NOTHING beats the pure comedic value of not one but TWO absurdly long boring shots in that one ep of the a team s5 of face walking away while 'miles from nowhere' plays
The a team is a very comforting show to watch partly bc every single recurring character is deeply and profoundly Weird. If they weren’t all absolute freaks they wouldn’t have survived the way they do. Their weirdness is what keeps them together and what makes them successful as a unit and in a world where people unironically say that non-normative people ‘should have been bullied more’ to beat the weirdness out of them, it’s nice to see Hannibal, a certifiable Freak, calling similar people slimeballs and getting his collection of adopted children to join him in blowing their cars up without actually hurting anyone, while BA pretends to be normal to cover the fact that he’s easily as bizarre as Murdock, and Face speaks mostly in keysmashes and is fully convinced that he’s perfectly normal, Murdock saunters around in tight trousers talking absolute nonsense at top speed.
In the year 2000, I bought a homemade Cabbage Patch Mr. T doll from a new-ish site called eBay. Now, he sits as the bodyguard to the bedroom of my 4-year-old and 7-year-old daughters.