Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine hileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
Speaker 1: help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
Speaker 1: our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
Speaker 1: in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
Speaker 1: going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2: So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
Speaker 2: thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
Speaker 2: if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
Speaker 2: and let's all make like we're doing something important for
Speaker 2: our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property. And for this week of May
Speaker 2: twenty six, we are wrapping up our watch of season
Speaker 2: one of Running Point on Netflix with episode ten, Game seven.
Speaker 3: And I just want to note that I thought.
Speaker 2: It was game seven of the entire championship. It was,
Speaker 2: and it was, yes, I mean they did say last
Speaker 2: week the playoffs, but so it was just to advance
Speaker 2: to the next round of the playoffs. You got, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's not get out of hand.
Speaker 1: And they lost me the moment we heard the voice
Speaker 1: over it's been a month since my fiance left me.
Speaker 1: At the end of last episode, he walks out, and
Speaker 1: we're thinking, well, how are they going to deal with this?
Speaker 1: How are they gonna you know, it's been a month.
Speaker 1: They're just like, forget it, it's done, it's over. You know,
Speaker 1: it ticked me off. Yes, the whole thing ticks me off,
Speaker 1: but that they're just like, oh, yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: month ago. We're not going to see any of the aftermath.
Speaker 3: Of that until she figures out.
Speaker 1: You know, we see some in this episode, but we're
Speaker 1: not going to see any of the immediate aftermath. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she thinks that after a month, he's going to
Speaker 1: come back for his water pick and if this was
Speaker 1: like the next day, but if it's been a month,
Speaker 1: he's botty water sweetie, I'm.
Speaker 3: That hard to keep on a new one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh, that whole thing was just as
Speaker 1: annoying as we thought he was going to be. And
Speaker 1: you know, she does after a month go and talk
Speaker 1: to him when he sees she sees he's going to
Speaker 1: move to Minnesota. Yeah, okay, And she goes to his
Speaker 1: office to talk to him after a month did they
Speaker 1: talk anytime?
Speaker 2: I mean, when you've when you've been together for seven
Speaker 2: years or whatever, and you live and you're engaged, and
Speaker 2: you're engaged, there's a lot of you know, live together
Speaker 2: and just administrative stuff you would have to do, right,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, he can't just like.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, who owns the lease?
Speaker 3: It's okay, So.
Speaker 1: It is, And they just didn't want to deal with
Speaker 1: any of that stuff. So it's like a month later, so.
Speaker 2: M hmmm.
Speaker 1: From one ups to the next, no closure for us.
Speaker 1: And she does track him to his office and there's
Speaker 1: some stupid thing about a birthday cake and some if
Speaker 1: we ever seen that character before, the girl who was
Speaker 1: so abnonscious, so like a completely random character being annoying
Speaker 1: instead of the two of them talking, which is what
Speaker 1: we wanted, and you know, he'll get back to her
Speaker 1: on it. But meanwhile the coach kisses her. So I
Speaker 1: was completely ready the same with the same fury. I
Speaker 1: yelled at the TV screen at the end of Shrinking
Speaker 1: that Brett Goldstein better not jump in front of the train. Oh,
Speaker 1: he was yelling if live was in this arena somewhere,
Speaker 1: And he comes walking up I am done.
Speaker 2: I am not watching, I said, I said, and cue
Speaker 2: the boyfriend, c cue the you know like here he is.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, it wasn't on the jumbo tron or anything,
Speaker 1: was it. I It's just just, you know, don't have
Speaker 1: the personal stuff if you're going to be this annoying
Speaker 1: about it. But yeah, okay, we didn't even get to
Speaker 1: sing her to see her singing swift him. And also,
Speaker 1: why did I think did you always know he was
Speaker 1: a pediatrician for some reason?
Speaker 2: Because remember it's remember with the was a pediatricianal alone
Speaker 2: Hetty or the petas or whatever.
Speaker 1: But it could have been pediatric dentists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I knew he was a thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know for some reason.
Speaker 2: And when she went to his office that time, it
Speaker 2: wasn't a dentist's office.
Speaker 3: It was a doctor's office.
Speaker 1: I guess. So the kid was sitting off to the side, but.
Speaker 3: He was sitting on like a like the kind of a.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. He wasn't sitting in a chair. I
Speaker 1: feel like one time we went in a kid was
Speaker 1: in a chair, But I guess not. It's not impossible
Speaker 1: if they changed it part way through. See if he
Speaker 1: was a dentist. The water pick would be a lot
Speaker 1: more meaningful.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm just saying, oh well, I just.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And also his coworkers dislike her big time. Did we
Speaker 1: know that before?
Speaker 3: Nope, no idea, Yeah that was like we.
Speaker 1: Should have or that we would have, right. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: it's just they're just retconning like crazy on this thing,
Speaker 1: probably because Max Greenfield is not available very much for
Speaker 1: next season because I think he's on two shows because
Speaker 1: I read something about him. He may not have much
Speaker 1: time to be on this show because he's now this
Speaker 1: new show he's going to be on, and the show
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to have much time for was not
Speaker 1: running for it was a due show. So dude's been
Speaker 1: working and I mean, I don't know what this streaming thing,
Speaker 1: what the schedule is. They may have filmed this two
Speaker 1: years ago. I don't know how that works. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like he's gonna have a lot of time
Speaker 1: for this, so that maybe it may be one of
Speaker 1: those those actor availability decisions, which makes me slightly this
Speaker 1: mad about it, but also used to be he just
Speaker 1: goes somewhere and get some plastic surgery and come back
Speaker 1: as a different actor and we just move forward. But
Speaker 1: we don't do that.
Speaker 2: Anymore, yeah, I mean, or just like it.
Speaker 1: You know, there's two Darren's. There was two in which
Speaker 1: there was you know, stuff happens. You go over the
Speaker 1: off season, people forget what people look like. It's fine,
Speaker 1: but no, no, anyway, So both our guys are moving
Speaker 1: to other places and.
Speaker 2: Allegedly apparently I don't believe it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know they're gonna.
Speaker 1: But Cam is there at the end. Yes, and now
Speaker 1: that we've had we had a heartwarming family episode, family
Speaker 1: sticking together, and then the other brother shows up.
Speaker 2: Wah, Yeah, and we had the dance.
Speaker 1: Would, by the way, strongly not recommend running barefoot through
Speaker 1: downtown La. I think that's probably a bad point. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we're really anywhere, but especially well, yeah.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, I mean talk about ridiculous, implausible, you know,
Speaker 2: four miles. Yeah, and she's wearing like a light like
Speaker 2: a pastel pink suit that has a very long hem,
Speaker 2: Like she's gonna look absolutely rash when she gets there, like,
Speaker 2: come on, it's television. Yeah, but we I mean, there
Speaker 2: had to have been some other way to introduce the
Speaker 2: drama of getting there.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like I guess.
Speaker 2: They've already wink, they've already done like stuck in traffic.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, yeah, with all the other stuff
Speaker 1: going on, I was willing to go with that just okay, fine,
Speaker 1: let's just move along. Shell And then she gives the
Speaker 1: john Wick speech, which was funny. But I have have
Speaker 1: you ever watched a john Wick movie? My husband enjoys
Speaker 1: them quite a bit. I have not, and I enjoyed
Speaker 1: the general idea of them, but have not watched.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I know the apparently it's I know
Speaker 2: the thing about how like basically it all starts because
Speaker 2: someone kills his dog. So but then there's many more
Speaker 2: things that.
Speaker 1: Many many people killed. Yeah, but so how do we
Speaker 1: feel about the way this game went? They were so close?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was like kind of like it
Speaker 2: we're gonna win in ted Lasso, where you're like it
Speaker 2: would be too like yeah to pat if they if
Speaker 2: they want it.
Speaker 1: It would be you know, So that is true.
Speaker 3: I didn't really that is true.
Speaker 1: So they won it in a way that they sort
Speaker 1: of won. They just the last time, last minute, something happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So this is what I was saying recently about basketball.
Speaker 2: How you don't need to watch the game except for
Speaker 2: the last thirty seconds because that's.
Speaker 1: When I just looked the score afterwards.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and Jackie and the Dancer had a little
Speaker 4: yeah moment barely And it looks like that's they're setting
Speaker 4: that up for next season, which is good.
Speaker 3: Yes, And we like that for him.
Speaker 1: And you know, he sort of brought the family together
Speaker 1: and yes, people were nice to him, and it's good.
Speaker 1: I like to end with that, right, teaching them how
Speaker 1: to be family? Yeah, that's a parenting related thing. Teaches
Speaker 1: you how to be family?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: The mom? Usually the mom? Probably the mom. How the
Speaker 1: mom defines family is how things are going to move
Speaker 1: home pretty much. Yeah, whether you have a terrible dad
Speaker 1: like theirs or a good dad. But probably used to,
Speaker 1: did it used to at some point? Is it always?
Speaker 1: It's probably always been the mom that defines family for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I feel like the dads want to think
Speaker 2: it's it's actually.
Speaker 1: The mom is kind of winking behind me, Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: but that should.
Speaker 3: Have his opinions.
Speaker 2: But you know, when it really comes to it, who's
Speaker 2: calling the.
Speaker 1: Yes, the mom makes the culture. So we really have
Speaker 1: heard nothing about any of their moms, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's something that will prop up in the future. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking they will probably be on the same
Speaker 1: sort of subtlety level as Bonnie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as Travis and Travis is moll Yeah. Yeah, Well
Speaker 2: and they did.
Speaker 1: Imply that they will be big and awful in variety
Speaker 1: of ways. Yes, so that's something to look forward to.
Speaker 3: Can't wait?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is the how do we feel
Speaker 2: about a season?
Speaker 3: You know there is going to be a season two?
Speaker 3: Are we gonna? Are we gonna watch it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't know. I was really very annoyed with
Speaker 1: it in a lot of ways. But it's perfectly watchable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it occasionally throw things at the screen. I
Speaker 1: think it will. We can maybe watch it on the
Speaker 1: side and just talk about talk about it for five minutes.
Speaker 1: But it's fine. It's fine. But it's not something that
Speaker 1: like I can't wait to see the next episode, right, So,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of something like shrinking in which
Speaker 1: I become really invested in it, this was just perfectly
Speaker 1: enjoyable watch with you know, enjoyable characters, and it looks
Speaker 1: pretty and you know, the plotting I have had problems,
Speaker 1: but it's a sitcom. It's going to do what a
Speaker 1: sitcom does. So you know, what can you what can
Speaker 1: you say?
Speaker 2: Right, Well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Speaker 1: When it we will.
Speaker 3: When it returns, because I'm not sure when.
Speaker 1: That streaming shows. It's like they're coming back.
Speaker 2: Sometime in the years, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, I keep thinking we're due for another Bridge orton,
Speaker 1: but I think it's not coming back till next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I've heard as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gilded Age is coming. I keep seeing press releases
Speaker 1: on shrinking adding additional actors for this next season. I
Speaker 1: think Jeff Daniels is going to be Jason Siegel's dad,
Speaker 1: and Michael J. Fox is on it, presumably in a
Speaker 1: storyline with Harrison Ford's character and a few other people
Speaker 1: that I recognize. But it's like, great, sounds wonderful. When
Speaker 1: are we going to be seeing that exactly? Oh, sometime
Speaker 1: sometime in the future. It's coming.
Speaker 3: Just be patient.
Speaker 2: So next Wednesday we'll kick off a new watch and
Speaker 2: you know, because we can't get enough of JJ Abrams
Speaker 2: and Josh Holloway, we are going to check out their
Speaker 2: new show on HBO Max.
Speaker 3: It is called Duster and it's set in the Jeff.
Speaker 1: And Josh Holloway seems to sport the same hair.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's lust.
Speaker 2: He apparently does not particularly a so yeah, anyway, he
Speaker 2: plays like somebody who is sort of a.
Speaker 3: What do you what do you want to call it?
Speaker 3: With it.
Speaker 2: He's a ghetaway driver, a driver, he's a getaway driver
Speaker 2: for a organized crime group. And so this FBI agent
Speaker 2: comes and tries to recruit him, basically to flip him.
Speaker 2: And so we're going to start with watching the first
Speaker 2: two and.
Speaker 1: It's it takes place in the groovy seventies, right, It takes.
Speaker 2: Place in the groovy seventies and in Phoenix, So there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of, you know, dusty desert vibes.
Speaker 1: I was in high school in the groovy seventies in California,
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe it was a time maybe familiar. It
Speaker 1: was a time of extremely unfortunate fashion choices. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see that, many of which I'm myself made.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so we'll save you some streaking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll start with the first two and then
Speaker 2: we'll probably go to one per week. HBO Max is
Speaker 2: dropping them once a week, So we're going to start
Speaker 2: with the first two. Number one is called Baltimore Changes Everything,
Speaker 2: and number two is called Suspicious mind.
Speaker 1: Ooh okay, all.
Speaker 2: Right, so we'll check that out and we'll see you
Speaker 2: back here tomorrow for our weekly Roundabout roundup.
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