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TL Season 2 Ep 1 Thoughts- Spoilers so under the cut. I thought it was a pretty good episode that could have maybe used some editing as probably could my thoughts cause I’m WORDY.

The good:

- Introduction of Sharon. Love her and I love how it pushes Ted’s buttons and it’s going to have to make him confront things. A lot of people have built Ted up to be too much of a martyr magical character and so I like that the show isn’t having that. I loved Sharon’s confidence about her job and how she’s had to work 2x as hard. As a Black woman in a predominantly white profession, I’m sure that is true. I also loved that once she helped Dani, the players naturally gravitated towards her.

- Beard’s reactions were all excellent.

- Teases of what storylines will be for Rebecca, Nate and Roy particularly, though I have CONCERNS about what I’ve heard happens further down the line for Rebecca but I’m trying not to let that color earlier episodes. I like that Nate’s issues touch on things I noticed about him in season 1.

- Higgins showing where he isn’t a total buffoon at his job. Jeremy is a great physical comedian.

- Ted asking Rebecca if John is nice to HER and that being his first and most important question to ask. Roy telling her the truth she needs to hear post double date.

- Pretty much everything Roy in this episode. The Jamie intro was perfect too. Phoebe remains adorable.

- Rebecca’s fashion of course and Hannah’s acting because she plays Rebecca as so broken and fragile when it comes to anything outside of work that it can almost be hard to watch because you just want to hug her.

The either confused or didn’t love:

- Particularly towards the beginning felt there were way too many Ted-isms and pop culture references. Noticed it most during the first scene in Rebecca’s office and it pulled me out of scenes a bit.

- Not sure how I felt about Ted’s press conference story. It was brilliantly acted by Jason but I’m not sure I understood the correlation or why all the reporters seemed bowled over.

- Been a lot of convo over the Rebecca coffee shop scene. I didn’t HATE it and the song was perfect but the visuals confused me when Rebecca was looking at the other customers while having an epiphany. It was a lot of exposition. Think I was mostly confused and I still don’t totally understand what she meant about being safe. Please stop getting life advice from Sassy, Rebecca.

- Keeley- I adore Keeley. I loved Keeley in this episode being a good friend to Rebecca and a good partner to Roy but I need to see Keeley having an arc or storyline that lives outside of Roy & Rebecca. I’m going to assume it happens but there was no obvious set-up here as there was for many of the others. The Boba Fett line didn’t work for me either and didn’t feel very much like something Keeley would say.