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  1. I finally got around to binging this on Showtime. It took me a little bit of time to get back into the Lynchian headspace, as it's been a while since I've watched anything of his. It did make sense to me that the show started with Cooper in the Lodge and that it was mostly about his getting out and back to himself. As much as I have affection for the Twin Peaks characters, I didn't particularly see where most of them could go anyway, so I wasn't upset that there wasn't the soap opera stuff of the TV series and that this was mostly about Cooper's journey out of the predicament he was in the last time we'd seen him, 25 years before. Early Dougie was hard for me because I suffer secondhand embarrassment easily, but once he was able to start being effective in his own weird way, the storyline got a lot more enjoyable. I'm fascinated by the idea that Cooper actually succeeded in pulling Laura out of that universe before she was murdered, but then of course the Black Lodge got involved and kidnapped her and stuffed her into a timeline where the year is unknown. I read through the vaulted TP threads and there was some thinking expressed there that Cooper trying to save Laura was an example of Cooper trying to do too much, being messianic - and essentially that it was obviously a mistake for him to try to do that. But we don't know what Laura whispered into Cooper's ear at the start of S3, and I think it's significant that a snapshot of that moment was the image that S3 closed on. Cooper might have been acting on some information she whispered to him. Man, I really wish I knew what happened next...maybe someday.
  2. I agree in principle, but it's likely that Kristin Davis wanted the body double. From what I've read, most actresses who are in a position to ask for a body double choose to do so, and Davis as a show lead and producer certainly has that power. If Davis is uncomfortable being filmed like that, it'd be wrong to make her. Her body is fine, but social media is vicious and there would be a lot of awful comments anyway, and Davis has already been through that with the remarks about her face. So I would understand her not wanting to put her body up for scrutiny too.
  3. There was no camera taking a picture every 60 seconds. It's a security system where the door and window sensors let the server "know" that the doors and windows are all still closed like they're supposed to be, and if not, then the house gets locked down. And for that, you want date and time stamps. It's important evidence if someone breaks in. I wasn't surprised Luke threw Isabella under the bus. After all, in the car, he claimed that he'd thought Isabella was feeling it too. But Isabella had just got done telling Luke that she didn't regret breaking up with him so Megan could have him. He tried to gaslight Isabella, so of course he then went and threw her under the bus. I did not miss Luke's dad or brother in the last episode. Whoever drowned Luke should feel free to drown them too.
  4. I honestly don't think that's what Cynthia Nixon means. The cameo by all accounts is a short one - hence, "cameo." She's right that if fans go in thinking it's going to be a longer appearance, they'll come away disappointed. She's also not wrong that it's unfortunate that the cameo leaked; if it hadn't leaked, fans would have simply been delightedly surprised when Samantha appeared onscreen. Instead, there will be people who will be disappointed when the scene turns out to be like 30 seconds of Samantha onscreen. It's not about worrying that fans will want more of Samantha in future seasons; Kim Cattrall has already stated that this cameo is it and she's done. And when you look at all the restrictions she put on the cameo, it's obvious that she couldn't come back for any kind of actual storyline.
  5. I did read an interview with him before this season was dropped in which he was upfront about it, so I knew going in and wasn't surprised. I think the problem is that in this expansive media universe no interview is going to be read by everyone. Some people like to scour for everything they can find about a show or celebrity or whatever that they're interested in; some are more casual and will read or view what they happen to come across, but won't specifically search; and others either don't care at all about reading/viewing outside related media content or prefer to go in unspoiled. Maybe Black Mirror can do an episode about that next season! That would certainly be tech-related. As for this episode, I really enjoyed it. The two leads were great. So Boney M is real? I'm going to have to check out some of their music. Also, this episode makes an interesting bookend with Knock at the Cabin - a film adaptation of the Tremblay novel that was released at the start of this year, and for which I then read the book after seeing the movie.
  6. That's true! And let us not forget "Donna Martin Graduates!"
  7. He said he stopped watching when he saw Luke on the tape, because he didn't want to watch his brother having sex. I think Brent is a sleaze and a liar, but that does seem plausible enough. I think a lot of guys would not consider that jerk-off material.
  8. Yes, covid testing for some jobs still exists. My best friend was required to take a covid test upon arrival at the summer camp where she's teaching for two weeks.
  9. At least now it makes sense why Megan remains so insecure about Luke and Isabella in the winter timeline. Luke didn't make a choice between the two girls; Isabella just walked away. Sure, doubtless Luke has said something to Megan about how he really prefers her, and that may even be true, but since he didn't leave Isabella for her, Megan can't be sure she's his first choice. In contrast, Megan actually left Chet for Luke. To boot, Isabella and Luke both come from money, and we can see how Megan feels like Isabella and Luke understand each other in that way, and do not understand her.
  10. Yeah, they fooled me. When I read "surprise visit from her past" in the episode description, I assumed we'd be meeting Lisa. Instead she's dead! This season has been uneven so far, but between last week's pregnancy reveal and this week's Lisa reveal, they do do a good job with the cliffhanger shockers. Megan is such a sourpuss that I roll my eyes at how everyone is super interested in her. But I did agree with her that her pregnancy being leaked to the newspapers is a last straw where Isabella is concerned. I know it was technically Isabella's lawyer who leaked it, but Isabella has had a loose mouth at least once already. And of course Isabella on her way out the door tells Debbie there's something else Megan is hiding and where to find it. Definitely not a person to be trusted as far as the secret-keeping goes. It was nice to have a break from Luke's brother and dad. I'll be interested to see if Luke just goes along with Isabella passing him off to Megan, or if he at least kicked up a bit of a fuss first, just on general principle that he does have a say too?
  11. Please be sure to use Che's/Sara Ramirez's correct pronouns, they/them.
  12. I freely admit I don't want to go back and rewatch to confirm, so I could be wrong, but I vaguely recall the summer 1999 timeline had some sort of confirmation that they were involved. The thing with Megan's parents seemed like a one-off rather than something ongoing - like for some reason he came to see her, she fell back into old feelings, and they kissed. So I didn't view it as something that meant that she wasn't already seeing Steve by then. Particularly since she and Steve don't exactly seem locked down - we haven't heard them say they love each other, for instance, have we? And we can see that they're not engaged or married or living together on a permanent basis. I can easily see Debbie having a makeout session with her ex while being involved with Steve. Setting aside the theory that it's Isabella Megan is really into (whether platonically or romantically) for a minute, just to explore another possibility that we did get support for in this episode: People can feel very uncomfortable with the idea that they owe someone else too much, and sometimes will turn on that person for that reason. Some people do not like to feel grateful. Megan wouldn't accept a dime from Isabella in this episode, clearly because she did not want to owe Isabella even more than she already does. And we have some backing for Megan being someone who thinks like this, because she was so horrified in an earlier episode to learn her dad was funding her lawyer, and was yelling about how she was going to pay him back. A different kind of person would take the view that her dad hasn't been there for her up to now, and so the least he can do is pay for her lawyer now that she needs one. And Megan learned this, to some degree, from her mother. Debbie mentioned that she'd never asked Megan's dad for anything before the lawyer. And with Steve, Debbie didn't want to ask him for the money for the plumber, so what she ended up doing was creating a situation where Steve felt like he owed it to her to get her the plumber.
  13. Agreed, and I was happy to hear the nod to that in this episode. It's not Megan's mom's doing though; she was dating Steve first, and then Megan started dating Luke. Megan and Luke really should have abstained from dating given their parents' pre-existing relationship, but teens can be stupid. But I wouldn't expect two grown adults to end a relationship they've been in for some time because their idiot teenage children decided to start dating as well. Most teen relationships have a short shelf life to begin with, and Megan heading off to college is an obvious breaking point. There's a theory that it's really Isabella that Megan is drawn to (platonically or otherwise), and a lot of the above makes sense with that theory.
  14. Damn, Megan got pregnant? That reveal gives this story a shot in the arm. So - allegedly - Luke was planning to run away. I theorized last week that two of the core trio were planning to run away together, so I kind of lean towards believing this about Luke. And now the sex tape is shocking enough to kill a business deal, because an investor is just so horrified that a wealthy guy's teen son would be having sex. LOL I believe this even less than I believe the scholarship nonsense. What do investors care about? Potential profits from their investments, that's what. But if we must play along with this stupidity, that means there's another potential motive for putting that sex tape on display - that is, it wasn't aimed at embarrassing any or all of Megan, Luke or Isabella, but was instead intended to kill Steve's real estate deal. Heh on Isabella being totally fine with staying at the bar without the boys and Megan not really caring either. And yet another reference to Lisa. They're making a lot out of how much shit Isabella is taking in order to cover for Megan. Makes me think that in the present day, Isabella has the biggest secret of all and Megan's covering for her as payback. Maybe Isabella was supposed to run away with Luke and things went wrong somehow. It's hard to see Megan leaving her mother and sister no matter how fed up she might get with her mother, but Isabella has no real relationship with her own parents.
  15. Manfred is there to be a lightning rod that distracts from the owners. I don't like him either, but that's whom he works for and that's where the real problems reside.
  16. Megan always knew it was herself on the video. She's not surprised when she sees her face. What she was looking for was if her face was clearly shown, because of the stupid plot point about losing her scholarship if people know it's her. She doesn't actually watch the whole thing; she stops as soon as she sees her face, because that's what she needed to know. Isabella does say "I'm sorry" in that scene, but not as an apology. It's meant as an expression of sympathy, just like we all say to people when something awful has happened to them that we had no role in. Of course initially the writers wanted us to think she meant it as an apology so that hopefully we would be surprised in a few seconds to learn it wasn't Isabella in the video.
  17. I've been wondering if two of the core trio of Isabella/Megan/Luke had decided to run away together, and that's what the bag of money was for, to fund their new life. Then the third person found out, maybe by following one of the others to the cabin, there was a confrontation, and Luke ended up dead. Megan's jealous a lot. Isabella's jealous a lot. Luke isn't jealous yet, but could become so at some point. Luke hates his family life. Isabella is alienated from her parents. Maybe during the winter of 1999 Megan became convinced she was going to get outed and lose her scholarship.
  18. Luke dropped some sex tapes Brent had made off at the PD. Since some of those tapes involved underage participants, they would be child pornography. Isabella and Brent's ex-girlfriend must not have found and destroyed all the tapes when they broke into the house last week.
  19. I've decided to pretend the scholarship is being funded by some sort of abstinence-only group that aims to encourage teen girls not to have sex by offering them a financial path to college if they abstain. And now I'm just going to not think about it again, because it's all too stupid. The cop should have stopped paying attention to Steve's blather when he looked over at Brent and saw him smirking. Steve's promise to handle Brent was empty. Of course we saw all that amounted to was a short lecture. So it seems like Jeff and Megan may have hooked up the first summer and then she dropped him for Luke. I wonder how Jeff makes his money, and if Megan and/or Isabella then did the same in order to get the money that was in that bag. Why did Megan wait until Luke's body was found to clean the cabin? And did she know that bag was there and purposely leave it?
  20. The final twist was conceived when they were shooting E4, which was before the halfway point of the show. It wasn't a last minute idea.
  21. Yes, back in S2 when Saanvi was testing experimental medications on herself trying to save Zeke, she became manic and needed medical attention, but she didn't want to go to a doctor for fear she'd be reported for illegal experimenting and lose her job and lab. Alex was the only doctor she trusted, so Zeke went and convinced Alex to come treat Saanvi. That's how Zeke and Alex met.
  22. That was my assumption too. The interesting thing is not starting it at, or very near, the point where Megan's face is visible. Did whoever planted the tape expect that it would be stopped before that point? If so, that has some interesting ramifications for motive.
  23. Isabella does not apologize in that scene. I was paying attention the first time I watched it, because I was already suspicious of the fact that we hadn't actually seen the girl's face in the video, and I just rewatched to confirm. Isabella just tells Megan to wait and to listen to her. And Megan merely tells Isabella to let go of her, and then leaves. So I wasn't surprised when it was revealed in this episode that Isabella wasn't the girl in the video. I was somewhat surprised that it was Megan. Obviously I wasn't expecting the silliness that it would ruin her college prospects! I figured it was one of the other girls, that Isabella was just trying to tell Megan it wasn't her, and that the mystery would be which other girl Luke was having sex with. I do believe nobody thinking about the criminality of videotaping and showing the sexual intercourse of nearly-18-year-old minors though. This was 1999. And actually, Luke, Megan and Isabella might not even be minors. I was 18 my entire senior year of high school. A lot of my classmates turned 18 during senior year. Were any of them ever specified as being 17?
  24. I watched both episodes last night. It took me a little bit to get into the new story, but I'm liking it and I think they've done a good job of differentiating it sufficiently from S1. Having the two core girls interact regularly in all three timelines makes a big difference. Isabella was pretty upset about that lost earring from "Lisa," just saying. It makes me think Lisa was a girlfriend and not just a girlfriend. The plot point about Megan not getting to go to U of W if it comes out that she was the one having sex on camera is just really silly. Even if I could fanwank something about morality rules at the local high school and that they'd fail her before expelling her, which would tank her GPA and thus cause her to lose her scholarship...the mom said that she talked the school out of expelling Isabella. If the local small town high school will allow the new black girl to stay on and graduate, I have a hard time understanding how the mom wouldn't have been able to convince them to do the same for the hometown white girl. Plus the mom is in good with Luke's dad who owns most of the town and so has plenty of pull - Luke wasn't facing any potential expulsion that we heard about. Whatever, I hope they just don't bring up the silly expulsion thing again and just focus on the question of who released the tape and why. Neither girl seems very broken up about Luke in the most recent timeline. Okay, Isabella didn't know him for long, but he was supposed to be Megan's longtime best friend who then became the guy she was in love with. Granted they obviously knew he was dead and have had some time to process that, but my early guess is that Luke wasn't as nice of a guy as he seems.
  25. Black Knight

    The NBA

    In football there's a whole lot of standing around and most times a team gets six days before playing again. It seems to me that giving the NBA Finals teams an extra day at a couple of points in the series is a good thing. Gives the players a little bit of extra time to heal up in between, making for better quality games. By this point basically everyone is hurting somewhat, and they have to run around a lot more than football players do on much less rest, even when there's one extra day inserted. Super Bowl teams get to have two weeks rest.
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