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AIUI all the male regulars on the original show were gay except Grammer and the dog.

I'm happy for the people who enjoyed this episode, but there's really no comparison to the expert writing of The Ski Lodge. In TSL, it's clear what every character wants, every character gets frustrated, Frasier gets a comeuppance, and even the setups at the beginning are necessary. In this episode, the things characters want don't really matter to *them* personally (Frasier would like Eve and Freddy to happen, but it's not a personal frustration if it doesn't), and some don't have any clearly defined desire (what does Freddy want?). Olivia and Alan are shoehorned in at the top and tail because otherwise the actors are being paid to do nothing, but neither has any relevance to the main action. And in the end, nothing happens, and no one really cares, let's watch some fireworks.

Seems like the fact that no one has started a topic for ep4 is indicative: for me, this season has been just awful. Cringe.

Aya Cash will be in the cast of THE FRANCHISE, starting on MAX October 6. She plays the producer of the latest installment of a superhero franchise. The Guardian had a preview piece that says it's based on the real-life chaos surrounding all these big franchise projects. It sounded fun.

Nope. I would have been as intersted in watching wallpaper.

I guess I'm the only one that didn't love this. I think I've seen too many episodes like it, where a couple of characters take stupid risks in the unfamiliar outdoors...

IME this sort of thing can go either way. I've known people who saw found money as a chance to save or pay a bill...but I've also known people who just want something for themselves for once. The latter is no help longer-term, but I can understand the reaction if you think it's the only time you're going to be able to have a little fun.

Also Freddy in Mad Men. I always love his work.

This episode was written by Lecy Gorenson!

I think this show may have lost me just for the sin of hiring Linda Lavin and killing her off ten minutes in. What a waste!

Not sure when they shot this episode, but Huffman is and has been for the last couple of months in a play in London called HIR. She's very good in it, so finding her way back.

I was also taught to double-space as a child. But computers arrived, and desktop publishing, and the double spaces mess up proportional fonts. I trained myself out of it 30 years ago. If you submit material for publication, there's arguments of professionalism and also not making needless work for editorial staff.

Hm. I love that movie, but BDR was the talent agent for absolute no-hopers, for whom he worked his butt off. Whenever anyone *did* become successful, they left him for a better agent. I don't see a lot of Susie in that.

Is The Addams Family the only show in TV history to be based on a series of New Yorker cartoons?

I know musicians who are still touring full-time in their 80s so don't see why Louise shouldn't be. That said not clear to me why she can't find ways to play locally. Or why she hasn't in all these years.