"Algebra? More like Al Jazeera!"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
this series is maybe even more incredible than the previous ones. so many amazing character arcs. amy's especially. god fuck america!
― imago, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
Sic you mean flanderized
― Evan, Monday, 29 April 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
Oh but specifically like homer aka dumb I gotcha now
― Evan, Monday, 29 April 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
given trump and republicans in general i don’t think it’s too off
― maura, Monday, 29 April 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
i love how you're like 'jonah is trump!' but then they're all trump
― imago, Monday, 29 April 2019 11:49 (five years ago) link
except the one who's aoc haha
I thought this last episode was really funny and this season the first time it seems to be riffing directly off of current politics and news.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Haven't seen the new one, but for some reason (gee hmm) I'm having a lot harder time with the full-on nihilism & misanthropy on this season.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 29 April 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
i can't believe there are only two episodes left
― maura, Monday, 29 April 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
Richard's going to end up as president, isn't he.
I managed to get to her being Jonah's actual sister before anyone in that kitchen did, having thought up till then that the joke was going to be that he's Canadian and so couldn't be president anyway.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Half sister!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
Making that distinction to try and justify it was the icing on the cake.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
yes, the Canada thing was a good red herring
also predicting Splett to fail upwards even faster
I don't think there's an AOC in this
it is absolutely believable that someone so horrendous and stupid could be a successful politician in America! Jonah just used to be at least smart enough to be cunning
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 23:12 (five years ago) link
yeah but his ego took over and he got rewarded with applause for acting out. it’s like... textbook awful dude behavior!
― maura, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
I am going to miss this show so much. I finally caught up on the first three episodes last night. I love the full on nihilism.
― Yerac, Friday, 3 May 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link
This season is all about Richard and Marjorie (who are the only two non-venal people in the whole thing except Catherine). The speed and ease with which Marjorie destroyed their plan to set her up was amazing.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 May 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
I'm looking forward to the inevitable reveal that Andrew has faked his own death as well.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 May 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
i dunno... there are only two episodes left
― maura, Friday, 3 May 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
"...I'll show up to the piss puddle that is your house and protest your husband whacking it to your daughter's seventh grade yearbook."
I did not feel bad that I laughed and laughed at this.
― Yerac, Friday, 3 May 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
Is this the final season?
― imago, Friday, 3 May 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link
Yes
― groovypanda, Friday, 3 May 2019 13:01 (five years ago) link
I am bad at predictions, but here's mine anyway: both Jonah and Selina want Splett as a running mate. Selina gets him, and they win. Then Selina resigns due to a scandal (pick one) and Splett becomes president.
Also, I love that the title of splettnet.net is "LET'S TALK ABOUT SPLETT".
Also also: https://www.jonahryanforpresident.com/issues.html
― ernestp, Saturday, 4 May 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
All of these things have that happened to me during my struggle have been excellent preparation for what I call “Phase Next,” my run for the presidency of the United States of America. I have been tested time and time again and I have always succeeded brilliantly. Pay no attention to the haters. They will tell you that I am unqualified. Well, I’m not. I am actually very qualified. They will tell you I am a “loose cannon.” Well, guess what? When I’m elected president, I’m going to get a whole lot looser!
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Sunday, 5 May 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
CancerAs someone who has not simply beaten cancer but utterly destroyed it, I have one simple message: “Hey Cancer! Guess what? This time it’s personal!”
― maura, Sunday, 5 May 2019 12:53 (five years ago) link
I just noticed that one of the sections on the Jonah web page is titled "My Struggle: The Jonah Ryan Story"; "My Struggle" in German is, as we know, "Mein Kampf."
― ernestp, Sunday, 5 May 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-t271itvSGQ
― maura, Sunday, 5 May 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
I feel like the grim reaper just dropped his scythe and started eating me out
― flopson, Monday, 6 May 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link
looks like they’re on track to have Richard waft into the presidency through genial inertia in the finale next week. just bobbing upwards on the winds of chaos, an indefatigable soap bubble floating above the bile & fire being spit around him.I’m totally down for a season or three of President Splett after this, possibly featuring the characters with a potential capacity for niceness carrying over. (So, er.... Mike & Amy plus Marjorie?)
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Monday, 6 May 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah, bringing in Mike McKean and getting rid of him so quickly all but guarantees President Splett imo. He's going to end us as running mate to whoever the party pick is (which makes Mendez less likely now, also because of the China deal but also Talbot because she doesn't have a relationship with him) with them getting banned/arrested/whatever before taking office.
I'm with you on Mike and Marjorie, but Amy undoes every bit of nice with an act of unbridled Capitol Hill desperation. I actually think Gary could fit - when he was put in charge of the Faith Initiative we saw how useless he is as anything other than a sycophantic bagman and there's mileage in a 'fish out of water in a non-Selina World'.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, 6 May 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
The Jonah Ryan Truth Caboose!
"And how do these diseases get here?! Immigrants!"
"Kill them!"
"Well, we really don't have to kill all of them. We have good immigrants. Beyonce ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
I'm with you on Mike and Marjorie, but Amy undoes every bit of nice with an act of unbridled Capitol Hill desperation.
Capacity for! There wld be fun tension between her trying to restore her soul via President Splett's Agenda Of Pleasantness, and using the repulsive political skills she's been corrupted to over her career.
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
She's the one with the potential for a redemption arc, I'll give you that.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
love the idea of splett ending up as pres at the end but starting to wonder if they'll find a way to make him pres and selina his veep now
― deus ex majima (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/veep-timothy-simons-jonah-anti-vaxxers.html
All the people we were talking to [in politics] when the show first started up — they were in the Obama administration generally, but we met with some Republicans — it was all the same shit. As we met more and more of these people, all of their Facebook profile pictures were pictures of Obama where they happened to be in the background to show the physical proximity that they had to him, which then meant that they were important. I can’t imagine that’s an Obama-specific thing. No matter what, Jonah is going to care about that more than he cares about anything else. He’s not there for policy, or to do the right thing, or to have any moral center. He’s there to get a picture that’s in the proximity of the president.Maybe that’s why people attach to it. Maybe it’s refreshing to them to see somebody who wasn’t lying about it, who’s just like, “That’s what I want.” If it was out here [in L.A.] it would be like, “I want to be six feet from Chuck Lorre. I don’t want to be Chuck Lorre, I just want to be six feet from him so everybody knows I’m fucking Hollywood.”
Maybe that’s why people attach to it. Maybe it’s refreshing to them to see somebody who wasn’t lying about it, who’s just like, “That’s what I want.” If it was out here [in L.A.] it would be like, “I want to be six feet from Chuck Lorre. I don’t want to be Chuck Lorre, I just want to be six feet from him so everybody knows I’m fucking Hollywood.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
stuck the landing imo. JLD doing top level work.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 May 2019 06:20 (five years ago) link
Kent killed me. great ending to a great series.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
yeah i thought this was an excellent conclusion, very michael corleone-esque at times. was a bit confused at the end by how old everyone is supposed to be, but that's just a nitpick. president splett!
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
We're still an episode behind but I was worried we weren't going to see Minna in this series and I was so overjoyed when she turned up.
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 May 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
selina's pawn sacrifice was as wrenching, and as pointed, as anything we've seen on Game of Thrones
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 13 May 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
the more I think about it the better this season was. Great way to go out.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 13 May 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
They absolutely nailed the final Gary scene
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 13 May 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
What a great final episode. What great old age make-up!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 May 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
WHO WANTS MARGARITAS?!
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
I wonder if or how they would have ended the show differently if Trump were not president?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 May 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
the scene where she is yelling at amy in the skybox, where she delivers that entire monologue with her teeth bared, was incredible
i also laughed so hard at the funeral coverage being pre-empted that i completely missed the "star of philadelphia and philadelphia 2" joke that apparently happened
so what's the best show on hbo now? barry?
― deus ex majima (Will M.), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
Gentleman Jack on HBO
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
i'll check it out this week! thanks for the tip
― deus ex majima (Will M.), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
for all that this became an operatic wonder of selina in excelsis, the best line was splett about jonah's beets mystery
― imago, Monday, 13 May 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
really one of the best finales i've seen. some absolutely magnificent scenery chewing in the skybox scene. respect that they went out on a high note of cynicism and bile.
― Hakim Bae's TMZ (s.clover), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link