Kirsty

I'd like to take this opportunity to applaud the makeovers the show has given Penelope and Colin for this season. Good job, show!

The show is very popular in the UK and Ireland and there has been a lot of talk about it here in the media. But then it is very English, and the book was popular too in its day. Maybe it hasn't landed the same way in other parts of the world? Or yeah, maybe they didn't push it, Idk.

The early part of this episode reminded me of the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, and I wonder if that was intentional. Nineties wedding, with guests arriving late and rushed in a small old car, to a beautiful traditional English church. I don't like to agree with Callum but he's right about the food scene changing in exciting ways in London in the nineties. The maze scene was lovely. And I thought Emma looked slightly devastated when Dexter told her he was engaged. Sonnet by The Verve is still a great song. It's a shame there's so little discussion here about this show!

I did not see the Sylvie/Callum affair coming at all. Complete surprise, even when she was on the phone. Mainly because she has a small baby! And she's obviously struggling with the baby and with sleep deprivation. I can't imagine you'd be feeling sexy, or that sex would even be high on the priority list! Dexter's career story is good and one you don't see very often on the screen. He coasted on his looks, charm, and parents' money when he was young, so now he's making minimum wage. You always see stories about people who made it big in tv or the movies. You rarely see the story of all the people who were briefly famous but it didn't work out. I'd normally assume that he would rediscover his early interest in photography, but have we even once seen him taking pictures on the show? Emma has been writing all along so that's more believable. His career on TV appears to be over and he has no backup plan. And his marriage looks like it's already on life support. But the worst thing in this one for Dexter is the drinking. He's an alcoholic and he's still drinking. That makes it difficult/unlikely for him to address the other issues. I thought Eleanor Tomlinson was really good (playing Sylvie) in this episode. I liked that even though Sylvie is cheating on Dexter, she's still really worried about him.

I thought this was a good episode and it ended on a positive note when she took up writing again. Emma is obviously a great teacher, but she's not happy.

100%. Getting fired while staying with her awful family would test anyone's sobriety. The actor playing Dexter is doing a good job of playing someone who's insecure. Having your agent tell you that people only like you ironically, or that they like to hate you, doesn't do any favours for someone who's insecure. Especially when you're getting fired at the time. His latest nineties hairstyle is hideous. It reminds me a little of Dawson on Dawson's Creek.

Emma's boyfriends have been very unappealing so far. The theatre director guy, and now Ian. Can we all agree that Ian is about as funny as a case of gastroenteritis? The way he keeps putting on voices and making puns makes me want to die of the cringe. That said, in the previous episode when he showed up with tea and sandwiches for her, I could see why she was with him. Ian is sweet, he adores her, and he treats her very well. I loved seeing Dexter with the haircut and clothes of a member of Take That. I was a teenager in the nineties, so I hadn't even realised that his short back/long fringe haircut was a period-specific style! That's just the way young men looked back then! 😄 It's so strange to see it in a period piece. I liked their fight and I thought it was a long time coming. From his perspective he was finally standing up for himself. I'm successful, I'm not stupid, I'm making my dreams come true, who are you to look down on me etc. From her perspective, she had put up with his behaviour because of his mother's death but she was finally calling time on his bullshit. And she also told him that her life and her career are nothing to be ashamed of.

I thought this was one episode too many in France. Characters didn't have enough to do in this episode. Back in the USA, the actor playing the pompous host of the book show is very good. His character looked so uncomfortable and miserable during the tv interview!

Nicola Coughlan is great in that clip! I hope her co-star can keep up.

I enjoyed this show and I'm sorry they cancelled it. I really liked the vibe, the look and feel of it, the soundtrack, and the NYC setting. I liked Rob's vibe too. I haven't seen a female character like her before. I also want to highlight that scene with the shitty husband with the amazing record collection. You know when Rob and Clyde met him at the hotel? And he talked over her and ignored her and only spoke to Clyde and never introduced his girlfriend. I felt that. That shit is unfortunately extremely relatable. I thought the first season firmly established Rob as a flawed character. She was a bit of an asshole, self-absorbed and obsessed with the past and with her relationship with Mac. To be honest, the show kinda told us that too many times in the finale especially. I guess in the finale Rob acknowledges that she's an asshole, having come clean to Mac and everyone about cheating on him. And she acknowledged that she was selfish on the phone to her brother. And she tried to be unselfish by selling the Bowie record and buying the guitar for Cherise. She also let Mac go and apologised to Clyde. That's the arc and that's her progress. But it felt unsatisfactory as an ending, because the show is a kind of rom-com and yet she had no legit romantic prospect on the horizon at the end. I thought the show invested way too much screen time in her relationship with Mac given that they had no future. I don't mind the character being obsessed with that relationship, but I minded the show giving us flashbacks all season when the writers knew the relationship was a dead end. And she obviously wasn't into Clyde enough. I was rooting against them by the end, based on how she treated him. And Liam is literally a teenager. Had the show been renewed, Id have liked a new main love interest for her in the second season. But well played Zoe Kravitz, I enjoyed your Rob. Too bad the show got cancelled.

His dream did come true. She was in danger and thanks to Syril's obsession with her, he got to rescue her. He was there for her when no one else was, and she owes him. She probably owes him her life. Thank God he's a massive creeper who likes to follow her around! Those people are always absolute lifesavers, they have wonderful intentions when they insinuate themselves into their victims' lives, and she's super lucky to have him.

Very enjoyable finale. I liked the funeral and how the show used Fiona Shaw. I liked Andor listening to the manifesto. The only thing I didn't like was the Syril storyline this episode. You can tell a man wrote it because only an oblivious dude would reward the stalker by making his stalker's fantasy come true!

Loved that ending! There's no getting out unless you break out! Two actors doing wonderful work in minor roles are the woman playing Syril's overbearing mother and the man playing Dr Gorst. She is appalling and the guy playing Gorst brings the role to life with his goofy smiling. Imagine having Syril waiting outside work for you! What a creeper.

Well, a gap of more than two years is a bit shit. I wonder what that's about as it can't be good for ratings. Plus, this is a show that's perfectly suited to Christmas viewing. Id much rather the show dropped in December than in June. Hey, at least it hasn't been cancelled! But jesus, that's a very low bar for what I thought was Netflix's biggest ratings winner. I wonder if Benedict and Eloise will each get their own season now, given the very slow pace. Maybe we'll get a combo season instead.

Right, but nothing in my sentence that you quoted is factually incorrect, right? And my point is that a child Austin's age wouldn't know how to interpret what he saw. He would judge by what happened afterwards and how the adults -- especially his mom -- behaved. And she kept her actions a secret.

I think Mary is Georgia's real name!

Aw, I like that Ginny intervened and encouraged her Mom to come clean to Paul. It was a huge step for Georgia to confront her fears instead of running again. Good job, Ginny and Georgia. This show strongly reminds me of teen shows from the past, but I love that now teen shows deal with mental health. It's as though Rory Gilmore is self-harming (and biracial), and her boyfriend Jordan Catalano suffers from depression. I mean, its also like Lorelai Gilmore is a serial killer, but I try not to think about that. 😆

Good grief, that's a night Austin will never forget. He's getting some really mixed up messages. His mom kills his friend's dad in front of him and doesn't own up to it. His dad attacks his mom. He shoots his dad. His mom threatens his dad with a gun and then stitches up the gsw in the kitchen! No one calls the cops or a doctor. They cover up the entire incident so his stepdad doesn't find out... An adult would struggle to process that list. What is a child supposed to do with it? And this is the kid who stabbed a boy in the hand last season! Whose father is Gil and whose mother doesn't believe in therapy. Austin's going to grow up to be a psychopath, isn't he? Apart from that, I enjoy the Cynthia/Georgia relationship. They respect each other.

Yeah, it's clear in this one that Marcus is not okay. And he's trying to keep it from Ginny. Paul and Zion should get more scenes together. They're fun.

Uh, why is everyone saying Marcus is damaged? Like it's a known fact. All we have to support that is that his best friend died of cancer last year. That makes him bereaved and sad and going through a difficult time. It doesn't make him damaged. Sure, he's a dopey kid and maybe he lacks drive. But he's only sixteen, and it's weird for Georgia to tell him he's damaged like she has a clue about him. I really like the way Ginny is getting along with her life, with friends, a boyfriend, a party, and in the background she's struggling with her mental health. I buy it. She has cried out to her father and now to her therapist this season that she's not okay. Putting those two things together, I wonder if Ginny's storyline is headed somewhere scary, like an overdose or something. Georgia thinks Marcus is screwed up and Ginny is normal. Meanwhile, Marcus got therapy, got better, and recommended it to Ginny, who keeps telling us that she's not okay. I believe her!

Good episode. I'm glad Abby and Ginny are friends. And they're right, Max is being an insufferable asshole. Georgia's speech at the end was good, but it's not like sexual abuse or murder were the only options. She could have accused the guy of feeling up her daughter and moved out with the kids. I also didn't love Georgia getting into the neighbourhood club by playing tricks on the poor woman with the dying husband. I take it she stole the book and planted it in Cynthia's kid's bag. Am I supposed to be rooting against her? The show has Ginny acting out in teenage ways, but her issue with her mother is a serious, adult problem. I have to wonder if Marcus will tell people Georgia's secret later this season. Maybe if Ginny cheats on him with Hunter or something.

So I guess the writers expected the new season to land around November 24th then. Lolz at Paul's mother asking Georgia which father her kids are spending the day with! It was a very polite way to make her feelings known. If the woman only knew that Georgia is an actual murderer who has already cheated on Paul and stolen from his campaign! I wanted Ginny to tell her father -- or anyone -- that she thinks her mother killed her stepfather. But at least she told him about the self-harm and she's getting a therapist. Poor Abby. Even Ginny has Marcus. Abby is entirely alone.

I enjoyed the show but I didn't love the finale. There was no reason for Eli and Cornelia to go their separate ways! And given that she had said in a previous episode that she was already dead, I expected Cornelia to go out in a blaze of glory in this episode. I think I'd have preferred if she and Melmont had fought and killed each other. Quite a dark, brutal story with beautiful cinematography and some great performances.

This show is a challenge to keep up with but I'm enjoying it. The dialogue is often hard to make out and the story skips around a lot. Bit of tonal whiplash sometimes too. I loved that the Scotsman didn't let Cornelia pretend that the English have any moral high ground when it comes to committing atrocities against foreign peoples.

I wasn't crazy about Older!Tiff but she's a great character. She and younger Tiff are very strong-willed and confident in their own abilities. The way Older!Tiff broke the news to her younger self about being adopted was awful. She should have at least prepared her for some shocking news that would turn her world upside down. But I loved the way her younger self called her out afterwards. And I love how the adult characters live in an imperfect, complicated world where things aren't black and white and they're aware of their own shortcomings, while the twelve-year-old version of each character lives in a world where everything is clear-cut black and white. I like how young Erin and Tiff get mad at their adult selves for falling short.