#cm episode 3

[jalebi-likes]

Channa Mereya Liveblog | E3: Trauma & Grief

Thanks to @aye-masakalii​‘s relentless PR of this show and with @tellywoodtrash​‘s blessings - for she is the OG liveblog queen - I begin the short and sweet summary of today’s LB. Today’s episode left me more reflective than in funny mood. Which... is good. 

The reason why I titled this episode between trauma and grief is because that’s the fundamental difference between Adi, Ginni and the way they perceive their parental loss. Adi’s trauma of losing his mum, coupled with his father’s abusive nature has shaped him. While Ginni’s grief of losing her is there, but it is also what motivates her to move further in life and make her father’s dhaba a success.

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Episode 2: Trauma & Grief

Bhai killer vibes. Mum says I also hold knives in killer vibes.

HAHAHAHAHAHAA DID HE LITERALLY LIFT GHAR KA HEAD CHEF. This is how you know Adi’s true love is anything related to food. Cause ITV usually starts with heroes carrying heroines - Adi begins his day by carrying chefs *chefs kiss*

Ok, I am very soft and love that Adi starts his day in the kitchen like his mother. YES THE NON GENDERING OF COOKING IS SO GOOD. 

I love Ginni’s look really - after a long time a show convinces me of the character and their lives and economical status. 

Ok I love how the show shows Ginni mirrors her dad and Adi his mother. It’s telling about how children emulate their parents that is beyond genetics. It also shows the difference between trauma and grief. Adi is traumatized by his mother’s death and makes a conscious decision to keep her memories alive. Ginni has moved on from her father’s death but follows the principles her father set - sometimes she gets behaviorally similar, but otherwise her life is shaped very much by her dad’s belief system. 

But sidetone - Ginni’s home is such a prime property - full view of Golden Temple is a great real estate. AND ADI (in Precap) IS OFFERING ONLY TEN LAKHS - THAT IS THE BIGGEST CRIME IN THE SHOW NOW. I now don’t want ginny clothes - I also want her house. Sheesh I sound like a 4lions hero. *unlocks Arnav Asad Singh Rathore Khan Khurrana*

But on serious note, the dialogues and feelz are definitely better here. In the sense I feel that these characters do live these lives - esp ginny and her mum.

Lol, Goldie lying to all about how apparently he was beating the goons up. OK I LOVE THIS DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY SETUP because it’s been the longest time that something actually resembles a family. Goldie attempts to set his impression to his younger siblings. Ginni plays on while subtly delivering a threat to Goldie - because she doesn’t want her young siblings to know the truth. And the mother just has no chill. She isn’t hiding her son’s flaws, she is just disappointed that Goldie has no sense of realization. And once the kids are out of sight we see Ginni actually yell at Goldie.

Also Ginni did you try to give Goldie your kasam to not do anymore shady stuff? 

few episodes later

lol

(next in reblog)

[frankiebirds]

[starry-bite]

live episode reaction: "save the children" (cme 17x10)

ooh time for another formative trauma for my girl

i’m not emotional about dave and tara, you are

the wheelchairs would be so funny in another context

i love how their mission totally changes focus when em’s gone like fuck the strat we’ve gotta find emily

voit you’re so annoying i don’t want to fucking see or listen to you anymore

emily being the center of everything. conspiracy girlies just like me for real.

oh honey her list of kidnappings - cyrus 2008, doyle 2011, lewis 2017 (+bailey 2024)

ooh projector time

“you know, the first time i was out in the field i threw up.” “really?” “no. i was just trying to make you feel better.” I LOVE HER one thing about emily is she will extend such care even to this fuckin guy

paget brewster is about to deliver an incredible episode all while sitting down and i can’t wait

“you’re an only child, right? you scream only child.”

YOU HAVE A SISTER???? (i can’t decide if this is ridiculous and fucked up retroactive writer shit or if hiding a sibling from her colleagues for ~20 years is a deeply emily thing to do. or a secret third thing: spycraft lying to bailey about having a sibling so he’d be at ease/trust her/tell her more about his brother.)

oh secret siblings plotline my beloathed (interesting tie-in in this particular case it just Always rubs me the wrong way)

WAIT WAIT it's “i’m floating the idea of an eviler twin.”

“if we lose prentiss because of this, no classification in the world is gonna save you.” / “i’m not threatening your career, ray.” FUCK HIM UP ROSSI i for one would love these old men to fight

i know this is far from revelatory but god i fuckin hate madison he sucks. like. so much.

rebecca. wilson. you. rock.

“i agree, but this is emily.” full argument from ms. jareau, she said emily is a complete sentence

this brother thing is. just. so dumb.

“goddammit, i bit through my tongue.” this woman

“YOUR BOYFRIEND’S DEAD BECAUSE YOU SHOT HIM, BABE, AND YOU KILLED HIM FOR NO REASON.” EMILY PRENTISS THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE

ughh don’t call her jenny

“our special time in the cells” god and the grounding thing with her necklace this sucks so much i’m sorry jj

the way tyler is so quickly ride or die for emily this guys gets it

“and if i say no?” “voit doesn’t go, and emily dies.” oh dave

“not just the spirit but the letter of the law.” “really? you’re telling me this?” “i know. that’s why i’m not going.”

PG ABOUT TO POP OFF SHE GAVE TYLER HER GLASSES KILL HIM GARCIE I GOT YOUR FLOWER

hey baby girl wtf was that?

AWWWW CHOCOLATE THUNDER MORGAN MENTION! AFTER ALL THIS TIME? ALWAYS!

YES JJ GETS HER CONFRONTATION i do wish she had any kind of support ever though. go jj being able to handle things but you shouldn’t have to (alone).

RUINED THIS MAN’S WHOLE CAREER GOOD JOB BABY

“he had a drive that… i used to have it.” tear my entire heart open why don’t you (this is a surprise tool that will help us later, i.e. come up with a vengeance next season)

the way emily sat up straight to die, believing so completely that jade was going to kill her and she was like ‘alright, let’s go. stand and face it bravely.’

catholic guilt emily goes hard as always

the thing that really shakes her is the idea of her team in danger. the way she would die in a heartbeat to save them. you don’t get it.

“do you know that feeling when you’re staring up at the ceiling and you’re thinking, what if it’s all bullshit? maybe it’s after a preacher’s sermon or your dad yelling at you or–” “or some man is done holding you down.” “so you know.” “i do.” “so you know that– that the only way to make it through is to just. buy all the bullshit. because the alternative is way too fucking hard.” / “we need you to tell us your truth.” “will you listen to me this time?” “yes. we will.”

yeah so i’m gonna be thinking about emily saying ‘or some man is done holding you down.’ for the rest of ever 

also about emily buying all the (bureau) bullshit, the grand mission, not a higher power but a higher purpose, a reason for her suffering, holding her faith in the system like religion (you can take the girl out of the catholic church etc)

i hate that we spent so much of the season finale getting cozy with a character we’d never met and weren’t meant to care about further than we could throw him and took the time for a long arrest montage sequence (and the gang standing around looking goofy af) and yet there was no time for a team reunion scene???? DumB

“not when your valor depends on my discretion.” emily prentiss you are INcredIBLE

emily ‘i will do the right thing if it kills me’ prentiss (phrase functions as threat, promise, devotion, degradation, and request all at once btw)

she is just. so catholic.

QUANTEECO CALLBACK KIRSTENNNNNN

“i’m omnipresent” i love her

hooray you’re alive cake nope i’m dead this is the funniest possible choice

“so you were so high you couldn’t get off the couch?” “i thought i was dying. i have never been that high–ever. now, emily on the other hand…” “every time i think i know her, she surprises me with another secret.” LIKE A SECRET SISTER??? (also what an insane way to trivialize their deep connective moments in that episode. and does make me think even more about how jj probably would not have said anything like what she said if she hadn't been high off her ass.)

rebecca’s hair is bad here i’m sorry

“we decided we’re more miserable apart than together.” god they love to have sapphics together AROUND a season, never during one. because they hate us. (i say this in a joking way.) 

(but do i though?)

“she’s schwarzenegger, i’m devito.” i hate this. hate crimes.

“why are you saying his name in my personal lair?” pen calling her home a lair i love you penelope garcia

the long history of emily not fucking being at team things i know she’s gonna swing in at the end but BRUH

also GIVE HER A MOMENT TO EMOTIONALLY REFLECT YOU COWARDS the cock of plot is so far down my throat like bro EASE UP let these bitches have some emotional depth. as a treat. state mandated. the state is me.

writers are you absolutely shitting my dick no addressing emily’s trauma with the team??? like at fucking all??????? wait a minute. this is the bad place! (i know they’re gonna deal with it next season like they did with the rossi shit, it’s classic cross-season rollover biz but also WHAT THE HELL)

[hotch-girl]

JENNIFER JAREAU, EMILY PRENTISS, and DAVID ROSSI | 3.08 “LUCKY”

[clockwards]

emily's soft look of grief when reid talks about self-help programs and gets lost for a moment in his own head after mentioning writing amends. god why did they all stay quiet when they all knew

[ezralva]

Ooh so they didn't skip the fact that Tama is a fujoshi lol

But why Cherry Magic?! Ahahahahahaha

Apparently it's due to Square Enix's connection.

Ubugoe's Omoinotake (Cheri Maho's OP) was played in the bg during this scene

But the couples are wrong! Totally wrong! 😅

[sapphicstruggle]

did someone say background hotchreid?

in 3x2 after morgan tells hotch that reid is worried about gideon, once hotch arrives in wisconsin, he talks to reid once they get a second alone and tries to ease his worrying

in 3x4 they're very in sync with each other and iirc they finish each other's thoughts a couple of times

then in 3x6, hotch just seems very fond of reid. idk he's just very aware of him and it made me happy :)

[kneworder]

i have all these draft documents of half finished fics full of lines i love but that are so fundamentally flawed i can't figure out how to finish them and can't kill my darlings mercilessly enough to get past the roadblocks so i just reread them over and over and think damn this is kinda fire. wish it was anywhere near shareable.

[ssa-sapphic]

EMILY PRENTISS || S7.14 “Closing Time” [requested]

[fightingdragonswithwho]

taylor jenkins reid talking about a league of their own on her stories <3

[kakusu-shipping]

This scene from Virtue's Las Reward with GTM-CM-G-OLM but instead of Luna, Sigma, and Alice being the dumbest dummies when it comes to technology it's just me going ham info dumping robot nonsense while I'm massaging his poor stiff joints and he's flirting with me the entire time

[griffworks]

Wait wtf,....... Csm episode later today

[frankiebirds]

when jj is saying goodbye to penelope and then says "there's one more thing i need to do before i go" with that long moment of silence and eye contact and walking slowly towards her. for the briefest moment i forgot what show i was watching and fully thought they were going to kiss

[ilostyou]

i should’ve kept track of episodes better during my rewatch so i can go back to ones i love slash ones where all my favs are in peril <3

[hotch-girl]

AARON HOTCHNER and JENNIFER JAREAU | 2.22 “LEGACY”

[lisbonsteresa]

Me, crying cuz I’m excited for your next watch be it Psych or Criminal Minds. Either will be enjoyable. Tho I fear if it’s CM, you’ll awaken my Shemar Moore crush. It’s ever present.

Ooh, also, Paget Brewster (Sadie Doyle from Beyond Belief) is a main in it for a lot of the show.

Oh, but Psych is so fun and I can imagine how much fun you’ll have with it! It’s so silly and fun and charming!

oooh i'm excited to entertain you, anon