Girl in a Cardigan

So everyone sucks, but Callum, right? And maybe James? Every time I think he's going to break bad, he's just slapped around a little more. Man, rich people are so weird that tying up and drugging a guy you've never seen before (from another country) is just "typical stag do stuff." And turns out Quinn is just like his daddy, who is just like his daddy. Generational trauma all the way down. Love that Eliza invited Sophie over just to be like, yeah, I know what happened and they are going to try to kill you, but I'm not actually going to do anything about it. Also love that they decided to move the incrimating car NOW instead of any of the previous times that apparently Eliza and Sophie were partying in the woods all around it. Can't believe it took seven episodes to finally have something happen, but let's goooo!

I really hoped that James has spent the time she was playing Huntley ripping her off but apparently, the Huntleys were doing that as soon as she left the house. And James just hung around...waiting for her? How does Sophie have another copy of that little confession? How many recorders fit in her tiny purse? How does Quinn remember anything from his 15-martini lunch a few days ago? Much less who James is. Why does he think James is bad? He ordered the background check before he presumably saw him with Sophie. Also, Phil's trousers in the rainy phone call scene were just way too tight. I know he joked during the press for this season that he has a "powerful seat" because of his big bum, but that's no excuse for the costume department to not fit him in a proper pair of chinos. Do Brits wear chinos in the rain? Seems so untidy. Eliza now realizes that having a car parked in the woods is weird? Okay. Glad to see she's reacting appropriately to having hooked up with her half-sister unknowingly. Too bad everyone else in her family sucks. I'll probably keep Apple TV+ for another month to finish this season out, but so far, it's a lot of pretty London scenery and rich people dressed up and nothing else.

LOL, I literally got so caught up in the Severance finale that I forgot to watch this. It was only when I was ready to watch the next one I remembered that I hadn't seen this. Tess/Sophie is so hot and cold, it's ridiculous. James needs her help and she can't stop herself from being so bitchy, even though SHE'S THE ONE WHO STOLE THE MONEY AND RAN, FAKING HER DEATH. I don't really understand where she gets off, acting like the aggrieved party here. I'm glad James is sticking around and I hope he robs her blind. Seems Daddy Huntley did kill the girl and Quinn knew he did and that's why he's been on a bender. Lovely. Again, I love Phil Dunster but they are giving him NOTHING to do here and it's so boring. Also the entire car ride between him and the fiancee when he's telling her about call girl's death, all I could think about was the driver. Obviously, Quinn doesn't even see/think about them, but in this little cone of secrecy that you've added your betrothed to, that guy's also part of it (maybe they were already, who knows). So it seems Sophie IS her real name? And even though she made James take her to the council housing block where she used to live (that she doesn't remember - but clearly came to before) and stood in front of her old apartment, she's pissed that James is asking the leading questions that she can't ask because for some reason she can't/won't tell anyone about the amnesia that she apparently still has? What a lovely girl. Can't believe they didn't let us see the reveal when Daddy Huntley tells Eliza that her first girlfriend was actually her half-sister and no one told her until now. The first season was so suspenseful as to whether Sophie was in danger, if her husband and BFF were in on it, if she could trust the cop, and this is such a nothingburger. Half way through (or more? How many episodes?) and we still don't know anything more than we did when it started.

So it’s not canceled but they don’t have anywhere to show it? Can they move to Adult Swim permanently? Agggghhhh!

Back on set and ready to go for season 3

I would also like a tower of nuggs and all the dipping sauces. I know it's an animated sitcom, but I was kinda hoping the show was not do the trope of things being immediately awful like they did. I mean, Moon's plan for money seems like a huge issue since he's in school half the time, but sure, it's because his friends are assholes, not because he bought a standing video game before he bought towels or whatever. And of course, Judy and Ham's first AlaskaBNB guest is the worst person imaginable instead of just annoying or having a weirdo in their space. The real problem was wanting a VidVok fridge and the accordion guy was just part of that. Like both plans were definitely going to fail, but it was more over the top and predictable than this show usually is. I did love how Beef correctly guessed that all three of his kids were asleep at school when the principal call though.

Finally caught up on this and it's both intriguing and annoying LOL. Love having James and Quinn together. They are much more intriguing than the Eliza/Tess of a it all. I still don't quite get what's eating Quinn. He wanted the story killed, not the girl, but even though everyone is saying that he didn't have her killed, he's still freaking out. Did he go there and do it himself before we started with this storyline or what? I'm sad we didn't get to see the full James Ellis as that has been missing from this season so far, but I guess as long as Quinn's fiancee gets some revenge on him while he's passed out? Or was that Quinn's plan all along? Does he know who James really is? So after a lot of talking around nothing in the woods (no one is going to mention the whole ass CAR just sitting there for 20 years or whatever), we get the perhaps reveal that Tess is a Huntley after all? And her fling with Eliza was kinda incest? That's fun for the whole family! Is that why she ran away? Four episodes in and we're finally getting somewhere, but if it weren't for Phil, I would have stopped watching ages ago. And truly, when my free trial of AppleTV+ runs out in a couple of weeks, I may just let it and never know how this ends. We'll see.

Until Phil is confirmed, I’m not sure I’m fully on board, but I’m interested to see what happens next.

I'm here for the Cobel revenge tour, if that's what's next. I'm not sure that's where we're going yet, so I'm still a bit worried for Mark. Hope everyone else enjoyed their last two weeks off and we get the whole gang back together next week.

I had to laugh so so hard when Amber was in confessional being like, "Veronica wouldn't lie to me." Like girl, what? If Veronica told me the sky was blue, I'd go outside to check, just to be sure. Katie and Veronica may suck at the challenges, but that was an incredible game play to get what they wanted in the Jungle.

I really want to be into this, but it's moving so slowly with none of the suspense or chemistry from the first season. I even tried watching this one first before Severance to see if that helped, but nope. James is here for revenge, which I'm into, but I'm curious how he's going to do it since he doesn't even know Sophie's real name is Tess or whatever. I did laugh when he mentioned that he was seeing the sights while in London because it was a bit ridiculous that they were at Somerset House, the Queen's House, the Millennium Bridge and then the Tower of London/Tower Bridge all in the same week. Quinn is sad that Phoebe is dead, even though it seems like that's what he wanted in the first place. (Also Phoebe was a call girl who was also a lifestyle influencer? Or did that happen after she slept with Quinn a couple years ago?) I really really really don't get what's going with Lydia (?) and Tess - like you were injured in a riding accident a million years ago, but clearly had no ill effects since you're a concert violinist. So what's the deal there? I'm glad Tess left the file with Callum to deal with, but given everything he knows, I find it hard to believe that he's going to be able to pin Tess's mother's possible murder on the elder Huntley. And that's assuming that Tess's mother was even murdered - we only know she died young and that William Huntley's doctor signed the death certificate. I'm actually way more interested in what Tess said to James about trying to figure out why she's like this. It's just so bizarre that she "wants to have a conversation" all the while she's hiding the money she stole in crypto and taunting him with it while trying to worm her way back into the Huntley family. Is she actually a sociopath or is she just pretending that too?

That's what I thought! So anyway, Apple tagged Phil in that clip for this week's episode last Friday. Definitely seems to give Quinn a bit of a different look than we've seen so far IMO.

Looking at Phil's outfit in the promo photos, looks like this clip is from this episode (though Apple TV posted it last Friday - so did I forget this scene in last week's episode?): https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGoymiOsWHN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Yes, I was thinking this too as I watched Gemma's Ms Casey innie head back down that elevator. I wonder if that has something to do with why he was so passionate about the Eagens when Helly first starts. Clearly, whatever they do on the testing floor remains in the body, even if the innie on the Severed floor can't remember.

Just when I was out - they reel me back in with the husband mic drop appearance at the party! How did he get in? Who does he know? Was he really part of it in season 1 or is he just here for revenge?? Either way, let's gooo! Very curious who Quinn is texting, since he's now taunting them with Callum's arrest. The easy target is the researcher, but since she seems genuinely distraught by the call girl's death, I'm guessing no. Someone higher at the paper? Curious. (Also Phil Dunster is very pretty and I love him, but he does NOT do intimidating very well. I was totally expecting Callum to laugh him off at the club when Quinn got in his face.) Still have no idea what Tess's game is. She seemed so confident cleaning out the accounts and jumping on a plane to the UK, but now she's just wearing weird feather dresses and lying about boarding school. And does she actually remember anything from her pre-Sophie life or is she just faking it now?