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
disagree on Lenny - one of Lenny’s best epidodes is in this season!s3 is definitely a slog at first but it comes together really well in the last few episodes
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 May 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
hmmph ok we'll see
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 May 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
Midge is a self-saboteur, as the Jane Lynch episode proved. Infuriating.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
i am glad you are sticking with it!
― Yerac, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
s1 finale a little heavy on the Midge-Joel content (also he's no Sal Mineo per the final insult), but loved Shalhoub's "I will have to kill you." The Lenny rescue seemed a little forced too.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
Not read the full thread - is this worth sticking with? I liked S1 well enough but s2 is a bit boring (up to ep4 or 5 so far). Too much Midge's mother, not enough hustle, also don't massively care about Joel unless they actually go into why he cheated in the first place...?
― kinder, Friday, 14 August 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah I left it around the same episodes iirc. Not that I disliked it anymore. But I didn’t feel like knowing more about what happened to these characters (never like Joel so him being more present was a pain)... I may go back at some point though.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 14 August 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
Love her parents though !
I'd encourage you to keep at it. All the characters bring their own rewards in the end.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Friday, 14 August 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
Season 1 is probably the best but I enjoyed sticking with it
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 14 August 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
stay the course, chaps
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 August 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
I think the writers are aware that they neglect the children, and have turned it into a bit of a running gag.
my wife was the kids' age at the time and yes she thinks this is deliberate, the kids really are secondary and the maid takes care of them
― sleeve, Saturday, 15 August 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
100%
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 August 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
I hit a wall in S3 and haven't come back to it (after x and y get married). I guess I should, but I can't imagine S4 is coming anytime soon.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 August 2020 04:52 (three years ago) link
s3 is worth seeing to the end
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 August 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
S4 is going to be a cartoon
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 August 2020 05:43 (three years ago) link
the back half of S3 is the chunk of the show with the lowest annoying-to-entertaining ratio, possibly
― poparse's eye (sic), Sunday, 16 August 2020 10:32 (three years ago) link
agreed
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 August 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
rewatching for the nth time (i lost count)i still love this show so much
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 September 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
(also i love that morbs ended up watching the show. rereading this thread makes me miss that bitchy old grouch <3)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 September 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link
Cute John Waters cameo in s3 e4.i dont care, i still love this show, will never stop loving this show
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 February 2022 06:56 (two years ago) link
s4 e4 i meant
the strip club stuff is really charming imo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 February 2022 07:00 (two years ago) link
spoilers for end of season 03
End of last season she outed a famous black man and, much as I love her, got what she deserved. I'd thought the show understood that.
S04e01 this is now being cast as yet another unfair setback that Midge will raise up from, via one of her worst stand up performances yet.
Does she get called out on this as the season progresses?
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 27 February 2022 10:41 (two years ago) link
nobut also it’s not that kind of showthere are consequences for midge to a point, but how much calling out can you really expect when the main character is inherently “marvellous” yknow
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 February 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
Yeah I'm all for the show being frothy and consequence free but then they didn't have to have her do that in s3 lol. Could've gotten some setback that actually wasn't her fault.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 27 February 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
Maisel Goys podcast makes a valid point - the start of this season is basically a reset: Midge is back in NY, and back with her parents (well, they're back with her, but ya know). There's going to be one more season after this - feels like very little time to catapult her into superstardom, which you'd think the series was gearing towards?
The needledrops in this series are great, they always have been really. Bought Barbara Streisand's first album recently for "Come To The Supermarket (In Old Peking)".
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 7 March 2022 14:07 (two years ago) link
Something struck me as anachronistic on one of this season's episodes: Abe was watching tv and said something like, "I wish there was a way to pause it, or rewind it." One problem I had with that is the hackiness of it ("Get it? They're in olden times technology!"), but would anyone in 1961 have used "pause" in reference to a tv show, film, or even a sound recording? Reel-to-reel tape machines were (I think?) the only consumer product at the time that had a pause (or, for that matter, rewind) function, and those were mostly only used by audiophiles.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 7 March 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
that moment was purely eye-rolly wink wink to the camera, something they don't usually do, and it was a bit annoying
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 March 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
I listened to a little bit of the actual Lenny Bruce Carnegie Hall concert after watching the final episode, and it's remarkable how much they've had to change just to make him comprehensible to a modern audience. His references and language are so of their time, it's difficult to follow him. You sort of don't notice it as much in the interviews and the books, I guess.
― trishyb, Sunday, 13 March 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
yeah i got quite into him in high school & somehow got a tape & i was like HUH 🙃 loli do really love this fictionalized version of Bruce though, its the best part of the series for me. it retains the air of sadness without making too much of a meal out of it. and all those shots they did in the irl carnegie hall, looks so incredible
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 March 2022 04:42 (two years ago) link
I'm assuming that next season we will be able to tick off more people on our Sherman-Palladino associate bingo cards, too.
― trishyb, Monday, 14 March 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link
i think this is the final season.
― akm, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link