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NYT wrote a huge apolgia re: GoT ending.

It's a strife-creating plan, which we are now seeing unfold. I wasn't wowed by the pilot and am resisting getting drawn in, overall. Ultimately, if the show starts looking as another way to say, "men won't accept a female leader," but with a better crafted end, I'll bail rather than waste time.

This is where I default to "Everett's a clueless douche." He knows what his bro has had to put up with and could have clued Meredith in, and chose not to. There are a number of things he could have told her about his family, to prepare her, and chose not to.

Re-watching for the first time in several years and I'm struck by how far ahead of its time this film/script is, and still will be for a few years. Still hate these people. Meredith got so much shit for not being woke, but she knew enough to cut through to what was important. That it's easier for a straight person to navigate a world that didn't quite know what to do with gay people shouldn't have been a horrific thing to say. Pointing to Patrick to get to 'black' wouldn't have been awkward for people who were truly comfortable with his skin color. The portrait of Sybill brought everyone to tears because they weren't dealing with what was important, yet for Meredith it was an uncomplicated no-brainer. That the family refuses to accept her for their #1 son, who is Going Places, but is a-okay having her hook up with the one who has more in common with Bart Simpson .. just, wow. I don't know why she stayed with them.

I think he plays the midwestern niceness and “wow I can’t believe how far I’ve come” to the hilt. But everything he did last night shouldn’t really have surprised us, when you consider how completely he tried to set up Greg to take the fall for the cruises cover-up in seasons 1 and 2. And yet, here we are. We’ve known he is unhappy with Shiv, but is trying to get her knocked up to solidify his status. Next season ought to be a doozy for SS.

This episode felt like such a perfect bookend for the Season 2 finale that I have to wonder if they were both banged out around the same time, and the rest of this season was engineered to get us here. Season 2 yacht scenes showed the Roy kids actually cared very much for each other and knew Daddy was toxic, but also were still willing to sacrifice each other and/or unwilling to believe there would be serious consequences for whomever that sacrifice would be. Season 2 finale, Tom lobbed the idea of a life without Shiv, who felt guilt enough to go to Logan and protect him. So now we got to see them realize their potential together, if only too late, and Tom betray two of the three Roy kids. Tom is a fascinating character and I hate him more than I hate the Roy kids because they never had a choice in who they were going to be shaped by, while Tom makes his own choices (including marriage to Logan's daughter) shaped solely by his own ambition. I totally love Matthew McF's work here, and I hope Tom gets brutally fucked in the end, lol. I'd love to see Kendall walk away, go find and make peace with the Vaulter guy and back him in a new venture. Or focus on starting his own boutique business he can nurture. Roman really does have problems and needs a therapist. Recall the anecdote about how he was caged like a dog, as a kid, and his sibs claiming he enjoyed it? Welp ... I did like him and Gerri together, but she is at risk, now, so unless they go public together that's dead. I've grown to enjoy WilCon. Overall, I wish the season had more, better highlights between these two episodes. But at least we will get more Skarsgard, next go-round.

The one I heard was about one of the lesser-known cousins who destroyed a Cadillac because it was parked in his favorite spot at the country club, and then wrote a check to the owner.

I'm with you on Naomi. Early on in the episode I got a strong vibe, she will betray him, and when Logan brought up the Pierces it felt like Chekhov's gun. She supports Kendall but does nothing to bring out his better side, so why is she there? That said, I don't dislike her. Solo children who didn't grow up dealing with the repercussions of using and misplacing or destroying their siblings toys/clothes/etc. And Kennedys, if a story I've heard is true.

My favorite episode since This Is Not for Tears, because of all the hysterical going on. What the hell happened to Sandy? I missed any mention of him having a stroke, but the whole idea of him calling the shots that only his daughter could interpret was hilarious juxtaposition to the Roy kids trying to come up with something Logan would approve of. Tom is clearly trying to send Shiv off on maternity leave before she can get a foothold.

Oh happy return. Kendall Roy is one of my all time favorite TV characters because of his conflicting needs to be the winner he thinks his dad wants him to be, and the authentic, genuine, better-than-the-stereotypical business guy he wants to be perceived as. And his head is too far up his own ass to see they are actually compatible.

Granted, we now have a handful of holes, but John's insistence that Ryan keep the shooting "just between us," would indicate that Ryan wanted to come clean. Another reason why I am accepting his account, as shown.

I re-watched the scene several times and it looks like Ryan hit the trigger while he was trying to pull his arm away from Erin.

There are a number of crucial decisions that could have been made differently, and we wouldn't have the series. John Ross made some colossally bad, self-serving decisions that hurt other people, starting with the statutory rape of his cousin's child and justifying it as a mystical connection. Everything about the way the show is written allows us to sympathize and empathize, at one point or another, just about every character in the show. John Ross is an exception, depending on how early in you suspect he is the baby daddy. If he could justify an affair with Erin, seems he could justify leaning on Billy to take the rap for Ryan.

Episode 1 is a Reverse Lannister. We are shown Erin as the ultimate, innocent victim. Everything about her bad decision-making is glossed over because she's such a good, devoted, mom who loves her kid (and because she paid such a high price for it). And Dylan is such an asshole that we spend weeks wondering how such nice people could have raised that little punk. Even after we knew Dylan wasn't the father, instead of thinking how his life was upended for Erin's lie, instead of thinking about how he almost died for Erin's lie, we got the pillow scene. What might have been, "wow, Dyland really got fucked," was, "OMG please don't let him take it out on that innocent baby." The things DJ is going to have to process, growing up in the Ross household, are some heavy, heavy shit. It's a type of tribal justice so I can kind of understand, but it demonstrates, imo, the kinds of mental health risks that kids are at. For people who complain about so much Siobhan, her life being featured so much provides an illustration how some kids manage to GTFO of the Easttowns: If I were Mare, I'd be happy my daughter was lesbian, considering the gene pool. Siobhan could have been another Erin, or another Brionna. But because she threw herself and her anger/depression into creative efforts, that became her ticket out.

Watch again and you can see Potts van is dark blue, and there is a ladder on top that appears to have wooden rails.