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2 hours ago, Boothbay said:
Why was Zoe hiding the teapot? I was confused about that.
I think she suspects Grace might actually have killed Edgar with trumpet tea, in a teapot with one of her cosies, and is trying to protect her.
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On the Anthony and Guisseppe thing. Yeah the age difference is a bit dodgy but WTAF were they doing with their pants down in a teenagers' bedroom? That just grossed me out so much. If they'd been in the utility room it might have been kind of funny. But they went into the bedroom of two kids that Anthony is pretty much an uncle to, in order to, umm, handle each other. That's just so creepily inappropriate.
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20 hours ago, T Summer said:
What are your thoughts on why Aiden and Carrie (who were age appropriate) never actually got as far as the conversation about whether to have children? [If you feel like sharing them, of course]
We know Aiden was hyped about being a dad because she ran into him carrying his first son in a sling on his back when she was meeting up with Berger. That and him proudly showing her photos of his 3 kids at dinner in Abu Dabi. ...and we know he preferred staying home to going out to clubs because there was a SATC episode all about that.
Carrie and Petrovsky even had the convo about whether life together would include having children or not.
It's always been my contention that Carrie's actions showed she was never going to marry someone who wasn't wealthy, even though Charlotte was the one who was more upfront about it.
True but I doubt she's ever acknowledged that she would only marry wealth even to herself. She wouldn't be consciously aware of that. And even if she was, she wouldn't say that to Che in front of Aidan. It's actually kind of funny that they never discussed kids back then. And they haven't discussed the role that their different feelings about having kids had in them not working out previously. If for no other reason than to justify themselves giving it another try.
29 minutes ago, ruby24 said:Hard for me to believe Carrie and Aidan are already happily ever after, if they intend for the show to keep going for now. Seems like it's moving too fast and it's likely they'd want Carrie single and dating for a while, right? Given the show's premise? I'm suspicious of the speed and seriousness of their reunion, I expect another split.
I think they'll definitely split up this season. Their relationship is a narrative dead end for the show. Carrie with no money issues makes for dull tv as it is. Carrie with no money issues and a happy new long term relationship would be even worse.
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4 hours ago, T Summer said:
She absolutely declares to Che that she made a mistake, when Che asked why this didn't work out the first time.
Isn't the obvious answer here that, regardless of Big and $$$, Carrie and Aidan were at a stage where the different things they wanted in life made them completely incompatible. Aidan wanted children and to raise them at least in part out of New York with a very child centred family life. Carrie was at most, utterly ambivalent about children. And if she did have one/them would have wanted to stay in Manhattan, with a much more adult centred family life. But realistically she was happier childfree. It made sense for them to split up then. As Aidan's youngest should actually be older at this point, it is possible that with that active parenting part of his life pretty near it's end, that Carrie and Aidan may work out now.
It isn't unheard of for exes to get back together following divorce/widowhood when the issues that made them wrong for each other initially are no longer relevant. It's similar to the main characters at the end of a very unpopular ending of a certain sitcom. It was an unsatisfying ending for the audience, as they did dirty on a surprisingly great character played by a deeply charming actress. But it did make sense as something that could easily happen in life.-
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6 hours ago, AnimeMania said:
If there are as many video camera's as Sebastian seems to think, Edgar might know about Grace and Hannah's dalliance.
Yeah. And Edgar has been shown a couple of times to be someone who actually reads people very well. So I think there's a decent chance he has picked up on Grace and Hannah having an affair.
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I find it really odd that they cast Zooey Deschanel here and then have her, as Sheila's mean voice replacement, repeatedly taunt Sheila over her age. They are the same age, there is literally 6 months between them. I know Sheila responded the first time with, 'you're not that young yourself' but that had the implication that Kelly Kilmartin is maybe in her 30s, not that she's the exact same age. For two years Sheila had an actual younger rival in Bunny, who is actually 10 years younger than her. To give her a new younger rival, played by a same age actor is weird. I like Deschanel but they needed to cast a younger woman if they wanted her to stir Sheila's insecurity about her age.
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This one is a potential game changer with Sebastian's view of Edgar being that he was an awful person. I've really liked Edgar up until this point but I think it's likely Sebastian's Edgar is more like the real Edgar. We've seen him described by Aniq, Grace, Travis and Hannah. Travis' view of Edgar was actually consistent with Sebastian's, but that was dismissed by the audience as being due to Travis' jealousy about Grace and bitterness about crypto. He was often sweet with Aniq but Sebastian's story showed us that some of those moments were done in order to upset Sebastian. That leaves Grace and Hannah, his fiancee and his sister who were having an affair with each other. And are, after his murder, describing him with a view to not making it look like they had cause to kill him. If he was the person Sebastian describes, that gives each of them individually and as a team, cause to kill him.
Last week we saw how their stories diverged on the important moment of the wedding vows. Last week it appeared that Hannah had more reason to lie. But if Edgar was an awful person, he could have been saying something to Grace more consistent with how he behaved to Sebastian. Giving both Grace and Hannah reason to lie. Which lines up with the ending, where we learn they are keeping something from Danner.
If Edgar is a horrible person more of the general oddness around him makes sense. Feng saying, "I'm not letting that man ruin our family" when he was with Ulysses and Vivian the night before the wedding wasn't about Ulysses but about Edgar. And has something to do with him threatening Vivian in Sebastian's description. It also leads to the possibility of Edgar being responsible for Isabel's memory loss and bizarre behaviour. Especially as she's seeming more coherent now that he's dead. So much of his callous behaviour could be because he actually doesn't care about upsetting people rather than him being oblivious but lovable underneath.-
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12 hours ago, CarpeFelis said:
This is lousy writing IMO. This is not a plot point that should be a mystery we’re left to wonder about. Seriously, they expected us to make this assumption without either showing or telling us? There were three possibilities: abortion, miscarriage, or false positive. And a false positive never even entered my mind.
Oh come on! Are you telling me that when you have a late period you don't bleed all over your sheets and then hide them away in your room for a few months before stuffing them in the trash in a really shady way?
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What the actual F was that? It was sooooooo boring and then in the last few minutes, it's just one insanely stupid reveal after another. Outside of all of the really ridiculous characterisations, plot 'twists' and the mentions but non-appearances of characters like Deb and Ned, I think my favourite bit of nonsense was the sheriff's tech guys. What year 2000 small town sheriff's department would have tech guys (plural) who are so damn good at their job that they can dismantle security code written by a paranoid tech genius. But are also so stupid that they can't tell when a teenage girl has then gone onto their computers and accessed it, because they we coincidentally getting coffee in the middle of their game of Patience, just as she was opening files in a way that was visible on their own monitors.
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Hannah came across as very likeable here but there were a lot of discrepancies in her story. The first big one was that she and Grace have completely different descriptions of the wedding vows. Grace specifically says that when they were in the vow box, she only went through with the wedding because she made Edgar speak from his heart and not read out the vows he had written. Whereas Hannah says she decided to let go of Grace because she heard Edgar read his written vows. So either Grace is lying about making Edgar go off-script or Hannah wasn't actually listening to the vows and assumed he read the written ones that she had previously read. Grace doesn't have a lot of reason to lie about this, as she could easily have said that Edgar reading his neurological readings, though unorthodox, still made her understand his love for her and made her go through with the marriage.
And the other is her description of the Afterparty. First off, she finishes the story on her looking sadly at Grace playing Scrabble. She completely leaves out Edgar's episode of shouting that everyone was a demon/devil. Which is strange in itself. But she describes Sebastian and herself having a slight shuffle trying to get past each other before he drunkenly moves on. When everyone else's description has her and Sebastian standing together, either talking or exchanging looks, when Edgar is shouting. So that's very suspicious.
More suspicious is that in the new information we got about the Afterparty, she makes Edgar look at Sebastian, in the opposite direction of the table between them with their drinks. Then she immediately toasts him, so he drinks from his glass. And straight after he drinks, he shares with Roxanne. So there is a definite possibility that this was the moment he was poisoned. In Travis' description, which continues after Hannah's story had finished. Edgar is in the background as Travis takes a bottle from the bar, noticing something strange on his glass. Which ties in with that being the source of the poison. And the last big thing of note in Hannah's story, is that in her fantasy of stopping the wedding, as Aniq noticed, she assumed Edgar's guilt as he ran upon being accused by Travis. So she does know or think she knows that Edgar is committing a crime.
So at this point I suspect Hannah the most. I think she had planned to stop the wedding but once she heard Grace hadn't signed the pre-nup but would sign a post-nup on Monday. She changed her plan to allow the marriage to go ahead and kill Edgar before Grace signed away any spousal entitlements. This way, she not only gets Grace, but they can live on Edgar's money. Because the very, very last big clue in this episode, is that on Hannah's calendar, she had the word "Wedding" written on the date of the following week. And we heard her ask Grace to go on a trip with her, and when Grace pointed out she was getting married, Hannah said, "lets do it the week after." Hinting that she thinks she could just marry Grace the following week, either because she ruined her wedding to Edgar or better yet, he would be dead and Grace would be very rich. Something that could be connected to her constantly pointing out her adopted status, because she assumes she won't stand to inherit her family's wealth.-
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On 7/25/2023 at 9:34 PM, Glade said:
Honestly that is a very tame sex tape, there's no actual nudity in it but are we to believe that Luke played it in order to piss off his father?
I mean it was either that, of he too is under the impression that having a sex tape gets your college offer withdrawn and he was hoping to get rejected from Branson???????
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1 hour ago, tennisgurl said:
My guess is that Edgar doesn't have any idea that his company is engaging in anything sketchy, it his partner who's up to shenanigans, and that might be a motive for murder.
Edgar seems nice, I don't want him to be actually dead. I'm hoping Travis' theory that he faked his death is a misdirect to make us discount the idea of him being alive. Because as the police and paramedics haven't actually confirmed his death, I'm not taking it as a fact that he is definitely dead rather than victim of some "death appearance" substance.
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On 7/18/2023 at 1:04 AM, PurpleTentacle said:
That Gaal made a copy of Hary is a retcon, right? We got no indication that she made one last season.
No. It was shown last season that she put his consciousness in the the knife and made sure to take the knife with her when she got off the Raven.
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22 hours ago, HelloooKitty said:
I thought it was a lizard figurine.
I just went back and checked the scene in Ep 1 with the white chocolate and I couldn't see a lizard figurine on Edgar's desk. But it wasn't a clear shot of the desk, so there could have been one out of the shot. I did notice that Edgar called white chocolate the Bernie Madoff of desserts, which was probably a nod in some way to the crypto scam Travis appears to have uncovered. Though I am assuming it will turn out that someone else, like the Jack Whitehall character was actually responsible for that.
I'm also getting the impression that Edgar's sister is in love with Grace. And I'm wondering if their mother is imbibing small amounts of the poison that killed Edgar and that's why she says random things at times, like her crazy wedding speech.-
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1 hour ago, peachmangosteen said:
I forgot to mention that Megan told Isabella she was gonna pour herself and Isabella a drink but then she actually only put it in Isabella and Luke's cups while Isabella's back was turned. Not sure how that'll come back up.
I'm guessing it's because she had just found out she was pregnant so being careful as she hadn't made a decision about what to do about it?
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This was the stupidest episode by far. It's only saving grace is that it had been pretty stupid up until now, so it going all out stupid isn't a big disappointment.
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On 7/13/2023 at 8:58 PM, Black Knight said:
I remember back then very well. Some people already knew about "no year zero" and others understood once it was explained to them. But a good chunk of the latter just didn't care. To a degree that's what many of the "well, actually" people didn't seem to get, that it's not that people didn't necessarily know or understand, it's that they didn't care. It was just too cool to see the numbers change from 1999 to 2000, and the change from 2000 to 2001 wasn't nearly as exciting, so the former is what people chose to celebrate, even if they knew about "no year zero."
Whenever anyone would 'well actually' me about the 21st century starting in 2001 as there was no year 0. I'd 'well actually' them back as not only was there no year 0 but there was also no year 1, or 2 or 3 or 4 or even 400, as the whole numbering system was retroactively imposed in what then became the early 6th century. And as I distinctly remember everyone happily celebrating the start of the 90s on Jan 1st 1990, we'd have to do 11 years of the 90s if we stuck to applying strict maths to the end of the 20th century and even then the maths was stupid as these were just arbitrary numbers. Humans put them there for our own human reasons, one of which was to have a shared means to mark time, and as we were sharing the sense of the end of 1999 being a momentous occasion, trying to act as if it wasn't really, for reasons that have to do with maths with no actual foundation, was spectacularly missing the point.
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These characters are dumb. Especially Ned. I live in a GMT zone, at 1.15pm on New Years Eve 1999 I called my mum from the train station I was at on my way to a party, and asked her how Australia was doing. She said it was fine, absolutely nothing had happened to the computers, or even the old VCRs. And that was that, we all knew nothing bad would be happening. These characters are in one of the last time zones, at the point they got out of bed that morning, billions of people were already happily living in the year 2000.
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11 hours ago, KaveDweller said:
Anyone remember why everyone thinks this Ned guy is so weird? He seems perfectly nice/normal to me. Worrying about Y2K seems silly now, but it was pretty common at the time, so I don't know why people would hold that against him. And having a cabin in the woods seems a little odd, but Luke and his family have a cabin there too.
He's reclusive, seems shy to the point of barely wanting to speak with people he isn't comfortable with, is very, very security conscious and seemingly randomly shoots his gun at night in the woods. Add to that that everyone knows he's rich in a town where the main rich people, Luke's family, throw their weight around and have their fingers in everything like some kind of Edwardian lord. A reclusive rich guy who moves into his town but shuns him would easily be viewed as a slight threat by someone like Luke's dad. For one, he may be richer and more powerful and he likes being the town big shot. So having everyone think ned is a big weirdo ensures Luke's dad's status.
Someone like Isabella is different, because while her family seem richer and more powerful than Luke's, she's a child who will be gone in a little over a year. Or even better, there was a chance she might have gotten to marry one of his sons and let some of her extra power rub off him. I'm actually surprised we haven't seen Luke's dad be a bit pissed off that Luke went from someone like Isabella to someone like Megan. Though we did see at the Christmas party that he was very much assuming Luke and Megan wouldn't last long. (Which typing that out makes me wonder if he played the sex tape, hoping it would lead to Megan and Luke splitting up. I know it tanked his business deal but maybe he wanted that outcome too.)-
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I'm wondering what's going on with Megan's mother in summer 2000. In the first episode she looked extremely ill in that timeline and it appeared as if Megan had taken on the responsibilities in the home and with her little sister as a result. We also saw her going for her mother's medication. But since then, she's been up and about, seeming every bit as healthy as she is in the other timelines.
I also don't get the constant accusations that she leans heavily on Megan, especially financially, in the earlier timelines. When the plumbing issue happened, Megan offered up her savings and her mother immediately told her no, she needed those for college. That's not how someone who relies on her child working to support the family behaves. Megan needing to work to support her own social life/tech and to save for a financial cushion in college to help with expenses not covered by her scholarship isn't her mother leaning on her. Her mother deciding to get an extra income by taking an exchange student in the airstream isn't her mother leaning on her. Even if her mother is honest that she is doing it because they need the money and Megan is losing the den she has in the airstream. Especially when she has her own, pretty substantial, bedroom. They are treating it as if her mother being straightforward about what they can and can't afford is her leaning on Megan.
I could understand it if this is what is happening in the last timeline where her mother is sick and possibly can't work while having substantial medical bills and needing Megan to do practical tasks in the house. But that was not the case in either 1999 timeline yet it's regularly stated that it is.-
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4 hours ago, RedInk said:
I teach 18yo kids, and I thought it was super gross too. (I’m obviously not the intended audience for the joke.) You can recognize that a kid is basically attractive without BEING attracted to them, and I don’t know any women who would behave like that…fanning themselves & biting their lips over a child coming out of the principal’s office 🤨. Also, just my 2 cents, but that kid looked like a kid - like a run-of-the-mill high school senior. It *might* have been a funnier gag if they’d hired a model who appeared clearly older/more mature, but it’s still ridiculous and was obviously not written by a woman.
This. There's this kid of about 17 that I interact with through a sports club. At some point over lockdown he went from an awkward looking kid to an objectively attractive young "man." It was honestly quite startling to see how he'd changed so a few people did mention it. But not one single adult woman or gay man expressed any attraction to him. So I get what it's like to be surprised by the attractiveness of a teenager but the reaction would be more, "wow, he's actually attractive, huh!" And not "boom chikka wowwa!"
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Everyone is being very unfair about the expelled from school for having sex in the 90s plotline. I distinctly remember a late 90s tv show where a girl did indeed end up expelled from school after having consensual sex with her boyfriend!!!
Although in that show the boyfriend was a cursed vampire and the sex made him lose his soul which culminated in him ordering a murder in the school library which the girl was found in the aftermath of and so expelled. And her expulsion only lasted a few episodes of series 3. But, um, maybe the whole sex>>>>expulsion message got under Megan's skin?-
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That was a really crappy way to end things. Tv seasons can end on a cliffhanger but they still have to complete some sort of arc or else they just feel unfinished. The ending here felt no different to the ending of any other episode. There was no season climax, nothing was built up to, nobody made a momentous decision. Nothing. The characters are still just carried along by the unintended consequences of their episode 1 choice, just as they were in every other episode. The end of episode 7 would even have worked better as ending as that was the death of a recurring character. This just feels like I put a book down halfway through and lost it.
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On 5/24/2023 at 12:51 PM, Schweedie said:
I'm not sure I love Ted's advice to forgive his dad. I get the idea of not doing it for them but doing it for yourself, but there's a difference between forgiving someone and letting go of the pain they caused. It was nice to see that Jamie's dad was in rehab, but Jamie reaching out to him, probably on the back of what Ted said... I don't know how I feel about that.
100%!!!! There is a huge range of possibilities between either being consumed with hurt and anger or forgiving and forgetting. I don't think forgive and forget is the remotely correct thing to do in Jamie's situation. Especially at a point when as far as he knew his dad was still an incredibly abusive, angry drunk. Letting go of your active anger but remembering why you were angry in order to maintain healthy boundaries and moving forward is far better. Especially as people often repeat abusive patterns either by getting in a relationship with another abusive person or being abusive themselves in future relationships. Recognising what triggers you and what your red flags are is essential to ongoing contentment and stability. And that tends to involve not forgetting.
I had an abusive ex husband. I don't carry active hurt and anger but I remember it in a way that I feel mostly detached from. And while I have a relatively civil relationship with him now for the sake of my son, what I feel for him is a mixture of mild contempt and mild pity for the person he could have been and the life he could have had. While also being constantly on guard to prevent him causing any damage to or son.-
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S02.E10: The Last Supper Part One: Appetizer
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People have been wondering throughout their relationship what Che sees in Miranda and I had been wondering that myself. I could understand Miranda's attraction even though Che is/was an awful character, Sara Ramirez/Che does have a charm that can draw people in. But I never understood what the draw was for Che. But after this episode I do. Che is a complete and total narcissist. Miranda's utter simpering devotion and anxious adoration fed Che's ego. It's why Che had a tantrum when Miranda went back to New York for Brady. And probably on a subconscious level, why Che had friends over making noise until 3am night after night when Miranda was getting up at 5. Che thrived on Miranda's devotion and punished her for turning her attention back to her son. And as a bonus, when the relationship ended, Che had 'clueless old confused straight lady' material to twist into a comedy set.