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I am glad to get a movie as long as this does not replace season 4.

No Tristan this season? I miss him. You are never going to convince me that Audrey is supposed to be with Gerald. Give it up, show! If you didn't want me to ship Siegfried/Audrey you shouldn't have written the housekeeper as a beautiful younger woman with lovely chemistry with Siegfried and given her the first name of real life Siegfried's real life wife. There comes a point when playing coy becomes tiresome. Come on!

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I don't know whether I would consider most of these main characters rotten to the core. Flawed yes, and spoiled definitely. Bertha is about par for the course for a ruthlessly ambitious newly rich social climber but certainly not evil. And George is almost a paragon in comparison to what most of the real life Gilded Age robber barons got up to. Even hoity-toity stuck up Agnes is almost a model of enlightenment in her treatment of Peggy for the time. I don't like Oscar because he turned out to be such a pathetic dumb-ass. And I can't stand that ex-servant who brazenly tried to seduce George while in service with his family - she ain't all that and such a sourpuss on top of it.

To me she has a perfect face for the time period. To me often in historical productions - not this one - a character will look way too "modern". She carries off the hair style and costumes perfectly.

no point.

Netflix tends to cancel most shows after the third season (if they make it that far), but there are of course the exceptions, like The Crown and Stranger Things. If they can keep the quality up and the book fan base happy, and if the producer wants to continue they could be such an exception. Alienating the books fans may not be helpful.

I will be seriously pissed off if they deviate from the books for Eloise and Phillip. The notion of her slumming it with that boy in marriage is ridiculous. I don't care if Marina has to get killed off for it to happen, she is such a sourpuss.

Wasn't his former lover an older than him widow? Gentlemen had affairs with widows and married ladies quite commonly and as long as both parties were discreet this was accepted by society and wouldn't ruin anybody involved. The location makes the difference too - the hotel was a big no-no for a young lady who is presumed to be a virgin to be meeting and kissing a man there. Raikes really put Marian on the spot there. Larry has been established as a rather nice young gentleman who I doubt is in the habit of seducing virgins like some romance novel rake. No, they were both carried away and like every one here in this forum I think they are headed towards marriage.

I don't know whether this happened to women in the US but in England a husband could legally commit his wife to an Insane Asylum - and that wasn't always done for insanity reasons. It was done when a wife got "out of control" and sometimes for downright nefarious reasons. I am sure - hopefully - most husbands wouldn't have done this to their wives - but the whole notion has always terrified me. Even the children born from the marital union were the possession of the husband. George seems in some ways very progressive but what would he do if Bertha got "out of control"?

And there are all those pesky Warner Bros going bankrupt rumors going around. It may not be up to HBO to renew this show. I do hope for a third season but HBO burned me before when it canceled Rome way too soon.

He was so talented! And so young.

I don't care that some people call this a cop-out. I got what I wanted.

I am going to assume Belle's costumes are so tacky on purpose, the Australia of the time period being considered a "back-water". TBS was also excellent in Netflix' "Queens Gambit". Does he keep a portrait of himself that ages in his attic? I binged the first 3 episodes enjoying them very much and forced myself to pause - the show is too good for me to just burn through it. I like the combo of period drama with satirical comedy, mixed with the modern music and the more realistic horror of the state of medicine during the time period and the history of transportation and treatment of the convicts. The main cast are very skilled and likable and very rootable, even Fagin, gasp. Add to that the show poking fun at deserving targets like upperclass twits, "upstanding" members of the local society and the clergy, and the military.

I can believe that. Where I grew up in Germany there was a thing called "Griebenfett" - basically lard with bacon pieces in it and you spread it on a piece of bread. I swear it was extremely popular and lots of people loved it, including my family. The odd thing was everybody who I knew loved eating it was skinny and very long lived. I was always told that this fat was good for you and it was sugar and sweets that killed you. Shudders at the taste memory.

I have seen no evidence of that. Josh has received quite a few compliments throughout the season. After Tasha was eliminated I thought Josh had a very good chance of winning. The judges liked him and the audience liked him. He was always competent. I think this literally came down to the last bake. Pru and Paul were underwhelmed by the taste of his cake. Meanwhile, the judges loved the taste of Matty's final bake. Matty's final bake was his best tasting bake of the competition. It must have been a very close decision.

Obviously how the baker comes across in all the episodes counts - whatever they officially say. This is a baking competition on TV and they want somebody to win who checks all the boxes. But as I have been reminded just recently here myself by somebody quoting one of my posts, only the judges would know what the bakes actually taste like and taste probably counts for a lot. Paul raved about the taste of Matty's cake. That Matty is a sweet guy who is also telegenic is the icing on the proverbial cake.

I am happy with that result. Pacing yourself, keeping on an even keel and peaking in the finale is good strategy. Not that I believe he had a strategy. Paul said that was one of the best chocolate cakes he had tasted in a while. IMO couldn't have happened to a nicer guy and I liked him a lot from the first episode.

If I understand what I read correctly, Hall may actually have a good reason here. Look, my first assumption was while I have long loved Hall's singing and his song-writing talents/genius, along with his creating "Live from Daryl's House, I am well aware of his rather large ego. Grins. I have a rather clear-eyed and un-romantic appreciation for him.

That was one of the things, yes. And also his self-satisfied constant shit-eating grin. I tend to not like arrogance. But most importantly to me it was the preferential treatment he received twice from the judges when two female bakers went home over him even though their bakes were better than his those particular episodes. I don't go for that. Yes, he had won more star baker than them but it is supposed to be how one does in a particular episode. Because of that it rubs me the wrong way that he is now in the finale. I love that both Josh and Matty are in the finale. Josh is very quiet and unassuming and clearly a very gifted baker. Matty started out kind of middle of the road but his whole demeanor and even keel attitude and his whole personality along with him constantly learning and improving makes it easy for me to root for him.

Reunited and it feels so good! Don't piss me off, show, and kill Donna off at the end of these specials.

That's just sad. I don't want this to be the end note to their brilliant long time music careers and legacy. I don't want them to be Fleetwood Mac without the sex.

Poor Tasha, it always sucks to be out this late in the competition. I am thrilled that Matty made it into the finale. My (non-existing) money is on Josh to win this if he can keep it together, barring unexpected calamity. He has had beautiful show-stoppers for weeks in a row now.

This show is actually not filmed in Italy, it's filmed in Croatia, with a Croatia crew. Well, it certainly looks gorgeous.

I would prefer Carlo with Bella but he loves Alice and I want him to get what he wants. Speaking of Alice, she rose in my esteem this episode, in her final interaction with her conman fiance she showed class and common sense. And she has caught on who the real prize is. That execution does not belong tone-wise in this glossy soap opera. I ain't rooting for Luce and Constance, their relationship does come across as a tawdry affair and they may have bad juju, especially if Rose is really dead. Is that drip Rose dead? Water corpses don't look that dewy and pretty. Show, show, show - why do you do me like this? Cecil lives into the third season. Pouts.