henrygandorf

it actually isn't. i just watched it. i think it's next season (s6).

so did peter sarsgaard go to the hair salon before filming and say, "give me the joker"? because if so, they nailed it.

"i'm timing this for when we arrive. i want to hit the doorbell with my chin." i've used that before.

shut the door, have a seat is magnificent television. a top 5 episode of any show. it forwarded the plot, had twists and turns, and some perfect scenes. the rest of the series doesn't work without flawless execution during that finale. but signal 30 is a work of art from start to finish. i have a similar issue with west wing when comparing "somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail" and "20 hours in america".

yeah, 300 richies would've come and gone under her.

i love the megan era, but parts of the betty era (early and late) are a snoozefest for me. i think draper came out during the great run of alpha-male anti-heroes who were deeply flawed and got away with murder. draper, soprano, white, underwood, mackey, givens, horseman. carmy is ultra-talented, but has also been battered and abused by people and circumstances around him, which is why he's the way he is. whether the show gets him to rise above all that is anyone's call, but if he still can't dodge the fuck-you-yell-a-thons with richie, i'm not super hopeful he'll evolve in any satisfactory way.

i feel like the show overvalues sydney's skills and any professional chef should be able to cook regular, everyday things and have them hit the spot. yes, it looked amazing, and no, i could not make it as well at home i'm sure. i just think sydney's character has cut the line - especially in light of what we've seen of carmy's journey to get where he is. and now they're basically partners/equals, even though she's been hesitant to sign her deal. and meanwhile other chefs are offering her jobs to run her own shit. no, i don't feel like she's earned that, as far as the series has shown us. and if you don't show us, we won't know it or believe it. if it's not on the page, it's not on the stage, and so forth. and i think that has added to her likability, or lack thereof.

so there's a dish i can make for myself at home that proves how talented sydney is? i don't think you're making the point you think you're making.

yeah, during the funeral scene, we were like, "before you go on the bear, you best get your complexion issues in order." they will get right up in your business. i enjoyed ice chips but will never watch it again. that is the only episode in 3 seasons i can say that about.

i think he was just having a little fun with you, which i appreciated.

one of my bigger issues with sydney is that they (the show) act like she's earned her way into her position (carmy's equal/sidekick/partner + partner in this new restaurant + getting offers to run her own kitchen) and maybe she's super-talented, but i have not seen that on the screen. nothing she has done in the kitchen has shown me she can operate at that level.

peggy olson, pioneering the science of wet blanketry.

i dislike her. i just assumed everybody did.

we all know shit gets heated in a restaurant, though usually during, you know, working hours when the place is open. we all know there's creative friction (best way i can put it) that comes from violent collaboration, like between syd and carm. last season carmy taught syd the hand signal for "i'm sorry, we're good, move on" and they used it. i know he doesn't have that hand signal with richie, but their backwards dissent is not only annoying, but it also makes no sense considering where these characters have already gone. richie's growth arc was one of the more satisfying parts of this show (forks), and now they're back to s1 nonsense. don't show that shit unless (a) something extraordinary has happened or (b) you're going to show us a new way out, or possibly (c) if it's hilarious. none of these happened in s3.

agree with the last sentence. i don’t think that was carmy’s takeaway and doubt he felt as good afterwards as he should’ve. that relationship is beyond closure for him.

there were some great moments/eps this season, but it feels like the 10 episodes had 10 different writers and they all wrote at the same time. i don't need a super linear story, but the season-long questions pretty much all went unanswered through the finale. even carmen's internal shit that he doesn't let anyone else know about (the mchale stuff) didn't really get resolved the way it could've, because of who he is and how he is.

213 just like my area code.

lol "that's my car".

on my many viewings i've noticed a few things about their alcoholism schedules. they drink liquor all day at the office. then you went and drank liquor (maybe a beer for the poors) at bars and restaurants. restaurants were big for the boozy 3 hour dinners, multiple martinis. lunches too. but when they went home, sure, maybe they had a drink, but don didn't even have a bar. he kept his whiskey in an upper kitchen cabinet. even when they were pitching ideas to heineken (when betty lost her shit), they discussed how "more people were entertaining and actually drinking at home now" as if it was never really a thing before, because i don't know, maybe it wasn't? it was like they partied all day: work-> lunch -> work -> client dinner, then went home to pass the fuck out.

lol she’s kinsey’s secretary who has to wake him up the morning after “he didn’t write it down”. perfect.

so i'm on my way through for like the 12th time, and i want to take a moment to appreciate lois. she's stuck on the switchboard, which she hates. then peggy gets promoted off don's desk, so lois gets off of the switchboard. then don goes to the movies instead of attending a meeting, but she doesn't know what to say when peggy asks where he is. she tells him that she covered for him, he tells her that she is not suited for this job. she goes back on the switchboard. then, right before the merger, the crew senses something is going on, so they go grab lois out and ask what she has heard. she says she's not allowed to talk about what she hears in there, but then goes ahead and tells them every detail of the ppl merger anyway, and makes them promise to get her out of there. they tell her of course. i don't know if she ever made it back onto a desk, but the next thing you know, she's running over a guy's foot with a fucking tractor. yet somehow she didn't get fired, because she appears in another episode later in s3. here's to you, lois. enjoy the switchboard forever.

the lambo is 800k. take an interest.