BigDfromLA

What a weird show with weird people. Yet, I will likely keep watching. It seems like a cross between Euphoria and My Brilliant Friend. He is gay and is apparently in love with a boyfriend named Mark from back home. He messaged the guy a couple times. I think that is who he is mad about being taken away from by his Mom. I don't think he is attracted to her at all romantically, but fascinated by her as a person. He is obviously intrigued by her gender issues. It really is an interesting setting. They live in a little "piece" of America dropped into the Adriatic coast of Italy on the other side of the world in Europe. They can literally pass a gate into a completely different world, culture and country. "Americans can only be happy in America...this IS America!" was a quote from the show. In reality, these kids don't really live in America, but a paltry imitation of it. I think this makes them subconsciously depressed and disfunctional. They are really lost souls who never really get to go home.

My prediction. When Bill talks to Colin Cowherd (who I like a lot), he will whine about how horribly restrictive the society is regarding Covid and how sports, entertainment and television need to open back up (because he wants to go back to his stand up shows and record the TV show in front of an audience again). He will spew the right wing talking point of Covid being overblown and downplay the pandemic. What a shame.

Exactly what I was thinking!! Bill has been off for a month and all the garbage that we are going through and he spends 30 minutes on this crap. I don't get it with his fetish for Bari Weiss. I can't stand her. She comes across as a smug, entitled, spoiled rich kid throwing a tantrum. Hopefully in three years she will be off the scene and forgotten. Any conservatives watching must have had a big laugh. We need to be laser focused on getting Trump out of the White House. Wasting time and energy on this cancel culture conservative dog whistle is a huge mistake. Is Bill undergoing a Dennis Miller-like transformation? How sad.

I think Elsa's purpose was to transform Dr. Craft from a gentle, loving peaceful man to one who embraces the evil of Nazism. It was a long process that really wasn't complete until that final scene with his Hitler salute. He will likely be very different next season, a true Peter Krupp. What happened at the end between Magda and Tiago? Was she trying to put a "spell" on him to make him a force of evil? I don't think it will work. What will happen with Mateo? Will he embrace his family or go fully to the dark side? It looks like Josefina is back in the family and is done with her temple excursion. Sad to see Molly go. It was nice to see her and Tiago together when they were away from their perspective worlds and just with each other. The police department was a force of evil the whole season. They were horrible and responsible for 99% of the turmoil that happened in the story. Townsend was a sleazy fraud. A rotten, racist pig. Hopefully he will meet his demise. I really hope to see a Season 2. Hopefully the Santa Muerte character will gain prominence next season.

I guess the show runner/writers really wanted to go far with it in the last season. Alex, Charlie, Tony, Caleb, Winston, the Dean, Monty and maybe Zach were all gay? Didn't Ani and Jessica share a kiss as well? Interesting. Wasn't Alex life-and-death-in-love with Jessica for the first three seasons? I was surprised by him. That principal is an unprofessional hack bureaucrat who should have been fired in Season 1. His incompetence and ineptitude were constant. A lockdown that extreme would have never happened. Also the procedure is for kids to stay in a room with a teacher/adult or find the nearest room with one if they are in the hallway. They would never spend a lock down by themselves with no adult anywhere to be found. I was also shocked that there were so many empty rooms with no kids or teachers on a typical school day (for the characters to be alone in). You would never see that in a typical public high school. Also, there would be countless teacher chaperones on the camping trip with the students. Parent chaperones would not be used, especially parents only with no teachers. Just dumb. There was nothing in the first three seasons to indicate that Clay was an Ivy League caliber student and ESPECIALLY that Justin was the caliber of student who would even be considered for a school like Occidental. Did I miss something? Whatever happened to Sherri and Skye? Wouldn't they have been Seniors with everyone else?

Great to see Brian Dennehy in what turned out to be his last role (it was filmed in February and he passed in April...RIP). Cool to see the return of Brad Garrett as well. This show has outstanding casting, both the regular actors and the guests! While Josephina danced with Rico, she didn't seem too interested in the guy and she warned him not to mess with Mateo..."I have his back". I love her red hair, really enhancing an already beautiful girl. I have mixed feelings about Nathan Lane in this role. He is a great actor and he really captures the human side of the character and his justified disgust with the Nazis. He just isn't believable as a tough cop. When he talks about fighting back or going after someone physically, it just doesn't fit. By the way, I just saw Nathan Lane's appearance on a 35-year old episode of Miami Vice. He played a nightclub stand up comic who was killed 20 minutes into the episode after attempting to rape a cocktail waitress. Frankie Valli and James Remar also guested in the show. Pretty interesting.

Ray is a lousy cop. It would be a miracle if Jackie lives another 18 months. Junior's wife/gf should dump his junkie ass because she can do a lot better. Renee has atrocious taste in men. I feel sorry for her little boy. Great show!!!

Tatiana Maslany on Orphan Black was the greatest actor I have ever seen on a TV show. Natalie Dormer is the closest thing to that in regards to playing multiple characters...actually 4 (Magda, Elsa, Alex and Rio). I think Tatiana played 7 or 8 in OB. I think Natalie is excellent here on this show (I never saw Game of Thrones so this is the first I have seen her). I remember Amy Madigan, who plays Molly's mother, in the excellent film Streets of Fire in the early 80's. She has been married to actor Ed Harris for decades.

Of all the characters on this show, Rhodes Senior is the most rotten of them all. He is a true bastard and his death would make the world a better place. He is a ruthless scumbag who treated his wife and son like garbage. I would think Chuck privately, deep in his heart would want his Dad to kick the bucket. He would be free from the abuse and likely in for a good inheritance. While last season seemed to be a big showcase of the Taylor character, this season is going nuts on Wendy. Interesting how I like the character less as she gets shoved down our throats.

This show seems like a better fit on a smaller streaming network than a monster conglomerate like ABC. I hope it finds a new and better home.

Yes, exactly. Also, think of this. How long was the time period from when Emma was sent away to when Victor the father was arrested/deported? If that period was relatively short, wouldn't Vida have sent for Emma to return to her family, since he was gone? I would say if it were a few years or less, Emma would have returned home, maybe by the time she was in her late teens. I'm not a fan of Lyn and Johnny ending up together. Too much disfunction for it to last long term. Two more seasons would have been perfect for this show. The seasons are very short anyway, so it's not like we are talking about another 30 episodes or more.

Both actors who play Noa and Daniel are the same age, born in 1984, making them 36 in 2020. Interestingly, the actress who plays Vanessa was born in 1992, making her 28 and eight years younger. While Lewis looks younger on the surface, if you look closely you can tell that he is probably early 50's.

Rudy is an empty suit and his mother is horrible. I don't like any of the guys Lyn has been with, including Johnny. Maybe that one Polish guy she bumped into awhile back would be good for her. I can't imagine Lyn as a born again Christian. Will she last a month? I think it's pretty clear that Emma didn't like her mother, but she absolutely hates her father. I wonder what really happened? So it seems that Lyn and Emma are very close in age, probably less than two years. I think Emma is right around 30 so Lyn must be 28.5??

Yes, she is extremely beautiful and a wonderful actress! Jessica was also great in Season 1 of The Purge (TV series). Why didn't the Doctor just call the police and tell them that Elsa killed the guy in self defense after she was attacked? That would have solved everything. I guess he really wasn't thinking straight. It's interesting how Townsend was such a ruthless, aggressive tyrant in the first episode who now comes across as a weak, wimpy milquetoast who is easily controlled. I love Natalie Dormer's look as Rio, with her brown eyes (contacts) and dark red hair. Reminds me of how Kristen Stewart looked so much better with brown eyes in the Twilight movies.

This has been a really weird season. About a week before it started, I rewatched the last half of Season 4, which I think was really good. There is such a big difference between that and how this season has started. What happened? It seems like a different show. It reminded me of when Ray Donovan moved to New York and the show was never the same. It's kind of sad. Bryan Connerty is missed. I actually liked the START of the scene when Chuck went full Kingsfield/John Houseman on the class and then for the kiddies to start whining and bellyaching. It was then immediately ruined by what's her name in the back "fixing everything". Ughhhhh. It's bad enough that geezer scumbag Rhoades Sr. has an infant child. Now Wags too? Time to vomit. I just never imagined Wags ever parenting a child, which makes this storyline horrendous. Why is the painter guy there? Waste of a character. It would be more interesting for Wendy to juggle affairs with Axe and Lauren. Imagine that.

I wonder who they will get to play Noa's father? I think Hugh Laurie would be an interesting choice!! I think Daniel's parents are extremely selfish and aren't letting their kids live their own lives. Noa is not to blame for their problems, their selfishness is. It looks like Vanessa and Mateo will end up as a couple very soon. That would solve everything. All four of them should be happy with that.

Reilly was a rotten human being who deserved to die. What he did to Josefina was disgusting and hard to watch. He has been a racist scumbag since the start. The police department failed miserably in doing nothing about the guy and letting him carry on with his garbage. They should have fired the guy years earlier, but they seemed to turn a blind eye. They are the ones who deserve blame for what happened. The pachucos did the city a favor by eliminating that scumbag. This show has tremendous casting. Seeing Brad Garrett show up in that role was a true treat! Interesting that both Mateo and Lewis were both told to kill someone and only Mateo did it. Didn't Lewis comment in an earlier episode that he had never used his gun before while on the job?

Jesse Borrego is always excellent. Great to see him as Victor. This show is now better than it has ever been, which is saying a lot because it's always been good. I wish it would go on and on, but I guess there are only 4-5 episodes left?? I feel sorry for Emma. She is really messed up on the inside. Vida really crucified her by sending her off for being lesbian, then for Emma to discover the hypocrisy of Vida's lesbianism late in her life. Emma seems like someone who is emotionally damaged and completely unable to experience a loving relationship. Now Lyn is horrifically wounded by her mother for banishing her father from her life. Eddy tore up a picture of her and Vida. We are really now seeing how the actions of Vida have destroyed the ones she supposedly cared about.

Lexi is the one character who comes closest to fitting this description. Though she is very attractive, but has absolutely no idea and sees herself as awkward and shy. When is this show coming back for Season 2? I was hoping for this summer. I just wonder how much of S2 they completed filming before the industry shut down for Covid19. It could be a very long time before this and other shows we expect to see in 2020 and 2021 come back.

I didn't immediately recognize Piper Perabo as the Doctor's wife. They did a good job of toning down her attractiveness to fit the part. I also didn't realize that Natalie Dormer also plays Alex until this, the third episode. As Rio, Natalie looked great with the brown contacts and dark red hair. She also had an explanation for being a "white" Pachuco. I am the only one in the world who never saw Game of Thrones, so this is the first I have seen of Natalie Dormer. She is doing really well in an interesting part. Hoping to see more of Jessica Garza (who was great in Season 1 of The Purge) and Lorenza Izzo (not only from Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, but fine in the film Knock Knock with Ana De Armas and Keanu Reeves). I really liked Tiago and Molly as a couple. I just wonder about her connection with Hazlett. I would think that any homosexuals would be deep into the closet in 1938, especially in the Mexican American community. I would be surprised to see such a large and prominant gay nightclub in 1938 East L.A.

So Wendy flat out said to Chuck that she was anxious to see other people, which was why she was in such a hurry to get the ball rolling with their split/divorce. I think Wendy is going to hook up with either Axe or Lauren...maybe both!

What a great scene...Elena ending her long bus ride home after graduation and being reintroduced to the dump of the town she grew up in. It was interesting how the scene focused on the people . You can tell she was saddened to once again realize that her town consisted of misfits, losers, illiterates, f--k ups, idiots...after spending the previous years around dynamic, educated people. I was thinking..."she should have gone to Turin with her fiancee." I hate Elena's short haircut. It looks awful and makes her appear 20 years older. It's a shame that she chopped off her long hair which always fit her so well. So this episode took place in 1967. I had a hard time figuring out what year is was in the earlier episodes. So the earlier part of the season when Lila got married would have been 1963 or '64? By 1967, Lila and Elena are probably about 23 or 24, meaning they would have been born in 1943 or '44, the last year or two of WWII. The beginning of season one would have been around 1950 or '51, when Europe was still struggling to rebuild after the destruction of the war?

Elena just can't pick a winner. This boyfriend came across to me as a pompous, arrogant, selfish ass. A spoiled rich kid living in a fantasy world and so full of himself. Sad that he is probably an improvement, over the jerks from her hometown. If he really loved Elena he wouldn't have been so anxious to leave, or at least he would have asked her to go with him, which he certainly didn't. Good riddence to that jackass. Of all the assholes in this show, Stefano is the worst. I would love to see someone kick his as

Thanks for clearing that up. I wasn't aware that she was raised in Australia. Makes sense now!

This was a very good show. Much better than I expected. Just happened to catch the Saturday showing when nothing else was on. I will keep watching. Nathalie Kelley and Melissa Barrera (of "Vida") are the two most beautiful women on television right now. Why is her character Australian? Doesn't make sense. She should be Latina, since NK is Peruvian. Daniel seems way out of his league with both Noa and Vanessa. Not even close. The manager guy is really a weasel. Yes, there is a resemblence in the face, especially. Vanessa is quite the beauty...she is half-Fillipino and half-Italian. Interesting mix. Just a shame that she married that putz.