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00:00From ultimately minor leaps in logic which have chipped away at fans ever since,
00:05to absolutely gigantic plot holes, ludicrous subplots, and everything in between,
00:10these moments represent TV at its most nonsensical throughout the last 12 months.
00:15I am Gareth, this is WhatCulture, and here are 10 recent TV moments that made no sense.
00:2110. Kami Gets Locked in the Fridge, The Bear
00:24The Bear's generally phenomenal second season concludes with an episode where Kami gets locked
00:29inside his restaurant's walk-in fridge when the handle breaks off. It's a payoff to the fact that
00:34Kami has been meaning to get the handle fixed for a good while, yet being preoccupied with the
00:39restaurant's opening he simply forgot to do it. These things happen after all, except as many,
00:44many viewers pointed out following the episode's airing, every walk-in fridge installed at a
00:49restaurant will have a safety latch on the inside, allowing anyone potentially trapped inside to
00:54easily free themselves in the events of catastrophe. Yet for dramatic reasons, this is
00:59curiously ignored in the episode, which concludes with the staff bringing in power tools to effectively
01:04saw the door open. While the final moments of the episode show sparks flying inside the fridge
01:09as Kami waits to be freed, this itself doesn't make much sense either. All a handyman would need
01:14to do is remove the screws on the door's hinges in order to get him out. Granted, The Bear is a
01:19brilliant enough show, and categorically not a documentary, that it's easy to ignore most instances
01:24of dramatic license, though this one did feel more contrived than most. And with The Bear in mind,
01:29I want to know what your favorite show of 2023 was. If it wasn't The Bear, then you let me know
01:34what is in the comment section down below. Number 9. Jocelyn was in control the entire time.
01:39The Idol. No TV show has proven quite so controversial this year as HBO's The Idol,
01:44which made troubling headlines months before its premiere due to extensive behind-the-scenes issues,
01:49resulting in a large bulk of the series being reshot. It finally released a generally scathing
01:54reviews over the summer, despite some scattered praise for Lily Rose Depp's performance as embattled
01:59pop star Jocelyn, yet ultimately saved its most WTF moment of all for the very last episode.
02:05Throughout the show, the audience is led to believe that Jocelyn has been ensnared and
02:09exploited by sleazeball nightclub owner Tedros, but the big twist reveals that this wasn't quite the
02:14truth. Rather, it's implied that Jocelyn has been lying about her late mother's abusive
02:18behavior in order to trap Tedros and win the sympathy of her legion of fans, effectively
02:23allowing her to become the cult leader which Tedros has been painted as over the course of
02:28the season. It's an amusing idea which could theoretically come off as empowering for Jocelyn,
02:33yet given the overall storytelling deficiencies on offer here, it can't help but feel convoluted
02:37and manipulative in the worst way. If Jocelyn lied about being abused, it ultimately raises a ton
02:43more questions about the internal logic of both the story and Jocelyn herself, rather than merely
02:48inviting audiences to re-watch the series within an intriguing new context.
02:538. Winston's Different Accent
02:55The Continental from The World of John Wick
02:57The Continental was a pretty good prequel to the John Wick movies, as long as you could get over
03:02the actually significant hurdle of accepting Colin Woodell in the role of a young Winston Scott,
03:07played so deliciously by Ian McShane in the films. This isn't so much a knock against Woodell's
03:12physical performance as it is his accent, which settles simply for broadly American,
03:17making it a far cry from McShane's more distinctive transatlantic twang, broached firmly between English
03:23and American. People certainly change a lot over 50 years, and that absolutely includes accents,
03:28but given that Winston resides in New York in both the movies and the prequel series,
03:32he doesn't really track that he sounds so different in the latter. Series director Albert
03:37Hughes did at least address the issue head-on in interviews, telling Gizmodo that they opted not to
03:42have Woodell simply imitate McShane's incredibly distinctive accent, but rather try to capture
03:46the essence of the man's character. All the same, it's immensely distracting when you start watching
03:51the show, and immediately places a barrier between the audience and their acceptance of this character
03:56as young Winston.
03:577. Nobody Hates Ashley for the Bridge Stunt
04:00Squid Game The Challenge
04:01Squid Game The Challenge had been the game show on everyone's lips, for better or worse,
04:06throughout the last few weeks of 2023. But the single moment that perhaps baffled fans more than any,
04:11the Ashley stunt on Glass Bridge. The Glass Bridge game saw contestants attempting to cross,
04:16you guessed it, a glass bridge, while picking the correct glass tile to stand on, one tile being
04:22sturdy, the other sending them falling hilariously through the floor. The 20 remaining players had 30
04:27minutes to cross the bridge, with the group collectively agreeing to step on a single tile
04:31each, giving them a seemingly equally fair shot of making it to the end. This was all well and good,
04:37until Ashley refused to play ball and leaped to a tile, effectively holding the game up until
04:42Trey stepped up and took her place, ultimately leading to his elimination. Yet in the wake of
04:47Ashley's decision, the episode shows the remaining contestants having strangely little ill will towards
04:52her, as proved confusing for large groups of viewers dumbfounded by her selfish choice.
04:57Furthermore, the fact that Mai was then villainised for nominating Ashley in the subsequent Die Test
05:02game comes across as further strange. Why wouldn't she nominate the person who wasn't being a team
05:07player? Fans have speculated that Netflix's manipulative editing may have been to blame here,
05:12because why else wouldn't the surviving contestants be absolutely fuming with Ashley?
05:16Number 6, Skrull Roadie, Secret Invasion
05:19We probably could have just stopped at Secret Invasion with this one, given how much of the show's
05:24storytelling and character work felt inconsistent with established facts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
05:29But by far the most polarising aspect of the series was the Skrull Roadie debacle. In the season's
05:35fourth episode, it's revealed that Roadie is actually a female Skrull in disguise named Rather,
05:40with the real Roadie having been incarcerated by the Skrulls for an indeterminate period of time.
05:45Though the twist was certainly an interesting idea, the execution was wayyyy off. A big part of the
05:51problem? It was never clarified precisely when Roadie was first replaced, and when director Ali Salim
05:56suggested that it occurred after Captain America Civil War, that only frustrated fans more. After
06:01all, the idea that the Roadie we saw mourning Tony Stark in Avengers Endgame was a doppelganger,
06:06robs that moment of its emotional power and just leaves a massively sour taste. That's without even
06:12getting into the many nitpicky reasons why the MCU actively contradicts the idea of Roadie being a
06:17Skrull for many years. Stupid stuff. And just a quick one to say thank you for checking out this
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06:295. Nate and Jade's Romance, Ted Lasso
06:32Ted Lasso's third season made a number of head-scratching creative decisions which majorly
06:37divided fans. But perhaps the oddest of the lot? Shoehorning in a romance between Nate and Jade,
06:43the stern hostess at Nate's favourite restaurant, A Taste of Athens. Despite Jade showing no romantic
06:49interest whatsoever in Nate, and even appearing to have considerable dislike for him whenever he
06:54visits the eatery, midway through the season the pair rather suddenly develop a bond and become
06:59lovers. If the writers were going for an opposite to track dynamic, it didn't really work because
07:04they never showed us why Jade would change her mind about Nate. And more to the point, Jade is so
07:09underdeveloped as a character that she ends up feeling more like a prop for Nate's own agency than
07:14a genuine person in her own right. As a result, the whole setup felt incredibly forced. With the
07:19writers apparently believing that Nate's redemption arc absolutely needed a romantic component in
07:24order to fully succeed. 4. Aiden dumps Carrie because...
07:28Reasons? And Just Like That
07:30Though the second season of And Just Like That marked a decent dramatic improvement in a number
07:35of ways, it all came hilariously crashing down in the season's final episode, just as Carrie
07:40seemed destined to get her happily ever after again with old flame Aiden. In the latter half of the
07:46season, Carrie and Aiden decide to move in together, with Carrie finally moving out of
07:51her beloved apartment into a lush house. But a major spanner is thrown in the works in the final
07:56episode, when Aiden's 14-year-old son Wyatt crashes his truck in a DUI accident. This causes Aiden to
08:02realize that his sons need him, and so he tells Carrie he can't move in with her, instead deciding to
08:07head back to Virginia to look after his kids. But that's not quite the end for the pair. They agree to
08:12a five-year relationship pause, by which time Aiden's kids will be over the age of 18 and he
08:17claims he'll return to Carrie. Beyond being a pathetically transparent way to drag out the
08:22series' drama, just when Carrie had a happy ending in sight, this was so ridiculous that some fans
08:28quite understandably believe that Aiden hatched the whole scheme as a means of punishing Carrie
08:32for her cheating on him during their initial relationship decades prior. And even if you don't
08:37buy into that theory, it's completely absurd. No 50-something person is wasting five years of
08:42their romantic life waiting on the hook for their beloved, and to even ask someone to do that is
08:47just maddening. Number 3, The Noticeably Aged Cast, Sex Education
08:52Sex Education is a wonderful comedy series, which had an, uh, less than wonderful conclusion,
08:58though the primary issues were creative ones. Many fans also couldn't help but point out the
09:02distractingly large chasm between the ages of the central characters, and the actors playing
09:07them. This isn't a new issue for any TV show centred around school or college-age characters,
09:12yet given that Sex Education's four seasons were released over almost five years, and yet covered
09:17just two years of narrative time, it's little surprise that actors' ages began to lose credibility.
09:23The most egregious examples among the cast are 30-year-old Kuti Gatwa, 29-year-old Amy Lou Wood,
09:2928-year-old Kadar Williams Sterling, 27-year-old Emma Mackey and Connor Swindles,
09:3425-year-old Mimi Keane. It simply wasn't easy to accept that these performers were still playing
09:40teenagers in 2023. And while there's little practically that can really be done about it,
09:45horrid digital de-aging be damned, it is nevertheless something that ultimately became
09:49tough to ignore. Number 2, Everything About Amanda, Hijack
09:52Apple's Idris Elba-starring thriller series, Hijack, was a pretty taut and entertaining ride for the most
09:58part, though took a wild left turn in its penultimate episode. The show takes place on a
10:03hijacked passenger plane during its flight from Dubai to London in more or less real-time.
10:08And at the end of episode 6, one of the plane's largely unseen passengers, Amanda,
10:13suddenly pulls out a gun, executes the plane's pilot, and locks herself inside the cockpit.
10:18What?
10:18The final episode subsequently reveals that the hijacking was arranged to crash the stock of
10:23the plane's airline, Kingdom Air. Because with the villains short-selling against the stock,
10:27they stood to profit from the company's stock price plummeting. As for Amanda? She's blackmailed
10:32into flying the plane in order to prevent the bad guys from killing her daughter. And though
10:36she initially believes she needs to crash the plane into London in order to secure her daughter's
10:40safety, she's eventually persuaded against it by negotiator Sam. Moreover, Amanda rather conveniently
10:46secures an agreement with the authorities that she won't be arrested upon landing the plane.
10:50And indeed, she simply goes free at show's end. There's just so much silliness here.
10:55First, did Amanda really need to shoot the pilot dead rather than simply disable him?
10:59And secondly, would the cops really honour a flimsy immunity agreement? Nothing was signed.
11:04And considering she both murdered a man and almost killed hundreds of people by crashing a plane,
11:09would anyone really care if they swiftly reneged on it?
11:121. Freddy Gets Smart When He Gets Drunk
11:14Now, to be completely fair to the recently concluded Frasier revival,
11:18it was actually a good deal better than most were expecting, especially considering the absence
11:23of Frasier's brother Niles. But the series did occasionally get a little too sitcom-y for its
11:28own good, as evidenced by its eighth episode, where it's revealed that whenever Frasier's
11:32firefighter son Freddy gets drunk, he ditches the working class facade he adopts in order to fit in
11:37with his co-workers and gets incredibly eriadute, pontificating on highfalutin subjects,
11:42much to his colleagues' amusement. It's certainly a fun idea, albeit one that's shown a little too
11:48cartoonishly in the episode, as if to suggest that poor Freddy has quite literally sublimated
11:53his real personality when sober, and is basically playing a character for most of his right-minded
11:58life. It's more depressing than funny, honestly, and stretches the credibility of his character
12:03close to snapping point, especially as this revelation is rather soundly ignored in the
12:07series' two remaining episodes. How strange.
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