100% correct that Cousineau’s method IS abusive), or if it’s because they’d already seen her screaming at her coworker in a viral video, or WHAT it was exactly, but I found it to be a very interesting take.
Finally, I just need to say how happy and proud I was when Hank basically told Barry that he’s dead to him. YES to standing up for himself!!
Now, I’m so excited to see how the jailbreak goes in the next episode (assuming that’s what’s going to happen)…
