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I had the impression that Connelly's ex-wife was the woman who ran the ice rink. That woman despised Danvers, and I assumed it was because she knew that Danvers had been screwing her husband. I also assumed that Jake was Leah's father, and that Danvers married Jake (who already had Leah from a previous relationship), and they had a kid together, and then Jake and the kid died. Question about Navarro - from her name I assume she's Latina, but is she also indigenous? I got the impression that she was part of the indigenous community, but I could be wrong.

Okay, everyone on this show is being way too blasé about Lund still being alive after two days of being frozen solid naked in the Alaskan tundra. And shouldn't they be concerned that the other scientists could still be alive, too? If their hands had fallen off, they might be screaming the same way. This case isn't just a "shitbowl." it would be one of the biggest news stories in the world, easily, if the public realized how unbelievably disturbing the details are. And Leah, who's still a child, is just kind of vaguely curious about it, as opposed to shitting her pants in terror? Hell, they should all be shitting their pants in terror that they could be next.

I found that Elordi looked very attractive in Saltburn and on Euphoria, but something about his appearance just wasn't clicking the same way tonight. Which was unfortunate, given that his looks were the only relevant thing about his performance. It's rare to see a non-athlete host given so little chance to show range. I think he had one missed opportunity, in the short king sketch, with the dirtbag character he played. He could have done more with that. If Adam Driver had been given that kind of role, he would have made it more memorable. Also, the Saltburn spoiler was totally unnecessary. They could have just shown the image without explaining it. It's not like the explanation was funny in any way.

Dot killed Munch's partner in crime in episode 1 with the booby trap in the gas station bathroom. That's not as direct as killing someone with her bare hands, but she definitely got said hands (justifiably) dirty. I understand why they chose to kill off Witt in the finale. If the FBI had just shown up and taken out Roy without any of the protagonists dying, it would have been too neat and clean. And they had established from the get-go that Witt had lovely intentions, but was way too pure for this world. A big theme of the season was male weakness. Almost all of the men were evil, pathetic, or in over their heads. In the end it made sense for Dot, Lorraine and Indira to be the ones who saved the day. I understand that the only Black character being the only casualty of the finale rubs people the wrong way, but I disagree with the argument that characters of color are red shirts on this series. Hanzee turned season two into a bloodbath and lived to tell the tale, and Mike Milligan was one of the few survivors. The Black high school student and her interracial parents got a happy ending in season four, and the Black lesbian character (please don't ask me to remember any of the S4 characters' names) survived and got her revenge. And Indira did well for herself, and was probably the most upstanding and competent character of the season.

Regarding the depiction of Frasier's relationship with his father on Cheers: he said that his father was a dead research scientist. On Frasier they explained that when Sam met Martin, and mentioned what Frasier said about him being dead. Frasier said that he was mad at Martin at the time he said it (they'd had an argument), and he made up the part about him being a research scientist because he was dead anyway, so what difference did it make?

The conclusion with Munch was primarily a reference to the end of No Country For Old Men, where Javier Bardem's character visits Kelly McDonald's character, and says that she needs to pay her husband's debt (and offers her the chance to flip a coin). She tells him that he can simply make the choice not to kill her. I guess Dot made a better argument! I really liked this season, but I don't like how they brushed aside Dot's manipulation of her husband, and her effectively sacrificing the life of the guy in the hospital. (I guess the cancer patient's death was no big deal, because he wasn't very pleasant?)

They really ought to bring back the "tape" system, in which the voters were required to watch tapes from each nominee. What's happening now is that the voters are only watching a handful of shows, leading to some very boring sweeps. Admittedly, a lot of the winners tonight deserved their wins - but I doubt they all would have won if their competitors were widely seen by the voters.

Don't the Ivys do interviews? I can't picture David hiding his nature for even 10 minutes.

My best guess is that Dot delusionally believed that Linda had left a clue for her near a windmill. If the truck accident hadn’t happened, she may have driven around indefinitely, looking for a windmill that probably doesn’t exist. And my best guess is that Indira’s husband was cheating with his physical therapist (or some similar professional). He mentioned having an appointment last week, and sprayed on some sort of cologne/body spray in anticipation, which suggested an affair.

Roy punching the moderator looked like a callback to how Dot tased the cop in the season premiere. My biggest complaint about this season is that Roy simply isn't interesting. We knew everything we needed to know about his personality in the first episode. It got very boring watching Varga be repulsive episode after episode in season three, and it's boring watching Roy be repulsive in each episode now.

I think the only thought the writers put into David was to make him 1) clueless and 2) spastic. They basically combined the most pathetic aspects of Niles, and the flakiest aspects of Daphne, in order to create a complete clown. And they put him in Harvard because it would be a convenient reason for him to be around Frasier, but it's not plausible that he would be a Harvard student. We've seen nothing to suggest that he's actually smart, and even if he has a sky-high IQ, Harvard isn't just looking at raw intelligence in their admissions decisions. There's no way that they would see this bumbling fool as a future leader.

The end was very touching, and I have no issue with them showing Elizabeth weighing the options of abdicating and staying on. But I hate that they wanted us to believe that she was seriously considering it, to the point of including an abdication announcement in her wedding speech for Camilla and Charles, and deciding at last minute whether or not to say it! There's no way anyone in the royal family actually believed she was going to do it, either.

Re: Frasier being married to Charlotte: Are we sure they got married? In this episode, they sad he'd been married twice. I assumed they were referring to "Nanny G" and Lilith. Anyway, I thought this episode was hilarious. It was the first episode of the revival that made me laugh the same way that the original series did. The resolution was weak, though. All Frasier had to do was explain to the opera singer that he didn't know the name of the woman he was meeting, so he thought June was his date. Maybe that was supposed to be the joke - that Frasier had been boasting about how good he is at juggling these situations, and then he handled the confrontation as stupidly as possible - but that didn't come across.

They couldn't even put the years of the Queen Mother's birth and death on screen at the end of the episode, like they did with Margaret? I'll bet a lot of viewers didn't even realize that she made it to 101. Peter Morgan had no problem depicting George VI as a great man. The Queen Mother took the same risk as he did in staying in London during the blitz. Why he insisted on depicting her so negatively is strange.

Vivian Duggar was one of the bankers who underestimated Lorraine in a previous episode. She caught on that he was involved in illegal dealings, so she blackmailed him into selling her his bank. Roy wasn't happy about it, and confronted him at the strip club and intimidated him into calling off the deal. Then he sent his shirt and the note to Lorraine to gloat. Re: Indira - it seems odd that she's just been putting up with her husband's endless stream of bullshit, and all of the debt. I know there are tough women who stay with terrible men, but nothing about her personality would suggest that she's this passive.

I still can't get over how weird the library scene was. It has to be the worst-written scene in the entire series. Maybe they wanted to show William making an ass of himself, but they couldn't bring themselves to actually depict him that way? Instead they ended up making the women look bad. I guess that Lola's behavior could be explained by her being angry about him flirting, and looking for any excuse to lash out. But Kate being so bent out of shape was just odd. And no, being a woman in modern society is not the same as being stalked by paparazzi and trashed in the press, and being forced to walk two miles behind your mother's coffin as a chilid in front of crowds of thousands. There was a point that could have been made about societal expectations of women, but that was not the way to make it. Another odd aspect of the epsode - are we supposed to believe that Kate never talked to her mother before about being sent to all of the places William was going? She just switched from Edinburgh to St. Andrews, took a gap year, went to Chile and Italy, and never made any comments to her mother (such as "why are you pushing me to stalk Prince William?") until she was well into her first year of college?

Michael Sheen played Masters in Masters of Sex, and he played Tony Blair in the movie The Queen (as well as a few other things.) On The Crown, Blair is played by Bertie Carvel, best known for his stage work.

Jacob Elordi is on Euphoria, he plays Elvis in the new movie about Priscilla Presley, and he's also in the movie Saltburn.

Bringing on a distinguished elderly African-American woman to make Colin more uncomfortable was a genius move. WU was very funny, except that Ego's bit went on way too long.

Bertie Carvel is a very distinguished actor, but wow is he wrong for this. He doesn't look like Tony Blair, for one thing, and he keeps flashing that horribly awkward smile. Blair had a much more natural way about him. It would have been less of an issue if they hadn't kept talking about how incredibly charismatic he was.

If Dot was putting her family's safety first, she would have gotten them out of that house in episode 1. Even if the only way to convince Wayne to disappear somewhere with Scottie was to tell him the truth. I think Dot is in so much denial that she can't even think straight. I'll root for her against Roy 100%, though. Speaking of Roy, it was great seeing Lorraine put him in his place, but I don't buy for a second that he would agree with her that he's looking for freedom with no responsibility. Based on everything we've seen, he would have blathered on about how libertarianism is all about personal responsibility, and not relying on the government, and how it's a man's responsibility to take care of his wife/chattel, etc. etc. Not that I'm complaining that we didn't get another Roy speech!

I thought this was a bizarre choice. We now know that Harry was completely and utterly devastated by his mother's death. Showing him joking around as if nothing had happened rubbed me the wrong way. Also, they seemed to have aged Harry about 8 years overnight.

I thought Adam did a fantastic job with the voices he used in the chocolatier sketch and the tiny bag sketch. He did more with those bits than most hosts would have.

I was disappointed by the lack of Please Don't Destroy. Is it just me, or did the chocolate Santa...not really look that much like a penis? It was only when they held it horizontally that I really saw the resemblance. It was thicker around the middle than the top, which was an odd choice. I have to wonder if maybe the censors insisted that it not look particularly realistic?

I'm a biit late to this discussion, but if Gerry decided not to pick Leslie based on her inability to form successful relationships, I think that's a valid reason. Everything about Leslie gives me the impression that she has a deeply unhealthy view of romance. Despite being married twice, she has this "no one ever picks me!" mindset. I think she's expecting some Prince Charming to complete her. Way back in the thread, someone commented that people who knew Leslie had remarked that she's always been a mess in her love life and financially/professionally, and that she flits from terrible man to terrible man. That certainly isn't hard for me to believe. I think her whole self worth is caught up in her "sexy dancer" persona, and she expects men to take care of her because of it.