"Welcome to the no options club."
I felt so uncomfortable watching Homelander outing Maeve on live tv without her consent.
I understand they want entertainment but allowing a sick and toxic person just go completely crazy and emotionally draining on everyone is absolutely not ok. The fact that they just allow this to happen again and again for god knows how long, is horrendous to me. Emotional abuse cannot be supported. People get scolded by a crazy person and they just film that over and over again? They should apologise to the participants, hosts and the audience.
My poor Schneider. He's father is a total asshole.
He deserves better than that.
I love the relationship between Lydia and Alex. Is beautiful.
I'm part of the problem, I admit it. I watched the first season when it came out, loved it, but for some reason or another, I didn't get back to the second season when that launched. Nor the third. And then it got cancelled. My views probably wouldn't have made any kind of difference, but still. Watching this episode now, first the incredibly cheap and super heartwarming West Side Story reference, and then the incredibly emotional scene around Rita Moreno on the couch... I'm so sorry I didn't give One Day At A Time all the love I could have while it actually might have made a difference. Because it is truly special, and I'm sad these amazing people didn't get to keep telling stories together.
On any other series, that would have been the season finale. Ten years ago, it would have been considered a TV movie.
Not just on terms of length, because it wasn't even the longest episode of the season thus far, but on terms of stakes and delivery. They pulled out all the stops, showed us all the things, culminated everything that the season has been building up to... save for one small child.
Where all the other episodes (except for one unfortunate bummer) pulled at the heart strings and brought progressive thought and understanding in the way Trek fans had enjoyed for years, this episode was one bombastic, cinematic moment after another. And I can appreciate that, when employed correctly. So many TV shows (and movies) don't, and all the explosions and dying and interstellar war fail to mean anything. Despite this, there was a single thought-provoking plot thread that came to a close...
Ensign Charly Burke.
I understand, and sympathize, with a lot of the hate surrounding the character. Though, I'm glad that the vast majority of that hate was aimed at the character and not the actor. Orville fans setting the bar for more established fandoms. And I personally wish they could have fleshed her out more than they did. But in the end... they did a good job with her arc. She was ripped out of her happy little life, forced to work alongside the person who inadvertently caused the person she loved to die for no reason, forced to tow the line on a ship that wouldn't tolerate racism towards the enemy the way the rest of the Union might have (wrongly) put up with. And she grew. Against her desire to grow, she grew. She grew more than she was aware of. When she had no time to think, she reactively defended Issac and ultimately the Kaylon as a people. So, I don't hate Charly as a character - especially not now. I think it was a competent execution of a trope that is used far too often and falls flat almost all of the time. Hell, even the funeral felt earned.
The rest of the episode is so dense, and doesn't ever slow down. But it's also a very visual. surface-level affair compared to the rest, so I'll just say that it was general sci-fi excellence. A great dessert after an even greater meal. I was genuinely shocked by Admiral Perry, especially his awareness of his decisions (Somewhere between Lawful Neutral and True Neutral). It's a shame he's gone now, but I'm more surprised we got Ted Danson in a recurring role for two seasons. I knew that a major shift in power was coming because of the last episode, but I was not expecting the team-ups we are left with. After all the griping about the shorten ed episode list, the length of those episodes and how tight the narrative has been leaves me stunned there's still a whole other episode to go after all of this. See you on the other side.
On any other show Charly's arc would have been trash, but the team writing this show wrote that arc so very well. I like that her growth wasn't a revelation in her last moments, but that it was done over time. Great episode. Fantastic show.
I didn't know what to expect from this series but it really amazed me. It has the right mix of fun and seriousness. It deals with light topics and other very heavy ones with which he manages to get to the heart.
Very recommended.
Movie made by Russian propaganda to re-shape the image of Russian police forces
The insert song at the end of the episode is just great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPxSS1zHWwQ
