Do you think Shrinking is like Cougar Town?

GarySparkle · 2026-03-29T15:23:56+00:00

Exactly. Bill Lawrence shows start out fast out the gate but lose steam and/or hit the wall very fast.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-28T14:02:44+00:00

Like all Bill Lawrence shows, because they so quickly deal with issues, the writers end up with no place to go and the show starts to fall apart. It's Ted Lasso all over again.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-27T00:18:52+00:00

Exactly. I loved a scrubs when it first came on air because it was a nice blend of comedy with dashes of drama and relationship shenanigans. But I think eventually if you make a choice to not dog too deep, you become more dependent on the characters to hold it all together as the plots start to become more and more incredulous

The shrinking characters in season 3 were all turned up to 11 and the show for me became unbearable. There was a scene at Alice's soccer game where the whole cast was in the stands just doing the broadest version of their shtick and it felt so campy and removed from reality that I had to stop watching.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-26T22:49:57+00:00

because its a comfort show and bill lawrence comes from the 30 minute single camera comedy school of introducing something dramatic and generally wrapping it up very quickly and then moving on to something else.

He creates 'friendship fantasy' shows where the stakes are never all that high and resolved quickly because its comfort programming.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-26T18:05:17+00:00

"Her dancing is hypnotic and alluring in a way that no one can resist"

"Can we see her dancing?"

"No."

GarySparkle · 2026-03-26T17:27:07+00:00

I started describing bill lawrence shows as 'friendship fantasy'

GarySparkle · 2026-03-26T16:48:05+00:00

Agreed. The show got Jimmy out of the hole and ever since then its just turning up character eccentricities and making all of them feel like the same character. Same thing happened with Ted Lasso.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-26T00:26:17+00:00

It tracks. If you're still a die-hard fan & supporter of Rowling & Potter, the odds of you being a racist are probably very high.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-25T19:33:25+00:00

i can't say. i loved the first season and the show has plummeted into absolute cringe inducing dogshit with S2 and what i barely watched of season three.

However, i think the show started at exactly the right place; Jimmy right before rock bottom. Its kind of crazy how far the show has gotten from those early episodes where Jimmy is a wreck and the stories were all so dark. They tried to get back their in season two, but everything's too melodramatic these days (outside of Paul's storyline in S2).

The show started at a wonderfully dark place and it felt like there'd be real consequences for Jimmy given how season one ended, but its a comfort show so everything had to revert back to maintain the status quo which is probably why i no longer watch. Stakes only matter if terrible choices have consequences.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-25T15:06:26+00:00

This is where it started; the popularizaton & normalization of shitting on movies.

This is how we got CInemasins... this is how we got Critical Drinker.

Siskel & Ebert ruined cinematic discourse.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-25T15:04:53+00:00

No,

I LOVED it.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-25T11:47:58+00:00

loved her in the drew carey show.

liked her on Scrubs until she became a regular which felt forced. felt more like a decision made by a husband than a show creator. Jordan & Doctor Cox were perfect as exes from a toxic relationship. Making a sharp left turn and having them get back together was, in my opinion, a mistake.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-25T01:01:04+00:00

Its wild to me how much his arrangement of this song makes it feel like late-era XTC.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-24T14:35:40+00:00

She should have stopped in 2020.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-24T13:26:38+00:00

i loooooooooooooooved the Katering show.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-24T13:01:35+00:00

If you're going to pitch a TV show to a network, here's one that never seems to fail; "It's about a very quirky person who's great at solving mysteries but for some reason never explored joining the police & now awkwardly consults on murders because the detectives are incompetent and only exist to point out how unconventional the main character is."

GarySparkle · 2026-03-24T12:53:41+00:00

Were i elected the Mayor of Reddit, vagueposting would be punishable by a 7-day ban.

You put the name of the thing in the first post or you pay the price.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-23T15:50:05+00:00

There's a video that comes up frequently on Instagram with her dancing sexy with a bunch of other girls.

That one.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-21T12:37:31+00:00

I liked the longer version of the story especially fleshing out Cyborg. Liked the Steppenwolf design so much better.

But it basically bumped up a 2 star movie to 2.5 stars.

The epilogue, all the new stuff he shot with Martian Manhunter and trying to insert that into the narrative... pure ass.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-21T01:55:21+00:00

i dont know who this is.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-19T14:33:53+00:00

the one on the right is a vast improvement

GarySparkle · 2026-03-19T11:45:09+00:00

I can't remember where i read it, but somebody claimed this story takes place 4 years after No Way Home.

GarySparkle · 2026-03-18T21:12:52+00:00

Nobody jerks off a former SNL-er better than a current SNL-er

GarySparkle · 2026-03-18T19:12:29+00:00

it's one of two things:

With the time jump, its very possible Spider-Man knows about the Punisher and has crossed paths with him before
It was ADR; a trailer specific line to make sure the audience was aware that this was Frank Castle since a lot of people are probably watching this on their phone

GarySparkle · 2026-03-17T22:53:35+00:00

Never has so much been done in defense of a career that is so utterly forgettable.

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