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  1. Frank said that the rats incident occurred in Chicago. After Paul died, in the scene back at the motel, I was guessing his mom would out him to his fiancee. It would be a sort of dark, Graham Greene-ish conclusion to his story. "Osip ask, where is gas leak?" Wow.
  2. I just can't with Mrs. Frank (or, as someone upthread said she was captioned, "Woman"). She appears in the doorway in a silk robe and a ton of eye makeup, saunters over to Frank in slow motion and then starts caressing him like he's the Messiah. It's like the director has given her no other guidance on how to play this part besides "just pretend you are perpetually on muscle relaxers." Ani getting Vera (is that her name?) out of the orgy house defied belief. Vera couldn't so much as keep her eyes open, but then it was no problem for her to trot down the stairs, and then full-on run once they got outside.
  3. Episode 3 is where I took a dramatic turn from "Huh, this is kind of interesting I guess, I'll stick around to see where it goes" to full-on hate-watching. So I apologize in advance for what is going to be a bit of a rant. #1. Show, don't tell. And if you've already shown, you don't have to tell! We've seen Ray guzzle expensive scotch like it was water. We've seen his family life fall apart. Hell, we've seen Ray, full stop. Guy is a walking public service announcement. Do we really need a scene in the doctor's office with the doctor telling him he has an unhealthy lifestyle? #2. I have never seen Taylor Kitsch in anything before, so I can't say whether his acting or the direction is the problem. But the scene in the strip club where he is breaking out into a cold sweat and drinking like a fish and averting any and all eye contact with gay people? That needed to be dialed waaay down. Again, repressed sexuality, we get it. He also needs to knock it off with the Botox. #3. S2E2 ends with the cheapest of cheapshot cliffhangers. S2E3 ends with... Frank not wanting to talk about his feelings right now. There has to be some middle ground between these extremes. #4. The dialogue. Oh my God! When Benson & Stabler asked the movie director about the parties, he actually said something like, "I drink, so my memory is unreliable." I want to believe the writers bracketed that line in the script, using it as a placeholder for yet-to-be-written dialogue expressing that concept more naturally, but just forgot about it.
  4. The dialogue is a gift. I cannot wait to start dropping "There's a certain stridency at work here" and "I'm feeling a little apoplectic myself" into my casual conversations.
  5. I'm a bit lost. And I'm not sure if it's worth getting it all untangled. I don't even understand the thing with the CHP guy and the blowjob. Episode 1 I thought he had refused the blowjob, so I was confused that he got suspended. Then watching the "previously on" I thought, duh, he got suspended because he accepted the blowjob and it was a sting. Finally, during the episode, I was back under the impression he'd refused. I can't say I love the acting on this show, with Rachel McAdams and CF being the two exceptions. And the sound and editing seem glaringly bad at times. There was a moment when VV was talking to the guy on the street he'd just had beat up where it sounded like a line was overdubbed/rerecorded. And when McAdams was watching the porn and there was that sweaty close-up of her face, then she took a call, after she hung up the scene cut awkwardly back to that same sweaty close-up. It's small stuff but it takes me out of the show. I don't remember the first season being like that.
  6. Yeah, I completely agree with this from the brief snippet of conversation we were given. It's why I would like to have seen more context for that statement. Bethenny is like nails on a chalkboard to me but I don't think she's stupid. Having been given YT activewear swag and holding it in her hand at the time, I don't believe she is ignorant of the fact that YT is already doing activewear. I think she just wasn't being particularly articulate in the moment, much like myself now! Personally I think Bethenny was trying, in her weird and tone-deaf way, to relate to Heather and give her props for getting into activewear, but it came out as "Hey, I just had a brilliant idea all on my own! You should try making activewear!"
  7. OK. Maybe it was a stupid comment, but not for the reason the poster above me said it was. I was responding to a poster who said Bethenny's comment is less dumb if you interpret it as referring to shapewear specifically and not all activewear broadly. That's all I was saying. Sheesh.
  8. Right, that's what I was getting at. I was referring to Bethenny saying Heather could "break into" activewear and that it's an untapped market. That would be a dumb comment if she were talking about all of activewear being an untapped market, but I believe she was referring specifically to YT being able to carve out a niche as shapewear-activewear.
  9. I thought Bethenny was referring specifically to shapewear activewear as opposed to activewear generally. I wish we had seen more of that conversation because it seemed sincere to me (as sincere as Bethenny is capable of being) and Heather seemed gracious enough about Bethenny's presumably unsolicited advice. It looked to me like they were just making small talk about the clothes but the scene was added to give Bethenny the BossyGirl edit.
  10. The two card boxes in the 2nd Street Press collection are sold out. $50 for a box to hold greeting cards. The site also displays a bunch of irrelevant, spammy SEO terms at the top of each page, at least on mobile. Classy. http://www.2ndstreetpress.com/
  11. So I could not agree more with ryebread, who said of Carole's jewelry line (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sl_je_s_web_7141123011?ie=UTF8&field-brandtextbin=Carole+Radziwill&node=7141123011): Some of the cast members' products make perfect sense to me. Skinnygirl, sure. True Faith, absolutely. Kristen's nail polish venture adds up. But Luann should be the one doing the jewelry line. I break out in hives at the phrase "statement necklace" but even I think Luann has stunning taste in obnoxiously large jewelry. I guess we'll see more of her dresses next week, but from the previews, they seem pretty nondescript. Carole clearly just sold her name for this Swarovski Zirconia stuff, it looks nothing like her, and it isn't that interesting.
  12. ScoobieDoobs brought up Carole's new jewelry line, and I wanted to talk about it in Carole's thread in contrast to some of the other NYC Housewives' business ventures, but then thought that as much as the show is starting to resemble an infomercial, RHONY merchandise should have its own thread! From bedazzled crucifixes to mythological toaster ovens, whether a Housewife dreamed it up or just licensed her name for the Amazon listing, it deserves to be snarked upon.
  13. Um, read the message you quoted. :) I know it means proof of concept in some contexts, but that wouldn't be my first thought if I just saw nail polish with P.O.C. on them at the salon or Ulta or wherever. "Person/people of color" is the first definition on Urban Dictionary, FWIW. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poc
  14. Kristen trademarked "P.O.C." for her line too? Doesn't that mean "person of color" to most people (outside of the business context where it's "proof of concept")? I hope she just registered it to cover herself and isn't actually going to use it. What was the deal with the magazine Kristen brought to the meeting? Was she on the cover? I couldn't catch what was going on with that, and it was super awkward how Carole was all "oh what a coincidence I just happen to have brought that with me, you know I was planning to do my own nail polish line." I'm so sure Kristen invited her to a nail polish naming meeting but it never came up that Carole wanted to get in the business herself. That moment was painfully contrived. If Bethenny really doesn't want the attention, she's handling it all wrong. Breaking down or lashing out at a dinner party is not going to deflect attention. All she'd need to say is "Thanks for your concern, as you know I am going through a very tough time right now, and I'm grateful to have a solid team of attorneys and therapists who are helping me with the legal and emotional side of this. I value your friendship and it means the world to me to know that I can reach out to you for support when I need it." No one can really argue with that or insist that she talk about it then and there. I did like at AOA when Bethenny ordered a martini but then caught herself and said she'd drink Ramona pinot. More than anyone she understands the importance of leveraging the show for a business and she wasn't going to sabotage Ramona. For as much as the show seems to be a commercial for the various fly-by-night HW ventures (and last night was certainly no exception), I did like this moment.
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