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Maybe because he’s athletic and he made a good showing the first week. But I agree - he seems to be one that’s getting the pickier comments from the judges.

100% agree - he was grossly mean to Terry Gross a few years back. I won’t forget it.

The one guy knew who Jon was. He had “love it” on his vote card (last name is Lovett and his one podcast is Lovett or Leave It). I’m betting he put some stink on Jon’s name around camp.

Finally got to watch this streaming at home. Other than the Trinity test scenes, I'm not sure there are too many shots where anything was lost not seeing it on a big screen? As others have said, I feel like I want to watch again, as it was kinda hard to keep track of all the people and the goings-on. But in spite of having a bit of "who's that guy again?" syndrome, it was still compelling and I followed the gist. I do wish I had kept a better eye on the clock so that I would not have assumed that the movie would wrap up soon after the successful test. My nitpicky things: I was spoiled for the gratuitous JFK mention, but yeah, that was totally unnecessary and shoehorned in there. And finally, the aging up effects were terrible! Like, jarringly bad. I can't imagine that looked any better on IMAX.

That was the cork to the fancy booze (rum?) that “Giselle” and “Viktor” scammed off that guy in the restaurant way back when. More recently, when Kim quit Schweikart, she walked back to her office just to get this one item. The fact that it was in Saul’s possession suggests to me that Kim is no longer around.

While I get that actors will never look exactly like the real life person, the casting of Brody as Riley is ridiculously and distractingly bad, looks wise. It takes me right out of any scene he’s in. The awful fake mustache doesn’t help either.

That’s a feature, as far as Barb is concerned.

The backgrounds (and continuing stories) of some of these kids are just heartbreaking. Given all that she's experienced, I felt bad for Morgan when her grandparents "joked" that she couldn't live with them. She looked like "Ha ha... oh wait, really?" With the parental abandonment (fuck you, Morgan's dad), I would think her grandparents would be a little more careful about saying that kind of thing, since they seem to care deeply about her well-being. I was ambivalent about Monica's cheerful characterization of Morgan as a people pleaser. Her takeaway seemed to be that she could get Morgan to agree to anything. But surely Monica would understand that Morgan likely continues to fear abandonment by those who are supposed to be on her side. I find it tragic, and I hope that Morgan is able to forge stable relationships going forward.

I see Dan managed to get Eugene’s hair wet again 😂

I wonder this every season: when asked if “I can steal you for a second” or some such, is the bachelor bound by some production rule to acquiesce? They never seem to refuse.

Does anyone know when season 4 will be available on AMC app or Netflix? I saw it on Prime to buy, but I'd rather... not?

On the podcast, the animal discussion starts at about 23 minutes in and goes until about 32:30. They might mention things at other points, but that's the main segment. Mazin mentioned that they had filmed another scene that's even worse than what we saw 😯 And I agree with you that, for some reason, pet/animal pain can be more difficult to watch than people. Not sure why, but I had the same thought.

In the opening scene of episode 1, Legasov mentions in his recording that Dyatlev will spend 10 years in a prison labor camp, suggesting that while he was scapegoated for others' mistakes it was still less than he deserved as punishment.

Annie bellowing at her boss while he’s speaking to someone is very obnoxious, but I get the sense that this is supposed to be her trying to assert herself for the first time in her life and she is not good at it yet. A tad unrealistic, but, like the “raw dogging” (ew) storyline, I like the character in spite of her dumb decisions and self-centeredness. As others have suggested, this is credit to Aidy’s charm.

The signatures on that birth certificate! How hard is it to have a couple production people sign a name so it doesn't look fake as hell?