This is an episode about gender roles and how the balance of both sides (in a relationship) are important. It was not about who's home or who's working, it was about balance both sides. We see how the wife needed to behave more "care giver" just as the husband needed to be in control more often. It's not about him "being the man" or her cooking. It's about both of them being both sides at the same time, all the time. She works, but she also cares and takes care of children and her husband. Just as, he may be busy with the kids and all house cleaning, but he knows he has a wife, in need of some more action from him. In general, we understand that if we just play a role, both sides lose each other. We understand that a relationship needs a balance between both sides, that goes deeper than gender roles. It's about share a bit of both with the partner.
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Please don't waste what you've done!
26 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I rarely come here to write about anything, but The OA is way too good. If the first season was good, the second was amazing; with a dangerous ending.
The OA writers bring us an intelligent, sensitive and very contemporary way of see life and afterlife. They do it in a way that amazed me. The mix of soul, angels, dying, mind, universe, multiverse, dimensions, consciousness, uniqueness, afterlife, etc, it's incredibly well made!
Everything is put in a way you can see the logic and the reality in a fiction series. But... This second season starts well, but as I kept on urging for answers, they gave me more. I must agree with some reviews on that. The octopus? The cubes doing the movements? Who's that traveller? The bodies blossoming in the water? It's OK if the next season explains some of those things. The thing is I was getting used to logics and some things are still too covered up or disconnected from the plot, to make it easy to swallow.
One thing is how brilliant the script was about OA as an angel, the other is to add some telephatic octopus to the same reality, as if it was normal. No, we can't be underestimating octopuses in our dimension... Or not that much. One thing is to have a gifted OA capable of introduce the perfect movements in a parallel reality; another is to have futuristic cubes doing those movements. So it's not a matter of will, perfection and energy anymore, a robot can do it? Other ways to travel without 5 doing the movements was OK, but THAT way?...
Just please don't waste everything with the end of the second season... That idea of the "real actors" and the set was bad. Or at least, something else could've been so much better, after all the possibilities the series has been given us. It may have ruined the plausible reality in the whole fantasy. So, I just hope the third season is capable of keep in the same script, angels, telephatic octopuses, blossoming multiverses, robotic tools to travel between dimensions and a cast of the "real" actors playing it all.
I'm curious already!
The OA writers bring us an intelligent, sensitive and very contemporary way of see life and afterlife. They do it in a way that amazed me. The mix of soul, angels, dying, mind, universe, multiverse, dimensions, consciousness, uniqueness, afterlife, etc, it's incredibly well made!
Everything is put in a way you can see the logic and the reality in a fiction series. But... This second season starts well, but as I kept on urging for answers, they gave me more. I must agree with some reviews on that. The octopus? The cubes doing the movements? Who's that traveller? The bodies blossoming in the water? It's OK if the next season explains some of those things. The thing is I was getting used to logics and some things are still too covered up or disconnected from the plot, to make it easy to swallow.
One thing is how brilliant the script was about OA as an angel, the other is to add some telephatic octopus to the same reality, as if it was normal. No, we can't be underestimating octopuses in our dimension... Or not that much. One thing is to have a gifted OA capable of introduce the perfect movements in a parallel reality; another is to have futuristic cubes doing those movements. So it's not a matter of will, perfection and energy anymore, a robot can do it? Other ways to travel without 5 doing the movements was OK, but THAT way?...
Just please don't waste everything with the end of the second season... That idea of the "real actors" and the set was bad. Or at least, something else could've been so much better, after all the possibilities the series has been given us. It may have ruined the plausible reality in the whole fantasy. So, I just hope the third season is capable of keep in the same script, angels, telephatic octopuses, blossoming multiverses, robotic tools to travel between dimensions and a cast of the "real" actors playing it all.
I'm curious already!
Mom
(2013–2021)
Great realistic show!
7 August 2017
Very good show!
It is a shame to watch some negative ratings on such a series. Are people worried about teenage pregnancy, alcoholics, single moms or free sex? Well, get real, that is how real life is.
The only thing I don't like, are the laugh tracks, but that is my problem.
The way characters have been developing is incredible.
It is very good to see that besides all the crap that may happen in our lives, it is always possible to correct ourselves. We can clearly see how Christy and Bonnie have a good and fair heart and always try to redeem themselves from mistakes (both of the past or present). Also, is lovely to see how their relationship develops, such as the relationships with their friends. They all may sound comically harsh to each others, but when something serious happens, we see them taking the right side and defending each other and that's what matters in life.
I understand there are many types of humor, but to say MOM is not good because of their topics, makes no sense. Only one who lives in a shell or denies the real life can say that. It is much more interesting to see this than another cliché storyline of some sort of normal family with a light tendency to be JUST funny.
I personally congratulate both Anna Faris and Allison Janney. I was not a fan of them, but I am now. Besides their wonderful acting skills, they show a very humanistic mindset.
AND TO THE HATERS, SEASON 5 IS COMING. BAM.
It is a shame to watch some negative ratings on such a series. Are people worried about teenage pregnancy, alcoholics, single moms or free sex? Well, get real, that is how real life is.
The only thing I don't like, are the laugh tracks, but that is my problem.
The way characters have been developing is incredible.
It is very good to see that besides all the crap that may happen in our lives, it is always possible to correct ourselves. We can clearly see how Christy and Bonnie have a good and fair heart and always try to redeem themselves from mistakes (both of the past or present). Also, is lovely to see how their relationship develops, such as the relationships with their friends. They all may sound comically harsh to each others, but when something serious happens, we see them taking the right side and defending each other and that's what matters in life.
I understand there are many types of humor, but to say MOM is not good because of their topics, makes no sense. Only one who lives in a shell or denies the real life can say that. It is much more interesting to see this than another cliché storyline of some sort of normal family with a light tendency to be JUST funny.
I personally congratulate both Anna Faris and Allison Janney. I was not a fan of them, but I am now. Besides their wonderful acting skills, they show a very humanistic mindset.
AND TO THE HATERS, SEASON 5 IS COMING. BAM.
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