Picking up from yesterday –
The 2 multicam sitcoms on the ballot were How I Met Your Father, and Call Me Kat. How I Met Your Father has the older version talking *to* the camera, instead of watching the kids’ reactions (never being seen).
I wondered if the reason they did that was because How I Met Your Mother struggled with the kids getting older, having to pre-tape stuff, being pushed into corners, and all that. But it was great to see Kim Cattrall on screen. Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders) even made an appearance on the episode they submitted! So, that was a cool little throwback to the show they based that off of.
Another thing that was interesting to me was how OLD everything feels. I mean, these are TV shows just from this past season. So yes, technically this stuff can be from a year ago, but the world keeps changing so much, so fast.
I’m the first person to say we are absolutely still in a pandemic. But the way we were talking about Covid even a year ago feels so different than how we do it now. I guess i can sort of see why so many people ‘over’ this pandemic, because seeing some of this stuff back-to-back-to-back really can feel a little suffocating.
One thing that was so very sweet was Norm Macdonald’s last special. He just spoke to a camera. They said in the special that he was going to be having a procedure the next day. So, they taped it as a ‘backup’ in case things went south… and sadly, they did. He got an infection and never left the hospital. At least they taped what they could when they had the chance. And the end were his famous comedian friends talking about.
And he just felt so… almost, comforting, I suppose. He seemed to have such a… calmness(?) about him. It was a very unexpected special, and I enjoyed watching it!
This is where I’ll pick up tomorrow!