4 seasons season 2 — better than first

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I stopped watching it like 10 min in bc I got a bad feeling the season was going to be abt Anne thawing toward her late husband’s young pregnant girlfriend and learning A Valuable Lesson or something and it was just too cringe. Is it not about that?

That is one of the themes and yes she does thaw, but it’s more in a life’s too short to be angry type way. But that’s only half of Anne’s arc. The other characters have different arcs.

I’m a little surprised people didn’t feel that it spoke to them as Gen X. Maybe the youngest Gen X are still too young. I’m 53 so right in the middle of Gen X and when Tina Fey is listing off all the reasons why she’s mildly unhappy — career is fine but not that great despite her having been very career focused; kids are grown and gone; body starting to fall apart in various surprising ways, etc., I was right there with her. The whole concept of who am I going to be for the next few decades when everything I’ve spent my life working for is basically …. done …. is very relatable for me. There’s also stuff with marriages being challenging (taking for granted people you’ve been with for decades), and caring for aging parents and how that can upset your plans.

[Anonymous]

It was fantastic. The Covid episode was really emotional. Colman Domingo is a national treasure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I stopped watching it like 10 min in bc I got a bad feeling the season was going to be abt Anne thawing toward her late husband’s young pregnant girlfriend and learning A Valuable Lesson or something and it was just too cringe. Is it not about that?

I'm about 10 mins into Ep 2 and this is really bothering me. I think I'm going to call it quits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I stopped watching it like 10 min in bc I got a bad feeling the season was going to be abt Anne thawing toward her late husband’s young pregnant girlfriend and learning A Valuable Lesson or something and it was just too cringe. Is it not about that?

That is one of the themes and yes she does thaw, but it’s more in a life’s too short to be angry type way. But that’s only half of Anne’s arc. The other characters have different arcs.

I’m a little surprised people didn’t feel that it spoke to them as Gen X. Maybe the youngest Gen X are still too young. I’m 53 so right in the middle of Gen X and when Tina Fey is listing off all the reasons why she’s mildly unhappy — career is fine but not that great despite her having been very career focused; kids are grown and gone; body starting to fall apart in various surprising ways, etc., I was right there with her. The whole concept of who am I going to be for the next few decades when everything I’ve spent my life working for is basically …. done …. is very relatable for me. There’s also stuff with marriages being challenging (taking for granted people you’ve been with for decades), and caring for aging parents and how that can upset your plans.

Agree with all of this. The Tina Fey arc hit me hard. Anne was my least favorite character-- for much of the show I was actively annoyed by her. But I enjoyed her arc for the latter part of season 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was fantastic. The Covid episode was really emotional. Colman Domingo is a national treasure.[/quot

The show also speaks to me as a Gen Xer. Especially as a mom of two boys who feels like she has to "perform" dinner every night when dinner is not what I want--Tina Fey had a line about eating Triscuits and cottage cheese that was awesome.

I jumped on this thread to point out that Colman Domingo is an amazing actor and if you want to see his range hope on over to Dead Man's Wire, also on Netflix, where he plays a radio DJ in the 70s with the most amazing voice.

[Anonymous]

Loved this season as well. It is cozy and watchable from the start but really comes together in the second half of the season.

[Anonymous]

Definitely liked season 2 better than 1! I’m guessing it was creative license not having to follow the original so closely in season 1.

[Anonymous]

I'm very young Gen X (46) and liked it. Yes the characters are all older than me but I still found them relatable. The show is particularly good about showing what a marriage looks like when you are way in and also getting older yourselves. And the challenge of staying relevant and important to each other even when you are are evolving as people and not tied to each other by young kids.

It also has several laugh out loud moments for me. The summer episodes are particularly funny, especially everything with Mark Brett.

To the PP, I was also weirded out and annoyed initially by the relationship between Anne and Ginny. And yes that goes to some weird and not great places, but ultimately makes sense and contributes to the characters growth in a good way. The show is aware of the weirdness of that dynamic and doesn't do something true or obvious with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I'm very young Gen X (46) and liked it. Yes the characters are all older than me but I still found them relatable. The show is particularly good about showing what a marriage looks like when you are way in and also getting older yourselves. And the challenge of staying relevant and important to each other even when you are are evolving as people and not tied to each other by young kids.

It also has several laugh out loud moments for me. The summer episodes are particularly funny, especially everything with Mark Brett.

To the PP, I was also weirded out and annoyed initially by the relationship between Anne and Ginny. And yes that goes to some weird and not great places, but ultimately makes sense and contributes to the characters growth in a good way. The show is aware of the weirdness of that dynamic and doesn't do something true or obvious with it.

Honestly, if my husband went and knocked up some younger woman but I got to raise an adorable little baby, I’d be basically fine with that. After 30 years of sleeping with him. I really don’t care that much … but I would love another smooshy faced baby! Yes, I know that’s wrong and clearly I would never to anything to encourage that — but just saying I get where Anne is with the smooshy faced baby joy.

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[Anonymous]

I was confused about Patrizia being mentioned several times and thought I forgot something from season 1 but they finally explained it, although a bit late.

I thought Ginny didn’t know she was pregnant until after Nicks car accident. Did Nick know she was?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I'm very young Gen X (46) and liked it. Yes the characters are all older than me but I still found them relatable. The show is particularly good about showing what a marriage looks like when you are way in and also getting older yourselves. And the challenge of staying relevant and important to each other even when you are are evolving as people and not tied to each other by young kids.

It also has several laugh out loud moments for me. The summer episodes are particularly funny, especially everything with Mark Brett.

To the PP, I was also weirded out and annoyed initially by the relationship between Anne and Ginny. And yes that goes to some weird and not great places, but ultimately makes sense and contributes to the characters growth in a good way. The show is aware of the weirdness of that dynamic and doesn't do something true or obvious with it.

I’m your age and I felt the same on all accounts. The turkey bit made me laugh out loud, multiple times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I'm very young Gen X (46) and liked it. Yes the characters are all older than me but I still found them relatable. The show is particularly good about showing what a marriage looks like when you are way in and also getting older yourselves. And the challenge of staying relevant and important to each other even when you are are evolving as people and not tied to each other by young kids.

It also has several laugh out loud moments for me. The summer episodes are particularly funny, especially everything with Mark Brett.

To the PP, I was also weirded out and annoyed initially by the relationship between Anne and Ginny. And yes that goes to some weird and not great places, but ultimately makes sense and contributes to the characters growth in a good way. The show is aware of the weirdness of that dynamic and doesn't do something true or obvious with it.

Honestly, if my husband went and knocked up some younger woman but I got to raise an adorable little baby, I’d be basically fine with that. After 30 years of sleeping with him. I really don’t care that much … but I would love another smooshy faced baby! Yes, I know that’s wrong and clearly I would never to anything to encourage that — but just saying I get where Anne is with the smooshy faced baby joy.

Yeah I actually get this part especially for Anne as she's figuring out what the heck to do with her life and this is giving her joy and purpose.

I was actually more upset with her friends. They were all giving her a hard time for struggling with Ginny (pregnant pre-,baby), not just handing over $, etc. They have been her friends for decades but didn't seem to be supporting what a hard and crazy and unexpected ordeal she was going thru. They all sided with Ginny which is just very odd.

[Anonymous]

Was anyone else surprised they never circled back on the story Tina Fey’s character mentioned about her childhood during the Covid episode? I thought they were going to go further with that. Otherwise it seemed kind of strange to bother mentioning.

[Anonymous]

I thought the Patrizio thing was kind of a weird sidebar, and that generally that couple had too many zigs and zags in this season. (I love them both, they're probably my favorite couple, but it was a lot of back and forth across several dimensions.)