Fiftyninth

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.)

As far as I know, it’s 16 episodes — just one per week.

The cast credits at the end of the episode listed one character as Eli Bradley.

The UK had a 6-episode celebrity season earlier this month, and is currently airing their season 3 now (6 nights per week). I believe all editions of the Circle film in the same building, and the US edition premieres almost immediately after the current UK season ends.

It has?

If’s funny how many people complain about the credits being long and complete, but the credits did indeed show that Kathryn Kahn sang the theme song at the end of the episode. There’s gold in them thar hills, not to mention vibranium!

Thanos definitely prefers The Addams Family over The Munsters.

Happy Endings also had a food truck,

She’s a Tony Award winning actress. I assume if they didn’t like what she was doing, they’d ask her to adjust her performance.

Louise is his wife. She was an executive producer on season 1 as well. Phil was great on the Rob Has a Podcast recaps for season 1. I hope he joins them again for season 2 (and maybe brings Louise along).

Regarding “recasting” Pietro: With Vision, Wanda had his body. She didn’t have access to her brother’s corpse, though, so it makes sense that it she were involved in bringing a version of Quicksilver into Westview, it wouldn’t be the same version necessarily. That said, I’m not sure Wanda was behind the arrival of Pietro.

When the aspect ration changed to widescreen at the end—and then changed again to letterboxed—I got chills.