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orza

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  1. I took it to mean that he is moving out of the family home next week, maybe into a rental with a Feb. 1st lease begin date. The wife sounds pretty bitter and we don't know any details so who knows how accurate her version is. Season 3 of Harrow starts airing in February and season 4 will probably start production soon, so it could be that his new abode is in Australia since he spends 6 months of the year there anyway for work.
  2. Independent films operate with much smaller budgets than big studio productions. They cannot afford all the extra measures that need to be put in place to protect everyone's health and they can't get insurance to cover it. CGI is expensive. Any kind of bubble model is also expensive. Large studios will absorb the expenditures as the cost of doing business nowadays.
  3. Writers are not involved in casting and contract negotiations and have no say in who gets hired. They may or may not know what other projects actors are involved in. Even if they do know, it's irrelevant. Their job is to write the show the network wants.
  4. Both of those actresses were recurring guest stars, which entails no obligation to be exclusive to the show. While they may have signed on for a specific number of episodes, they are free to take any other work they can get. As recurring guest stars it was clear their story lines would most likely come to an end once they had fulfilled their contractual obligations.
  5. Holidays are typically not big TV days. Lots of other factors affect ratings, too, like unseasonably warm weather, really bad weather, major sports events, natural disasters, etc, etc. Due to the fact that pilot season and the May upfronts are not happening this year, networks will most likely renew all their current shows so they can start production as soon as it is safe to.
  6. The first series was filmed in Birmingham. Production moved to Belfast for the same reason as many other shows film there - lower production costs. There have been enough in-show references to local geography etc to place it in the Midlands. I can see the logic to setting the show in a fictional city since it deals with police corruption at all levels. Setting it in a real city could lead to some people jumping to conclusions that it is some sort of roman-à-clef and publically speculating which real-life people in law enforcement correspond to which characters in the show. That in turn could lead to libel suits and lots of the wrong kind of drama.
  7. The show is set in a fictional unnamed city somewhere in the Midlands, possibly near Birmingham based on some in-show references to actual motorways and major roads. It's supposed to be a big city so people working in one precinct wouldn't necessarily know and gossip with people in other precincts about a new person who moves on after a short time. Plus Kate is pretty generic looking and uses a different name and legend each time she goes undercover so it's unlikely that people would make any connection.
  8. I doubt Shy would be angry with Reggie. The two of them go way back and Reggie didn't know that Midge knew Shy was gay. Midge is an adult who chose to break her promise and betray Shy's trust. That is not on Reggie. Shy is a seasoned performer in show business, the operative word there being business. Both Shy and Reggie knew that Shy needed a good opening act for his tour and it would be a bad business decision to fire Midge before lining up a replacement for her. Ensuring a successful and profitable tour is more important in the long term than than reacting emotionally in the heat of the moment without thinking through the consequences. That's something teenagers might do but not businessmen who are serious about their careers. It is more likely that Reggie used the time while Shy was taking a break to audition performers and negotiate a contract for an opening act to replace Midge and waited until he had a signed contract and the performer on the plane before cutting Midge loose. If the new act couldn't join the tour for, say, another two weeks Reggie probably would have let Midge board the plane and then fired her when her replacement showed up to join the tour. That makes business sense.
  9. No one is debating the legality of what Midge did. Shy revealed something very personal to Midge and she promised to keep that a secret, something that back then could possibly be career-ending if it became public knowledge or might even get him killed in the Deep South. Midge knew the risk for Shy but nevertheless leveraged that information to get some cheap laughs on stage. That is despicable and speaks volumes about her character. I don't think Midge was clueless about it, she is just amoral in that regard. She uses whatever information comes her way as a punchline in her act when it suits her without regard for the human cost. We have consistently seen since season one that Midge is a self-absorbed jerk. When she is onstage she wants to get laughs and anything she can use is a means to that end. We see time and time again that what comedians say on-stage tends to reflect what kind of human beings they are off-stage. Bob Newhart and Louis CK come to mind. The audience was not appalled by Midge's act because they didn't take any of it seriously. Shy's public image was that of a lady's man and that is what people believed. People love to laugh at things about other people that they know or believe to be patently untrue. The ridicule is just perceived as people being silly. Think of celebrity roasts or even best man speeches at weddings. It only gets uncomfortable or disturbing when people think there is some truth to it.
  10. There's a general detective thread in the Genre TV and a British TV recommendations thread in the Everything Else TV forum to talk about shows that are not Shetland.
  11. I don't see anything bizarre about her Instagram post that would indicate she needs help. It would appear Afton is quite emotional from the outpouring of support from fans. That's understandable. She also appears to be a spiritual person. Good for her if she can draw strength from her faith. The only thing I find disturbing, albeit unsurprising, about all this is that we still have a show runner who is too stupid or too arrogant or too uncaring or too something to do the right thing when Afton came to him with a complaint.
  12. The entire season 6 aired on ITV back in February.
  13. Anyone can start a topic. Just follow the standard format for episode titles to avoid confusion.
  14. Those are not TV bloopers, though. The advertising air time is sold in advance and commercials are produced independent of the show content. While it may make for an odd juxtaposition it is not a production mistake in the show.
  15. I thought the setup for the rest of the season was clear. Marcus will delay his departure to the Marshal service and step in as acting precinct caption while Gregson is recovering and Joan and Sherlock will return to New York to solve the attempted murder. The fact that it was mentioned several times that Marcus only has a few more days on the force makes it clear that he isn't going anywhere. Yeah, i was pretty obvious they reused the same sets.
  16. If Henry and Stevie continue working for Conrad and Russell there will be story lines for them, with the rest of the characters working in the campaign. Bess can still jump in as the occasional special envoy, presidential advisor or secret negotiator to keep her relevant in government story lines. This might even open up more opportunities for Bess to work off the books with Foreign Minister Chen. He's a great character to keep around.
  17. While the exact circumstances of this episode are unrealistic, the premise that a coral island can be wiped out in a single day due to severe weather and storm surges caused by climate change is reality. The obliteration of East Island was widely reported in the media on October 24th and 25th of last year. If we count backwards from the air date in March, this episode was written sometime around late November/early December. I don't think that's just a big old coincidence. I find all of the climate change story lines on the show are pretty much ripped from the headlines, or at the very least strongly influenced by real-world science and natural disasters that have actually occurred. I'm always surprised when people comment that they think these stories are exaggerated and the effects of climate change are not as bad as portrayed.
  18. When I adjust the screen width to get rid of the side bar the tabs, menus, breadcrumbs, notification and email icons, in other words pretty much everything disappears from the top of the screen. This means I can only have the layout I want with reduced functionality. Will that be fixed? On my homepage I see a side bar with links to threads for random shows I don't follow. That is not helpful. How can I hide that, aside from making the window narrower? I also see this side bar when I go into a forum, but it just lists the same threads I see on the left side of the screen. This is redundant. The bottom section of my home page shows 23 forums. I only follow one of those. How can I hide the other forums that I'm not interested in seeing? They take up a lot of screen real estate. I know I can collapse the whole section, but that hides the one forum I want to see on my customized home page. Switching back and forth from my home page to followed content to read one forum is not a practical solution. The one good thing about that section is the check marks on the left that let me mark a whole section as read. Very handy feature. This is missing the the TV shows section. The old customized home page had this functionality with a bubble next to each letter of the alphabet. Will that functionality be coming back? When reading a thread, is there any way to make the left hand section showing the user names and time stamp of posts narrower? It takes up a lot of screen real estate that would be put to better use in the middle section where the actual content is.
  19. Andrews is a plastic surgeon. That was established last season in the pilot. Lim is a trauma surgeon. That was stated in an episode this season.
  20. Sometimes a kiss doesn't mean anything. It was in the moment and when the moment passed it was nothing. If I recall correctly, it was a drunken kiss. Casual kisses happen and adults should be able to take them in stride and move on. Lea and Shaun were never anything approaching a couple or even a potential couple. Lea moved to Pittsburgh specifically to work in her father's business. She didn't leave Shaun, she made a career and family-related decision and she came back because the business went bankrupt, not because of Shaun. Lea spelled it out why she was moving to Pittsburgh. There was nothing confusing or ambiguous about her reasons. She doesn't have to take the feelings of her neighbor, whom she sometimes hangs out with, into account when making life decisions. Not everything other people do has to be all about Shaun.
  21. Modern business email and scheduling software allows a user to grant other users read or read/write access to their mailbox and calendar for just this purpose. My assistant has almost full access to my Exchange account and schedules meeting for me all the time. She also responds to some email on my behalf. Of course, I still have access to my mailbox and calendar on my laptop and phone and see all reminders. We see Bess using her computer and checking her phone on many episodes. She is computer literate. There is no reason to assume she does not have the ability to look at meeting and appointment reminders herself but instead must rely on Blake to tell her everything. I suppose Blake could set a different audio tone for his firing reminder if he wanted to but I don't really see the point of doing that.
  22. When Bess first told Blake she would fire him in six months he asked if he should put it on her schedule. Bess replied "Please do."
  23. This show was made for British TV so I don't see an issue. They don't have to write the dialog from an American perspective. The police looking for suspects on the train were all British. India and Pakistan are located in Asia so describing the suspects as Asian is not incorrect.
  24. Sure, the patient could sue. It happens all the time and juries tend to be sympathetic and award high damages, even though the patients signed consent forms acknowledging the risks. Hospitals would rather settle without admitting wrongdoing than risk the bad publicity and higher cost of a trial. There were several episodes last season that had B plots dealing with scenarios of settling to avoid worse. Patients can opt for experimental procedures if they want to but doctors can most certainly decide whether they are willing to take on the risk and liability of performing those procedures. It is not for Claire to decide what Melendez should or should do and then create a contentious situation to force the issue. That speaks to her character and it's not saying anything good. Clare thinks of herself as a victim of her mother's narcissistic manipulations, but she is looking more and more like her mother. She uses people to get what she wants and doesn't care about the fallout for others. Convincing herself that she is "just trying to help" or she "means well" is not an excuse for her deeply unethical behavior. She is one of these horrible amoral people who masquerades as a good person.
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