5 TV Scenes That Had You All In Your Feelings This Week: Heartbreakers, Dream Makers
Talk about feelings upon feelings. I have to confess that I didn’t even catch some of these episodes, but the expressions of our TV writers have me a little verklempt this Sunday evening. Now, you know it’s a damn good scene, when just reading about it has you all emotional, and fighting back tears whilst editing on your laptop. And, in case you missed it, Better Call Saul had an excellent premiere, and we recommend catching up immediately. Here are our top five picks for the week of February 8, 2015.
1. The Walking Dead: One Last Escape
The best part of the episode to me was seeing the rescue attempt from the dreamy perspective of Tyreese. Rick, Glen, Noah and Michonne are panicked, but the camera makes the journey seem tranquil. He’s spent the episode coming to terms with how he lived his life. He lived it well. He knows who he is, and no hallucinatory Governor or Martin can take away the good that he did. He didn’t turn away from the hurt around him, though he was sorely tempted time and again. He fought until the end, and when he could no longer fight, he made peace. We’ve seen so much pain in the show lately, from Maggie grieving Beth to Noah grieving his family to Sasha grieving Tyreese at the end. The suffering of this apocalyptic world is what Tyreese is finally escaping, and that makes it a little easier for viewers to deal with such a loss.—Josh Jackson
2. Girls: Damn You, Gillian Jacobs
Hannah just opened her own apartment door to be greeted by this… Mimi-Rose… girl. And I can’t even hate this Mimi-Rose, because she’s Gillian Jacobs. But Mimi-Rose just Britta’d Hannah and Adam’s relationship!
Hannah’s situation sucks to watch because no party’s done anything wrong. The two parted on amicable terms. They decided to turn the other way when it came to hook-ups. As far as their love went, they’d make no plans and let fate decide. Hannah had to pursue her dream, watching Adam pursue his wasn’t stimulating, so they parted on what love advice columnist Dan Savage would probably call “fairly healthy terms.” So much was left in the air that, one might hold out hope that the two could come back fully formed and perfect for each other at the end of grad school.
But this is Girls. Its mission statement is to be a realistic portrait of millennials in New York. A long-term situation like this for Hannah and Adam would have been a fairy tale. Hannah and Adam’s relationship had to dissolve over this situation, like it had to dissolve every other time. It had to happen. Right!?—Tyler Kane