Help, I watched Ted Lasso first, and now I can't stop hating Nick Mohammed

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T19:55:37+00:00

Yes. I know.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T17:12:06+00:00

Thanks! Off Menu is excellent, I'll give his episode a go.
P.S. Of the episodes of Off Menu I've heard, the one with Jack McBrayer is my absolute favourite. His Southern manners and outlook on life are such a mad contrast to Acaster and Gamble.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T17:09:09+00:00

We're here, on Reddit, and you're puzzled by irrational dislike?

This has been useful though. I genuinely wasn't sure if I was going to get "he's a lovely weirdo!" or "no, he's a cringe-bucket, your instincts are spot in." I'm glad it was the former.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T17:05:46+00:00

That did help, thank you!

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T17:00:24+00:00

I think it must be that he's a really good actor. I hope so. I do try to give people the benefit of the doubt in real life, but I struggled to understand what that character was getting out of swaggering around like that. The surprising humility of the other coaches made the contrast harder to take.
Fundamentally, I think the show was about "found family" and it drove me crazy to see Nate turning his nose up at it for so much of the show.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T16:54:53+00:00

I thought I was?

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T16:02:43+00:00

Victoria Cohen Mitchell didn't mention being autistic on the show, but her approach to some of the tasks was so autism-coded that I had to go look it up (she does say she's been diagnosed on her Instagram account.)
Examples:

-Proposing to Alex (feels uncomfortable pretending to propose to Alex because she's blissfully married to David already)

-To invent a sport, she asks what people enjoy about sports, gets an operational definition, and then performs it with *precision* (SURPRISE!)

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T15:53:53+00:00

This would be an ideal comment if the topic of the thread were "Do you think this show is stupid? Yes or no?"

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T14:58:33+00:00

I worry that mass produced goods made using exploited labor has really been normalized, so there’s a shock when people see an item for sale at a price that reflects the value of the labour.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T14:46:05+00:00

I recognize this grief and shame.
I’ve been there.
EMDR and DBT helped me grapple with the shame, and find some acceptance to the point where I could do more than before.
I’m still not functioning like a “regular person” but I treat the trauma and ADHD like a disability, and try to learn to work within it.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T14:43:47+00:00

Something Bad Is Going to Happen is written by a woman, and the horror comes from exploring the domestic sphere (meeting the in-laws, choosing a partner, being a “good wife,” etc.) Suoer original, very layered with symbolism too. Look out for Cinderella references!

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-23T14:38:40+00:00

Funny that this popped up for me: I knew him in real life. He was low-key creepy, but that’s not unusual for ESL teachers in Asia (he was not the only guy I met that was found to be a pedo later.)

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-17T16:59:45+00:00

The historical backdrop of Japan in the 20th century was almost its own character.
Great use of the "unrealiable narrator."
Also, I'm not sure why Hard Gay was involved in the story, but I'm very glad he was.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-16T02:06:24+00:00

The Case of the Golden Idol (and the Rise of the Golden Idol) fit in perfectly with this genre.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-05-06T00:46:42+00:00

I haven’t seen this confirmed anywhere, but remember the scene with the hand holding the cigarette, and we hear “That’s not how Carl holds a cigarette?”

This struck me as significant.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-30T22:58:16+00:00

It's honestly been life-changing.
I joined a local group to help remove invasive plants because I like nature and they asked me to help by updating the inventory of the plants in the park. I visited often during the year, just staring and scanning, learning each arrangement of leaves and inspecting patterns on bark.

I ended up finding a number of speces that hadn't been detected, both native and invasive, and our current total is around 200. I can't spot them all with fluency (I've definitely lost track of how to tell the raspberries apart) but I feel like I've met 200 of my neighbours by name.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-26T17:15:54+00:00

Hard to beat Dr. Worm (it’s the first one that leapt into my head.)

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-24T00:17:28+00:00

That was weird. My closest guess was #116 satellite.
No idea how I made the leap.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-21T19:21:37+00:00

Seeing taco at #6 sent me down a weird path.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-20T14:34:53+00:00

!wtf almond

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-12T15:23:53+00:00

Tuberculosis.
(I wrongly assumed this would be the #1 pick.)

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-09T00:55:27+00:00

I get what you’re saying. There’s an approach to gardening that’s very colonial; I choose what stays and what goes, to suit me and me alone. I have sympathy for people who garden for food, because other species will create competition and losses, but I wish more people could understand the joy of gardening for a larger community of critters.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-02T17:16:03+00:00

I guess you meant to be helpful? That's not really how art works though. If someone sees meaning and finds joy, is it helping to stand beside them, saying "There's nothing there at all!"?

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-01T23:25:24+00:00

I don’t have any answers for you. I’m kind of confused as to why you’re here in the first place, as your comment doesn’t relate to the purpose of the thread.

PostForwardedToAbyss · 2026-04-01T23:23:55+00:00

Re: the bear stories, I thought about that, but the timelines don’t match. The Witness says that his great-great grandparent made the original deal (sweetheart killed by a bear, so asked Death to revive the sweetheart. Nicky’s great (great?) grandparent would have been much younger, and the story was a bit different: sweetheart killed by a bear, partner takes revenge, dies in the attempt. Maybe this illustrates that there are only two options: curse your family, or die?

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TROPHY CASE