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Feb. 29th, 2024 08:43 pmOk wait no I realized. That I actually want to post something today. Because it's leap-year! And a Feb 29 won't come back around for a while!
So.
Ehem.
Anybody else watching So Help Me Todd? I've binged it and I high-key adore it? Like, there's just so much warmth and energy in the performances and the way the characters interact with each other and it's just delightful. I made a quick post about it on Mastodon and I still wanna gush, so I am gushing and you can not stop me.
The humor of the show is just kind of heartwarming. Like, a lot of it isn't outright jokes, or jokes at anybody's expense, but rather just the way the characters interact with each other and about each other—we're having fun with them, not at their expense. They joke with each other, they get excited together, they run off to save the day supporting each other, and it's heartening and also amusing when antics occur because antics do occur.
A big part of the show is Todd (titular character) and Margaret's (his mother) relationship, and it's both entertaining and got a lot of heart. They start off the show kind of separate but then increasingly get pulled closer together as they start working together and grow to understand each other better and also understand how they might have hurt each other in the past, and move beyond it.
Like, it's lovely?
They grow closer over the course of the season (season 2 is airing now, I think) and grow more comfortable with each other and in turn their interactions become more amusing. Also they love each other. Everybody just treats each other well, and wants what's best for them, and it's great, I honestly love it.
Also, shout-out to the line "Permission to treat witness as hostile daughter!" from Margaret when she's—interviewing? Cross-examining? I don't know, I'm not a law person—her daughter Allison who's acting as a witness during a trial thing (Margaret is a lawyer, Todd is a private investigator who starts working as an in-house investigator at her firm, Allison is an ER doctor).
Also also, season one seemed to set up a love triangle between Todd, Susan (his ex who is now an attorney and works at the same firm) and her fiancé Peter, but also there's a whole episode that just seems to be "oh my god Peter is so great" and look what I'm saying is OT3.
Please hold, I have to switch to HTML so I can do the spoiler thing. (Everything was already formatted in Markdown, *flops down on the floor.*)
Okay so season 1 ends with Susan and Peter eloping in Las Vegas, so like they're married now. And I don't know what this means! I want OT3 goodness and there are a lot of casually queer characters in the show but do I dare hope? [Insert keysmash here.]
Like, Todd has a few other casual love interests over the season, some amorous encounters if you will, but they don't end up going anywhere and he's still single by season end. Which is more than fine, actually, because the season's end is really lovely, a great moment in Todd and Margaret's relationship, and also Todd finds out Susan is eloping and he doesn't chase her down to confess his love or whatever which I just really really appreciate.
But now I have Feels™ and I don't know where to put them, LOL.
Look, this show has just burrowed under my skin okay, I've had it on repeat in the background while I'm writing stuff for... awhile now. I feel like, I don't know, it's just kind? Conflicts aren't pointlessly dragged out, and the characters are allowed to help each other and support each other and be kind to each other.
It's got energy, it's got warmth, it's got humor—and I'm just really excited for the new season (and also low-key terrified they'll the drop all the balls, LOL.)
So.
Ehem.
Anybody else watching So Help Me Todd? I've binged it and I high-key adore it? Like, there's just so much warmth and energy in the performances and the way the characters interact with each other and it's just delightful. I made a quick post about it on Mastodon and I still wanna gush, so I am gushing and you can not stop me.
The humor of the show is just kind of heartwarming. Like, a lot of it isn't outright jokes, or jokes at anybody's expense, but rather just the way the characters interact with each other and about each other—we're having fun with them, not at their expense. They joke with each other, they get excited together, they run off to save the day supporting each other, and it's heartening and also amusing when antics occur because antics do occur.
A big part of the show is Todd (titular character) and Margaret's (his mother) relationship, and it's both entertaining and got a lot of heart. They start off the show kind of separate but then increasingly get pulled closer together as they start working together and grow to understand each other better and also understand how they might have hurt each other in the past, and move beyond it.
Like, it's lovely?
They grow closer over the course of the season (season 2 is airing now, I think) and grow more comfortable with each other and in turn their interactions become more amusing. Also they love each other. Everybody just treats each other well, and wants what's best for them, and it's great, I honestly love it.
Also, shout-out to the line "Permission to treat witness as hostile daughter!" from Margaret when she's—interviewing? Cross-examining? I don't know, I'm not a law person—her daughter Allison who's acting as a witness during a trial thing (Margaret is a lawyer, Todd is a private investigator who starts working as an in-house investigator at her firm, Allison is an ER doctor).
Also also, season one seemed to set up a love triangle between Todd, Susan (his ex who is now an attorney and works at the same firm) and her fiancé Peter, but also there's a whole episode that just seems to be "oh my god Peter is so great" and look what I'm saying is OT3.
Please hold, I have to switch to HTML so I can do the spoiler thing. (Everything was already formatted in Markdown, *flops down on the floor.*)
The Love Triangle
Okay so season 1 ends with Susan and Peter eloping in Las Vegas, so like they're married now. And I don't know what this means! I want OT3 goodness and there are a lot of casually queer characters in the show but do I dare hope? [Insert keysmash here.]
Like, Todd has a few other casual love interests over the season, some amorous encounters if you will, but they don't end up going anywhere and he's still single by season end. Which is more than fine, actually, because the season's end is really lovely, a great moment in Todd and Margaret's relationship, and also Todd finds out Susan is eloping and he doesn't chase her down to confess his love or whatever which I just really really appreciate.
But now I have Feels™ and I don't know where to put them, LOL.
Look, this show has just burrowed under my skin okay, I've had it on repeat in the background while I'm writing stuff for... awhile now. I feel like, I don't know, it's just kind? Conflicts aren't pointlessly dragged out, and the characters are allowed to help each other and support each other and be kind to each other.
It's got energy, it's got warmth, it's got humor—and I'm just really excited for the new season (and also low-key terrified they'll the drop all the balls, LOL.)