#everything else in this ep 😐

[clown-eating-pig]

It’s always so interesting to me to hear everyone talk about which episodes of tma really stuck with them the most. People talking about moments like “the blanket never did anything” or “[EXTENDED SOUNDS OF BRUTAL PIPE MURDER]” or the realization that Jon can suddenly understand other languages. I love learning how many different things affected everyone differently!! :D we are all individuals when it comes to what we fear!!!

I also love that, before I entered the fandom, I 100% expected everyone to have been as uniquely terrified by the giant pig episode as I was and was shocked to realize that that is not the case! 😭

[upslapmeal]

The Devil's Chord

For context going into this episode, I can name off the top of my head.....3 Beatles songs? idk I'd probably recognise more but I was v much hoping this episode didn't hinge on having any actual emotional attachment to them lol

that kid is excellently cast, really looks the part

RIP Henry your great casting was cut short too soon

very chaotic vibes from Maestro!

the theme on the piano!!

the theme on the jukebox!!

‘I want to see the Beatles’ followed by the most cute serious face <3

sure Doctor you've never been to see them but you've had the space time visualiser!

lmao Ruby and Fifteen are so much fun

pure vibes and here for a good time!

1963!!

meanwhile One is busy kidnapping Ian and Babs lol

so. gonna guess from their faces it’s not an actual Beatles song

poor Fifteen dying at the orchestra and Ruby just 😐😐 *pat on the back*

hey it’s that lady again!

do these people look like the Beatles? I feel like they don't but again. I don't really know what they did look like

so my question with all this is.. why still make music if music isn't a thing any more?

why are the Beatles formed as a group and recording with someone encouraging them in the control room?

why even set up a recording studio at all?? I guess it speaks to the underlying human-ness of music

that even when musicality is gone, people are still forcing themselves to make some sort of music

yeah I feel like I should care more about the Beatles lol

Lennon and McCartney just. immediately baring their souls

feels weird watching this and knowing it's about someone who's still alive

'GEGGC'....ah ~~music~~

'we had bad smog in November ’62' I love how the Doctor speaks like a reminiscing Londoner bc that's what he was!!

Susan mention red alert!!!

‘timelords were murdered. :D I’M FINE’ sure

Ruby's theme!

interesting that in-universe it’s music she wrote for someone else

the giggle!!

‘you never hide’ I get that Fifteen and Ruby were instant besties but she's speaking like someone who's known the Doctor way longer than 3 adventures

the sonic screwdriver being sonic!!

RIP piano granny

‘defeating him took everything*’ * catching a ball

‘you always know’ idk if it's a symptom of the reduced episode count but it does feel like they've skipped over a fair bit of Ruby and Fifteen getting to know each other

‘I was born in 2004’ 👵🏻

oh so it’s been 6 months since the last ep??

again I guess the reduced ep count has meant speeding through but :/

‘where’s my mum’ :(((

I like the un-music that Murray Gold has going on for this bit. v effective.

child of the Toymaker??

‘now time for my ppt presentation about nuclear winter’

'the lost chord' - I feel like they could have done a lil bit more with that at the start bc it didn't feel as though the guy played anything particularly unusual or special?

lol Fifteen kissing the tardis better. I mean it seemed to work

the Doctor leaving Actual Musician Ruby Sunday in the control room while he tries to play a guitar

‘I thought that was non-diegetic’ lmao I guess it makes sense that the whole episode's music is being messed with

‘there’s a hidden song deep inside her soul’ hmmmm

...secret evil power Ruby??

excellent visual of her held up by the music in the snow

they're lucky Maestro doesn't seem interested in just. killing them.

‘music battle’ this is so weird. not sure if it's weird in a way I'm enjoying

this ep has felt a bit....meandering isn't the word but I don't know what is

lmao the nostalgic voiceover…not-Lennon totally unfazed by magical floating notes...reading them even though they absolutely cannot be read because there’s no stave

danse macabre!

it’s just so funny that it's the most boring-ass chord that defeats Maestro

the thing is the ep did v little to establish these guys as Characters To Root For outside them being Beatles and I just. don't care

I'd be interested to know if Beatles fans felt more about them saving the day

musical number!!

that shot of Fifteen vibing in the spotlight is so much fun!

and the one of him and everyone in the control room watching Ruby!

the world has been deprived of music for so long that of course it explodes into a musical number!!

and a certain Mr H Arbinger returns…I imagine that's not the last we'll see of him

what a fun end lol

I dunno about this one, it had good stuff but some of it was a bit all over the place and weird in a way that I didn't enjoy that much. And some of the music-specific stuff just idk. didn't land.

Also I rewatched the ep before editing my notes but I watched it as ep4 which honestly made Fifteen and Ruby's dynamic seem less rushed (and then there wasn't the weirdness in Boom of Ruby not going to a planet for the first 6 months of travelling).

I don't know. Mixed bag this one.

[neolynne]

Pit Babe episode 9 rewatch/live commentary (part 2)

When i say that Pavel was born to play this Babe, it's his emotional scene that first comes to my mind, both here and in ep 10. The rawness in his acting, the sadness and hurt in his face, his eyes and his voice....it's a masterpiece when it comes to portraying grief.

How much betrayal can someone go through before it break them entirely?

I like to thing that the reason Charlie isn't right there from the beginning is because he was calling Alan/Jeff to reassure them and to tell them that he found Babe.

I kwon that a lot of fan are saying that we were robbed of the kiss....but i kinda prefer that the scene end with Charlie just hugging Babe through his grief

Side note n°???? but it look like Pavel and Pooh give the best hug in the world

Now that was a cathartic scene....even if slapping you kid is a big no no

10 years, approximately ? .......And if that the case, why did Way wait so long to make a move ???? Why did Tony wait so long to ask Way to make a move ??????????????????

And that answer my question from episode three ..... i'm just an idiot who doesn't pay enough attention......or maybe i'm just so feed up with Tony and Way bullsh*t since my fist time watching PitBabe that i just ignored everything that this man said in this scene.................

And this is when i stop myself from doing a Sugar Daddy joke......

It break my heart every time Kenta watch Tony be violent toward one of the "golden child" and he has that expression of bewilderment. As if every time, he cannot process the fact that Tony violence can be directed toward anyone else but him......and yet we know that he assisted to thing that are far worse than that......

Does he (Tony) have power too ? And what is his subgender? (And if he's an enigma.......did he plan to......with Babe ?......Why did i ask myself this question, why ?!!!!!!)

At this point, even Hannibal could be a better adoptive father.....maybe............(yes, i rewatched Hannibal S1......sue me)

This expression on Kenta's face, he know what happen to people when Tony doesn't give them another chance

What does Way says to Babe in ep 10 ? that he would never hurt Charlie because he know that Babe's loves him? Well, guess that was a lie. Because i'm pretty sure that telling Tony about Charlie power, making Tony transfert his plan from Babe to Charlie, count as hurting Charlie and subsequently as hurting Babe.

Fuck you Way

Charlie.....you know that what you just say is not true.....

Babe is so tiny in this scene

"on my life" he says, while planning his own death.....

How long was Alan just standing there while NorthSonic just ignored him ?

They both so invested in this ! Trying to get Alan to say something

I really wish we had the scene where they learn what Way did

That some good advice, happy that Alan listened to them

Aaahhh he's so cute.....and they both look so fluffy

I can imagine Kenta reading Alan message like 😐🤨😑

Jeff look so young in this scene

Tell him Uncle !

2 minutes ago you didn't want him to read your text and now you give him your phone ???? Uncle.....

We need more daring/flirty Jeff

So, in Jeff vision we got : Dean attack on Babe, Kenta attack on Pete, Charlie in the ambulance, Jeff with the kids, Winner pointing his gun at Babe and Charlie, Tony with the katana, Winner after he got beaten....

Boys.............

Creep

Même Kenta il en crois pas ses oreilles

Whoever put Pavel in this black t-shirt, thank you

Hiiiiiii Dean!!!!!!!! I missed you so much!!!!! you're so cute

North is so happy

I wanted to believe him so badly 😭

And they had to throw that little look between Dean and Charlie

...................he seemed so sincere.................

😭😭😭

Happiness look so good on them (ft the original trio 🥹)

What type of content do you think they put on the Xhunter channel??? We already have the live streaming, the little interview.....Sonic fashion vlog "get ready with me for the next race" ?

And do you think that the people watching North and Sonic Youtube content ship them ??? Because i would ! And maybe they read the comment, read the fic and watch the edit while lying in bed, kicking they feet and giggling like little kids (and the most oblivious people on Earth)????? Or worse, they make the edit themself !!!!!

Yes he is !!!! So handsome, so cute.......

Babe is so gentle

His hand on Charlie stomach and the little caress

Échange de bons procédés j'ai envi de vous dire

And welcome back "mama"

it's the tongue for me

Pooh's voice.....🫠

Both "Now matter what happens, you're the only reason i'm here" and "He's still warm, Charlie must not be dead yet" sit at the same table. And this table is called "let's emotionally destroy a potato" (i'm the potato)

Hi Winner 🤭

Why is he so loud!

This scene is right on top of my s*x inf ront of a mirror list, just below the one from "My beautiful man/utsukushii kare~eternal~ the movie"(my other all-time favorite BL......really, if you have not watched it, you should...and don't let the whole stalker thing stop you, the main couple are both crazy for each other)

Charlie keeping his gaze on Babe....work of art

Yes Charlie, use your hand!!!

Thank you Pavel

Don't listen to him Charlie, you did good....also, even if winning would have been great, it wasn't really the plan, right ?

Give it to us!!!!!!!! Change, you have the opportunity do do something really great on the 17th

He sure did

🤭

And look, only 2 part for ep 9!!!! Even if that one is quite long.

I really, really like this episode, but now i have to prepare myself for ep 10 😭

[jinxini]

was ranking netflix icons with my brother today and as we were looking at the arcane icons i asked him if he has seen the show.

”of course not.”

”why not?”

”it’s about fucking league of legends. i’ve never played that game.”

and i was just like. ok.

—————

UPDATE:

Forced him to watch the first episode with me because i’m annoying af

He said it was fine, he was excited to recognize some of the voice actors. I asked him if he’d like to watch more at some point and he said yes.

So it’s going great! I love being the annoying older sister who wants to share everything

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UPDATE 2:

Took a while to get him to watch it but we successfully finished ep 2. He thought it was okay but slow and that it was too repetitive and that not much happened.

He's 100% sure Viktor is evil and he can't understand how everyone around him doesn't instantly see it. Especially since his eyes are yellow (kingdom hearts fans will get it)

He does not like Heimerdinger because a) he looks like he's from a completely different show and b) he hates his name, he said that it sounds like a last name they would use on the simpsons to mock the character

He's so happy about mylo because he's voiced by yuri lowenthal

He says that Jayce looks way too old to be 24

"There's no way Vander will survive this season. Don't know if they're going to kill him off right away or if he's going to die in the last episode. An older mentor who is also kinda responsible for the deaths of the sisters' parents, yeah he's definitely going to die."

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UPDATE 3:

We finished ep 3. Sadly, I can tell that he's not really feeling it, not sure why :/ don't know if we're going to keep watching or not, only time will tell.

But here are some of his thoughts about the episode anyway:

My brother said he hopes Heimerdinger gets robbed. He said he hopes he gets robbed multiple times during the show.

Looking at Vi and Powder: "How can these poor people afford to constantly dye their hair"

About Jayce and Viktor and their experiment: ”…so what have they achieved exactly? 😐” THEY WERE FLOATING IN THE AIR AND HE WAS NOT IMPRESSED LMAO

Mel: The era of magic. / Jayce: The era of Hextech. / My brother: Magic sounds better.

"Is she hugging him? Can’t she just look at his face and tell that he’s evil, it’s so obvious. But I guess not, clearly she really is that stupid. [I remind him that Powder is still very young] I would get it if she was like 4, but she’s at least 9. Does she not realize he tried to kill her whole family?"

”They really just killed off like 80% of the characters. No one else is left except for Silco and the sisters. And the council members but I don’t really know them yet. [I remind him that Ekko is still alive] Oh right! They’re not going to kill him, he’s too young.”

”Nothing happened in episode 2 and everything happened in this one.”

[luckyqueenreign]

LITG Double Trouble: Ep 6 Recap

Just my thoughts and commentary on EP 6

Spoilers under the cut...

helloooo Roberto!! Also the amount of sibling talk this season feels excessive...I feel like fb always picks one thing and then overdue it every season. like how did we learn about his sisters job before his?? I dont care about Ana I wanna know about u Roberto! Roberto is a little TOO attentive like why did he memorize everything I said on dates and why is he putting the other boys down?? hate to say it but this one is giving me Nicholas vibes...your dream is to fall in love and find the one??? nah lol. A little drama can sometimes be a turn on??? Nic is that you?? and nah no way im paying 29 gems for nic jr. I'll wait for the scripts..

Grace 😭😭 I feel so bad she's our default bestie bc I know im gonna have to steal her man. Her saying she thinks Ozzy likes someone else 🫣 bestie he does its MC. but literally so many bombshells coming that you will love!!

so when the girls ask who you're feeling more u only get a choice of your LI and Roberto I think whoever u choose here Ivy pulls. curious to see if anyone chose Roberto and the next scene with Ivy was with him. I picked lewie.

Lewie Lewie Lewie...maybe im being naive because of everything hes said to MC but I cant see him actually kissing Ivy and if he does....😐🙃 I cant even talk bc ive kissed Ozzy at every single turn but if he kisses Ivy it's overrr and im moving on to Nic 2.0, actually he's prob a better couple anyway even if Lewie rejects Ivy. I can see Roberto being a massive player who will prob jump to the next bombshell so maybe I should pick him since I want Ozzy anyway.

[siover]

top 5 shiv moments (siovents, if you will)

shivvycentric ask.....going to pick the less celebrated ones bc like we all know connors wedding phone call slant of light etc are perfect and crazy. i have other favorites so in no particular order

you're wet, you're green, you're intellectually insecure...im not really saying all that im just being dads voice to kendall in s1 ep2. this is chosen as part of a pair w kendall stop acting like the king of the hospital. love that one of the first things we learn abt her is she fake smiles into the mirror when her dad is dying + mirrortraps enforcer

disagreeing with dad is not treason cr: austerlitz. especially as being on the tail of calling logan out for circulating the drug rumors abt kendall. this to me is such a youngest sibling moment; the mix of defiance and deference with which she says it has the cadence of lines you repeat over and over to yourself quietly enough that the practice never matters when you do say them out loud. anyway austerlitz ep of all time for the failfiance insight it gave us but that's off topic

rome you're a superstar and i love you (--youre a fucking bitch) of summer palace fame due to it encapsulates perfectly how weird they are all abt love and the projections of it all with re roman and shiv....the only way shiv can leech the vulnerability out of expressing love is by asserting (while you can see her grow cold on the inside w the discomfort) but this makes her come off as calculated and even sarcastic, mocking the listener a little for even assuming the existence of love in the potential for a misunderstanding in its expression do you get it. do you get how deeply closed off she is how there are compartments in her that can only be broken with herself. that moment after roman leaves jn which shes staring out at the sea w a devastated pinched look and then shakes her head and gathers herself into steel in the span of an instant is so. all the bells say foreshadowing 2 ME she really is just like me fr 😐

the look she exchanges with tom over the table after kendall's announced as the sacrifice. enough said

the empty exchange of sounds between her and caroline after caroline hugs her at the funeral and realizes shes pregnant. i could choose the you were an absence conversation later but honestly this hits like nothing else theyre saying absolutely nothing but everything at once and recognizing it too. and (sigh) shiv IS dressed like the mourning wife. normal show for normal people

[wilderavyn]

Watch Only Friends Ep 7 with me

P1

0:58 Oh damn. Here we go already. Please be ok Ray!

2:57 Thank goodness my boy is ok! 😭

3:39 Pretty sure Ray wanted to take himself out. 😐

3:50 Learn to love yourself? Sand says that after how shitty Ray was to him. 😭

4:33 Wow, now he's apologizing for setting things into motion? He's taking responsibility. This man is a saint compared to the rest of them.

5:22 Damn his dad is a POS. Your son almost died. Who cares about the car.

6:24 Uh oh. Parental requests are usually awful.

7:55 Damn Mew already knows Boston is not sorry.

8:15 Oh my. Here comes the real Mew!

9:08 Uh oh Nick.

9:23 Did it really take you this long to figure out Nick?

10:21 Because you're an an awful asshole, and he's evil.

11:03 You deserve all this and more Boston .

11:34 No, you started this Boston. Not Nick.

12:33 Boston is such a POS!

13:33 Really, you have the nerve to show your face Top? 😒

14:38 At least he's apologizing but I still hope it's too late.

16:29 He doesn't even trust you Mew because he knows he can't be trusted.

17:18 I thought you were already supposed to be a better person for him Top. 😒

17:57 Damn burning a drawing is fierce.

P2

0:80 lol Love how honest Ray is with Sand. The nurse doesn't spoil me like you do. 😂

2:08 That was adorable and sweet.

3:46 He is addicted to you Sand.

5:47 The way he eyes Sand when he takes off his shirt. 😏

6:20 That was sweet.

6:45 I would expect my friends to be super pissed too Ray.

9:06 How does he have the guts to show his face here? 😯

9:41 Why does Boston think just letting them yell at him is going to be enough to fix this? You messed up big time dude. 😒

10:44 There is nothing redeemable about Boston!

11:22 Oh damn. Go off Mew!

12:16 Ok but Boston does look amazing walking away in that wet t-shirt. 😏

P3

Nevermind the fact that you shouldn't have had the clip in the first place, but everyone is so quick to blame everyone else for everything (including Nick).

1:05 Your happiness? Dude he doesn't love you though Nick!

2:04 These are some sad and low standards for yourself Nick. 😕

4:33 Mew's up to something big I think.

5:23 Damn Nick. You turned on Boston fast!

9:45 Damn Mew is devious.

P4

1:27 God damn Mew is vicious!

3:39 What friendship Boston?

4:24 Kinda surprised by Mew. What are you going to do then?

5:48 This project should be fun to finish. 😒

6:13 Books are a nice move Top but definitely not enough dude.

6:57 Still have the guts to call yourself his boyfriend? 😮

10:19 Boundaries Ray.

10:37 This is the worst time to get together you idiots.

11:43 Oh damn. Poor Sand.

This is such a train wreck yet I can't look away.

[phoenixtakaramono]

Well, alright. You’d asked for it.

*Note, to keep this fair, I will be excluding unconfirmed fan theories and merely judge the overall season objectively through the lens of a writer (albeit colored a bit with a bit of bias as a fan who loves the television series). And if I’m going to be shooting alternate ideas of what they could’ve done instead, they’d be on what I think could make more long-term sequel/ spin-off profit/ be better payoffs to set-up season 5.

**Also, no matter who you stan in the show, we all collectively agree The Boys TV is mainly about the story of Butcher and Homelander. They are the main characters; everyone else is their supporting cast to tell their narrative. Before you interject and say “but what about Hughie/ Annie?”—lemme stop you there. Let me ask you honestly, if either Butcher or Homelander died in S5x01, would you honestly keep watching The Boys S5 eps 2-8?

The tl;dr is aside from episodes 4, 7-8, everything else was lackluster and forgettable. There were only kernels of things I’d liked and would keep from the other episodes, but on a whole they’d left very little-to-nonexistent impact on my viewing enjoyment. VoughtHQ had leaked all the episodes so I wasn’t surprised watching anything this season the two big twists (Joe Kessler being a hallucination, and the reveal of Soldier Boy at the end) were already spoiled for me; if anything the expression of my face the entire time was: 😐 (default) or 🫤 (meh) or 😑 (oh, they went there; it could’ve been so much better).

Episode 1: Department of Dirty Tricks

I don’t mind the opening sequence of how they (re)introduced the relevant main characters of the show. But if I had to nitpick, from the writers’ table, you have to recognize S4x01 will be a portion of your audience’s first exposure to the show. Like an opening paragraph of any book, you have to tantalize your viewers. Lure them in—and captivate them into your universe. As a showrunner, you want more people tuning in—and spreading the hype so your show is raking up numbers. Showing newcomers of The Boys epically failing to assassinate Victoria Neuman—while, yes, it does establish Neuman as a legitimate threat and a boss b*tch—is…probably not how I’d open this scene. Because, as a reminder, in S3x08, the finale is of The Boys gathered around the TV looking in horror as Neuman declares her running as VP—with Butcher coming in and diabolically looking into the camera to declare the cvnt’s gotta go. I would’ve loved to have seen this entire season drag out Victoria Neuman’s death. Show us the process of The Boys getting the CIA’s cooperation, convincing and showing Bob Singer proof that his running mate is a Supe, and making a detailed plan to take her out in S4x08. I’d prefer that they build up to it, and we witness a cinematic masterpiece of an exciting heist-like crime thriller like Ocean’s Eleven—but make it bloody and gory and with your usual on brand raunchy humor.

I like the introduction of Homelander, Ryan, and Sage. I would keep all of that. It was very cool to hear Sage deliver her Machiavellian speech about turning the masses and making her allegory comparing Homelander essentially to Caesar and the fall of empires. It’s delightfully twisted—and sets up how crazy things will get.

I have very strong opinions about Joe Kessler.

This is Joe Kessler in the show

This is Howard Joe Kessler (aka Monkey, according to Billy) in the comics

Really? This is Billy’s personification of a tough, grizzled manly man? This nerdy coward who got SAed by monkeys, got kicked in the family jewels by Butcher and whom Butcher later got him SAed by Terror? …Are you starting to see my issue with the writers deciding to cast JDM for this role—when they literally could’ve chosen any other character from the comic?

Let’s put JDM aside for now (great actor, great guy, I just think they could’ve picked a so much better role for him; what a missed opportunity). This is going to be controversial, but honestly they could’ve replaced his character with any other character in Butcher’s life—and it would’ve been so much better and more hard-hitting and more of an emotional roller coaster ride. Especially if it’s, say, a character we’ve seen before so we, the audience, already have an emotional connection to and we, with our preconceived bias, assume, just like with Billy, that they exist in real time because we’ve literally seen them in prior seasons so we know they exist in the universe.

The plot twist about them being Billy’s hallucination would hit that much harder if it’s someone like, and I’m going to suggest a couple examples but hear me out: his abusive “miraculously cancer free” father, Sam Butcher it could’ve worked as a f*cked up father-son bonding experience Billy thought he was getting, but it’s already foreshadowed to us the audience that something’s wrong because Sam Butcher is said to be Stage 4 in a previous season and yet he looks somehow strong and healthy and it’s also strange because why is he in New York when he should be in London (you can even set this up to a future funeral scene where Billy shows up to his father’s grave in London, after his realization that the father he’s still seeing talk trash to him is a manifestation of his imagination and this could’ve served as a son’s projection about how f*cked up his troubled upbringing had been and how it’d impacted him and this could serve as the show’s cycle of abuse commentary, and Billy p*sses on his father’s grave as a homage to the panel from the comics). Or, heck, if it must be Kripke’s OC, maybe make it Becca’s brother—so Billy thinks he’s interacting with his grieving brother-in-law. Or make it Hughie, so when the plot twist is revealed, we, the audience, are like “What, that Hughie/ Billy’s obvious Lenny little brother substitute was a figment of Butcher’s imagination?” Or, make it Billy Butcher’s former case officer (for those who don’t know, think of case officers…like a CIA agent’s supervisor).

Literally any other character could’ve worked as the avatar of Billy’s V-ed up tumor the literal representation of Billy’s true thoughts (the devil on his shoulder, to contrast hallucination!Becca aka the good angel on his shoulder) so the writers can set him up as the show’s hidden boss/ ruthless genocidal Big Bad to defeat going into S5. And I’d just thought of these alternatives rapid-fire and off the top of my head in three minutes.

But, let’s say, Kripke is adamant about keeping JDM casted as Joe Kessler, for whatever reason. JDM is a fan favorite actor so of course you gotta capitalize on his popularity and cast him in the show. What then? Okay. You are introducing a new character in the show, so you need to get your audience emotionally invested in him. You will have failed as a showrunner and writer if I do not give two shites about him. So what I’d do instead is trim out the side-plots and make this episode (or a later episode) dedicated to showing the audience a flashback of Billy Butcher in the past. Imagine. Not only would it be an interesting insight into what Butcher was like younger, now in his days in the SAS or Royal Marines or maybe as a field operative for a paramilitary operation, we can also have the show’s idiosyncratic superhero and political satire commentary. Billy Butcher and Joe Kessler met in Panjshir, Afghanistan. Is this during the War on Terror era? Or a time even before that? Okay, imagine how much we’d care about Joe Kessler if we see a Steve Rogers and Bucky kind of friendship deep in the trenches of Afghanistan? The writers could show us a scene of Kessler shoving Butcher out of the line of fire but gets hurt—and, in return, Butcher heroically deciding to break orders to leave his comrade behind and recklessly go berserk rushing back to the frontlines to save Kessler (this is a character moment they could’ve capitalized on to endear us to Butcher and make us think, hey, despite how terrible he is, this crazy British mad dog also has a loyal, humane side to him even bad guys have their own code of morals; the showrunners could even make this flashback sequence badass and blood-pumping; it could also appeal to the patriotic historical war stans in the audience). The writers can even drop in a tongue-in-cheek Easter egg like a seemingly insignificant conversation about how Butcher and Kessler, as soldiers bonding together, heard about there being this so-called miraculous super serum that was supposed to make soldiers into super soldiers (spoiler alert: it’s Compound V)—and questioning what the heck happened to that? Wouldn’t that have been interesting? Now flash forward back to the present, and have Kessler and Butcher talk about how they’d both gotten jobs in the CIA, and the writer throw in a comic reference by joking how Butcher used to call him Monkey. Don’t reveal to your audience yet that Kessler is a hallucination (the payoff could be where it’s very subtly foreshadowed over a course of a couple episodes that Kessler, actually, had been KIA-ed or expired). The key is that the clues have to be subtle; literally the majority of the audience should not be able to have noticed the strangeness of those lingering pan shots during the first watch-though of season 4. This way the show has rewatch value of fans going back to inspect the show frame-by-frame after the twist is revealed, because now the audience can go back to try to catch what little Easter egg details they’d missed that’d foreshadowed this plot twist all along across the episodes—and now your TV ratings/ numbers are boosted because this shows that people are tuning in to watch.

This ties to my later opinion regarding the twist of Joe Kessler being revealed as Billy’s hallucination—and the tentacles.

Regarding Annie’s subplot with the Starlight House, they rushed too fast into the time skip with it and unfortunately, that sacrifices me from caring about any of these new side characters. I would’ve personally drawn this out by making one of these new characters somehow related to Annie’s past or unknowingly share with Annie about how much they’d admired Starlight as a result of her bravery bringing them out of their own dark trauma. Make me care about these characters—so when the violent protest breaks out, I’m much more gut-wrenched.

Also, I would axe the Colin and Frenchie sideplot completely. I’ll explain why in ep4.

Episode 2: Life Among the Septics

Homelander’s mid-life crisis and his narcissistic tendencies battling against his want to be a good supportive dad for his son is good. I liked the Sage, Ryan, and Homelander moments—especially when Sage said to Homelander’s face: “Ryan is special; he’s more special than you because he’s the first naturally Supe born child.”

What I don’t like is the aftermath of Todd’s death. It’s too quick—and there’s no satisfying feeling of payoff of M.M. feeling conflicted and whatever other emotion you, as the showrunner, want him to portray. Todd is a hilariously iconic Homelander incel fanatic who finally got his dream to meet his hero after all these seasons—and got murked by him; you can’t let Todd go out with just a whimper, writers. Todd was Homelander’s biggest fan. He had his own irl Twitter account. And you gave him a very ironic death in the show—which I would now then capitalize on. I would personally dedicate at least three to five minutes of maybe giving this side character a funeral M.M. is forced to attend and give a eulogy speech on, and this is an opportunity to slip in some kinda relevant subtle satirical commentary or wry punchline to it about not meeting your heroes—or something like M.M. telling his daughter this is what happens when you idolize celebs when they’re actually terrible people behind the scenes.

I like Firecracker’s introduction—and that she’s an obvious red neck conspiracist and Marjorie Taylor Greene inspired parody. And that she’s a C-or-D-list loser who’d be geeked out for an opportunity to be invited into The Seven thanks to Sage—and for a chance to meet and work alongside Homelander.

The whole episode of this conspiracy theory TruthCon convention is very on the nose and amusing to watch, even the centipede-man rimming each other sequence. It’s also an exposé on the American culture (with the title being life among the septics, aka British speak for life among the Americans).

I also like Firecracker revealing that she held a grudge against Annie for having spread rumors about her during their pageant days. I like the whole mean girl aspect of Annie being revealed. Personally I would’ve dragged this out to reveal her true motivation in a later episode; this way we see this new character gunning after Starlight so much and we think to ourselves—damn, woman, why do you hate Starlight so much? So if you keep it a secret for now, there’s now a mystery, so viewers will feel curious about her motivations and be more enticed to tune in.

You already know how I feel about the Frenchie/Colin subplot. It’s meaningless. I would respect it if they’d committed to it, but they didn’t and ended up chickening out of it. So I say axe it completely. I ended up pressing the 10 seconds fast forward button through his scenes—and I didn’t miss out on anything. I’m all for more bi and queer representation in my media—but my tinfoil hat conspiracy theory is that the writers threw this subplot in for Frenchie to detract from the irl controversy regarding Frenchie’s actor. I won’t get into that here but if you know, you know. Did the writers come up with this sideplot because Tomer Capone had to film elsewhere during this time so they made up this B-plot so they could have “Frenchie jailed” and let the actor finish filming his parts or finish whatever his obligation was, before coming back?

Kimiko’s sideplot about confronting her past to heal…I wished they did more for her character sideplot. Her tackling the child traffickers ring could’ve been interesting if they executed it better. Maybe axe Frenchie’s S4 subplot and make it so that it’s revealed Frenchie had accidentally helped out The Shining Light when he’d been a gun runner for Little Nina/ the Russian mafia. Imagine the potential. It turns out Frenchie and Kimiko had met long time ago; and they hadn’t realized. Maybe he’d been hurt and Kimiko, who’d managed to run away, kept quiet about his location when rival mafia members or Asian island cops were out hunting for him. Imagine how cute that’d be (“F: That little girl/ K: young man was you?”); destiny had brought them together again.

For The Boys being split and at odds with each other and excluding Butcher, I hate it. Remove that from this season. It’s a retread of previous seasons—and it bogs down the story when it doesn’t have to. You only have eight episodes. There’s no tension—because you already know they’re going to all somehow get together again, so this feels like unnecessary drama for drama’s sake.

Episode 3: We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here

This is the episode that delivered Karl Urban putting on an apron and going through the process of lovingly baking drug-laced cookies for Ryan—and, in the end, doing the morally right thing by binning the cookies and, instead, having an actual emotional heart-to-heart with Becca’s child. This feels like progress. It feels necessary. And I like that. It’s fanservice—but it’s fanservice with a bit of a reference to Sam Butcher having been a baker who ran his own bakery back in London in the comic. So of course William J. Butcher must’ve picked up on some baking cooking? skills from his dad and maybe from his mum?.

I’ll be honest, this is the only thing^ plus Homelander’s meltdown at the end of the episode that interested me. They needed a way to transition into Homelander's homecoming episode, and I actually enjoyed seeing him express his frustration at Ryan ("why am I not enough for you?"). Perfect and much needed character moment. Everything else though in the episode I’ve forgotten—which means it was unmemorable and lackluster and could’ve been skipped. This might've been the ice skating episode and if it is, I'd either remove the scene of Hughie escaping through the ducts (how is the common layperson supposed to know ducts are made of zinc? how wouldn't Homelander's hyper-sensitive sense of smell and hearing not be able to pinpoint where Hughie is?) or go about Hughie's plot armor a different way.

I don’t have much of other suggestions because this ties into my thoughts for the other episodes. Now you’d freed up more screentime to focus on other important things.

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Episode 4: Wisdom of the Ages

It’s our insight in Homelander’s upbringing, and is important for both character introspection and plot development. I am relieved Antony Starr took a look at the script Kripke initially showed him—and went, “wait, that’s cruel and flat if I just go in and slaughter them; if I’m returning to my origins, I think it’d be more complex if I return to my origins and it’s like I’m still this lost child.” (Not his exact words from the interview but you get the gist.) I have nothing I’d change about this episode. I love everything this episode—whenever the camera reverted back to Antony Starr’s scenes.

My gripes with this episode is minor in the grand scheme of things. It has to do with the Frenchie/Colin subplot (okay, we saw the disaster a mile away; and this later inspires Frenchie to turn himself in…the writers could’ve literally skipped this whole subplot and it wouldn’t even detract from the story. In fact, this frees up screentime to focus on far more important things to advance the plot or give character development time).

The abortion subplot is also unnecessary drama. You could’ve removed it—and it doesn’t detract from S4’s story. Abortion already is such a controversial sensitive topic, and if the writers insist on the abortion subplot, okay, since this is a dark comedy satirical show, I would go balls to the wall and make this an episode 1 reveal where Annie has been puking all over and gaining weight. It’s when she misses her period that she thinks ‘oh no’ and whips out a pregnancy test. Now the writers have an opportunity to lampoon both sides. Maybe both Hughie and Annie are on the fence about it—and this is a character moment where Hughie reveals Butcher’s and Becca’s backstory to Annie. Everyone is encouraging them to have the baby but 1) they’re involved in a dangerous fight against Homelander/ Vought so do they really want Annie to be incapacitated and potentially lose their child, 2) what if it’s a Supe baby; what then are the complications and body horror potential HL literally lasered his bio mom’s belly and, in the comics, Ryan had literally killed comic Becca from childbirth and comic Butcher had to kill the baby himself, 3) and now there’s this fear that maybe Vought could get their hands on their child, take him/her away from them, and raise them like a lab rat. Do they really want all this to happen? The writers can show Hughie and Annie having a conflict about this instead of the Shifter Annie conflict, and it would hit harder. Do you understand the point I’m making? Do you see the emotional upheaval and impact this could’ve had—instead of the offscreen mention of Annie having an abortion?

The reveal of Butcher having taken V off-screen was a bad decision. This is a character defining moment for Butcher. Why did you make it off-screen? As a writer, I would’ve shown Butcher being torn up about it or—if they must save screentime—show it via flashbacks of his internal struggle. Show, don’t tell. The conversation he had with Hughie would’ve hit that much harder when Hughie contemplated injecting his dying father with V.

Episode 5: Beware the Jabberwock, My Son

The way Homelander changed his methodology of manipulating reconnecting with his son after is, in my opinion, not bad. Adam Bourke is a slimy man who deserved to be slapped. This also shows Ryan becoming more like his father, in a way. We get to see Ryan enjoying the power he has—but it’s “justified” because Ryan is essentially saving a damsel in distress.

Everything else though at the farm, oh boy. The return of Stan Edgar was fun, but too short. I honestly felt Giancarlo Eposito’s cameo was underutilized. He should’ve been the star of the episode—with the obvious virus plotline being introduced. Personally I would’ve moved this higher up as an earlier episode or foreshadow to this farm. Literally this could’ve been in S4x01 because in the last episode of Gen V S1, we see Butcher smirk at the implications of there now being this deus ex machina virus to take down Homelander. This could’ve been a strong opening episode, especially for those who haven’t read the comics or haven’t seen Gen V.

With what we got, I mean…yeah, the V-ed up rabid chickens, water buffalo, and sheep with bamboon fangs are kinda funny—as well as Butcher’s hilarious quips about V-ed up Kentucky fried chickens and his cold suggestion for the team to split up (“you don’t got to be the fastest *smirks* just not the slowest”) but the entire sequence could’ve been resolved much, much quicker and not be as drawn out.

I did like the metaphor of Butcher releasing the Temp-V lab rabbit (a metaphor of himself, and it’s a rare glimpse of his soft side), and the foreshadowing of the tentacles out of the rabbit’s lifeless body and Billy stomping it to death. I also liked the inclusion of Dr. Sameer Shah.

The B-plot of Hughie euthanizing his V-ed father, gee thanks mom, see what your power of attorney did…I will begrudgingly accept because this shows us the consequence had Hughie actually gone through with his plan. But obviously it can’t be Hughie—so it has to be his mom. I understand the possible writing intention. Plus, in the entire episode, this Hughie scene between Hugh Sr was the most emotionally invested I had been in this episode. Simon Pegg gave his best performance, and it’s the proper send-off to give to the man whom Garth Ennis based his comic Hughie’s appearance from and who had voiced Hughie in the animated Diabolical episode. I say, this is very deserved. Now, the mother sideplot, I can argue, was frankly underutilized; either the writers could’ve gotten rid of her character entirely (I prefer this because she’s honestly unnecessary to the plot) or dedicated more screentime to her. If you argue she was needed because she’d encouraged Hughie to propose to Annie and tie her down with the family heirloom ring, Hugh Campbell Senior could’ve done that. It fits the narrative of him being a single father for Hughie—so it’s even more devastating that he passes away. A lot of the audience can resonate with the loss of a paternal figure.

*EDIT: Hughie’s mother was underutilized this season. Imagine if we, instead, got to see Hughie encounter his mom at her MLM-like business with Voughtality selling herbal supplements and oils. Imagine the delicious conflicted feelings, and we see how brainwashed his mom is. Imagine that torment. His character arc could be trying to reconnect with his mom after his dad passed away—and trying to get her to see the truth. It can be The Boys’ social commentary on MLMs and cults and fanaticism and capitalism/ big corporations.

Episode 6: Dirty Business

Ah, this episode…every episode 6, according to Kripke, has to be the wildest episode in the show. I fear…that, while, yes, it was kiiiiinda wild, this isn’t the wild epic reviled? shocker they were hoping we’d feel and instead made a lot of people unhappy. This is the start of the “Hughie being SAed across three episodes straight�� trend. S3x06: Herogasm was liked not only for the shock value of debauchery but also because it’d advanced the plot.

Firecracker’s actress, Valerie Curry, mentioned that she personally headcanons Firecracker having feelings for Starlight. I would’ve loved to see that extrapolated in this episode (and hinted in other episodes, like maybe showing us a couple seconds where we see Firecracker had kept an old crumpled magazine cover of Starlight in a f*cked up kinda creepy Starlight shrine with her face’s likeness showing signs of having been sparked or scratched out) because that adds a whole new layer of complexity to her character. We got a bit of it when she’d cornered Annie at the Vernon estate after she’d emerged from the bathroom with bloodshot eyes having felt a little hurt being excluded by the Mean Girls cool club (Homelander, Sage, and Victoria) and Annie apologizes to her face about it not being cool to have said that about her in the past—but then Annie showed her true intentions stabbing her in the neck.

Now, imagine, instead if we’d drawn this out even more. Firecracker’s writhing on the floor and screaming at her that she knew Annie was a lying backstabbing snake—and she blames herself for being stupid to have given Annie one more chance, and look where her forgiveness had done to her? She yells to Annie, who looks back guiltily, that Annie is still the b*tch from her memory and she’s not the good person that she thinks she is. Do you see how much more powerful this’d be instead of what we got?

Tek Knight, oh Tek Knight, look how they’ve massacred you, my poor hole obsessed man. Personally I’m all for creative liberty (for example, I would argue the genderbent female Stormfront in the show is an improvement on the comic’s male Stormfront who’d been Homelander’s real biological father technically/ sperm donor/ clone variant of his DNA). I’d even liked what they’ve done with him in Gen V S1—and was looking forward to what shenanigans he’d wreak in The Boys. And, oh boy, this is the best the Writers Room could come up with? Tek Knight is VERY different in the comics; I mean, yes, Butcher and Hughie did beat him up but in the end they decided to spare him. Comic Tek Knight is aware he has a problem (his obsession with f*cking holes) and sought therapy to no avail and even sent his Laddio away so he doesn't do the unthinkable to his minor sidekick.

Personally, since now the Vernon correctional facilities plot is going nowhere (is it? Or maybe, upon his death, by proxy he’d transferred the deed over to Homelander for his supposed modern-day imprisonment camps?), I would maybe have the entire thing take place at a Vernon Correctional Facility instead of at his manor/ Tek Cave obvious Batman reference with the whole BDSM plot. Or, heck, if you’d really wanted the BDSM plot, maybe make your corrupt judges being bribed to stuff-the-Vernon-jails-with-innocent-men-so-he-can-be-rich irl commentary (because it is a thing irl; even Leverage TV did an episode on this with this concept), have The Boys infiltrate a Vernon jail (it can only be Hughie, Frenchie, or if you want to go ham-fisted with the social commentary, go with M.M.), and have that character react to discovering a secret cabal of depraved folks forcing ordinary powerless prisoners to be pimped out as BDSM s3x toys for Supes and senators/ other powerful people in high positions of authority—and their deaths being disguised as runaways, killed by jail mates, su*cide, violent prison riots, what have you. Think about it. To these Supes and politicians and authority figures, they don’t think they’re doing a bad thing—because they’re giving punitive punishment to criminals i.e. “the bad guys” by depriving them of their rights and free will and consent to say no and subjecting them to their perversions. Think about the f*cked up social commentary implications and potential.

Think about it. Tek Knight is a parody of Bruce Wayne/ Batman and Iron Man. Think about what we could’ve gotten had the writers satirized Arkham Asylum/ Gotham Prison in The Boys universe. This could’ve been an episode about the American prison system.

The reveal of Kessler being able to see hallucination!Becca didn’t land a huge impact on me. 1) VoughtHQ spoiled it with their Fight Club “fanart.” Even if I hadn’t seen VoughtHQ’s leaks, this “plot twist” could’ve been seen a miiiiiiiiile away. The writers made it so obvious (Butcher talking to the air) that the twist just didn’t land as hard as it could’ve….

…About the breastfeeding scene. Personally, when Antony Starr said this was the craziest thing he’d done, my mind leapt at far wilder possibilities. So when VoughtHQ leaked that it was this scene, I was a tad let-down, lol. But I suppose I’ll take it. Homelander’s 100 micro-expressions, going from shock to confusion/ intrigue, during that scene was funny. That shot of milk getting squirted into his mouth was obviously done for the fanservice and the memes. You can expect fan artists and fan writers to go crazy with it because, hint, think about what else that white liquid could be substituted with and squirted into his face/ mouth.

Episode 7: The Insider

It’s the Christmas episode. Why, on god’s green earth, would you choose to ignore the perfect opportunity presented on a platter to you to not tie this back to the Vought Christmas party 12–13?—years ago (look, it happened in S1x07, and this is the 7th episode of S4 le gasp) and peel back the curtain to reveal more details about what might’ve happened between Becca Saunders and Homelander a decade ago? It’s the catalyst for Butcher’s antagonism against Homelander. This is a huge missed opportunity for both plot development and character development for Butcher.

What could’ve hit even more is Ryan, after receiving the framed photograph from Butcher, asking Homelander about how he’d met his mother in the first place and got him conceived when his bio mom had been in a loving relationship with this other man smart, Ryan, you’re now showing your smarts. And Homelander fumbles to tell him a fairytale version of How I Met Your Mother—but we get a true flashback simultaneously that contradicts exactly what he’s telling Ryan.

Now you have an opportunity to make it clear cut and double down on the SA angle of Homelander having r*ped her (now you spell it out for the folks in the audience who still don’t believe it; you leave no room for ambiguity anymore), or if you want to make it complicated you have an opportunity to showcase that Becca had known Butcher had cheated on her with a waitress and so in a fit of revenge she’d gone to cheat on him with Homelander—except it’d backfired on her. And now you have the opportunity to make Butcher feel even more of a survivor’s guilt because this meant she’d done it because of him. So this is his fault, this is what he tells himself.

Otherwise, I loved this episode essentially being about Ryan's turn in the spotlight and his character introspection moment. ...That's all I liked, plus this tying back to Butcher being smug and proud of him. And Homelander's scenes.

The last minute reveal of Shapeshifter Annie is introduced too late for me to give a damn. This could’ve been a really cool concept. They should’ve introduced her much earlier in episode 1 or 2; personally I prefer episode 2 because maybe you could tie her to someone Sage had found at the TruthCon expo. Because to me this is an obvious satire of the whole concept of reptilian lizardmen walking amongst us, camouflaging themselves as ordinary people in society. I would’ve preferred seeing hints of Shifter Annie early on to establish for as this threat lurking in the background—so when this happens where she shifts into Annie, bam, it hits that much harder. As of now, this subplot of Shifter Annie feels randomly injected too late into the season.

Episode 8: Season Four Finale/ Assassination Run

Victoria Neuman, like her comic book male counterpart Victor Neuman (Vic the Sheep), was always going to die one way or another. I don’t get the outrage seeing her go the Gen V enjoyers who watched Gen V first and came to watch The Boys after that are even more obvious. In the comic, Neuman was sworn in as president of the United States after Bob Singer dies and this is how sworn-in president Victor Neuman goes out:

Personally I do not mind her death being this early and in S4, but with her being set up as this cunning political savvy boss b*tch in the TV series, it would’ve been even more compelling, dramatic, and fun Easter egg reference to the comic if the writers kept her alive until S5, when the inevitable betrayal happens and Homelander rips her head off in Homelander’s descent into madness—or The Boys or Butcher kill her instead.

The way Shifter Annie subplot was resolved was anticlimactic. I might’ve cared a little more if it wasn’t mostly this one episode where we get to see her be a threat. Wouldn’t it have been so much more interesting and f*cked up if the writers showed Shifter Annie, as VoughtHQ initially alleged, becoming very, very enamoured by this happy married double life she could be having with this tall twink of a man? Give her some more depth. Annie blowing up at Hughie for not noticing…I’m on two fences about it. I get it; she was imprisoned for that long so she took it out on Hughie; it’s very human. On the other hand, Annie would not f*cking blow up at Hughie because he, too, had nonconsentually been conned into f*cking a stranger and proposing marriage to her. What could’ve been a sweet moment between them had been ruined by this chameleon homewrecker.

The scene with Butcher on the hospital bed, with Grace Mallory and Ryan visiting…I don’t necessarily hate it. Could it have been executed differently—and much better? Oh, most definitely. The writers essentially scrubbed away all of Butcher’s character development this season by “allowing Joe Kessler control of his body”—and cue evil genocidal maniac Butcher in S5 that I am pretty sure Hughie will still be the one to end him like in the comics. Like, c’mon. Unless Butcher self-sacrifices himself at the end nobly in S5, the narrative has been setting up the budding emotional tension and conflict between Hughie’s and Butcher’s final confrontation. But going back on topic, I could see the argument of Grace not thinking clearly in the moment like a concerned aunt/ grandma—and it backfired on her. Ryan coldly looking at her warm corpse is an obvious callout to Butcher, and us the audience, how eerily similar Ryan still is to his dad, Homelander. He’s Becca’s son, but he’s still his father’s son. It’s a very painful reminder for Butcher—which is why he cedes control to evil Butcher (tumor Kessler).

...In this season, they'd really nerfed Homelander a lot, huh? Not only the zinc ducts, but also him being a teary crybaby.... Ah. I don't mind it per se, but...man, I need to be reminded of the Homelander we saw in S1-2 (and S3). Him telling Ryan about the Bad Room off-screen was also a terrible decision; if this was instead acted out, it would make Ryan’s conflicted feelings even more heartbreaking because this is a 12-year old kid whose father scares him/ makes him uncomfortable, but this is still his flesh-and-blood biological father; he recognizes his father is a broken man but he’s literally the only parent this child has left. This is a situation irl that certain members of your audience will be able to relate to.

I did like what they did with Ashley though, with her taking V. I'm super curious what her superpower will be in S5. I also liked Sage coming back and telling Homelander she had fun coming up with this plan—just to see if she could. Stone cold. I love her.

I have a gripe with the V-ed tentacles (what the hentai tentacle p0rn?). Not only is it lame as h3ll (I understand this is probably a parody to capitalize on the Venom symbiote hype, as well as this possibly being a reference to the Diabolical episode), but they had a perfect set-up before with Butcher's powers in S3 ironically matching Homelander's with the super strength, durability, and laser eyes. It was sweet, perfect poetic irony, drawing uncomfortable parallels between Butcher and Homelander—and showing that they're foils of one another, two sides of the same coin. They could've shown us Butcher experimenting on his own body to see if he can find Homelander's weaknesses that he can use. It was the perfect set-up. But nooooo, now we have tentacles. This creative decision was probably made for the memes. Say what you will of The Boys writing staff, but they know their fanbase. TV Canon Tentacles Butcher was definitely fanservice.

The Soldier Boy reveal at the end…they have Jensen Ackles. With that star power and his surprising popularity with The Boys fans and Supernatural fans, I can understand why they hamfisted an end credit scene where he cameos again—and that’s the cliffhanger we end the season on, where Homelander tearfully overlooks his cryofrozen biological father and idol. Personally idgaf about Soldier Boy—my controversial opinion: Soldier Boy is honestly an overhyped character—but, again, I get it. Gotta make the fans excited. It’s fanservice.

Overall though, I really enjoyed Sage’s moments and A-Train’s redemption arc throughout the episodes.

I'm still tentatively excited for S5. I hope the writers learn from their S4 mistakes and deliver us an epic finale that goes out with a bang and not a whimper.

These are my own personal opinions however. If you were in the Writers Room, what would you change/ keep?

Would anyone want hear my honest unfiltered opinion(s) or breakdown about what I liked/ didn’t liked/ wished the writers had done differently for The Boys season 4, now that the season is complete and all 8 episodes are out?

Because, spoiler alert:

[having-conniptions]

Thoughts while watching The Hidden Character ep 9 under the cut

The pairs? I don't know... (see my other post)

Live on stage? Add more energy? This might be New's time to shine 🥳

Skin care ad! JJ putting moisturizer on Jet's face? They should have pushed that ship in ep 8, it's too late now

I hope Mio and Bump don't get too caught up in trying to show off their musical skills

JET AND NEW CHOSE THE SAME SCENE and it's a good one - I'm just sad no one has chosen a VegasPete scene

LMAO when they presented their ideas and Mile asked Copper to show some of his action skills - Mile's innocent smile while Copper and Ta start to panic I can't xD

Copper: "I think it would be better if I am Porsche" Apo: 🤣🙈 Mile: 😬

Apo telling MioBump "you're here to perform, not play music" HA I KNEW IT

Mile blushing when New talks about the balcony scene and Apo pointing it out xD

"It's a scene where Kinn wanted to give something important to Porsche." YEAH HIS D- *gunshot silences me forever*

Pond: "There's lots of emotions in this scene, one of them being longing. What else is there?" New: "There's also a love scene ☺️☺️" MileApo: 😬😐 Me: 🤦‍♀️ get it together you horndog

NewJet really just see that whole scene with the talk and everything as a lead-up to the love scene?? Not Pond actually having to remind them they have to go through all of the emotions of the scene and not focus on the love scene too much xD xD xD

"Don't think that love scenes are the most important. If KinnPorsche only had love scenes, people wouldn't like it. They would rather just watch porn" POND IS BEING SO SASSY AND I LOVE IT

I CAN'T WITH THIS WHOLE INTERACTION/PRESENTATION I'M LOSING MY SHIT EVERY TWO SECONDS- New just went "I could play Porsche because I have a lot of female and LGBTQ friends and I think I got that from them" and Mile deadass went "Do you mean the personality or something else? 🤨" HAHAHA his gaydar went off the charts I would guess and his face SENT ME

"I think there is a little femininity in me" baby you're a fruity lil drama princess with pretty eyes there is more than a little

And Pond just goes ding dong you are wrong

I think New is overthinking and overshooting again and getting lost in his little ideas

Omg Pond just put it so perfectly, New is trying to put the characters in boxes in order to understand/define them but that's not how it works bc they are more complex than that

Awwwww when New said he was kind of pressured in high school to be a bad boy when he just wanted to be his adorable self and Pond told him it was okay to be himself and he should ignore people who criticized him for being too adorable or feminine and then New was like "and that unlocked something in me" I WILL NEVER GIVE UP HOPE FOR THIS ADORABLE BABY LET HIM BE SWEET

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roxanne.02_b1tch: what? How did I not know about this

↳tchalamet: roxanne.02_b1tch guess we don't mean that much to her after all

↳y/n4real.2002: tchalamet roxanne.02_b1tch oh shut up you drama queens. I love you💜💜💜

austi_fan: notice how Austin didn't like this one?👀

↳fan-ab-ep: omg I was just about to say that, our boy must be jealous

↳aus.b.fan: um 😐 this is kinda sus...

↳ab34fan: yeah especially since he’s liked all her posts since following her, even went as far as to like some of her old posts

↳fansof-elvis: 👀👀

joshuabassett

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joshuabassett: and then we went to prom and graduation and some other places. Music video and song out Friday. #heavenisyou #presavenow

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y/n4real.2002: my prom date 😊💟

↳joshuabassett: y/n4real.2002 💟 that green dress 🥵

↳fan4joshua: my man, be thirsting for her 😩

↳fan49: I agree here Joshua, that dress, too hot

fan2: green green dress?? You really loved tick tick boom that much??

↳y/n4real.2002: fan2 haha Andrew Grafield has my heart and that song is fire. Watch out in the mv for many more Easter eggs like this

↳fan1: girl Taylor really raised you well💜

tchalamet: proud of you getting a graduation and a prom <3

↳y/n4real.2002: tchalamet omg you have no idea how excited I was.

roxanne.02_b1tch: gurl you look so hot 🥵

↳y/n4real.2002: roxanne.02_b1tch haha thanks bae 💜

gossip.celebs

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gossip.celebs: Austin Butler and girlfriend, Kaia Gerber, out in LA this afternoon. #gossip #austinbutler #kaiagerber

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ab-fan: they look so cute ☺️

↳kaiafan4: I agree, but he still looks kinda cold towards her and she looks also sad😔

↳fans4kaia: yeah I get the same vibe

austin29fan: my boy be thinking about the girl he left in NY iykyk

↳ab.fan: 😭😭 nooo !!! this comment !!!

↳fan26: I mean our girl (y/n) is kinda unforgettable.

↳fan.love: and 19 !!! Can we stop??

austin.e.p.fan: that jaw clench, I'm floored

↳hoe4butler: I know !! my goodness

y/n4real.2002

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y/n4real.2002 forever grateful for this moment. Thank you to the theacademy , my team, the whole cast of reconstructing.amelia. And thank you tchalamet for being there for me and helping me through everything. #orcars #greatful #reconstructingamelia

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tchalamet: the most deserving

↳y/n4real.2002: tchalamet love you always 💜

taylorswift: truly speechless, I'm so proud of you

↳y/n4real.2002: taylorswift my heart 💜

billieelish: I mean who else were they going to give it to??

↳y/n4real.2002: billieeilish stop it, I'm blushing 😊

↳billie-fan: Queen Billie out here with the facts

austinbutler: truly well deserved, an amazing performance from an amazing person, rewarded in the best way. Congrats!!

↳y/n4real.2002: austinbutler thank you so so much. Ur turn next year💜

↳fan.23: I'm living for this, he's so sweet

↳bazluhermann: y/n4real.2002 congrats on this well deserved achievement

↳y/n4real.2002: bazluhermann this means more than any award, thank you 😭💜😭

↳elvismovie: talented ✨✨

austin2fan: guys when did this comment section become the place for the Elvis cast and crew to fangirl for her😩😩😩

↳kaia.g.fan: they be trying to wash Austin's hands

↳fan26: no, she just deserves all the love and respect and the Elvis people know it.

fan193: notice how she didn't thank her parents?

↳fan4she: damn yeah she didn't 🥶

enews

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enews: last night y/n4real.2002 took home the Oscar, for best lead actress in a role, making her the youngest woman to do so. Head over to our link in bio to see all the winners and more pictures from the after party. #oscars #winners #afterparty

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fan23: omg her and Timmy look so cute, he's the best big bro

↳tc-fan: I expected no less of him

fan1: that dress is stunning !! also love how goofy they are

↳fanslove: yesss that dress, 🥵 so hot

hater4: talk about what a shame the Oscars have become, she didn’t deserve it

↳fan292: talk your talk, she took the award home, you're just petty

fan34: she won with the after party dress, I didn't really vibe with the ceremony one

↳fan2: yeah, she definitely chose better for the after party

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[koreandragon]

Go ahead and drop it off. As a drama it had all the ingredients to be good and somehow it ended up like some diluted flour water. I liked the first 4 eps some what but after the 5 and 6th, I bailed 😐

someone literally just commended me for sticking with it until the end i think that was my undoing i just realized i would literally much rather be doing anything else for one hour than suffer through an episode again like i would watch it if it was the last two eps this week but i just found out the unfortunate news that it will have two more so that just kinda sealed the deal for me. inguk has never disappointed me like this before but i guess there's a first time for everything. he better get his shit together for the next one

[goldenhypen]

ALSOOOO OMG SO SO FUN EPISODE 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Spoilers for everyone who hasnt watched it AHEM

THEYRE ALL SO CUTE AND THEY LOOKED SO TINY PARAGLIDING OMG I LOST IT. SUNGHOON BEING SCARED AND JAY SHAKING LIKE GAWDDD I WAS LAUGHING IM SORRY 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 and jungwons camera falling off this episode was soooo fun ☹️☹️☹️ JAKE LOOKED ESP TINY DURING THE PARAGLIDE THINGY AND THE WAY HE WAS STILL TALKING ABT FISH. ISTG THE FISH- LIKE WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THEM TRY TO CATCH FISH FOR 4 WHOLE EPISODES AND YET NOTHING... Omg when hoon would get their hopes up like mf would just SCREAM "OMGOMGMG I GOT IT!!!!!! oh wait NVM" 😭🙏 he's hilarious without even trying ☹️ heehoonyunki living their best lives standing in that lake (? Was it a lake idk actually) from early mornings until like sunset they're so crazy.. i could never. And sunki clowning jay omg so many cute & funny things happened ☹️ LMFAO THE FIRE AND EVERYTHING LIKE THEYRE SO CHAOTIC ??????? AND SUNOO'S LAUGH I WAS LITERALLY CACKLING ALONG WITH HIM THEY WERE SO LOUD AND CUTE

AND AND AND AND the memorable moment 🙏 when rikis instructor for the paragliding let him hold onto the thingy AND THE RAPID SPINNING RIGHT BEFORE THEY LANDED HE WAS SO HAPPY THERE WERE TEARS IN MY EYES ☹️☹️ RIKI IS EVERYONES BABY Andddddd sunoo just casually talking to his instructor as if he isnt 10272827282727feet off the ground literally FLYING he was so unbothered omg

Dam this ask was super long JUST HAD TO SCREAM TO SOMEONE ABT IT BCUZ THEYRE JUST ADORABLE

‼️ SO SO FUN EP SPOILERS ‼️

oMG YES MAY THANK YOU YOURE ALWAYS THE PERSON I GET TO SCREAM OVER THE EPS WITH AHHSJJSJS

pLS YES THEY WERE SO ADORABLE and when they failed to land on their feet too sksjskd i laughed i’m sorry 😭 aND PLS JAKEY WAS SOOO CUTE :((( he was so excited for it too and when he gets excited about things i just m e l t omg and then when the paraglider instructor guy was trying to do the fun tricks with jakey and the way he got scared sjsjsjsj pls he’s so precious ,,, and yes omg 😭 when he started talking about fish with the guy pLS that was one of the highlights for me ,,, yk why? 🥹 it’s cuz jakey was the one to initiate the conversation ,, and seeing the lil extroverted side of him come out ,,, yk how much i wanna be like him in that way 😭 *sigh* he’s so cool 🥹 bUT SKSJSJSJ THEN THERES THE FACT THAT THEY HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO CATCH A N Y FISH ,, NOT EVEN A BITE THIS ENTIRE TRIP 😭 PLS 😭 AND HOON ALWAYS GETTING OUR HOPES UP 😐 we can’t trust that man anymore when it comes to fishing skjsjsjs but then back to them getting excited ,, when they drove past the part of the river (i think it is LOL maybe?) that they saw in the videos pls they were so excited :(( it makes me so happy :(( pls is it weird that i wanna go out fishing with jake 😭 it probably sounds like kinda a weird thing for me to want to do but my dad rlly likes fishing and takes me and my family out during fishing seasons and so i’ve grown to like it sksjsjsj so like ,, fishing with jake omg 🥹🫶🏻 sksjsjsjsj but yeah ,,, SKSJSKDJ ALSO YES TO EVERYTHING ELSE YOU SAID ,,, honestly i’m rlly sad that this series is coming to an end 😭 i’m a sucker for series where groups go on trips and stuff ☹️

YES OMG PLSSS RIKI WAS ALSO SO EXCITED AND IT WAS SO ADORABLE TO WATCH HE WAS HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE UGH SO SO CUTE and sksjsjsjsj yes 😭 the extroverted sunoo rlly came out pls it was adorable tho once again wish i could be extroverted like that <//3

aLSO THE NEXT EP WITH THEM IN SUITS PLS IM NOT READY FOR IT THE PREVIEW ITSELF HAD ME ON THE FLOOR CLENCHING MY HEART BEFORE IT WOULD BEAT OUT OF MY CHEST THEY LOOKED SO GOOD

[sab-teraa]

Your thoughts on ami ep 22? 😂

Hey hey my lovely <3 I’m so so sorry for the late reply! I didn’t see your ask 🥺💕

My thoughts:

1. Overall, it was an okay episode! It was very much a set up for the next episode 🥴 tho, in comparison to episode 21 which was v EsZan focused, this ep set up the Yilmaz … and emphasized to the audience just how INSANE they are.

2. I have a major problem with Esra and Cinar ‘friendship’ - specifically Esras inability to see Cinar’s true colors.

Cinar is always spying and guilt tripping Esra, and it’s insanely frustrating bc she allows this guilt tripping to happen, all bc he is a ‘good guy’. Its completely out of character bc we see her be stern with Ozan + everyone else around her. However, with Cinar, she is constantly letting this man make decisions for her - even if she unhappy with the situation (e.g Antalya and going to this brunch with him)

Imo, they are making it seem like Cinar is a weak point for Esra. On the one hand, I guess it’s bc of this nice guy mask he puts on in front of her. But, I don’t get how you can think that someone who KICKED an innocent individual out of their home (I.e. made Ozan homeless) and froze his assets (I.e. made Ozan financially vulnerable) is a good person?! THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE TURNING POINT!

Like yes, Cinar always tries to justify his actions … but his treatment towards Ozan (in this respect) had nothing to do with the best interests of the company, and everything to do with Cinars selfish behavior. So for esra to still seem him as the good guy is beyond me lol.

I guess they are persisting with this storyline to make Cinars downfall all the more painful? Idk.

3. I didn’t like it when Esra told Ozan “I don’t like it when you get angry, bc you make decisions that hurt the both of us”!

Another major issue I have with this story is Esras lack of accountability 🥴 like … yes Ozan is to blame for a lot of this nonsense, but so are you sis! Yet?? She fails to acknowledge her role in this situation, and is constantly framing Ozan to somewhat be the bad guy when he wants to take action or even express his dissatisfaction. Also, Ozan is annoying for not standing up for himself!

4. I don’t like how they are framing Caglas love to be unrequited love 💀 like nooooo! Nooo! No! This has nothing to do with love and everything to do with competition … and it’s a super unhealthy look on love and I hate this narrative of “any woman would behave like this” 🤮

5. Gosh the flashbacks of Ozans SA and Esra’s mc were so so painful to watch 🥺💔 Ilhan and Burcu are such fantastic actors … like omfg.

6. I really enjoyed the banter between EsZan and them finally working together.

7. I love Elif-Ekos storyline! They really parallel fetus EsZan and it gives an insight to their relationship pre divorce! I love it 😍

8. There’s no redeeming Cagla or Cinar in my eyes. Like … her constantly making Esra feel bad about not having kids + Cinars lies are too much 😐

9. Mert is the real mvp of this show 😂 not only is he insanely evil … he is hilarious 😂

[luckyqueenreign]

LITG: Double Trouble EP 11 Recap

here we go...

*spoilers under the cut*

everyone is talking about who MC is going to choose...I will say normally I love a super confident pixel but Roberto just gave me the ick so bad with this overconfidence.

YAYYYY challenge time!!! im actually excited about this one!! GUYS the placement of these cowboy hats on the girls OMG it's so bad. oooop!! not Grace flirting with Ryan where Ozzy could see!! Girly ur relationship is already on thin ice!! EEK I chose the "you dont sound too secure with Ozzy" option and she said "youre right, I guess I dont feel that solid with him right now....kinda feels like he might still be open to other options." and then she glances at MC...😬😩 UH OH shes gonna give a test in the challenge...girlyyyy. skefoisjefjwaenfajw SINCE WHEN AM I BLONDE?????? lolol omg look I get that the art team prob couldnt draw the hat for EVERY hair option but they couldnt at least match the color ??????? also I hate that in challenges MC is the only one who wears a diff outfit. why cant they just make us have a special one but give the girls outfits too??

DEAD at Roberto not having any rhythm and Lewie not having any coordination in the obstacle portion. EEK time for Grace to test Ozzy 🫣 I meannnnn.....Lewie lol? why not Ryan who she actually just flirted with in front of Ozzy and who was grafting her AND is also single. lowkey feels like shes not only trying to teach Ozzy a lesson but us too 👀

OZZYS TURN 🥰 not Ozzy dominating on the bull and his dance moves AND choosing MC. ksaidsiodisjdfies OBVI snogged Ozzy's face off even though I def didnt kiss the other boys 😬 MC is obvi going out and showing out as she she should 💅🏼 anddddd u guys already know who I chose. Grace im sorry babes! Also sorry Roberto and Lewie! OOP Ozzy whispering that after our moment on the terrace he hoped we'd pick him. ok the constant interruptions from Grace...I get them...and I actually do like they added this in but im gonna need a little less to make me feel less guilty about what im about to do 😬. "IT SEEMS LIKE YOURE COMPLETELY ALONE" fb u really want me to fall in love with this pixel man dont you??? 🫣🫣 Grace saying that was low😐 im sorry for Grace that I made my mc be in her villain era bc im def choosing the diamond scene and going to do it all over again with Ozzy. SCREAMING not us landing perfectly on top of him after falling off the bull and then KISSING IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. MC IS A MENACE.

time for a girl chat 😬 damn Amelia saying MC always had the big moves and looking sad...yeahh thats def gonna come back up. LOLOL not Ryan pulling a Rocco and chatting with all the girls. ACK GRACE!!! "its not only the boys im struggling to trust" I love that theres more nuance here and fb actually gave her some personality here. Grace has EVERY reason to be fuming at not only Ozzy but also MC. ok wait..... "but when he cracks a joke you're the person he looks at to see if you laugh." STAHP IT PLS!!! not grace fishing for an apology! im so confused Grace has sat here with us and explained how its so clear Ozzy has feelings for MC and then when she asks if she needs to worry if you say yes. she's still like are you sure??? why did fb not make this consistent with everything else she just said!!

Ryan encouraging Roberto to shoot his shot with MC to free up Amelia is such an EL OH EL moment. like sir u have spoken two words to the girl and you've been grafting literally every girl in the villa outside of MC all day!! pack your bags Ryan!

[luvhrs]

shadow and bone — ep 3 thoughts:

(might have to stop here and continue tmrw after i finish this stupid stats hw 😤)

rapunzel!alina with all the light imagery in that dream

suddenly i'm watching bridgerton

i like this ginger lady miss safin can they be besties

whoaaa a tailor??? how many kinds of grisha are there :o

sAGGING TITSJDKFJDJ

kaz seems pretty adamant on the sun summoner not existing 👀 i wonder why

pretty nina~ yo now that i think abt it the extent of heartrenders' powers must be p wide tho couldn't they also just. stop someone's heart from beating in a snap

cool cinematography again!! (is that even what it's called) why is jesper eating the random biscuit(?) 😭😭😭

money money money. ain't it funny. in a rich man's world

god i'm sorry there's gonna be a lot of jester loving on here he is just. So Very Attractive and i am So Very Weak

andddd he took a detour to gamble 💀

kirigan appearing out of nowhere bcs ~shadow~ also this silhouette shot is very nice

oh my i wonder how she'll show her power. let's go exalted council

me to kirigan if i were in alina's place: [rihanna voice] what's wrong with me? why do i feel like this?

how did alina do that??? did kirigan cause that somehow??? bcs shadow needing light or vice versa or whatever but either way i'm excited to see her fight and awaken more of her power aaAAA

"you were perfect" silco haunts me. anw kirigan is very sus to me rn this feels like his plan wASN'T THAT TOO EASY

uhhhh ok sudden hostility from zoya 😐

KAZ HOLDING A GOAT IS THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN TODAY

ooh look man of progress poster (i'm just making arcane and DA references now lmao sorry)

"hope is dangerous. it clouds your judgment." sounding a lot like "emotions always screw everything up." kaz and hank ik y'all are just 2 big softies

oh no nina's still in trouble!!

convenient ominous giant train!!

GODDAMMIT JESPER

YO THIS IS SO INTERESTING I FEEL LIKE I'M ON A FIELD TRIP BUT WITH MY LIFE ON THE LINE

MAL WE MISS YOU LOVER BOY :(

OOOO ALINA A FIGHTER U GO GIRL

ok zoya has the hots for kirigan the "she's in good hands" thing /was/ in jealousy (also yeah nadya(?) me too ngl hahsjdjdd)

stag again??? what if these are her memories coming back to her 😳

bet kirigan's lurking (haha get it) in this library somewhere. oh wait that's the spiritual adviser. he's a bit creepy 😭

i absolutely love how many kinds of grisha there are!!!!! feels like pokemon. i gotta know them all

as a burnt out gifted child with nothing left of my gift now but a desire for academic validation, i like baghra bcs if she were my mentor she's the type i'd want to impress. and she's pretty

OMG SHE REMINDS ME OF FLEMETH!!! I AUTOMATICALLY LOVE HER MORE NOW

THIS TRAIN RIDE GIVES ME SO MUCH ANXIETY. THE COALLLL

oh i just noticed the grisha's uniform design depending on their power i'm BLIND

are these all the grisha existing rn or no? there are less than i expected

bro go easy on alina can i order an adjustment period 😭😭😭

JESPER ACTUALLY HUGGING THE GOAT IN RESIGNATION I'M CRIGNGJFNF

WTF JESPER COOL MOMENT??? HELLO????? MF MY SISTER IS SLEEPING BESIDE ME I CAN'T GO FERAL RNDJIEDIIJE

he's so fucking cool ohmygod you guys and if i repeat this scene all night

but also he shifted his weight fuck what's gonna happen???

THE SHOT OF THE GUN. OH MY FUCKING GOD. THAT'S SO FUCKING COOL WHAT. WHAT. IS HE ONE OF THOSE SHARPSHOOTERS???

THE SHARPSHOOTING IS COOL AF YES BUT HEAR ME OUT: HE WAS HOLDING. THE GOAT. THE ENTIRE TIME.

he is forming a lifelong bond with that goat i bet that being said i would like your hand in marriage sir

also jesper's actor giving us everything??? (also everyone else rly goddamn i hope the other charas get cool solo sequences like this too!!!) wHEW that GAZE at the beginning and then after everything seamlessly transitioning back into the funny clever persona 🤌🤌🤌

THESE BITCHES ACTUALLY MADE IT THRU. HOLY SHIT THAT DESERVES A STANDING OVATION

yo i rly love alina's letter to mal tho... idk there's smth so human abt it. it's abt the perpetual "i can go anywhere i want, just not home" feeling!!! it's abt the self-discovery and finding your place in this world!!! how it's a universal experience and yet every person goes thru it uniquely, not to mention blindly. smth hopeful in knowing that even the most powerful person in the world probably struggles with their identity

"you have always been my true north, mal." BITCH I'M 😭😭😭😭😭 that is the sweetest thing ever girlie dON'T U DARE CHOOSE KIRIGAN OVER MAL I SWEAR TO THE SAINTS

[shreyugh]

My v brief opinions on control z

Spoilers

Sofi- tbh I’m kinda neutral about her because sometimes I could not stand her and sometimes I really liked her. Some of her scenes really do hit home and I do see parts of myself in her so I really enjoyed those aspects

Pablo- a dickhead, we do not like him, I hope he gets what he fukcing deserves in the next season

Natalia- mans gonna end up getting killed or going to prison the stupid bitch

Maria- the WORST type of girl, if I saw her in real life I’d beat her the fuck up but pablo shouldn’t have treated her like that because she’s pregnant and it is equally his fault

Isabella- what can I even say.... an icon. A queen. We love her and I lovedddd her development it was so good

Luis- my bby- they really fucked him over like that, I’ll never forgive them

Gerry- He was jus-... I-... I’m just so baffled, they really chucked everything on him like how is he gonna be the one to kill 2 people. I hate him, he is a bastard but they did him dirty af by making him shoot javi.

Javi- I’m sorry but he is so precious and needed to be protected. I know he was a dick in the past but you can see that he did change because he never let anyone get bullied and was terrified when sofi jumped into the pool,

he deserved so much better and if he is actually dead I’m gonna be v disappointed

Raul- erm wtf. Ngl I clocked that he was the hacker as soon as they started to investigate javi cuz there was still 3 eps left so they weren’t gonna expose it that soon. At first I wouldn’t have minded for sofi to end up with either javi or Raul but Raul became the worst. When we find out why he did everything it’s the perfect insight into a very toxic and manipulative person. He is willing to do anything to anyone for sofi. One thing I wish they would have done is made Raul shoot javi, just because it would have made a lot more sense because he hated javi for taking sofi away from him and javi’s death would have been so much more impactful imo

Headteacher- the worst character, it breaks my heart that luis was going through so much pain and the bastard did nothing. Also where there no other teachers??!????? Cuz it seemed like there were only like 3 when it looks like a big school 😐

Overall- I enjoyed it, it was good and an easy binge It’s like elité, gossip girl and You and that’s was balanced very well. I’d give it a solid 7.6/10. The only people I liked were javier and Isabel....and that’s it. I kinda hated everyone else.... I also wish it was less white because it does take place in Mexico sooo...and one thing I HATED was the soundtrack, I’m sorry to say but it was awful and it really took away from the impact of the scenes , I really hope that they improve it in the next season. Also the whole malarkey with sofi’s dad.....like what even was that and why was nothing explained, it better be in the next season.

Those are my vvv brief opinions, Vaarwel :)