gesundheit

I wondered the same thing -- perhaps it got pandemic-delayed and then further delayed due to the glut of other releases on the same topic?

"EPISODE 2 – S1 E2 – JESUS GAVE ME WATER – 46M A Purdue conference sees an OxyContin user attending. Edie observes the drug’s adverse effects, while Richard encounters obstacles in his pursuit of profit."

"Seizing an opportunity, Richard bets on an opiate that relieves pain. College graduate Shannon takes a job at Purdue. Glen suffers a workplace injury." So far this one has the edge on Dopesick, if only for the presence of Uzo Aduba and the remarkably lower rate of terrible wigs on everyone. It feels promising.

That little coda was silly and unnecessary. And I needed more denouement! Still, killer suspense series.

They didn't know who he was, though -- they demanded his passport and then sent the image to their people on the ground to get leverage on him after he proved he was going to be a problem, didn't they? Maybe they could if this landed him a job specific to this!

Well, I had a lot of fun! Justina Machado was fantastic and I really loved the rest of the cast too. Fantastic prosthetics. Not the greatest thing I've ever seen, but there's a dearth of good new stuff right now and it hit the spot. I may be the only one, though. Me and one critic.

Could be -- it's at least highly likely they're all "inspired" by someone he at least came across once. That's how DID folks tend to absorb these details and pieces of knowledge (and accents!) that couldn't possibly come from their own background. (Not that this show seems to be very interested in real DID!)

Yes, which is inconsistent with "he falls asleep every time they're out" since they've clearly been out at times he very much wasn't "asleep" because he was out in the world interacting with them frequently and remembering that time (while losing other time when the alters were "alone"). The show was obviously trying to take some dramatic license with how he engaged with them pre-treatment, but it just doesn't track. People with DID aren't just going out for drinks with a bunch of their alters, but if they want to create a fictional version of it where that does happen, they should be clear about how it works in-show. If they're going to fake things for creative license, they could go all out with the framing, but instead we get "well, they were all his imaginary friends for years until he was arrested, at which point he never saw them anymore except when they took over and he was asleep, even though they all claim he's always been asleep whenever another one took over despite his having been awake and present for events with these alters on a regular basis who he can now only talk to inside his psyche instead of outside of it." If they're going to be that muddled about the "rules," it should at least be fascinating to watch, yet it's somehow just inconsistent and boring.

He's been interacting with the alters since the beginning of this series. He's just been interacting with them externally, thinking they are real people. Now he's interacting with them internally, discovering that they are not real. Those first few episodes don't make any sense if he's always "asleep" when alters are out. He had years-long friendships with these people!

This show is a real trudge to get through. I'd been sticking with it because I thought at least we'd have the fun of getting to re-watch some of the early-episode scenes play out with only Danny there, but instead we're having these tedious scenes inside his psyche. Ha! I was literally just thinking I've seen soaps do it better -- like when Victoria Lord and all her alters had the battles for her soul inside her psyche, they were all still played by her. And somehow daytime soaps got way more right about DID than this big-budget prestige project? This show can't decide whether Danny's "asleep" when the alters are out to play or they're all just friends of his he's regularly interacting with. The prior would align with most real-world cases of DID. The latter is only interesting if it's fun dramatically, and as of now if we don't even get to see what that looked like to outsiders, it's just boring. That wouldn't have helped much either since it resembles the real case in almost zero ways. Just about the only similarity is that he has DID and that one of his (alleged) alters is a queer black woman. And yes, there's the abusive stepfather, but there's always an abusive stepfather. This should've just been a movie, everything feels so stretched out. I can't believe there are still three more hours of it.

Agreed completely. I wasn't really sold till the fourth episode, but I liked the cast and wanted to find out who the culprit was, so I decided to finish it. Figured I'd do it slowly, but ended up doing a final-3-episode binge very quickly because it got so good. I think it settled really really well and finally got its tone sorted out, so I hope that earns them another season. I was so surprised to learn there really were deadly snakes on that island! Great set-up, especially not showing us the wife so that they can have time to cast someone great in that central role! I don't understand the geography, but I hope there's a way to tie it back to the town of Deadloch. I want to see everyone again! I got defensive on the dog's behalf too. He was cute! And what's done is done, they better love that dog. (Also who will get custody of Donkey Lou?) Maybe they can successfully make Cath less annoying in the second season, too. I have a lot of questions about that subplot. Really enjoyed this show. I especially liked that it wasn't just a shallow reversal (i.e., the women are all perfect heroes and the men are all idiots, victims, or monsters) and was fully of messy folks of all identities. Also, perfect and hilarious needle drop for that Tatu (sp?) song in the finale. In general, the use of pop music references in this was pretty great. (I think the "Lightning Crashes" rendition at the funeral was so tummy-grabbing funny that it's what kept me from checking out in the earlier, clunkier episodes)

I've already blown halfway through and am loving this so far! What a great cast.

I really loved this finale. I'm bummed it's over but I'm glad I knew that before watching the finale (I'd have found this overkill if it were just a season finale). What a great series. Will definitely have to rewatch. Disappointing about the behind-the-scenes stuff, of course, but is it weird to find it oddly refreshing that it's just a case of "turns out this one showrunner is a total dick and the other one didn't try to squash that?" When I saw the headlines I was so afraid to read once again that someone turned out to be a racist or rapist. Oh, just an asshole? Great! Lessons to be learned, redemptions to be possible! (Granted, I haven't read about it in much detail, so my apologies if there's something horrific I'm skating past here.)

Tommy was a serial killer and a serial rapist who also had no qualms about killing children, Catherine was proven right about him a hundred-fold. I thought any decency in Tommy's final moments was due entirely to knowing he was going to die -- decency we never would have otherwise seen had he lived to 100. His magnanimity about not burning the house down was canceled out a bit when he then lit himself on fire in said house moments later. I do think monstrous psychopaths can like people and want those people to be happy (if it doesn't inconvenience the psychopath in question at all), especially when those people can feel like an extension of themselves (like a bio-son). I don't think wanting a good life for Ryan after his death really says very much about Tommy -- if Tommy could have freedom via somehow sacrificing Ryan's happiness, Tommy would've made that choice without batting an eye. I love that he didn't get redeemed at all, but also wasn't pure cartoon villain in the end. To me it honestly felt like the "there's a granny in the picture" moment was the reason they wrote that B-plot at all, and as long as they got that, they weren't much concerned with how it played out. Definitely not as strong a season, plot-wise. But I'm still incredibly satisfied because of what it gave Lancashire and Norton the space to do. Heck, they could've made that confrontation a full episode long and I would've been on the edge of my seat.

I'm just so confused about the narrative here, but I'm probably thinking too hard about the real-life story since I've only just delved into it out of curiosity. Diverting that much from the real story is just bizarre.

Cary doing all that typo-texting in the middle of sex was disturbing, and now every time someone sends me a text series with a bunch of typos and quick corrections I'm going to be wondering what they're in the middle of on the other end

This show really has nothing to offer without the "reveal" we're all expecting because every new character is so corny, and the protagonist has no linear journey we can follow up until then. Strange way to execute it.

I agree. As others have mentioned, I hope the escalation leads to a revelation. No miracles or anything, but the dam does need to break. I remember interviews with the showrunners in the first season talking about it was important to them for the show to retain some heart beneath it all, which I love. It seems like every sitcom with sharp humor and heart ends up eventually going to one extreme, Full It's Always Sunny or Full Lasso (i.e., only ugly or only schmaltzy), which is always a bummer so I hope this one manages to maintain the balance. I'm optimistic. There's no way they would've given Curtis that multi-episode arc if it was just to shrug off its stakes after the confrontation. I was extremely confused about that -- celebrities tend to get mobbed way more outside of NYC than inside it. But I just assumed I missed a tossed-off line. But we're definitely not dealing in realism this season, so I guess we can just write it off to "Ohio is an alternate universe." Loved the reveal on that one, though. It would've been way too trite for Pat to just miss that down-to-earth life and go back to it. Love that she was realistically bored but also kind to her old friends by not letting it show. Everything about Cary's arc this episode had me dying. I loved the running them about the Gays Who Need To Win The Reunion (okay, they gave the trope a name in the episode but I don't remember it). The song had me laughing so hard my face hurt. And what a guest-start coup this episode was! I guess that's why it was super-sized.

The book takes place in the 70s? That explains SO MUCH. I understand why they made the change, there's definitely something to the city's on-edge nerves about terrorism and then the 2003 blackout, but it really didn't work to move to time period but change nothing about the characters. (Okay, I don't know what they changed about the characters but they all seemed 1970s stock) And the resolution here was lacking as well. Just kind of fizzled out.

And it already seems like it maybe isn't a murder at all -- those kids are all out there drunkenly playing with guns, so it just reads like there was a mishap and the kids all covered it up because of all the dumb lying they'd already been doing, which is always the most boring "reveal."

I still can't believe this whole damn plot hinges on the scholarship being at risk because of Megan having sex, to the point that they're blackmailing Jeff to keep this secret