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Correct - but other than that first “let’s meet Shae” intro episode for her character, how any of Shae’s subsequent appearances have so much as alluded to her participation in a jury evaluation/selection process? Purely conjecture on my part, but I suspect (a) “jury consultant” was simply the shoehorn TPTB chose to insert the character of Shae to the law firm’s operational environment, and (b) Shae’s actual significance to the story line will unfold in areas well outside her proscribed professional role - which is what seems to be playing out.

That is Shae’s job title, to be sure - but insofar as TPTB have taken painstaking measures to demonstrate on multiple occasions, Shae’s actual job duties go far beyond just that. Every use we’ve seen the firm make of Shae to date has been as human lie detector, and has been focused more in the meeting room than in the jury box. Personally I suspect Shae’s true role in the firm is more “fixer” than jury consultant, regardless of how she’s listed on the org chart.

Actually I believe FlasherGirl was a bit of a quasi-inside gag related to the Iris’s real-life correlative - the New York/Dublin Portal - which had to be shut down for a while due to “inappropriate behavior”. 😆

Kinda surprises me, frankly; websites certainly aren’t the customer front-door accesses they used to be, but HTML coding for something as simple as a cast bio directory has to be some of the most dirt cheap advertising outreach available - an intern could clunk one together in a day, two tops. So I wonder if there’s any actual cause for concern: if TPTB are sweating overhead expenditures as ticky-tack as this, then they may see the show as approaching some unknown-to-us breakpoint of diminishing returns….

If BadBro’s personal fortune was largely based on stock holdings in the family business, then running the family business as well as possible benefits him financially. The associated benefit to other shareholders (including family) would not necessarily even be a consideration, but the overall health and stability of the business would be.

Well… considering what the last dozen or so casts have shown us, it suredafuk wasn’t “Playing With Fire”…. 🙄

IMHO the primary push for fratricide was a combination of several factors: GoodBro has a Thoreau moment and decides to give away most of his wealth, which overwhelmingly derives from the family business. GoodBro gives away something like $3.6B of his own personal holdings - but insofar as the main bulk of his fortune consists of family corporation holdings, the company’s value is reduced as well. BadBro starts sweating the impact of the divestiture in terms of its negative impact on both (a) the family business assets and (b) BadBro’s own investment holdings in the company. So: BadBro is working his butt off trying to rebuild assets to keep the family business (and himself) financially solvent, while at the same time GoodBro seems intent on giving it away quicker than BadBro can make it - and it probably doesn’t help that GoodBro’s very public promotion of his wealth divestiture is further enhancing the Golden Boy image which grates so badly on BadBro’s nerves.

Copied from an episode thread: ——————— Frankly the whole “Lookit what I found on Reddit” part of the storyline has never worked for me, simply because it exceeds my capacity to suspend disbelief: As anybody who’s had any degree of experience with Reddit can attest, the signal-to-noise ratio of most subreddits (Reddit’s “forums”) is generally fractional at best and infinitesimal at worst. Finding new valid data sources which haven’t already been exploited and burned to a crisp is like hunting for hen’s teeth. But let’s say you buck the odds and actually manage to find something worthwhile; guess what? Your find is hardly an exclusive; you found out right alongside whatever chunk of the 90M+ Reddit daily user traffic happened to read some of the same subreddits as you. Reddit is not exactly a place known for secrets (not keeping them, anyway). So your data looks good - but what do you know about its source? Is it valid? Does it have any integrity issues or associations which might bias results reporting? Is it sane? …and that’s just three straight off the top of my head. tl;dr: Anybody basing major life decisions on Reddit posts should probably have their mental capacities evaluated - and for me, the unbelievability of this basic premise mars the show significantly.

Initially the writers seemed focused on one of the Big Three (Senior/ Julian/ Olympia) doing the Wellbrexa deed. Now Shae is being floated as an outlier possibility - immediately after her one night stand with Julian is revealed…? So - insofar as it appears the writers have no direction or guidance other than to implicate EVERYONE who has a mind to do a few laps in this family’s gene pool, I’m just waiting to see how long it takes them to rope Elijah into this Charlie Foxtrot.

A thread for discussing your best/worse grievances, issues, logic bombs, etc. in the show’s plot/subplots and writing. (Created this thread so some interesting discussions wouldn’t get lost in the episode threads)

Um - did CBS even bother to put out a page for cast bios last season? I don’t think they did - by which I mean, I tried several times to pull up the cast bios page but invariably got a “Cast list not available” message on the bio page.

THAT was totally unexpected, and I loved it.

Believe it when I see it. 😶

For who? 😄 Weird thing: I’ve been watching the show since its inception, and was initially inclined to agree with Chrissy’s assessment - but upon examination, superfans appear to do better overall than I’d originally thought: Rob Cesternino: 3rd in S6 (Amazon), 15th in S8 (All-Stars) Todd Herzog: won S15 (China) John Cochran: 8th in S23 (South Pacific), won S26 (Caramoan) Spencer Bledsoe: 4th in S28 (Cagayan), tied for 2nd in S31 (Cambodia) Adam Klein: won S33 (Millennials vs. GenX), 12th in S40 (Winners At War) Ryan Ulrich: 3rd in S35 (Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers) Gabby Pascuzzi: 8th in S37 (David vs. Goliath) Aubrey Bracco: 2nd in S32 (Kaôh Rōng) Hannah Shapiro: tied for 2nd in S33 (Millennials vs. GenX) To be sure, superfan status does not automatically translate to success in Survivor - one look at Jacob Derwin (2nd evictee of S36) is enough to demonstrate THAT - but overall they actually fare pretty well, which makes me wonder why I/we tend to rag on them more than other players. Does their professed familiarity with the game make us predisposed to hold them to a higher standard?