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Just finished the first season of The Good Place.
Holy hell. I can't wait for season two?
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6 hours ago, crushingmayhem said:
Its quiet...too quiet...
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4 hours ago, Clappy said:
Serious question here from one apartment speaking person to someone who is shopping for one. Would you say paying 1000 a month in rent for a place that has it's own gym, lounging area for all apartment goers, pool, and billiard table be worth it for having a one room, one bath, and a walk in closet?
Right, well, the one thing that skews my judgement is I'd personally be looking at apartments in either New York or Boston (I'm moving back home after college for about a year to scrounge some money together to be able to get back to New York, but for the sake of this I'm lumping Boston in as well). If I saw that in either of those cities I'd jump on it with no hesitation, because that is way too good of a price point for those two places. I'll try to keep my opinion objective here and assume I'm moving to a town/city that's actually reasonable to live in.
On the outset that seems pretty good, considering the amenities it comes with, but I don't know how essential those actually are. They're nice bonuses, but if I'm not using them everyday I feel like I'd just be paying more money for other people to have fun. The option to just go to a gym in my building would be nice, but I could also get a cheaper place and then spend, like, a couple hundred flat on a year membership to a gym, and then just save money every month because the apartment rent itself would be cheaper. Lounge is nice, billiards are nice, but again, how often would those be in use? I'd rather lounge around in my room so I don't have to wear pants, and if I wanna play billiards I could find a bar that has a table. The one bedroom is great, because I hate living with people - but the walk-in closet just seems excessive. Like, it's really cool to just have that, but I'd feel terrible if I couldn't fill it because then there's just this giant thing staring at me everyday while I get ready reminding me that I'm spending $1000 so I can have that.
(Also, as an aside for the lounge thing - my girlfriend's place has a lounge with a billiard table for all apartment-goers, as well as a rooftop lounge with an outdoor movie theater; I'm over there practically everyday and I see maybe one person a week actually lounging, and even fewer people playing billiards, and it seems while the rooftop gets the most usage out of those three it's practically inaccessible during the winter so you can only really take advantage of it for a handful of months out of the year).
And then of course there's the normal money situation - how much do I currently have, and would I make enough from my job each month to actually afford this + food + student loans + a life or would I only be able to afford this apartment.
I think I'd scope out my options a bit more, but I'd definitely keep that place on my radar (and also definitely check it out so I can confirm if I like the space or if it's actually just a total scam). But I'm also overly cautious and wary about everything because I don't know anything, so I'm not a good barometer for these sorts of things.
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1 hour ago, Gwen Stefani said:
I'm so glad The Good Place is getting a season 2?
Hadn't heard that, but me too. I've gotta get caught up on season 1, but it's so delightfully weird and charming and I can't believe a show like it exists, and I'm glad it's not getting cancelled.
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On 12/30/2016 at 9:59 PM, Gwen Stefani said:Spoiler
I thought it was really good - I thought it was at least basically as realistic an ending as it could've been, considering the whole movie felt really dream-like. I think I would've liked the two of them ending up together just fine, but I don't think it would've had any emotional weight to it and the movie would just kind of fall by the wayside. The ending kind of makes it. As much as I enjoyed the dream sequence at the end... if that had actually happened, then Sebastian wouldn't have accomplished his dream. He was sitting there in the crowd with Mia at the club, while he watched some other guy play the piano. That really sucks for Sebastian, to spend the entire movie wanting this one really specific thing, that's both tangible (the club) and intangible (reviving jazz), to just pivot and go "oh, wait, no, I want her instead".
I got to see two wildly different reactions to it, though, which was fun. I went to see it opening day with my girlfriend and we were both basically in agreement that it was amazing, and then I saw it a couple weeks later with a friend of mine because she was obsessed with the soundtrack and hadn't had a chance to see it yet and then when it ended she kind of had a breakdown for a couple hours and kept going "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME NICK? WHY WOULD YOU LET ME SEE THAT? HOW COULD THEY DO THAT? DID THEY THINK THAT WAS A GOOD ENDING? THAT ENDING WAS TERRIBLE! OH MY GOD! I CAN'T LISTEN TO THE SOUNDTRACK ANYMORE BECAUSE I'M JUST GOING TO THINK OF THAT ENDING!" (I added the spaces for legibility purposes, but imagine that without the spaces in between the words and that's how she was talking).
On 12/31/2016 at 5:46 AM, Rachel Bloom said:La La Land was worth to wait. Music especially
It really was. I'm really glad they went with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as opposed to Emma Watson and Miles Teller, too. As good as Teller was in Whiplash, I feel like that definitely would've been a trainwreck.
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Called out of retirement once again!
27a - It's Called "Gruzz" (Part 1)After coming into a slight bit of money, thanks to a refund check from the school, Squidward decides it's about time to do something nice for himself. Sizing himself up in the mirror, he comes to the startling realization that what he really needs in his life right now... is absolutely nothing. His life is great! It was silly of him to ever think otherwise! Not wanting to appear destitute, though, he decides to purchase a new shirt - this one, a slightly darker shade of brown.
As he strolls around campus, he thinks he's looking, to put it subtly, fresh to death. However, soon he realizes that no one is actually paying attention to him anymore than normal. Not to be perturbed, Squidward goes around and asks Daphne, Eellen, Ray, and Peterpus point-blank if they notice anything particularly "swanky" about him. They, to put it subtly, don't. Feeling bummed, he slowly meanders through the campus, and eventually comes to the quad. It's here that he notices everyone has flocked and gathered around Yark, a once-outcast turned positively popular.
Squidward quietly sneaks around the crowd and slithers his way up a nearby tree, trying to figure out what changed. At once, he noticed: Yark changed his style. Usually preferring too-tight mustard yellow button-downs, chinos tucked into his tube socks, and sandals, he now sports a fashionable tank top/slightly tilted flat-brim hat combo with flower shorts. Ever the egoist, Squidward decides, once and for all, he needs to change up his look - and not only that, but he knows he needs to call it something, too. Something catchy. Something that rolls off the tongue. He thinks for a moment, and then, just like that, he has it - it comes from his lips so gently, so softly, almost as if it were a word made to be said. He utters the name. He sends shivers up his own spine. He knows he stumbled onto something big. He knows he stumbled onto a style all its own. He knows he stumbled onto... "gruzz".
Notes - Daphne, Eellen, Ray, and Peterpus are mostly absent, appearing only when Squidward questions them about his style.
First appearances: Yark
27b - It's Called "Gruzz" (Part 2)
The following day, after a shopping spree at Anchor & Algae, Squidward dons his new digs and bursts out of his room. Outfitted with a zebra-stripped shirt, bright red pants with pinstripes, orange sunglasses with blue lenses, blue shoes, and a brown scarf (the same color brown as his once-signature brown shirt), Squidward swaggers onto the scene. Down the halls, through the courtyard, in the classrooms, students and faculty alike are bewildered at this new, fashionable - and somehow more instantaneously cooler - Squidward. Squidward sits down at his usual lunch spot, and immediately his peers come to him. Taking pictures, asking for autographs, clamoring for more, falling as his feet, grabbing at his face. He'd be the talk of the town if the town wasn't speechless. He's questioned about this new look - what he calls it. It needs to have a signature name. Squidward, tilting his glasses slightly down, peering over his frames, smirks, and whispers a single word: "Gruzz". From the back of the crowd, Yark stands there, and quietly shuffles off. As he passes, a few students yell at him to move out of the way.
A few days pass, and Squidward's stock is on the rise. His newfound sense of fashion has translated well to his self-esteem - once a cranky curmudgeon, he's now, as he says, "Gruzz". As he saunters, his own fashion sense turns into a way of life. Gruzz is no longer just about how you look - it's about how you carry yourself, it's about how you feel about yourself, it's about, to put it subtly, yourself. As this transformation begins to take place, he notices Yark - alone, probably cold, back to his old sense of fashion. Squidward can't stand for this - if Gruzz is about anything, above all else, it's about knowing what YOU can do to increase YOUR happiness. And for Squidward? Helping Yark would do just that.
In the dead of night, Squidward knocks on Yark's door. Upon opening, in an instant, Squidward is inside. He wears his old outfit, and carries a bag in his hand. He drops it in front of Yark. He tells him he needs to learn to be Gruzz. Not waiting to hear Yark say anything else, Squidward slinks back out of the door. The next day, while Squidward is sitting at his usual bench, he hears a clamor. An uproar. He turns his head, and sees the new Gruzz: Yark. Braving the crowds, Yark makes it to Squidward's bench, sits down next to him, and thanks him for his clothes, his life style, and his everything. Squidward eats a bite of his sandwich, and says "that's what Gruzz is all about". As he does, the bench ascends - slowly at first, and then getting ever faster. Below them, the crowd is gathered, frantically shouting - cheering. They've witnessed something magical these past few days, and it's a magical something they won't soon forget.
Notes - The first appearance of the clothing store, Anchor & Algae; Peterpus, Ray, Eellen, and Daphne are mostly absent in this episode, appearing only at the end crowd shot
Trivia:
- Though the characters claim they will never forget what happened, they most probably will
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1 hour ago, Merry Swiftmas said:
If I had to name one of my favorite You Made it Weird eps off the top of my head, I'd definitely pick the one he did with Ellie Kemper. I laughed out loud numerous times during that one?
Yeah that one's great. I think my all-time favorite would have to be Matt Mira. I really love his 2+ hour episodes (I think this one is at least 3 hours, which tend to be absolutely amazing), and Matt Mira's break-up story is just so good.
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I can't believe someone else listens to podcasts! And it only took two years!
Not on as big of a kick as I used to be, but I still listen every now and then.
You Made it Weird is my absolute favorite (especially when he has female guests - Pete Holmes gabbing with gals never disappoints, and I could listen to those episodes all day)
This is Why You're Single is also really decent and, as lame as it may sound, helped me deal with being single
Nerdist's Writers Panel is good, Rob Has a Podcast is infuriatingly addictive, Narrative Breakdown is good when they decide to release episodes. JV Club is hit or miss for me.
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Guy Ritchie's King Arthur is going to be my favorite movie of the year.
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- Lots of hair/beard care stuff
- Dishonored 2
- Framed Perspective vol. 1
- Gift cards to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Dunkin Donuts
- Hella clothes
- Money
- And my girlfriend gave me a framed picture of us for my desk
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28 minutes ago, Merry Swiftmas said:
Definitely worth a binge, I'd say?
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9 minutes ago, Merry Swiftmas said:
Have you seen Search Party?
I haven't. I couldn't decide if I thought it looked good or if it looked really stupid. Should I binge it over break?
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8 hours ago, teenjingle said:
Both of the sequel shows after Alien Force sucked, and it looks like this is even worse than those. This really shouldn't of been made.
Ben 10 is, like, the most successful Cartoon Network show ever as far as merchandising is concerned (and I think longest running - four shows across nine years, 80 episodes per show). Rebooting the show in a style more akin to Teen Titans Go means kids nowadays that either weren't around or weren't old enough to watch the original will watch this in a heartbeat because it's already like that other show they like, and getting a whole new audience means they can make a whole other vault full of cash from merchandise (and they already have designs and ideas for what to sell - they won't have to do much work at all with this).
We might not want it, but we grew up with the original. Just because we aren't the target demographic doesn't mean it shouldn't have been made.
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On 12/17/2016 at 5:21 PM, Santa Klaus said:
I still have to wait for La La Land until the end of this year but still It'll be a hell of a great way to end 2016 :3 ?
It's well worth the wait.
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That art style is an insult to the concept of sight.
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Felt like for the first hour or so I was watching a move version of an opening title crawl, so I'm not sure why they didn't just, like, make an opening title crawl explaining what was going on so they didn't need all of that exposition (at the very least, title crawl everything up until they leave for Jedha - it felt like the movie didn't even start until they got there).
Also, who the hell approved a script where, like, none of the characters are referred to by name? Jyn and Cassien were the only two I remembered easily - and Saw, I guess, but they killed him off so early it didn't even matter. I had to struggle to remember Bodhi's name because it just kept getting mentioned so off-handedly and like he never had any real introduction, I had literally zero clue about the two Asian characters (I guess Donnie Yen's character was Chirrut or something? Would not have known that without looking it up), for most of the movie I only knew the "K" part of the droid's name (I think its full name was K-2JSO? Maybe? Seriously, no clue). I know Tarkin and Vader because of the other movies, but who was that other guy? The actual main antagonist. The one that was wearing white. Because I don't know his name. I didn't know Mon Mothma's full name was Mon Mothma. If they referred to her it was only by "Mon". I guess Bail Organa was in the movie? Couldn't have told you that. Didn't know who the hell the commander of the Rebels was in that last battle scene above Scarith (the alien dude that was sitting in the chair - he ordered the hammerhead to ram into the Star Destroyer). Also, that kind of balding guy with the blonde eyebrows that told Cassien to kill Saw (or did he tell him to kill Jyn's father? I have no idea). Didn't know who he was.
Seriously. Scriptwriting 101. Introduce your damn characters. ESPECIALLY if you kill them all off. The battle on Scarith was great and the deaths were unexpected but I couldn't bring myself to care even a little bit that any of it was actually happening because it felt like the movie didn't care enough about these characters to introduce me to them. Like, it's as if the movie knew these characters were destined to die, so it just went "don't worry about these guys, they're not important".
Oh, also, Vader talked a lot. That was weird. Especially because he talks a lot for that one scene and then disappears until the end when he boards the ship and kills all those rebels. The "don't let your ambitions choke you up" (or whatever that line was) was really weird and out of place and it felt like that was the only justification for even having that scene in the movie (otherwise they could've just mentioned that the guy in the white suit met up with him and he said whatever it was he had to say). Would've made the end a lot more surprising if we only hear mentions of him throughout the entire movie and then the one time we see him he shows up and kills everyone on screen. Think about it in the grand scheme of the movies - if you're watching these in order, then that scene where he force chokes the guy is the first time the audience is introduced to Darth Vader's character. I don't know about anyone else, but I want my very first scene with Darth Vader to be terrifying and to show me why this guy is so feared across the galaxy and why he's in the one in charge. Him being talkative and cracking a joke isn't that scary to me - him in the dark hallway, killing rebels, showing off his lightsaber and the force? Yeah. That's pretty scary.
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2 hours ago, Hayndeer said:
Nothing to buy....we saw Hannah drag Adam along like a goat and then he got rewarded for it. It was right there in plain sight. Adam isn't the reason Michelle/Taylor/Will were targeted. Hannah was right, he wanted to be a cool kid, but when he didn't get into that group, Gen X and Hannah/Zeke used his emotional grudge to their advantage.
You're still omitting the final 5 and Adam's winner interviews where he lays out his entire strategy of making social connections and playing under the radar because he understood that power players got targeted (which is how he knew to sit on that idol for as long as he did and why he didn't play it at Michelle's elimination even though the edit was telling us he was on the chopping block). If you're going to claim Hannah dragged him along like a goat, then back up your claim by debunking his strategy (and also acknowledging that they weren't even each other's number one allies - Adam was much tighter with Ken and Jessica) and not just saying he didn't do anything or that Hannah was a power player that knew what she was doing (or, if you're going to say that, then list examples of what she was doing and why she was making those moves for herself and not because David told her to and why they helped her game in any way more than voting David out). Hannah may have tried playing for herself, but she was not able to articulate why voting out Sunday and Bret were good for her game when everyone had identified David as the number 1 target. She didn't have the guts to pull the trigger when she needed to at 5, and David had a much better challenge track record that Bret did - and, being a super fan, she should've known that the final challenge was likely not going to be physical and more mental or endurance-based, both of which David is able to do (seeing as how the two challenges he won were both of those). Bret was not a threat to win that final immunity, and David was. She had zero reason for voting Bret out and it made her come across like someone who couldn't think for themselves or like someone who was too scared of the consequences to actually do anything. She doesn't want to "lose Ken's trust"? She lost everyone else's trust throughout the entire post-merge by flipping on Zeke and proving herself to be an unreliable vote, like Adam mentioned during final tribal. She didn't need Ken's trust to move forward one vote if she had made the move she needed his trust for (voting out David) the tribal before. And, hell, she didn't even need to vote for him. Adam had the idol, if Hannah doesn't blab about that to David then she can just play dumb and go along with that and let Adam idol out David. No blood on her hands and she still has Ken's trust.
I mean, come on. David was the biggest target for 6 goddamn tribal councils and everyone knew it. The players in the majority knew it, the players in the minority knew it, and the players on the jury most certainly knew it because they were all there because of him. When Hannah and Ken both have prime opportunities to get him out, and they don't take those opportunities (especially at the final 5), they come across as weak players that are being controlled by the biggest threat in the game and that just gives David more stock and makes him that much harder to beat because he can say "yeah, Zeke and I went at it at final 10, and from then on everyone knew they needed me out, but no one was able to do it" and that'd be the end of it because Hannah and Ken wouldn't be able to back any of their moves up with David sitting next to them. All Hannah would have as talking points would be flipping on Zeke, and voting out Sunday and voting out Bret, all of which just helped David get to the end.
Or, if you want to criticize Adam's game, then go ahead and criticize how Sandra won Heroes vs. Villains because they basically played the exact same game. They stayed under the radar, made sure the target wasn't them, leaned on their social connections when they needed to, they weren't able to make moves because everyone else was being stupid, and they were able to sit there at final tribal and say something along the lines of "I told everyone this guy was going to get to the end if you didn't do anything and I was the only one that was trying to make something happen". Adam had the good fortune of both Hannah and Ken realizing at the last damn second they needed to get David out (unlike Sandra, who had to deal with Russell for all 39 days because everyone was being stupid), but they would've been screwed if David won that immunity and it would've been their fault for letting that happen because time and time again they did nothing to stop him.
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59 minutes ago, Clappy said:
Have you seen Manchester By The Sea?
Not yet. I'm probably gonna wait for it to come out on Amazon, because I don't really have the time/money right now to go to the movies.
35 minutes ago, Merry Swiftmas said:I watched Sing Street on Netflix the other day and found it to be a great, charming movie?
Looks like that's next up on my list, then.
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34 minutes ago, Clappy said:
I actually would love to hear how you think Adam, who was behind nearly every single elimination except the drawing of rocks, is the goat in comparison to Hannah who often freaked out every single tribal council and Ken who was so clueless to a majority of the moves going on.
While I definitely don't agree with Adam being a goat (he'd only lose to Jay and David, but so would everyone), I don't think he was really behind any eliminations either. He was in the majority but it felt like he played a rather UTR game and let David take the reigns. He ousted Figgy and Will, but Michelle was David's suggestion, Taylor was just a group consensus, Chris was David again, Jessica was rocks, Zeke was technically David and Will (though Adam probably ended up taking agency away from Will and stole the moment with his idol play, he could've saved it and the vote wouldn't have changed), Sunday was Hannah (though Adam helped flush Jay's idol), Jay was basically consensus, he couldn't save Bret, and I don't know how much sway Adam had when convincing Ken to vote David.
The main takeaway I got was that Adam was playing for himself. He wasn't playing for fourth, or third, or second, he was playing for first, and he knew what he needed to do in order to get there. He understood that the people in power positions were targeted over and over again, so he laid low and made social bonds with everyone in order to secure himself post-merge and that let him slide right on through to the final 4, where he was only targeted because he had to be. The moves he made benefitted him and his alliance, which helped portray him as a trustworthy person that was attempting to take out threats (like trying to idol out Zeke). Unlike someone like Hannah, who was making moves to secure David's position in the game. She had no incentive to flip to David - everyone was aware Zeke was a threat and they all wanted him gone eventually, but no one knew David was doing anything. If she had stuck with Zeke, cut David, they could've taken out the Gen X minority alliance and then she could've flipped on Zeke to secure her spot at the top (or cut David and Ken and then cut Zeke, use Sunday and Bret to take out Jay, then take out Jessica, and then coast to the end with Sunday and Will). Instead, she flipped to David and sunk her own game for no reason. Zeke sucks as a person? All the more reason to keep him around. I don't think Ken was clueless either, I think he was just more not into it. He didn't question any moves David made and he stuck by him and did what he said up until the Will vote, which was just really stupid. He tried playing with integrity but it's so hard to win the game with that because eventually you're going to be seen as a hypocrite and you either own up to it or you don't (and lose, like Coach). He isolated himself from the Gen Xers for no real reason and it led him to only really bonding with his core alliance, which didn't help because Jessica had already formed a super strong bond with Adam, he had to eventually backstab David, and he sat next to Hannah at the end.
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DC gave me two jobs - one where I was so sleep deprived by the end of it that I started to hear the colors talk to me, and one where I had to get 4 hours of sleep a night for three weeks if I wanted to meet the deadline. Got both of them done, got another one coming in at the start of the year.
Met a girl in April, realized she was the most amazing/gorgeous/hilarious/fun/wonderful/intelligent girl I've ever met and insecurities got the better of me and I didn't add her on Facebook. Saw her again at the end of May, realized she was still all of those things and, again, insecurities got the better of me, and I didn't add her on Facebook. Added her in the middle of June, insecurities got the better of me and I didn't message her. Messaged her a week and a half later. We've talked every day since. We started dating in August.Made a decent comic.
Really good year, I think.
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22 hours ago, Merry Swiftmas said:
Glad to hear you enjoyed La La Land. I anticipate the day it opens in my neck of the woods?
You gotta see it the day it comes out. It's phenomenal.
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3 hours ago, Hayndeer said:
Hannah won that objectively, too bad the Jury gave credit to a follower like Adam because of that family circumstance ace in the hole.
Game Changers looks like a shark jump. Probst was advertising each person on that stage like a shiny object. They should've just put together a better preview.
Hope the editing gets its shit together next year, but 6 person finales might be the new normal.
Right, like how Spencer won it objectively in Cambodia because he was a huge strategist and even saved Jeremy by telling him to play his idol, but then the jury wanted to give Jeremy the money instead because of his baby.
No, Adam had that on lock before final tribal even started. Everyone on that jury, aside from maybe Michelle, was always going to vote Adam out of those three people. Jay was going to, which meant Taylor and Will would as well, Chris was going to, which meant Bret and Sunday would as well, Zeke was going to because he didn't respect Ken and Hannah flipped on him in order to advance David's game and not her own, David 100% knew what he was doing by dragging Hannah and Ken to the end so there was no way he would vote for two people that he clearly knew were huge goats (as did everyone - read exit interviews, you'll see basically everyone's ideal final 3 was with Hannah and Ken), and Jessica probably would've voted for Ken if he stuck to his morals and at least had David go to fire but he lost her vote when he nixed David. Michelle was the only one that could've been swayed by Adam's story because she was the only person there with a decent relationship with Hannah, but even that's kind of up in the air. Hannah had practically zero social connections because of how untrustworthy she was. Adam sort of flipped on Zeke (if they were even in a close alliance, exit interviews say they weren't) but aside from that he stuck with his group and just let the game run its course as he made one-on-one connections with everyone in the game and then articulated at tribal who the threats were and made it a point to show the jury that he wanted those threats out of the game (he says as much in his winner interview). People rewarded Adam because they liked him and because he was playing to win, not because his mom was dying. Maybe that fact shed some light on some moves he was making and why he played the way he did, but the jury clearly didn't care about that too much and wanted him to win regardless because there's no chance it changed every single jury vote. He wins by 1 or 2? Sure, his mom probably has something to do with it. A shutout? Not even kind of.
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On 12/12/2016 at 8:18 AM, Santa Klaus said:
I thought season 3 of You're The Worst was so great, what do you think?
Also thought it was heart-breakingly great. I figured something had to happen between Jimmy and Gretchen because they were way too stable in the beginning of the season, but jeez. Also really enjoyed how different characters got focus this season - Edgar got his episode, and Paul and Vernon got their little outing as well. Really great stuff from start to finish; can't wait for season 4.
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I'm all about this. I think it looks great.
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Oh man, so good.
I'm so amazed at how well kept that twist was. I kept trying to think how they'd wrap everything up but still kind of leave it open because it seemed to move at such a breakneck pace and it kind of killed a premise that didn't seem to warrant an entire show anyway (in my opinion - I just couldn't wrap my head around how this could be more than a season long), but man, that was great. The video at Mindy's place tipped me off that something was up because Michael probably should've been in it, but I was still floored when Danson did that killer smile. So amazing.
The writing was just so tight this first season - I hope they can keep it up?