I watched the pilot last night. Promising! I wish I didn't know the lead's last name is Brosnahan bcz now she seems too goyishe to me.
The guy who plays Lenny seems more like him than I was expecting. I thought the period was earlier, but Newhart on Ed Sullivan Show pegs it as 1960.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 April 2020 01:31 (four years ago) link
Morbius I hope you love this show
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 12 April 2020 01:37 (four years ago) link
x-post Nah, they fudge the dates. It's still supposed to be set in the '50s, but somehow Newhart is already famous from his first album
― Josefa, Sunday, 12 April 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link
Lenny’s irl daughter spent time on set & gave her seal of approval - it’s a great performance. show’s technically set in 58 but like josefa says they fudge some dates here & there
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 April 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
i love all the gaslight stuff, could watch a series of that alone
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 April 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
i was randomly talking to my seatmate on a plane and we were talking about Maisel love and i realized I had mysteriously never watched the last episode of season 3. so we just watched it last week. so perk extra episode. she also told me that brosnahan is kate spade's niece which I hadn't known.
i hope morbs likes it too.
― Yerac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
we’re all counting on you morbs 😂
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 April 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
that kind of historical cheating already pisses me off
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 April 2020 01:53 (four years ago) link
i know, i get it ... but you gotta let it slide
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 April 2020 04:02 (four years ago) link
wait... is every episode an hour? cuz that's too long
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 April 2020 07:29 (four years ago) link
MORBS
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
i usually just watch one ep per day. i can't binge anything an hour or longer.
there's not that many eps so
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
I guess this is a dramedy, I wanted a sitcom.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
Season 3 is a visual tour de force it must be restated.
― nashwan, Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
I'm having a hard time getting through S3 because I don't like the characters anymore I think. I'm somewhere in the middle, but I'll power through.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
i predict morbs eventually hates this show, but then i fuckin hate this show
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 12 April 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
I keep thinking about season three but after spending all day locked up with a manic extroverted 5 year old starring a 1 hour show at 9:30pm feels like a huge slog
― joygoat, Sunday, 12 April 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
I can't count how many films I've seen where the first 20 to 30 minutes are excellent and fun and then they peter out in weaknesses brought on by clumsy plot exposition, complications, and resolution, because their early strength had nothing to do with the strength of their storyline. Series are not immune to this, either. Beginnings are easy, developments and endings are hard.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 12 April 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
I'm 3 episodes into this, and it's pretty entertaining, BUT... the thing that most annoys me is that Midge has gone on stage 3 times and KILLED entirely by IMPROVISING, apparently. A sheltered UWS princess with no stage experience? Even the greats have told stories about dying in their early sets. I know it's not a documentary, but the plausibility matches that Tom Hanks-Sally Field film Punchline. I'm looking forward to seeing if she ever bombs.
It also feels like this show started with the production design, costume design, music clearances, and enough budget to redress those Village streets, which is not cheap.
Almost everybody gets funny shit to say, esp the dykey manager. Tony Shalhoub is very convincing and funny, but the shocker is that Kevin Pollak (who I've never liked much at all) is even better! "The thirteen Jews..."
Another anachronism complaint: the Friars Club scene starts with the fanfare of "Comedy Tonight." That's 1962.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 April 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
yeah there's a bit of suspension of disbelief in her early abilities, she comes across as a savant in her first few improv gigs, then her first few planned gigs are terrible even though it would seem she's sharp-witted enough to plan material if she can do it off the dome like that.
I just rode with it, it's not realistic obv
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
Pollack is so good; Shalhoub really comes into his own in the back half of Season 1, it takes a while for his character to really build up a head of steam
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
Pollak is hilarious in the bank loan scene in Season 2
"YOU...are *not* a Jew!"
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
I love all the parents so much. Her stand up skills go downhill pretty badly, it is a little strange.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
I love this show. I kind of think Morbs will enjoy enough about it before bailing because of storyline or something. But I can't get enough of sets and costumes and colors and pitter/patter. My only real gripe is Joel. I really had hopes he would get run over by a horse and carriage or fall off a fire escape etc etc spoiler.
― Yerac, Sunday, 19 April 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
oh yeah he sucks bad
he should have been eaten by a feral mountain lion by Ep 2
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 April 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
he's a shitty ex/husband alright, tot foxy actor tho
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 April 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
morbs otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 April 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
alex borstein my favorite, then Lenny
Also Midge paraphrased Dr Spock's baby book as saying "You got this." Give me a break, I never heard that til five years ago.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 April 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
Joel....foxy????!!!
― Yerac, Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
he is a quintessential Cute Jewish Boy, even though the character is a monster
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
it's pretty clearly indicated that what brought the two of them together was laughs and sex, not necessarily in that order
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
The laughs come during the sex
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
Joel is v handsome imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 April 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
Yerac favors men of a certain stature iirc
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
he played randall on Walking Dead! I did see him Brooklyn (the movie) last year.
― Yerac, Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
now I had to search for how tall he is.
― Yerac, Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
i looked it uphe’s 5’8”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
He wish he were a little bit taller
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
you wish he was a baller?
― akm, Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
he has a girl who looks goodyou should call her
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 April 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
be easier to pull a rabbit out of a hatalso they repoed my '64 Impala
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 April 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
"When I was three I could resole a shoe."
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
I know the actor who played Red Skelton (at the Copa) in episode 4.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
(who is funny and talented, and knows his vintage comedy, but neither looks or sounds like Red)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
I own the Mort Sahl LP she's listening to in ep 5
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
are you enjoying it?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
mostly
i'm glad she bombed TWICE in the fifth episode; bout time
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
my favorite thing in S1 is episode 3 when she gets stoned for the first time with Lenny & the band
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
season 3 is dreadful
glee with namedropping of ppl that nobody cares about or arent real
lenny bruces top cat routine is getting worse
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link