Diapason Untuned

I'm actually becoming genuinely fond of that rat Yabushige. The look on his face when Toranaga dipped had me chortling! Sure, but I feel he's erring on the side of caution. If nothing else, maintaining a courteous relationship with the help won't steer you wrong no matter the era or country.

A better tactic would be to simply tell her that she has classified materials and might go to prison if he doesn't return them. It was also dumb that they let Kentaro go in his room alone. It's not as though the thing suddenly showed up in New York. It was minding its own business and they deliberately killed it. The show acknowledged it with a tongue in cheek joke about good genes.

This reminds me of a similar situation that occurred on the Chair (a Netflix show). A character played by Jay Duplass gets into trouble and instead of laying low for a few weeks as HR recommended, he felt as if he was being put upon and wanted to clear his name which led to things snowballing. I get the same feeling here. From the very beginning Cybil thought she was being unfairly treated and was under attack for no real reason and took that attitude into the interview instead of doing the media savvy thing. Always nice to see a fellow Sleepy Hollow fan! That series was my introduction to Nicole Beharie as well and I've been a fan since then. Still annoys me how that show screwed her over. Same. She just looked so delighted at UBA's troubles. 😂

She's the chairman of the board, I'm not surprised no one said anything about it. They could have brought that up in the interview, but better to keep the focus on Cybil. I have to say, Nicole Beharie did some incredible work on that interview. Real top notch stuff. Cybil did get coaching but Chris was not lobbing any softballs her way. I'm sure that if Alex had given the interview she wouldn't have gone as hard, despite the bad blood between them. It's an unfortunate symptom of our current media landscape that actual hard hitting interviews with serious questions and serious interviewers are a rarity, precisely because media houses are worried about losing access. None of that here.

I've thought all season that everyone involved with the supernatural has been incredibly careless with it. I still remember when they were running around with a demon in a backpack and ended up getting a kid possessed. Now they got someone killed. Poor Alice. Ace is completely right to be pissed at Nancy for what she did. Even if she was trying to help him, not only did she take his choice to remember away from him, she could have lead to Alice never being identified.

This episode brings up a good point that I hope the show follows up on some more, which is how incredibly careless people, even those who supposedly know better, are with the supernatural. Darlene had that demon stored in a cabinet, Ace and Nancy were just walking around with it (around kids, as Ace himself pointed out) and George's sister and her friend were not only trying to show off with the supernatural, they just followed the instruction of a mysterious book without even asking anyone. Avery's dad had a horrible argument, but his kid was endangered there. I just wish the show had the guts to actually let him run with that argument.

People will be dissecting that final part for years. The brilliance of this show is that you simultaneously aren't surprised Shiv screwed Ken over while also being shocked that she did it. I swear if I was Kendall I would never talk to either of those assholes ever again. Tom and Greg have always been colossal shitheads so I can't say I'm glad they're winning. Roman is still a shithead (especially for that last comment about Ken's kids) but at least he seems to have realized he's better off away from all of this. Hopefully Ken will come to the same conclusion. I'm sure the billions will help.

He left the two of them alone for an hour. I think a 15-16 year old could be trusted to watch their sister for that period of time, especially when it wasn't the dad's day to have her over.

Hard disagree here. He left Sophie with her older sister who was completely irresponsible with her. Sarah is old enough to watch her sister for an hour or two

It could be argued that was the right move to make as CEO. Kendall's business acumen is at it's best the colder he is.

I really liked seeing Ken with Frank and Stewy this episode. Easy to forget, but Ken has been in this company for years and has built relationships here, which even resemble something genuine and heartfelt. It was also fun seeing him put his big boy pants on. Number One Boy's a killer now! The way he just nicely eviscerated Tom with that "Good luck" and then put the screws to Hugo... I imagine Logan is enjoying the show from hell. Tom has been such a slimeball recently (or really, always) that it was a delight to watch him get dismantled and scurry around looking for favours. "Here to serve" indeed. This was not Shiv's day. First her ex tries to manipulate her and her brothers leave her out in the cold, and all this when she's pregnant. Just please don't name the kid Logan or Tom! Can't forget Marcia. Came back from the shopping trip like a boss, instantly fleecing her step-kid for millions and putting Kerry out like yesterday's garbage! All in all a spectacular performance!

They did it. They did it and kept it totally quiet to boot. It's only April but I'm confident to call this the greatest episode of television of 2023. Just some first rate acting all around, superb stuff. Every actor brought their absolute A-game.

I know Logan was just manipulating them, but I can't help but think some tiny part of him wanted to hang out with his kids, since he spent the whole day around Tom and Greg. Even his kids would seem cool compared to them. Wasn't that the company helicopter? As shareholders and Board members (?) they're entitled to its use.

I mean she only went to that doctor to interview her about this world's John Henry in the first place, she just happened to tell the truth about her physical condition on the way in.

This reminds me strongly of the whole "Cisco wants to stop being a meta" plot, so it seems the showrunners must been doubting whether Panabaker would return for the final season and hedged their bets.

Gregory makes so much more sense now that we've seen his dad.

It was because he noticed the spy cameras. Muscle memory is a thing. I think her son seemingly being killed, then her grandson dating the leader of his supposed killers and said killers breaking into her house to attack her unprovoked is reason enough. They didn't find his lair, he lured them there to kill them, probably because he viewed them as traitors. Eh, I think they've been lowkey dropping hints about them, especially through this season. Icicle can only control ice, burn him down to steam, there's nothing for him to control.

Cost in sheep must be terrible high That look on Rhaenrya's face at the end does not presage good things though Doubtful. At the end of the day, Aemond obeyed his instructions. There was no bloodshed in his house. He has plenty of deniability, which is what he wanted. Also, am I the only one who thinks Aemond was only upset at the end because he was serious about carving out Luke's eye and Vhagar took that away from him?

Criston Cole: All women are made in the image of the Mother. Also Criston Cole: Spoiled c*** This guy trying hard to get all his points on his incel damn. Plus he got promoted after killing someone at a gathering again. Next thing he's gonna kill Otto and become Hand of the King. Rhaenys is the GOAT! The GOAT I say!

This Cameron thing is seriously going to end badly for Courtney. I mean, Cindy even warned her that his grandma was probably like Icicle, meaning that there's a good chance she was involved, even peripherally in ISA stuff and she still went to his house? She needs to do better. Rick also needs to do better too, I mean he was told not to mess with the limiter and he went and messed with the limiter, geez. That whole time Beth was having that tough but necessary convo with her parents, I was like "Shouldn't this be the other way around normally?" My guy can't enjoy his junk food in peace anywhere.

Honestly I think they told them. The elder brother at least is old enough to keep his mouth shut and the younger will have to grow up quick. Laenor still acknowledged Jace and Luke as his kids even if they aren't and he agreed. Not to mention Daemon is the father of their grandchildren as well. The Velaryons might huff, but he's pretty clearly on Rhaenrya's side. Alicent's opinion of Rhaenrya can hardly get any worse and Viserys, ironically, was pleading for the family to get together, so he can't much complain at this point.

It was the night of the funeral. Give them some time to mourn.

I hate Daemon, but I have to admire that he's got an outfit for the odd occasion he needs a spouse to disappear. Yeah, that silence and his reaction was telling. He knows but he won't actually admit it, whether out of love for his daughter or fear of the war it would start.

I'm not gonna lie, I started guffawing when I saw Aegon jerking one off at the window where Tommen died. I'm deff going to hell for that. 😁 It's easy to get away with shit when you have someone (Alicent) who intercedes for you, Harwin's own dad came around to shout at him and took him off his job for contrast. Criston really fulfilling that old adage that some men should just not have sex, like at all. To be fair, she wanted to see the baby not the mom though that was surely because she wanted to make the withering comment to poor Laenor. She must have thought that burn up months ago.

The mithril story is 100% a Sauron trick. That story was probably planted eons ago for just this eventuality. Man gave up that nice looking table. He must fear for his life.