they broke this show when they broke them up. the inverse of the typical sitcom rule, but the last few episodes of last season were joyless.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Saturday, 7 June 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
"just doin' e and watchin that show ed"
me irl
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
not only am i mad that they've intentionally crushed all sexual tension between the characters from a shipping standpoint, i think it's also reduced everyone's character to "i'm a well-meaning idiot" lest they accidentally click on any level beyond "amiable roommate"
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
there are still decent jokes and takes but omggggg why would they delete season 2 from the show's psychological record AS WELL AS season 3?
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
i wonder if hollywood up-and-comer jake johnston wears sunglasses between takes and lets everyone know he's their shelley long cuz i don't know why else you'd take the show's romantic lead and turn him into a sexless oaf
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
p much agree, still has lols but its not promising to have as zzzz an ep plot structure as the tinder/weed 1 so early in the season
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
i was so invested in nick miller's emotional growth, i feel schmidt-level frustrated about this
― da croupier, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
Croup OTM as ever
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
not watched the new series yet, but feel they screwed the pooch v badly at the end of s3
― A college wearing a sweater that says “John Belushi” (stevie), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah.
second episode was better than first, but it's all pretty broad slapstick and sex and wackiness. not a lot of plot or heart.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it seems they're just trying tobring to yuks now--which is cool--but I'm contnet to catch up on this show next summer on Netflix.
― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
to bring
― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
ugh nm
I lolled hardcore at this week's 'cumin' gag but yeah, this show is treading water and has been for a while. I assumed when it started that the show would be a bunch of nutty kooks yelling at each other and was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to have some depth, but now it seems to be devolving into exactly that.
Mostly it just makes me wish 'Happy Endings' was still around :(
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 3 October 2014 08:53 (nine years ago) link
Before I start trying to download any of the new episodes, are they giving anything cool for Winston to do this season? Because he was woefully underused last season.
― A college wearing a sweater that says “John Belushi” (stevie), Friday, 3 October 2014 09:30 (nine years ago) link
nope :(
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 3 October 2014 09:32 (nine years ago) link
They've moved on the Winston-at-police0academy storyline a bit but 'woefully underused' is otm. Which is tragic, because he is one of TV's most wonderfully odd characters.
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 3 October 2014 09:34 (nine years ago) link
he's so well played. so much potential. he got totally shafted last season. coach sucks.
― A college wearing a sweater that says “John Belushi” (stevie), Friday, 3 October 2014 10:47 (nine years ago) link
i love the cast right now - especially Hannah Simone getting more screen time - but they're still struggling to get time for all six. coach and winston pretty screwed this past week. that said, still a funny episode. also, nice to see Michaela Watkins, though I wonder what happened to Schmidt's old boss/occasional hook-up
― Nhex, Friday, 3 October 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
oh lord Micropenis is real?!
― Nhex, Saturday, 11 October 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
what the hell has happened to this show
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 7 November 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
finally bailed after the episode about rob reiner's new wife, regret nothing
the writers have been raving about the fact that they got fisting jokes in an episode. reminded me of that Growing Pains spin-off Just The Ten Of Us about a dude with 5 daughters. that was also staffed by bored people with nothing better to do than see what the censors would let them get away with.
― da croupier, Friday, 7 November 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
i mean now that they've recanted on evolving anyone beyond "goofball who is adorable because we say so" what else is there to do
― da croupier, Friday, 7 November 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
The micropenis episode was the last one I watched.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 7 November 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
This weeks was the best episode of the season, maybe best of last two seasons. Not a lot of humanity, but fast and funny as it's every been.
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 November 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
So this is trending on FB: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/11/what-its-like-to-have-a-micropenis.html
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 November 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 November 2014 23:15 Bookmark
is this the meth in the apartment one? truly dismal episode
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
Yes. I disagree. I thought it was a lot of fun.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link
Man, I actually think this season is a huge step up from the back half of last season. It has its ups and downs, but I'd rather see the ridiculous slapstick stuff like the meth episode than the hamfisted relationship bullshit.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
i've begun to unwittingly adopt schmidt's vocal tics and i'm worried it won't stop
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 7 December 2014 07:34 (nine years ago) link
not even sure who i am anymore
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 7 December 2014 07:36 (nine years ago) link
I stopped watching this last season. It seemed to really have begun to suck, from out of nowhere. Is it still awful?
― #Research (stevie), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
It's still OK if you think of it as "The Coach and Winston show plus ZoDesh does some slapstick."
PS must credit me for "ZoDesh."
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
season 3 really sucked for a while (imo "birthday" through the end of the linda cardellini stretch, and i say that as linda cardellini) but got funny again in its last few eps, S4's been on and off laffs-wise. wayans jr is great. i wish they'd quit it with the endless "every character meets the perfect person who is perfect for them in every way and then they suddenly have to break up" cycle. just marry nick/jess schmidt/cece coach/winston and move on.
― qualx, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
oh shit, hi Linda! loved you on ER
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
i dont mind the schmidt/cece thing but i thought them killing off nick and jess so quickly was weird. nick and schmidt are "self" "parodies" at this point but get some laughs, i find wayans irritating, not even winston has been doing it for me lately, but honestly i still laugh 3-4 times an episode which is enough for 22 minutes
― max, Friday, 16 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
thanks for confirming this show hasn't recovered past a "frustrating, but better than staring at a wall" level of tolerability, guys
― da croupier, Friday, 16 January 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
when it's funny it's funny.
nick/jess in S3 was horrible, both together and not. it sucks when they lean on their great will-they-won't-they run-up for a season and then have no idea what to do when the actual relationship starts. so they just run through all the sitcom tropes. nick came out of it with all his edges sanded off and he's been mostly tough to watch since.
i'm apparently the only one who hates what they've done to winston?? he started off as an actual human being, they didn't really know what to do with him, so they turned him into a cartoon vegetable who needs to be reminded how to walk and which hole food is supposed to go into. the "winston loves puzzles and winston has literally no idea how a puzzle works" story made me want to punch a wall. S4's been better but that was all he was in S3.
― qualx, Friday, 16 January 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I quit after that awful bottle episode with Winston's police examiner. Seems like it hasn't really improved?
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 16 January 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
i wish they'd quit it with the endless "every character meets the perfect person who is perfect for them in every way and then they suddenly have to break up" cycle. just marry nick/jess schmidt/cece coach/winston and move on.
see this is pretty much how i felt about s3, tbh. but if you promise there's lots of Winston in it now I just might check it out.
― #Research (stevie), Sunday, 18 January 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
good news: more winston than beforebad news: it's all really unsatisfying police hijinks
― Nhex, Sunday, 18 January 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
jess' disappearing/reappearing nail polish is really cluing me in on many scenes take multiple days to shoot apparently
― qualx, Friday, 6 February 2015 07:26 (nine years ago) link
i lold a lot @ this spider ep, lotsa good winston
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
The Nick/Jess vaudeville routine ("They all smell terrible!" "I'm a good friend, but I'm not that good a friend!") had me breathless & in tears.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 27 February 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
that was some Three's Company stuff and i admit i loved it
― Nhex, Thursday, 5 March 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link
Wow no posts in this thread for a year. It's show malaise of the cursed ILX quotation mark topic search syndrome.Show has definitely had a bit of decline for the last season or so, but I'm still enjoying it. Some thoughts about the recent half season:
1) a little ashamed to admit this but Megan Fox is still crazy mean/hot and i found her run watchable on that basis alone2) glad they seem to actually be giving Winston and CeCe more time and jokes, especially CeCe who gets a lot more room to go wacky3) Nasim Pedrad is adorable and great but I hope she actually gets a full role on this show eventually rather than what seems inevitable - that she gets weakly written off when her and Winston don't pan out4) Nick has kinda become the defacto leader of the show this season, weird since Jess was out for so long and Schmidt got so much focus last year
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 March 2016 04:24 (eight years ago) link
it's turned a lot into HIMYM for me - it's still enjoyable often enough and i'm invested enough in the characters that i still watch every week. but it's never remarkable. i agree w/ everything else you just wrote.
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 March 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
it's the perfect show to not expect anything from. sometimes it lands, sometimes it doesn't. i fear that they are occasionally joey'ifying nick (i.e. making him more stupid than any human could be for cheap jokes) but so far they've kept that weakness in check. im perfectly content for it to persist or really to wrap at any pt
Peter Gallagher was a nice twist this week, i am not sure when i last saw him in anything
― art, Thursday, 24 March 2016 14:34 (eight years ago) link
hes in togetherness also
yea I still love this show
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 March 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
Man, the writing in this still crackles in a way HIMYM's never did. Even in the dud episodes, there are a least a dozen brilliant, undersold little lines tucked into the dialogue
― Evan R, Thursday, 24 March 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link