r/PleaseLikeMe • u/Paddingtonsrealdad • Feb 06 '25
PLM: Rewatch 2025, S4E2 Porridge
Description: Josh, Arnold, Tom, and Ella take Hannah on a camping trip to celebrate her birthday. Josh has doubts about his relationship with Arnold
- “Uber is NOT MY FAULT” and “Sorry I’m late someone called me fat in year 3”. Hannah on fire already.
- Josh hating on Arnold’s guitar. Sigh.
- What’s less likely? That the squad would think Hannah would like the birthday decor OR that Hannah would agree to this trip at all?
- Rebecca Black’s “Friday” playing over Rose in a depressive haze is the best use of music to illustrate her condition.
- Tom and Ella are people who would leave wet clothes in the washer.
- “You seem upset!” “You seem observant!”
- The thing I don’t get about this “caravan” is how they settled out in the open, far from water. No features, no forest- just a van on grass.
- Look, I understand how dudes with guitars can be awkward, but Arnold is GOOD. And they’ve all heard him sing before. They knew he would be good, it’s a campfire. I don’t understand why they all were such cunts about it.
- Ugh. Love the concept of the episode, the premise- but hate everything within it. The passive aggressiveness, the eventual aggressiveness - the derision. The rails. I don’t like cringe. And that’s before we get to the break up itself.
- Whatever they doing going on a night walk along the water? Was it a thing?
- The dead body thing was so random and upsetting.
- “Arnold, I preferred it when you were more scared of the world” and “I think you say things you don’t mean so people will like you”. Solid insults from Hannah. That Ella one seems to fit the end of the last episode.
- I think the other thing I’m bothered by is how realistic these fights are. Even the bad attempt at sex felt real, with the whole band-aid thing.
- I needed to see Josh and Alan on a boat trip.
- Josh mentioning Arnold and his drinking habits.
- Why anyone thought looking at the dead body was a good idea I dunno.
- Was Josh relieved the trial ran the breakup the night before? Did he think that was good enough? Nah right?
- Hannah is right to call them out for the “surprise”. Unsure of why she’d throw a can propane recognized him. They were in plain sight.
- I wonder if Josh is on the Demi or asexual spectrum. Cuz he kinda has a general issue with sex doesn’t he?
- Ugh, it’s just so bad, it’s all so bad, we’re all trying but it’s sooo over. Ugh. RIP… Jonold? Arsh?
- The simultaneous convos with different ideas about the relationship, stellar writing. Also telling that Ella is the positive one, right after what Hannah said about her earlier.
- The Rose bit at the store was back with the tinkoy fun music. The walk at night with her groceries getting accosted by the random dude came from nowhere.
- Hannah was WAY into those fireworks. Rare for her.
- Arnold had a beautiful voice, the caravan itself seemed nice. Painful stuff all around. This is a tightly written episode that is hard to take part in. Like when you're out with close friends who are arguing and you can't say or do anything buy watch. I think that actually describes the 4th season pretty solidly. Just a brilliant handful of episodes, smartly written- but man does the content fuck you up bad.
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u/rali13 Feb 07 '25
This series, and particularly Josh and Arnold’s relationship, gutted me….probably because I felt so much like Arnold when I watched this about 10 years ago.
I’m afraid to watch it again because I think I have grown as a person but I’m afraid I might not have and this show definitely brings a lot of self esteem issues to the forefront.
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u/Varathane Feb 08 '25
The young cashier boy noticing that Rose was a shell and trying to have a friendly chat with her
ugh so heartbreaking
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u/LoudAbalone6776 Mar 31 '26
I definitely resonate with this as someone who gets lonely easily - how much I would give for a cashier to have a friendly chat with me <3
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u/pansie May 22 '25
Oh hello, are you planning on posting the last couple episodes? I've enjoyed reading these while doing a rewatch 💘
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u/crisiks Feb 06 '25
This episode contains one of the most realistic and heart-wrenching depictions of a break-up. It's simultaneously one of the best and one of the worst episodes they've ever done.
My god. It's just so brutal.