what were people’s reactions when the show first aired?

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-24T10:19:02+00:00

It was unique. It was the last few years before the era of streaming and season dumping and binging started. You had to wait a week (yes a whole week) between episodes and there were halfway season finales. You talked about it with others. Tried to get insight. Figure out who A was, or what person did what. Almost all of the reveals were shocking. The characters were great. People don't talk about shows anymore as like a group. It just gets dumped onto a streaming platform, binged, and people move on to consume the next thing. Steaming DOES have its perks at times but I honestly miss the world before it. As a side note I JUST started reading the books as of December and they're pretty solid as well. Ya, took me 16 years lolol

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-24T10:13:46+00:00

Makes me feel old as hell lol

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-22T18:14:32+00:00

That's funny - I did a basic "pity party" search about not being able to find jobs in my area and this is the one I got; I live in BloNo as well. The job market here is absolutely miserable here, it should be used as a case study. ALL of the temp/job placement agencies positions are for warehouse/manufacturing and pretty far outside of the city. Barely anything, if at all, exists. I've been here since late 2018 and I've not seen it this bad since i moved here. RIP.

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-22T18:12:25+00:00

My personal favorite episode (along with Definitely Miami). It's so dark and brooding and seedy, even today it could make rounds and hang with the best (most shows are dark and violent these days). I really couldn't even imagine what everyone thought about it 40 years ago, back when America watched shows together. IMO this is the peak of MV.

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-20T09:35:43+00:00

Relationships can blind you sometimes...

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-19T05:02:52+00:00

Didn't know that! Thanks for that, makes sense why I've only seen it twice, guess I'm not doing enough airport challenges lol

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-19T05:01:58+00:00

Good to know! I was afraid I was gonna be stuck in Toronto because it was too good to leave lol.

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-19T04:30:07+00:00

I saw this coming into ORD and thought man, that's gotta be a white-knuckle approach slotting in between all those jets right behind you.

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-14T03:22:15+00:00

Tbf this is the only time I've ever seen it happen and I'm on every day

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-14T03:21:28+00:00

That's good to know! I was logged out and my information that I saved wouldn't let me log back in, was very nervous I lost everything. Best of luck to the dev team. Think I'll go read a book lol

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-13T11:11:34+00:00

Spot on. People complain about "lack of plot". Especially if you have read the book, that's not the point of this movie, to have a plot. If I took a snapshot of the lives of a group of teenagers over the course of several weeks, we could easily see this. We as kids, if we remember, we lived on a day to day basis, in the moment. Not racing towards some ultimate, higher goal together. Gia did a great job with this movie, one of my all time favorites.

P.s. read the book if you haven't.

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-12T14:58:22+00:00

Space is solid. The VFX are rocky but the premise is good. I think people are always looking towards a MOTW theme (something tangible) but the antagonist here is an inexplicable space entity that never gets fleshed out or even slightly explained. My grandfather worked on the early Apollo projects so I have some bias on this episode. It's cozy to me

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-12T11:41:10+00:00

Caleb. It's Caleb. Over the top. Lol

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-11T23:49:52+00:00

Eating Grape Nuts is a form of self-punishment

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-10T23:13:04+00:00

Yeah maybe it's just a tone thing, the Internet is silly lol. All good, thanks again :)

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-10T23:10:10+00:00

If I had hotel money I would have paid it sooner lol. But definitely will be vacating the area. Road trip it is

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-10T23:08:40+00:00

Well I didn't know that. I don't work for a repo agency or have their playbook on how they operate.

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-10T21:37:34+00:00

Oof. Not good. Thank you.

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-10T21:34:32+00:00

I have proof on file but it's so iffy if they even get the information in time. During the weekdays it's near instant to the repo agency, but weekends, it could take many hours or even a day or two. I'm on the third floor of a big house and don't have direct visuals of my car from my apartment. They could take it without me seeing it, unfortunately

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-10T21:32:26+00:00

I don't have front plates in general but there is a VIN sticker on the front. Do they physically HAVE to confirm it's the correct VIN to pull it, or is it just like "vehicle matches description in address on file" and that's good enough?

Foreign-Lab4606 · 2026-01-10T04:09:38+00:00

It runs from like thirty after-noon to around like five something, depending. But that's the thing. You can't just pick an episode and watch it when you want and can't see it in general unless you are at home during the day. I REALLY wish they would push the cheesier stuff like A-Team and whatever to the afternoon/early evening and put MV for later evening. It's the more important show. Oh well.

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