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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts about this weeks episode:

- Alex is definitely in the wrong (IMO) regarding her relationship with Paul, but I actually sort of love how Aniston and the show are playing her arrogance/cluelessness about it. I find it entirely believable that someone at Alex's level would truly believe she could have a relationship with the billionaire buying her network and that everyone should just trust that she is objective. It makes Alex an interesting, if less likable, character, which I appreciate.

- The wheels are coming off Paul Marks, btw. Whatever is going on with his rocket launch and the drinking and the money problems... I like that we've seen him as ultra-controlled and powerful until this point and now we get to see him in over his head and acting impulsively.

- Mia's boyfriend coming back without a word was messed up. Their relationship is very dysfunctional and I'm pretty over it.

- The whole plot line with Laura getting suspicious about Bradley and Cory, then Audra telling her to search the hacked data for evidence of a relationship, and that leading Laura to single-handedly uncovering the Hal/J6 coverup because she's just perfectly positioned to know what she was looking at, was sort of genius. That was actually some pretty good plotting work by the show and I LOVE the idea of Laura being the person in possession of that info -- she loves Bradley, she's very ambitious, but she also takes journalistic integrity more seriously than pretty much anyone on the show. I really don't know what she's going to do which is great.

- Speaking of Bradley, I really don't get what the point was of dragging her out to that theater in Brooklyn only for Kate to stand her up. Something about that whole situation isn't adding up, I hope it gets explained.

Kate was clearly afraid. Perhaps Paul or Tig’s character threatened her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts about this weeks episode:

- Alex is definitely in the wrong (IMO) regarding her relationship with Paul, but I actually sort of love how Aniston and the show are playing her arrogance/cluelessness about it. I find it entirely believable that someone at Alex's level would truly believe she could have a relationship with the billionaire buying her network and that everyone should just trust that she is objective. It makes Alex an interesting, if less likable, character, which I appreciate.

- The wheels are coming off Paul Marks, btw. Whatever is going on with his rocket launch and the drinking and the money problems... I like that we've seen him as ultra-controlled and powerful until this point and now we get to see him in over his head and acting impulsively.

- Mia's boyfriend coming back without a word was messed up. Their relationship is very dysfunctional and I'm pretty over it.

- The whole plot line with Laura getting suspicious about Bradley and Cory, then Audra telling her to search the hacked data for evidence of a relationship, and that leading Laura to single-handedly uncovering the Hal/J6 coverup because she's just perfectly positioned to know what she was looking at, was sort of genius. That was actually some pretty good plotting work by the show and I LOVE the idea of Laura being the person in possession of that info -- she loves Bradley, she's very ambitious, but she also takes journalistic integrity more seriously than pretty much anyone on the show. I really don't know what she's going to do which is great.

- Speaking of Bradley, I really don't get what the point was of dragging her out to that theater in Brooklyn only for Kate to stand her up. Something about that whole situation isn't adding up, I hope it gets explained.

Kate was clearly afraid. Perhaps Paul or Tig’s character threatened her.

Yes remember Paul asked Tigs character if Kate was a threat? They probably did something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just got caught up on the episodes.
I can’t believe they hired someone to choreograph the sex scenes. How many of us lay on our partners back like Alex did with Paul? Not realistic.
How many of us sit in the couch the way Paul and Alex did? Not realistic but poetic. Usually you spoon or lay facing each other. Also, since the paps already pictured them there, wouldn’t you have your blinds closed?

We’ve already seen the promo where Laura blows up at Bradley. BUT, Laura can only guess at what she did. I don’t think Laura has seen the unedited film.

And why is Stella so protective of Cory? Just weird.

I love Jen and will watch her in anything, but there is a reason we have never seen her in a sex scene until this show… It was really terrible. So awkward.

DP. I agree! I said something similar earlier in the thread. I was actually squirming during their sex scene, it was so awkward.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts about this weeks episode:

- Alex is definitely in the wrong (IMO) regarding her relationship with Paul, but I actually sort of love how Aniston and the show are playing her arrogance/cluelessness about it. I find it entirely believable that someone at Alex's level would truly believe she could have a relationship with the billionaire buying her network and that everyone should just trust that she is objective. It makes Alex an interesting, if less likable, character, which I appreciate.

- The wheels are coming off Paul Marks, btw. Whatever is going on with his rocket launch and the drinking and the money problems... I like that we've seen him as ultra-controlled and powerful until this point and now we get to see him in over his head and acting impulsively.

- Mia's boyfriend coming back without a word was messed up. Their relationship is very dysfunctional and I'm pretty over it.

- The whole plot line with Laura getting suspicious about Bradley and Cory, then Audra telling her to search the hacked data for evidence of a relationship, and that leading Laura to single-handedly uncovering the Hal/J6 coverup because she's just perfectly positioned to know what she was looking at, was sort of genius. That was actually some pretty good plotting work by the show and I LOVE the idea of Laura being the person in possession of that info -- she loves Bradley, she's very ambitious, but she also takes journalistic integrity more seriously than pretty much anyone on the show. I really don't know what she's going to do which is great.

- Speaking of Bradley, I really don't get what the point was of dragging her out to that theater in Brooklyn only for Kate to stand her up. Something about that whole situation isn't adding up, I hope it gets explained.

I like the show. It’s entertaining. But I find the character development to be off.

After all the guilt she had with Mitch (yes he wasn’t her boss) I find it strange she would do it AGAIN with Paul and actually create a #metoo “issue”. Same with a Paul.

Bradley was ferocious in the beginning of TMS getting to the issues and truths but she hides DC footage for her crap brother. No.

Cory may be the most steadfast character.

TMS has been renewed for S4. Reese and Jen may go for a S5 but I can’t see it going much further than a S4/S5. Whenever it ends, I hope Jen finds another project so we can see more of her.

Regarding the bolded, interesting and true. In the beginning of this show, I pretty much wrote him off as the sleazy president who would stoop at nothing to get ahead. Maybe there is a part of him that is like this, but he has really impressed me - both the character of Cory and the acting of Crudup. I love every scene he's in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts about this weeks episode:

- Alex is definitely in the wrong (IMO) regarding her relationship with Paul, but I actually sort of love how Aniston and the show are playing her arrogance/cluelessness about it. I find it entirely believable that someone at Alex's level would truly believe she could have a relationship with the billionaire buying her network and that everyone should just trust that she is objective. It makes Alex an interesting, if less likable, character, which I appreciate.

- The wheels are coming off Paul Marks, btw. Whatever is going on with his rocket launch and the drinking and the money problems... I like that we've seen him as ultra-controlled and powerful until this point and now we get to see him in over his head and acting impulsively.

- Mia's boyfriend coming back without a word was messed up. Their relationship is very dysfunctional and I'm pretty over it.

- The whole plot line with Laura getting suspicious about Bradley and Cory, then Audra telling her to search the hacked data for evidence of a relationship, and that leading Laura to single-handedly uncovering the Hal/J6 coverup because she's just perfectly positioned to know what she was looking at, was sort of genius. That was actually some pretty good plotting work by the show and I LOVE the idea of Laura being the person in possession of that info -- she loves Bradley, she's very ambitious, but she also takes journalistic integrity more seriously than pretty much anyone on the show. I really don't know what she's going to do which is great.

- Speaking of Bradley, I really don't get what the point was of dragging her out to that theater in Brooklyn only for Kate to stand her up. Something about that whole situation isn't adding up, I hope it gets explained.

Kate was clearly afraid. Perhaps Paul or Tig’s character threatened her.

Yes remember Paul asked Tigs character if Kate was a threat? They probably did something.

Tig is so intimidating in this role! I like her sweet, low-key comedy better.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:This week's episode was bizarre. The Evening News anchor just doesn't show up because the exec wants her to have dinner with his mother? Where they went to get her help, but when she offers her help her turns her down? Jennifer Aniston's character kisses her new boss in an open office? Seemed completely nonsensical this week.

Yeah, a little out there. But I enjoyed having some backstory on the show's most complicated character.

Can someone do a good psychoanalysis of Cory's mom, and her effects on Cory? This storyline was awful and sad, and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take from it (except for sympathy for Cory).

I love to psychoanalyze fictional characters, thank you so much for asking.

I think Cory's mom is completely enmeshed with him, and that as a single mom to one son, she used him as a replacement partner. He's her emotional support and has learned to validate and appease her to keep her happy, so that he could in turn get the validation and support he needed as a child. But a child should not need to take care of their parent's emotional needs in order to get validation and support -- a child should get those things from their caregivers no matter what. So this dynamic tuned Cory into a classic co-dependent people pleaser. That behavior has no doubt served him well in his career, where he has ingratiated himself with a lot of different people with enormous egos (from deep pockets like Paul Marks and Cybil, to celebrity talent like Alex, Laura, and Bradley) by knowing how to massage their egos in the right way at the right time. But it has come at a cost, as by always looking to please and serve others, he struggles to develop truly mutual relationships with anyone.

Even his attraction to Bradley is concerning because while on the surface it seems healthy for him to be interested in someone so fiercely independent, it's apparent after meeting his mom that a major part of his attraction is that Bradley is fiercely independent in the same way his mom is, and that even Bradley's rejections and efforts to distance from him have likely repeated patterns with his mom that have been going on since childhood. He probably needs years of therapy to untangle his enmeshment with his mother and learn what it looks like to have a relationship where the other person's needs are not always paramount, and where serving those needs doesn't require sacrifice and flagellation on his part.

As for Cory's mom herself, it's harder to assess with only a handful of scenes, but there's definitely a high level of narcissism at play, specifically a vulnerable narcissism where she is use to eliciting sympathy from Cory (and maybe others) in order to get what she wants. We also know so little about her background, what happened to Cory's dad, her upbringing, etc., so just much more difficult to assess. But the enmeshment and narcissism are the main components to her character from what we've seen.

I will need you to recap every episode of every show I like from now on, thank you

If there is genuine interest in this, I think I might need to look into a newsletter because this is pretty much my dream job.

Get good at making Instagram and TikTok reels with your psychoanalysis of fictional characters and start growing an audience. I'm serious.

There's already a podcast that does this.

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Anonymous wrote:This week's episode was bizarre. The Evening News anchor just doesn't show up because the exec wants her to have dinner with his mother? Where they went to get her help, but when she offers her help her turns her down? Jennifer Aniston's character kisses her new boss in an open office? Seemed completely nonsensical this week.

Yeah, a little out there. But I enjoyed having some backstory on the show's most complicated character.

Can someone do a good psychoanalysis of Cory's mom, and her effects on Cory? This storyline was awful and sad, and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take from it (except for sympathy for Cory).

I love to psychoanalyze fictional characters, thank you so much for asking.

I think Cory's mom is completely enmeshed with him, and that as a single mom to one son, she used him as a replacement partner. He's her emotional support and has learned to validate and appease her to keep her happy, so that he could in turn get the validation and support he needed as a child. But a child should not need to take care of their parent's emotional needs in order to get validation and support -- a child should get those things from their caregivers no matter what. So this dynamic tuned Cory into a classic co-dependent people pleaser. That behavior has no doubt served him well in his career, where he has ingratiated himself with a lot of different people with enormous egos (from deep pockets like Paul Marks and Cybil, to celebrity talent like Alex, Laura, and Bradley) by knowing how to massage their egos in the right way at the right time. But it has come at a cost, as by always looking to please and serve others, he struggles to develop truly mutual relationships with anyone.

Even his attraction to Bradley is concerning because while on the surface it seems healthy for him to be interested in someone so fiercely independent, it's apparent after meeting his mom that a major part of his attraction is that Bradley is fiercely independent in the same way his mom is, and that even Bradley's rejections and efforts to distance from him have likely repeated patterns with his mom that have been going on since childhood. He probably needs years of therapy to untangle his enmeshment with his mother and learn what it looks like to have a relationship where the other person's needs are not always paramount, and where serving those needs doesn't require sacrifice and flagellation on his part.

As for Cory's mom herself, it's harder to assess with only a handful of scenes, but there's definitely a high level of narcissism at play, specifically a vulnerable narcissism where she is use to eliciting sympathy from Cory (and maybe others) in order to get what she wants. We also know so little about her background, what happened to Cory's dad, her upbringing, etc., so just much more difficult to assess. But the enmeshment and narcissism are the main components to her character from what we've seen.

I will need you to recap every episode of every show I like from now on, thank you

If there is genuine interest in this, I think I might need to look into a newsletter because this is pretty much my dream job.

Get good at making Instagram and TikTok reels with your psychoanalysis of fictional characters and start growing an audience. I'm serious.

There's already a podcast that does this.

What is it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts about this weeks episode:

- Alex is definitely in the wrong (IMO) regarding her relationship with Paul, but I actually sort of love how Aniston and the show are playing her arrogance/cluelessness about it. I find it entirely believable that someone at Alex's level would truly believe she could have a relationship with the billionaire buying her network and that everyone should just trust that she is objective. It makes Alex an interesting, if less likable, character, which I appreciate.

- The wheels are coming off Paul Marks, btw. Whatever is going on with his rocket launch and the drinking and the money problems... I like that we've seen him as ultra-controlled and powerful until this point and now we get to see him in over his head and acting impulsively.

- Mia's boyfriend coming back without a word was messed up. Their relationship is very dysfunctional and I'm pretty over it.

- The whole plot line with Laura getting suspicious about Bradley and Cory, then Audra telling her to search the hacked data for evidence of a relationship, and that leading Laura to single-handedly uncovering the Hal/J6 coverup because she's just perfectly positioned to know what she was looking at, was sort of genius. That was actually some pretty good plotting work by the show and I LOVE the idea of Laura being the person in possession of that info -- she loves Bradley, she's very ambitious, but she also takes journalistic integrity more seriously than pretty much anyone on the show. I really don't know what she's going to do which is great.

- Speaking of Bradley, I really don't get what the point was of dragging her out to that theater in Brooklyn only for Kate to stand her up. Something about that whole situation isn't adding up, I hope it gets explained.

Kate was clearly afraid. Perhaps Paul or Tig’s character threatened her.

Yes remember Paul asked Tigs character if Kate was a threat? They probably did something.

Tig is so intimidating in this role! I like her sweet, low-key comedy better.
DP

I like seeing her in a different role. She’s great.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts about this weeks episode:

- Alex is definitely in the wrong (IMO) regarding her relationship with Paul, but I actually sort of love how Aniston and the show are playing her arrogance/cluelessness about it. I find it entirely believable that someone at Alex's level would truly believe she could have a relationship with the billionaire buying her network and that everyone should just trust that she is objective. It makes Alex an interesting, if less likable, character, which I appreciate.

- The wheels are coming off Paul Marks, btw. Whatever is going on with his rocket launch and the drinking and the money problems... I like that we've seen him as ultra-controlled and powerful until this point and now we get to see him in over his head and acting impulsively.

- Mia's boyfriend coming back without a word was messed up. Their relationship is very dysfunctional and I'm pretty over it.

- The whole plot line with Laura getting suspicious about Bradley and Cory, then Audra telling her to search the hacked data for evidence of a relationship, and that leading Laura to single-handedly uncovering the Hal/J6 coverup because she's just perfectly positioned to know what she was looking at, was sort of genius. That was actually some pretty good plotting work by the show and I LOVE the idea of Laura being the person in possession of that info -- she loves Bradley, she's very ambitious, but she also takes journalistic integrity more seriously than pretty much anyone on the show. I really don't know what she's going to do which is great.

- Speaking of Bradley, I really don't get what the point was of dragging her out to that theater in Brooklyn only for Kate to stand her up. Something about that whole situation isn't adding up, I hope it gets explained.

Kate was clearly afraid. Perhaps Paul or Tig’s character threatened her.

Yes remember Paul asked Tigs character if Kate was a threat? They probably did something.

Tig is so intimidating in this role! I like her sweet, low-key comedy better.
DP

I like seeing her in a different role. She’s great.

Did you watch her on Star Trek? She’s a horrible actress.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts about this weeks episode:

- Alex is definitely in the wrong (IMO) regarding her relationship with Paul, but I actually sort of love how Aniston and the show are playing her arrogance/cluelessness about it. I find it entirely believable that someone at Alex's level would truly believe she could have a relationship with the billionaire buying her network and that everyone should just trust that she is objective. It makes Alex an interesting, if less likable, character, which I appreciate.

- The wheels are coming off Paul Marks, btw. Whatever is going on with his rocket launch and the drinking and the money problems... I like that we've seen him as ultra-controlled and powerful until this point and now we get to see him in over his head and acting impulsively.

- Mia's boyfriend coming back without a word was messed up. Their relationship is very dysfunctional and I'm pretty over it.

- The whole plot line with Laura getting suspicious about Bradley and Cory, then Audra telling her to search the hacked data for evidence of a relationship, and that leading Laura to single-handedly uncovering the Hal/J6 coverup because she's just perfectly positioned to know what she was looking at, was sort of genius. That was actually some pretty good plotting work by the show and I LOVE the idea of Laura being the person in possession of that info -- she loves Bradley, she's very ambitious, but she also takes journalistic integrity more seriously than pretty much anyone on the show. I really don't know what she's going to do which is great.

- Speaking of Bradley, I really don't get what the point was of dragging her out to that theater in Brooklyn only for Kate to stand her up. Something about that whole situation isn't adding up, I hope it gets explained.

Kate was clearly afraid. Perhaps Paul or Tig’s character threatened her.

Yes remember Paul asked Tigs character if Kate was a threat? They probably did something.

Tig is so intimidating in this role! I like her sweet, low-key comedy better.
DP

I like seeing her in a different role. She’s great.

Did you watch her on Star Trek? She’s a horrible actress.

Not a Trekie, so no.

[Anonymous]

Are Alex and Paul about to break up or Alex and Bradley?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thoughts about this weeks episode:

- Alex is definitely in the wrong (IMO) regarding her relationship with Paul, but I actually sort of love how Aniston and the show are playing her arrogance/cluelessness about it. I find it entirely believable that someone at Alex's level would truly believe she could have a relationship with the billionaire buying her network and that everyone should just trust that she is objective. It makes Alex an interesting, if less likable, character, which I appreciate.

- The wheels are coming off Paul Marks, btw. Whatever is going on with his rocket launch and the drinking and the money problems... I like that we've seen him as ultra-controlled and powerful until this point and now we get to see him in over his head and acting impulsively.

- Mia's boyfriend coming back without a word was messed up. Their relationship is very dysfunctional and I'm pretty over it.

- The whole plot line with Laura getting suspicious about Bradley and Cory, then Audra telling her to search the hacked data for evidence of a relationship, and that leading Laura to single-handedly uncovering the Hal/J6 coverup because she's just perfectly positioned to know what she was looking at, was sort of genius. That was actually some pretty good plotting work by the show and I LOVE the idea of Laura being the person in possession of that info -- she loves Bradley, she's very ambitious, but she also takes journalistic integrity more seriously than pretty much anyone on the show. I really don't know what she's going to do which is great.

- Speaking of Bradley, I really don't get what the point was of dragging her out to that theater in Brooklyn only for Kate to stand her up. Something about that whole situation isn't adding up, I hope it gets explained.

Kate was clearly afraid. Perhaps Paul or Tig’s character threatened her.

Yes remember Paul asked Tigs character if Kate was a threat? They probably did something.

Tig is so intimidating in this role! I like her sweet, low-key comedy better.
DP

I like seeing her in a different role. She’s great.

Did you watch her on Star Trek? She’s a horrible actress.

I think she's a horrible dramatic actress. She's great in comedic roles.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are Alex and Paul about to break up or Alex and Bradley?

I think Alex and Paul. The show is fundamentally about female empowerment.

[Anonymous]

So much stuff went down in the last 5-10 minutes of this weeks episode, I'm having trouble keeping is straight. Especially having trouble figuring out which stuff is Paul Marks machinations and which are not. From what I can tell, this is the Paul Marks stuff:

- The photos/accusations that Cory overstepped with Bradley when she started at UBA
- The threat to Bradley that he would reveal the stuff with her brother if she didn't stop investigating Marks/Hyperion
- The disappearance/silence of Stella's friend (Kate?) regarding malfeasance at Hyperion
- The plan to sell off UBA for parts after the acquisition in order to fund some mess at Hyperion

And then this is the stuff other people are doing:

- Cybil is the one quietly buying up shares of UBA (driving up the share price) in a last ditch effort to stop the sale
- Laura uncovered the stuff about Bradley's brother but isn't going to release it, though she did break up with Bradley and *may* have shared this info with someone at her network (was that a producer? her agent? I didn't get it)
- Alex was kind of/sort of trying to let Bradley know that UBA was going to be no longer, and get Bradley to join her at this new venture that would, presumably be funded by Marks, though it's unclear
- Bradley quit her job on the air on her own accord, maybe to protect her brother, maybe to protect her own rep, maybe because she realized if she wants to investigate Marks she'll need to do it independently, maybe just out of guilt over what she did on J6? Unclear, maybe all of the above, I'm lost.
- What is Stella doing? She told Marks she would take Cory's job once the acquisition went through, but she told Cory what Marks was up to and they were I guess plotting against him? But then she's also working with Bradley and apparently Chip (?) to investigate Marks and blow up the deal altogether, which Cory doesn't want even though Stella told Cory that Marks planned to fire him after the deal? Does not compute.

They've really spun a web with season but I am really not sure all the threads connect. Yet I still look forward to next week because I do want to find out what happens. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

How did Marks know about Bradley’s brother and Jan 6?