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"Absolute Thugs" is a great album title.

TheSameIdiot said:

Too bad your subnick is already so good.

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My ex leaned over to me while we were watching the Departed in the theater and asked "didn't that happen to someone in your family?"

The scene: when it's pointed out that Costigan's uncle was "busted selling guns to federal officers" and I had to be like look, it was a SECOND cousin and it was a STATE TROOPER not a federal officer but yeah okay fine

Same ex referred to the Town as a documentary for the same reasons.

My cousins also call me "the one who can read" which I think is doing them a disservice but also not wildly inaccurate.

I finished Eyes of Wakanda last night. That's what I want in some of these random MCU things. It was a fun, simple story, that really had no bearing on the overall MCU. I still want a anthology style MCU series just telling one offs...for fun.

I started the new King of the Hill and have enjoyed it so far. I need to go back and watch the last couple of seasons as I had no idea what happened to everyone at the end of the regular series.

King of the Hill was the ultimate cable TV sitcom for me. I caught random episodes on TBS or Cartoon Network or wherever it aired. I don't know any of the overarching plots but I enjoyed it all the same.

I plan to jump into the revival cold. I doubt I'll be missing that much.

Not the full series, but I just finished watching the last season of "How I Met Your Mother" again. First time I have watched more than one episode here and there since it went off the air originally.

Man I forgot how badly they botched the finale. They really struck gold with Cristin Miloti as the mother and then to work her in to the final season so seemlessly where you would have thought she was there the whole time? You don't get that very often.

Then the final 10 minutes happened and became a master class in how to wreck a series with a dud of a finale. Hell not even a finale, but the final 10 minutes of the finale.

Anyway, glad I watched it again but who knows when I'll ever revisit the show again.

I agree about Miloti, but I actually never had a problem with the ending. Bit of a twist, sure, but it made sense in retrospect. And it's kinda funny that they had that ending planned all along because they had to have filmed the kids' side during the first season or two. But yeah, Miloti was pretty amazing with how well she fit with all the cast members, especially after getting a better sense of her range with Penguin.

Ru1977 said:

I agree about Miloti, but I actually never had a problem with the ending. Bit of a twist, sure, but it made sense in retrospect. And it's kinda funny that they had that ending planned all along because they had to have filmed the kids' side during the first season or two. But yeah, Miloti was pretty amazing with how well she fit with all the cast members, especially after getting a better sense of her range with Penguin.

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Well yeah Ted was always in love with Robin (according to the show), and that would always be the end game thanks to the way they filmed the "kids."

However that is the problem with being so beholden to your premise. There was no need to finish the series with Ted talking to the kids just because they already filmed the scenes 9 years earlier. Like you said about the mother dying being a "twist" they could have done a "twist" with the finale and change up the talking to the kids premise. The creators clearly didn't want to change things so late in the game, but that just seems like stubbornness. A sort of "we know better than the fans because it is our story."

It's kind of hard to remember but Miloti really struck a nerve with the fans and frankly looking back I would argue she was probably more popular than Robin in that final season (at least the second half). Hell they really did screw over Robin after the wedding to Barney. She really did almost kind of disappear in the remaining episodes. Also they did write it like she was now the outsider of the group living her own life.

Still, overall I will stick with my belief that they really pooched the ending of the show.

canprime said:

It's kind of hard to remember but Miloti really struck a nerve with the fans and frankly looking back I would argue she was probably more popular than Robin in that final season (at least the second half). Hell they really did screw over Robin after the wedding to Barney. She really did almost kind of disappear in the remaining episodes. Also they did write it like she was now the outsider of the group living her own life.

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I can agree with all this. The last season or two had a lot of draggy parts, and Milotti, to me, wasn't one of them. But I'm also one that, while he's entertaining a lot of times, sees Ted as mostly a terd. That said, the entire premise for why he's telling the kids how he met their mother made total sense.

So, The Expanse. My wife and I are nine episodes in. I'd say it's a good show, though its reputation and IMDb score had me thinking it was a great one. I find myself completely disinterested in what's happening multiple times an episode. Is it just me? Does it get better as it goes on?

I'm also nearly finished with The Pitt. It's exceptional. It's not an easy or fun watch, but it's intense and well-made. It feels like the industry used to put out 15 shows this good every year. Now it's refreshing to see anything so professionally done. Some of the episodes are so affecting that they linger in my mind for hours. I'm not a crier, but several episodes left me with a lump in my throat. Strongly recommended if you can stomach the medical gross-outs.

TheSameIdiot said:

So, The Expanse. My wife and I are nine episodes in. I'd say it's a good show, though its reputation and IMDb score had me thinking it was a great one. I find myself completely disinterested in what's happening multiple times an episode. Is it just me? Does it get better as it goes on?

I'm also nearly finished with The Pitt. It's exceptional. It's not an easy or fun watch, but it's intense and well-made. It feels like the industry used to put out 15 shows this good every year. Now it's refreshing to see anything so professionally done. Some of the episodes are so affecting that they linger in my mind for hours. I'm not a crier, but several episodes left me with a lump in my throat. Strongly recommended if you can stomach the medical gross-outs.

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It may not be your cup of tea but I found the Expanse so good I was vibrating after most episodes. It does start out a bit slow but I'm super picky about my sci-fi and I'd put it in my top three shows ever.

I need to watch the Pitt. I've written about hospitals/patient safety for about 15 years now off and on and have too much information about how stuff works bouncing around in my head and my colleagues and the sources I interview for stories all say it is about as clear-eyed and accurate a depiction they've watched in a drama, which means I'll probably be crawling out of my skin with anxiety trying to watch it.

I started reading the Expanse a while back. Was really entranced by its real-world space science setting. And then it abruptly got super sci-fi towards the end and I never got the 2nd book.

I keep hearing about the show's adherence to real science, but I'm skeptical.

I got really into The Expanse once it was all done and as much as I hate captions, captions actually helped me enjoy this show. I also used Amazon's option to turn up the dialogue which also helped. When I realized the meaning behind the words I was missing, the show improved.

But it takes a minute for this cast to gel - but gel they do. Enough that I ended up pre-ordering all The Expanse figures because it timed out perfectly. I've cancelled most since then.

I have the How I Met Your Mother Robin Sparkles Funko Pop and she's never leaving my shelf. Season 9 was not great, but I think the real flaw was just killing the mother and moving on over the course of one commercial break. That's too fast for a beloved character, and too fast for the main character to move on. The content is fine - it's just in the wrong order, and the deleted scene of Ted and Robin really should have made it in. They killed time the entire season and somehow didn't have enough time to end it right.

Schizm said:

But it takes a minute for this cast to gel - but gel they do.

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That's really true. There's a period at the beginning where you're kinda like why do I need to care about these people and by the end I was like I would die for these people. Three of my favorite sci-fi characters ever came out of that show (Miller, Drummer, and Ashford) and all three of them started out relatively unlikeable.

(Funny sidebar - I was recording an audiobook and the producer mentioned that the last person in the studio before me was David Strathairn and I kinda blurted out 'sa-sa ke?' into the mic and confused the hell out of them.)

Loved the first two eps (good job too, because I actually subbed for once instead of taking shadier routes) but I wanna be surprised so not watching the season trailer.