A list of things I loved in Season 3, Episode 1 of Talking Marriage
Thursday, April 9th, 20151. The hummingbird over Ryan’s head
Probably an Anna’s, but it could also be Selasphorus sp., which this time of year could be either a resident Allen’s or a just-passing-through Rufous.
2. Evan’s 87/88 Back-to-Back World Champs t-shirt
Those were the days.
3. Evan’s kitchen sink and counter
Why do I love Evan’s kitchen sink and counter? Because they played such a prominent role in the Halloween episode, and now I finally get to see them in action. Yay! Is that dish in the sink in the drying rack? Is it clean? I think the answer must be: unambiguously yes.
4. Sean’s love life
5. Tiffany’s world
I love that Tiffany sleeps on a Disney-princess bed of flowers and cats, and that even Ryan being awful can’t bring her down. I realize there are problematic interpretations that could be made of the dude-centric humor, and I’m not defending that aspect of it. But there are layers.
The whole question of Ryan as non-self-aware awful person vs. Ryan as actual person creating the actual show is at the heart of what holds my attention with Talking Marriage. And just generally the way the show is so real and so not real, the way the other characters’ worlds clash so strongly with Ryan’s, like Tiffany’s does here.
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As I Walked Out One Evening
Sunday, January 25th, 2015A helpful guide for new viewers. More here.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015Why you should be watching Shipwrecked: Because anything could…
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015Why you should be watching Shipwrecked:
Because anything could happen.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2014Cecil Poe
Thursday, November 13th, 2014Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey: Talking Scarriage (Warning:…
Thursday, October 30th, 2014Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey: Talking Scarriage
(Warning: linked video includes scary clips from horror movies.)
More than once someone has asked me whether Talking Marriage is worth watching. I always have a hard time answering. There’s a superficial level on which it would be easy to answer no, because if you’re looking for the kind of work Sean has done with Yulin, it’s not that.
But I’ve come to appreciate the show a lot. There’s an honesty to it. Even when it seems like it’s just being silly, there’s a layer of truth running underneath. Or sometimes right out on the surface.
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Posted in honor of Sean “No Frame Can Hold Me” Persaud,…
Thursday, July 31st, 2014Posted in honor of Sean “No Frame Can Hold Me” Persaud, because when I read his comment this is the first thing I thought of.
And then I thought, hey: Sean as Prince Charming in a musical parody. He’s tall, right? Why should Sinead have all the fun?
Fun fact I just learned: After meeting during the original Broadway production, Kim Crosby (Cinderella) and Robert Westenberg (Prince Charming/The Wolf) fell in love and married in real life. They live today in Springfield, Missouri with their children Emily, Katherine, and Joe.
Ever after.
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seanpersaud: So cool that we were asked by NBC to pitch them…
Saturday, July 19th, 2014So cool that we were asked by NBC to pitch them Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey and that this was a completely special thing unique to only us and that NBC wasn’t running a development program actively asking for submissions from literally anyone. So cool.
Along with watching NMTD, I’m fulfilling a longstanding promise to myself by watching this one. I’m only a few episodes in, and still trying to figure out what the series is “about”, which is okay. Sometimes things don’t need to be immediately obvious.
Things I think I know:
* Ryan is kind of a doofus, in a loud but vaguely endearing way.
* His relationship with his wife is both troubling and kind of fascinating.
* The line between what’s real and what’s fake is interestingly drawn.
* I wish the sound guy had more lines.
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