Milburn Stone

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.

Just read an item that this is the biggest opening days that a Sony movie has had on Netflix ever.

Was the title of this episode a response of sorts to Everything Everywhere All at Once? Also, the different paintings that accompany the episode titles at the beginning...Are those works of art that the show creators found somewhere, or are they created expressly for the show? The one this week looked really disturbing, at least as I could make it out in the time it was on the screen.

Loved/hated the scene where Jordan looks around their house with disgust. I knew it was coming and yet when it came it still killed me. Maria Bello was perfect.

Kind of agree, but I find myself caring much more about Annika's ongoing story than the mystery of the week, so not a problem for me.

I think maybe their transportation, in lieu of burned bus, was by way of a boosted vehicle?

In the season finale, we were confused by the ending. OK, so I get that Assane and Pellegrini are in adjacent cells. I think the letter Assane is reading is from Pellegrini, and is Pellegrini also reading a letter from Assane? Are we meant to know anything about what the letter(s) say? Or does the audience merely know that Assane looks consternated, without us knowing what in the letter caused this? Maybe we're meant to infer that the letter contains a threat against his family? Or maybe (I'm inferring again) Pellegrini is saying "let's become allies and we can break out of this joint"? (But then I'd think Assane would be smiling.) Any and all help appreciated.