u/HumanRecherche

I just finished watching and these are my observations…

So dark. Devastating.

Shiv would rather her conniving yes-man husband who she doesn’t even like become a puppet CEO than concede to her - pretty deserving? - brother. Honestly I find it sickening. To be that unable to cooperate with your siblings or see them be happy even at the final moment, when it is absolutely impossible for you to get that position yourself. She herself would be so much better off with Kendall as CEO. She’d be able to run ATN, which she would love. Kendall’s annoying, sure. But he’s right in the last episode that in the current situation he’s the best pick to put forward as CEO.

I think Kendall will probably kill himself. Roman seems happy to be free at the end, having a drink in a bar, so that’s good.

I think the ending could have been more positive without feeling too pat or unrealistic. I would have preferred to see them come together to get rid of Mattson, Kendall becomes CEO, Shiv heads ATN, Roman gets another branch (or perhaps chooses in a surprise turn to start The Hundred, becoming master of his own destiny?) and after the triumph of retaining the company, we see what a fragile coalition it was, the immediate hints that they’re always going to be jostling and fighting for position, always looking for their father’s love. Or - perhaps - something has subtly changed and with the question settled and Logan dead, they can finally let go of some of their poison towards each other.

The ending of the show made it a tragedy.

It also made me HATE Shiv.

And in case you’re worried about my sanity yes I do realise it’s all fictional 😂 I just finished watching so, you know, I’m in the throes…

My fave characters: Tom and Greg. Hilarious.

Just wanted to share my observation that often when I say Big Mouth is my favourite show, people don’t know of it or know of it vaguely but haven’t seen it. People ranging in age from 20s to 50s. I’m always so surprised because the concept is so unusual, it’s so incredibly funny, so disgusting (in a good way), the characters are so funny yet so real, the storylines develop so well… it just absolutely DELIGHTS me.

I know it’s obviously popular and did well because they kept making it for a long time. But I can’t help but feel that it… didn’t get what it deserved?

Is this a universally acknowledged truth in this sub?

Opinions?

Some of the people I talk to seem a little put off by the fact that it’s animated. But other than that I’m baffled. I do some stuff in the comedy scene so it’s not like I’m only talking to people who aren’t the show’s audience or don’t like comedy. I’m in the UK - maybe it’s that?

Just experiencing the switch over to Google Health :/ Ugh.

Has anyone found a way of getting it to display your number of zone minutes / active minutes / whatever they’re called now more prominently? I have to dig around in the app to find them and there doesn’t seem to be anywhere it shows my total minutes for the week – I have to add them up myself.

Or a way of getting it to show cardio load as a number that isn’t a percentage - I’m not used to thinking about my fitness for the week in percentages and I don’t like it!

Any pointers much appreciated!

Hi all. Wondering if anyone has ideas for how to increase one’s sense of self-efficacy - which is basically your belief that you can do what you set out to do / say to yourself you’re going to do. Right now mine is really low. I don’t like to set deadlines for myself or tell myself or anyone else that I’m going to do anything, because I don’t believe I’ll be able to meet the target. Sometimes it’s the pressure of the target that feels like too much. It’s often easier at the moment to get things done without the pressure of a deadline. Sometimes it’s just the fact that I know I’ve failed so many times before, so I no longer want to commit to a target.

The best example is getting to bed at a particular time. I’m so bad at getting to bed when I want to that I feel seriously discouraged from even trying.

It feels like the natural way of building confidence is to set small, achievable goals and then keep reminding myself of the ones I’ve achieved. But I can’t help remembering all the ones I set but then failed to achieve, which are always more numerous.

I’m 43 and on day 12 of starting Zoely for perimenopausal symptoms of skin dryness and anxiety. I felt better mood-wise for the first four days, but since then have felt lower and tonight feel oddly low and tearful. I can’t decide whether to take the pill tonight or just stop straight away. Or stick it out for a few more days, a month, two months…?

I don’t need it for contraception and my mood/mental health is already fragile. Nowhere near suicidal or anything but I struggle with anxiety and low mood. I’m also getting spotting, breast soreness and shivers at night but my priority is my mood.

I’ve only ever been on a progesterone only pill before so I don’t know if I would respond this way to any oestrogen pill or if it’s just Zoely, and I don’t know how likely it is that these side-effects will settle down after a few days or not. I see some people on here who’ve been really badly affected by Zoely, which seriously worries me. Tonight’s pill would be no.13.

Starting sertraline a few months ago was already such an ordeal with horrible side effects - I don’t need more of the same 😢