I was JUST mentioning that exact thought to my partner. Apparently it wasn't enough that they had to steal the whole workshop storyline - they had to go for the real life (and for many people still incredibly painful) storyline. Very frustrating.
It seems only last week you were being chipper, then worried, then chipper, then worried. Weaving us all into your co-dependent spell.
We were the dependent ones, Kyle. We were.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
I was hoping at one point he'd pop up and tell us that he jumped over the moon. But alas, there was no moon for Kyle. No stars, either. Just the dimming light of the young book writer of a sung through musical.
“The Phenomenon” is such a bafflingly miscalculated piece of television that I’m hard-pressed to figure out exactly why anyone thought it would work. And yet as you watch it, it’s obvious that everybody involved thinks this is going to be some truly powerful stuff that will leave viewers weeping and Emmy voters filling out their ballots with Smash written down from top to bottom. “The Phenomenon” is so bad that I urge all of you to rush out, to find it on Hulu, to watch it right now, because it must be experienced. In fact, I paused it 10 minutes in on my screener to ask my wife to come watch it with me, because I needed to see it with her. It really needs to be shared, like a beloved family heirloom or a viral infection. “The Phenomenon” is such a misstep that it sort of loops back around to being entertaining again. Everything about it actively offended me, but I also wanted to watch it all over again. AV Club
Oh, and I actually own the shirt Jimmy was wearing during his PARENT TRAP via DRUGSTORE COWBOY moment. Which made me uncomfortable.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Good to know I wasn't the only one who found it offensive. Everyone on Twitter seems to think it's especially brilliant. Don't get me started on Tepper.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how