Most Rewatchable Scene
The two courtroom testimony scenes
In the discussion (11)
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- Many candidate scenes are called too painful to be rewatchable, and a separate label like the one used for Ordinary People is suggested.
- Joanna leaving is nominated: Ted is too absorbed in work to hear her, and the elevator-door line that she no longer loves him lands almost as an afterthought.
- The first French toast scene is nominated as a generous portrait of how hard it is to be a mom, building toward the silent breakfast routine; the breakfast scene is considered good but not rewatchable.
- The ice cream confrontation and the late-night talk that follows are called among the best scenes, though not rewatchable; parts were reportedly improvised.
- The restaurant confrontation with the thrown wine glass is praised for Ted moving from hopeful to enraged within two minutes, but not something to rewatch repeatedly.
- Ted forcing a same-day hiring decision at the Christmas party is called well constructed and shows why he is good at business.
- Streep on the stand is called one of the best-acted sequences of her career, and the switch between the rehearsed direct examination and the hostile cross-examination, mirrored in Hoffman's testimony, is loved.
- The pick is declared as the courtroom stretch with the two courtroom scenes, and another participant agrees it is the pick.
- For the record, Ted reading Joanna's letter to Billy, the run to the hospital and the ice cream scene with its aftermath are named as scenes thought about most often. — Mallory Rubin
- The trial is again called the probable pick among many pantheon scenes, with a joke that Ted should have read the letter before reading it aloud.
- The bicycle scene blew this participant away, with new-kid energy from just having a kid. — Sean Fennessey