JudyObscure

I wish they would be clear about Leonard's standing as a cleric at this time. The last time we saw him in prison he was preaching a really inspiring sermon to the other inmates. He had already learned to make his sermons more relevant than the high brow ones he started with in Grantchester, and his prison time was making his messages even more meaningful to people like the homeless. As we saw in this episode people need more than food and a bath, they need hope and a feeling of worth. I'd like to see Leonard with a street front church where he could combine his ministry with the practical help. Being connected with the church would also provide financial backing. His coffee house sure didn't look like it was going to support a free food enterprise all by itself.

Just in this last episode, she was running off in tears when Lucian and Rose's engagement was announced. All along she's pouted through her work, glowering while waiting table, flirting with Lucian, then running away from him when she saw his scars. Millage varies, but I just don't find her appealing at all and I don't think being a good artist makes her any more likeable than anyone else.

I think one unintentional benefit from Gene having to spill his guts to the security guard about his loneliness is that he wont have to taper off on the visits. The big guy will just think Gene is too embarrassed over the meltdown to come back.

Yes, I mean Connie. She's single and she's a mother isn't she?

I don't think he will ever go see Carol Burnett again after the, "We're done," moment with her son and he has nothing at all in common with the security guard, he wouldn't want to have to study the sporting news every day to keep pretending he's a fan -- I personally thought that was the hardest part of the scam. It's time he found a better, more interesting job. Getting hired without references should be an easy trick for Jimmy.

It makes me so sad. Gus is the perfect small local businessman, running a clean family restaurant and serving as a mentor to his young employees. Jimmy was absolutely perfect at elder law, patient with their slowness, understanding their interests, best Bingo caller ever. Why? And I kept asking that why, during this episode when it seemed like so much energy for the small payoff of some designer clothes. That was before I understood the need to have federal charges hanging over Jeff's head. Once again I muttered to myself, "No one ever called Jimmy lazy." Maybe working that scheme was the first time Gene felt alive since he got there.

I thought we'd learn more about who Bella was writing to. I thought it might be a dear friend or something. I know we're supposed to love Lucian because his parents are pushing him into marriage, but he's old enough to spare Rose and Constance the pain, if he can't do it for himself.. I know we're supposed to love Constance because she's a single mother, but I find her very unattractive and sorry for herself. I know we're supposed to love Claudine because she's African American, but she was having impulsive sex with strangers while living with the art dealer and she must have known he was married for quite sometime, but came over all outraged when she shouted about his having a wife in front of everyone. Her great words of wisdom always sound more know-it-all than sisterly to me. She certainly wasn't very sisterly to art-dealer's wife. At least we're not supposed to like Cecil or Mrs. Drummond so that's easy. I guess that leaves Bella and Rose, and I'm just sort of meh about them.

Hear, hear! I despise that sort of self-centered theology. If Mrs. C really thinks cancer is a punishment from God then she must have had a whole lots of judgmental, holier-than-thou thoughts about her friends who fell ill over the years. I also find it hard to understand it when a strong believer curses God the way she did. That would scare me any time, particularly just before an operation. I still felt very sorry for her when she was sobbing in the kitchen. I liked this episode, Leonard and Geordie are my favorites. I particularly like any interaction between Geordie and Miss Scott -- not being a fan of Kathy's, I can't help but enjoy the little signs of attraction. Will's little funeral sermon at the end, about not looking away from the homeless, was the sort of little final lessons they used to have on the show and I had missed that.

Thanks Sharifa's mom! That's why I brought it up. I can still remember the first time I saw a woman dressed in a suit and heels but no hose. I was as shocked as I would have been if a man had walked in wearing a suit and tie but no shirt. I honestly thought she might be mentally ill. Another anachronistic thing about Bonnie is the obviously bleached hair with an inch of black roots. Just no. You might have seen that on one of the madam's working girls, but not on Bonnie. I don't mean to pick on Bonnie, I like her, I just think if the show is going to be set in the 1950's they should try to get it right. Maybe check first with Sharifa's mom!

We really saw that at the end of last season. Kim and Jimmy were in bed talking about doing something really horrible to Howard and then Jimmy laughed and said something like, "We're just kidding right? We aren't really going to do this are we?" and Kim turned around and shot her air guns and said, "Just watch me." (Paraphrasing.) Jimmy's smile got a little shaky. I think he knew then he had to do it to please her. We just didn't want to believe it.

I saw nothing immoral in forcing a man to sell his home when he bought it for less than market value with the understanding that he might have to sell it back at some time. In our world certain adjectives seem to bring a big "moral" advantage to some people and make anything you do to their disadvantage seem immoral, but it often is not. People need to make the loan payments they agreed to when they signed a promissory note. They need to pay the rent and utilities before buying that fun stuff, if the bank or the car dealership comes after them later they aren't immoral just because the person they're collecting from happens to be a single mother, old person, sick person or minority member, etc. We can hope help comes for them through the morals of friends, family, churches and charities, but that doesn't make the big institutions immoral. If they operated according to who had the biggest sob story they would soon fail and hurt far more people in the process. So no. I didn't think Kim was living an immoral life while working for Mesa Verde and I'm not sure she was always on the side of good with her pro bono work. She might find herself working hard to get child custody returned to a mother only to find out she abused the child. She might believe allegations of spousal abuse that later proves to be false. It's not always easy to determine the right moral choice in any job. Back to Jimmy and his moral choices, everyone seems to forget that, by all accounts his father was a wonderful, kind, generous man. The same sex parent is considered to be the strongest influence in anyone's life. I never understood why Jimmy was willing to toss out that example and live by the motto of a lying thief who passed through. {sorry cross posted with Bannon]

Well I'm glad you did because it got us that picture of the Great Dane, one of my favorite breeds. I just want to hug his head so bad,

LOL I thought Maya's fiance had found out and punched him. I expect she's got that stuffy guy convinced she's a virgin, saving herself for him on the wedding night. I'm not a priest, but I've watched a lot on the TV and even I know that if you want to pray for something in church you kneel in the pew. If it's really super important you kneel before the altar and if you are in absolutely gut wrenching agony and you want to make a big display of humility you prostrate yourself! Sidney was so much better at angst. Will's big open face with the boyish grin just doesn't fit the part for me in any way.

Do what I do, Lalo. Watch TCM most of the time. Pretend it's 1940.

What was unrealistic to me was Francesca standing so close to Jimmy knowing how much she disdains him. Speaking of good women gone bad through association with Jimmy. I loved the early Francesca who was happy to talk about Cracker Barrel all day with the old folk. ---------------------------------------- I thought Gus left the bar because, in the silence, the darkness of his other life swept over him and he could no longer sit there and enjoy pleasant conversation about beautiful vineyards. They were all feeling the aftershock of the last few days and finding it much harder to compartmentalize their lives. I noticed Mike didn't seem to be ready to see his granddaughter yet.

I've been watching random ones they throw out on the site. Today it's "Cock-a-doodle-doo," and just as you've all been saying, we see some man start to get more and more angry and out of control, (this time over who owns the driveway) so the neighbor's response is to throw trash in the yard and have wild, loud parties every night -- even though they couldn't pay the rent. This one has an interesting narrator in Suzanne, a sad woman who was only slightly involved but suffered the most.

Except that she is. He apparently only sees them on Saturday and then he "forgets" that it's his day with the kids and doesn't have anything planned for them to do. If Geordie quits paying the mortgage and giving Cathy and the kids regular money, I'll believe that she's raising them by herself.

Mr. Vargas is the best. You could see how shocked Mike was to hear himself lumped in with all the other gangsters. This wonderful show! We watch endless crime dramas and always see the "winners" of the shoot outs walk away looking smug. Only here do we see the shock and horror clouding over those winners in the days and weeks after, not only civilians like Kim and Jimmy, but even hardened Mike couldn't concentrate on his baseball and Gus can't enjoy a light conversation over his expensive wine. Kim is the most complicated, well written female character I've seen on TV, with some of the Mad Men women running close behind. I go along with the "broke good" theory. She's brilliant and has endless energy, she could be a pediatric surgeon by now.

I watched it a second time with your words in my head and, yeah, Kathy's ridiculous with her , "I'm raising four kids by myself!" as if Geordie didn't exist and she wasn't making him stay away. Bonnie is also about 50 years ahead of her time, wearing her dresses with no slip, garter belt or hose, and we have yet to reach the age where we feel free to do hand stands in public while wearing a dress.

Everybody seems to think that's unbelievable, but just sitting here, I can remember three different men who proposed to me after the first date. (I refused to go out with any of them again.) I think it ties in with the theme of the episode that men are the true idiotic romantics who meet a woman that fits their personal fantasy life and superimpose all sorts of great qualities on them. It was always after they got to know me that they lost interest.

Well it was nice to see Charlotte Richie (Bonnie) again after her sad death on "Call the Midwife." I guess the actress is type cast as Vicar's wife. I feel sure she's being set up as the true-love, nice girl for Will. I'm guessing we're done with the wild one -- at least until she shows up at the police station now and then to make Will look sad. I can't take many more scenes of lying on the sofa while playing sad music, it's so teenage. Cathy had better soften up and take Geordie home pretty soon or she might lose him to Miss Scott. I feel some sparks there. I liked the mystery at the brothel and the lessons the men got about what fools they can be.

Yes! I hadn't really thought of that. They all see themselves as royalty of some sort -- not for nothing are they know as drug Lords. You could hear it in Lalo's absolute outrage that people dared attack him in his home! Crossing the moat into his castle and killing his favorite servants! So, of course, like the Mafia of the last century they glorify themselves with long speeches about honor and loyalty. Lalo wanted to record Gus's bitter last words before he killed him, so he could play them for Hector later as they laughed and celebrated their victory.

Yes, and it still is although, with churches following social attitudes the way they do, it's now more of a case of pre-marital sex is a sin but we forgive it instantly and look the other way as fast as we forgive Judy Obscure's obvious sin of gluttony. But the fifties were very different and nice young women were expected to dance like ladies and save sex, until he put a ring on it, if not until the wedding night. Even if he got drunk and fell into bed with a sexy woman, a young vicar like Will probably wouldn't have respected a woman who had sex on the first date and definitely wouldn't have been thinking he had found The One. I like Mrs. MacGuire in the early episodes because she reminded us of the conventions of the period and what other older women in the congregation would be thinking. I think we could have seen her growth as a more open minded loving person without having to lose every bit of that. What happened to the woman who was shocked over red lipstick?

If she told them who it was.

Where did I suggest she fight Lalo? I'm talking about going to the police. She wasn't in a state of panic if she could drive and follow written directions at the same time. It doesn't take thirty minutes to say, "My husband is being held hostage by a man with a gun who says he will shoot him if I call the police or don't get back in 45 minutes." She doesn't have to go into the whole story about why until later. Blaming the victim? The victim would be the dead man at Gus' Fringe's house. I'm hearing a lot of "sure it's okay to kill someone if your family is in danger." That's not blaming the victim that's excusing the murderer. That's how the Salamancas and Walter White think, in their minds it's all okay because it's for family.