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That's actually an interesting point re: environmental pollution. Some of those towns were dumping grounds for all manner of shit. I'm starting to wonder if we're going to see or learn some of Mare's even more negative, darker side. Was she once as abusive as everyone else in town seems to be? Could be. They say guys grow up and marry someone just like their moms, maybe she and Carrie have more in common than we know. She had no trouble at all putting the smack down on Brianna's family in their own restaurant. Most of us don't wake up one day and set out humiliating people. I'm also starting to wonder if Mare might know exactly where Katie Bailey is, and if she is alive or dead. She knows the pain of losing a child, maybe she's trying to spare her old friend from having to feel what Mare thinks would be even worse pain, than a missing kid.

Community colleges often host cultural happenings.

Brad Inglesby grew up in a town like this, he's said, and I attribute them being written like this to reflect the perception of someone who looked around their Smallville home town, and saw how a few families had absolute rule. Same thing we saw in Paper Cuts.

Geez, as someone who grew up in one of those small northern towns, this is brutal. And I'm frigging glued because this is so true, about all the crap that gets swept under the rug.

They're losing me, with all the violence. It's not what I come to period drama or steampunk for.

Additionally, the Times is on archive in just about every library in the US, including high schools and colleges. If someone doesn't think their coverage at the time was relevant, it says more about the awareness of the person making that charge than it does about the Times.

Polanski's 13 yo victim testified in court that he loaded her on booze and pills and forcibly raped her. Mia Farrow is Polanski's staunchest defender. In the film, Wanted and Desired, she dismisses what happened to Samantha Geimer by saying, and I'm paraphrasing because it was years ago, "and she looked much older than 13." Geimer, by the way, apparently got the peace she needed long ago and recently ripped the Farrows' attempts to destroy Allen publicly instead of taking him to court while they can still sue for wrong-doing. It makes Mia's hypocrisy all the more mind-blowing. The Farrows insist Dylan can't heal because the public keeps forgetting. Considering all the years she's had with the best therapists money can buy, it ought to be clear they are far more hell bent on revenge and exploitation than healing. I don't know if Woody Allen molested his own kid. Maybe. There are thousands, 10s, 100s of thousands, millions of people walking around who were victims of childhood sexual abuse. Any of of them who has taken the steps to heal would be a better adviser to Dylan than Mia.

I also thought it sounded like Sands but https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0942202/

I'm still marveling that this is the same dude who played Mr. Darcy. Excellent actor but damn, Tom's selective morality is annoying AF. The "unhappier" line was absolutely brilliant but the Minnesota boy-scout act wears thin when I consider his enthusiasm for setting Greg up to be his fall guy.

This may sound kind of odd, but this was the first time in ages that she looked like the Nicole Kidman I saw in Dead Calm and Days of Thunder. Seems like in everything after that, she looked like a porcelain doll. Too bad they had to go for the gotcha ending and throw in the violence.

Sounded vaguely European, lots of immigrants in NY

I'm intrigued that they aren't making any effort to affect tony NY accents at all; not for Nicole, not for anyone, and odd considering Donald Sutherland has done it before (6 Degrees).

Why do we assume Ruby is dead dead, when she could be just mostly dead and in a coma? My other big question is, how did Christina find Montrose in the first place? Hannah's spell to hide the family didn't work so great.

Elana's obviously targeting Grace, the gym scene and then staring at her, at the party, was super stalky. Screams of sizing up her lover's wife.

I'm just popping in here to ask if people still think this season was overly convoluted, considering Jeffrey Epstein, et al.

A grown man being led around by his dick.

Geez. If the intention of the series is to demonstrate why some people should not be together, it succeeds. He exploited their relationship to get a book deal. Shitty, but he was prepared to be open to whatever way it went. I don't mind that he got his heart broken for it, but what she did in keeping him from going to the police was far, far worse. ETA: If this gets renewed, I hope it picks up with the book being published, so we can see Ruby react to knowing the whole world knows what a conscience-free POS she is.

Kudos to everyone who had it figured that Dolores targeted Caleb from the start. If they don't find some way to bring ERW back I'll be disappointed. I enjoyed the story for the season but wish it had more emotional richness. Ed Harris, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright and Vincent Cassel were all wasted and Hemsworth doesn't have enough charisma to pull off a character that numb and make him someone to root for.

I don't have to view Dolores' attempt to smash Rehoboam as intentionally benevolent for the humans, but, at a certain point you have to wonder if humans were treating the hosts as badly as they were specifically because they were so constrained and manipulated in the outside world. Overall this episode was pretty meh for me. Caleb isn't compelling, he's just .. let's say Passing Pawn is a good name for him.

Well that was interesting. I can't imagine what William would be necessary for at this point.

I'm doing a rewatch and the question occurred to me: do WWs go straight from Ice Baby to Ice Grandaddy? There don't seem to be any juveniles. Silly I know ...

Son of Solomon (think: wise) is my guess.

I was happy with this episode. It stayed fairly linear, or at least easily trackable time-wise, and loved the music. Bowie and more Bowie? Yes, please. Granted, things were way too easy for team Dolores in this episode, so I'm guessing next week will bring some huge setbacks (hi Maeve!). Liam's end was surprisingly easy. I was half-expecting to see him get tied to a pier post. I thought that was comic relief and loved it.

Have I said how much I hope Serac gets fleshed out and meaty? Yes, I'm biased, I've had a small screen crush on Vincent Cassel ever since Eastern Promises. He has such amazing screen presence, and it will truly suck if the only thing he walks on for, is to menace our girls.

Is it too easy, to speculate he wants to take over the Forge/Cradle and recreate Paris? Or perhaps, perhaps that will be his consolation prize if Dolores is successful in killing Rehoboam. Speaking of which, I refuse to believe in such a simple premise Maeve good: Dolores bad. Maeve has one motivation: to be with her daughter. Dolores wants the opposite, she wants to kick all the kids out of the nest. Mother's love and protection vs 'get out of my house and go have a life.' The thought this story could go Dany 2.0 makes me want to stop watching right now and wait out the series end. Cause I'm not going through that again.