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  1. The show is a bit dull for me. Not sure if it can sustain itself. Given that it's slow, it gives me too much time to think. Are they just gonna leave that knife in the cake? I want chocolate. Is Izzy some kind of social media bully? Why would a scientist who just found out the existence of aliens wanna leave town for some job? Do the lyrics make sense if a woman sings Two Princes? What was the name of that band? I remember they dressed dickily. Wouldn't Max need physicals to join the police force? Does he mind warp the testers and replace the blood and urine? Why doesn't that redneck just call ICE for revenge? Oooh look at Michael's dragon glass thingy. Wasn't there something like that on the old show? - Cadmium X heh! Why did Kyle bother to explain the old autopsy when he had the real one? Are they ever gonna definitively ID the Zodiac killer? Then I came here and you gave me dozens of other issues to think about. Am still curious to see a few more eps, but not desperate to. The dialogue/behaviour is a little bit teen for people 10 years out of HS, especially the aliens. Also, someone mentioned Maria the cheerleader. Agreed. They need to do more with her character.
  2. Was glad to have the show back. I read the book years ago, but have forgotten all but the main details. I guessed it was Bonnet, but puzzled at his youth and fine looks. I don't mind. Hanging and killing of characters we haven't bonded with, while the important ones survive. *sigh* Mills and Boone sex scene *yawn* Violence and death *flinch - close one ey* Declarations of love to pander to the romantics *again!* I didn't notice the wigs! I bet I will next time. Everyone looked bonny as they should. I guess this episode was annoying because it was an inauthentic narrative set-up. Jamie telling Claire about the various players in the colonies and land and his Aunt J's love life. Claire filling him in about the war. Hard to believe they hadn't discussed all this well before now. Better off telling a third character (who will soon have their throat slit). Still, it is much easier to fill in all that detail in a book. Some clunky dialogue "You must be grateful every day" and the circle narration at the beginning. River scene looked fake to me. I still enjoyed it, cos it's been a while. I just prefer pointing out the bad. For the good - showed ongoing negative impact of rape. Opening credits were interesting, though I miss the bagpipes. Liked Claire getting excited over her med box.
  3. I wanna dance with Harry Dean! Can't wait to see him in 'Lucky'. He was sublime as 'Carl'.
  4. I enjoyed the season once I accepted it was not really classic'Twin Peaks', but the last episode was a little dull. I never try to figure anything out. Just trust Lynch and enjoy his scenes. I didn't much care for the musical act at the end for the most part, but Eddie Vedder was appreciated. I was constantly amazed and learnt a great deal from the analysis here. I was also impressed that someone predicted Diane was actually the no-eyed women. I gave up trying to figure it out long ago 'cos it's too much. I just shrug and keep watching. Nothing else on TV like this. I actually really enjoyed the bleeding, drooling repeating prisoner. Found it all comical. The green glove thing was a little 'hand of God' from the Stand, but I enjoyed its absurdity/comic-bookness nevertheless. I can tolerate ambiguity. I even find it comforting. I can't make sense of chaos. I'm the kind of person who doesn't need to finish a crossword or a jigsaw puzzle. There were so many amazing scenes and characters. I feel privileged to have witnessed them all even though I can't figure out how they stitched together. Something about that Harry Dean Stanton. Love that Janie E and Dougie got their happy ending. I never much cared for Naomi Watts before this, but she was great and Kyle really was sublime. While watching the show, I kind of felt like Gordon staring. Sometimes my mouth was open. This show is a drug. I also want to echo what someone said about how older actors made the show. It was also a fitting farewell to the actors who have since died. Thanks David for the trip.
  5. I just watched it over the past week. Powerful show, but with frustrating pacing. Liked the casting. Suicide isn't often the subject of TV drama. I am over 40 and the last time I remember seeing it discussed on TV in a high school setting was Degrassi High. I liked seeing which kids were of good character and what all their motives were. I enjoyed Clay attempting to hold them to account, while doing questionable things himself. I didn't like things being withheld from the viewer (the gunshot victim after threats of "ending Clay"/Tony's motives). One oddity though - the parents of Hannah seemed like basically good people. It's confusing that a kid with parents like that didn't have some hope. I think the show would have been stronger if there had been tension/neglect/abuse there. Jessica and Alex obviously had some problems in their home. Justin's mother siding with his abuser was just heartbreaking and explained why Justin is the way he is. I just thought that Hannah's parents would be a tape...but they just seemed too good to me. Yes, Porter did the wrong thing. I thought the actor played the ambiguity well throughout the series, and I'm glad we got the scene of him holding his baby. For me the worst is that he suggested that 'the senior' would graduate shortly, implying that didn't matter that she wasn't safe in the interim. Sadly, this is why victims don't report stuff. They would prefer to remove themselves from the situation (ie quitting a job) than be scrutinised or not believed or have to be around their abuser. They may have the fear that the perpetrator will get away with it in spite of the complaint - and they often do. I fear even if she had mentioned Bryce's name, the Brian Weber (was he the principal?) would have hushed it up. I don't mind that Hannah did not say the right things when with Porter. He is the adult here. Still, I don't blame him.
  6. Trippy episode. I like it when the bulk of the episode is in TP. Happy Andy was the one. So negligent! I was chuffed with myself when I immediately understood, 'snapped his Gregory' despite never having heard the expression before. Peck=Neck Still finding Cole amusing in the extreme, even if the long pauses have been done a million times. Grace Zabriskie - Well!
  7. I watched this the other day, but was speechless for a while. I haven't even given feedback to my two r/l friends who watch it. My post is as disjointed as the show. At first I was having fun predicting 'He's A!', 'She's A!' etc. I was hoping it would be something unexpected like Caleb or Emily. I started to get annoyed and Haleb 'ship problems, unnecessary sex scenes, and Emily's naivety and the Melissa fakeout. What a way to insult your viewers (further)! Then a Mona fake out - then an evil twin we never knew existed who also had the tech savvy to make a virtual world. I wonder if ID twins get upset about their good/evil portrayal in the media. TB ain't no orphan black. The character is lame because she is inexplicably obsessed with Toby. Then I got a bit excited 'cos I though Wren would be uber A, responsible for everything all along, but he turned out to be a lame duck When Ezra got a lot of screen time and locked up, I thought, 'Yes!, it's Ezra, and his mother funded it." I was gonna be very happy with that reveal. Even by the end, I was hoping it was at least Mona. The attempted tying up of the loose ends was not even worth listening to. I don't even wanna know how Twincer did everything or Archer bs. I guess twincer is just a 'crazy' genius like the rest of 'em. Though CeCe reveal was very bad (A Minor character that we never would have guessed/cared was born as 'Charles'), this one was equally so. So we get another set of good and evil identical twins. Jenna just wanted surgery? Addison screen time? I liked the horse and the basement reference. The only good thing about the finale was watching Aria be left at the alter and her line when she said something like, "What has this got to do with Ezra?" I have wasted my life watching this, though I did enjoy the genuine scares way back when and Aria's wardrobe and earrings. It was also nice having a show with a female-heavy cast and despite this not being a good ep for Troian, she has kept me tuning in from week-to-week. Still, I have wasted my life watching this.
  8. Forgot how much that clip annoyed me. It means they've changed their minds about who is A again, or never planned to kill off Rollins or some other kind of disorganized shit. 1 more day and the torture is over.
  9. So I guess AD is not any of the people in the clip. I am totally unspoiled, but I think it will be a male. I thought I didn't care, but I am actually curious. I kind of hope it is someone who has been watching all along and not the new kid in town. I will also require an explanation of how AD has so many resources, including human resources...and the doll thing. Zah?
  10. I think it was a mistake to write him out. The character was really growing on me. Couldn't he be the one good cop? What was the point of him then? The actor was doing a good job and didn't deserve to be just dropped like that. Hopefully, he gets work on a better show.
  11. Me too. The Liars must have generated a hell of a lot of paperwork. I
  12. I am really balking at finishing this show, even though there is only a handful of eps left. I was hoping for more scares, but bits and pieces popping out of a board game and Aria's 'scary' video calls are not cutting it. I also didn't like Hanna being tortured in her underwear earlier in the season or this whole 'eggs' nonsense. I watched the first two minutes of this episode and pressed 'stop'. It is just too frustrating. I really should have stopped watching a long time ago or at least at the CeCe/Charles crap. My thoughts at the first two minutes: 1. Why didn't Spencer have a lawyer present for questioning? Hanna and Ali have both been to prison and Spencer has been in shit with the law before. Best she says nothing. Call one of you mother's friends for your own self-protection. I know Spencer appears to be smart, but is usually does dumb things and is often wrong, so it is in character. But please, please no Twincer! 2. Why is Furey allowed to be involved in this case when he's sexually involved with Spencer? (I know...I know addressed above. Rosewood PD MO). "I'm throwing you a rope" sounded ominous - not like a salvation from quicksand (oh the dialogue!). The annoying thing is that both actors seem competent and try to rise above the spurious (sounds like a 'ship name) material. I will try to watch the rest of the episode, but it sounds like too much Ezria from the comments. I can barely even remember who Nicole is. Did 'A' orchestrate the Colombian kidnapping too? The 'A'-come-lately really sucks. Is there going to be an Uber alles 'A' who has been bankrolling this all along? The high school principal and his secret men's society who has dirt on everyone and blackmails them into torturing young girls? Ezra's mother in an oedipal thing. Surely there is someone better pulling the strings. I just can't see how this show can end in a satisfying and logical way because this 'A' is too lame. Twin Peaks makes much more sense than this show. I guess I will try to force myself through this ep and the next few. I have developed much resilience due to watching the final season of 'Dexter' and surely the PLL finale can't be worse than that one, can it?
  13. I really hated the part where he said that Nicole's been through the worst thing you could ever go through and survived. The dollhouse/general A torture hasn't exactly been a picnic. So I guess neither Lucas nor Wren is Uber A. Disappointing as I could have accepted either of those outcomes (or Mona). The Twincer theory is so completely ridiculous, that I'm starting to be afraid that it's right. I quite liked the Spencer/Furey scenes in this ep.
  14. I get confused with all the A's They all like to play with liar dolls & stuff? Uber A?
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