Anonymous wrote:Omg the beth episode was so different and so good!!

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t believe I am saying this but the show turned into a snooze fest. What I like is how they dress Mandy Moore as an older Rebecca. I want to dress like her when I grow old.

Agreed.

I was worried Kevin would bring Nicky back home - this year’s Pearson stray. I’m glad he didn’t.

Next week’s do should be good, focused on 9pm
Beth.

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t believe I am saying this but the show turned into a snooze fest. What I like is how they dress Mandy Moore as an older Rebecca. I want to dress like her when I grow old.

Agreed.

Anonymous wrote:Can’t believe I am saying this but the show turned into a snooze fest. What I like is how they dress Mandy Moore as an older Rebecca. I want to dress like her when I grow old.

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, they nailed the casting. The present-day Nicky is just as I would have imagined him - looks, demeanor, etc.

I don’t know how to post pictures, but Michael Angarano has a great picture on his Instagram of all three Nickys - kid, young adult, old adult. He calls the pic the “other big 3!”

Not sure how to post from instagram either but this one is out there. I may or may not have had a crush on Griffin Dunne's character in Who's That Girl

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, they nailed the casting. The present-day Nicky is just as I would have imagined him - looks, demeanor, etc.

I don’t know how to post pictures, but Michael Angarano has a great picture on his Instagram of all three Nickys - kid, young adult, old adult. He calls the pic the “other big 3!”

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t want to upset the pp who doesn’t care about details but what’s with the sunny, open jacket Pittsburgh February weather? Current day and flashback Valentines Day weather would be high mid 30s with snow-covered ground. Sunshine unlikely.

And I’m not ready for Kevin to fall off the wagon again so soon.

Yep - that is not Pittsburgh weather in February but I will give them credit for having little Kevin wait in line to see John Smiley before he was traded to the Minnesota Twins. That checks out.

That’s just it — TIU works hard to get story lines to mesh perefectly (the Super Bowls and other specific football games) and then gives up when it comes to something easy and obvious like Pittsburgh does not have the same weather as LA.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t want to upset the pp who doesn’t care about details but what’s with the sunny, open jacket Pittsburgh February weather? Current day and flashback Valentines Day weather would be high mid 30s with snow-covered ground. Sunshine unlikely.

And I’m not ready for Kevin to fall off the wagon again so soon.

Yep - that is not Pittsburgh weather in February but I will give them credit for having little Kevin wait in line to see John Smiley before he was traded to the Minnesota Twins. That checks out.

Anonymous wrote:Don’t want to upset the pp who doesn’t care about details but what’s with the sunny, open jacket Pittsburgh February weather? Current day and flashback Valentines Day weather would be high mid 30s with snow-covered ground. Sunshine unlikely.

And I’m not ready for Kevin to fall off the wagon again so soon.

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Anonymous wrote:The most recent episode really made me dislike Jack. Thus far he's been portrayed as the perfect dad and husband, heroic, putting others' needs ahead of himself - yet the way he treated his brother after the war was terrible. Nicky was reaching out and wanted to come clean to Jack and Jack wouldn't even let him finish speaking. Jack really didn't want anything to do with his old life, including his brother.

I suppose it just makes Jack's character more nuanced because it shows that not even he is decent and good to everyone all the time.

Me too -- and I'm glad for it. His character was already pissing me off because so many of his Grand Gestures are controlling and put himself in the center of everything. Nicky finally puts himself beyond being "saved" by Jack, and so Jack just gives up on him. Jack just doesn't know how to be close to flawed people whom he can't fix. I'm glad the show is stopping making him look like a eprfect hero.

Agreed. And what happens with Nicky helps to explain Jack’s battle with alcohol. He still carried the guilt of breaking ties with Nicky. I’m not positive of the timeline but it seems Jack started drinking around the last time he saw Nicky.

Nope. When he saw Nickey, he told Nicky he no longer drank when offered a beer. That’s why Jack was drinking hot chocolate. Jack’s battle with alcohol was because addiction was in his dna. His brother was an addict. His father was an addict and, his grandfather was an addict.

Jack had a drinking problem before when the kids were younger and had stopped drinking for years. I think the Nicky visit led to his relapse, just like Kevin is relapsing.

I didn't pay attention as carefully as I should have last night, but where did it show that Kevin is relapsing?

Chugging booze from a bottle in Nicky’s trailer at the end of the episode.

How did nobody notice he was drunk/tipsy? After all that time sober, it was bound to affect him. Are we to presume that he got
in the car and drove himself home after that? Or did he hang around Nicky's trailer until he sobered up. I thought it was an odd time for him to fall off the wagon vs. when Nicky was drinking beer in front of him when they were fixing the ceiling.