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One Imaginary Girl

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  1. I hope the show is not setting us up for something happening to him. I won't stand for it.
  2. I've seen Roseanne Cash so much over the past year and a half, between Ken Burns's Country Music and the documentary about her mother, My Darling Vivian, that she seems like an old friend. I wasn't surprised that the secret foreshadowed in the intro was Black ancestors, since my own genealogy turned up a similar story: an ancestor in the census who was listed as free colored (to use the terminology on the census in those days), and then confirmation on DNA tests. If my matches, mostly from Appalachia--not even the place where plantations were predominant, are anything to go by, a lot of white southerners must be surprised to find out that they have Black ancestors, too. I often Google my DNA matches if they have searchable names, and for one guy, the search turned up all these white-power sites. Ugh. But he disappeared off Ancestry, maybe once he saw sub-Saharan African in his results.
  3. At this point, I hate everyone in New Orleans--well, this fictional New Orleans--except for Det. Costello and Lee. And money-landering prodigy Eugene, since he's had a bad time of it lately, though I bet Lee will end up taking him in. And Judge Leblanc, since she was set up and probably wasn't really that intoxicated, and also because I like Lorraine Toussaint.
  4. Something I found odd was that the counties Jane's and Jim's ancestors came from weren't explicitly stated, though I could see Mayo on a form. Irish-Americans usually mention the county when discussing genealogy, and it helps place the town since there's only 32 counties.
  5. Hiram announces that he's recovered from his mystery illness, and Veronica automatically questions it. The Lodge family is so delightfully dysfunctional. In fact, Riverdale is the weirdest small town in America, and I love it. How many cities even have a place for simultaneous raves and underground movie screenings?
  6. I do think he has on some good guests. I wasn't familiar with Matt Jones previously but thought he made some astute observations.
  7. I don't mind if he gloats about forecasting that Trump wouldn't leave. Unfortunately, recent events will probably also cause him to pontificate on his favorite hobbyhorse, "free speech."
  8. Did I miss how Hai knew that Randall was Laurel's son? He saw the viral video, but before that. Also, joining the crowd freaking out about alligators.
  9. I wonder if DeAngelo's reaction at the mat wasn't just because of this leg but some residual feelings from the previous leg, when he messed up the tile-making task by not paying sufficient attention to the instructions. Maybe he was still beating himself up about it, or Gary had been giving him an earful off-camera. You would think they'd have learned that lesson and been more careful reading clues afterward.
  10. I was amused by the bit on Update with Pete as the Staten Island explainer, because Colin is from Staten Island, too. He doesn't conform to the popular image of it, between Harvard and the WASPiness and the marriage to Scarlett Johansson. It would have been great if at the end, his connection could have been revealed.
  11. I know they say that the legal system in Louisiana differs from other states', so I wonder if it's normal there for a judge to act essentially as a defense attorney, coming down off the bench to question a witness and even calling a witness himself, to say nothing of doing some research outside the courtroom. If this was all a way to show that this character is normally a good person, there needed to be a more realistic way. His sympathy toward the lawyer who needed the bathroom breaks already showed it. Speaking of unrealistic, there was almost no other traffic in important scenes. Third: I'm curious about the moment when the son left the picture and flowers as a makeshift shrine. I don't feel good about having those young men presented as menacing without any reason.
  12. It's nothing important, but it grated on me that she didn't have a purse when she left the police station. She still had a phone, and then her keys when she got back home, but I think a woman like her would carry stuff in an expensive bag, not just her coat pockets.
  13. I thought that having "memorial" in the name of something named after a person means that the honoree is dead.
  14. Yes, but she used a Philly accent when talking about fracking, though it's really more of a middle-of-the-state thing. https://www.phillyvoice.com/saturday-night-live-vice-presidential-debate-cold-open-mike-pence-kamala-harris/
  15. Maya threw a really good Philly accent in there. That's what you get for hanging around with Tina Fey for a long time. I don't remember there being very many First Ladies in sketches in the past, so if Biden wins, they might not need a cast member to be Jill, but if so, maybe they can get Tina in to do a little coaching on the right accent.
  16. Thanks for reminding me about the name. OK, this may be picky, but I kept thinking that they would have needed one for the city licenses paperwork.
  17. The shooter called out, "That's for Coogi," so it was intentional.
  18. I think that, between the hairstyle and the dress, she was going for a Princess Diana look.
  19. I agree that Dominick seems to have serious problems, too. I didn't read the book, but I wonder if its point is that just as Thomas and Dominick are twins but born in different years, one is on one side of a line with regard to mental health, and the other is narrowly on the other side of what is considered to be acceptable.
  20. At least there was one optimistic note this time: Rob Huebel's character, who seems like a good friend. Oh, and the woman whose house Dominic is supposed to be painting seems to be understanding. Nothing against Lisa and Dr. Patel, but Dominic seems to not even want to get along with them. Edit: Whoa. Too many seems.
  21. It was relentlessly grim. I'm still on the fence about continuing, because I do like the cast and past films by Derek Cianfrance.
  22. I like that even the episode description on cable mentions Colin Robinson, not just Colin.
  23. You're not kidding about the resemblance to A Million Little Things. Kids named Theo and Charlotte? I would have changed them. I like the concept of this show, but the Perry family seems to consist of boxes to be checked.
  24. Some little things: 1. When the body of President Warner was being brought into the hangar at Dover AFB, mountains were visible in the background, but Delaware is probably the flattest state in the US. 2. When the new presidents were having their private meeting (no staff, really?), birds were chirping in the background, which was weird. I guess the president could keep a pet bird in his office if he pleased, but, eh, not really seeing it.
  25. One of the things I really appreciate about this show is the realism of Sam's home. It's a little cluttered and messy, but that's to be expected when you have kids and the parent's job could mean very long days. (Plus she's sandwiched between kids and her own mother, who needs to be looked after a bit.) A lot of TV residences seem kind of sterile, but this house seems to have stuff in it that the family member likes and may have kept for sentimental reasons. And I like the cooking scenes--most shows at most show people eating but not how the food got on the table, and it can be a pleasure to cook. It looks like Sam enjoys it.
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