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Post by KyleEl on Feb 15, 2021 17:21:23 GMT -5
A good and emotional episode about Kevin. As a teenager, he was cocky and sassy, but he was acting that way because he learned his father/hero was going to AA meetings. When he went to his school to accept an award, he tried to tell people he did not deserve it, but people only saw what they expected to see. There was an unexpected reveal at the end. Jack wasn't usually that mean, but he made up for it. It's good that Kevin recognized there are people who have done more important things than he has. It's a shame he had to admit he hadn't done anything of consequence, though everyone loves "The Manny". And in the past, everything was looking good except Kevin wasn't taking his future seriously, not wearing the right clothes or respecting the coach who might let him play. And then one tragedy after another. How much tragedy are we supposed to have in one episode? I knew how Kate's pregnancy would end, but how could they just spring it on people like that after all Kevin just went through? I was glad Kevin didn't use the prescription pad but he did use the doctor and she wasn't happy. |
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Post by KyleEl on Feb 22, 2021 16:02:01 GMT -5
Kate lost the baby and she and Toby had to work through the effect that had on their relationship. I thought the episode would be maudlin, but it was not. I think Toby was the hero of the story. After reading this I was prepared but it was somewhat sadder than I expected. Kate came through for the people she performed for. Meanwhile we see the same events from different perspectives. I wondered why the shower curtain needed to be put in the trash. And I hope it was cleaned in some way after it had been there and replaced. I hate that Kate wasted all that food. And she put Toby through so much. At least she told Rebecca but Rebecca came as soon as she could. They do so much for each other. Rebecca finally had a meltdown over those onions. I was pleased she could laugh about it in the future. That helped. |
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Post by KyleEl on Mar 1, 2021 17:30:28 GMT -5
Deja's mother came to Randall's home and demanded to take Deja home with her. Randall and Beth refused because she had not gone through the proper procedure. They told the social worker they were going to fight to keep Deja because her mother was unfit. Several things happened that led to Randall and Beth changing their minds about trying to take Deja from her mother, and it was resolved amicably. Although all of the siblings suffered disappointments, I am glad the season ended with this episode because there was joy, hope, and acceptance. I'm glad Randall and Beth were able to find a way to let Deja go back to her mother, but we all know she's coming back. And as of this past week, we know she's very good at science. The social worker was Kitty on "That 70s Show". I never noticed that before. It was nice to see William with the family so many times in what we know was a fantasy. I don't think Rebecca would have been so accepting of his showing up like that. Fortunately, he saw something that changed his mind. Rebecca was so pretty when the babies were learning to walk. Kevin's in trouble and one of the girls should not have sneaked into his car. That could have been bad. And I knew Kevin shouldn't have been driving. |
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Post by KyleEl on Mar 8, 2021 17:02:20 GMT -5
The Fifth Wheel
SEASON 2, EPISODE 11 • NEW
9:00 PM ON WBALDT 11 • TV-14 • STEREO • CC
The Pearsons come together under unexpected circumstances; Jack surprises the family with a summer vacation. "Unexpected" circumstances is right. When the counselor asked the immediate family to participate in a conference with Kevin, I did not expect the fireworks. The characters have played their roles so well, I could understand each of their point-of-view. The siblings were able to hug each other when it was over. However, there is an underlying theme that their mother has disappointed each of them during parts of their formative years. I enjoyed the not-immediate family members (Beth, Toby, and Miguel) comments about how they view the Pearson clan. I thought I was prepared for anything but what the counselor did was too much. At least they made up afterward. And I also enjoyed seeing the "others". Randall has glasses now. So why has he never worn them as a teenager? Even if he wears contacts, those are a pain in an emergency and he would surely have glasses to put on. Kate has a problem with food, and Jack doesn't see it as a problem. I also see she is taller than her brothers. I guess when they hired the actress they did it based on talent and appearance and didn't anticipate how tall she would be. And they must figure we won't notice that she ends up shrinking. |
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Post by KyleEl on Mar 16, 2021 15:35:11 GMT -5
This was a good episode in which there was an unlikely outcome. Kate and the girl she gets irritated at in the self-help group became friends. They were already friends, but they became better friends. Kate was still annoyed at her, but when they were alone together they were friends. Oh, that was it? I copied another episode summary but it was not preceded by an episode description so I assumed it was still about this episode. After all, Randall did decide in this episode to buy the apartment building. I was confused because when Randall first met his father, the door to his apartment was on the outside, but in this building Randall had to go in a door when there was a buzzing sound and then all the apartments had doors in the hallway. But somehow this was another apartment building where William's stuff had been left even though he moved. I enjoyed seeing Randall get to know the people and the flashbacks with William. Everyone liked William! That was one ugly cat. And then there was a solution for the poor cat's problem. I think this was true both in the past and in the present. Miguel told Jack about his marital problems and he didn't want advice. Just to rant. In the present, Miguel had to protect Rebecca from Kevin, and he still doesn't feel respected. I still liked seeing Kevin with both of them. Teenage Kate found a dress that fit but for some reason she didn't want to wear it. Teenage Randall likes a girl. In the present, Kate and Madison went wedding dress shopping. I don't know who was going to pay for a private shopping experience unless it was Kevin. |
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Post by KyleEl on Mar 22, 2021 15:37:41 GMT -5
Kevin made amends to people he harmed. Sophie said good-bye forever, but she forgave him. Charlotte returned his pendant and he was very relieved. Randall decided to buy an apartment building and fix it up for the residents. Beth helped him with the planning, but he then agreed to fix everything immediately. That was not a good idea. Kevin came and helped to do a lot of the repairs. Kate finally accepted that her father really does see her as beautiful. All of the siblings bailed on Jack right before the Superbowl game even though watching it was their tradition. He handled it well because he was a very loving man. Randall's misadventures were one of the best things about the episode for me. I kept thinking in the last two episodes that I knew the man who had the roach problem and I looked him up. He was the cashier on "2 Broke Girls" and an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live". It was nice of Kevin to help. The scenes with teenage Kate were nice. And she really is pretty. I wasn't that crazy about the present-day scenes with Kate because I really do not like dogs. But I could see the appeal of their owning a dog. At the end, we caught glimpses of the fire that ended Jack's life. Oh boy, did we. It's such a shame because that older couple did a nice thing giving them that Crock-Pot. But they knew it was defective. All this time I've believed it had something to do with the fusebox and the power going out those other times. I thought the role of the older couple was they were the first ones whose house Jack and Rebecca were going to buy and fix up. But the offer they got didn't seem to be from Jack and Rebecca because the couple knew them and their role was to give that gift. I did notice last week a close-up of what looked like a smoke detector. I wonder how they do that? Surely they don't just burn the set. It looks like they can do some kind of visual effects. Knowing what will happen, I see all that valuable irreplaceable stuff and hope they could save some of it. And all that work Jack did for the new TV. It's just such a nice house. |
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Post by KyleEl on Mar 29, 2021 15:35:18 GMT -5
The fire scenes and aftermath were very well done. I thought it would be hard to watch, but it was not. It was an amazing episode and not nearly as bad as I had feared it would be. Since I knew they'd lose the house anyway and that Jack wouldn't die right away, I knew what to expect but there was a surprising amount of comedy, mostly from Randall's family but partly from adult Kevin and older Rebecca. In fact, even after the fire, both Kevin and Rebecca had a sense of humor and made us laugh a couple of times. It was amazing. Kevin was missing and Jack said, "I'll kill him" and Rebecca agreed to be his alibi. All that stuff I was afraid they were going to lose got rescued by Jack along with the dog. That's not enough to justify doing what killed him, but I sure was relieved. And I knew some of that stuff had to survive the fire somehow because we've seen it in the present or at least later. The smoke detector was mentioned. We saw a closeup of it in a previous episode. We all knew Jack was going to die and from that one episode where Randall imagined he was able to persuade his father not to go back in and Jack lived, I knew it wouldn't happen right away. But Rebecca's reaction was surprising. First I thought she needed the candy to get through it. But she just couldn't accept it and demanded the doctor not telling her things that weren't true, because he was obviously talking about something else. And then she reacted as expected twice, once outside Jack's room and once outside the house later. Then Rebecca told Miguel they were going to be strong for the children. The way she was feeling she was determined to do the right thing with the children who were going to be hurting enough. And Migwel was not going to be allowed to be sad. We didn't hear the children being told, or Kevin, but we saw at least In the present Rebecca said how she just ate the candy bar had always bothered her. I do have a number of problems with the episode. Jack died on Super Bowl Sunday? The game was over. It was very early Monday. Also, they said they missed the end of the game. I don't know what time it ended back then. But at the hospital it was midnight. That means the fire must have started around 11 or earlier. They would have had to be in bed for a while not to realize it was happening. Did I forget something about why they missed the end of the game? And how did three hours pass just like that? And while they've been filming people escaping from a fire for as long as there have been movies, I have to wonder just how they filmed that. As long as you can't see the fire, it doesn't matter. But when you an see it, CGI is possible these days. But even forgetting there are actors, did they actually burn their set? When the firefighters got there, It was obvious there was an actual burning house. Did they burn a house down? |
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 5, 2021 17:51:02 GMT -5
“The Car” lessened the pain some after seeing how Jack died. I am so glad they did not have him die in the blaze. That would have been too horrific to bear. I really liked the scene where Jack explained to the salesman what his family meant to him. I also enjoyed seeing him make Kevin and Randall walk home, then he told them about his relationship with his brother. Such a good episode. Of course it was hard seeing the family going to the cemetery. I realized when Rebecca took the urn that several weeks ago Kate had it. Although when they showed the favorite tree I remembered Kevin "visited" Jack there. So that meant at least some of the ashes were there. I enjoyed watching everything about the car other than the trip to the memorial service. Or I guess it can be called a funeral even if there are ashes, but I heard somewhere the body has to be there to call it a funeral. The doctor was there! That was great. I wondered why Kevin didn't have a tie. Something that didn't hit me: even if he had one, they lost everything in the fire. So I wonder where they got everything. Only on TV does everyone wear black to a funeral. That was a great looking bridge. Rebecca had to actually drive across it and that surely meant keeping her eyes open. |
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 12, 2021 15:37:15 GMT -5
I enjoyed this so much, even when disagreements erupted. The disagreements exposed how people really felt about their relationship with other members and that led to better understanding. It seems like Toby is bonding with his future brothers-in-law. Kevin bumped into his co-star and she told him her part was cut from the movie. Toby's advice to Kevin was to call Ron Howard and tell him that cutting him from the movie would be a big mistake. Kevin followed that advice and learned that Ron had no intention of cutting him from the movie. Ron was nice about it. As always, I loved the flashbacks of Jack and Rebecca. They think Kevin will be a chef. I don't think that ever went anywhere. But the kids worked hard to give their parents a nice anniversary. So sad they were afraid they were getting a divorce. Not enough time was devoted to Randall and Kate watching "Sex and the City". Usually they spend a lot of time in the flashbacks on the point they want to make. I'm so glad I knew Madison's future when I watched this. What a shame about Deja. And yet I hated how Randall and Beth fought. It seemed like all this was going to ruin both parties. Seeing Beth so happy was just plain weird. But I was glad to see how well Toby is getting along with his two new "brothers". And it was wonderful Kevin didn't get cut. I got confused and was thinking he deserted the production but Madison isn't even with him yet, much less pregnant. Seeing the kitchen again reminded me: when the fire first started it looked like CGI or something. The kitchen was never shown obviously burning and they were going to have to use it again. I looked at where the crock pot had been. |
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 19, 2021 15:35:08 GMT -5
This was a warm episode that showed how a normal loving family could change someone’s life. The entire episode focused on Deja’s life with her mother and while she was in foster homes. She was a loving daughter even though her mother let her down many times. Her mother kept helping her boyfriend financially and that caused their electricity to be turned off. Eventually, they were evicted and were sleeping in the car during the cold winter temperatures. Although Randall was in Las Vegas, he was worried about Deja. Beth became angry when he would not stop worrying about it. When they arrived home, they checked on Deja and learned she had been evicted. They found Deja and her mother asleep in a car and brought both of them to their home. We saw how happy and full of laughter Deja was in the Pearson household. Her mother saw that too and decided to leave without Deja. I liked the episode. We even got a bonus William scene. What a shame Deja's great grandmother died. She was so helpful and so nice. Did I get that right? She was too young to be her grandmother if her mother was a teenager. We don't know where Deja's mother's parents were. Deja was so nice and we got to see a different side of her from earlier. Deja's mother wasn't as bad as we had been led to believe but she tried to hard to get her friend out of trouble even though he was kind of a jerk. Things weren't quite as bad as we thought when we just saw Deja on the phone. On the subject of phones, no matter how bad things were, thy always had their smartphones. I'm certain I saw Deja's foster father sitting next to him in Deja's apartment. There was a lot of inserting of brief related scenes. This was not an episode that anyone not familiar with the show should have watched. Deja's mother did the right thing in the end but the Pearsons were so good to Deja. |
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 19, 2021 15:36:48 GMT -5
The Wedding
SEASON 2, EPISODE 18 • FINALE
3/13/18, 9:00 PM ON WBALDT 11 • TV-14 • STEREO • CC
The Pearsons' story begins in 1979, on the day Jack and Rebecca's triplets Kate, Kevin and Randall joined the family -- though not in the way anyone expected. This emotional saga of love, life and loss spans 35 years and three generations. So I see I have only one to go. And after that I'll still be on my computer watching episodes because I lost two "Tell Me a Story" episodes, if I can find them for free. But I don't have time anyway. |
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 26, 2021 13:43:06 GMT -5
The season finale was excellent. It was about Kate’s wedding to Toby, but we were treated to a 20-year vow renewal between Jack and Rebecca in the setting for the wedding. We later learned it was a recurring dream Kate had been having for weeks. Jack and Rebecca were beautiful and I enjoyed seeing them together. I was not sure Kate was going to make it to the ceremony on time and her brothers headed out to search for her. There were some good emotional scenes between them. Deja’s mother has given up parental rights and Deja has been acting negatively since that time. Last time we saw her, she was vandalizing a car, probably Randall’s. Flash forward scenes for next season seemed tragic, but we have to wait and see. I enjoyed the vow renewal so much. That was an adventure searching for Kate. But she finally did something with ashes. I don't know whether it meant there weren't any left. I was so glad I already knew Madison's future. Somehow it helps to know how close she and Kate are. There was a mention of Deja's mother giving up rights but that didn't happen in the last episode. I had to check to make sure I didn't somehow miss one but the NBC site is supposed to keep advancing me to the next episode. That was Randall's car, I believe, and oh boy, she's surely going to have to face consequences for that. Deja called that place a dump? But she has lived in dumps all her life. I was impressed how well Beth's cousin handled Deja. Toby's mom is Sheldon's college president and the one babying him so he can bring in money. She said Deja looked like Randall. I didn't see it but she does look like William. Toby's dad was the dad on "The Wonder Years" and I know he's been in other shows recently. I did sort of like seeing Toby's parents bicker but it is a problem they don't think he and Kate will make it. Three scenes from the future I was able to watch knowing what was going to happen, not worried like I would have been had I watch these in order. we know Randall is going to see his mother. We know Kevin and Beth's cousin will end up together for a while and go to Vietnam to learn about Kevin's uncle. And Toby will get over his depression. I am all caught up! But now I'll miss having the show to look forward to every week. Because new episodes won't be back for a while a few weeks from now. But if I can I need to start watching "Tell Me a Story" online. |
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 26, 2021 16:52:20 GMT -5
I thought of something else. How did Kate even have a shirt Jack wore? Everything was in the house that burned. Jack died rescuing that dog and the valuable stuff he brought out, but was the shirt in that? There was other stuff too including that baseball bat Deja used. Did all that stuff somehow not get burned?
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Post by KyleEl on May 7, 2021 15:03:23 GMT -5
Yes, this happened to me too. I was just reading that Crock-Pot got in trouble because fans blamed their product for Jack's death. And it took me a while to stop thinking of what happened when I saw one.
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Post by avp60685 on May 8, 2021 10:53:35 GMT -5
This is from Kyle some information about Crock-Pot:
Agency A-List 2019: No. 4
Pollack, Judann.Advertising Age; Chicago Vol. 90, Iss. 8, (Apr 15, 2019): 8.Publisher logo. Links to publisher website, opened in a new window.
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" "People had trouble determining fact from fiction," says Ashley Mowrey, global director of PR and social media marketing at Newell Brands' Crock-Pot, who says Edelman's Atlanta office helped it navigate the tricky task of "being empathetic" with viewers of the show while also striking just the right tone when addressing the problem.
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And what a body of work it's creating. Edelman busted assumptions of what an "average" family looks like with an arresting HP film and rescued Crock-Pot from a literal fire when a beloved character from NBC's "This Is Us" was killed in blaze caused by a janky appliance. Edelman dreamed up and executed the idea to redesign the Nasdaq bell for Sonos. (Anomaly also worked on that project.) It was Edelman that added Braille "love notes" to the packaging of Kellogg's Rice Krispies Treats.
Crock-Pot exemplifes what Edelman does best: social monitoring, crisis communication and a buzzy creative solution when fans blamed the cooker for Jack Pearson's death in "This is Us."
"People had trouble determining fact from fiction," says Ashley Mowrey, global director of PR and social media marketing at Newell Brands' Crock-Pot, who says Edelman's Atlanta office helped it navigate the tricky task of "being empathetic" with viewers of the show while also striking just the right tone when addressing the problem.
The result was #CrockpotIsInnocent and a video, shot in 48 hours, featuring Milo Ventimiglia, the actor who plays Pearson, talking about settling differences and forgiving while he serves up a bowl of Crock-Pot chili. With a zero-paid media budget, the film generated 3.7 billion impressions and drew millennials into an aging franchise. But it also generated more than $300,000 in incremental Crock-Pot sales during the four weeks after it aired. "We solve, we don't just create impressions," says Edelman.
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