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Glee's Samantha Marie Ware to Lea Michele: "You made my first TV gig a living hell" The Glee set seems like it was a real mess. I think Heather Morris also recently shared that people were awful to her on set.

If anyone hasn't read them yet, Kate Beaton's comics on the Brontes and Wuthering Heights are hilarious: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=202 http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=322

I got a copy today of Shea Serrano's book Movies (And Other Things) which has a chapter titled "Did the Rockford Peaches make the right decision trading Kit?" He also tackles the question in the thread title and identifies who should be blamed for Rockford losing the World Series. It's been a long time since I last watched the movie so I couldn't remember a lot of the details he uses to support his conclusions, but it was still a fun read and I figured some here might enjoy it. It makes me happy that there's still so much interest in this movie and debate over the ending.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that this show is available on HBO Max. I never got into Major Crimes, but love revisiting The Closer. Good Housekeeping, Critical Missing, and the two with Croelick are among my favorite episodes. It's too bad Jason O'Mara didn't make more appearances. I've found him kind of bland in most everything else I've seen him in, but he was incredibly effective as a villain here.

I finally got around to reading The Night Circus and was disappointed. Someone on Goodreads captured my feelings in their one-line review: "Pleasing surfaces paper over an insubstantial story." That I made it to the end is almost entirely due to Jim Dale's narration. I'm currently reading Network Effect, the first full-length Murderbot novel by Martha Wells, and love it so far. I was worried it would seem padded or poorly paced because the previous books in the series have been novellas, but that hasn't happened.

Same. I'm also really happy that British comedies like Ghosts and the various Alan Partridge series are available.

All Three Seasons of NBC’s Brilliant “Hannibal” Coming to Netflix in June 🙌

My Acorn subscription lapsed, but their new show looks like fun: It's premiering next week, so if anyone watches it, please share your opinion!

I read CJ Tudor's The Chalk Man last year but didn't like it much. Despite that, I've started listening to The Hiding Place and am enjoying it so far but I'm not sure if that's because it's a better book or if it's down to Richard Armitage being the narrator. He's excellent and I'm hoping to get to his reading of David Copperfield this year.

I just finished reading the 50th book in the Murder, She Wrote series, A Time for Murder. I spotted it in the library last month and picked it up on a whim. The story is split between Jessica's first investigation when Frank was still alive and they were raising Grady together and a present-day murder. Reading about Jessica in 2020 with her first case set in 1995 was weird. Anyway, the character in the book isn't entirely consistent with the TV version, but it was kind of fun to see her first encounters w/Seth and Amos, and bonus cameos from Harry McGraw and Eve Simpson. There are some nods to Jessica seeming to attract crime and Cabot Cove being America's murder capital, but I was surprised they didn't spend more time on her relationship with Frank. The ending was bonkers, but it was a very fast and entertaining enough read if anyone needs a MSW fix and can get past the issues I mentioned.

Let us know what you think of it!

I haven't seen that one yet. It's an older show, but have you watched A Touch of Frost? David Jason is an appealing lead and the show ran for years, so there's a good number of episodes.

The new season is coming to BritBox on March 17 🙌

I'm disappointed that BritBox hasn't announced when we'll be getting season 5 in the US, but happy to hear that the quality of the show is still high.

I started watching the episode again to try to answer your question, but I could only stand Boyd for about 20 minutes before I had to give up. Sorry.

I enjoyed this season overall, but I really hope that's the last time we see Vera running off on her own to confront a suspect.

I'm trying to keep my expectations in check, but I'm just so excited for this!

Richard Armitage covers a multitude of sins. I'd probably be a lot more down on the show if someone else was in the lead role. As it is, it's the equivalent of an airplane read for me. Despite its problems, I enjoyed it well enough while I was watching but will likely forget about it in a few weeks.

I'm disappointed we didn't get to see Chris's confrontation with Killane about her mother. If Katz wanted to kill anyone, I would've thought Olivia's mother would be his preferred target because everything started with her. Since he already knew that he had been found out and that Olivia didn't need medical treatment, there wasn't any point in him going after Chris anymore. But whatever, I guess he was pretty far gone by then. He tortured and killed Heidi in cold blood when he could've talked his way around it instead, so I didn't feel sorry for him. Now that I've seen the whole thing, Corrine's reaction when Adam confronted her about the fake pregnancy feels off. When she jumped to asking if he was going to beat the answer out of her, I thought maybe we'd find out he used to be an angry drunk or something. Maybe I need to watch that scene again. And we never did find out why Suzanne Hope's husband reacted so violently when Adam asked about Corrine. Anyway, I was glad that Adam got away with it even though I agree with jabRI that I'm not sure how they managed it. It was nice to end on a happyish note with Anthony Head at the game, and Jo back with her husband.

Between dosing Mike with PCP and stealing Dante's clothes, I don't know why either Mike or Thomas is still hanging out with Daisy. Didn't the demolition start before Killane's home was emptied? I thought I remembered seeing the wrecking ball go through the wall where he had his investigations mapped out. The fight between Katz and Jo was well-choreographed, but I'm not sure I buy that she'd visit him at home. They didn't seem all that close. Good twist with Killane and his daughter, but wasn't he under guard? How did she get into his room? And why didn't Adam tell Jo that he had seen her at the hospital?

Did the police really need the sirens going when they were taking Martin away? It's too bad we probably won't see much more of Stephen Rea. I'm glad Kimberley finally came clean about the blackmail. I kind of hope that Ethical App guy's wife is faking her pregnancy too. Disappointing that her DC actually bought Katz's insinuations about Jo, especially when Katz was being so jumpy.

The Stranger has an impressive apartment and an adorable cat. Jo's husband seems lovely, but it probably wasn't the best time to ask her about their relationship. That demolition order went through crazy fast. They didn't even give Martin time to pack anything up! And I would've expected a former policeman to do better at disposing of a body, or at least moving it once the plans for a new development became a serious threat.

The location where they found Corrine's cellphone is stunning. Olivia, the girl who collapsed at football match, seemed sketchy when she was talking to Daisy and Thomas. I enjoyed the scene with Richard Armitage and Anthony Head.

Huh, this episode was written by Karla Crome from Misfits. I like Stephen Rea's character, so I hope his reason for wanting to keep his home isn't that he killed his wife and buried her in the cellar. He's right about Richard Armitage. When does he go to work? And why would he just walk into another person's home like that? You'd think he would've learned his lesson after his encounter with Suzanne Hope's husband. And what an odd subplot that fake pregnancy is. And ugh to the woman who's staying with her fiance even though he leaked her sex tape and let his friend take the blame. If Daisy thought Mike posted the pics of her little sister, how could she even stand to spend time with him? And spiking his drink with PCP as revenge? I'm disliking the kids even more as their story develops. Tripp senior is annoying, too.

The teens (and their subplot) are annoying, but I was happy to see Anthony Head pop up. Poor Jennifer Saunders. I was surprised she and her daughter didn't talk about the possibility of the blackmail continuing even if they paid the 10k pounds.