We watch a lot of TV and movies! So yeah, we’re fangirling over a lot of things! Each week we come together to highlight all the feels they give us throughout the week. On these Fangirlish Feels of the Week, there are five categories and many thoughts! Ready?
Here we go!
Best Scene of the Week
Lyra: The Season 2 finale of Tubi’s Big Mood. I have A) never devoured a show that fast and B) cried so much. There is just so much warmth and love in this show. And then that ending felt like the culmination of everything they’ve worked on this show. An ending where everyone was seen and loved. I just… how is the Season over that quick?
Rachel: I’m going with the quiet moment between Agnes and Daisy after Agnes’ horrible and heartbreaking dentist appointment on this week’s episode of The Testaments. Agnes’ stepmother comments that Agnes’ birth mother must have given her “weak teeth” and when they’re alone, Daisy says to Agnes, “She has a weak chin. Can’t fix that.” The girls laugh together then bond more over the loss of their mothers.
There is a lot of subtext going on in this scene. Agnes was just sexually abused by the dentist while she was unconscious, so she needed this support at this moment, even if Daisy didn’t know what happened. This moment would be even more impactful if the show had made Daisy the daughter of Elizabeth Moss’ June from The Handmaid’s Tale, just like Agnes is. The timeline doesn’t work, though. Still, this is a terrific scene between two talented young actresses.
Ashley W.: As a huge basketball fan, I loved that Abbott Elementary season 5, episode 20: “Night Out” ended by showing us that Jacob not only hasn’t lying about being able to dunk but actually pulled off several intricate dunks. So while it was such an amusing way to round out a more emotional episode, I was more so thoroughly impressed and surprised by his skills.
My only qualm with it is Jacob absolutely did not *learn* how to dunk from High School Musical. I absolutely adore HSM, but those high schoolers were not dunking. Now, if he claimed to have been inspired by HSM and Troy Bolton instead, that would be incredibly valid — not that such details affect the actual narrative of the show, but I take basketball and HSM very seriously!
Lizzie: Can I say the entire episode of NCIS: Sydney? It was the thing we were waiting for, but to see Mackey come clean with her team, and have them all back her up, plus Trey? It was a lot, and all good!
Ship of the Week
Jeanette: Okay, since Hacks Season 5 has dropped, my algorithm has ensured that I see all the age-gap Deborah/Ava shipping posts—and let’s just say that I’m not mad about. Do I think it’s a ship that will actually become canon? Nope, not even in the slightest because studios are cowards, and I’m not quite sure it really makes sense for the characters anyway. But, Hacks shippers, please don’t let that dull your spark. Keep making those videos… for me!
Rachel: I have to go with Anna and Michael in You, Me, & Tuscany! This was such an enjoyable rom-com in general, and the chemistry between Halle Bailey and Rege-Jean Page was one of the best things about it. Both characters are genuinely likeable and the actors are beautiful and appealing performers. When they get caught in the sprinklers in the vineyard again and get their HEA, it makes your heart happy.
Ashley W.: This feels incredibly strange to say, but I’ve got to go with Vanessa and Wilson Fisk. The way he reacts with such anguish when Vanessa dies in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, episode 5: “The Grand Design” actually made me feel bad for him! The Fisks are not good people, but the latest episode did a great job at showcasing how, despite the bad they’ve done, they’re also a married couple who love each other. The Fisks are human, too, and the love they have for each other is genuine.
Best Performance of the Week
Raquel: Lauren Lyle. If there’s one good thing about the mess they made with Fergus in this week’s Outlander, it’s her performance. She conveyed the sadness, the devastation, the way Marsali feels lost without Fergus and doesn’t know how to go on.
Jeanette: Hacks is finally back! And truthfully, I could and probably will come back to this section to scream about Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder (see above). I’m technically behind an episode (I ran out of time this week!), but what I saw in Season 5, Episode 1, already tells me everything I need to know: Smart and Einbinder will close out Hacks with some of the best performances of the year. Period.
Ashley W.: Seeing Elden Henson reprise his role as Foggy Nelson for the flashbacks in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, episode 5 was wonderful! He really captures the earnestness and compassion that Foggy is loved for, and his chemistry with Charlie Cox‘s Matt Murdock is part of what makes Matt and Foggy such a beloved duo. I especially loved how he went about the scenes where Foggy gives Ray/Lionel money for him to start over, because it really showcases the kind of person he is.
Moment that Annoyed Us This Week
Raquel: It would be quicker to list what didn’t annoy me this week LMAO. But let’s start with ABC’s The Rookie episode. A nonsensical mess with high-profile cameos where I had absolutely no idea what I was watching. And we finish with Outlander. I’ll never forgive them for killing Fergus. And don’t even get me started on Faith’s storyline, which was riddled with plot holes.
Lyra: The ending of BEEF Season 2. Without giving spoilers away, what was the point of it all? Every show, movie, or book out there has a point. But I can’t wrap my head around what was the point of this show. Was it to prove that rich people always win? Or was it that the only way to succeed in the system was to erase what makes you different and become part of that system? Or was it that nothing is real and you will suffer? Like, despite the glorious acting by everyone, I’m stuck on that end.
Jeanette: Okay, I—we, all of us—made it to the Season 18 finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and Jane Don’t won Miss Congeniality. Good, right? Well, yes, but it also completely annoyed me because it felt like a consolation prize. Jane should’ve been in the top 3, and her winning this award was deserved, but a reminder of what could’ve been if the Drag Race judging made any sense.
Lizzie: Raquel is right, what Outlander did is outrageous. We’re almost at the end and the show that has always managed to hurt us way more than it needed to did it again. I hate it here.
Quote of the Week
Raquel: “My pen is my sword” — Fergus Claudel Fraser from Outlander.
Rachel: “Heavenly Father, or Mother…strike lightning through these b*tches’ hairdos and send a helicopter to get me out of Gilead.”– Daisy’s internal monologue on The Testaments.
Ashley W.: “Maybe tonight’s penance is mutual.” – Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, episode 5: “The Grand Design.”
