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Sean Bean? Just kidding. The Pedro replacement is Abby and of course Ellie. I have remembered where I know the Abby actor from, she used to be as a child on Justified and she was excellent in it. It's a pity that her face gives me a vomit reflex now and I will have to refrain from watching her in other things.

Grins. Oh, rude. Stay classy.

What a bummer of a second season. So violent with such a downer of an ending. I have come to the conclusion from watching various of his shows that Taylor Sheridan hates women, including his female audience. Killing Alex and then tacking on some lame Somewhere In Time coda is not respecting your female viewers. If you guys want to see Somewhere In Time done right watch the old movie. One good thing that came out of me watching this show is that I discovered Brandon Skelnar on it. That man has real manly man movie star charisma and I hope he goes far. Oh lord I haven't had a good time lately with my TV shows. I just got my heart ripped out on The Last of Us season 2 and now this show tramples on it for good measure. The only consolation prize I got just now was getting my darling Karen Page back on Daredevil and Frank Castle getting a shave and a haircut for her.

Smiles. Sure us Pedro Pascal afficionados and Bill and Frank lovers are known for being big time homo phobes.

Oh, defensive is a bit of an understatement, I have been called very nasty things elsewhere when I expressed my loathing of the second game and dared to say it isn't great art or as groundbreaking and unpredictable as these game acolytes rave. This show was elevated from zombie schlock (as so aptly put up-thread) and violence porn by the presence and acting of Pedro Pascal and the acting and story lines in the first season like the Bill and Frank love story, and the Tess story, etc.. The second game plot is just a standard zombie schlock fest and revenge porn.

Now Joel is gone the nasty girl can think about how she treated him in his final years. I hope she suffers.

not worth it

The self-congratulary smugness of the HBO after-show is nauseating. They are so proud and gleeful of the devastation they have brought. They can sod right off, including Ellie. She ain't all that.

She loved him? She acted like he was her enemy. She can rot right along with Abby. I am going to pretend this show ended with the first season.

Well. That's it for me then. If they actually somehow believe I will watch this show for the petulant whiner Ellie or the bitch they ain't too bright. It isn't just that Pedro Pascal is one my favorite actors, I came to love Joel fiercely with his bruised and loyal heart. I know the writing tried to manipulate me into disliking Joel, but guess what - I am not that easily manipulated. I am not watching his killers being turned into the heroes of the dreck. Bye bye.

I am glad Frank and Karen are back. Now I actually want to watch the second season. Frank so got a haircut and shaved for Karen. When Matt said Karen's name in front of Heather I was filled with glee and Schadenfreude. I never took to her and now that she is working for Fisk I think she's dumb as a box of rocks.

I suspect this second season is not meant for me. I seriously considered not watching the second season period but since Pedro Pascal is on the show I couldn't resist. I am not a gamer and the second game means nothing to me to put it bluntly. The sudden vilification of Joel is both baffling and infuriating to me. To me the doctors who Joel killed had it coming for intending to kill and cut up a child, a child who couldn't consent to any of this - no matter what Ellie thinks or not thinks. I have no empathy for Joel's "victims" or for the woman who wants to kill Joel slowly. If she does kill Joel I am not sticking around. Ellie is not enough reason for me to stick around. The whole concept of the show is too gruesome for me if my reason for watching is gone.

I don't like Ellie the petulant whiner and I don't like her and Joel being estranged. Anyways I am watching this show for Pedro Pascal, not Ellie and certainly not hell's bitch who's hunting Joel. Sadly, I can see the writing on the wall.

I feared all season Chelsea would die and I guessed Rick would. It doesn't fill me with pleasure at all to be right. I wish more young women would learn to live for themselves instead of getting hung up on men who don't deserve them. I think Saxon had a very good arc, started out a douchebag and had some actual character development. I liked him in the end. Both Lochlan the brother molester and Piper the shallow as a puddle rich girl could have died for all I cared. This season is not my favorite.

I am reading The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell which is the first book in his King Arthur trilogy and while it is excellently written and very compelling I wonder if I should continue. The world is very brutal and repellent but more importantly I don't like this Arthur and I hate this Guinevere. He acts dishonorable in the way he gets with her, and she is to put it bluntly a whore. I should clarify that I never call women whores, including women who make their living having sex. But I got spoiled about what this version of Guinevere gets up to in the second book and well that word fits her perfectly. And this is before the famous adultery of the tales. Arthur is also a terrible father whose sons torture animals.They cut out the eyes of a kitten and Arthur does nothing about it. This pretty much cemented my dislike of him. And Merlin is a wackadoo sadist. Pretty much the the only lovable characters are the woman Arthur throws over for the whore and the narrator of the book, Derfel a wonderful character and truly good man. Has anyone read the the whole trilogy? I am guessing I won't be liking the main characters any better in the other two books.

Too young to go but I am glad his suffering is at an end. Fantastic actor. His Doc Holiday is one for the ages.

This series has been such a let down for me. One lame episode after the other. They ruined the relationship Fisk had with his wife on the good show. Matt and his gf have negative chemistry. I miss Matt's real friends so much - especially Karen. The one excellent scene was between Matt and Punisher several episodes ago and we got Bernthal for what - five minutes? The denouement for the Muse villain was way rushed and beyond lame. I am done.

This episode was rather blah. I don't think this show has utilized Walton Goggins impressive acting talents at all well. Jason Isaacs has become rather one note himself. I blame the writer not the actors. If you had told me I would be having more sympathy for Saxon than most other characters towards the end I would have laughed at you.

is this the season finale then?

I was specifically talking about the production, the writer, younger brother and his actor being into the titilation of it. I read the linked article. As I have said in a previous post I felt terrible for the Saxon character who is after all the victim in this. In general it looks bad to me when a subject like this is glamorized and exploited. White Lotus is a very shallow show meant to titillate and give everything a Hollywood sheen. It ain't no Adolescence.

Personally I find this White Lotus brothers incest story line deeply offensive because every day someone somewhere becomes a victim of incest - often a child - and often the victim never recovers from it and it affects their life in a negative way. And White Lotus glamorizes it with pretty actors to titillate and wink-wink to its audience without very possible no consequences whatsoever. I don't care what the Lochlan actor calls it, his character is a sexual predator who assaulted his brother. I don't like it when HBO is in the incest business with GOT and HOTD either but those at least are fantasy show which provides a certain extra distance from it.

Come on. Because if my hypothetical brother sexually molests me while I am drugged to the gills I am going to call it incest while I am devastated by it - no matter what the pedantic "official" definition calls it. If I am asking a thousand random people in the street what they would call it - besides an abomination - they are going to say incest.

From the way it was presented - and I reserve the right to change my mind should more detail be added in further flash backs - it was sexual assault. Saxon was drugged out of his mind, could he really consent? I also don't subscribe to the notion if it's "only" a hand job and no penetration it isn't sexual assault. Anyways, Saxon has gone to the top of my list as a potential suicide or killer. This f*cked up thing happening to someone with a fragile male ego in combination with being called "soulless" -ouch! Is Belinda really going to that psycho's house? Don't make it easy for him! If she gets bumped off by that *** I will be mighty pissed. Somebody more frightening needs to get the drop on psycho. Can I import a recent Eddie Redmayne character over for a work vacation at the White Lotus?

For all those telling themselves that a hand job isn't "really" sex. Oh yes it is sex. I wouldn't put it past Saxon to poison his brother with one of those fruit drinks he keeps making. He is a douche but I felt for him in this episode.