Margherita Erdman

Funny because I had a similar thought, except I was wondering if maybe she's recently given birth. Because I agree she looks very fit just not in a skeletal way, more a Venus & Serena Williams way, but definitely soft and doughy around the middle, like she's losing that pregnancy paunch and the rest of the softness/puffiness you get when your body's been carrying an extra person and everything that goes with it for 9 mos.edited because paunch not launch

The show wants us to believe that that (1) a statewide election in California can turn tide in its final days -- in an election on a scale that large, especially one that involves a high percentage of absentee/early voting, that just never happens and (2) a major corporate player is invested solely in one candidate/party, with no hedging of bets and no bipartisan political game plan and -- my favorite -- (3) whether or not a new state of the art football stadium can be built (after razing a power plant on the current site) is decided entirely by the governor The whole setup of this episode and the "crushing of the dream" by a single election result was so ludicrous it took me out of the story completely. This is 2015, not 1915. The demolition and evaluation and environmental remediation of the power plant alone would take years, and for both demolition and construction you'd have city, county, regional, and federal authorities involved as well as state agencies independent of the governor. Plus, when moving an NFL team, even with the promise of a new stadium, don't you have to have a temporary place for the team to play while the stadium is built? I'm willing to hand wave and suspend disbelief all the time, but this just feels like sloppy plotting, when it is supposed to be the pivotal, razor's edge, worm's turn type development Edited to add that on further reflection I think maybe my very negative reaction to this whole plot line (aside from the borderline creepy Uncanny Valley effect of Ray actually smiling in a moment of unguarded happiness, which was also just all wrong because you know he has a better poker face than that and he wouldn't trust anything good to happen until the $ was in his hands) -- I am still bitter about the black hole of suck that was S2 of True Detective and I just don't have the stomach for another half-assed plot involving a ludicrous land deal and corrupt public officials. I live in LA, I've worked in local and state politics here, and it's rich material for storytelling, but apparently it's easier to just make shit up that's less interesting than how it really works

What niece? Was that a character or subplot from this season or a previous one? I have watched every single episode of this strangely compelling but totally frustrating show, and the way characters and plot lines come & go, sometimes, ugh. SO glad the dog has returned though! Love the dog, and the scene of him cuddled up with Ray on the couch watching TV. Is that an American Bulldog? And yeah, give him a better name than "Dog." You were able to do better than "Girl" and "Boy" for your kids. I thought what her dad said was "hard _in_ the eyes."Which is also cruel but IMO more accurate and therefore perhaps even more cutting. Say what you will about Abby and/or Paula Malcomson (and I have more sympathy for the character than most), she's got beautiful skin & bone structure. But her deal with the Devil (and Ray) *has* made her pretty hard. I hope she follows through for her siblings and buys the bar in their names though. Surely Ray could use another washing machine for his ill gotten cash.

I thought we saw Quinn pop in the thumb drive and she'd recorded all the deeply scummy ass-covering, spinny, callous conversations with the network and with Chet about Mary's suicide. It's hard to imagine how she could use that to hurt them without also hurting herself -- strategic editing and leaking to the right media outlets maybe? She's certainly skilled with that.