Third season of Ted Lasso gets to be pretty saccharine and certain plots are rushed, but by then the characters have built up so much goodwill that you’re willing to ride it out.
Also, if you find him immediately grating, give Ted himself about three episodes at the very beginning to turn into an actual human. It’s worth it.
We will see if the upcoming season four can recapture any of the magic.
This list is not even worth two dollars.
I mean, that’s a better choice than “fuck my waiter, specifically and today, while not affecting his bosses’ bottom line at all.”
But here’s the thing, it ain’t the owners’ problem either. They’re winning. The whole reason they do this is to externalize labor costs and do ad hoc market segmentation, except it’s based on customers kinda being dicks. When you don’t tip in the US, you have sided with the owners and have said to the server, “you are worth minimum wage.”
Agitate the rest of the day. Tip at mealtime.
Primaries are primaries. People walk back comments made during them all the time, and to a certain extent they’re the time to push your party where you think it needs to be.
I will be interested in what happens for the general. Can’t do much of importance if you pout and let the perfect be the enemy of the good (or the good be the enemy of the kinda okay), and thereby get evil elected.
Statistically speaking, the first part basically already happens. 90-97% of civil cases in the US settle before trial.
In a system that depends on interpreting unique fact patterns and evaluating and weighting “real-world” evidence with varying levels of subjectivity, I’d say that’s already as predictable as it’s supposed to be. What’s left has to do with inherent uncertainty on that 3-10% of close cases and clients with differing risk profiles (and pettiness), more so than it does with scummy lawyers bullshitting their clients, though TBF that definitely happens.
If anything, the issue with adversarial civil litigation generally, and the American system specifically, is that any uncertainty whatsoever breaks so drastically in favor of the party with more resources that reasonable claims settle when they had an excellent (but not guaranteed) chance at trial.
It is so fitting that what may quite literally be Trump’s only sincerely held belief about public policy is short-sighted, inefficient, bad for the world, and based on shallow considerations of aesthetics.
Which is the point of the phrase of course. It’s meant to simultaneously acknowledge and dismiss the “well ackshully” crowd. No, Switzerland is not fully surrounded, but also it doesn’t matter in any politically meaningful way.
gravity well
The only caveat here is that anything in orbit is nowhere near escaping the gravity well. The earth is pulling on the International Space Station at about 90% of the force as at sea level. It’s just that everything is going so fast it misses the ground.
In the article, that comment is directed at Boots Riley, though to be fair I think he could only be accused of Trojan Horse level obfuscation by people who think anything with social commentary subtler than Hacks is a Trojan Horse.
I like Hacks a lot too (even if the final season was a bit of a low-stakes victory lap, it still made me laugh), but “boomer actually has to explore social justice with an open mind” is at least half the point of the show.
It is a slippery thing, this two weeks — not a measurement of time so much as a placeholder. Two weeks for Mr. Trump can mean something, or nothing at all. It is both a yes and a no. It is delaying while at the same time scheduling. It is not an objective unit of time, it is a subjective unit of time. It is completely divorced from any sense of chronology. It simply means later. But later can also mean never. Sometimes.
To be honest I think I’d prefer to see them cast a regular-sized Ackman, like Alyson or Margaret.
Oh, yes, I did start playing with a screen reader; why do you ask?
As I understand it, they do have one more season…
which a lot of people think will end with the first interstellar ship, or even first contact. It did feel like they wanted to cram in more than their episode allotment would allow this season, and a lot seemed undercooked. Like, they barely touched on Dev’s role in the automation plans, just assuming we’d infer that the crazy Mars-first guy who’s basically embezzling from his publicly traded company to build more infrastrucure for colonization actually needed to learn that “the right people were already on Mars.” In retrospect, I do kind of appreciate that the farm dome attack was a disaster because he couldn’t imagine life happening in Happy Valley. Not a bad idea, just didn’t have the breathing space it needed to land.
Then, as you say, Jarrett/Stevens was assumed to be interesting because of her family, not because she had anything really compelling to learn or do, and her arc with learning to hate Marsies and then overcoming it was almost laughably compressed. I did think the Baldwin family’s stuff was okay, and I like Alex more than most people do. Also, thank God they didn’t drag Ed and his age makeup through the entire season.
So, I generally agree with you. They’re sprinting through their plot outline to get to their end-game, and the “one season per decade” framing device is creaking under the weight of what they want to do.
Sounds like this was a pretty fucked up situation, but one wonders why the white cops (can’t say for sure, but the police wrists on the bodycam look very pale) would really have no trouble believing that a white kid out late at night had been tormenting a brown one.
I bet it has way less to do with being “woke” than it does with their actual experience on the job. They also called the ambulance right away, but they did fuck up quite badly by not believing him when he said he’d been stabbed.
To be clear, the Sikh kid needs to go to prison, the police need to be investigated and those officers disciplined, and I grieve for the victim and his family, but people who think that an 81%-majority ethnicity is enduring some epidemic of oppression, because previous white shitheads lulled some lazy cops into complacency, they have some other agenda. I wonder what JD Vance’s is?
I think that was Babylon 5 and J Michael Straczynski. You’re thinking of the repeated times when, in the middle of the hardest hitting writing in SciFi, there’s a ham-fisted, horribly conceived episode about a second-rate lounge singer coming out of a Ferengi holodeck or whatever.
New generation just never grabbed people the same way, but at least nobody’s fuckin’ their dead son’s best friend or doing missions in the throes of a serious hard drugs addiction. I’m still interested in how it all plays out, and only one season left, which feels about right.
I will note that it seems like understanding Star City, probably every season they eventually make, will be key to extracting full value out of the plot to FAMK S5. They may be going full Marvel with a cinematic universe.
I saw The Mandalorian and Grogu a week after opening. It was… fine. Filoni loves wolves and bringing characters in from his animation. Favreau likes to smash the action figures together. We got pretty much all of that, and I smiled more than I cringed, though to be clear I did both. Also, as much as I disagree with his “spectacle movies are without artistic merit” take, there was something kinda sad about hearing Scorsese voice a CGI alien in a franchise that – although it lodged itself in my soul at the exact right moment to stay there forever – is obviously past its prime.
Apart from the potentially dramatic ecologicial concerns, I have it on good, if somewhat dated, authority that El Niño is Spanish for ‘the Niño.’
I haven’t quite decided if it’s intentional or clumsy writing, but there is a running theme of bounty hunter guy doing the bare minimum to get paid while giving Mando every chance to get out of things. He spends zero time looking for Grogu once he has Din. He somehow conveniently fails to notice that his hairless batdog has absconded with, but not killed, a sapient and technically-inclined being. He both delivers important exposition to swamp guy and calls off the batdog upon the merest suggestion of annoyance from said swamp guy. Then, of course, he and batdog GTFO as soon as there’s any opening to do so without the twins coming for him. He looks familiar from the Filoni-toons, so I would have to look him up to see if it’s all in keeping with whatever pre-existing characterization may be out there. Filoni is a known wolf-weeb, so it could be empathy from one parental figure to another, especially with the kinda weird dog-training verbiage they kept having Mando use with Grogu.
You’re only slightly off, and the point is well taken that it’s far from the point of the show.
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Specifically, there’s the mildly force-sensitive medic on Yavin who gets Bix to believe in something bigger. I think there’s also a few other offhand references.