Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Jileco. 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 fifth,
Speaker 2: we're continuing with Running Point on Netflix with episode seven.
Speaker 2: And it's called a Special Place in Hell. And I
Speaker 2: can't figure out why it was called that, Like, did
Speaker 2: we ever get any reason? It's for moms.
Speaker 3: It's that special place in helme mos moms about moms,
Speaker 3: especially moms who involved themselves in their adult children's lives.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine it?
Speaker 2: Moms?
Speaker 1: That mom out of here? What an obnoxious mom.
Speaker 2: Yep, guess what she had good reasons for doing what
Speaker 2: she was doing.
Speaker 1: She did. At the end, we see what happens when
Speaker 1: Travis' mom is not there writing on him. Yes, and
Speaker 1: so this from a parenting point of view, advice for moms.
Speaker 1: You have an important job, and you know you have
Speaker 1: an important job. In this case, her job was keeping
Speaker 1: that kid off pills, and so you need to not
Speaker 1: do things that get you kicked out of that job.
Speaker 1: Right if you had just like been a normal human being,
Speaker 1: nobody would have had any problem, right.
Speaker 2: But Bonnie, Yes, and like, ps, where has she been
Speaker 2: for the previous six episodes keeping him on the straight
Speaker 2: and a little bit narrow? Like she she.
Speaker 1: Should always just haven't talked to her.
Speaker 2: Right I mean, yeah, but I mean that's she's been
Speaker 2: annoying everybody. A sitcom move, for sure.
Speaker 1: It is definitely a sitcom move, entirely a sitcom move.
Speaker 2: And as a problem of the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a problem on myself. I resent this depiction.
Speaker 1: I have got up, gotten up in the faces of
Speaker 1: people who I disagree with in the way they are
Speaker 1: treating my young person. I have done that. I have
Speaker 1: never stripped however.
Speaker 2: Have you made some crash bag chicken?
Speaker 1: I have never made trash bag chicken, though I'm kind
Speaker 1: of intrigued by it.
Speaker 2: Yes, you might have to get your chef on that.
Speaker 1: I kind of think my husband would go for that
Speaker 1: and find a recipe for it. It sounds like he's
Speaker 1: got a very practical, practical take on cooking. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this was Hey, we can get Nicole Sullivan for a week.
Speaker 2: What should we do with her?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Well, she.
Speaker 1: Was fun, but it just was it just yeah, I've
Speaker 1: been a mama bear. Not that kind of mama bear,
Speaker 1: but I've been mama be.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They did pack a lot into her appearance. Yes,
Speaker 2: you know, she she got a lot done in the
Speaker 2: two days or however long she was. This this was
Speaker 2: meant to be taking place. And also going back to
Speaker 2: the it's a sitcom thing, I do not care for
Speaker 2: placing Isla and the coach in.
Speaker 1: It. I was yelling at the TV, Yeah, you guys.
Speaker 4: No, not necessary, please, not only is it just a
Speaker 4: stupid sitcom dumb Okay, let's put these characters in a bag,
Speaker 4: shake them all around, throw the Yatzi cup out, and
Speaker 4: see you know which two pieces of dice bump off
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 1: It's also you know, it's just like there's been no
Speaker 1: nothing leading up to it at all. Yeah, no indication.
Speaker 2: Previously been shown to be perfectly happy with her fiance
Speaker 2: and this.
Speaker 1: Has never been anything other than professional and.
Speaker 2: You know, friendly, right, and like, let's let them have
Speaker 2: a cordial business relationship, Like why can't we do that?
Speaker 1: So annoying, but I think we have to agree that
Speaker 1: in an episode that had that annoying development in the
Speaker 1: making and an aggressively annoying, intentionally aggressively annoying character and
Speaker 1: Travis's mom, Yes, the most annoying plot plot thread was Jackie,
Speaker 1: come on, really, yeah really, this has been a PSA. Kids,
Speaker 1: lots are throwing themselves at you. Bad things will happen
Speaker 1: to your intimate anatomy.
Speaker 2: Well, and I did enjoy the later Eye was yelling
Speaker 2: at him, says like where a condom? And he goes,
Speaker 2: I'll go put on. That's not gonna help, but okay,
Speaker 2: if if it makes you feel better.
Speaker 1: Oh dear, I just I mean, I hated that plot
Speaker 1: development last week, right, this.
Speaker 2: Just made it more annoying. Continued to it.
Speaker 1: Alone, It's like, yes, oh well, he.
Speaker 2: Seems to have figured out how to smooth things over
Speaker 2: with the big boss who's like chairman of the board
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't. I didn't know who he was the
Speaker 1: first two times we saw him.
Speaker 2: But I think that's who I mean, we've seen him
Speaker 2: in previous episodes.
Speaker 1: I know we have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he finds out that, you know, Jackie has
Speaker 2: what shall we say? Anyway, he finds out that his
Speaker 2: daughter has and Jackie.
Speaker 1: Have saying her name. Are we supposed to recognize her name?
Speaker 2: Well, I think Jackie knew her as something else maybe
Speaker 2: or he just didn't make the connection, but you know,
Speaker 2: so he wants Jackie fired. But Jackie does figure out
Speaker 2: that some groveling and an edible arrangement will blackly do
Speaker 2: the trick.
Speaker 1: But if if we are not supposed to know the
Speaker 1: name already, the fact that they mentioned it like five
Speaker 1: times means that she's going to be showing up someone.
Speaker 1: We'll be back and we'll hear that name and we'll
Speaker 1: know who That is. So not subtle. But in in
Speaker 1: other other casting news, in addition to Nicole Sullivan, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the doctor who examined him so knowingly, it
Speaker 1: was played by Joe Mandy I think that's the way
Speaker 1: you pronounce his last like a writer and producer on the.
Speaker 2: Place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this one. So I saw in the closing credits,
Speaker 1: I saw that name go by, and I said, I
Speaker 1: know that name, but not from acting, right, I got
Speaker 1: to look. But yeah, So anyway, he got himself a
Speaker 1: little a little cameo there as the identifier of chlamydia
Speaker 1: expert identifier.
Speaker 2: Yes, and that's part of the distance, part of his uh,
Speaker 2: part of his expertise. As a team doctor.
Speaker 1: You go into it for the orthopedics. You know, you
Speaker 1: wind up diagnosing venereal diseases, but you do what you
Speaker 1: gotta do. Yeah, did you enjoy that? The At the
Speaker 1: end of the episode, starting with the coach and Isla
Speaker 1: at the end of the bar scene and then going
Speaker 1: on to Travis taking the pills, there was a music
Speaker 1: cue that was something bad about to happen that was
Speaker 1: repeated about ten times in the music I did not
Speaker 1: since Shrinking had making bad decisions, making bad decisions, has
Speaker 1: there been such an on the nose music que.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Those some bad decisions there, very unfortunate. Oh well, sad sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I I like, I think this show
Speaker 2: is funny and I like the actors, but like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's so frustrating all of this just tropy sitcom stuff
Speaker 2: that just won't stop.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they're like, yeah, they keep getting pulled.
Speaker 2: I mean I guess that's you know, we complained about
Speaker 2: shrinking that it was supposed to be funny, and it was,
Speaker 2: you know, breaking our hearts every every week, and now
Speaker 2: this is kind of on the other it's it's still
Speaker 2: breaking my heart in a in a different way of
Speaker 2: like stop that kind of way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will be really ticked if this season ends with
Speaker 1: a romantic quandary. Yeah, involving these three persons. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: stop it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just totally unnecessary. There was enough going on
Speaker 1: in this episode.
Speaker 2: Right, certain one.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, sitcom's gonna sitcom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, but I don't have to like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, we don't, nor do we have to
Speaker 1: watch it after this season. We'll say you're on you're on. Notice,
Speaker 1: what is it with an athlete where they're maybe going
Speaker 1: to get on waivers or probation. You're on probation, running point, Yeah,
Speaker 1: start playing.
Speaker 2: Right or you're trained to stick around, You're.
Speaker 1: Gonna be off our roster. We like you, you know, we
Speaker 1: believe in you. We think you can do it. Stop
Speaker 1: messing around.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm increasingly not sure they can do it.
Speaker 1: We would like to think you can do it, but
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we're thinking we made a bad
Speaker 1: deal and we'll be calling your agent.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, it has many appealing parts. Yeah, but the game
Speaker 1: plan is not solid, right. Maybe they could get that
Speaker 1: short Indian lady in again to help them figure out
Speaker 1: how to do the do the sitcom equivalent of a
Speaker 1: between the legs basketball thrun.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, switch things up. That's what we like to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, are we giving my notes
Speaker 1: when that happened? Oh, for goodness sake.
Speaker 2: Well with with Isla and the coach. Yeah yes, stop that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe Jackie can set them up with somebody nice es.
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 6: Anyway, Well, next Wednesday, we'll continue with season one, episode eight,
Speaker 6: The Streak, and we'll see We'll see you back here
Speaker 6: tomorrow for our weekly roundabout roundup.
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