Neil: You Know Who Could Use Some Character Development?

Neil: You know who could use some character development?

Sam: Jenn

Allison: Jennnn

Patty: Sam's wife

Neil: ME!!!! *bursts out of multicam*

Kevin catching Neil and Diane hooking up and siccing the studio audience on them is just like when Hephaestus caught Aphrodite and Ares in a net and invited all the other gods to laugh at them.

Repressed gay seeing repressed crush with current same-gender partner, being salty about it, and concluding they must be homophobic deep down is a top five trope.

48 + 7 = 55

For some reason switching the order is important to my process

Okay, so: Feel Good: I’ve still only watched the first season, but my god it is so good. This is basically the only show I have ever watched and *while* watching it thought “this is one of the best shows I’ve ever watched”. Like s1 of kcfh was great but even that took me a week for it to sink in how much I loved it. Cruel Summer: The “Believe Victims” of it all. Has the best final-scene twist I’ve ever seen. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Every problem can be solved with the proper application of a book. The Good Fight: I’m not adding The Good Wife, just because it’s much longer and more of a standard cable drama. It’s succinct, it’s funny, the satire is usually clever enough to supersede the Liberal of it all. Astrid and Lily Save The World: It’s funny, it’s gay, the whole cast is lovable. Victim of the recent wave of cancelled sapphic shows, but the relationships are *mostly* stable at the end, so it just sucks there’s not more of it. It’s a “the adventures will continue” cliffhanger, not a “everything is falling apart” cliffhanger. Movies- Level 16: Girls saving each-other, low-budget dystopian horror Fresh (2022): Women saving each-other, horror with a lot of dark comedy. I never watched it so I can’t be for sure but it feels like a bit of a send-up of 50 Shades with the premise. Into The Dark’s Pure: Girls saving each-other. Horror, but one of those things where the real horror is the realistic stuff, not the supernatural stuff. Attachment (2022): Okay, this is also technically horror, but I swear it’s just as much a romcom about a woman meeting her new girlfriend’s conservative Jewish family. I’m Totally Fine (2022): Angry woman grieving a loss meets wackiness. It’s Dead To Me and frankly I’ve almost entirely replaced DTM in my brain with this. Iffy on recommending this one because I’ve generally went for an empowering tone- Blood With Me (2020)- toxic almost-romantic besties + tragedy. This one... shouldn’t be good? It’s very slow-paced, the acting is passable, and it’s a bummer. It was still compelling to me. I think it felt like an elevated Lifetime movie? Yeah I’m sorry I love horror but it turns out when you open up the genre to outsiders you get a LOT of women-centric stuff. I’d have even more recommendations, these are just the smarter more elevated stuff.

Things I have to watch for one reason or another because someone on Tumblr told me to directly or indirectly:

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Glow

Hacks

Ted Lasso

Yellowjackets

The Haunting of Bly Manor

Is there anything else I promised someone I'd watch? That I should watch even though I didn't promise?

Edit: How'd I forget Succession?

Do y’all have ships that you indirectly ship? Like, you know nothing about them, doesn’t search or read fanfic but that one person you follow is always posting about them and you’re like: “yeah girl, they make absolute sense, an obvious OTP”.