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I saw that scene a little differently. Luv goes to Joshi to ask/force her to tell her where she can find K. They talk about his findings and what those findings mean, but the point of the conversation is still that Luv needs to locate K. That's how I felt about it, at any rate.

I don't see how. The test is that there be at least two women in the movie who talk to each other about something besides a man. There's multiple female characters in the movie and a few scenes where two of them speak to each other, but they're always talking about Ryan Gosling's character. Saw this today and was quite impressed with it. I had been on the fence because I didn't particularly care for the original film (can't remember which version I saw; it wasn't the one with narration) and I can't stand Jared Leto, but I've been a fan of Denis Villeneuve going back to Maelstrom and the trailers made it look visually stunning - which it absolutely was. Maybe this movie can finally win Roger Deakins his Best Cinematography Oscar.

When I said that the series is spending a lot of time saying that Abramson is great I wasn't referring to her abilities as an attorney. I meant that it feels like the show is spending a lot of time trying to establish her as a idealized person through these asides where she's bringing her clients food in prison, washes the blood off a client's face, and the discussion with her husband where she gets to defend her dedication to her work against his accusation that it makes her an "absentee" mother. It feels a bit Mary Sue-ish, though I'll concede that since the character doesn't actually get involved with the case until the second half of this episode that maybe these scenes were just a way to keep the character (and, as you point out, the show's star) from being excluded from the part of the story that has to do the heavy lifting in terms of hooking the audience.

So is Leslie Abramson a producer on this show? Because I feel like so far the series has spent a lot of time telling me how great she is. Also, I can't believe that in 1989 you could still smoke on a plane. How times change.

Agreed. I believe that she feels terrible about what happened to her daughters, but it almost seemed like she's overcompensating. Like she feels a lot of guilt personally, but doesn't want her kids/husband to blame her (which it doesn't seem like they do, at least for that) so she's putting this intense emphasis on how bad she feels and how destroyed she's been by it so that no one can accuse her of having turned a blind eye or knowingly let it happen. On the other hand, I was floored by her inability to apologize to her daughter for what she actually did do. I felt kind of bad for the husband, because it seems like a nightmare to have to live with her in her current mental state, but he shouldn't have let her come back without some significant therapy (with an actual therapist) because that seems to have only made things harder for the daughters.

Only one member of the nominated team was disqualified. The rest got to keep the nomination.

Have to disagree. Tom will never be the one to break up because he won't risk seeming like the "bad guy." I work in family law and I've seen this a few times: a guy who clearly does not want to be married but who, rather than leaving, pushes his wife to the breaking point so that she finally walks away. The thinking seems to be that if he's married and miserable, his misery is her fault. If she leaves him and he's still miserable, his misery is still her fault because the breakup was her choice. If he leaves her and he's still miserable, then his misery is his own fault because the breakup was his choice. Can't have that.

I was an All My Children viewer from 1994 until about 2006 or 2007. I've recently been marathoning episodes from 1990 to 1992, but have some questions resulting from some big gaps in the episodes I've been able to find, hoping some kind soul might have some answers: 1. How did Skye leave? 2. I know that Adam found out he was Hayley's father well before she did and that he kept it a secret while trying to form a relationship with her, but how did he find out he was her father in the first place? 3. How did Dixie end up with Brian Bodine after her marriage to Craig imploded? 4. When did Myra leave? Did she get an actual exit, or did she just sort of disappear? 5. Were Jack and Angelique ever an actual couple, or did he just pine for her until she left town? I've managed to find most of the 1992 Wildwind story but not her exit. It seems like she was a fairly prominent part of 1992, so I surprised when I got to an episode that takes place at Christmas and she was suddenly gone - was the character not well-received by the audience? 6. I know that Jeremy ended up crossing over to Loving, but when did he leave AMC and what prompted his move to Corinth?

"Guilty Until Proven Innocent." First of all, that wig. Second of all, "I haven't used that word [the n-word] in 20 years." So... 1997?

They address the fact of her accusing Lumumba in the documentary. She says that the police went through her phone and found a text message exchange between her and Lumumba in which Lumumba gave her the night off of work and she replied, "We will see each other later, have a good night," meaning she would see him at her next scheduled shift but which the police interpreted as the two of them making plans to see each other the night of the murder, and that the police were persistent in their pursuit of this idea. She then says that a police officer started slapping her in the back of the head, yelling, "Remember!" and that she "broke" and described Lumumba being there when Meredith was murdered (which of course means that she was also describing herself being there when Meredith was murdered). It's horrible that she accused Lumumba, and I think that the way that she describes it in the documentary deliberately minimizes her culpability in his life being upended and him being jailed, but based on what's in the documentary it seems like she was really immature, even for a 20 year old, and stronger people have broken during police interrogation over a lot less. As for her not being considered a suspect before being brought in for questioning, Mignini himself says that he suspected her before he even questioned her because she wasn't behaving in a way he thought she ought to be.

But, the thing is, Harge and Carol didn't divorce because he found out that she'd had sex with a woman. They divorced because she left the marriage and he couldn't convince her to come back. Right until the end, even when he knew for certain about her relationship with Therese, he still wanted to make the marriage work. The custody battle was all about trying to force Carol into coming back, to be "cured" with therapy, and to be "normal." From Harge's point of view, Carol's relationships with Abby and Therese are just symptoms of a mental illness that he believes can be treated and afterwards they can just go forward as the picture perfect couple.

I feel for his mother, but at the same time I feel like her offer to serve time in his place is probably indicative of how he's gotten through his entire life. He strikes me as the sort of person who never had to suffer consequences for any of his actions because everyone around him treated him like the most special snowflake and just made excuses for him any time he did something wrong and smoothed things over for him every time a problem arose.

My thinking was that since he worked in corrections, the police (or some members of the police) saw him as one of "them" and stopped the investigation before it could even get off the ground. The way her parents were talking in their interviews, I figured they must already have custody of the kids. I'm a little surprised that they would speak so boldly when it could risk alienating the people who have control of the kids and could cut off their contact. If he gets convicted, I wonder if his parents might be charged with anything for not coming forward about his confession to them.

Oh, there's no doubt in my mind that it was the husband who came up with the plot. I think the mistress is evil in her own way, but that man was cold as ice and came off like a total sociopath. I think she was genuinely enamored with him and that when he found out that her ex-husband had already killed someone, he saw it as an opportunity and used her feelings for him to manipulate her into doing all the dirty work to pull off a plan that he came up with. I think he thought that even if she got caught, he'd still be safe because she would never turn on him (and she didn't). My belief is based on the fact that she still seems to hold out hope that they'll be together once they're out of jail, while he seems to have dropped that idea, and also the fact that the "hit" photo was of the ex-wife and one of the daughters. A man who is so apparently nonchalant about his child coming into contact with a hitman is not, to my mind, a man who is just going with the flow of his mistress' plot. That is a man who is brutally self-interested and willing to go to any length so that he comes out the "winner."