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I still don't understand how a registered sex offender can legally work on a set filled with kids.

Finished the last ep last night. Anh seemed really nice, and fortunately didn't need Antoni's help. Getting the Beyond Meat packaging in every shot seemed to be his job for the cooking segments.

Not surprising that the show is more interested in their perceived narrative than actually helping people.

Almost done with this season, and Antoni still doesn't seem capable of doing his job. His "cooking" segments have gotten sadder as the show goes on. Nachos? Any stoned college student could throw that together. And with Alison, he had a chance to teach her a little bit about mixology and maybe find her a interesting cocktail that would be tasty. Nope, he made her a screwdriver. So lazy. I get that his major selling point is his looks, but at least give some sort of effort for these people. Too bad Bobby's leaving and not him.

Man, this was a rough episode. Who knows how many people Roy has killed and disappeared. If the FBI searches his property, he's screwed. But I hope Dot gets to deliver his coup de grace.

Couple of nagging questions here: 1. How does one just "have someone committed" against their will? Aren't there strict rules/laws on how this works? 2. What is Roy's plan with this "get Dot/Nadine back" thing? It's not like there's a bounty out for her, and she's not actually anyone's property. He hasn't been shy about letting everyone know what he's doing, but I guess he's not too concerned with the law other than his own.

Definitely some interesting needle drops in this season so far. The Prodigy playing over the sequence towards the end was unexpected, for sure.

For everyone who is confused and annoyed: it's only ep 3, and based on how the previous seasons went, it's not supposed to all make sense yet.

Nev let those 3 off the hook pretty easily. Why didn't he push harder on the CashApp account that was linked to the mom's name? It just seems like a waste to go that far, then let the catfishers say "nah, I don't wanna talk about this anymore." The catfishee seemed pretty dumb, as usual. But I have to wonder about someone (the catfisher) who would be totally fine with him ready to pull the trigger on MOVING to their town and not putting a stop to it before it happens. Strangely, I don't see this ep listed on IMDB anymore.

My wife pointed out something that I hadn't thought about until now. Why are some of the characters on this show written to be SO dumb/naive? When Dot offered up her ridiculous explanation of where she'd been, the husband was like "oh, golly gee, well, I believe you!" If this scenario happened to me, there's no way I'd believe a word of it. I know people are inclined to believe their spouses, but no one is that dumb. I don't know if the writers are trying a little too hard to portray "Minnesota nice," but reeling it back a bit would be good. This also happens a lot with portrayals of southerners.

I actually felt bad for Zack, and that's rare for this show. He wasn't doing anything differently than most of us do when it comes to online dating, and he didn't seem like the typical moron they usually profile. I had no idea that criminals were using dating sites to set people up for robberies. With the catfisher duo, fuck both of them. His half-assed explanation about driving traffic to OnlyFans was total BS. I'm sure his only "business" is scamming people, and they didn't seem remorseful at all.

If their "compound" ever gets built, I'm sure Jeff's goal is to have sex with/impregnate as many of the members as possible. That seems to be the goal of almost every cult leader. Another thing that mystified me is that Jeff and Shaleia seemed to have no problem telling their followers how wealthy they were making them. Even aside from the Insta pics of her modeling designer clothing, he actually told everyone repeatedly how rich they were from this. And nobody seemed to care or understand that it's all just a grift. As bad as it all is, they don't seem to be breaking any laws, so they'll just get to keep doing what they're doing.

He seemed so desperate after his divorce that he was willing to put up with anything. I laughed when he lamented being single for a year and a half. That really isn't a long time, but some people do not do well alone.

This show has got to be on life support by now. I'm waiting for the ep where both parties are previously seen Catfish that are now catfishing each other. And Nev can fake amazement like he always does.

Dropping in here to figure out if I should watch. Except for the first 2 seasons of the Mandalorian, I have not been a fan of any of the Disney series so far. Obi-Wan and Book Of Boba Fett were both meh for me, and I got 2 eps into Andor before I bailed out. I couldn't understand what was going on in that one for the life of me.

From what I understand, it was because he didn't like it.

The creepy woman with almost no eyebrows that did a song during the lap dancing "meeting" is also a real singer. She was apparently also on Euphoria but I don't remember it. https://archive.flaunt.com/content/ramsey-hbo-the-idol

The house is the Weeknd's actual house, which explains a lot.

What happened to Dan Levy's character? Wasn't he part of the team of managers/agents/whatever in episode 1? Also, why are the people from the "family" opening for Jocelyn when nobody knows who they are? Are we supposed to believe they all had albums ready to go just in case they got the call? And were they all released in the six week time jump? Mike Dean must be the busiest stoner ever.

I don't even feel like breaking down what a mess the finale was. However, it definitely felt like there was a missing episode between 4 and 5. I know the network said there wasn't, but I really don't see how they got from ep 4 to the finale. I yelled out "wait...what?" so many times.

He must have owed the Weeknd a favor or something. No way he'd get involved with this mess otherwise. He also co-wrote and produced one of the songs on the soundtrack.

The scene where Mike Dean rolled up in the ridiculous car with weed smoke pouring out and a bong in hand reminded me of something the Lonely Island would do. Is smoking a lot of weed still controversial? Considering it's legal in half of the US states now, I doubt it.

I agree with all of this. It's amazing what 2 men (the Weeknd and Levinson) with tremendous egos can accomplish. They got HBO to throw a pile of money at them to make this garbage after redoing everything because Mr. Weeknd didn't think it focused on him enough. And I doubt HBO will see any profits off this show. I'm not sure how money is made for the network in the modern TV industry, but I'm guessing this one will be an expensive write-off.

Really enjoyed this one, and I don't care if it "felt like" Black Mirror or not. Some of the future vision stuff reminded me a bit of Stephen King's The Dead Zone, but maybe it was just a coincidence. And I thought both the lead actors did a great job. Overall I really enjoyed this season. And I did appreciate that they took some thematic chances instead of beating the virtual reality concept to death.

That does make sense. And I'm guessing they didn't abort the mission after the initial tragedy because they were already 2 years into the mission. If it would have taken 2 years to return to Earth, that's still a very long time to wait around to get back. And NASA had undoubtedly invested billions in this mission.