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Post by chazraps on Feb 28, 2023 0:34:06 GMT -5
Holy shit so -
They dropped the whole Todd's wife's father wanting to drive the car thing but todd's wife's dad says he bonded with him and was super happy so he got them matching jackets that say "Todd's Car Club" on the back.
It's so f***ing ridiculous. I laughed. I'm slipping into madness. "Todd's Car Club." HE'S GOING TO PRISON! Nothing matters.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 28, 2023 0:39:38 GMT -5
Now we see Todd's son is at the optometrist and just got done having lasik surgery? Or he's getting his vision checked and is just talking about lasik?
I know it's reality TV and it's all pre-planned and scripted and everything and whatever, but the parents and the granny really say some f***ed up mean shit to their kids. And they elude to f***ing around them a lot as well. This show's been on ten years so even if this is all predetermined and telegraphed, that's a lot for non-showbiz adolescents-become-adults to deal with.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 28, 2023 0:50:28 GMT -5
Todd sucks at apologies. He brought his daughter to the car show instead of his wife's dad and the wife's dad saw it on social media and it hurt his feelings.
Ok and now Todd's letting his wife's dad drive.
And, mercifully, my dvr ran out. Delete now.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 20, 2023 21:36:05 GMT -5
After taking two weeks off to do absolutely anything else, we have a new CKB in 25 minutes!
No previews this week explaining what the episode is about, so I'm guessing a lot of throwback clips and the footage itself being increasingly more of a post-modern horror in its disturbing unspoken undercurrent.
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Post by fortknox on Mar 20, 2023 21:59:05 GMT -5
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Post by chazraps on Mar 20, 2023 22:07:25 GMT -5
And we're off! An awful cold open about a bidet followed by an easy way to write the parents off the episode so the members of the family not going to prison can go to Reno.
And a chunk of it was just shot on their cell phones. Amazing. This is the second to the last episode.
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 20, 2023 22:07:46 GMT -5
spent 90 seconds watching it and there's this air about the show that's so damn... wrong It's like every interaction has this strange tension and you can see in their faces something is wrong. I can't watch this. It's highly uncomfortable. It's the real life "this is fine" cartoon. It's this non-visual uncanny valley of near-human actions and emotion. Except grandma who is just drunk and gives zero shits.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 20, 2023 22:08:25 GMT -5
You'd think being the Chrisley who stayed off the show would be enough to make him the smart one. Nope!
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Post by chazraps on Mar 20, 2023 22:09:50 GMT -5
spent 90 seconds watching it and there's this air about the show that's so damn... wrong It's like every interaction has this strange tension and you can see in their faces something is wrong. I can't watch this. It's highly uncomfortable. It's the real life "this is fine" cartoon. It's this non-visual uncanny valley of near-human actions and emotion. Except grandma who is just drunk and gives zero shits. Yeah, this is the appeal for me this season, making it the first season I've watch. Just this horrifying reality purgatory. The first episode this season where they're all super stressed and talking about having to move four times in a single year without mentioning *why* just undercuts it.
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Post by fortknox on Mar 20, 2023 22:13:52 GMT -5
You'd think being the Chrisley who stayed off the show would be enough to make him the smart one. Nope! Not to excuse it, I've read his has bipolar issues.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 20, 2023 22:13:57 GMT -5
I mean, if I was about to go to prison for 7 years, I don't know if I'd want to spend one of my last free weeks with the person who is the reason I'm going to prison at an isolated Tahoe lodge.
And Todd trying to be a moral authority, he's going to prison-ass prison for fraud.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 20, 2023 22:16:39 GMT -5
HOW IS THIS ONLY THE 15 MINUTE MARK?!
I might have to tap out soon. This is an intelligence insulting barely-coherent mess even by Chrisley standards.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 20, 2023 22:18:57 GMT -5
This show is dead on social media. There's like four tweets total about tonight's episode.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 28, 2023 0:04:13 GMT -5
Alright, so just to put a bow on this shit, tonight was the "Season Finale" of CKB. Yes, the boldly just called it "Season Finale" instead of "Series Finale" and it was waaaay under-advertised compared to usual weeks with only three ad spots during all of Raw.
It almost didn't qualify as an episode of television. No real plot, Todd's family are all on a skiing vacation together and it's just footage of them skiing with a brief detour of the grandma and their younger daughter panning for gold. It's like watching someone's home movies if 15% of them were licensed stock footage.
Everyone (other than the grandma) looks exhausted. No mention of the prison sentence or the arrest, but an odd moment at the end where Todd talks about how his children are getting older and would probably want to start doing things on their own, and how he supports that. Knowing what we know about him and his wife going to prison, what would be maybe an attempt at a heartwarming moment or at least an earnest attempt at a spin-off just is really sad.
Whether this last episode was done to fill a contractual obligation or make one last attempt to secure a bag, it's really bizarre that this is how it ends. Whether you like the show or not (and I never have) it lasted ten years on basic cable and weathered the entire rise of streaming. Was it because the show was cheap to produce and easy to marathon for eyeballs? Yes, but even among that particular cranked out reality genre it flew at the same level it did for ten years. As this thread even pointed out, it was #15 in the ratings for its premiere this season.
In real life, Todd's daughter Savannah has custody of her siblings, Todd's teenage son and grade school age daughter. Savannah's show with her brother Chase was already cancelled before this season even premiered, so calling this episode tonight a "season finale" either means they're holding out hope Todd gets freed and the show continues, or we'll see a new season without Todd and his wife or maybe Chase has a crossover with TBS' 'Power Slap' or I really don't know. It's insane that this season aired, it's insane how they executed it and it's wild that this is how one of the longest tenured shows on cable this millennium has come to an end.
One of television's most uncomfortable seasons.
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 28, 2023 12:34:17 GMT -5
I seriously believe a psych major could write a great thesis based on just this season.
I could see film students using this as an example of putting lipstick on a pig.
I feel for the editor/director of this season. It has to be mentally impossible to have done that job without scarring you for life.
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Post by chazraps on Mar 29, 2023 20:57:10 GMT -5
I seriously believe a psych major could write a great thesis based on just this season. I could see film students using this as an example of putting lipstick on a pig. I feel for the editor/director of this season. It has to be mentally impossible to have done that job without scarring you for life. I especially wonder what went into the editing of the last two episodes. It looks like they shot it to be one episode, (typical Chrisley plot, family squabbles at the begin and spends time in divided groups of each other, only to come together after some grass is greener disappointment to have some time together and talk at the end about love and responsibility or some other special meaning.) but maybe they realized it was an uneven number of episodes for a full season so they had to pad and pad and pad like never before to get it to the two episode running time. Like, nothing happens in that second episode. It's just vacation footage and Todd being mildly irritated that Granny and his youngest daughter go panning for gold and call themselves "gold diggers." But the pen-ultimate episode - for all the elongated stock footage establishing shots and deep extended flashback montages this season - that second-to-last-episode of a successful basic cable reality show has several stretches of vertical cell-phone video lifted right from the family's social media profiles. It's so aesthetically jarring. It's so different from the tone of the episode, the show, even the USA Network itself. Was that call something the editor was specifically instructed to do? Was it something the editor came up with in a desperation move to fill the full episode length and that was just the best idea they could turn around given the circumstances? But yeah, the whole season is just so uncomfortable. Maybe there's a plot somewhere to be made of a found footage horror film where someone in a family is a killer and we only catch glimpses of what's happening through the clips filmed for a reality show. I do wonder what happens from here in terms of USA and whether they'll formally announce a cancellation or not.
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