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I am so, so sick of hearing about how Bradley has this extraordinary ability to speak to conservative Americans. She's a major face of #MeToo, and her first day on the air she announced that she had an abortion. And despite this talk of her being a libertarian, we've never heard her say anything that seemed more libertarian than liberal. There is no way that Trump supporters would be enamored with her just because she's from West Virginia. If anything, she'd be hated by them.

Interesting that we didn’t see David Crane in the trailer (unless I missed him). I thought he might be a bigger part of this.

If there's a secret Ben twin out there, Dickie may be helping to cover it up. I've never liked the idea of Ben having a twin - particularly an identical one. How could a famous actor have a twin sibling who no one knows about? But it would explain how Ben "came back to life" in the season premiere. And why Kimber said that Ben had a mark on his face which disappeared shortly afterward.

What was the call back to the very ending of Ferris Bueller? Or maybe the mother will confess, to cover up her son being the murderer? A few thoughts: 1. The writers have given us clues pointing to pretty much every character except the mother and son producers, which makes me suspect them all the more. 2. I really hope they explain what happened to the (completely justified) criminal charges against Nathan Lane's character and his son. 3. Is it possible that the "R. Glenroy" who supposedly made the drawing is actually Ben's secret twin (assuming he has one)? The idea of a celebrity having a secret twin is pretty far-fetched, but it sure seems like a possibility.

Interesting that there was a dig at Hugh Jackman in an episode where Jonathan was being investigated. It's probably just a coincidence. But Jason Veasey, who plays Jonathan, is open about having a (comical, I assume) grudge against Jackman. I saw the musical A Strange Loop on Broadway last year, in the midst of the Red Bucket Fall Fundraising Campaign (in which various Broadway shows compete to see who can collect the most donations to Equity Fights Aids in red buckets.) Jason addressed the audience directly at the curtain call, and said something like this: "Please give all you can, because I really, really want to win this year. There's a certain actor who only does a Broadway show once every seven years or so, and whatever show he's in always wins, and it really pisses me off. I'm not going to say who this celebrity is, but it's Hugh fucking Jackman." He went on for a bit after this about how irritated he is with Jackman, and how everyone falls all over him.

When Raylan told Boyd that he wouldn't like Mexico because there's a lot of Mexicans there, I took that as Raylan needling Boyd about his past willingness to join up with white supremacists - not Raylan seriously accusing Boyd of hating Mexicans.

Joy's response to Charles's questions about the lipstick made here seem pretty shifty. If she knew nothing about the lipstick message, then one would think she would be interested in hearing that a threatening message was left with her lipstick, and eager to help figure out who did it - instead of immediately acting threatened by the questions. It strongly suggested that she had something to hide.

I loved this, and I can't believe how quickly I binge-watched the series. Tricia going from "love the sinner, hate the sin" in the beginning of season one, to happily planning a queer couple's wedding and creating a rainbow altar, was a great touch. It would be a nice depiction of how personally knowing LGBT people generally makes people more accepting of their rights. But I find it a little odd, considering that Tricia had a lesbian sister, who had a partner. You'd think that would have been enough for Tricia to come around - but apparently it wasn't.

I didn't find the laughing at the recital to be unrealistic for Joel and Sam. Joel is the one who laughed out loud at the guy falling in front of him in season one, and Sam indicated that she would have been laughing along with him if she'd been there. Joel also had no problem insulting his coworkers when Sam announced she was quitting that job. He was going on about what losers they are, and when he found out they could overhear him, he didn't care. They also laugh at people together at the park. I think they're very much in their own little world when they're together, and part of what they enjoy is childish humor at the expense of others.

I've been thinking about the white room gags. I think part of the reason that it got boring was because it was already taken to the extreme the first time. Everyone's reactions to Charles' initial freakout were so over-the-top that there was no way to build on it.

They established in a later episode that she was paying Jill back incrementally, by giving her a small amount of money every month. Jill didn't care about getting paid back, but Christy insisted.

Oh, wow, he had a double lung transplant in 2020! It must have been a heavy thing for him to do that death-related material late in the show’s run, knowing he might have very little time left.

I think the Albanian felt like it would be "weak" to not follow through on his word. He said he would pull teeth if Sandy didn't arrive in 20 minutes, and he wasn't going to back down.

Nadja was much more competent as a news anchor than I would have expected!

Guilleremo has knowingly led people to their deaths without giving it much thought. As cute and sensitive as he can be, he's got a hell of a dark side.

So Carolyn knows that the Albanians were following her car, and that they were willing to pry Sandy's roommate's teeth out, but she still argued against having a cop car stationed in front of her home that night? She really doesn't seem to grasp how lucky she is.

I was laughing at Evie being in a group for people who can't get over their exes - not suggesting that her reasons for attending were in any way genuine! 😆

Inga Swenson, who played Rose's sister Holly, has passed away at the age of 90. She was very memorable on Soap, and as one of the main cast members of Benson. I'm sure she was much nicer than Holly!

I loved this one. Evie was too hilarious a character not to bring back. She had that brief fling with Colin and years later she's still in a support group to get over it. 🤣 And of course Martha Kelly is the queen of the energy vampires. The casting was perfect all around there, and my favorite part was that one vampire insisting "I'm literally shouting right now" in that tiny whispered voice. The only thing I wasn't crazy about was Lazlo behaving so stupidly with Nadja's friends. He's done some boneheaded things in the past for sure, but he's usually the best of the group at social interactions.

I'm confused about a few things: Was the judge's killing just about road rage? If so, how did Mansell know to go straight for the book in the judge's pocket? I got the impression that his lawyer was in cahoots with the judge, and that's how Mansell got away with murder a few years back - the judge let him off on a technicality because he was crooked. But if that was the case, Mansell should have known who he was. Also, where was Raylan planning to bring Willa in the first episode? I recall that they arrived too late, but couldn't they come back on a different day?

I think Guillermo's plan was to hang with Nandor and company as equals. But now Guillermo knows that Nandor would kill himself if he learned that Guillermo was turned by Derek. So now Guillermo's plan is to leave the Staten Island vampires once he becomes full vampire, so that Nandor will never know the truth.

I've seen references here to the preacher being a serial killer. Is this because he and his followers killed people in the surrounding areas and used them for food, or was there something more to it than that? It was clearly very morally dubious to go out and kill people the way they did, but I wouldn't use the term "serial killer" for that. Just like I wouldn't use the term "serial killer" to describe Joel or Tommy back when they killed to survive. (It usually refers to someone who kills multiple people for pleasure, over a certain period of time.)

It's generally accepted in the business that comedy is a lot harder to pull off successfully than drama. I think Hader basically took the easy way out.

I just watched this, and I'm really wondering what the point was. Hollywood gets things wrong? Oh my god, alert the press at once! The only other message I can find is that self-awareness = redemption. Fuches and Sally both acknowledged their shortcomings, so they got to live. But Hank and Gene were too proud, and clung to denial until the bitter end, and paid the price. But when it came to self-awareness, neither Fuches nor Sally impressed me that much. Fuches accepted that he was a manipulator rather than a tough guy. Okay, great. How about acknowledging that he was a monster who was responsible for the deaths of countless innocent people? And then Sally admits she's a bad mother (again, no shit) and confesses to killing someone, and thinks she deserves to die because of it? That was self-defense. Someone as narcissistic as Sally wouldn't feel guilt about that. The fact that someone tried to kill her would just add fuel to her victim complex. It would have meant a lot more to hear her acknowledge that she was a deeply selfish, amoral person who treated the people around her like garbage. I think there was a certain amount of spite for the audience in Hader's decision-making. "Oh, you like Barry better than Sally, and you love Hank and hate Fuches? I'm going to give you the opposite of what you want, then!"

As much as I appreciated the acting and the moral complexity, I think it was just too depressing and slow to catch on.