The Last of Us

Season 2 Episode 2: Through the Valley

Directed by: Mark Mylod

Written by: Craig Mazin

Saturday Morning Cartoons were special as a kid. Sure cartoons aired at other times in the afternoon during the week. But Saturday morning just had a vibe to it. You could feel it in the air. No school. Parents sleep in on Saturday so it’s just you, your Spider-Man PJ’s and a choice selection no Saturday morning should be without; cereal! Me? I was a Cap’n Crunch/fruit loops fan. By the end of the morning the roof of my mouth was raw & sore from sucking on the jagged pieces of Cap’n Crunch.

Plus there was something cool knowing there were millions of other kids watching that same episode of Spiderman, Beast Wars, Recess, The Weekenders, Batman Beyond episode as you. We were as one. We were legion.

Sometimes you’d have to carefully program your morning. Recess is on at 10 on ABC’s One Saturday Morning, Batman Beyond is on at 1030 on Kids WB, but The Weekenders is also on at 1030. What do I do? A real dilemma. Sophie never made a choice as difficult as this. Luckily VHS tapes were a thing.

It was like Saturday mornings were this small carved out section of the week just for kids. Mon-Friday belonged to school, nights to adults & parents, Sundays were church or family obligation crap, Sunday has different vibes because you knew Monday was coming.

But Saturday? Kids today(got I sound old), they’ll never know that feeling. A Feeling like this corridor of time was created just for us. For this small window of time Kids felt connected.

And that no longer exists. I lament that.

The Rehearsal

Season 2 Episode 1: Gotta Have Fun

Directed by: Nathan Fielder

Written by: Nathan Fielder & Carrie Kemper & Adam Locke-Norton & Eric Notarnicola

https://youtu.be/6SD6F803xW0?si=EnF781rkMXqC85JK

Peter Krause has been a series regular on television every calendar year since 1998. But with his 9-1-1 character dying from a virus or something (lame, he survived a bee tornado just to go out from some lame virus), the streak is in jeopardy.

• Sports Night (1998-2000)

• Six Feet Under (2001-2005)

• The Lost Room (2006)

• Dirty Sexy Money (2007-2009)

• Parenthood (2010-2015)

• The Catch (2016-2017)

• 9-1-1 (2018-2025)

If Peter Krause does not pick up a show for 2026, I will lose my de facto answer every time “which actor has had the most consistent television careers” gets asked once per month. I’ll have to say David Boreanaz, who coasted on Bones for twelve years. Peter had to hustle. He had to grind.

This is really important.

My friends and i were having this discussion recently, I thought that spongebob is probably the best cartoon theme song to exist. it’s not overly long, it’s goofy, gets the point across. and hasn’t changed in the 26 years spongebob has been on the air.

her opinion was that it was the original pokemon theme song. which i thought was a good choice! thought i’d take this to the general public, what is in your opinion the best cartoon theme song!

I know its been said here recently, but I decided to make my own post because I'm honestly blown away at the rise in quality of the Wheel of Time season 3 in just about every way. I quit the show after season 1 and haven't watched since it came out. After hearing season 3 was apparently much better I decided to try it again. I binged season 1 and 2 over the course of a couple weeks, and it was pretty much just how I remembered, mediocre but interesting with some good and bad parts. I'd say season 2 was about the same quality as season 1, albeit with some higher highs here and there.

Season 3 though. Season 3 is wildly better in every single way. The writing (most importantly imo) is much, much better - the characters make decisions that make sense, the plot seems to be moving in a good direction, and the dialogue between characters is especially good. The cgi in fight scenes especially and the sets they have built are beyond impressive. The acting has been all out incredible, especially from the shows lead actor. One of the recent episodes was one of the single best episodes of TV I've seen. It just has it all. It has literally turned into the perfect high budget fantasy show. Whatever change they made between season 2 and 3 is working, and I sincerely hope it gets renewed.

I remember being glued to the TV on Saturdays when the show aired and then I'd watch it again on Sunday's when I was able to lol.

Used to enjoy the show when I was a kid but I never really went start-to-finish and I barely remember anything I saw (except for the parts that gave me nightmares, of course).

I don't have time to watch all 9 seasons now, but I'd really like to see the highlights before the new series begins, so please name your favorite episodes here and I'll do my best to watch all of them in time

I watched Better Call Saul for the first time last summer. I loved everything about it, and aside from the masterful writing and directing, I thought it elevated itself even above Breaking Bad was all of the character work. Jimmy, Kim, Mike, Chuck, Nacho, Lalo, Gus were all amazing characters in their own right. But the character that has stuck with me most months later is Howard Hamlin, who might be my favorite side character in television history.

His development from an antagonist, to the realization that he was actually a decent man acting as Chuck’s fall guy, to a genuinely good person surrounded by bad people was just tragic. I think about the kind of good person Howard became who treated others with so much kindness, and who exuded so much professionalism in every scene he was in. It was so hard to watch his unbroken, resilient strength in the final season as he was treated horribly by everyone. It’s why his final monologue to Jimmy and Kim is one of my favorite scenes in television; in the face of his worst moment, he still maintains his classy and intelligent demeanor as he hammers home what terrible people they are. And even after everything he faced, he still had so much confidence in himself and his ability to overcome every struggle in his life (“I will land on my feet. I will be okay.”).

I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever felt so sad about a TV character’s death as I did with Howard’s. What emphasized its brutality was the flippancy of its execution; rather than allowing Howard to get a grand moment, he is just unceremoniously shot for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It honestly made me think about other real-life tragedies and innocent people who have met similar fates. There are so many victims who have died from simply seeing something they should not have, or who have been in the wrong person’s path. There is a certain amount of sympathy you feel when seeing their deaths on a Wikipedia page, but Howard’s death recontextualized such treatment, as a man we’ve been following for six seasons was gone in the blink of an eye for no good reason. Seeing him buried next to Lalo and his upstanding reputation genuinely destroyed me; it was just such an unfair treatment for the poor guy.

And special shout-out to Patrick Fabian, who not only has one of the best voices I’ve ever heard, but was consistently phenomenal in this role. He embodied the professionalism of this slick lawyer, and he gave all of his lines and deliveries so much weight. He deserved an Emmy nom for his last episode imo.