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Why did this show get dull? I guess I’m a real outlier because the part of the show I enjoyed and really enjoyed a lot was the virtual reality game. It had humor. It had mystery. It even had sorrow. But then it ended when never went back to it, and it was just about all these very special people, reminded me of librarians or some other stupid chosen people show. The notion that we’re just like bugs just reminded me of the young adult book the fifth wave which I couldn’t put down but when I started thinking about it really made no sense. I wrote on Amazon at the time I said I still believe. Yes we do exterminate pest, but we wouldn’t if we were talking to them and they sat up and said I have a family. So the idea that the Santi would see us is just like bugs or rats or whatever is ridiculous. It’s actually quite barbaric. Even the things we do to animals the animals were talking to us. We were talking back. I don’t think we would be able to do as a species. I could be wrong. Didn’t think any of the scientist was particularly special and I hate that trope anyway people calling the Santi the Lord that made no sense to me of any kind ever there was nothing remotely divine about this species or the idea that they were paternalistic or anything I couldn’t see it.

I’m waaay more into it now that it’s about the game. Then again I like the holodeck and enjoy fantasy. To me episode 2 was far more enjoyable than episode 1 with so many scenes with subtitled Chinese and my trying to figure out what decade we’re in. Also the game allows for a little humor.

I love Halloween and j love that Harry loves it. i hope he can change the future because it’s lonely and sad. i feel like there’s such a nostalgia for “small town” in tv writers- a stars hollow ghost whisperer town that’s totally self enclosed, nobody works or shops a town away, there’s a university and a museum in that same town, nobody goes to big box stores on the highway… I don’t know if such towns exist but I’ve never seen them. Oh wellZ i loce the way Harry loves pizza and the disconnect between how he says he feels and what we see- the anguish in his voice! Works every time.

The stairs to the servants quarter I meant. as for Russian princes, no, it’s not really royal. It just doesn’t have that connotation the way it would in any other European country. It’s a translation fail. A Russian prince is what we’d probably call a duke. It’s a nobleman but not royal. Right below princes are counts.

Oops sorry thank you i must say most of this looks exactly as I pictured. I never had a great mental image of the Count so this is fine. Didn’t his moustache get shaved off entirely though? I didn’t expect or remember the stairs to go around an open courtyard. Brr.

Nikolai is a prince but in Russia not all princes were royalty.

Outlier again. I thought this episode was slow. First time I really felt annoyed by all the plots. I no longer like sahar at all she’s bossy and stupid. The power struggle over the alien baby makes no sense at all. Why wouldn’t she let it be raised by one of its own kind? so what were all those symptoms Beth was having if she’s not pregnant- things tasting funny etc? I am also an outlier in that I am interested in Darcy. I like the actress and she makes me care about the character.

I love the show but I agree that Harry sounds weirder now than he used to. I also thought sagar spritzing poor baby for eating watermelon was cruel. Why have a tray of watermelon out if he can’t eat? She’s lucky he doesn’t eat her. I’m in the minority but I have truly enjoyed the side character arcs and have not been bored at all.

I loved this episode- held my attention start to finish and I laughed out loud so many times. Small things like “ice cream sandwich” which was so unexpected. i love the cliffhanger of who were the two guys in the back? aw Harry loved nature. It’s so cute when he has a feeling and tries to reason out why (it must be in closer to my planet here) and is wrong. the yard sale was touching. Good actress. (but the line about flamingos and the shirt had me howling) i also prefer the sheriff less cartoony. I find the sudden friendship of Darcy and mayors wife odd but I’m glad we didn’t have the “why is she staying over” jealousy scene. So trite. when your wife says “let’s hang it up” why do you say no? I’m puzzled. i missed max and sahar. its interesting that the show went out of its way to let us know goliaths host body died by accident. I think if they could retcon harry NOT killing the doctor they would. harry tripping was too funny also.

I was soooo glad that neither the major and Darcy nor the sheriff and Liv kissed. That trope is tired. Boring! This is way more interesting. Actually his being dom As a fantasy and her being submissive is exactly right, that’s how fantasies work. i do think she likes him to be more take charge and that she’s a bit disappointed when he always caves. in another note- what did it mean when she broke the case a few episodes back? im just glad the NY number wasn’t the women in people luring Harry to Times Square. midnight cowboy shows the guys wandering around Times Square too.

I assumed that it had been a few more days and mom was home or would be. Getting on a bus is poignant but surely she’d fly? And expect dad to take her to the airport? It’s not as if Colorado doesn’t have one or two. i actually wouldn’t have minded if teen daughter had stayed on. we are definitely finding out a lot about real Harry’s not so nice past. But his wife and he- second wife I guess- had such a nice backstory so it’s confusing. The towns origin story is appalling but that play was so bad it’s kind of great. Like I can see it becoming a weird tourist attraction

There were lyrics in the tv show in the opening, not in the closing. I remember it well because it came on when I had to go to bed and I could hear it through the walls! suicide is painless it brings on many changes Such a wistful song with such urgency and then the show was to me anyway so silly and even goofy (yes sometimes bittersweet). im clearly an outlier and am binging the series way after the fact but so far I vastly prefer season 2 to season 1. There’s still a lot at stake but I find the tone MORE even and somewhat sweeter now that I feel like Harry really won’t kill everyone.

Coming late to this show! I love this more than season 1 which seemed like a LOT of setup to be honest. I didn’t like that it started off with a murder and I feel like suggesting the real Harry was a killer is a way to undo that. LOVE #42. “Not family as in I’ll help you move…” but the part I rewound several times was Harry’s confusion and betrayal at “I know you are but what am I.” my older brother used to say that in exactly that tone. Young Max has it DOWN. And Harry had never heard it before. any moment he was going to whine “Mooooom.” the SUV surreallt being the spaceship was fantastic. ethan the doctor was kidnapped by accident because the women in purple saw the drawing Max made of an alien in a white coat. Then they were going to shoot the agent who is now hiding out in that house. Sahar asked all the right questions but forgot “did you grow chest hair!” LOL. i knew more aliens would be coming because of course they would! harrys love for Asta is so pure. such a great show!

Only just found this show and am watching it a bit at a time. to me, it was Christel clear that something in his molecular restructuring has some of old Harry’s memories. Otherwise why start the show with the flashback and that song? It reminds me of the original RoboCop, in which we learn that muscles have some emotional memories in them too. because yes, he looked like he recognized the song when she begins singing it, and suddenly he remembered how to kiss. nothing about their lovemaking, was funny until the very end. Instead it was touching.

Late to the party! I actually think the standalone plots of the Orville so far were better. more thought provoking and related to current issues. Enjoyed this, but it didn’t take me anywhere. I didn’t expect to go. One thing that made Leonard Nimoy so amazing as Spock is he never seemed to be Trying. I honestly feel like they might get a performance out of somebody who was just a tall, thin, kind of accountant-looking professorial type actor than someone trying to imitate her Nimoy and trying to be grim. Spock Nimoy played him was never grim. He was curious, even wide eyed, a bit supercilious logical, but not entirely, always serious, and even friendly in his way. I think of Sherlock Holmes. I have been enjoying this Spock, but it has no relationship to the character as I knew him. I cannot be the only one who thought that that egg was just responding to the music because it thought that Uhura was mommy. Especially when the egg started singing it too. And then I thought it was going to hatch. Also, I feel like we’ve seen alien eggs before and I thought surely they know enough not to mess with it

Why does everybody assume that Ada will live with Agnes and Marian? She has her own house now, and her own household help what will happen to them? I thought Marian blurting it out that way was kind of weird because while Ada would certainly be expected to help them. I don’t see why she would be expected to move back home. Luke being rich was just so expected. It’s kind of like when Lord Grantham lost all his money or his wife’s money in Downton abbey, and then Matthew inherited a fortune from someone who wasn’t even related to him. fellows likes to dangle the possibility of poverty or even SHOCK middle-class, but he never goes through with it. It’s disappointing, because while I certainly wouldn’t enjoy watching Agnes be downright poor, or have to live with some unknown relative, the prospect of her being slightly just upper middle-class would have been interesting. As with the Rev. death, they could’ve held this off for a few episodes. At least we could’ve had a few episodes of poverty or at least them thinking they were going to be poor while they tried to sell the house and so on. Was I the only one appalled how much dirt those long long trains would be sweeping up? I thought Gladys’s dress looked beautiful, coming down the stairs, but was going to take up like two rows of seats, unless that train was detachable.

I am a very picky, reader, much prefer literary type novels, what some people find recreational makes me want to pull my hair out… and I loved this. slogged my way through Colleen Hoover for example… but I really loved this book. I thought it was very well written, and very funny. That said, I loved the help also and also thought it was well written, and very funny and very engrossing.

How did Oscar have access to moms money? He seemed to be in an allowance and the dissolute guy we met last season would have spent it. i know he’s a banker. Did he… embezzle the funds? Without asking? twice this season we had Big Important Plot Points that began and ended in two episodes. First Peggy’s baby. Now Ada’s marriage. It’s BORING. And JF missed a chance to tell a story that hardly ever gets told- middle aged romantic love.

Kudos to all who called it here and in the Facebook chat that he’d get sick and die. (I never thought he was running any con or anything bad). it’s a pity because I’ve never seen a middle aged love story told well and I was looking forward to it as a spinster around Cynthia Nixon’s age. Sigh. They can’t beat it like she said since there are no treatments in this point in time and if he already has pain from the cancer he hasn’t long. bummer. and seriously Julian STOP with the “rich people are secretly good.” It made no sense when Downton guy (sorry blanking on name) was super OK with thomas being gay because eton (cause just no.) and George halting the soldiers is also wishful thinking. (It was also absurd when the irish revolutionary guy felt bad for the aristocrats whose castles got burned down in Ireland. Just. Would. Not. Happen.) I once worked with the actor playing dashiell so I’m bending over backwards trying to like the character but there’s no sign he feels more than a general admiration for Marion. Surprising someone with a proposal like that is a TERRIBLE idea. But why oh why did she even GO to the party?? If I were her I wouldn’t have. Peggy’s storylines bore me. I don’t turn on this show to be immersed in the social issues of the day- similarly if we spent many weeks on the strike I’d be bored with that. TBH I’m here for the clothes. Oh and agree Maud is IN ON IT. The way she said she hoped she’d see him was veeeeery shady.

My family are from Boston and I think RSL is quite passable. He made the choice for it to be faint and only a few vowels. Works for me! nathan lane on the other hand…

The crude wh it e guys scene didn’t even feel all that menacing because it was so over the top. If people were routinely getting assaulted like that segregation etc wouldn’t have lasted so long. Booker T rather notoriously had the go along to get along philosophy and Tuskegee didn’t burn to the ground or anything. Of course riots and massacres happen but I’m talking about just barging drunk into a restaurant and doing that. But maybe I’d believe it if we’d ever heard of those guys and had any inkling it would occur. agree that it’s a different show. And not one I’m interested in. i didn’t know that about the brooklyn bridge architect so props!! anyone else worried up to the last minute that ada would waffle? Yay! Beautiful wedding.

swooon. if he is a con man nobody told Robert Sean Leonard cuz dude was crying. I thought he would cry when she hesitated to say yes to the opera and then as he was steeling himself to propose his face was very emotional. They’ve done con men stories twice on this show. Apart from anything else it’s boring. I kind of like the idea that he knows what he wants and sees no point in wasting MORE time. If he’s going to be rejected he wants to know now but when she said yes to the opera WITHOUT ASKING AGNES he had hope. chemistry! middle aged true love is an INTERESTING storyline. why can’t Mrs Blaine give him an heir though? Laura Benanti is 44 and that’s about how old Mrs Blaine is surely? I mean… it’s harder to conceive for sure but it would be unusual for her to be menopausal. but Bertha also wasn’t wrong… sooner or later that relationship needed to end. She may have felt a BIT more than a summer fling but I doubt it was as much as all that. Of course for him he’s in a sex and admiration haze. hard to be certain of what she thinks though since Vertha made such a good case for “this is best for Larry.” turners temper tantrum shriek as she ran up marble paneled walls (did they film at marble house?) was hilarious.

Slight correction: VERA is not written in verse- that would be THE DUCHESS IF PADUA, which was equally bad and ran for three weeks. But that one was produced in January, and VERA in august. So clearly it’s august. interestingly VERA got one review that praised it to the skies while all the others hated it (I had to check Wikipedia). Poor Hoskie.

I don’t make it lightly. He had courted several women, had had zero experience, and homosexuality was not openly discussed. Again- his first experience by his own and ALL accounts was after he married. However, I’m not a mind reader so who knows what he really knew. All I can say is there’s no evidence that he knew. He had no model for homosexuality besides Ancient Greece and for sure he was a bit obsessed with Ancient Greece and wrote Greek tags to his poem and often described women he thought pretty as being slim hipped and Greek. The notion that he had “gaydar” at a party while he was in the throes of courting Constance Lloyd and had not one homosexual in his acquaintance (by every account) is a little silly- if he HAD noticed I doubt he’d have indicated by even a raised eyebrow. Again, by all accounts he was not part of any homosexual set yet. LATER sure. Fast forward to 1893 and fine.- he knew rent boys and had a whole circle. 1883? No.

I can’t imagine Turner could possibly keep this a secret. Not the way Agnes and others are always going “his mother was a this or a that.” Is she making up a backstory? It all seems a little far fetched.