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Showing posts with label Michael Rapaport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Rapaport. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 March 2020

Atypical: Searching for Brown Sugar Man

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“Someone wants to buy my canoe!” Wow. What a finale. What an ending. What a bromance. I think we can say that most threads end on a note...

Atypical: Sam Takes a Walk

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“I had sex so I’m not angry!” The penultimate episode, then, and there are many character threads coming to the boil, I think more so than...
Friday, 20 March 2020

Atypical: Road Rage Paige

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"Sometimes there’s no good answer.” Time to finish Atypical- at first we wanted to savour it and not let it finish as the new season ...
Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Atypical: Shrinkage

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"Hi, Bob. You look silly." An interesting episode, cleverly structured as always- but there's no doubting that things end up...
Sunday, 8 December 2019

Atypical: The Essence of a Penguin

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“There are no rules!” It’s an interesting problem for Sam this time- he can draw an anatomically perfect penguin, but how does someone so ...
Saturday, 7 December 2019

Atypical: Only Tweed

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“I saw Zahid’s penis.” Another beautifully constructed episode this time as Sam struggles with the concept, in ethics at uni, of a “Socrat...
Sunday, 17 November 2019

Atypical: Season 3, Episode 4: Y.H.G.G.

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"Sorry, would you mind turning down your backpack?" Right. You know how I started off blogging this season by suggesting that so...
Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Atypical: Season 3, Episode 3- Cocaine Pills and Pony Meat

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"I forgot to check the anal fins." This episode is, thankfully, much better and more in line with the first two seasons. Perhaps...
Monday, 11 November 2019

Atypical: Season 3, Episode 2- Standing Sam

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“You punched a milkshake?” We get to see Sam navigate his first day at uni this episode and, really, he does awesomely. There’s a scene ea...

Atypical: Season 3, Episode 1- Best Laid Plans

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“Can you please pick up a fire extinguisher on the way home?” The plus side of getting into a series late is that sometimes, as here for M...
Sunday, 25 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 10- Ernest Shackleton’s Rules for Survival

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”Die slowly, you shitbirds!” It’s graduation day, a more than usually meaningful moment to Sam; it’s an achievement he’s never been able t...

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 9- Ritual-licious

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“You’ve been smooching! Under my tutelage! I love it!” The penultimate episode, and this one is again framed by a theme introduced by a Sa...
Saturday, 17 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 8- Living at an Angle

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"I wouldn't want them to mistake me for a wizard." This is another splendidly crafted episode, as I keep having to say, but ...
Thursday, 15 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 7- The Smudging

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"Your wall is ringing..." It seems that my blog of every episode consists of effusive praise about how perfectly crafted it is, ...
Monday, 12 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 6- In the Dragon’s Lair

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“Stop sitting on me like an egg. I’m not an egg.” More masterful plotting and character this episode as Elsa and Doug confront the parents...
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 5- The Egg Is Pipping

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"The egg is pipping!" A pivotal episode this time, I think, in the wake of Doug's panic attack as it becomes clear he's ...

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 4- Pants on Fire

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"I'm like your hair cutting pimp." Another splendidly constructed episode, developing both plot and character with masterful...
Thursday, 1 August 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 3- Little Dude and the Lion

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“Was that a brag or an apology?” More superb character development this week as Sam recognises his “pack” is falling apart, leaving him vu...
Wednesday, 17 July 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 2- Penguin Cam and Chill

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"You don’t live here any more, lady.” After last week’s dramatic events we have an episode about everyone learning the ground rules f...
Sunday, 14 July 2019

Atypical: Season 2, Episode 1- Juiced!

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"I never met anyone who committed adultery before..." This episode sees the fallout from last season’s finale as Elsa confesses ...