Come on JHS, how can you know that? Just here on this thread are people who can see this happening in their life.
You can’t believe that this could EVER happen, I can’t understand how you can’t see that it COULD happen. We all operate differently.
Maybe Kevin gets back to the show in a half hour. Maybe he’s totally washed up with that opportunity. Maybe Randall DID do harm to his firm - the second new guy tried to cover for him, but honestly it didn’t exactly appear as a “save” to me - he stumbled through some mumbo jumbo.
I don’t think the producers are expecting people to sit at home with a score card on reality. I do think they are looking for you to examine - perhaps for yourself - the emotion, the relationships, the complexity of reality, the decisions we make looking at life - and death.
Brotherly love. At times Kevin had been portrayed as the jealous, slighted brother, even less talented than perfect Randall.
Running to Randall showed me, he does love his brother.
But by running to Randall, without a word to anyone, and allowing the actress/playwright to go onstage alone, he was letting down a lot of other people - not just himself. If he had said something it would not have been such a dramatic moment, but would have made more sense. A show that is about family and life, IMHO, needs to be grounded in reality in a way that a soapy sort of show like Grey’s or Scandal maybe does not.
Remember Kevin also walked off his own top rated show without a second thought to anyone involved… Now the play. He attacked his brother at the football game without thinking of the consequences to his team. It’s a bit of a pattern with him.
He is just an immature self centered guy. He is trying to grow up but when the pressure is on he self destructs.
Randall’s phone call was an opportunity to run away and then later blame Randall for his own loss.
I did think this week’s episode was better than the one the week before. And the trailer for the next episode(Randall and dad go to Memphis together) looks great.
I also have a problem with Kevin leaving. I’m not looking for reality, but I am still looking for some sort of logic and character development. He doesn’t even like his brother that much. I would have had much more respect for him and the show if he had told someone, they announced it to the audience, and the rest of the family took off after him.
The bigger problem I have with logic, though, is how in heck could the curtain go up, lights go on, etc., without the stage manager noticing that the leading man is not there??? Yes, of course they showed that to us for dramatic effect, but come on . . . There’s a whole production crew back stage! And even in amateur theater, if you’re on stage, even with your back turned, you know if your fellow actors are there or not.
The one thing I thought may have been realistic in that scene is that Randall–who seems the most “together” of the 3–still doesn’t have any friends except his wife. Remember the birthday party scene? I mean it made it seem as if Kevin is the closest thing to a friend he has.
I was most annoyed by the trailer; we should have been left in some suspense as to whether Randall was okay. We weren’t because of the “next week” video.
I thought Kevin leaving the theatre was absurd. However, I also did not see it as clear cut that his motivation was purely concern for Randall. I saw a person who wasn’t sure he could act in a live performance and grabbed an excuse to bail. Hey, mixed motives.
I loved it when Toby put off the wedding when Kate didn’t want to talk about her dads death. If you can’t talk to me about everything then I think we should wait to get married. Wise words
If we really want to talk unreality in this show, what about the COFFEE CUPS that Jack and Miguel were drinking from in, what, 1990?? They were clearly Starbucks type cups, when in those days people would be using styrofoam with flat lids. #unbelievable
Actually, at that point it was 1996 or 1997 (the kids, born in 1980, were 16). Starbucks went public in 1992, had about 280 stores in 1994 and had been opening 70 stores a year, and began its international expansion in 1996. So it’s hardly unbelievable that Jack and Miguel were drinking Starbucks coffee in Pittsburgh in 1996 or 1997. I was certainly drinking it in Philadelphia then.
Exactly. When places are called, and someone is missing, the show doesn’t begin. The whole scene, as I said, was sloppy writing and that’s what drives me crazy about this show. It can be so good in some parts and so frustratingly, and unnecessarily, bad in others.
Yes, it doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult to just get things a little more accurate, realistic. The info is out there, and it does take a little bit away from the show, at least for some .
I didn’t guess either, though I did think that his stomach seemed somewhat out of proportion to the rest of him. He’s not a thin guy, but the rest of his body just didn’t quite match the huge gut. Now I get it. I guess there’s a limit to how much a fat suit can do.
Chrissy Metz, on the other hand, is all real, and seeing a young woman who is morbidly obese just makes me sad.
Sorry, I don’t see any morbidly obese person as “beautiful” (of course, beautiful inside is another matter). I see a gross distortion of the gift of the human body. Sure, Chrissy has individual facial features that could be beautiful if she lost 100 pounds. But as of now she is covered head to toe with mounds of fat. I know it’s politically correct to never say a negative word about anyone’s body, and Chrissy is free to live her life however she chooses, but to say she is beautiful is absurd to me. I guarantee that 99.99% of the people who encountered her on the street would think “Wow, she’s huge”, not “Wow, she’s beautiful,” and that 99.9% are not all terrible people.
As far as feeling sad, there are a lot of reasons. When I look at Chrissy I think of the boatload of health issues she is likely to face, the high risk pregnancy she would endure should she decide to procreate with the current boyfriend or another, and the tremendous limits on her career (i.e. how few roles are suitable for her) despite her acting abilities (for example, if This Us didn’t have a role for a really fat sister, there’s no other part she would ever have snagged on the show). While it’s heartening that she now has a devoted boyfriend, the universe of men who would be interested in her is very, very, small, and it’s hard enough to find a great guy without operating within a tiny pool. (My D is overweight, not obese, and knows she is competing with a zillion thin women for male attention–it’s no picnic.) I’m sure Chrissy’s life has been burdened by her weight in a myriad of ways, just as Kate’s has. All of that is a shame, and it all sits on my brain when I see her on my TV.
She’s fat I get it. Really fat. Her hair is attractive. Her eyes are so pretty! She has a great smile . Her skin looks marvelous! Her face shows happiness and spirit. She has worked HARD. In her interviews she is delightful to listen to and fun.
Beauty is subjective. No one is wrong; no one is right. I think Chrissy’s facial features are pretty, but not beautiful. I agree that her obesity takes away from her external “beauty” as I define it, I would even go as far to say that it overshadows everything when I look at her. I’m staring at her body with full body camera shots. I was excited when her character announced she was having bypass surgery, as I thought we would be able to take the journey with her.
