"good writing"

Every single "fuck" uttered in the show just takes me straight out of it.
Also Dylan's asshole mouth

using Fuck makes your writing good?

gay marvel capeshit reaction image

random seething about god

The MCU Method isn't about saying 'fuck', it's about hilarious self-aware references

MCU

hilarious

using Fuck makes your writing good?

maybe not but seething about the word fuck is funny, and it shows that you don't really know why you hate the writing

acting

Please tell me the boot-ugly doctor introduced in episode 6 gets offed quickly. Her first scene in she's already spiked the camera multiple times while barely getting her words out. If she's in for the long haul, I will literally stop pirating it.

I was in the middle of drinking out of a thick whiskey glass while watching an episode yesterday and Dylan's butthole mouth was on the screen and magnified in the bottom of the glass so his lips were taking up his entire face

Fucking behold, modern fucking western writing.

I don't think "sincerity" is the most appropriate word for the opposite but yeah, it's a clear trend.

At this point I'd just call the opposite "dignity". These modern writers obviously have none.

I wouldn't have singled out Milchick as "the" character who speaks obscurely; I'm not sure why they made a point of underlining that in S2

they had to make up a "muh raycism" plot point for the second season, which is why it feels forced

Why did they have to?

I thought the S1 season finale was very satisfying, but I wish they found a way to still keep the plot of the outside world and the the plot within Lumon more separate and advance things more slowly. Things escalated so quickly in the last 5 or 6 episodes of season 2 that finale felt like something that would happen close to the end of the show altogether. I'm sure they can still find a way to keep things compelling, but I'm not sure if they will. S1 was some of the best television I've ever seen, but I'm skeptical going forward.

Generally I didn't enjoy S2 as much as S1 and there's a lot of pointless shit in it, but overall it was satisfying on a character level if not on a plot level (and being a mystery box show that will never manage the latter, the former counts for a lot)

Myself I actually liked how they pushed forward with the plot at a brisk pace (that's the biggest pitfall with this kind of story for me), and some of the storylines make very good use of the concept (undercover outie, love triangle with yourself, etc). I guess the biggest gyp of the season is how the reintegration plot has basically no bearing on the plot except for giving the sister an excuse to contact Patricia Arquette

what i dont get us why the fuck would anyone sign up for the procedure? you're still experiencing work, you just keep forgetting

mahhhhk
ooohh mahhhk
once you finish cold................................................................................................harbor.....................................................................................they'll kill her

Please tell me the boot-ugly doctor introduced in episode 6 gets offed quickly.

She's seemingly unceremoniously written out in Season 2 and replaced with Cobel but we're not sure yet.

Not really; "experiencing" it is precisely what you're not doing.

That's literally the premise: you get what you want out of a given situation (a salary, a baby, your teeth fixed) without being there for the "bad" parts (working 8 hours a day, uncomfortable months of pregnancy and a delivery, the actual dentistry work).

isn't that like saying you don't experience dreams because you don't remember (most of) them?

huang.

that is all

7 iq

Again, not really. The equivalent wouldn't be not remembering a dream; it would be not remembering dreaming.

Does the show ever really explore this concept fully or does it just continue to be ‘Cartoonishly evil white corporate cult bad, here’s your next Mystery Box’?

The only good acting is from Britt because she puts a lot of personality into her terrible lines.
They never say anything funny or interesting, or reflect on their situation.
The writers didn't even give them any off-the-shelf romance lines for their little office romance
The closest was

at least it's a happy one

for their final refinement together

They gave you Ms. Casey in season 1 and you’re simping over this?

She basically repeats the same small scene as the cliffhanger for three different episodes in S2, then gets written out having accomplished nothing.
It's very strange, I think some writers really loved her but failed to get their way.

For all its faults, yeah it does explore it.
Being one person but having divergent goals from part of yourself is explored pretty well.

They never say anything funny or interesting

Seth said "eat shit"

not a fan of hags
also ms casey being mark's wife is a hilariously racist bait and switch because it subverts your expectations that (1) he would have been married to a white woman (our natural expectation for a white character) and (2) it subverts every character's description of her which aligns with a white woman in her minds

casey and huang are two attempts by (((stiller))) to mock and denigrate wmaf, and i won't stand for it!

The really important part is that you have two tracks of short term memory
When you step back into the office and get your work memories back, yesterday doesn't feel like yesterday with a gap
It feels like an instant ago
That's the source of the illusion of being two people, and it's not something you can every really experience in reality. IRL even when you have a memory gap, the earlier memories are in long term memory and your sense of time isn't lost.

casey and huang are two attempts by (((stiller))) to mock and denigrate wmaf, and i won't stand for it!

There's a word for this

The Milchick actor complained and complained, and kept raising the issue with Ben Stiller. Eventually they gave him a little plot to keep him quiet.

why are there weird accents for Cobel, Irving, the Eagans?

That's just how people speak in New England

She appears a couple of times, then vanishes unceremoniously

Season one did a great job of showing the parallels between fictional cults and real life corporate culture. Many corporations like Apple demand total fealty of their employees. Season two lost sight of that in favor of trite relationship drama.

I don't think any of the writers really have experience in the corporate world
They're LA dipshits or former blue collar factory workers in the case of Dan Erickson
So it's a bit theoretical to them and they rapidly ran out of ideas for the office setting. Filled the gap with tepid romance and Kier nonsense.

Yeah, the first season was "exaggerated corporate culture to the point of cult"
S2 is just "cult"

They slipped up by not widening the world in the office. More people to interact with, other departments, other kinds of work for them to do.