One scenario re Epyck that I don't think is implausible (and maybe even implied): Tami was brought to this college with the specific job of revamping the admissions process--to start looking at the student rather than the SAT score--so I could see where four or five years down the road she brings Epyck to Braemore.
― clemenza, Saturday, 1 August 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
Go on now, get the hell out of my office.
http://phildellio.tripod.com/fnl.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
omg I want that shirt
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
Very cheap -- under $25 Canadian, including shipping.
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/220256834/east-dillon-high-panthers-football?ref=hp_rv-1
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
oh snap
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
i have a Panther Football tshirt I bought from Television Without Pity what feels like 9000 years agoit’s a bed tshirt now
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 September 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
I was glad to get an East Dillon. I grew to hate the Panthers those last two seasons because of J.D.'s evil father (and then, eventually, J.D. himself).
― clemenza, Friday, 11 September 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
QB1 lives in my heart forever
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 September 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
Every time i read through this thread and theres a hint of any badmouthing of 7 i get an itchy fp finger
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Monday, 18 January 2021 03:34 (three years ago) link
I've been periodically posting Zoomcasts--here's one we did on FNL a few months ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxExASYAVhw
Among other things, my friend talks about running into Zach Gilford at an airport--on a trip to Texas that he and wife took precisely because of FNL.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 January 2021 05:05 (three years ago) link
John Corbett in Northern Exposure
Proto Riggins
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
I thought about JC for yr third worst actor thread
― rob, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link
Were your eyes open
― e-skate to the chapeau (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 01:09 (three years ago) link
hmmi dunno deemsi think Chris in the Morning isn’t enough of a willful dirtbag to lead the Riggins pathHe’s too...Buddhist? his overall hippy vibe gives me problems wrt Riggo
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
would I hate Northern Exposure if I watched it now ? cuz I loved it when I was a kid for some reason
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
I always thought riggins played riggins' abs well enough and he was imo good in true detective
But im watching him doing a quiet bogey impersonation in this german ww2 aftermath detective series and i swear to god never, i mean never have i heard a worse vocal performance from a lead
The face is fine, better than fine, but the voice oh man the voice, like a keanu cold read on a sleepy day
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
reading the book
its great but a very different thing
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
100% book vs tv are poles apart. both great, but for WAY different reasons
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
movie maybe bridges the two
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link
Annual rewatch (sparked by a friend and his wife watching for the first time), middle of S2 right now. A couple of lines really made me laugh in E6, both having to do with Riggins:
Tammy - 'Cause it looks to me like your little sojourn, Tim, you missed yourself, oh, two biology exams.Tim - I don't know what a sojourn is, ma'am.
Later, Smash's description of Riggins, which is almost like a meta-joke about what a cliché the character is (don't get me wrong, one that's great anyway--or at least, for me, until the last season).
Smash - Look, we're different, you and me. Me, I'm the Smash. I'm throwed. I'm prime time, 24-7. And you? You're that brooding, rough...whatever.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
Those kids were all so perfectly cast for those roles. Whenever I see them in other things i feel like a parent, just happy to see them out there & working lol and that “sojourn” line still cracks me up
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
This is not quite the same thing, but I just started Lansky, which came out a couple of years ago and evidently disappeared into a COVID hole--watching not for Harvey Keitel as Lansky, but for Minka Kelly!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
The out-of-nowhere reappearance of Landry's friend--he gets beat up in the second or third episode, then disappears until he turns up in S3 as part of Landry's band--made me laugh. They seemingly bring him back for one minute and a couple of lines--he quits the band, and I don't recall that he's ever seen again.
In S4's first episode (2009), one of the new East Dillon players refers to Landry as "that Opie-looking dude." Four years later, in Breaking Bad's fifth season, Badger refers to Todd--also played by Jesse Plemons--as "that Opie, dead-eyed piece of shit." First in line for The Ron Howard Story, Jesse Plemons.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
The hardest thing to write on this show must have been Coach Taylor's motivational speeches--they start to blur together after three or four seasons.
Taylor: "Gentleman, the word of the week this week is focus."Player: (knocks forehead with palm) "No, no, no--that was the word of the week last week, Coach. You gotta give us something new to work with."
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 August 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
One thing that's weird is introducing Buddy Jr. halfway though S5, then putting him on crutches for the last few episodes. Don't really understand why they turned him into a mascot, basically, with no lines.
Anyway, finished up. I count Tammi Taylor's line in the final episode, about having the grace to say what her husband never said, as one of the most moving lines in any TV show or film this century.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 August 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link