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Anonymous wrote:Some nice moments but overall fairly mediocre with tired stereotypes and trite jokes. I give it a B-

Tina Fey is not a good actress.
Steve carrel as Nick was good but he’s sort of a one to two note actor. I would like to see him stretch more.
Ann was great and I think she was purposely made a little clueless about her bad haircut and older lady clothes.
Ginny was also a good actress but they sort of wrecked her character with her friends who were flat stereotypes

The gay couple- too campy and stereotype ish.

The play- ridiculous and they could have delivered that message in a funny but more realistic way.

In the original movie, Nick was kind of an aging hot guy clinging to his youth and his pregnant girlfriend was a sexy young woman who filled his need to be younger. They portrayed the pregnancy as an accident as kind of a cautionary tale of when older guys get with younger women and unintentionally get a second family.

In the original, Ann was a hippy dippy weirdo played by Sandy Dennis. She was portrayed as kind of stuck in life and unable to understand why her husband Nick was unhappy in the marriage. Even her friends could not stand her and barely tolerated her.

I disagree with this assessment of the movie

Ann was lost and maybe depressed and searching for meaning. She was a photographer who photographers vegetables. She likely shrink into that life because Nick took so the air in the room and was a chronic cheater. She lost her self esteem after that, which is understandable.

It's not until after the divorce that she finally moves on and up in her career, photographing things for magazines like the other women has been trying to do (one was working at the magazine and tried to connect her but Ann couldn't do it when she was still with Nick).

In the movie Nick was clear about wanting to start over with a family. He seemed very excited about the pregnancy. I think he couldn't relate to his wife and his daughter as they both were deep feelers who drifted towards depression.

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Anonymous wrote:I find Tina Fey deeply annoying, but I don't know why.
And the actress who played Anne seemed permanently bewildered, like a lost puppy.
Steve Carell was awesome, as was Erika Christensen.

Who did she play? I don't recall her being in this.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't understand the brief scene with Karen and Jack's daughter at the college. Like there's clearly weirdness with Lila but then it's never brought up again. Why even include this character??

Agree. I really wanted to know the story there. Maybe they cut that part out for time. Or, it might come up next season?

I thought it was pretty clear. The two girls obviously grew up friendly and probably vacationed together a lot as kids. Both went to the same college so their parents assumed they’d hang out a ton (/although it seemed like one girl was maybe a senior doing her senior theater project and the other girl was maybe a freshman?). The look she gave her mom said both: 1) we don’t really hang out because outside of you guys we don’t actually have that much in common; and 2) she’s gotten really weird and emo and angry this year with her parents divorce and I’m not rdigging that vibe, but you’ll see for yourself during the weekend. It basically foreshadowed that the play was gojng yo be a disaster without the one girl having to sh-t-talk her childhood friend.

In the original show, Allen Alda’s real children played his kids and it was a cool casting feature. I think including these kids was partly due to that.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't understand the brief scene with Karen and Jack's daughter at the college. Like there's clearly weirdness with Lila but then it's never brought up again. Why even include this character??

Agree. I really wanted to know the story there. Maybe they cut that part out for time. Or, it might come up next season?

I thought it was pretty clear. The two girls obviously grew up friendly and probably vacationed together a lot as kids. Both went to the same college so their parents assumed they’d hang out a ton (/although it seemed like one girl was maybe a senior doing her senior theater project and the other girl was maybe a freshman?). The look she gave her mom said both: 1) we don’t really hang out because outside of you guys we don’t actually have that much in common; and 2) she’s gotten really weird and emo and angry this year with her parents divorce and I’m not rdigging that vibe, but you’ll see for yourself during the weekend. It basically foreshadowed that the play was gojng yo be a disaster without the one girl having to sh-t-talk her childhood friend.

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Anonymous wrote:I find Tina Fey deeply annoying, but I don't know why.
And the actress who played Anne seemed permanently bewildered, like a lost puppy.
Steve Carell was awesome, as was Erika Christensen.

Who did she play? I don't recall her being in this.

Love Erica Christensen, but she wasn’t in this show.

This is off topic and I'm not the one who said she was in this show, but does anyone else get her confused with Julia Stiles? For a long time, I didn't realize they were two separate people.

🙋‍♀️ me! I got them confused for the longest time!

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Anonymous wrote:I am so obsessed with this show, I am about that age and have a very close friend group from school and found it so relatable, hilarious, and frightening at the same time. Watched the original and it was not as good, but maybe just dated. From reading all of these comments its obvious who is the real life version of the characters but can't see it.

You mean who are the Ann's? That's gonna be mostly what we see here on DCUM.

Replace the farming game with trolling on DCUM.

+1 yes I saw myself in that and it freaked me out!

i kind of related to all the characters. my husband had to keep reminding em that we like each other.

i really loved this show. probably beyond what it deserves.

i could watch 16 hours of coleman Domingo’s making funny facial expressions.

He was so great in this.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't understand the brief scene with Karen and Jack's daughter at the college. Like there's clearly weirdness with Lila but then it's never brought up again. Why even include this character??

Agree. I really wanted to know the story there. Maybe they cut that part out for time. Or, it might come up next season?

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Anonymous wrote:I am so obsessed with this show, I am about that age and have a very close friend group from school and found it so relatable, hilarious, and frightening at the same time. Watched the original and it was not as good, but maybe just dated. From reading all of these comments its obvious who is the real life version of the characters but can't see it.

You mean who are the Ann's? That's gonna be mostly what we see here on DCUM.

Replace the farming game with trolling on DCUM.

+1 yes I saw myself in that and it freaked me out!

i kind of related to all the characters. my husband had to keep reminding em that we like each other.

i really loved this show. probably beyond what it deserves.

i could watch 16 hours of coleman Domingo’s making funny facial expressions.

He was so great in this.

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Anonymous wrote:I am so obsessed with this show, I am about that age and have a very close friend group from school and found it so relatable, hilarious, and frightening at the same time. Watched the original and it was not as good, but maybe just dated. From reading all of these comments its obvious who is the real life version of the characters but can't see it.

You mean who are the Ann's? That's gonna be mostly what we see here on DCUM.

Replace the farming game with trolling on DCUM.

+1 yes I saw myself in that and it freaked me out!

i kind of related to all the characters. my husband had to keep reminding em that we like each other.

i really loved this show. probably beyond what it deserves.

i could watch 16 hours of coleman Domingo’s making funny facial expressions.

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Anonymous wrote:I am so obsessed with this show, I am about that age and have a very close friend group from school and found it so relatable, hilarious, and frightening at the same time. Watched the original and it was not as good, but maybe just dated. From reading all of these comments its obvious who is the real life version of the characters but can't see it.

You mean who are the Ann's? That's gonna be mostly what we see here on DCUM.

Replace the farming game with trolling on DCUM.

+1 yes I saw myself in that and it freaked me out!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so obsessed with this show, I am about that age and have a very close friend group from school and found it so relatable, hilarious, and frightening at the same time. Watched the original and it was not as good, but maybe just dated. From reading all of these comments its obvious who is the real life version of the characters but can't see it.

You mean who are the Ann's? That's gonna be mostly what we see here on DCUM.

Replace the farming game with trolling on DCUM.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so obsessed with this show, I am about that age and have a very close friend group from school and found it so relatable, hilarious, and frightening at the same time. Watched the original and it was not as good, but maybe just dated. From reading all of these comments its obvious who is the real life version of the characters but can't see it.

You mean who are the Ann's? That's gonna be mostly what we see here on DCUM.