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My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman: Kanye West (2019)
Like watching Letterman talk to a wall at times
For much of the interview, West just...sits there. He doesn't engage, he gives Letterman little to work with. Letterman's a skilled interviewer, but there were moments where it seemed like he was begging West to say something.
West is more animated in the segment at his house, so maybe it was more discomfort with the setting. But he's kind of a lousy guest. Also, the part about his clothing line would have been more interesting if we'd seen a bit of the process, how he comes up with ideas. All I got was a bunch of people modeling his stuff.
The Flash: Welcome to Earth-2 (2016)
Annoying
It's a pretty good concept. Showing how things are different in Earth-2, what the people in Earth-1 could have been, the road not traveled and all that. The ending does a good job of raising the stakes.
All this is overshadowed by the sheer irritation at watching Barry and Cisco. They react to every little difference between the Earths with shock that scrambles their brains for a good thirty to sixty seconds. Wells didn't go around gawking at everything that was different from his Earth; he just accepted it and moved on because he had a mission to focus on. Barry and Cisco also have a mission, a really important one, but keep getting distracted by trivialities.
After a while, you want to scream in their faces, "Get over it and move on with the plot!"
M*A*S*H: Hawk's Nightmare (1976)
Insanity of War
Hawkeye starts to crack, at least a bit, under the pressure. The stress manifests itself as sleepwalking and horrible dreams that end with childhood friends dying...like the young soldiers he treats.
This episode is an early demonstration of the strain that war puts on the people involved, and it really shows what makes Hawkeye appealing as a character. It's human nature to, after a while, accept horrible circumstances as the new normal. But there's something about Hawkeye. As Sidney says, "Actually, Hawkeye, you're probably the sanest person I've ever known. The fact is, if you were crazy, you'd sleep like a baby." There's something he carries within himself. Something that says "This, what's going on around me, is NOT normal. This is insane. Something very wrong is happening here." But it's this refusal to bend and accept what's going on that puts the cracks in his sanity, and this is something we see all the way to the last episode, when he sees something he can't deal with. This episode really lays the groundwork for the increasingly serious tone of the show.