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On 8/22/2022 at 12:36 AM, CletusMusashi said:
Within the admittedly lamentable restrictions of a patriarchal pseudomedieval society, it's a winning plan.
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.
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On 2/9/2020 at 2:03 PM, kiddo82 said:
They all know why. Because she's ignorant and a rude in that moment. But it's also a mistake that could be made by anyone who hasn't had much interaction with someone who is hearing impaired. The problem is that the family decided they already didn't like her and instead of giving her the benefit of the doubt they assumed it was coming from an intolerant place.
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Absurda said:
For me, Tom has been the hardest character for me to get a read on. I've always thought his occasional bafoonishness was an act hiding a sharper intellect, but really couldn't tell if I was reading too much into him or not. I will say, as much as I love the actor, I do hate the character for how he treats Greg and other subordinates (the human furniture is where he lost me).
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.
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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.
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On 11/30/2021 at 7:40 AM, dmc said:
I feel like anyone who has lived in society know this is a nope. So she knew and didn’t care so basically like a Kennedy. Once Jackie went to a party and stole this expensive gold lighter.
https://lisawallerrogers.com/2011/10/11/jackie-kennedy-the-gold-cigarette-lighter/
Her husband had to send a check for it.
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.
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9 hours ago, cardigirl said:
My concern with Naomi is that she is pulling a "long con" on the Roy family and Kendall and that she'll betray him at his most vulnerable, which could have been this party. When they met, Naomi told Ken all about how much she hated the way their tabloids had treated her after her mother's death.
It was interesting to me that Logan mentioned going after Pierce again in this episode.
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.
7 hours ago, sistermagpie said:Oh and she drank Rava’s expensive wine without asking…who does this?
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.
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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.
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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.
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3 hours ago, chediavolo said:
Thanks. It was definitely not an accident. The kid has problems. And I hope he’s getting psychiatric help at the juvenile center because this is just the beginning of the makings of a lunatic.
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.
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4 hours ago, Morrigan2575 said:
Well yeah but, that's neither here nor there. The original poster commented that Ryan deliberately shot Erin (not accidentally like he claimed) because Ryan took the safety off to shoot.
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.
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19 minutes ago, Mackey said:
And, I’m having trouble buying it-how evil someone would be to blame his brother for something his son did and also try to kill his brother. Especially considering that there’d be fewer consequences for his son.
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.
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21 hours ago, aghst said:
That bullying scene is not unlike the Game of Thrones pilot where Joffrey gets humiliated by Arya and the poor baker's boy is punished, establishing the Lannisters as villains and Joffrey as the first of many MUST-DIE characters on that show.
It's effective but manipulative, lacking in subtlety and grace.
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.
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18 hours ago, violet and green said:
I have a few lingering concerns... that blue van that was used to kidnap the last girl was a dark blue van with a ladder on top; and the one outside the guy who killed Zabel was a lighter mid-blue and had no roof racks. That annoys me.
Watch again and you can see Potts van is dark blue, and there is a ladder on top that appears to have wooden rails.
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22 hours ago, Ursula Parrott said:
Was Siobhan off to UC Berkeley or Berklee College of Music in Boston? The latter makes more sense.
Not really. Comfortable shoes, etc.
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As it all settles in, and my cynical side kicks in, it's hard not to mention how everyone could have been spared a lot of grief if Erin hadn't been so mistreated and lonely that she thought it was a good idea to have and raise her married cousin's kid, at her age. Even if she couldn't bring herself to an abortion, as nice and sweet as she seemed, she really wasn't thinking of what was best for DJ, when she decided to raise him and finger Dylan as the dad.
But bad decisions make better stories.
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1 hour ago, Penman61 said:
Jean Smart admits her parenting failures with Mare; is forgiven
What bothered me about that: Mom admits to the screw up but she is the one who needs to be comforted. Mare is the one who was hurt by it but is denied any chance to express what anger she may have been carrying around. And that's why she's in therapy.
18 minutes ago, Laurawithcats said:And now Kenny is in prison for attempting to murder Dylan who he believed murdered Erin. And isn't even the father, after all, of Erin's son. It's his cousin John who let everyone believe Dylan was the father and even comforted Kenny when Mare told him Erin had been killed. So, Kenny tried to kill Dylan for nothing and is now imprisoned for years.
If Lori and John had gone straight to the police, in all likelihood, they would have gone light on Ryan and the worst thing he would have had to deal with was Kenny coming after him.
I have a really hard time feeling very sorry for Lori. She was going to allow John to send his submissive brother to prison for the chronic statutory rape, and murder of a teenaged girl. How well was that going to go?
1 hour ago, SeanC said:Uh, are they really going to raise DJ as a brother alongside the person who killed his mother?
I mean, Ryan is so young that he's not an irredeemable criminal by any means, but that's still setting DJ up for a pretty rough time once he gets old enough to process the details of this case, which is obviously going to happen at some point.
It's a mess, but some things really are a mess. Ask your redneck grandparents.
One of the elements that is really strong in the series is the impact of shame, and how differently people react act to it. How some people are willing to carry their shame around and make horrible decisions to hide the acts that caused it. How some people are pressured into that path. Deacon Mark, early on, made bad decisions because of his shameful past. Ryan was pressured to hide his shame and the act that caused it. People in those small towns, especially in our grandparents' times, were carrying ALL that around.
1 hour ago, whiporee said:The second set of girls and Zabel's entire arc was just a waste of time. Even the stuff about Mare's son was a waste, because we as viewers, were never allowed to understand it. Was he bipolar? We he crazy?
This is Mare's story. Not Zabel's. Not Kevin's, or Richard's. Mare.
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All this talk about Kevin and the gun and the attic: Kevin hung himself, no? Wouldn't a gun have been redundant?
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2 hours ago, Penman61 said:
I just realized that sexual jealousy would explain the weirdly intense vehemence with which Billy tells John "...because you couldn't keep your dick in your pants." I mean, Billy's intensity when he says that is way beyond "You're fucking up your own life, dude."
It is possible that Billy didn't have an affair with Erin, but actually gave a crap in a favorite niece kind of way.
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3 hours ago, Ellaria Sand said:
Makes sense that Gordon Clapp's character has a larger role to play. And if he was a cop and had that type of gun, Billy and/John would have access to it. Now to find it...
He could have wandered into the Carroll house and taken the gun by mistake.
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6 hours ago, peachmangosteen said:
The gun being some old, police gun has me really wondering, too. At this point, I'd say John seems like he's almost certainly the killer but why would he have that kind of gun? Or Dylan, if he did it, why would he have that?
Could John and Billy's dad gone into the Carroll's house, mistakenly, and taken it?
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5 hours ago, roughing it said:
There were a couple of mentions upthread of this series continuing but that it was a mistake for "Big Little Lies". Well, I never watched BLL so I can't relate to that. However, I think Mare of Easttown has legs to continue - the family's recovery, living in Easttown, another case or cases to solve, etc. I'm in.
MoE concentrates on one social circle/class in its outlook, but there is room to expand into other circles through Mare: police commissioner, Mayor, business owners on one side, and if she was to continue in a relationship with Richard, that would bring her into arts/academia on another side. It would be an opportunity to explore how these groups relate to and/or antagonize each other.
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Gotta hand it to the writing team. I think a lot of people assumed the killer would be revealed, definitively, tonight and the bastards still have us guessing!
So here's what: it sure looks like John Ross, something I leaned towards by the end of EP02. But I still hold out a smidgeon of suspicion Lori may be moving more things than we know.
Poor Siobhan knows how Becca feels, tonight. Get used to it kid, if you're going to be a musician, you're going to have this happen again and again, and on more than one occasion, you're going to be the one who sleeps with someone for what it can do for your career.
I love Mare for giving Zabel's mom the opportunity to unload. And for finally allowing Siobhan to unload. And for calling out Helen's fart.
Faye going to stay with her mom: just to go think, or did Frank smack her around?
How many unregistered guns are there in Easttown?
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22 minutes ago, Cheezwiz said:
I'm pretty sure that Carrie nodded off because irony of ironies she did the right thing and refused the uppers from her co-worker. So glad the little guy was alright!
Same. But this is going to be a wake-up call (no pun intended) for Carrie because Drew is a BOY and this is only the beginning of what will be her new, anxiety-fueled life if she gets custody.
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HOTD In The Media: News From The Citadel
in House Of The Dragon
NYT wrote a huge apolgia re: GoT ending.