Fiftyninth

It wasn’t until now, seeing the episode name as the thread title, that I realized “Death’s hand” could refer to the hand of tarot cards.

Wow, that’s a bit of a rant. This was the sixth episode that Cherien Dabis has directed — 2 per season, including the excellent season 1 episode about Theo Dimas.

For the speed bump, at the very least each team member should have had his own bowl, so that one team member couldn’t carry them both across the finish line.

I figured out surprisingly early who the killer was because the suspect board had the transcript saying he worked or volunteered in a rose garden. That was a red flag for me, given the whole “gardener access to poison” premise. But I also thought I recognized the actor at first, and I was very wrong about that.

Well that was a tight four!

We had Thunderdong this episode.

Hey, now. They were ‘70s radicals, and don’t you forget it!

The Real Love Boat has “moved” to Paramount Plus.

Okay, I’m going to have to read up on the original comic, and I guess read these books!

I cried. My left eye went first, but my right eye didn’t want to be alone (shades of Tao), so he came along after a moment.

I think my heart grew three sizes.

I think Konstantin was pretending not to recognize Russian, not failing to recognize the language of his cover story.

Funny to see others’ reactions. I just loved this episode. It was my favorite so far.

And apparently season 2 will be an HBO Max exclusive.

Carmen Moyo is a great character addition to the show, I think. She had us sympathizing with her in the cold open, and then proved to be stone cold herself. She’s like the opposite of Maya. Hmm, Maya/Moyo. Is there a deliberate play on names here? (Edited to say: Oops. The earlier character’s name was spelled Maia.)