For anyone keeping up with the Stranger Things “secret good finale” conspiracy (yes, it is just the Sherlock “secret good episode” thing with a new show.) the current theory is that tomorrow, in place of SNL, the actual finale of Stranger Things will air. They are presenting this as something plausible, and not something that Lorne Michaels would have beaten the Duffer Brothers to death over if they even suggested it.
The stranger things finale is going to drop on Martin Luther King Jr Day because Stranger Things embodies the values of MLK
Close enough. Welcome back Johnlock truthers!
The subreddit also has a 60 page masterdoc of all their evidence, if anyone wants to archive that for the inevitable youtube video that’s going to be made.
we poppin the BIGGEST bottles when Secret Good Finale happens in half an hour!
while watching taskmaster I do sometimes marvel at greg davies’ hosting skills. like in a way it’s his job to be mean–you know, he’s the Taskmaster, it’s part of the persona, it’s a big part of how he mines comedy out of the tasks. but I think the comedy would be far less effective if he didn’t also have 1. the self-evident awareness that it IS all a bit and 2. the self-security to stay the course of said bit when needed.
like, there have been a few times over the course of the show when you can see one of the contestants (usually another man) get their hackles up over being mocked and fire back, and greg’s response is always very centered. he doesn’t snap but he doesn’t back down either. he keeps it light and so the overall signal is like, hey, we are truly just playing here and I can take it as well as dish it out, alright?
you get the sense from this (as well as certain other moments, eg taking james acaster aside for a firm but compassionate one-on-one chat) that his experience as a teacher is really serving him in this role. he recognizes his responsibility as a host not to take things personally, especially since the host role he’s playing is by its conceit somewhat antagonistic.
unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going
