So, what did everyone think of last night’s episode?
I liked it, but couldn’t catch one like. After picking up the dry ice, Gloria mentioned needing to have a card with three names on it and then said something that Alex found funny. What was it? (Earlier, Gloria said something about not having and dry ice in the house and Alex assumed that was a deliberate pun.)
“I know a guy in Chicago. HE’S amazing.”
Gloria (talking on cell phone): Three mothers are giving the party, and we need all our names in the card. Gloria Pritchett, Sarah Leona Deecho (sp?)…
What do you mean that there’s no more room? Deecho must go on!
Alex: Oh come on. That one had to be on purpose.
Good episode, but nowhere near as good as last week’s.
Which proves they do indeed have good writers when I would consider this episode “weak” and it was still very good.
I was happy to hear that Nathan Lane would be returning as Pepper. He’s always entertaining! He was a bit subdued in this episode, but he still made me chuckle a bit.
You’d be subdued too if you had a son in Damascus who…
I’ve said too much.
The show was a pun fest-- in a good way.
I was distracted during the intial sceen. it ended with Claire looking at the camera as if she had done or said something embarasing. I missed it. Does anyone remember?
She assured Gloria that everything would be okay, but then Luke was putting golf balls into Lily’s open mouth.
I didn’t get it.
I really hate the old trope of “skeptic decides to keep her mouth shut when she realizes that people really need their superstitions.” There is an episode of Friends featuring this trope that makes me want to blow up my television.
“Unbearable. I’ll play it on the way back. I have it on my IPod Phone.”
Good, but a little manic with four separate storylines. The Haley/Boyfriend/Claire one was particularly weak (probably because the guy playing her boyfriend is such a terrible actor).
That’s funny, I was actually going to comment that the issue was surprisingly well handled. Almost invariably in popular media, when there’s a skeptic vs a believer, the skeptic states some reasonable-sounding position only to be proven wrong. You’ll have the show ultimately proving that the woo master is right, or at least ambiguous enough that it seems they are.
This show actually showed the proper skeptical result (it showed the psychic falling for false leads while trying to cold read), showed someone being credulous at them anyway, and then never gave the payoff where it turns out the credulous person was right.
Unless I missed something - I was busy and only half-watched it. But it seemed to me that it actually showed a realistic skeptical result - that the psychic was bullshit but that the skeptic decided to let a minor thing go.
Could they have gone further with it? Sure. But just for the fact that they didn’t appeal to magic like the vast majority of popular entertainment does is a step up.
The golf scenes were really funny, especially when Mitchell finally hit a good shot and yelled, SUCK IT NANCY!!
The psychic predicted that Alex would meet a boy and a horse was involved. Alex played along saying she was going to a renaissance faire as one of the false leads the psychic fell for. However, later in the episode she started talking to a boy with a horse on his shirt at the musical. So the cliché was played out in full.
Okay, my bad then, I just wasn’t paying much attention. That’s the ending I was expecting. No skeptic is ever correct in popular media, there is a ridiculous deference to the credulous.
Yeah, I was a bit dismayed at the ending. But it was funny, I suppose.
“Luckily I have seen the Broadway version several times so I was able to learn from their mistakes.”
“Though in fairness their lead soprano was a total mess- no offense [little girl’s name]… make sure there are no batteries in her mike”.
If you ever do community theater you will know that is NOT an exaggeration of a theatre queen (though in the case of Phantom there are, in fact, plenty of mistakes to learn from).