Quilt Fairy

Why not? Aren't we all here for Capote? I'd wager few people outside of NY society have ever heard of the swans before.

Capote and Infamous both cover the research and writing of In Cold Blood, with slightly different takes using different source material. Infamous is based on the book of the same name by George Plimpton, and is the more gossipy version. I like them both.

"Several means seven." Umm, no.

I'm really surprised that Harry didn't turn Joseph into the General. I kept thinking that he would walk out Harry's door and Linda Hamilton would be standing there with a bunch of guys with guns and an alien-holding paddy wagon.

Because that's how it was advertised. Personally, I'm not interested in a never-ending war drama. One episode as background, OK. But (so far) four episodes out of ten? Too much.

28 years, not 18.

I have now seen additional articles where they say it will be a brief trip to LA before they circle back to to NYC. So, maybe 2-3 episodes at most? Just guessing. Remember, they're investigating Sazz's murder, and that happened at the Arconia.

I don't think he needs the money.

Checked out the IMDB link. That's not the movie, although there appear to be a lot of similarities. The one I'm thinking of is probably mid-late 2000's and stars an actress who plays a psychologist who moves to a somewhat remote community (PNW or Alaska). Under hypnosis, a lot of her patients report seeing an owl at the window as they're sleeping. Eventually she comes to believe they're being abducted and the large eyes of the owls are actually the large of eyes of aliens. Undoubtedly Grays. (You know, the assholes.) Found it! Who knew googling "owls aliens movie" would be so productive? It's The Fourth Kind. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220198/

There is a movie whose name I can't remember where people remember an owl at the window and it turns out they've been abducted by aliens. I assumed that was what the show was referencing.

I don't have the link, but in the last week or so I read an interview with an ABC exec (I think, could have been a Disney exec) who said they were happy with the viewing numbers for the broadcast airings as well as the number of people who later went to Hulu to watch the rest of the seasons. So, yes.

Toby Jones has had some bad luck portraying famous people. In 2005/6 his excellent turn as Capote in Infamous was overwhelmed by Phillip Seymor Hoffman's Oscar winning performance as Capote in Capote. (Both of these movies focus on Capote's research and writing of In Cold Blood.) Then, in 2012, he was Alfred Hitchcock in The Girl (about the making of The Birds) In the same year Anthony Hopkins was Hitchcock in Hitchcock (about the making of Psycho). Jones had to be thinking "What are the odds of it happening twice?"

I'm finding this series incredibly boring, something which I never thought I'd say about Truman Capote. I like the idea of Capote vs Gore Vidal, I think that would have been a more appropriate feud, similar to Davis vs Crawford. I think I'm out.

I'm trying to figure out how the Coast Guard not only found but identified a naked body as Navarro's sister within an hour or two on Christmas Eve. Or do they have 6th sense, too?

Should I point out the obvious? James (actually Alf) served in the RAF. No need for vets in the air force.

It was from a law firm saying that her husband would not contest the divorce.

But that wasn't for this past season, right? The Emmys were delayed by the writers strike.

Agreed, but perhaps the frequent reruns of S1 lately (and S1 only, as far as I can tell) were meant to get everyone on board. I've also read articles that the producers specifically wanted more of the supernatural vibe that was present in S1, but not S2 or S3. I mean, when S1 first aired, people did analyze the hell out of the "Yellow King" and other references like that. But in the end, it was just a detective story. True Detective was always meant to be an examination of how horrific crimes affect the lives of the policemen and policewomen trying to solve them. I think Jodie Foster is terrific in this, but they're trying to force a lot of sub-plots into a short, 6 episode season.

I only caught this because I had the closed captioning on and because they've been rerunning Season 1 a lot lately. For those who don't know what we're talking about, Rose says that Travis's name is "Travis Cohle" and Matthew McConaughey's character in Season 1 (who hails from Alaska) is "Rustin (Rust) Cohle". I think Rust's mother was dead, so it's unlikely to be Rose. I was, however, waiting for her to make a proclamation that "time is a flat circle". Though "Ennis is where time and space are coming apart at the seams" is pretty good, too.

The show won 2 awards at the 2024 Emmys Monday night. From the New York Times: John Oliver Changes Categories But Keeps Winning

Scrabble is now officially banned in Florida.

I was afraid she wouldn't restart!

Which will be next Christmas for us in the States. ***sigh***

I thought it was kind of, well, "scattered" is the best word I can think of. Too many plot threads and they weren't really coherent. The ending was lovely, though. Sorry. It was the PBS station in Chicago. In the future I will add the caveat that PBS stations program individually.

I should have said Christmas Eve Day. We've got Creatures on in the evening as well.