cardigirl

It's too soon to tell if there will be a second season. So many terrible shows are given multiple seasons (I'm looking at you, Call Me Cat) when they have very little charm. This show has potential, and I enjoy being back in Frasier's orbit. I'm in for the rest of this season, and if they give us more, that too. :)

I liked this enough to want to keep watching. I think Nile and Daphne's son is fine. Interested to see how that character grows. The only thing I had trouble with was believing that Freddie is a firefighter, or that he would incite lustful feelings in the Dean. He's nice looking but not drop dead gorgeous. I live in Boston so will enjoy seeing how much they get right/wrong about it.

Same. 😭

Season 17 Ep. 1 Do The Right Thing Part 2 Hmmph!

Upon re-watch, I have to say that I loved Donna and Cliff this season, they were played to perfection by Linda Emond and Wesley Taylor and I know that Paul Rudd and Meryl Streep are their competition for nominations for guest artists in a comedy, but I think they deserve consideration. Perhaps we can get a glimpse of them in season 4 (not likely) serving time together. Gonna miss this show. A year is a long wait.

I agree, the first two episodes were great! The second one was stellar.

Find the whole review here The reviewer says it better than I could, and sounds like he's been reading my mind. 🧐 Also, I've read people thinking that Steve Martin wants out, but he's said that after this project, he's pretty sure he wouldn't want to do anything else. Not that he's tired of OMITB, or ready to quit it.

@tennisgurlI thought it was mermen. 🤪

Somewhat disappointed that there wasn't a final twist but glad they set up next season. I've really enjoyed the Broadway aspect of this season, and the show within a show theme. All of the inner workings of putting on a musical. Much fun! Can't wait for next season!

No, but anticoagulants cause undue suffering. There are more humane ways. (Not part of the show, just hate poisoning anything.)

It's also a very cruel way to kill an animal.

Just musing along. With the idea that Ben is actually Loretta's child, and Dickie was the miracle baby born afterwards, Ben would have to play younger than he was, which was mentioned when he talked about playing his role in Girl Cop, he was 31 playing 17, supposedly. So ... if Ben was adopted and named Richard initially, but later became the actor with a future, it's possible that his name was switched, to protect the family from ... his bio parents from showing up? Maybe that's what Loretta meant by she was too far into this? The date discrepancies, the thought that the "big city director" that was implicated as Loretta's child's father looks a lot like Ben, and the oinking noises Loretta AND Ben made. Also the meta joke that Paul Rudd is ageless. And wondering why Ben told Loretta he knew a snake when he saw one. (Oh, that was probably because she was convincing Dickie to leave him. That happened before the poisoning.) With regards to the photo in the letter update, it's just the mother and the two boys, one a toddler and one an infant, and honestly, I wouldn't recognize either adult Ben or adult Dickie from that picture. And we were only told of the one update. Possibly there were more. She knew the name of the family so when a Glenroy started getting famous, possibly her antennae was attuned. And then she assumed that Dickie was the son she gave up, because the family had made that the story. LONGSHOT, I know. And I'm never right about anything. I didn't even guess that Jan was the killer in series 1 as I was so wrapped up in thinking Tim's murder had something to do with his backstory with the "Hardy Boys" group. Thanks for reading. LOL.

Loretta made a bunch of similar pig noises during her dinner date with Oliver.

I floated that information. :D

Don't have time to re-watch right now, but things I'm wondering about: Charles telling Ben, "I know what you did." And mentioning that he did so while the trio was establishing the timeline. Loretta saying, "I'm in so deep now" after Charles tells her they've cleared Dickie. What the heck did that mean? Picture of Dickie as CoBro, is it really him? What's going to happen next episode? 😱

I thought the detective said they thought it was murder because he was poisoned in the theatre before he died. He apparently recovered from that, so not sure why the death by falling down an elevator shaft would have to be murder. Apparently they're thinking someone was out to get Ben.

Poor Ben! Wish his sewing circle had made it to the theater. 😢 Great episode!!!

I doubt it's a prop error. Also why show Loretta on a bus looking at a couple with and infant in their arms indicating she was leaving her child with them, yet show a bus ticket with that date? It might not mean anything at all. "No Strings," the musical Loretta was watching as a child (possibly 7-8 years old), debuted on Broadway in March 1962 and ran til August 1963, if she was watching it in New York. If the baby happened during her senior year, she could have been 18-19 in 1973, which is coordinated with the date on Ben's poster. If she had the baby in 1976, and left for New York then, I don't know what it means. It may never be explained.

On Ben's poster for his funeral it said 1973 through 2023. Loretta's bus ticket, shown at the end of episode 8, says 1976.

We only know what Dickie told us. We know that Loretta gave up a son for adoption, and that the family let her know that they had conceived and had another child. But we really don't know for certain. We'd have to trust that Dickie is telling the full truth, that Loretta was certain which child was which. I think there is room for a reveal or two left. 😁

Rewatched this one recently and enjoyed it much much more the second time around. Also, is there a clue in the aquarium of some kind? Joy sure had a lot of stuff in there.

Wondering ...

I walk my cat on a leash and she goes forward ahead of me. She loves it!

The more I think about this idea, the more I love it. Donna said they were literally lighting money on fire for every moment they were in production. It is quite possible that she decided to "help" Cliff by over-selling shares of the show in the hopes it would fail. And it would be just like this show to bring in Mel Brooks and Matthew Broderick to kind of point the way, but in our star-struck eyes (or at least, mine) we overlooked The Producers angle and just watched them interact with Oliver. LOL. Clever.

Quoting someone replying to the Vulture recap of the episode: Which is a thought I had after seeing her return this episode. I can't imagine what her motive would be, but since so much of the cast does theatre, making the theatre critic a murderer would be very satisfying. LOL I think I've accused just about everyone in the show except for the three leads. Really enjoyed this episode, although it felt a bit too on the nose is spots. For me, the best episode of the series will always be The Boy from 6B, because of the storyline, the acting and the way it was cut together. Brilliant. But I liked this episode fine. 😁