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In 2017 we did a home exchange for two weeks that was extremely near the swimming location. Spotting the castle was our visual cue to turn left to get home. It’s in an extremely wealthy suburb of Dublin and it’s charming and gorgeous. I am so pleased at the final three. My favorite final three ever!

On Gary’s birthday, we saw him tell Daisy how hurt he was by her “meanness” and begged to have just his birthday when she wasn’t “mean” to him. This really affected Daisy, and it perfectly set up Gary to grab and manhandle Daisy so that she would only protest with smiles, etc.

Honestly, I kinda loved it. Brynn reminds me of a young Jennifer Tilly. Cheese-gate was funny, as long as it ends this episode.

Heather’s kids seem pretty decent, but she is crippling them in life not to teach them practical skills. Why doesn’t she simply show them how to do their own laundry, instead of shrugging and saying her kids’ dorm have laundry service? Why on earth is she decorating the dorm rooms instead of letting her kids do it? My 21 year old does his own laundry, can cook a few mainstays, participates in household chores, etc. The goal of parenting is to make your kids independent!

I, for one, think it may be a better idea for Marlo NOT to be armed.

The new housewife’s priorities for her family are interesting. Her insistence that her kids are always “impeccable” yet doesn’t seem to care that her four year old daughter feels comfortable giving the finger while her son disses both his mom and dad. Also interesting is that “impeccable” seems to mean hair gel and bows.

When one works for tips, anytime one is “invited” to do something it is pretty much a command performance.

I want to know who paid for the food and drinks. I know on other shows, it’s been the crew that pays for itself on nights out. But Norway is expensive! I would bet each cocktail is in the $20 range, entrees are probably around $100. They can blow their whole tip each night out.

Just started watching this on Peacock and I’m bizarrely stoked because I spent a week at Airlie Beach in 2019. We spent two months in Australia that summer and it was fabulous! I’m really hoping to see some of the local spots in the crew nights off. We did a day trip out of that marina to go snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef. That chef is a giant tool.

Heather’s look at Whitney regarding the abuse makes me wonder if Heather is afraid of who the abuser was. From my own experience, I know that factually repressed memory is a real thing. I was hit by a car when I was twelve, I can remember just before the impact, and getting up from the street afterwards, but the actual impact and flying through the air have been repressed. Also, from the day of my father’s funeral, I remember the services but nothing from the actual internment. Since I know that both these events occurred to me/in my presence, yet I have no memory of them, I know the mind can repress traumatic events.

The show has strongly indicated that Max was Gus’s lover, not just business partner. That is why his whole life now is dedicated to killing Bolsa, Hector Salamanca, and Don Eladio.

My impression was that Gus went to the bar specifically for the sommelier. He was going to invite him to try that special wine, but realized that would mean death to another person via Gus.

Kim has worn these earrings through the whole run of the show. Just like we are getting the glimpses of how Saul was created, we are seeing how Kim became Kim.

Sadly, I believe this was the last episode before the break. Update: my twenty year old son just told me I was wrong. Thank goodness! Sorry Andre LaPlume for doubting you.

I grew up on West 76th Street and lived there for my first 48 years. My house was almost directly across the street from the murder scene. I was delighted! Weirdly, all the camera scenes from the neighborhood (the wife, the defendant smoking, the defendant by the dumpster) were all located within one block. Every single one was specifically misidentified by the cops. The wife was on West 77th and Columbus, they said she was on West 78th, the smoking scene was a half block from the murder site, they said it was a block and a half, and finally the dumpster was on West 75th and they said it was West 74th. It clearly isn’t important to the plot, but I’m really curious why they did that.