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The po-lice one is also part of the classic Baltimore accent. Looking back on my years growing up there, I notice that the accent was to be found in every neighborhood, but not shared by everybody in those neighborhoods. And I couldn't tell you what the factor was that made some people have it and others not. (I've been running the factors through my mind and not one is 100% predictive. Years of education? Kind of but not totally predictive. Economic status? Same. I think maybe the strongest factor is "both parents born and raised in Baltimore and never left.")

I know I've lately heard it used improperly but I can't call to mind the contexts. My understanding of its proper use is that "anymore," as one word, is time-related, referring to a thing that happened routinely but doesn't happen now. When the meaning is not "when"-related but "how-much"-related, the adverb needs to be split into two words, "any more." (E.g. "I don't go to that restaurant any more than you do." "I don't go to that restaurant anymore." Both are correct in their respective contexts.)

Matched only by the expats who come home and rag on the place they left. 😄

Who should turn up in S2E2 of Endeavour but Anya Taylor-Joy!

My form of surrender was to, against my will, allow email notifications for the threads I follow. I get one email a day listing new content in these threads, including Detective and Mystery Shows.

I've never seen the beloved Inspector Morse either. Thanks for clearing up for me that Endeavour is a prequel! For some reason, I thought Endeavour was a sequel, i.e., Endeavour Morse is the son of Inspector Morse. (But since he never has mentioned having a detective father in the episodes I've seen, I guess that doesn't make much sense.) I like knowing that he's going to grow up to be a beloved detective. :)

A heads-up. Through sheer luck I returned to finish up watching the final season a couple of nights ago, and saw "Expires Monday" as a little tag in the corner of the show's avatar on Hulu. So if you still have episodes to watch, it would seem you have 48-72 hours to watch them.

Michael turns up in the new season of Shetland! (Looking very different. But his voice made me know him instantly.)

He's irreplaceable. But...I really enjoyed the first episode of S8. So make of that what you will.

In all the preceding seasons, I never noticed that there were no trees!

I'm being blown away by S1 of Endeavour. Just saw the one with the clever serial homicidal maniac. Wow!

When it comes to the look and feel of the show, I'd only say this. We finished S2 last night, and when it was over, I realized something. I realized that when I'm watching this show, I believe in Heaven and Hell, and angels and demons. I just accept that vision of the cosmos. That's how persuasive the show's execution of its vision is.

At first I thought Verna might be the Devil. Then I thought she might be Death. But by the end, I thought she was God. A compassionate God. A God who weeps when the innocent die. A God who (unlike the Devil) wants his creatures to be moral. Verna offers her humans a deal, not because she wants them to take it, but because she wants them not to.

Phew. I thought it was just me.

Flanagan is so brilliant. I can imagine him saying when they mapped out the whole season, "you know what will be fun, let's do a Black Mirror but with real mirrors!" I think I am more afraid of having a shard of glass in the sole of my foot than being doused with flesh-eating acid.

I knew she was dead, and that Vic's phone messages to her were either alibi-setting or denial, but I did not see the device-implant coming. Wow. Perfect. (And maybe the truest to Poe of the episodes so far.) 😂

Chloe Troast was great. Sarah Sherman didn't get a lot of funny to actually do in her sketch and yet she's the one that made the sketch work IMO.

It's not just you-ish. I am enjoying the show quite a lot. But I have to admit it reduces the stakes for me when I realize that whichever character I get interested in is going to be dead tomorrow.

I find I use Watch TCM to satisfy a particular predilection. I love the beginnings of movies. Those main titles that promise so much, with their graphics and musical underscoring. Those first scenes after the titles that establish the milieu of the story--the big city, the barren west, idyllic small town America, or what have you. Every movie is a 5-star movie up through that. Then the first lines of dialogue come in, and you know you've already seen the best the movie has to offer, and you move on. In the unusual circumstance that the movie continues to deliver, you know you're in the presence of a good one. But all the ones that die with those first lines of dialogue--you'll always have those first five minutes. I can spend an hour just watching one movie beginning after another.

I come here to learn words like this! Re the show, we watched it because earlier today my cousin told us to. (His words: "It's better than it has a right to be.") We love it!

When I saw the thread title I thought it said Gore Vidal.

Haven't seen it since it came out, but I liked it.

I didn't mind this location. Might be time for a "refresh" in any case. Half the time I thought the previous set was green-screened anyway. I just don't think it has to do with expense, since Alicia and Dave's sets looked like green-screen to me anyway. And I don't mind them sharing a set with Ben. It subliminally elevates them to his level. In truth they are both better than Ben, so at least they have achieved parity!

Agree with everyone that it was better than expected. I even liked Matthew Broderick!

I don't want there to be legal consequences for anyone but Isaac, and therefore there won't be.