“Citadel” on Amazon Prime is promising. The first two episodes are up, and it’s basically a mash-up of all the top spy-movie franchises rolled into a highly polished TV show (it costs $40+ million per episode to make).
Apparently, Amazon is all-on on this one and plans to make international spin-offs in local languages that tell the stories of the expanded Citadel universe.
The two main stars - Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra - have good chemistry and offer plenty of eye-candy for all orientations. Stanley Tucci (as Basil Exposition) is always good value.
Catching up on Ted Lasso. I’m guessing the series ends with Ted taking a job back in the US and Nate being named Richmond manager. Is there any reason to think otherwise?
Keeley and Roy get back together. Not because it makes sense, but because that’s what they think viewers want (and it may well be what many want). Btw what the hell happened to the school teacher? They set that up perfectly last season.
Jamie will be brilliant in his role in Total Football.
Sam will shine on/off the pitch.
Nate completes redemption arc. It may well be by sticking it to Rupert in some way.
If Rebecca is pregnant I wish they’d stop showing her with a drink in her hand (I know if she is she does not currently know it; it just makes me tense).
The closeted player comes out and I bet it’s well done.
Barbara seemed like a promising addition to guide Keeley into being an effective businesswoman. Time is running short if they’re going to do anything more with her.
Upon further reflection I think MM is right about Roy taking over. Maybe Rupert will lose his team to another wife.
Agreed. The best thing Mad Men ever did was resist the temptation to have any romance or sexual liaison between Don and Peggy. Ted and Rebecca would be equally as bad, so hopefully they have enough sense to avoid it.
I like how Mythic Quest developed an intimate relationship where both Poppy and Ian grew to respect each other and did it all platonically. They love each other but it’s not romantic and it’s still flawed in ways.
IMO Ted’s relationships with others, especially Rebecca, was better when it was adversarial. To make him and Rebecca romantic partners would go way too far.
Ted’s relationships can’t continue to be adversarial. There is no storyline if it does. The entire premise of the show depends on his changing peoples’ attitudes towards him and his methods, otherwise it’s just a series of people being mean and spiteful to each other.
Exactly. Plus, the entire point of the show is that he changes peoples’ attitudes. If he doesn’t, it’s just three seasons of disjointed, dysfunctional workplace insults. It’s Kitchen Nightmares without an objective.
This is why I said a few days ago that I wish it had only been one season. Or you develop those relationships beyond the adversarial, but you make it more gradual and contingent on how the team performs. Rebecca doesn’t have to give Ted the Major League treatment all three seasons, but she (and the players) can still retain some skepticism about his shtick until the team improves. Instead, by the S2 premiere he had basically everyone eating out of the palm of his hand, and has ever since, and that feels unearned.
