I missed that line first time through. Caught it on a re-watch; absolute genius.
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“Don’t you dare settle for fine” is going to cause a lot of break-ups.
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I missed “Earl GreyHound” and kicked myself afterwards.
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Wow! I never even got that until you said it.
Appropos my earlier comment:
“Jason and I wanted to make something that was akin to a very iconic sports movie. We grew up with all the iconic sports movies we all love, whether it was Field of Dreams or Rocky or Hoosiers - there’s always this kind of hallowed-ground feel to where the big game is. We wanted a place with personality that we knew actually meant something.
“For me - I’ve got to shoot a couple of times in big stadiums, where I’ve seen iconic teams play – this [Selhurst Park] is definitely one of the top three. It was such a key part of the show… I’m nostalgic for Selhurst now.”
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“If you live in Alabama, you’re University of Alabama or a college in Texas if you live in Texas. You live, breathe and die for your team, your colours, your jerseys. Sometimes people’s houses are painted that way, they dress that way.
“To see that kind of specific regional pride in a team in the UK and in football was really eye opening and cool, and we saw it a lot with not only the stadium, but Crystal Palace as a team.”
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If you haven’t heard, Bob Odenkirk collapsed on set of Better Call Saul last night, and was rushed to the hospital. The lack of updates since is a bit concerning, but then his PA (I assume production assistant) sent this tweet out a couple of hours ago:
Those last couple sentences don’t sound too encouraging. Bryan Cranston also tweeted out asking people for their prayers.
Pull through, Bob.
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Indeed.
Sorry for the TMZ link but it’s fairly good news.
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Also good.
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Saw the news earlier today, and later on the “dead pool” thread here got bumped and my heart sank.
I thought about that when I posted about Dusty but that was as much a gut-punch as the news of BO.
Ted Lasso S2 Ep 2 is excellent. All the great stuff you know and love and, as always, new wrinkles thrown at you.
But I need to know what that look meant at the very end. You’ll know what I mean when you see it.
I’m sure some of you have seen “Nobody”, with Odenkirk. If you haven’t, go watch it. If you have, find the DVD extras (I rented it at a random redbox outside of Tow, Tx) and watch the making of. That guy went seriously hard to train and get ready.
I love that guy.
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I was wondering the same thing.
Schmiggadoon on Apple TV+ is basically Ted Lasso: The Musical. Not as funny (nothing on TV is right now), but still with decent laughs from the fish-out-of-water underpinning, while gently layering in some social commentary.
Trigger Warning
The underlying social commentary is basically a jab against those who want a return to the “real America”, which basically sucked for anyone who wasn’t a straight, white man.
I am not a fan of musicals, but if you can get past the first episode - where they lay it on very thick to establish the premise - it backs off after that. They use the musical numbers for comedic effect and they do a good job of respecting the genre while lampooning it all at the same time. That the outsiders are aware that they’re stuck in a fictional world is mined well for humor too.
It still feels a bit like an extended SNL sketch, and those do not have a good track record. However, Ted Lasso broke that mold, and did so by giving the characters complexity, instead of making them simply stupid or assholes.
The same is true here as, even after 4 episodes, they are peeling the onion on numerous characters, especially the two main protagonists, as we see how their relationship has waxed and waned in non-chronological flashbacks (à la 500 Days of Summer) on their way to becoming trapped in a 1940s musical; doomed never to leave until they find true love.
Ask yourself, why isn’t this in the science fiction thread?
ETA: after catching up on Ted Lasso last night, we watched a bit of this. It was amusing, though it was hard getting past people wearing jeans while backpacking. That’s completely unrealistic.
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Is it science fiction, though?
Acid test: would you put Groundhog Day in science fiction?
We are liking Schmigadoon. It’s kinda cheesy, but most musicals are.
A better comparison might be the Narnia books/films, but either way I agree with you.
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Yeah. I think the cheese is deliberate, because it’s inevitable.