i irrationally hate the actor that played the mother from How I Met Your Mother. Maybe i just hate that doe eyes look she seems to be inflicted with. And she seems to always be playing some sad sack in a bad relationship so it might just be type casting too. Plus the end of HIMYM was so fuckin bad so that might not help lol.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Unpopular opinion, but I really like the early seasons of the Office US. It tried to replicate the drier, bleaker tone of the UK version. There were a lot of melancholic moments during those seasons, and it left an impression on me because the episodes would just end after something sweet or vaguely sad with the black credit scenes without any music - almost as if it was an early draft of the documentary it’s supposed to be formatted as.

      My favorite is probably the Office Olympics - everyone was getting along and having fun while Michael was away. Pam made makeshift medals for the winners. After he returned and is extremely pissed off with everything, everyone just awkwardly scuffles back to work and Ryan throws away the medal in front of Pam, upsetting her. But then Michael received one of the makeshift yogurt peel medals and he was genuinely happy about it which turned his day around, and made her a little happier. Then it cuts to the silent credits. chefs-kiss

      Later seasons everything was always ending on a happy note. Most of them were still good but really took away from the whole “this job is fucking miserable, but at least I have some people I like here” vibe and turned it into “we’re a big family so sometimes we fight!”

      • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Agreed sort of. I can’t watch it really, because I don’t like cringing, but the first season or 2 actually seem like a horror show about the terrors of office life exploded to immense size with small bits of happiness sprinkled through. That’s a good idea even though I don’t like it personally. But then everything was just drama with cringe sprinkled into it, and it lost that toucht