Ha! This whole thing turned out to be the same lesson my parents always told me, “you have to live together before you get married”. It’s TRUE!!!! You get through all the horrible messy angry stuff before you make that lifelong commitment and then you know you really want that lifelong commitment.
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Little Things Review/Discussion Space: Season 4 Episodes 5 and 6
Oh I am getting nervous. And also, confused. I think I figured things out by the end of episode 6, but maybe not? Help!
Continue readingLittle Things Episode 3 and 4: The Calm, and the Start of the Storm
These were two really pleasant episodes. But also, oh man, I can feel the problems coming! Which is how they happen in relationships in life, you go along all happy and smooth, thinking it’s fine, thinking you are on the same page, and then BLAMO.
Continue readingLittle Things Episode 1 and 2: Reunion and Family
Oh boy! I’m doing it! I’m digging deep into Little Things again! Even though it makes you think about relationships and how we hurt each other and all kinds of things!
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk: Chat Away While I Go to a Pumpkin Patch!!!
Happy Saturday! I was going to organize my file cabinet today, but then my friends invited me to go to a pumpkin patch with them, so I’m doing that instead. Yaaaaay!
Continue readingDiscussion Post: Let’s Obsess Over the Little Things Trailer and Talk About What Marriage Means to Us
Oh boy, a discussion post! No wrong answer, just a forum to share things about each other and learn different ways of thinking. Oh, and also to obsess over Little Things if you are a Little Things person.
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 8: Is This a Break Up or an Engagement? Or Somehow Both and Neither?
This is a very interesting open ending. It could be the end of the whole story for these characters, or the start of their next chapter, and the show leaves it open. Because right now, it is open for them too. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 7: How Did We Get Here
Yet again, the show fills in backstory and it makes you go “yeah, that seems right” as though it had been written all along. Because maybe it had, they just hadn’t filmed it yet. (Little Things Review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 6: Messy Re-Entry
Hey, this episode is about why I decided not to go over to my apartment this weekend and instead stay at their place! It’s not the leaving, it’s the coming back, all those little micro-adjustments. And I’m just talking about an hour of adjustment following two days away, this episode is about the whole messy return after 6 months apart. Blech!
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 5: The Moment You Know You Can Never Fully Forgive Your Parents
I avoided this episode, because I was afraid it would be too painful. But then the interesting thing is, it ended up being sadder because it was without pain. This relationship has a door that is so firmly shut, there isn’t even pain any more. It’s just over, and that is sad. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 4: Mithila Thinks About Her Paths Not Taken
And the differences and distances keep coming! This episode and the next are structured differently, instead of cutting back and forth, we are seeing things solely from the perspective of one part of our separated couple, the other half only appearing in brief phone calls. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 3 Review: Time Apart Flies By, But Then What?
This was brave, the whole season is set up around their long distance, and we get past the whole thing in one episode. But then, it’s a show about relationships, we don’t need to see them apart, we need to see the good-bye and the re-entry.
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 2: This is So SAD!
Boy, that headline doesn’t make you want to watch the episode, does it? But it’s a good sad. A healthy sad. And the kind of sad we don’t usually see in art, normal every day non-tragic sad. Which is part of why it is sad, that you don’t feel like you have the right to these emotions. (Little Things review index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 3 Episode 1 Review: Long Distance is Scary
Okay, season 2 was twice as good as season 1, and season 3 looks to be doubling in quality again. This episode is so lovely and loving and scary.
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 FINAL EPISODE: Big Conversations, and Chaiyya Chaiyya!
Once again, nails the landing! Dhruv expresses himself in a way he has never really done before. And Mithila finally says the thing that will release them from the biggest issue of the season. (Little Things reviews index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 7: The Big Fight
Hoo boy! Glad we had the light episode before this one, because this one is HEAVY. Man, so heavy! Everything from the whole season before this comes together in a big blow out fight. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 6: Lazy Sunday
This is a pleasant episode, but doesn’t quite give the Big Thoughts that the other episodes this season did. It’s a throwback to last season, and is almost consciously a throwback, especially to the very first episode. Kind of taking a breath before we hit the finale. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 5 Review: What is Cheating?
Another fabulous episode! Really, this season is so good. I wish more of you were watching it. It’s happy, it’s beautiful, it makes you think about relationship stuff and life stuff and interesting things. Emily and I are loving it, the rest of you should try! (Little Things index here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 4 Review: If You Watch Only One Episode, This is the One to Watch. Also, MANNAT!
Woot! MANNAT! And a really lovely hopeful small gem of an episode. Don’t watch anything else of this show if you don’t want to, just watch this one episode and feel happy. (full index of reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 3: Earning Your Money
Another money episode! Think this is going to be the theme of the season, and that’s a good thing. Too few artworks honestly deal with money issues. Not showing poor people, but showing how money drives folks of all levels of society. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 2 Review: Money Matters
Another really good episode with a lot of smart observations! Man, just adding those extra 7 minutes added a lot more depth too. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Season 2 Episode 1 Review: Friendship, Moving Away, Growing Apart, Universal Themes Told Specifically
Season 2! “Long” episodes! This one was about half an hour, but the others seem to be mostly 22 minutes. Still awfully long compared to the 15 minutes last season. (full index of Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Episode 5: The Slow Build Pays Off, Turns Out Mithila Was the Main Character All Along
Such a brilliant final episode! Pulls into focus everything from the last 4 episodes, and makes you go “ooooooo! I see what you did there!” And also, retroactively, turns Mithila into the lead character. Which is especially interesting since Dhruv Sehgal wrote the show, and plays the other character. But turns out, his character isn’t that great and Mithila is the important one! Oh, and also we get a flashback to how they met. (index of all Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Episode 3: 3am Sandwiches and Condoms
This is a happy episode. About a happy safe time, 3am all alone together, with your own jokes and laughter and being together. (index of all Little Things reviews here)
Continue readingLittle Things Episode 2: “Dude” “Yaar” and “Daddy”
Episode 2! Another pleasant 15 minutes of life with a young couple figuring things out together. (index of all Little Things reviews here)
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