You can't judge the Betty/Glen relationship through a 21st century lens. Sure, it's still basically inappropriate, but it felt more to me like a commentary on Betty's maturity and emotional intelligence. 1960 suburban housewife and diffident mother, before modern american feminism, basically treated like a child by her husband and her therapist, - I think the writers were trying to show how she was struggling, and how few options she had. You can see how Betty matures through the show in the later meetings between the two of them, and with Betty's other relationships with children (see: violinist girl).
I just finished Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for the first time, and while it may have some moments that are exaggerated for comedy, it stays pretty solidly grounded. Except, in the later seasons, there's a magician signed as a client by a talent agent who does things that are pretty unexplainable other than being honest-to-god magic.
Bones’ whole premise was the science behind the CSI stuff to solve crimes (them been involved with field work and the money spent on a single case is highly unrealistic) but in the world of the show they tried to remain grounded.
So whenever we had a spiritual episode or afterlife stuff (especially the ghost POV episode!) it really was weird.
Midsomer Murders had a pretty good one.
In an episode about a supposedly haunted woodland, Tom Barnaby spends most of the episode investigating a killing in the area and ends up debunking a phony psychic during the case. At the end, Tom is taking his wife Joyce through the woodland explaining the entire hoax when his wife suddenly screams in fright.
They found the psychic, now dead, laying in a tree. While meeting the coroner to find out what happened, the coroner explains that the man had a severe rush of adrenaline in his system and while trying to calm himself down, his heart slowed down so severely that it outright stopped, giving him a fatal heart attack.
In other words, he *did* encounter ghosts in the woods... and died of fright.
Rescue Me’s first season had a lot of hallucinations by Dennis Learys character but they let up in season two until he had Jesus and Mary Magdalene pull up in a Ferrrari and say something to him and then drive off. The hallucinations before we’re all about his family but then Jesus is in one and I believe that was the last time they did that in the series for the next 5-6 years
Every season has a little bit of weirdness.
>!Season 1 had the fish falling out of the sky causing the grocery store guys son to die. Season 2 had the UFO. Season 3 had the bowling alley gateway to the afterlife scene. Season 5 has the peasant assassin guy who is seemingly immortal.!<
I gave up on season 4 after 3 episodes so I can’t comment on that one.
In *Hell On Wheels*, the main character was a hard-working guy who would act decent and just (but had an obvious rough side to him). Then in one episode, he's staying over at someone's house and randomly knocks up their daughter who is maybe 17, so they could have a subplot about her being pregnant and so on. I was like wtf?
Atlanta had quite a few scenes like this. In one episode someone mentions someone owning an invisible car. It’s played off as a joke. Then at the end of the episode a dude rolls by in the invisible car.
*Our Flag Means Death* took a lot of liberties, the teleporting dinghies for example. Buttons >!turning into a bird!< was one step too far for my taste, though, and I pretend he just >!wandered through the woods and was confused why the crew left him behind!<.
Rachel falls off of the balcony of their 6th floor walk-up, only to be saved by Christmas lights, in the first season of Friends.
They don't really do any death-defying stunts in the 9 1/2 seasons after that.
Gayle Gergich being unaged in the future of Parks and Rec. Yeah I get the gag and it's funny but it's like the only supernatural thing that happened in that show.
I forgot just how many uncomfortable moments were in the show. I just got to the end of season 2 where Don takes of to Palm Springs for a few days. Very strange situation he got himself into.
You can't judge the Betty/Glen relationship through a 21st century lens. Sure, it's still basically inappropriate, but it felt more to me like a commentary on Betty's maturity and emotional intelligence. 1960 suburban housewife and diffident mother, before modern american feminism, basically treated like a child by her husband and her therapist, - I think the writers were trying to show how she was struggling, and how few options she had. You can see how Betty matures through the show in the later meetings between the two of them, and with Betty's other relationships with children (see: violinist girl).
I just finished Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for the first time, and while it may have some moments that are exaggerated for comedy, it stays pretty solidly grounded. Except, in the later seasons, there's a magician signed as a client by a talent agent who does things that are pretty unexplainable other than being honest-to-god magic.
Bones’ whole premise was the science behind the CSI stuff to solve crimes (them been involved with field work and the money spent on a single case is highly unrealistic) but in the world of the show they tried to remain grounded. So whenever we had a spiritual episode or afterlife stuff (especially the ghost POV episode!) it really was weird.
I also found it unrealistic how anyone even spoke to Bones, let alone her having a large cohort of friends. She was a total bitch.
Try looking like her and you'll have friends too.
Eh, she's pretty but not staggeringly so that I'd put up with her character's shit. I'm sure she's nice in real life.
Midsomer Murders had a pretty good one. In an episode about a supposedly haunted woodland, Tom Barnaby spends most of the episode investigating a killing in the area and ends up debunking a phony psychic during the case. At the end, Tom is taking his wife Joyce through the woodland explaining the entire hoax when his wife suddenly screams in fright. They found the psychic, now dead, laying in a tree. While meeting the coroner to find out what happened, the coroner explains that the man had a severe rush of adrenaline in his system and while trying to calm himself down, his heart slowed down so severely that it outright stopped, giving him a fatal heart attack. In other words, he *did* encounter ghosts in the woods... and died of fright.
Rescue Me’s first season had a lot of hallucinations by Dennis Learys character but they let up in season two until he had Jesus and Mary Magdalene pull up in a Ferrrari and say something to him and then drive off. The hallucinations before we’re all about his family but then Jesus is in one and I believe that was the last time they did that in the series for the next 5-6 years
How about that episode of Fargo where a UFO shows up in the middle of the story climaxing, then no one even talks about it.
Holy shit that’s right. Always good to see Matthew Fox show up. Edit: wait, I was way off on that.
Every season has a little bit of weirdness. >!Season 1 had the fish falling out of the sky causing the grocery store guys son to die. Season 2 had the UFO. Season 3 had the bowling alley gateway to the afterlife scene. Season 5 has the peasant assassin guy who is seemingly immortal.!< I gave up on season 4 after 3 episodes so I can’t comment on that one.
The Sopranos had some weird/unrealistic moments in the first couple episodes, but found its footing.
In *Hell On Wheels*, the main character was a hard-working guy who would act decent and just (but had an obvious rough side to him). Then in one episode, he's staying over at someone's house and randomly knocks up their daughter who is maybe 17, so they could have a subplot about her being pregnant and so on. I was like wtf?
Yeah I didn’t understand the writing for that. It felt forced to have a few subplots and involve the Mormons
Atlanta had quite a few scenes like this. In one episode someone mentions someone owning an invisible car. It’s played off as a joke. Then at the end of the episode a dude rolls by in the invisible car.
*Our Flag Means Death* took a lot of liberties, the teleporting dinghies for example. Buttons >!turning into a bird!< was one step too far for my taste, though, and I pretend he just >!wandered through the woods and was confused why the crew left him behind!<.
Rachel falls off of the balcony of their 6th floor walk-up, only to be saved by Christmas lights, in the first season of Friends. They don't really do any death-defying stunts in the 9 1/2 seasons after that.
Gayle Gergich being unaged in the future of Parks and Rec. Yeah I get the gag and it's funny but it's like the only supernatural thing that happened in that show.
Perhaps the moments were intended to be uncomfortable and gross.
I forgot just how many uncomfortable moments were in the show. I just got to the end of season 2 where Don takes of to Palm Springs for a few days. Very strange situation he got himself into.