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Ghosts: Jay's Friends (2022)
Infuriating & Gross, Just skip this one
If my husband ignored me, signed up with a cult behind my back, with everything else this couple goes through- divorce. The cult bumrushes my house, they'd never find any of them in the basement vault husband included. Contract right there, just tear it up. As a lawyer it is also ridiculously painful to watch the absolute ignorance this episode preys upon. I have loved every episode completely until this one. This one just made me hate Jay as a big cosplaying faker with zero respect for his partner and hate these writers for trying to get a laugh out of seriously dangerous groups. We don't use cult in America for groups or cooperatives or communes. We use it specifically for a dangerous type of group social manipulation that has led to horrific crimes in this country largely against women and children. We let it pass for Flower with the quiet thought whatever she was a part of died out decades ago. This was just like every single disturbing button I have one after another in the span of no time.
It wasn't just bad, I actively hated it. Nothing was funny, none of the characters were in character, it dramatically downplays the seriousness of cults. It spreads ignorance about just the most basic legal protections we're afforded in this country to not get invaded in our homes by psychopaths. I wouldn't need tons of money and six months to solve this, I'd need five minute call to the police bc the "contract" fails the statute of frauds, land law so old it predates America. It makes me hate these writers like they've never experienced a single real thing in their entire lives if they thought any of this would be remotely enjoyable.
Whoever gave this high marks, I just do not believe it. This episode is just triggering and grotesque and it's too many lame things one after the other to catch a break let alone a laugh. Debating even carrying on with this show now I know this is the kinda droll to look forward to. Which is really too bad, I liked iZombie until the end and I'm sad these writers failed so so hard in such a very short time frame.
Mean Girls (2024)
The IRONY of the mean reviews LOLz
As a millennial who was just out of high school when the original was released I find it HYSTERICALLY funny how many people are trashing this film bc it doesn't fit exactly what they wanted. How dare Auntie Tina evolve and speak to a younger audience than those of us pushing 40?! The whole moral of the story is learning how to divorce yourself from the cycle of trash talking other women and their choices to make yourself feel better. I ADORE this new version more than the original as a better message, more engaging, more interesting, and less littered with toxic stereotypes that are not genuinely funny. Auntie FIXED a lot of her biases and blind spots from two decades ago and a powerhouse young cast retold the retold story (this is based on a BOOK yall!) for their peers and younger siblings.
The people that hated this are just incapable of joy, or spelling for many of these reviews, and it's truly a tragedy they got none of the lessons from the original work. Aunt Tina was wise to remove the sexist and race baiting fodder that these lost souls came looking for. I could not be more thrilled with not only the quality of this production but the sheer testament these bad reviews are making that no good lessons can stick from a work littered with attempts to appease bullies and imbeciles.
The people who hated this and are so incredibly cruel about presenting their personal opinion forgetting all the real human beings involved in making this work are the exact people who need to watch this movie on repeat until they actually understand the message. That said, those of us pushing 40 and having fun with it are having a good time amongst ourselves and not a tear will be shed if yall show yourselves out.
As we say in Texas, don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya lol Aunt Tina doesn't care, we don't care, the kids don't care, the only person made miserable is the miserable people who can't unclutch their ancient pearls long enough to have fun with something new.
If you like catchy musicals and a spot on pacing between songs and dialogue and absolutely fabulous choreography, lighting and set, this movie is incredibly difficult not to love. Just leave your "back in my day" syndrome in the other room and remember how trashy the 90s and 2000s really were.
The Purge (2013)
Yawwwn and ick
I have never cared less about a plot maybe in my whole life. Written by people with jalapeño flavored jello in their brain where empathy should be. The origin story of the writer makes it even stupider, he got into a road rage incident and lamented he couldn't just kill the guy. This is literally the murderous wet dream of a person completely lacking in any emotional intelligence and thus it is as moronic as one could anticipate. Your neighbors are envious enough to want to ritually murder you, as if there's much in a practical matter that stops people now save ethics and foresight and compassion and public reputation. Laws have never stopped anyone from killing anyone and they certainly won't make rich idiots get off the golden throne to lift a finger. Natural disasters happen all the time so we know exactly what lawlessness for a couple days looks like. There's just such a big idea here but with absolutely no depth to what amnesty would look like. The Rwandan genocide happened. You don't have to guess what people do when a pogrom has been called and only DEEPLY sheltered people would think anything like this. Mainly humans steal and feed each other and tend to the sick dead and dying. We do particular things in reaction to particular stimuli and the prospect of something like the purge could be incredibly complicated.
Here, it's not. Absolutely stunning actors could do little with this finger painting of a script and they just... keep digging in one movie after another. It gets recognition for introducing the nomenclature Purge to political discourse and that's about it.
Not gonna lie I was hoping for something either thoughtful or highly entertaining with the popularity of this movie and I just... wandered off. Not a single character was relatable except the black guy trying to escape the gang of psychopaths. I am surprised there isn't already a parody except this is pretty much the parody of what this movie should have been. If you're setting it in California, for the love of art Hollywood, call your friends in New York for feedback before you pull the trigger. I have second hand embarrassment for how soft this makes California look... California, you know, rivaling the number of guns in Texas. I just watched the newest one set in Texas too...
Please take an intro to psych class if you're a sociopath, I am begging these writers. It's just... no, we're not doing this. Could you give a scenario where law enforcement had to refresh for twelve hours and people got an amnesty pass that went off the rails? For sure, so many options, but this plot has absolutely no imagination. The entire premise is "how would I murder" for emotionally constipated people who fantasize about it. Moral implications of any of it aside, it's just stupid waste of potential. Show me the peeps that make it into Fort Knox or burn their office buildings down or trespass at the White House. So so many better perspectives than the weasel that makes the bargain bin security systems for the wealthy and gullible. I wasn't even happy everyone loses in the end, it took too long to get there.
And they stole it from Star Trek original series and that's the greatest crime of all. The one ST episode is way more engaging than the hours of this I've seen so far because they managed to explain it in five minutes. I wanted to like this as an homage to the earlier idea. No homage, just a guy road raging fantasizing about killing people over minor first world problems.
Lame. Boring. Find more interesting writers. Bet the fan fiction is better.
Pennyworth: Rag Trade (2022)
Nails on chalkboard
I love this show but I hated pretty much every detail of this episode. It was painful to suffer through idiotic character decisions, unwelcome and uninteresting side plots to add peril, and just all around zero payoff to sitting through it. By halfway through the episode i just could care less if any character survived, not even the kid they put in peril for ultimately no reason whatsoever. I stopped caring about what happened to anyone fairly quickly as not a single character really followed their own character development and was so off the rails i couldn't get into a single decision or POV. First time that's ever happened for me with this show, i have difficulty believing the same writers did this episode.
Ugh... I really really enjoy this show but the three villains in this episode are just gross to watch, like honestly repulsive and not in any regard interesting or enjoyable at all. Nothing like Batman or DC villains, just exceptionally one dimensional psychopaths- evil cult leader, evil CIA agent, evil general. And Martha just puts a bullet in this woman? The Wayne's are both cold blooded killers? It's like a goofy Halloween party not a DC plot. It's cluttered and nonsensical and doesn't adequately harmonize or play with any cannon. I like a lot of spin offs, they don't have to be true to the original, evolution is good but this? Isn't adding anything or going anywhere, it's just dumb. Ultimately it takes away from the texture of the show by removing any stakes and making it just another show where anyone can kill anyone. The whole point of Batman is the contrast between the villains who kill and the Waynes who are healers. Now they're just rich self interested government agent murderers? I mean ok but that sucks and now I'm kinda relieved to know ultimately they get gunned down in an alley because according to this show they both more than have it coming. It's no longer an injustice. And since you can't trust anything you think you know about this IP it's hard to take any of it seriously. It feels like demented fanfic by a serial killer who couldn't grasp the idea some people will not kill, like they were offended by it let alone trying to even grapple with the idea. There's not a single hesitation in any of the murders thus far, not killing has been banished from the plot. In the end, it just makes this show completely irrelevant by making the characters unlikable and that's kinda a dirty thing to do to Alfred which as a character has so many decades of great character development and deserved an honest go at it.
Just watch it on fast forward and the last ten minutes. The whole beginning is just painful and pointless with a ton of wasted opportunity in favor of nonsensical dribble that defies the suspension of disbelief. They've also started to paint Alfred into this sexist and self centered corner I don't particularly love. It's been sprinkled in more and more since the first season, I wouldn't have made it past the pilot if this had been the first episode. I myself am a woman but that doesn't mean i have the compulsion to watch statements on gender inequality in every single thing. If anyone could have been written as a feminist who was unproblematic it could have been Alfred but alas, it's gotta be "historical". Historically not all men were jerks and this is a FANTASY show, I'd have much rather have watched something that was enjoyable and modern. Plenty of ways this whole episode could have been handled and I'm super bummed how bad it came out. Hopefully it's just a one off and next episode rebounds.
Manifest: Relative Bearing (2022)
Cal is the WORST
Cal would have been kicked out my house if I'd walked in on him putting Angelina on the phone with my daughter after all that. He's just the absolute worst and has made terrible decisions for four years straight with zero, absolutely ZERO, self reflection. This is the most narcissistic child I've ever seen in film with practically no justifying character background that would suggest he'd be such a dunce. He's spent two years feeling guilty for causing the death of his mother and the kidnapping of his sister and he immediately just hands over the phone bc AGAIN he thinks he knows better? This is supposed to be a protagonist and I'm more than ready to yeet him into the sun. This episode was engaging only bc it was literally painful to watch.
Manifest (2018)
The female characters are SO vapid and obnoxious :'(
I think the premise of the show is interesting so I stick it out but I absolutely loathe Angelina, like nails on chalkboard completely unwatchable, I'm just fast forwarding through as much of her as I can. Grace was likewise annoying to the point of tears. Every other female character has severe character defects and one dimensional thinking. The male characters are only slightly less ridiculous. As a whole I can tolerate it but I really really cannot stand Angelina or the whole kidnap by a psycho plot. It's the least fun to watch of anything ever made and it drags for ages. Glad this is the last season, Netflix is at least putting the final nails in so there's some closure.
God I hate Angelina, I will not be happy unless they give her the ugliest comeuppance and all the narcissistic manipulation ends. Like NO writers, stop trying to confuse the audience trying to make her sympathetic. You've correctly written a psycho and it's disturbing to watch and not fun, mission accomplished.
Merlin: The Castle of Fyrien (2010)
Suffering was right
To be fair I legitimately started watching this show as a sleep aid lol It's safe from serious violence, relatively quiet and well balanced sound, imagery is coverful and something for my subconscious to work with. But boy howdy are my dreams infinitely better than this show writing and nearly every character is omitted because only the guy who plays Uther can even remotely actually act. He's even in my dreams, devious and dark and actually cruel instead of doting and foolish. This show has all the ingredients but without a cook to make it into something edible.
So knowing that, I'd still give the overall show maybe a 6 because I've grown fond of it. THIS episode however... my god, I'm writing this episode letting it run just to get it over with so I know vaguely how the plot progresses. This episode is simply awful and beyond implausible. The whole thing is lacking any cohesion, I couldn't care less about any of this. I know the stakes are zero and nothing will happen, this is just throwaway adventure nonsense but it's not fun, it's torture through being obnoxious.
Completely agree with the other poster that said both Morgana's and Morgause are just the absolute worst. They're just the silliest villains ever written and it's almost hard not to take it as a personal affront to everyone of the feminine persuasion that the writers did this to them. They're clearly hitting cues, reacting as directed, and the priorities on the cutting room floor are just absolutely stupid. They always look fawning, fake mad, confused, or like they have to take a poop real bad because that's as far as they're allowed to look distressed. It'll ruin the Cosmo cover look if they let a genuine feeling through, it's all plastic.
The show is now ending... via magic miraculous escape. And I know this is a show about magic but magic can't fix stupid. And I was right, absolutely zero stakes or plot progress, almost an hour amounting not only to nothing for the further plot it was laborious and brutal to suffer through.
At this point I'm committing to watching this whole series simply bc I am the worst type of masochist and I'm enjoying the dreams I conjure while falling asleep enjoying the setting.
South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 (2022)
10 just bc the overall score is unfair, it's a solid 8
There was a lot to unpack in this, so many memes and much darker in parts than South Park usually goes. People I think were grossed out without appreciating how depraved all these celebrities were with crypto. They scammed thousands of people out of hundreds of millions of dollars, watching each one of them be tortured with urine only makes sense if you understand how absolute trash these people are. They deserved it, even if it's super gross to watch, it's the most justice the public is likely to ever get.
I think they did a fantastic job self reflecting which is hard for creators to do after successful runs this long. I think for me it's only not a real ten for the same reasons as others, it was difficult to sit through so much literal toilet humor as much as I understood the overall satirical purpose. If I was 14 it would have been great but at my age my imagination has an extra twenty plus years of memories, I can think of some irl nasty experiences so my stomach actually turned a couple times from watching, starts to wear on you. So if I thought the overall score was on point I'd say solid 8, 9 being generous, but since a lot of people are clutching pearls it gets an extra two points! Bc it's satire! Pearl clutching is a sign it's doing its work.
10/10.
Westworld (2016)
LOL To All The Haters
The first season was a reimagining of the plot of Westworld from 1973 with Yul Brynner. If you have seen that Michael Crichton movie you'll know 1) this show is AWESOME nostalgia (I was born in the 80s and I'm still nostalgic) and 2) the lingering question was what's NEXT? How far could this go? The movie never tells you but it pretty much tells you the entire relevant plot of season 1 and part of 2. The show Westworld is meant to answer the questions left hanging in 1973. They had A LOT of time to consider the first and second season, the last two? These are true originals and so yes have some faults. They're going for it and after 50 years god bless um let them go for it. People were less than thrilled in the 70s about it but it became a cult classic, this show is on track to do it again.
Some of these reviews though just LOL Yes we can read between the lines and know exactly what you miss from season 1 and neither that content or your viewership is any great loss. The later seasons are bare minimum a collective 6 with a very fair 8-9 assessment. It does take some rewatching to completely process all the information you get, no big. I found it enjoyable a second time through. But to go nuclear hate like some of these? Yeah they were in it for...exceptionally dark reasons... and collectively as a society we're doing our job making them unhappy. We should definitely continue to make them very very dissatisfied so the rest of us can live our lives in peace without it looking like season 1 of Westworld. Villains are villains, people like the villains in this show use REAL human beings like this! Today! In the real world! Except they don't just get cleaned up and respawn. They are GONE. Epstein had an island like this for decades. The people who are mad how it goes after season 1 just wish they got a ticket.
Crichton was pointing a finger at this, his thematic signature is poetic justice, seriously what could you possibly expect?! Nobody watched the movie in the 70s and thought it was a thoughtful guide book except psychopaths and then *they actually built one*. It'd be like finding out Jurassic Park has been real since 1983 and only rich people had been allowed to know about it and its purpose was to hunt extinct animals rather than look at them. It's truly a nefarious, complicated and tragic story telling journey through history and I could care less what violent delights some people no longer feel like they're getting out of it. Kick rocks my guy, no one cares what you want bc what you want is deeply deeply unhinged. Epstein's island was quite literally Michael Crichton's manifested nightmare from the early 70s and the theme was and remains- it is deeply sick and demented to torture things for sport especially when you think they cannot defend themselves and that is the part that excites you. Michael Crichton dared asked - what if the missing and murdered could seek revenge? And behold now they're androids. It was ALWAYS a central theme, seeking justice for incredible acts of barbity under the guise of extremely privileged leisure. If you don't like the comeuppance part, there is something very wrong with your brain, please touch grass and get off Reddit and 4chan. Or at minimum watch the original movie, THE POINT of the plot was that it was doomed to fail, that justice would out, you are supposed to be cheering *against* the villains who are no more sinister *than real life people hoarding that much wealth*. I don't know what rock you live under to not know these characters are extrapolated from real existing evil in the world.
Id probably give it a 8.5 to date but I am giving it a 10 bc anything that can make a bunch of chronically online r*pey internet trolls completely unhinged deserves my complete loyalty and affection in perpetuity. Good on WW for pissing off all the right type of people. It can descend into madness from here and at this point I'll STILL give it a 10. You could never change my mind unless they try to accommodate the trolling posts and regress the plot back to chronic sexual violence and then I'll be right back here giving it a 1 lol.
Stranger Things: Chapter Nine: The Piggyback (2022)
It *should* be a 10 but...
It's like they couldn't edit to save their lives and didn't get the memo the average audience member has gone from an attention span of 12 seconds to 8 seconds since 2000. This is 1950s level of drag and there were so many side foils to "up the stakes" it was too much. You know it's ok if you have a plan with ten moving parts if only like half of them fail right? It may give a few characters less action packed tasks on set but Dustin jamming out on the top of the RV was absolutely fantastic. It would have been super ok for you to not have an adult white man throw himself on top of a little black girl, that was insanely disturbing, or frankly to have the goofy basketball vendetta squad at all. They insanely slowed down the whole season and contributed to a delusional level hyper focus on satanic panic. Recall this is post Charles Manson, yes people had a moment but D&D had been around for years and frankly there was far less religious extremism mainstream than there is today. It was incredibly subtle and not pervasive in the news. A side interest piece. Watching this you'd think it's all they talked about in Indiana. This isn't the backwoods of Mississippi, this is outside indiapolis that supported a military research base with talent who lived in this town for decades. By the time the leader gets his comeuppance I'm just glad he's finally out of the way, it was so incredibly forced compared to the rest of the plot and wasn't necessary at all to keep the tension on.
I'm giving it a 10 bc despite the absurd pulling of 21st century extremist problems into the 80s, people are obsessed with wanting to see characters die. There's something deeply wrong with those people, one character is in a coma and another got eaten to death by bats and another shot from a helicopter and like hundreds of extras are dead everywhere. What is seriously enough? Deus ex machina through Elle is the meat of this show. What you want is a snuff film, go watch TWD or GoT if you have to see characters brutalized and murdered, a lot of us have ZERO interest in that in our fun summer streaming thrillers. Like we're having a good time, take your weirdo death fetish somewhere else. I find it bizarre you'd advertise that on the internet. It's not like Papa got back up after a shot straight through the chest so there's a plot inconsistency, they killed a lot of characters and nobody failed to die completely inexplicably.
So I'd give it a 7 for sensationalizing the satanic panic side plot when a subtler treatment would have been far more spooky, like actual subtle dig footage from the 80s, and the fact they had a gang of racist jocks hunting nerdy board game players like under any circumstance that would make sense (again this is not the era of mass shootings, this is the era of race lynchings and state violence, it would have made more sense with cops but they made the cops absolutely goofy). But I'm giving it a 10 bc overall fun and the metal on the RV alone is worth it and to balance out the psychos who are so upset they didn't get to get off on more suffering (which again, who hurt you, it's completely ok not to kill off your main characters, that is a super twisted schadenfreude narrative rule and I wouldn't advertise being a sadist on the internet).
Oh and I really can't take it anymore that apparently in season 1 you needed a hazmat suit and now they're just running around in the upside down no problems at all. How did 001 even survive? Elle didn't make him not human but he makes it sound like despite severe injuries... he just walked around no problem indefinitely until he found and took control of the shadow particles. They completely rewrote the atmosphere of the upside down from the first two seasons, it was way spookier initially and now it looks like some fantasy barren wasteland and not a purgatory. Like how'd he end up somewhere no where near apparently anywhere and find his way back to his house in Indiana to pick a fight? How'd he know when Elle opened a door? Was he standing right there? It requires you to really just deny harmony and treat it as an evolutionary plot rather than world building that was more particularly planned like BSG. I can do it but I'm most disappointed they didn't kill off 001, there's all sorts of Stranger Things in the world, let's move on now some of them are adults, recruit them to the government to look into other anomalies around the world. Idk sounds like there's just one more season to deal with mega boss level but I could easily see this successfully taking a pivot like Supernatural if they opened themselves up to steering the plot. They should consult Eric Kripke, he's doing The Boys but I think he'd help the Duffer Brothers out. Nothing came of that black general hunting them, just dead ended, have him have a change of heart and recruit this group of prodigy world savers, forget about "normal" 80s life. Get weirder 80s life on the road hunting aliens and big foot, I'm kinda over the upside down, it's like a bed bug infestation and they can't keep the rules straight.
10/10 (but really 7/10 except for the guitar born for the upside down which that one scene 100/10 making the whole show worth it and they can do whatever they want lol)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: All Those Who Wander (2022)
Absolutely fabulous update on TOS
It's VERY clear from other comments that people 1) NEVER watched any pre-2000 Star Trek or 2) are so old they're demonstrating how little they remember or understood from back yonder. Star Trek is literally known for modernizing or recontextualizing famous story plots (such as here some homage to Aliens which also stole it from other scifi btw) and for having thoughtful and contemplative dialogue at literally EVERY opportunity about difficult to quantify and discuss issues.
Like seriously William Shatner is known for monologuing social analysis of a new world, Deanna Troy was a whole character, even every single captain has had at least one strike a pose per storyline that's supposed to make you feel or think something. And life isn't always about war, in Star Trek it RARELY was, it was always an interpersonal story overlaid with an external world building story. There might be Borg but Data was gonna learn something about himself. There might be Dominion but Odo was going to go through something. This is a 60 year old story format and it is a VERY good one. It has mostly been abandoned by Picard and Discovery in favor of dystopian 21stc narrative which appeals to the chronically online and over stimulated but is not nearly as enjoyable as OG Star Trek. It's agitating and over saturated with sound effects and CGI and shoving the plot forward with a leaf blower.
SNW is just back on the format and this episode was extremely gratifying as a massive Star Trek nerd who knows every episode better than most Christians know the Bible and it's not even close. It was intellectually suspenseful, clever, tied from beginning to end, didn't use effects to just clutter the whole thing up, there was quiet to articulate thoughts and excitement to move the plot forward. Even the loss of a beloved new character was prepared in prior episodes and it was NOT by any means remotely like Tasha Yar. It simply was not. I cannot stress that enough. If you can't see how the two treatments are drastically different you are a simpleton, but seriously you can just watch that episode and then this one and just the feelings you experience are so utterly different that should clue you in.
They've also touched on the tension from TOS between Spock and Christine Chapel that actually enriches your experience of TOS. It makes it less one sided and explains quite a lot that changes what was a fairly sexist implication in TOS into a relatable one. This episode moves that needle forward.
Overall it's a great episode and honestly way more suspenseful and less goofy than the Gorn in TOS. Honestly I just cannot with the TOS series episode, it is very difficult to take seriously even though Shatner is seriously throwing in his entire self. The lack of the creatures mobility looks like a dinosaur costume for kids parties and like he could just kick it and run. This episode however was actually very suspenseful without crossing into legitimately scary. They expanded further on Gorn lore rather than upending it, and their narrative choices were both logical and solid. It was beautifully done and has symmetry with the vast majority of Star Trek IP.
Well done writers! Ignore the haters, they just actually hate everything Star Trek stands for and it's been like this since 1966 so if you weren't drudging them from humanity's garbage heap then it's not Trek. THIS is the format, hope it stays solid.
Only Murders in the Building: The Boy from 6B (2021)
Phenomenal innovation!
Listen, trying to maneuver characters that are typically overflowing with dialogue ("People talk too much in this f&$!ing city") is incredibly difficult. Expressing dialogue and moving the plot forward using only text messages, sign, body movement, and *subtle* sound effect while resisting the urge to overpower the scene with musical score is also incredibly difficult. Communicating the awkwardness of a first date where neither party has gotten laid in a while using some music and SCRABBLE was down right inspired! "It's out of character." They weren't silent, they were talking with body movement, facial expression, and SCRABBLE. Only 10% of language is verbalized as words at any given time, communicating without them is completely natural. We humans do it ALL the time, it is not preposterous at all to prioritize that range of communication for this episode while leaving verbalized words almost entirely off the table, and it was executed practically flawlessly which is all I personally expect of mere mortals.
Remember, 9 out of 10 viewers thought this was brilliant, thought provoking, engaging, and challenging in such a profound way while so much film fails to even pull us away from mindlessly scrolling our phones. The most common idiocy, "I'm not deaf, if I wanted to read for half an hour I'd read a book!" Sir/madame, I don't believe for one minute you've read a book since grade school and you should probably be warned that EVERYONE is losing their hearing as they age. Everyone loses a pitch they can hear almost every single year from like 25ish to the grave, even if different rates. You ARE going deaf, the human ear is cartilage and doesn't hold up that well over decades. You are VERY likely to need a hearing aid after 70 if you want to experience everything that's actually happening around you other than shrill loud noises, including human speech. And when you do notice for the very first time you can't hear something you know you "should" be able to hear...
I want you to remember what you wrote here, the offensive and ignorant laziness that it took you to put effort into writing a ridiculous IMDb review than just attempt to appreciate *your own discomfort* with silence and know that you are soft and doughey and weak inside and you don't have HALF the courage and endurance deaf people have to make it a whole lifetime with NO or very little sound except the pulse of their own heartbeat. You're afraid, small, and looking to bully the whole damn world into accommodating attitudes less evolved than a persnickety 5 year old with low blood sugar. There is only one rule in nature-adapt or die- and if I were you (thank heaven I'm not), I would be DEEPLY embarrassed advertising to strangers on the internet that I just don't have what it takes to survive and need to prey on society to appease my shortcomings. I know it's a desperate cry for help, but as you claim to be a literate person, it is 100% YOUR responsibility to grow and challenge yourself and adapt to the 90% of empathetic people here, not the other way around. No one can fix your broken brain but you and you better start preparing yourself for hearing loss NOW or you're going to be an intolerable elder who no one has the countenance to assist since you never gave one to a soul in your prime. Fix your business and stop whining and whining and whining about how bigoted and pea brained you are, it's literally doing nothing but alienating you further from the world and clearly you could use some input with ridiculous hot takes like "I'm not deaf so why should I care". Just because they're people, that's why, and the fact YOU YOURSELF are slowly going deaf should make it *easier* to try to care.
This episode was a breathe of fresh air by a talented cast, crew, and writers room and if you can't appreciate that there is something deeply bitter and selfish inside you you should be examining with a fine tooth comb. Only dogsh** people take swings at the deaf on an anonymous message board to make themselves feel better about their own weakness. We have all seen you, rated you unhelpful, and you can do us all a favor and put your opinions back in the trash can where they belong, go back to the drawing board, and force yourself to 1) read more 2) empathize more 3) recognize the world isn't about YOU even 1% of the time so you should really get over your obsession with yourself. There is no possible way any of these "I'm bored, I turned it off" people could generate ANY creative content let alone the superb quality of this episode so I am well and truly done with abiding their ridiculous bitterness. If you hate everything and everyone so much, consider maybe you just hate yourself and you're never going to be any happier unless you take ONE STEP to becoming a better person. Instead of writing an IMDb review why don't you take your own advice and go read a self help book, you'll be doing everyone a favor, and then maybe come back and articulate something that actually contributes to the conversation. I can't imagine a grade schooler writing a book report "I didn't like the book so I stopped reading after the first chapter, here's my unfounded opinions on why I was justified in giving up" ever, so where the hell did you people learn it was ok to spout off and come do that here?! You truly baffle me and it is a great relief not to have to know you personally, I feel tragic for the people in your orbit and will be praying for their wellbeing because hot damn, if THIS can get you unhinged, I'd hate to see what spilling a glass of milk does to those delicate fee fees of yours.
Thank you to the 90% and wonderful reviews for inspiring my faith in humanity, the trolls may be big mad, but at least they are vastly outnumbered ;-)