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Thoughts on the series up to the finale? Hope it sticks the landing for you
Iâm watching the final season of Brockmire and holy hell itâs weird. I donât think itâs good but itâs so weird itâs kind of hard to stop watching.
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Just started watching it, only two episodes in but so far enjoying it. Sudeikis really inhabits the character well.
âMillennials and zoomers love binging TV shows, watching the Joe Rogan Experience, and two-hour Twitch streams, and posting screenshots and memes on social media. What if we gave them 8-minute shows they could only watch on their phone and disabled their ability to screenshot them? Trust us, weâre Business Geniuses.â
Sadly I read recently heâs had throat cancer. Not sure how much more acting he will do, which is a shame because heâs been so many iconic characters. Nick Rivers, Jim Morrison, Batman, Doc Holliday, Gay Perry, Dieter Von â â â â â â
I liked it, but they definitely took, ah, a big swing for the fences with the storytelling decision.
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Just finished the finale.
I watched all the seasons as they came out except this last one and always liked the show a lot. I see what they did with the ending but it missed the mark for me a bit although I had really high hopes from the hype here.
I guess Edgar got away as he said from jimmy and thatâs good but I feel like after what jimmy and Gretchen did/said to him in the finale he shoulda just told them to go fuck themselves and I was hoping they would end up miserable, and maybe the shot of her in bed with the baby crying is indicating that I dunno.
Pretty hard not to hate everybody mentioned in this story really. I mean whatâs a hundred-dollar swipe of the credit card for a day pass to Disneyland for her?
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I was halfway through the final season premiere when I said âNope, not watching this anymore.â
I forgot how fast he turns into a total psycho. In my memory it was a slow burn.
Yeah, you have basically generational wealth from TV shows and youâre burning your bridges over $100.
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Having been in involved in or in the immediate vicinity of a few of these seemingly petty major problems over the years I can tell you⌠the straw that breaks the camels back is not the reason the camels back is broken. Itâs because the other party isnât happy with the deal they are getting and are looking for an excuse to get mad subconsciously. This is why being a good negotiator isnât about getting the absolute most money out of the other person you can. You push that shit too far and theyâll figure out how to get what they feel like they should have gotten plus a bit more for pain and suffering on the way out the door⌠and theyâll use something as trivial as a 100 dollar credit card swipe to justify it.
Obviously if youâre a car salesman you should get as much money as you can, but even when I was a car salesman I saw a few deals that made a bit too much money fall apart. Cars were left on the lots with keys in them. All kinds of nonsense the details of which are getting away from me as the years pass and they get less relevant to my day to day⌠but even in the most one off transactional business you can think of this remains at least somewhat true even if the numbers still favor stuffing the deal with as much profit as it can hold.
Shonda Rhimes showrunner deal was not a used car sale. If she was unhappy about her deal they should have figured out what it was going to take to keep her happy and made that happen. Itâs possible that they couldnât hope to match Netflix, in which case any excuse would have done if she was going to jump ship no matter what.
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And sheâs gonna fire her own lawyer or agent or whatever he is if he canât get her a deal with Netflix!
Yeah the whole story just reeks of bullshit to me. She went to Netflix for an absolutely massive check, and she decided to ruin some corporate suit who irritated her over some petty bullshits career on the way out.
Which is an excellent parable for working at a modern corporation. They are going to tell you to follow the rules and that if you donât youâll be punished. But there will come a time when you will need to make a meaningful and slightly risky exception to prevent a catastrophe. It does not go well for the rules followers when these things happen. Follow the spirit of the rules not the letter of the rules and everything will most likely be fine. If Shonda Rhimes asks you for something your job is to give her the total star treatment. Sheâs trying to impress her sister and youâre embarrassing her probably. This is not going to end well.
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For fans of The Vow/NXIVM, excellent interview from Michael Rosenbaum with Sarah Edmondson.
At 30:00 or so, she discusses how deceptively compelling the program is and why cults in general are so attractive to intelligent, successful people struggling to manage their identity and lives. Her example is where she identifies one of Michaelâs triggers and how in NXIVM, she would have taught Michael that the triggered feeling is pathological and must be resolved, whereas now she says holy shit, she recognizes that the way he feels is normal and healthy. It isnât something to be identified and removed.
Then around 1:07 they talk more about Allison Mack and how she transformed as she continued in the program.
Such a sad ongoing story.
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You can use my Netflix password, itâs maga2020!
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Dave Lettermanâs new season filmed post COVID has a good interview with Chapelle. He is opening up a bit more about details of the dark years.
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Didnât he just stay home and get really high?
I play Europa Universalis a lot, which got me interested in the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople since the gameâs timeline begins around the time that happened irl. Iâve been doing a little light reading on that and on Mehmed II who was the Ottoman sultan at the time the Ottomans conquered what was left of the Byzantine (Roman) Empire. I got to thinking, âThis would make a good Rome/GoT-ish period drama series in capable hands, I wish someone would pursue it.â Then lo and behold I ran across this:
Itâs a Turkish production it looks like, with some American writer and producer heading it up. It dropped back in January, just six episodes so far. Iâve heard pretty much nothing about it but obviously find the subject matter interesting. Has anyone seen it? Is it worth six hours of my time? Or is there a good reason that Iâve never heard of this before now?
I had this game as a teenager, since it came free in an issue of Strategy & Tactics.
Although, I enjoyed the article in S&T about the siege, I never played the game.
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If this is a joke, I donât understand the punchline