@dreambig55 well CMU makes sense for Randall. Maybe Beth’s mom is staying for a few days to settle her in?
I do force myself to figure out all the logistics of fictional tv shows
I don’t know how shows like “The Americans,” which is much more complicated, figure everything out!
If I recall correctly, Randall desperately wanted to go to Howard, but after Jack died in the fire he told Rebecca that he would not go to Howard and instead attend college close to home. So Carnegie Mellon would make sense, as they lived in Pittsburgh.
This was a beautiful episode. Beth’s mom reminded me a little of my own mom who always had such high standards because she wanted us to do better than she had. We had some difficult times during my college years when she still wanted to control my path.
As hard as Beth’s mom was, she agreed to let her go to the Academy even though it meant Dad had to work a second job and Mom had to teach summer school. In my family, that never would have happened!
I just watched the last 2 episodes. The first, Nicky and the adult kids. Yikes! Would anyone actually insinuate themselves so far into someone’s private life this way? Nicky also seems a bit too emotionally pulled together for a recluse. I have a male friend who is almost identical to Nicky and he’s virtually impossible to deal with. I can’t imagine how “strangers” would react. It wouldn’t be good that’s for sure. And we (the friends) would never consider taking out and about for 2 days (and certainly not without his drug of choice) ?
The second…what a beautifully crafted episode (in my opinion)! I love watching the woman who plays Beth. Add Phylicia Rashad into the mix and I could watch all day! There were so many layers in this one episode. And it reinforced why I watch the show.
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Almost here tonight. The triplets graduate from high school. Will Randall be val?
Randall asking Beth to “put a pin” in her career??? Ain’t gonna fly. Who died and made Randall boss? Makes me mad. But that ending… a real tear jerker. Loved it.
^I’m mad at Randall, too!!
Me too! How could he not see how happy she was?!?
Randall’s direction for Beth not to work seemed contrived to me and not really in character. I feel like they are setting up for further seeds of discontent that will eventually lead to the Beth and Randall’s splitting up.
Was this the first time we saw toddler Big Three?
I saw Randall as being more sensitive and enlightened than he demonstated in that scene. I also wondered if that was laying the groundwork for more conflict between them.
Hmmm, I think the way Randall said it came off poorly and insensitive. Maybe I’m all wrong and I think you should do what you want. But there is a time and a place to do only for yourself. And time to be all for the family.
Working nights and weekends (for very little money) is all great when you don’t have any other responsibility. But when you have kids and have decided to foster a daughter, maybe when they are young and very needy, that isn’t the time. You’ll have lots of time when the kids are less needy even though you don’t think that when they are young.
I’m all for following your bliss but there is a time and place. I’m sorry Beth didn’t get her chance to be a dancer but it was obvious she wasn’t going to be a principal ballerina. And she got a good college education and had a job (that paid well) that she enjoyed until they let her go. I have a hard time feeling all that sorry for her, honestly.
Just my .02
But hey if Beth wants to do for her, then leave Randall and see how far teaching dance pays the bills and having the kids half the time without a supportive partner goes.
Does Beth really need to teach that many evenings a week? Could Randall stay home two days during the week so she could teach those 2 nights? Then he could go on Saturdays, she could teach a partial day on Saturdays, and the kids could go to different friends houses to hang out.
Her schedule did seem odd and there was certainly room for negotiation with their schedules, responsibilities. The scene seemed unrealistic, but, hey, it’s a TV show.
I’m with Randall on this one. She pulled this dance teacher thing out of the blue to appease her long lost dreams. They are raising three teenage girls and live what appears to be a pretty comfortable life. If they can’t keep the status quo financially, she needs to put her whim on hold for a few years while these girls finish high school. In the meantime, she needs to either find somehow to live her dream in a position with better scheduling or get a job that fits the program at that moment. Kids first. Dreams second.
But Randall followed his dream to be a city councilman. Why does he get to follow his dream, but she doesn’t get to follow hers? He walked away from a high-paying job didn’t he?
Wasn’t she still working when he decided to follow his dream? Its all in the timing.
Yes, she was.
I think we saw toddler triplets in the first season. Loved Kate and Toby in the graduation scenes. That Toby is a real find. So worried about their son.