TV: HBO: Insecure

[VinylGuy]

ill start season 2, but if its similar to season 1...yeah, im gone.

[epilogue]

ill start season 2, but if its similar to season 1...yeah, im gone.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

Nah. Lawrence decides to move to SF and it is a conundrum. I honestly don't care what happens with Molly. Issa is better off meeting a new best friend

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

Finally started the final season last night. First two episodes were strong. Man, I had really missed being in this world.

Excited for more tonight.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

Episode three was a gut punch. I loved it as a stand alone episode, and I get why we need to see it, but it was hard being away from the rest of the cast the entire time.

Episode four was excellent.

I like that I'm watching this in small chunks (one or two at a time) rather than fully binging. It's helping the experience for me.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

I still haven't watched the last season. I suppose I will, though I feel no rush

[epilogue]

Yeah, sorry trag But I can't really disagree with anything you said in your write up about the show and the final season. That was pretty much where I landed as well.

Spoiler: show

Did you watch any of the post-episode Wine Downs? I'm convinced Issa Rae didn't want Issa and Lawrence to get back together. It's pretty clear she was pressured into that and it shows.

The one thing strong take away for me with the finale and the getting back together stuff was how wonderful the final moment in the mirror was. Issa communicates so much in that quiet moment. It's clear that she has her own doubts about Lawrence. It's clear that she's still "insecure." But it's also clear that for the first time she's secure in being insecure. And that's the real arc.

That was my immediate take away from that moment and they do kind of address some of that in the post-show Wine Down. So, I'm not totally nuts. That was the intention there and I think it really came through.

But, yeah, this show was fantastic overall, despite some missteps along the way.