#True detective season 1 episode 1 full

[kakerutori]

Season 5 Byler Season-Episode Parallels Prediction

A mouthful of a title, I know. But basically, I want to throw out my ideas for a crucial Byler moment next season supported by this parallel that I have yet to lose sight of:

The season-episode parallels. Mike and Will have had crucial moments in their relationship during s1e1, s2e2, s3e3, and s4e4. Following the chains of logic between these moments, I want to lay down a bunch of ideas and predictions for season 5, starting with…

1. Byler will have a key moment in season 5 episode 5.

I have no other explanation for this other than it’s in the parallel: the season and episode match numbers, which they have always had something important happen between them during each matching season-episode. I imagine the moment could be an important conversation as the previous moments all involve Mike and Will talking. Seems obvious enough as a premise, but I think it’s hopeful to predict that we as the audience will get to hear their thoughts in this moment rather than only see it.

2. Mike and Will will maintain their physical orientation.

Mike on the left, Will on the right, tried and true. I think their orientation could be an easily detectable indication of the moment happening. Another thing I never considered is that in all of these moments, Mike and Will are stationary. They’re not walking and talking, not biking and talking, no distractions. Just them. I think this might carry over to season 5.

3. Mike and Will are going to be cast in darkness.

It’s hard to see with this photo as they are all rather enhanced, but the moment in s1 is rather dark, s2 relatively lit, s3 very dark upon their faces, and s4 probably the brightest moment yet. I think that therefore, within a dark-to-light A-B-A-B format, Mike and Will could be in the dark next season. Which I think would absolutely work as Hawkins grows more apocalyptic, and there are several options for the location. I hope it’s the Upside Down, full circle in Mike’s garage, in Mike’s basement, or maybe on a swing set at night.

4. Mike and Will will share a common childlike word conveying their emotions.

Seems specific, but look at what Mike and Will say to each other during these scenes, and save for season 1, they share, respectively, “crazy,” “stupid,” and “cool.” Simple but heartfelt words that display their trust, anger, and hope. I would love to see the use of “yeah,” for season 5 to further this parallel as well as flip the script on the once bitter “yeah?” “yeah.” of season 4 and the van scene.

5. Their clothing will reflect their understanding in each other.

We all love the revelation that Mike is blue and Will is yellow, but this has been done before. Twice, in fact. I think it would be lovely if they were in their respective colors, but I think a poignant change, much like s2s2 in the “crazy together” scene, they will share a color next season. And what other than green, a blend of their usual colors as well as a large marker of connection and unity throughout the show. Think of Joyce wearing green in s1 as she fought to bridge the gap between worlds and bring Will home. Think of the Hawkins school system and one of their school colors being green. Think of Dustin wearing that green shirt in s3 as he returned home, finally reuniting the whole Party. Byler could exhibit the epitome of that color.

Mark my words. These will all happen. (Me when I'm overconfident)

[melefim]

Swearing in Dead Boy Detectives: Edwin Payne

Overview:

8 curses total, 4 different words said in 6 episodes.

Episode 1: 1 Fuck, 1 Damn, 1 Bloody Hell

Episode 2: 1 Bloody Hell

Episode 3: 1 Damn

Episode 4: 1 Damn

Episode 5:

Episode 6: 1 Bloody

Episode 7: 1 Fuck

Episode 8:

Curses Per Episode:

Episode 1: 3

Episode 2: 1

Episode 3: 1

Episode 4: 1

Episode 5: 0

Episode 6: 1

Episode 7: 1

Episode 8: 0

Uses Per Word:

Edwin’s favorite curse word is Damn, which he says 3 times! Fuck and Bloody Hell are tied for second, with 2 usages each.

Damn: 3

Fuck: 2

Bloody Hell: 2

Bloody: 1

Unique words:

Though 6 other people also say some form of ‘Damn’, Edwin is the only one to use the word ‘Damnable’.

Edwin and Charles are the only characters who say ‘Bloody Hell’.

Edwin, Charles, and the Night Nurse are the only characters who say ‘Bloody’.

Percent of Total:

Edwin swears 8 times throughout the season, which is 2.5% of all cursing in the show.

Rankings:

Who Swears the Most: Edwin is tied with Niko for 9th place. (8 times each)

Curse Word Variety: Edwin is tied for 7th place with Litty and Hunter. (4 different words)

Individual Words: He and Esther are tied for most uses of the word ‘Damn’. (3 each)

Episode Recaps: Edwin curses in the episode recaps more than any other character. (3 times)

Lines:

Episode 1: Bloody Hell! (when running from gas mask ghost before mirror jump)

Episode 1: I'll jot that down in my journal of opinions I do not give a damn about.

Episode 1: Police don't know what to do with a fucking witch!

Episode 2: What the bloody hell is this?

Episode 3: Damn it. Crystal, if you can hear me, try to stay positive.

Episode 4: Now, unless you have more damnable spells, I should go. I have a case to solve.

Episode 6: Even if that were true, you're a bloody crow!

Episode 7: That is so fucking stupid, It's unbelievable!

Notes:

Fun Fact:

Edwin has the first curse in the show- Bloody Hell at the start of episode 1. (Which bookends nicely with Charles having the last- Bloody Hell at the end of episode 8)

Previously on Dead Boy Detectives…

Shown in episode recaps but not counted in the totals above:

Episode 3: What the bloody hell is this? (2)

Episode 4: What the bloody hell is this? (2)

Episode 7: You’re a bloody crow! (6)

Updates:

Updated Percent of Total Swearing chart.

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More Dead Boy Detectives Swearing Posts:

Masterlist

Swearing by Episode

Swearing by Character

Swearing by Word

All Swearing Posts

And if you like lists of things like I do, you can check out my other Dead Boy Detectives ones here!

When Charles’ Shirt Colors Change

George Rextrew’s Edwin comic inspo board

Full soundtrack with timestamps

Moves, Incidents, and Cases Masterlist

First pass at finding where the songs in the score are used- full post with timestamps in progress

[dudadragneel]

I'm just updating this

So, here's the list I said I'd share.

This is a mess, there's manga, webtoon, kdrama, jdrama, animes, tv series...

Not all of them are whump, some might be just my favorite episodes (probably because the animation was good.

ChaoS Child - 10 (vomit)

Tales of Zestiria - 4 (nausea)

Argevollen - 15 (vomit)

M3 - 3 (vomit)

Mob psycho 2 - 6 (vomit)

Persona 5 - 2,4,5, 15 (pain, injury)

Dororo - 5, 12 (faint, fever)

Fukigen na mononokean tsuzuki - 6 (faint)

Donten ni warau - 3 (nausea)

Darling in the franxxx - 5,6,11,12, 13,15,17, 18,21 (fever, faint, pain)

Duel ep 8 (vomit)

Wolf's rain ep 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14

God's Quiz - season 2 ep 12 (vomit)

God eater - 5, 6❤, 9,10 (injury)

Re: zero - 5,8, 10 (vomit)

Sign language - 68 (fever)

Aldnoah zero - 5 (vomit)

Battery chapter 10 (vomit)

Forever mine - 43,44,45,46, 63, 64,65, 69 (collapse)

Kakao 79 - 113-115 (fever)

Plastic memories - 07, 12 ( faint)

Doukyonin - 08 (faint)

Miira - 3,07 (fever faint)

Goboutan - 12 (fever faint)

Plastic Memories - 07 (faint)

Hyouka - 07 (nausea)

Black Lagoon - 1 (vomit)

Full metal Panic Fumoffu - 2, 8 (fever faint)

Knights of sidonia - 2 (vomit, faint)

Fruits basket - 23

Ai yori aoshi - 4

Guardian - 8

My love from another star - 9, 16

Guardian - 8,9,10,12, 19, 20,21, 23, 28

Love shuttle - 2,3,4,5,6,9,10, 11,12 (fever, vomit)

Riverdale - 4season ep 1

GRAND HOTEL - 1Temp - 7 3 TEMP - 2,3, 19,20 (injury)

Tokyo ghoul movie (emeto)

TEEN WOLF- Season 6 ep 6, season 1 - 1,2,6,8,11, season 2 - 6,7,9,10, season 3 - 5,6,11, 13 season 5 - 6,9 , season 6 - 13

RIVERDALE- 1- 10,11,12

Love stage - 9 (fever)

Skip beat - 15 (fever)

Miira no kaikata - 07 (fever)

DETECTIVE CONAN -  49,188,191,193,522,927,928,219, 118,126 (pain - faint)

Bleach - 9

Code breaker - 6

Tada kun - 9 (fever)

Mayonaka no ocult komuin - 1

Omiai (hentai) - 5,6 (fever)

Naruto - 140

DIVE!!- 12 (faint)

Katsute - 09

Beelzebub Ojou - 04

Cagaster -3,4,5

Pinocchio - 5,12,13

Itaewon class - 10 (emeto)

Richard - 10

Kakafukaka - 5 (emeto)

Uzaki - chan - 3 (fever)

Titan's bride - 4

Grisaia - ep 1 & 3 (vomit)

The God of Highschool - ep 5 (vomit)

Run with the wind - 8 (fainting), 18 ,19,20 (fever)

Kanojo okarishimasu - 73 (emotional breakdown/vomit)

Inuyasha - 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 32, 42,45, 46, 51, 57,58, 70, 78, 82, 87, 90, 89, 107, 113, 117, 122, 125, 126, 132, 137, 138, 140, 146, 155, 156, 161, 162, 163, 164, 167

Umibe no etranger - 7

Kkondae intern - 8

One piece 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83

Kekkai sensen - ep 4, 5, 8

Kekkao sensen and beyond - 9

Tensei shitara slime datta ken - 10,11,13

Persona 5 - 2,4,5, 15

Dororo - 5, 12

Fukigen na mononokean tsuzuki - 6

Donten ni warau - 3

Darling in the franxxx - 5,6,11,12, 13,15,17, 18,21

Naruto shippuden - 9,11,17,18,19,20,23,24,25,26,29,30,31, 39,40,41,42,43,44,45,49,50,52,56,68,70,71,73,74,75,79 ❤,80 😢,81,82😢, 84 ,85 🤯,86, 87 🤯🤯, 88🤯,89

Fruits bqsket ep 12j

13 reasons why - 4×02

WHUMP

ChaoS child - 10

Tales of Zestiria - 4

Argevollen - 15

Kimetsu no yaiba - 12

The K2 - 4

Healer - 6,12, 13,14

Train 2020 - ep 2 (emeto)

Pinocchio 4, 12, 18

One piece - 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 597(Law) 598, 599,600,601,602

Jujutsu kaisen - 23 (megumi vomit)

Taishou otome - ep 2

One piece - nebulandia, 3d2y

True beauty - 5 (panic attack)

Casualty - series31 ep 34 (vomit)

Love and leashes - slight gag

Attack on titan - season 1 ep 3 (eren gags)

Tokyo ghoul movie - emeto

Hamatora (emeto)

Boruto - 234- 236 (emeto)

Anatomy of a scandal - 3 (emeto)

Slam dunk - 8,9,10,11,15,16(whump),23,24💜,25,28,29,30,33,38,39,40,42,43,44😭,45,46,48,49(whump),51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58(w),59😭,60,61,62,63,65,66,67,70,71(w),72(w)73,74,75,76,77,79,81,82,84😭

My strange friend (c-drama) - ep 14 (emeto)

Miss Hammurabi (K-drama) - ep 12 (emeto)

Lucky Romance (k-drama) - ep 9 (emeto/panick attack)

Goodbye Mr. Black (kdrama) - 18 (emeto)

Your honor - 19+20 (emeto)

Outlander - season 3 ep 9 (emeto)

2gether the series - 13 (emeto)

Kimi no tonari de yurarete (emeto?)

Stranger things - s1e4 - Jonathan gags

Kinnporsche - 2, 4 (emeto)

Time (drama) - 4 and 6 (emeto)

- my strange friend (c drama -youtube) - ep 16 (emeto)

- stranger things - s1ep8 (not really emeto but the scene gave me whumperflies)

- Kinnporsche - 02,04 (emeto)

- Banana Fish - 5 (nausea - I know but like, the scene gave me whumperflies)

- Chainsaw Man - 1 (blood), 6 (blood)

- Romantic Killer - 6 (slight panic attack) 11 (emeto)

- Aku No Hana - 8, 11 (emeto)

- Kimetsu no Yaiba - Mugen Train movie and season 2 episode 1

[mfjenks]

ok, i'm game now Some theories and predictions after episode 4: -it is too often implied that the murderer is a woman, so i'm pretty sure that the murderer is a man. My top of suspects at the moment is something like: 1. Cliff, with his mother aware of his crime and covering him (i'm not sure whether it's a great addition to the whole parend-child storyline or a bit hackneyed as it has some parallels with Teddy&Theo story). May had an affair with Ben, may commit it to impress his mother and create something his own *Donna killing Ben in order to protect her son is also more than possible, it ruins the idea of "the say it's a woman so it's a man", but quite fits 2. Dickie - (crime of passion because of Ben eating cookies) any reason??? 3. Jonathan. Well, he was his understudy, sounds like a motive. OR maybe he tried to kill him for the first time, but he wasn't his killer after all 4. Tobert. Well, I think that they won't do the main hero's love interest the killer again, but if they do, he is kinda creepy and it's more likely to be him than Joy (who has already became a prime suspect) or Loretta Howard is cute in his own strange way, i don't believe it's Howard -The person who poisoned him and the person who was the reason he fell into the elevator shaft are two different people???? -I 1000% agree with the theory that Ben was speaking to cookies -In the first season it was Mabel's childhood friend who was killed and the story from their past, in the 2nd season Charles' father was on the painting, so the mystery is somehow connected to Oliver's past as he's already portrayed as the leading part in this season (but maybe his previous theatrical failures and his worries about the show is already such point, still there will be more flashbacks) -Poor Oliver will have a heart attack at the most inappropriate moment, probably in front of Mabel and Charles, making them, Will and all of us experience our own heart attack. Probably as a cliffhanger. I think in the episode 7 or 8. He lives, of course, but I'm ready to cry my eyes out -And creates the idea of final banger of the show (or thinks about killer's identity. or both) during clinical death. In the episode with his narration and some flashbacks. Creates another chaotic masterpiece and continues his work on the show almost immediately. Maybe agrees (with the face full of sorrow and whining) to quit dips if Will asks but never gives up on show and investigation. Then constantly boasts about his "death" like one of his acquaintances and says Ben beaten him. It's the most Oliver Putnam thing ever -I HATE the theory of Charles murdering Ben being in the white room and I'm sure it won't be true BUT this theory may be mentioned in the show. Like they'll finally find out it's not true, but suspect it at some point, Charles is not sure if he actually hasn't kill Ben, and maybe it will in some way be the thing that triggers Oliver's heart attack???? -I actually like the theory of Loretta being Dickie's mother, especially after the look he gave her at Look for the light. She's not a murderer, but the prime suspect for one or two episodes -Joy is also obviously pretty innocent, but Charles and her break up -Final episode will be more like season 2 than season 1: the true murder will be revealed only in the last ep. during another scene with Poirot-like false accusations. According to the trailer, with detective Williams there in the theatre, but maybe this takes place a bit earlier and the true killer revealed in another scene -Murderer reveal party is paralleled to and shown together with the episodes from the musical -This Mabel's wedding scene is either season 4 flashforward or staging used to reveal the murderer. I'd like to see the Theo as at least fake husband, but i think it will be Tobert. MAYBE the wedding will be aimed to expose Tobert himself, but I still believe he's too obvious to be the killer -Oliver and Loretta break up, but on a happy note grateful to each other, and Loretta finally goes to "take Hollywood by storm" after the show

(and Oliver and Charles end up together) -Mabel finishes podcast and then takes Cinda's job offer and moves out, still mantaining cute relationship with her old boys well it was a lot….

[alea-says]

H50, season 5, episode 1 thoughts...

Whatttt?

Okay, I have seen this scene before. The boys obviously in some kind of therapy. I just, honestly thought it was part of the whole therapy episode that, I think, comes in a later season.

But apparently I get BOTH!

Danny: We have been together for three years

Steve: Four

The fact that Steve then corrects him down to the day. Yeah, someone's been paying attention.

Also, Steve in that blue button up. Mmmhmmmm.

This is so beautiful I just want to quote it all.

Sir Daniel.

The fact that this is how they're starting the season... it's an obvious recap of who everyone is for new viewers but ... really?? ... could they have made it any more mcdanno??

Steve: we're ohana

Danny: I guess I was just agreeing with him, for the first time

No matter how much they argue they're family.

This poor couple obviously something is gonna go wrong... and it did.

And just in case we haven't been able to tell from his general vibes, one of Danny's intro scenes is now him and baby Joan (I think, based on how short it is). Just so we know he's father material.

(And if it's Joan, interesting that him interacting with Steve's niece is considered important enough for his intro)

Kono and Adam being adorable.

Wait. Was she surfing with her phone on her ankle? I may need me a waterproof case like that that is actually waterproof!

Hey, Steve let someone else fly the helicopter.

Shaw: you must be Detective Williams

Max: I have given her the full heads up

Danny: you gave her the heads up on what?

Steve: it's all true

And now you know there's a drone... go put your vests on.

Steve and Danny teasing Jerry together. And Danny has to slap Steve's thigh while doing so.

I'm sorry, Jerry, but yes, people do still read hard copy books.

Book em Danno.

And Steve's been shot.

Oh, look at that, Danny's just the right height for Steve to put his arm around him and use him as a crutch.

Steve: I can't drive, Danny

Danny: oh really? There's a silver lining in the face of death. Fantastic.

Steve: my leg will heal. Don't get used to it.

Okay, but now we need some cool action for stopping the plane please.

Okay, that drone was cool. Even if I did was some super Seal shanenigans (but I guess Steve's been shot, so...)

But he's up and running anyway...

Go Danny! Nice shooting!

Okay, and that clip ejection and reload was hot.

Yes, Steve does need a loyalty program with every fifth bullet extraction free. Lol.

Also, I note Danny is the one allowed to push his wheelchair.

Max: I just explained to Dr Shaw that Commander McGarrett is the leader of five-0 and that you're his deeply cynical, misanthropic, short-tempered partner.

Max: Dr Shaw agreed with my assessment, however, she did think you were cute.

Steve: hey! *reaches his hand back for a fist-bump with Danny.

(Okay, but does Dr Shaw think Danny is Steve's cop partner or partner partner? Just asking)

Well, now they're setting up a whole bunch of things for the season...

Mention of Danny's brother again... that dude better not threateb Grace.

Okay, I think this is now one of my fav eps despite the fact wasn't as much fan of the drone storyline as some of the others we've had.

Deleted scenes...

Oh, this is a brilliant one of mcdanno arguing...

Danny: where do you get stones big enough to tell that lady that I get to drive my own car?

(Stones Danny? Where are your thoughts?)

Danny: I'd like to drive it when we're together as friends.

(Steve, Danny is inviting you on a friend date where he gets to drive the car, okay)

Oh wow. Catherine found Najib but decided to stay in Afghanistan.

Wow, so Catherine breaks up with Steve in a deleted scene.

(I mean, I'm not mad, cos I do like her as a character just not with Steve, and I like she was honest with him and her reasons for staying there are good)

[isleofair]

Tiger & Bunny Week Day 2

Tiger & Bunny First Series Anniversary

(allowing for airtime shenanigans lol)

I can't quite put together a full review, but I want to list some moments in Season 1 that I found striking/intriguing/wonderful/thought-provoking when watching it for the very first time (around the end of December 2021):

1 - The princess carry

I said I started watching T&B at the end of 2021, but I had actually been distantly aware of its existence well before that, for a reason I find extremely amusing: I had seen Taibani BL doujinshi while browsing for doujinshi of other anime shows 😂. My vague impression, based solely on the name of the show and the cover art of said doujinshi, was that "Tiger and Bunny" were something like two detective partners... and that the original series was explicitly a yaoi one, because, come on, surely you wouldn't name your characters Tiger and Bunny otherwise, right?!?

I knew by the time I clicked play on Netflix that that last bit was wrong. The princess carry told me that I was not that far off, though, either. 😜

2 - The reveal that The King of Heroes is actually a massive dork

You kind of catch glimpses of it in the previous episodes, but I sort of dismissed them as "eh, it's his over-constructed Hero TV persona, this guy is the King of Heroes, after all, he must have all of his ducks in a row".

But in the very first episode we see him out of the suit, we find out that Keith is, if anything, even more of an overeager puppy when he's not on the clock as Sky High, and this made me fully realize what a rich world of characters I had landed in (and made Keith start to rise very fast in my personal preference ranking of all the heroes).

3 - Barnaby's fear (?) of fire

This one was, to me, a missed opportunity for what could have been an even deeper look into Barnaby's character.

Barnaby here says he "hates" fire (火が嫌いです). From his expression, and the flashback that follows, I think it would be fair to assume that fire makes him at the very least uncomfortable, if not downright afraid. And Barnaby has both and enemy and an ally who have fire as their power, as evidenced specifically in this episode, so I was expecting that to be addressed... but nothing specific ever came of it.

It's true that Barnaby in this first half of S1 is very cool and collected at all times, but finding out if and how his feelings about fire color his perception of and interactions with Nathan and Lunatic would have been extremely fascinating, IMHO. (Even just an explicit acknowledgment of the fact that he doesn't let it influence his relationship with those two characters in the least would have been interesting, and added to his characterization in some small way.)

4 - Episode 17 ("Blood Is Thicker Than Water.")

Definitely one of my very favorite episodes overall (which means a lot, considering it doesn't feature Nathan, or even Keith, for one single second, lol).

We learn so much about Kotetsu, his family, his history; at one of his lowest points, he manages to shine when it matters the most, where no one can see him, but the thing he cherishes most in the world, Kaede, is at stake. And the thing that struck me the most is that he saves her by completely subverting the way we've always seen him apply his power to being a hero: by being still and quiet and attentive, instead of strong, rash, loud. And then he doesn't even need his power to finish rescuing Kaede, to be her hero; just a good old jolt of parent-with-a-kid-in-danger adrenaline.

It's a really fantastic episode.

5 - The ending of episode 24, and the title of episode 25 ("Eternal Immortality.")

(And I don't just mean the whole "gosh, the fried rice thing was pretty gay, but the eyelash comment was REALLY gay, huh?" stuff, lol.)

See, when I watched this, I already knew that season 2 was coming up, so I should have logically assumed they would not kill off their main character here... But I was way too caught up in the story and way too distraught to remember any sort of logic, and I was staring at my screen like "surely they wouldn't... right? RIGHT?!? 😥"

And then I remembered that oh! The last episode is called "Eternal immortality"! It's the only one with a title that doesn't fit the proverb scheme! It must be very significant!

And so I was fully convinced, for the, oh, 10 minutes between here and the moment Kotetsu stands back up in the last episode and explains he had just simply passed out, that he had indeed died, or about as close to is as to not make a difference, and that his Hundred Power, after diminishing, would actually fade completely right there and then and turn into a different power, that would grant him infinite regeneration (see: him healing himself with Hundred Power in episode 13), and thus, essentially, eternal immortality.

Hey, it would have been pretty cool.

(the prompts!)

[feministsouthpark]

South Park Filler Guide - Season 8

Link for Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLS my analysis will have spoilers, if you’re a first time viewer, just scroll to the bottom and read the list and only read full text if you are familiar with the content of the show already! S8E1 Good Times with Weapons is FILLER

Yes! Everyone's favorite season premiere is a filler, baby! It was fun, we sang, we cried, in the end Butters never has a scar on his eye again. S8E2 Up the Down Steroid is LORE

We have a new tradition, which is that after last season's Krazy Kripples, we'll have a new Jimmy episode every year! And this is the first time we meet Nathan and the rest of the special education kids. S8E3 The Passion of the Jew is FILLER

I wanted to tell you this one was canon, because the season has constant mentions of Passion of the Christ so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter. S8E4 AWESOM-O is FILLER

Sooo if every anime filler was as good as these ones, the filler guides most likely wouldn't exist (or they would, because humans), but again, what we have is a self-contained story. S8E5 You Got F'd in the A is FILLER

At one point I might have convinced myself that what I'm doing with this recap makes some kind of sense, but alas, it doesn't. This became an episodic show and we miss out on all the best episodes. Why am I lamenting at You Got F'd instead of Good Times with Weapons? Because I'm a loose cannon with no regard for the law. That may be true, but I get the job done, God damn it. S8E6 The Jeffersons is CANON

No other Mr. Jefferson episode came out while Michael was still alive. As a hologram he later references his name being Jefferson again, but this one only ads a little more context to that. This one also pretty much introduced the new cops of South Park. S8E7 Goobacks is FILLER

Yes, Darryl and the Took our jobs meme are here, but it will return in enough episodes to still be understood. S8E8 Douche and Turd is CANON

What a great election episode! We get town lore (Stephen with the ram's horn again) and an allegory that will return in a big way later. S8E9 Something Walmart This Way Comes is FILLER

I regularly forget this one exists and doesn't make a difference at all. Sorry, got too subjective. Objectively this is an episode with a simple message and without a larger scope for the show. S8E10 Pre-School is FILLER

Trent Boyett never returned. But if you think about it, he is one of the boys' greatest foes. I wish one of the specials was a follow-up of the 15 year old versions of the characters meeting Trent again. If everything else fails, THAT would bring me back and change my classifications! S8E11 Quest for Ratings is FILLER

One time the boys played cops. They even played musicians. Now they play newsreaders. Only Jimmy is in for the long-run and he will get episodes that focus on that individually. S8E12 Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset is CANON

Not just because it's a follow-up to Death Camp of Tolerance, that in itself wouldn't be enough. But Paris also has an extended role in a specific later episode I mentioned a lot, but never dropped. It's 200 by the way. And 201. Now I am a bit picky of which ones to include if we got no other clue for an episode. The show never got to 200 celebrities at that point. Also, some of them were in that episode first. So only the most prominent ones get their debuts counted as canon ones by default. S8E13 Cartman's Incredible Gift is CANON

A character dies. Harrison Yates gets more role here as a detective, slowly drifting away from Barbrady. S8E14 Woodland Critter Christmas is FILLER

It's just in Eric's mind. Some of you are already mad at me for this. Some of you will only get it later and be mad at me in the season 11 post.

SPOILER-FREE RUNDOWN

Again, CANON means you should watch it, FILLER means you can skip it, LORE is somewhere in-between, any episode with the LORE label will have an explanation that helps you decide if you should include it or not. S8E1 Good Times with Weapons is FILLER S8E2 Up the Down Steroid is LORE* S8E3 The Passion of the Jew is FILLER S8E4 AWESOM-O is FILLER S8E5 You Got F'd in the A is FILLER S8E6 The Jeffersons is CANON S8E7 Goobacks is FILLER S8E8 Douche and Turd is CANON S8E9 Something Walmart This Way Comes is FILLER S8E10 Pre-School is FILLER S8E11 Quest for Ratings is FILLER S8E12 Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset is CANON S8E13 Cartman's Incredible Gift is CANON S8E14 Woodland Critter Christmas is FILLER

*Casually introduces the special ED kids

CANON counter:

S1: 9 out of 13  S2: 3 out of 18  S3: 6 out of 18  S4: 10 out of 17  S5: 8 out of 14  S6: 11 out of 17 S7: 6 out of 15 S8: 4 out of 14

Overall: 57 out of 126

[bambamramfan]

I don't like murder mystery shows (the kind where each full season is devoted to solving one murder.)

And yet, of the four shows airing in the period of the year that I am at all excited about, three of them are murder mysteries (Murder at the End of the World, Fargo Season 5, True Detective Season 4. The other is the Curse.) This reasonably annoys me.

It's not that I can't watch murder mysteries, and that I don't appreciate some of them (cf, I watched all the previous seasons of Fargo and True Detective.) I just find the core premise such an aggravating story, especially for how much of television they dominate.

They vastly overstate how frequent lethal violence is in daily life. I do in fact like stories that cover other types of conflict than violence.

They tend to have a structure where each episode we meet a new person who was doing shady stuff with the victim (often a child), and by the end of the season the entire town is just a web of child predation, drug deals, affairs, and abusive relationships.

Their depiction of police is either hilariously naive, or just blithely ignorant of the rampant abuses of power the protagonists themselves commit.

They usually morally Other the perpetrator. Either the perp is someone with bizarre drives (schizophrenia and pedophilia being the most common by far) and we need zero other explanation for how this happened, OR they are someone with very understandable motivations, who just crossed the line stupidly and now we must cast them to the deepest pit rather than try to reconcile their humanity with ours.

The structure has started to become cliche - 1 episode of setting the scene, 6-8 episodes of chasing red herrings, 1 episode of a dramatic reveal you could not have put together before because you lacked any relevant information. Why watch any of the middle stuff?

... and yet, my favorite writers still are choosing to focus on this genre. I'm sure they have good reasons. It just annoys me.

[ken-the-fluffy-pix]

ENG

1 art. Actually, I should have made a fanart with him even earlier, but… I decided only now. Anyway, I recently started playing Zenless Zero Zone and… I liked it. Unlike other games, from the same Chinese, I liked this one the most. And I got hooked on it just like Fortnite. True, it has one drawback - getting this character is only 0.06%! Instead, some lolis drop out, which I don't need at all! And I'm ready to use all 300 summons, but at any cost, I want to get this wolf! 2 art. Well, yes, I decided to please the female part of my fan base, if there is one of course… 3 art. Do you remember such an anime as Black Butler? I remember, and only now I found out that season 4 has already been released. And when the time comes, then I will definitely watch it. In the meantime, a short review of all 3 seasons and a full-length film: Season 1 is a masterpiece. It perfectly combines drama, thriller and detective. The characters are interesting to watch, overall I recommend watching Season 1. Season 2 is a direct continuation. It is not as strong as Season 1, but still watchable, and it is interesting to watch the plot. But Season 3 is complete crap! The plot is sluggish and at the same time strange. No spoilers, but the ending (in pre-final episode) disappointed me, the villains were also not properly revealed, as if they were not there, when absolutely nothing happens in the last episode, where the characters walk back and forth without a goal. But the full-length film is generally an iceberg filled with feces. In short, the main villain, a former ally of the main character, with delusional motivation. And the ending was left open. I can't say anything about Season 4, when I find out, I'll tell you. 4 art. Yeah, I wanted to make a muscular male in a maid costume. What? No one is against it! Von Lycaon: Zenless Zero Zone

RUS 1 арт. На самом деле мне надо было сделать фанарт с ним еще раньше, но... решил только сейчас. В общем, я не давно начал играть в Zenless Zero Zone и... мне понравилось. В отличии от других игр, от тех же китайцев, эта мне понравилось больше всего. И я подсел на нее точно также, как и на Fortnite. Правда в ней один минус - получение этого персонажа всего 0,06%! Вместо них выподают какие-то лоли, которые мне нафиг не сдались! И я готов использовать все 300 призывов, но любой ценой, я хочу получить этого волка! 2 арт. Ну и да, решил порадовать и женскую часть моей фанбазы, если она конечно есть... 3 арт. А помните такое аниме как Темный Дворецкий? Я вот помню, и только сейчас узнал, что уже вышел 4 сезон. И когда время придет, тогда я обязательно посмотрю. А пока что, небольшой обзор всех 3 сезонов и полнометражный фильм: 1 сезон - шедевр. В ней идеально совмещены драма, триллер и детектив. За персонажами интересно наблюдать, в общем 1 сезон рекомендую посмотреть. 2 сезон - прямое продолжение. Оно не такое сильное, как 1 сезон, но все еще смотрибельно, и интересно наблюдать за сюжетом. А вот 3 сезон - полное говно! Сюжет вялый и при этом странный. Без спойлеров, но концовка (в предпоследней серии) меня разочаровала, злодеев также не раскрыли должным образом, будто их и не было, когда в последней серии просиходит абсолютно ничего, где персонажи ходят без цели туда-сюда. А вот полнометражка вообще айзберг, наполненный калом. Короче, ��лавный злодей, бывший союзник главного героя, с бредовой мотивацией. А концовку вообще оставили открытой. Что насчет 4 сезона сказать не могу, когда будет известно, я расскажу. 4 арт. Да, я хотел сделать мускулистого самца в костюме горничной. А что? Никто не против! Фон Ликаон: Zenless Zero Zone

[thehours2002]

still mad true detective night country didn't get a full 8 episodes. 1) it deserved more room to breathe, 2) it would have had time to build more word of mouth and expand audience on here in particular

audience numbers were already good for that season but i remain resentful that a fandom for the show never took off on here

[smoothmedia]

Shows I've Seen Every Episode

Alice in Borderland

Arcane: League of Legends

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Banshee

Big Little Lies

Black Mirror

Breaking Bad

Chappelle Show

Cobra Kai

Cyberpunk: Edgerunner

Dark

Deadwood

Dexter

Dragon Ball Z (Kai, Super)

Family Guy

Fargo

Friends

Futurama

Game of Thrones

Hawkeye

Heroes

Homeland

House of the Dragon

How to get away with Murder

Hunter X Hunter

Invincible

Jett

Loki

Lost

Lovecraft Country

Mad Men

Moon Knight

Mr. Robot

Ms. Marvel

Narcos

Naruto

Only Murders in the Building

Ozark

Oz

Poker Face

Prison Break

Ray Donovan

Reacher

Rick & Morty

She Hulk

Smash

Sons of Anarcy

South Park

Stranger Things

Sword Art Online

The Boondocks

The boys

The Duece

The Falcon and Winter Solider

The Last of Us

The Sopronos

The Wire

The Witcher

True Blood

True Detective

Wandavision

Warrior

Watchmen

Wednesday

You

Shows I Never Seen Any Episode Of

American Gods

American Horror Story

Atlanta

Barry

Berserk

Billions

Black Clover

Black Sails

Boardwalk Empire

Brooklyn Nine Nine

Castlevania

Chernobyl

Community

Doctor Who

Dr. Stone

Euphoria

Firefly

Ironfist

Kingdom

Luke Cage

My Dress up Darling

Naruto: Shippuden

Outlander

Parks & Recreaction

Peacemaker

Rome

Sense8

Severance

Smallville

Star Wars (Any of them... The Clone Wars, Bad Batch, The Book of Bobafett, Visions, Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tales of the Jedi etc.)

Steins Gate

Succession

Superstore

Supernatural

Ted Lasso

The Defenders

The Fear of the Walking Dead

The Last Kingdom

The Legend of Korra

The Owl House

The Punisher

The Sandman

The White Lotus

Vikings

Vinland Saga

What we do in the Shadows

Yellowstone

Shows I've Started But Haven't Finished (Last episode I seen in parentheses)

Assassination Classroom (episode 4)

Attack on Titan (Season 2 Episode 12 "Scream")

Battlestar Galactica (Episode 11)

Beef (Epsiode 4)

Better Call Saul (I dont remember but I believe I seen most of Season 1)

Bleach (Never seen but I read the Manga, even that Alphabet war arc)

Chainsaw Man (Episode 2)

Deathnote (About 3 episodes)

Demon Slayer (Episode 7)

Daredevil (I think I saw 1 or 2 episodes but dont remember)

Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Episode 14 or 15)

Gravity Falls (Episode 1)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (seen 3 or 4 episodes here and there)

Jessica Jones (Season 1)

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Season 1, Episode 5)

Jujutsu Kaisen (Only 1 epsiode)

Money Heist (Season 3)

My Hero Academia (About 33 episodes)

One Piece (I read the Manga to Wano, so in episode terms I'm probably around episode 960)

Orphan Black (2 Seasons)

Peaky Blinders (Season 1)

Power (Season 1)

Ranking of Kings (6 episodes)

Rings of Power (Episode 2)

Snowfall (Season 1)

Solar Opposites (One episode)

Spy x Family (Episode 9)

Swarm (Episode 4)

The 100 (Season 1)

The Leftovers (Season 1)

The Legend of Vox Machina (Episode 3)

The Office (Season 2 Episode 6 "The Fight")

The Orville (Season 1, Episode 3)

The Umbrella Academy (Season 1, Episode 2)

The Walking Dead (For the tv show, somewhere in Season 6, I never met Neagan. But I have read the comics)

Titans (Season 3, Episode 2)

Twin Peaks (Episode 1)

Westworld (Season one)

[papabearbobbynash]

9-1-1 6x12 "Recovery" Thoughts

Man I kinda feel bad for the people I saw saying they would skip this episode (on Reddit btw). It's a good episode.

The messages of it resonates with me really well, not count it's literally full of Buddie gold people were craving for in previous episodes. (Patience is the key). Like they finally talked about the shooting, and the couch metaphor too working just fine. Also love Buckley simblings time here.

Now, talking about Bobby's storyline.

I do think they could have worked a bit better in the build up of Wendel and Bobby's relationship before killing off the man. These flashbacks could easily have been in earlier episodes (like they could have cut the sperm donor bs we didn't care about to put scenes introducing Wendel), but overall, I do like it a lot, because they used the characters in that storyline really well, in special Tamara.

I legit enjoyed Tamara, it's been a while since I do watch an episode and end up wishing to see a character more times. They worked this storyline in a way I was not expecting too which makes it more interesting, and I love that Bobby is finally moving on and being motivated by this (in a positive way). Wendel's death so far had been motivating him in negative ways to seek revenge and justice, it became an obsession of 4 months, so it's great to see that it's now motivating him in a positive way, to help others just like Wendel helped him. I hope by the end of the season he becomes an sponsor. I think it would be an interesting shift of the "mentor" dynamic that we see him have with the 118 vs with civilians.

Also I have to say I actually really liked of what the writers did with Bobby storyline, I mean I had a big range of emotions here LMAO. I never been so infuriated as I was after the lady use Bobby's past to frame him, and then later it was just plain depressing to watch Bobby just listesn to a list of accusations in silence and then the detective be like "this is just too perfect to be true". Man the relieve I felt (and Bobby too)

BTW great performance from Peter, I love when writers gives him space to show his acting.

I don't have any complains of this episode. So, perfect to me.

[bepractical]

Daredevil: Season 1, Episode 1, Part 2

I’m back with part 2 of the season 1, episode 1 recap of Netflix’s Daredevil. Sorry for the lengthy delay! There’s a lot to get into.

In part 1, Little Matthew Murdock went one round with a giant truck full of HAZARDOUS MATERIALS and lost. We met his dad, his priest, his favorite recurring criminal, and his best friend for life, Foggy Nelson. We were also introduced to Karen Page, the prettiest murder suspect in Manhattan, and James Wesley, Fisk’s harbinger on the street. You can find part 1 here.

Now it’s time to spring Karen from the joint, pull on those black jammies, meet our roster of second tier bad guys, and finally get the band together.

We pick up sometime after Karen’s scream for help. Matt and Foggy are back at the station trying to strong arm the shady detectives into just releasing her already. They threaten to plaster Karen’s beautiful, tv-ready face all over the news until she’s set free and they get some answers. One possible question, how did the security cameras by Karen’s cell turn off right as all this went down? 

It’s here that we gain another little nugget of insight into the mind of Matthew Murdock. Turns out, he’s kind of a shit. Foggy revs up the sass with the shady detectives but Matt brings that little something extra that makes you worry they’ll punch him in the face or, you know, shoot him.   

Shady Detective 1: I’ll call the ADA. But you take that tone with me again, I don’t care if you’re blind, I’ll kick the shit out of you.

Like that. 

It’s hot. 

The detectives leave, and Matt and Foggy puzzle over why they’re willing to release Karen so easily. Matt posits that there was additional evidence at the scene that pointed to another suspect, evidence that would have only been released if Karen was formally charged. 

This tiny moment feels indicative of some of the future conflict between Matt and Foggy. I’m gonna make a mental note and we’ll get back to it. Probably. For now I’ll say that Matt is quick to consider/recognize possible corruption in the justice system and Foggy shakes off the idea.

At Nelson & Murdock, Foggy makes Karen some hot tea and the boys ease her into a gentle interrogation. Turns out Karen doesn’t know who is trying to kill her, but she does know why.

Karen’s story, round 2: Union Allied Construction, Karen’s former employer, has been rolling in dough due to their work on the reconstruction of Hell’s Kitchen post-alien attack. Karen was accidentally sent a hinky file that showed they were laundering money through the company pension fund. She told her boss, he lied like a rug, so she reached out to Daniel the dead guy, who worked for the legal department. They met at a bar to talk, they were drugged and Daniel was murdered.

Karen freaks. Either Matt and Foggy are with Union Allied or she’s going to get them killed. Foggy awkwardly comforts her like the sweetheart he is while Matt offers to take her home until they’re sure she’s safe.

At his apartment, Matt gives Karen a grand tour and we get our first glimpse of the reason a pro-bono lawyer can afford an enormous corner apartment in NYC. 

Matt gives Karen a dry shirt. There’s an odd moment where she changes in front of him that I think is meant to serve as another reminder to the audience that, yes, Matt IS actually blind, but it just struck me as awkward and titillation for titillation’s sake. Very curious to hear other people’s thoughts on this.

The two chat about Matt’s blindness. Karen is super nosey, as is her wont, but charming. She asks about the accident and if Matt remembers what it was like to see. Matt takes off his glasses, in what may be the only time he does so around Karen until season 3.

Matt: You know, I'm supposed to say I don't miss it. That's what they teach you in trauma recovery. Define yourself by what you have, value the differences, make no apologies for what you lack. And it's all true, for the most part, but it doesn't change the fact that I'd give anything to see the sky one more time.

Karen watches Matt, completely mesmerized. She barely has time to process when Matt puts his glasses back on; he has some questions for her now.

Let’s take a beat to discuss this scene. The way I interpret it, this whole conversation is about Matt teeing Karen up for more questioning. He knows she’s lying about something, so he takes the time to make her comfortable before poking holes in her story. At the same time, he is disarmed by her questions, her genuine interest. Karen is an incredibly genuine, empathetic person. She’s also curious. She wants to know everything about everyone, it is an incredibly consistent character trait of hers (though this feels like the last time she’s so blatantly nosey with Matt- is that possible???). Matt, who’s about to start his own little fishing expedition, can’t help but respond to that. He answers her earnestly because Matt is nothing if not earnest. 

Matt stands and turns toward Karen. He’s Lawyer Matt now. He lays out his hypothesis, an addendum to her latest story. It goes like this: Karen was left alive when Daniel the dead guy was killed because she still has something the people who killed him wanted. A copy of the pension file.

Karen watches Matt like a mouse caught in a trap, but when Matt asks her outright if she has the file she denies it. He listens to her heartbeat and knows that she’s lying, but he lets it go for now.

On the roof of Union Allied, this season’s bad guys hold a meet & greet. Owlsley is complaining, his primary character trait. Madame Gao and Nobu are side-by-side while the Russian brothers prowl around in a little huddle. They’re waiting for Fisk, but they get Wesley instead. He extends his apologies to all of them, specifically Madame Gao. I don’t remember the extent of Fisk’s Hand knowledge. Does he know she’s a big time, immortal player? 

The Russians are pissed, Vladimir in particular. They’re not interested in dealing with a flunky. How can they trust a dude who won’t show his face? One that Wesley insists on calling ‘my employer’ while hushing anyone who tries to say his name like Fisk is freaking Voldemort?

They start to storm away in a huff but Wesley calls them back. He asks about them ‘being late on the cargo totals.’ I’m gonna remember this moment, cause there will be a time a few episodes from now when I’m briefly inclined to sympathize with Fisk and think that maybe he could do some good in the city. Dude is knee deep in human trafficking. THE CARGO IS PEOPLE. FISK IS NOT A GOOD GUY. Make a note.

The Russians tell them about the man in the black mask, which is a tough sell, to say the least, especially when they get to the part where he took down all their men using only his fists. Owlsley snarks at them.

Owlsley: Heroes and their consequences are why we have our current opportunities.

He thinks vigilantes are good for business, that they contribute to lawlessness.

Wesley asks for more details. He and Gao are surprised to hear the man in black didn’t try to take the victims for himself. Everyone bickers for a while, about the man in black, about Union Allied, about another mobster named Prohaszka. I’m delighted that neither the villains nor Matt realize how thoroughly he, a single dude, is messing with their business.

At Matt’s apartment, Karen sneaks out. Matt is sleeping on the couch and hears her but doesn’t try to stop her. He wants to know what she’s hiding. 

She runs to her apartment in the rain (totally doable in Hell’s Kitchen). After pausing to stare at Daniel the dead guy’s blood stain, she grabs a USB she hid in the ceiling. She breathes a sigh of relief. Then someone sneaks up on her in the dark apartment. Unlike Park Guy, this Assassin Guy does not mess around. He immediately starts slamming her head into the wall and it’s all really scary and violent. He picks up the USB and pockets it and is just about to go after Karen with a knife when Matt appears. 

Fuck yeah. I love a sneaky hero who appears out of the shadows. It affords many opportunities to fist pump when they show up.

Matt and Assassin Guy go to town. He’s a much better fighter than the dudes Matt fought by the river. There’s a lot of tossing around and at one point Matt parkours off Karen’s wall. Once again I attempted to get some quality screen shots but they all looked like this.

Yeah.

Anyway, they finally manage a synchronized swan dive out the window. It is by pure dumb luck that Karen’s apartment is on a lower floor and there’s an incredibly convenient dumpster beneath her window, which breaks their fall.

Our sweet Matty is down for the count. We cut to a flashback of Little Matt, who fell asleep at his kitchen table doing homework. He’s wearing enormous sunglasses, so you know this is post-accident. Daddy Jack finds him there and wakes him up, encourages him to finish his work. Jack is beat to hell. He wants Matt to take his education seriously, so he doesn’t end up like him. Jack sits down and lets Matt explore his injuries.

The Jack in the past and the Jack that lives in Matt’s head both tell him the same thing. “Come on Matty, get to work.”

Cut to Matt on the ground, spitting up blood. He pushes himself off the ground and immediately gets into it with Assassin Guy. Some of the fight is in slow mo, which is used to give us some idea of how Matt’s powers work, how he’s able to anticipate where people will be, or what weapons are nearby. At this point it seems like he’s mostly dependent on sound. 

The two tussle for a minute until Matt finally gets the upper hand and strings the guy up with a chain around his neck. He collapses to the ground and tries to catch his breath. Karen’s face is all of us.

She goggles at Matt, who picks himself up again and rummages through Assassin Guy’s pockets for the USB. He promises to get it to the police, but Karen convinces him they can’t be trusted. As a compromise they leave Assassin Guy tied up with the USB in an envelope labeled EDITOR outside the office of the Bulletin. Okay.

The next morning, presumably, the story has broken.

Wesley drives around in the back seat of a car and discusses the coverup with Fisk on speaker. It involves killing a bunch of patsies, namely Karen’s old boss, Park Guy and Assassin Guy. The main takeaways from this conversation- 1) Fisk is concerned about how Assassin Guy was subdued (it’s Matt!) 2) Fisk is interested in Nelson & Murdock, since they represented Karen (also Matt!). Again, Matt is messing with their business on multiple fronts.

At Nelson & Murdock, Karen serves the boys a thank you lasagna using her grandma’s secret recipe (the secret ingredient is virtue!). It’s weird. However, the three of them are adorable. Foggy mentions the ‘nut in the mask’ who saved Karen, Karen staunchly defends him, Matt twiddles his thumbs and changes the subject. VERY subtle. The big takeaway here is that Karen offers to help them set up the firm in lieu of payment for their services. I don’t think they bring it up again but I sure hope she got a whopper of a settlement from Union Allied.

Now, the end of episode montage. Matt goes to Daddy Jack’s gym, Fogwell’s, after hours to work out. He wraps his hands and starts in on a heavy bag. The flyer from his dad’s last fight still hangs on the wall.

The scene cuts between Matt punching and the following: Owlsley cleaning out the pension file; Park Guy’s daughter coming home to find his dead body; Assassin Guy dead, swinging from a sheet in his cell; Madame Gao’s heroin operation; Nobu looking over some blueprints; and Turk Barrett back on the streets and checking out some guns. 

A quick note about Nobu. What we’re seeing here

is Elena Cardenas’ tenement building, the future site of Midland Circle and the current home to some sweet, immortality-giving dragon bones. Look at that smile!

The last cut takes us to the street, where a man is being dragged out of his car by the Russians and beaten up, and his cute little curly haired moppet abducted. 

On a building somewhere in Hell’s Kitchen, Matt is listening to the city.

He filters through the noise and zeroes in on the kid’s screams for help. Then he pulls down his mask, ready to get to work. 

And that’s it! The first episode! Action is hard to screen cap and recap! Nonetheless a great episode and excellent intro to the show. I’ll be back, hopefully in a reasonable amount of time, with episode 2.

[nysocboy]

Glenn Scarpelli: The star of "One Day at a Time" and "Jennifer Slept Here" grown up, out, and married

One Day at a Time, one of the iconic television shows of the 1970s, sent newly-divorced Ann Romano into the wilds of a never-described Indianapolis, to fight sexist oppression and raise her two daughters.  But by 1980, the daughters had grown, and they needed a new kid.  Instead of having a long-lost cousin show up, they acquired one by having Ann date single father Nick Handris (Ron Rifkin) for 19 episodes before killing him off.  The boy's mother wanted nothing to do with him, so Ann offerd to take in Alex (13-year old Glenn Scarpelli).

One Day was really a dramedy, so they spent some Time exploring the impact of having a dead father and uncaring mother before moving Alex into hetero-horny plotlines: his girl-crazy first date,  his foray into a female mudwrestling tournament, his attempt to "lose his virginity," and having to choose between a hot date and an important event with father figure Schneider.  

As he started to mature -- and bulk up -- Glenn got the full teen idol treatment, with beefcake posters, gushing articles in teen magazines, a record (ntitled Glenn Scarpelli), and girl-magnet stories in Archie Comics (it helped that his father was Archie artist Henry Scarpelli).

He had his own float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where he sang his own song, "Doodle Bug."

Glenn stayed on One Day at a Time for only two seasons. In Season 9, the household would be splitting, and Alex's role minimized, so Glenn bowed out for a role in Jennifer Slept Here (1983-84).

A family moves into a house occupied by the ghost of a Marilyn Monroe-like sex symbol who died a few years ago -- but only the family's teenage son (John P. Navin, Jr., left) can see her.  She becomes his mentor in girl-crazy adolescence while trying to preserve her memory and sex-symbol appeal.  Glen played the son's his best friend and competitor for girls.

Superstar Debbie Reynolds, Poltergeist medium Zelda Rubenstein, and game show host Monty Hall had guest spots. A sure-fire hit, right?   But the network kept moving it to slots next to the last half-hour of blockbusters, The Dukes of Hazzard on Friday,  T.J. Hooker on Saturday, and finally The Fall Guy on Wednesday,  and it was canned after 13 episodes.

Meanwhile Glenn was appearing in 52 episodes of the children's 3-2-1 Contact (1980-83) as Cuff, a detective who solves cases using the scientific method.

Three episodes of Love Boat (1983-85), playing three characters.

A McGyver (1990), as a troubled high school student who drops out to work in construction, even though he's a McGyver-style scientific genius

An episode of Amazing Stories

Glenn wanted to be true to himself, but Hollywood wouldn't allow it during the homophobic 1980s ("100 times more homophobic than today").  He started his career on Broadway, playing against Anne Bancroft in Golda and Al Pacino in Richard II, so he returned to New York and enrolled in the NYU Film School.  

He dropped out when his first partner, talent agent Gary Scalzo, was diagnosed with AIDS.  

When Gary died in 1992, Glenn needed a complete break from show business, so he moved to Sedona, Arizona, known for its mysticism and spirituality.

In 2003 Glenn and his second partner, John Belanger (right), started the Sedona Now Network, which reports on local events like the Sedona Film Festival and "Fright Night at Verde Canyon Railroad."  They were married in 2008, and divorced in 2012.

In 2023 Glenn married his third partner,  John Ricci Jr., who produces game shows like The Million Second Quiz, The $100,000 Pyramid, and 25 Words or Less.

The couple divide their time between Sedona and Los Angeles, where Glenn occasionally finds himself in front of the camera again.  He apppeared in a 2012 episode of the web series Interns, and had a cameo in the remake of One Day at a Time in 2019: teenage Elena and her girlfriend Syd try to check into a hotel, with Glenn as the desk clerk. 

It's been a long strange trip, with a lot of joy and a lot of pain, but:

Don't you worry none, 

Just take it like it comes:

One day at a time

The full article, with n*de photos, is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

[issdisgrace]

No pressure to do this, @miguel-owhora @rodolfoparras @lieutnt

❤️how tall are you? 5’6

🧡what is your sexuality? Gay

💛what is your favorite feature on yourself? Idk

💚 where are you from? Central New York

🩵do you have any pets? 1 pitbull, 2 rats, 1 leopard gecko, 4 cats

💙do you have any siblings? 3 older sisters

💜describe yourself in five words or less! Smart but stupid

🩷dream job? No clue I just going with flow

🖤favorite hobbies outside of your blog. Reading, writing, learning random ass facts

🎂when is your birthday? June

🌙your zodiac (Sun, Moon, Rising) Cancer sun can’t remember the rest

💉do you have tattoos and/or piercings. I have 20 piercings and I’m saving up to get tattoos

🚗can you drive? Yes

✈️favorite place you've traveled. I don’t travel

🎤have you been to a concert. I’ve been to 3

🎵favorite artists. Suicide Boys, Gizmo, Ghostmane, City Morgue, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Muderdolla, and Insane Clown Posse

🎧last song you listened too. The Juggla by Insane Clown Posse

📺last show you watched. Beat Bobby Flay

📝last thing you wrote. Idk

🔒something no one would guess about you. That I love westerns.

🔥craziest thing that's ever happened to you. Idk done a lot of crazy stupid shit

🍓favorite food. A good burger

🍅least favorite food. Eggplant, brussels sprouts, and pork chops.

🍊favorite season? Fall

🍋favorite genre to read / watch / write. To read literary fiction, to watch horror, and to write smut.

🍐if you could make one character real, who would it be. Jason Todd

🫐some place you'd love to visit. Cairo, Egypt

🍇a word your friends would use to describe you. Funny

🍒do what is your earliest memory. Getting my first bunny Jake

🍌what is one talent you wish you had. Speaking multiple languages fluently

💌why did you start this blog? It was Covid and I needed something to do

✏️when did you start writing fanfic. 2022 but I used to write before that just never posted it

🖇️what are your favorite asks to answer. Idk

📚how do you come up with the fics you write. Pull it out of my ass, get inspired by some else’s work, or use a prompt

📌what is the fic you're know for. Idk

🔍what character do you enjoy writing for the most. I love writing for all my characters.

🖊️what character do you not enjoy writing for. None because i only write for characters I enjoy writing

💔is there a fic you wish you didn't write. No

❤️‍🔥what character do you simp for most often. A lot, I’m always simping

🧚‍♀️favorite characters of all time. Idk

🌝a show you would recommend to anyone. True Detective, it’s an anthology show meaning each season follows different people. Also don’t watch season 2 it’s ass.

🌚a show you'd tell people to stay away from. None

🌹favorite kinks to write for. Puppy play, feminization, breeding

🥀kinks you would never write for. Scat and a couple others I can’t think off of the top my head

🌊a kink you would like to write but you think you'd be judged. None

❄️full fics, imagines or head canons. It depends on my mood.

☂️your favorite fanfic from another writer. Anything dealing with Price from rodolfoparras

🍄what is something that's happened in your life that you wish you could go back and change? Nothing

⭐️what is one of your biggest accomplishments? Why is it so important to you? Idk

🪻what is the toughest thing you had to go through, but can say you've successfully overcome? A couple of really bad depressive episodes that were back to back.

🌺what is the best gift someone has ever given you and why is it so important. A case of my favorite energy drinks because it told me they paid attention.

🍀what is your comfort show/series and why is it your comfort show? How has it helped you? Laramie because I grew up watching it with my great grandma and it reminds me of her and I loved her a lot. (She’s still alive btw)

Get to Know Me!

This is just a fun little thing I’ve been wanting to do since the dawn of time but could never find a post to reblog that satisfied what I wanted. So I made this, feel free to reblog and use it yourself!

❤️ how tall are you?

🧡 what is your sexuality?

💛 what is your favorite feature on yourself?

💚 where are you from?

🩵 do you have any pets?

💙 do you have any siblings?

💜 describe yourself in five words or less!

🩷 dream job?

🖤 favorite hobbies outside of your blog

🎂 when is your birthday?

🌙 your zodiac (Sun, Moon, Rising)

💉do you have tattoos and/or piercings

🚗 can you drive?

✈️ favorite place you’ve traveled

🎤 have you been to a concert

🎵 favorite artists

🎧 last song you listened too

📺 last show you watched

📝 last thing you wrote

🔐 something no one would guess about you

🧟‍♀️ scariest thing that’s happened to you

🔥 craziest thing that’s ever happened to you

🍓 favorite food

🍅 least favorite food

🍊 favorite season?

🍋 favorite genre to read / watch / write

🍐 if you could make one character real, who would it be

🫐 some place you’d love to visit

🍇 a word your friends would use to describe you

🍒 what is your earliest memory

🍌 what is one talent you wish you had

💌 why did you start this blog?

✏️ when did you start writing fanfic

🖇️ what are your favorite asks to answer

📚 how do you come up with the fics you write

📌 what is the fic you’re know for

🔍 what character do you enjoy writing for the most

🖊️ what character do you not enjoy writing for

💔 is there a fic you wish you didn’t write

❤️‍🔥 what character do you simp for most often

🧚‍♀️ favorite characters of all time

🪐 favorite shows / series of all time

🌝 a show you would recommend to anyone

🌚 a show you’d tell people to stay away from

🌹 favorite kinks to write for

🥀 kinks you would never write for

🌊 a kink you would like to write but you think you’d be judged

❄️ full fics, imagines or head canons

☂️ your favorite fanfic from another writer

A couple of in depth questions!

🍄 what is something that’s happened in your life that you wish you could go back and change?

⭐️ what is one of your biggest accomplishments? Why is it so important to you?

🪻what is the toughest thing you had to go through, but can say you’ve successfully overcome?

🌺 what is the best gift someone has ever given you and why is it so important

🍀 what is your comfort show/series and why is it your comfort show? How has it helped you?

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