Trakt for iOS
Works on iPhone and iPad.
Richie and Jessica romance NOW, chef!
This episode really captured the humiliating nature of looking for a job - fired without warning, horrible recruitment practices, applying to different jobs, whether over or under qualified.
The conversation between Tina and Mikey was an ode to everyone just trying to try. Not looking for a title, not competing, not even sure but trying. And then the envy towards youth and their carelessness, the essential need for a routine and a paycheck.
This episode, double in length, made me watch it halves. Not because it was long but because it was stressful. I knew what the ending was going to show before we got there. I knew that it was going to be tense. Coming from my psych education, I knew that in a family that is toxic almost all the time, the people with mental illness will look like the crazy ones even though they aren't. And this showed so much insight into how each Bear sibling has the predisposition for depression from their mother and yet Mikey's manifested and festered because of how close he was to his mother. Carm escaped and Natalie married a normal so she escaped too, but Mikey couldn't. The worst part is, some people might look at this episode and feel like it's just like their family...and that's heartbreaking to me because sometimes we don't even realize that our own upbringing is the reason we might feel bad about ourselves or our lives. Apart from that, great performances all around. Not a single beat missed. Jon Bernthal and Bob Odenkirk took this episode and made it theirs.
X-Men '97 stuck the landing and then some, and that feels like an understatement. "Tolerance is Extinction Part 3" was unbelievably good. What a way to wrap up a season, and what a way to revive a show! Every character got their moment to shine, every detail and plot point served a purpose. The show managed to bring back a cartoon from 30 years ago, update it, modernise it, make it relevant to younger audiences and current social issues, while also maintaining its heart intact in a way that immediately feels familiar to everyone who's grown up with it.
In a way, it feels that the show has grown and matured along with its original audience. Now tackling more serious issues, not holding back on the commentary, exploring trauma, grief, the anger caused by injustice, and remaining true to the X-Men's history as an allegory for the prejudice experienced by marginalised groups, while also understanding how crucial the 'found family' theme that defines the bond that holds those characters together is.
Every nod and Easter egg comes from a place of loving and respecting those stories and the artists and creators who over the years shaped those characters. All episodes were filled with references that comic book fans would recognise, but not once did it feel gimmicky or cheap. The season finale perfectly wrapped the main storyline, but also opened the way for what comes next, and season 2 cannot possibly arrive fast enough.
I thought it was a good episode, but not great. It was so corny. . I’m scared for the rest of the season, it seems like the show might have second season syndrome.
Shauna and Jeff are so dumb. I hate the entire storyline. Yes, please leave your fingerprints on everything! And the worst thing is that in season 1, Misty made them wear gloves so Shauna knows better!
Of course Callie was going to find the most important piece of Adam's driving liaisons that somehow didn't burn.:clown:
Really enjoyed the editing - the cut from Shauna/Jackie talking to Shauna with the body.
As someone who hates musicals, Crystal would drive me nuts
Shauna at the end! What a way to lead into cannibalism!
One of the most brilliantly-acted, brutal, raw, uncomfortably stressful and heartbreaking pieces of television I have ever watched. Touches upon themes of familial trauma in a very real, very unsettling way, without ever becoming exploitative for a second. Also giving a new perspective on all main characters, adding extra context that makes you look back at everything that has happened from the first season on from a different angle. Not an easy watch, but an exceptional episode.
