The TV thread

One of the best, though anxiety-filled, episodes of television, IMO. The forks episode is great as well.

I'm apparently in the minority, but I liked Season 3 a lot. Good as 1 and 2? No. But that's a exceptionally high bar. For those who say nothing happens, I say it's a well-done and in-depth picture of the effects of generational trauma.

 

I like S3, but I loved the first two seasons. I think that's kind of the general consensus. And if you only thought S1 and S2 were good or pretty good, then you're probably going to fall off hard with S3, which is much slower. I think S3 still has three incredible episodes, but it feels like a show that was stretched from three to four seasons, as the creators said they did.

 

Can't remember if I mentioned it here, but there are a lot of "oh DUH" little meta moments with the show. Like how "Fishes" is probably the show at its most frantic and damaged, culminating with the dinner table scene and a thrown object... and of course, the next episode is one of the slowest, most serene episodes, and it is called "Forks."

 

The Jonii are fun. It was an inspired choice. Dean Martin's granddaughter is one of my favorite contestants.

 

ESPYs really gonna go more than a half hour over and that’s with several no-show winners

 

Annnnd they fucked up their ending. Started replaying earlier segments, then just rolled credits. Didn’t award team of the year

 

I've enjoyed watching the ESPYs.

The Pat Tillman Award segment early on brought tears to the eyes. And Prince Harry's acceptance speech regarding injured vets and the Invictus Games he started for them 10 years ago, would have done anyone proud, even his family, and perhaps Tillman's mom, too.

South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley, winner of the V Foundation Award for perseverance (in her efforts to fight and fund-raise against The Big C on behalf of her cancer-stricken sister, Tracy Underwood, as well as other close friends and acquaintances) just knocked it out of the park with her inspired words.

Ditto regarding Nick Saban and his Icon Award.

Uh, just now watching the Courage Award segment on former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason, who has been fighting ALS, himself, and for others through his foundation, for the past 13 years. You could've heard a pin drop in the room. Amazing.

The show just has had heart, and I guess I've needed some of that. Well worth watching.

 

Having watched the first 8 episodes of this season of The Bear, only 2 were excellent (6 and 8). I was listening to The Watch podcast, and they mentioned in their review of the first half of the season that the show was conceived of for 3 seasons and that maybe some of the wheel spinning and Fak nonsense was just filler.

 

I've watched several times on PG platforms, so all the cursing makes it more realistic. Sad at the same time that replating after midnight is such a thing of the past now.

 

My two silly quibbles with the movie:

1) A New York tabloid wouldn't have had an 8 p.m. one and only deadline in the 1990s.
2) The story would've been knocked off as the front page wood by the parking commissioner shooting the managing editor

Doesn't stop me from loving it though!