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i thought the mrs. hall/fox stroyline was very reminiscent of her storyline with the dog (Jess? i can't remember rn lol) from a season or two ago. glad edward is safe for now. ngl i visibly cringed when i heard that line. same thing happens when characters mention talcum powder. like, noooooo! i wan tto reach into the tv and slap that stuff out of the characters' hands. also, definitely a choking hazard for Jimmy, though it was mentioned as somethinng to play with when he's older. *ignore the empty quote box. These forums and my tablet are not a good mix. it won't let me delete it :(. oof. Tristan's colleagues got sent to burma? did i hear that right? isn't that the same place geordie was in grantchester? :/

ngl this was't one of my fav episodes. i feel like things didn't quite mesh that well between the two main plots. that's...a lot of strawberries. how big were their victory gardens again??? drunk seigfried and tristan at the end with the jabberwocky recitation was a fun bit.

best episode of the season imo i was hoping fitzroy's dad would get knocked off and we would be free of him but retiring to hopefully off-screendom will have to do. congrats Ivy and Barnabus! the only thing i didn't like was no justice for that beating fitzroy got. :( surprised how easily they seemed to let it slide even if it was the british secret service.oh well. as for eliza and blake...i like them. they're cute in an awkward kind of way. honestly though i hope they don't stretch out their romance as long as they were doing with eliza/william (look at how that ended). like, let's have them actively romancing each other by the end of next season (if there is one) please.

good ep. hopefully phelps gets that new job bc i don't care for him and would love to see him gone. give his screentime to fitzroy. i'm liking blake and eliza together.

5x05: awwww bye bye Carmody :(. you will be missed. good luck! almost thought hamish would be left to Spratt to fill the bingo void, but looks like he's joining carmody in the big city.

5x04: james yelled at a dog. dang. :(. hopefully he'll eventually feel comfortable enough to talk more about what happened with his crew to someone. same with tristan and whatever he experienced. is this the dog (or one of the dogs) from the books i've seen mentioned here and there in previous threads? the one that would always scare him or something? an actual snake!!! no much else to say about this episode tbh.

bye bye Nash and his exquisite wardrobe Clarence should pursue acting as a hobby lololol that was great. Mr. Potts and Ivy finally set a date!!!! yay! wasn't expecting to see mrs. parker. we've lost so many minor/secondary characters over the seasons...at this point i never really expect any of them to show up again so it's a surprise when they do. same with Solomon! solomon II, that is lol. we've got a whole league of solomons to meet now. watching eliza this season certainly has been interesting. Things have definitely shifted. She just seems so weary this season; her spark is gone. Curious to see if she gets it back.

he was dodging those questions like a pro. he's certainly avoiding talking about something. i think tristan looks like tristan even with the mustache. he doesn't look all that different to me. if anything he looks like he's bulked up under that uniform.

well that was certainly a clunky ending. a shame after a strong first half. it really should have been oskar x max. "I loved him," and that classic hospital scene???? bonus points i guess for max and clara not being technically canon. never officially got back together nor got married off at the end. i'm free to assume things don't work even if they currently still have some feelings going on... tbh the clunkiness came from the reveals. All the standing around while oskar and mephisto took turns with their monologues...wasn't expecting ms. fix to be the big baddie, also to have like all the former baddies being connected to the scheme is kind of mind boggling in the sense that i remember like one of them bc of how few and far between we've gotten episodes over the course of several years... bold of them to let the big bad win. mixed thoughts. i'm sure they did their best to wrap things up as decently possible but i'm a bit disappointed in the outcome after a strong first episode and a half.

i'm enjoying the fact that eliza hasn't been bulldozing over these cases and the new inspector. she's having to put in the work to forge a stronger working relationship with the inspector. I like it. glad ivy is dialing it back on the overtime (blake's personal assistant! woo!). She also keeps extending the engagement...Mr. Potts isn't without his flaws, but he doesn't deserve to be possibly lead on. If she doesn't want to marry him she needs to tell him and cut him loose. communication, people! They need to sit down and have a talk. i thought mr. potts teaching eliza to cook was a sweet gesture. gosh the faces eliza made when she was taste-testing the food she had made had me laughing. That bad, huh.

5x03 TRISTAN!!!! 😭😭😭 The Farnon boys had me tearing up ngl. glad helen and mrs herriot finally found some common ground. shadow pregnancy :(. poor dog. can't wait for tristan to meet carmody!

4x02 pt 1 really good episode. some very pretty cinematography. with max incapacitated i'm missing our crime solving duo though. at least we get him in weird dream sequences lol. that assassin is a really good shot to hit traitor policeman no. 1 out of ?? at that angle with oskar blocking a majority of the view this show really knows how to build the suspense up

i was picking up on those vibes too. 5x02 jimmy is such a cutie patootie. got a good laugh when james forgot him. my mom immediately picked up on it spotting james handing jimmy to the lady. i did not. lol carmody is a regular ol' Siegfried lol. we're getting quite a few callbacks to season 1 imo. this time the magic drug for the calf vs the magic potion for the horse back in the very first episode if i remember correctly bingo :'( for half a sec my mom and i thought maybe tristan was at the door right at the end...nope just spratt the jenny thing was throwing us thru a loop tbh. i mean she's allowed to change her mind but she's literally only been talking about running the farm since she was a small child. so to hear her talk about possibly working at a department store???? huh.

posted thoughts in previous episode thread. boy am i out of it tonight lol. 5x02 liked this episode more than the opener. go Ivy go! i knew the moment they mentioned a secretarial staff that ivy would get the job (or one of the jobs heck they hired a lot more ladies than i thought they would). congrats to mr. potts for his promotion i guess cool that they brought back the shady guy from the france eliza/nash bottle(-ish) episode.

*totally out of it and posted in wrong thread :p