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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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

Agreed. While the logistics of Bradley and Cory going out to his moms were dumb, I enjoyed the scenes once they were there. At first Cory's behavior seems weird and totally unnecessary, because as Bradley points out, his mom seems very cool. But then when his mom turns on him -- wow.

I actually don't think it's that weird for the evening news anchor to need a last minute fill in. I mean, I'm sure it can't happen a lot, but they are in a building full of people skilled at reading news off a teleprompter with some acceptable level of gravitas. Is it really that big of a deal? The thing about Alex and Paul Marks making out in an office in full view of whomever might walk in made no sense to me, especially when it happened right after Paul freaks out about the press having photos of them. I also think there are like 40 more interesting ways that Chip could have found out about Paul and Alex so I don't understand why they went with the most boring possible way.[/quote]

The public make out session was also so weird in the context of *this* show… I actually like that there’s the mirror back to the first season’s theme re: power/consent, but there’s is no way that in a newsroom that was on eggshells post-the Mitch fallout that this would ever happen.[/quote]

I find their thing very believable! And I thought that what's his name spotting them making out was really funny - they played it like a horror movie.

Stella is finally a little interesting!

Cory's mom was a rollercoaster.

I was rolling my eyes very hard when suddenly everyone is lecturing everyone about Roe and abortion six seconds after the leak of the draft opinion. I didn't need to relive COVID in this show, and I really do not need to relive Dobbs. I feel like these were aiming at being like Sorkin, but even Sorkin was preachy and dull in his characters giving lectures to stupid ignorant rubes moments.[/quote]

I also found the Dobbs reaction on the show preachy and annoying, and I say that as someone who agrees with the emotional reaction of the characters. I think the issue was the setting -- that fashion event was the kind of shallow, vain rich person event that can be fun to watch but also makes them all look kind of vapid. So watching them react to Dobbs with all these impassioned speeches, at that event while dressed up in these expensive designer clothes, felt eye-roll inducing. It emphasize how removed they are from most people's reality right as they were getting preachy about it.

This episode felt pretty weak all around, other than the Bradley/Cory scenes with his mom. I was especially disappointed in the writing for Chris, which felt very weak, after she was so good a few weeks ago with much better material.[/quote]

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