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500 years of eating sin, and he didn't even get rolled biscuits. But this is Minnesota, not Mississippi. What was in the pack of cigarettes that Lorraine handed to Roy at the prison? All I can think of is cyanide. I enjoyed this season. The only part that bored me was the Linda sequences, as I've seen that kind of thing before.

The calf was beautiful. I must have missed something - why is a veterinarian going to bomber school? (My dad flew on a USAF bomber crew out of Thorpe Abbotts in East Anglia and I'm currently watching Masters of the Air, which is about his unit.)

I guess they're counting on us being so dazzled by JF that we ignore the gaping logic holes. That is indeed lazy writing.

Crystal is smug and a snob. But she trots out a more sympathetic persona for TV.

There are lots of salt-free seasonings on the market already. Mrs. Dash and McCormick's are the industry leaders. Available on Amazon and elsewhere.

I used to live at G Street when it had an outlet in Falls Church.

I noticed that Helen said he's be five counties away. Don't know if that's just for training, or if he will be there for all of his service. He could come home for leave. Also, I could not read his military notice on the TV screen. Did he volunteer or was he involuntarily pulled in to active duty?

Exactly my dad's experience - he wanted to fly, pursued it, and received a commission.

This reminds me of a Foreign Service friend who was chief of station in Iceland for two years. She said everyone, including her and her husband, drank heavily and grew depressed during the long, cold wintertime. These days there are probably better accommodations and services to help mitigate that.

My grandmother made dozens of those glass grape clusters, as gifts. Let's just say they did not make it as heirlooms.

I don't think the motivational story is complex or mysterious. Young people flock to join the military during perilous times. Always have, probably always will. It was expected for WWII; think of the stories of people who were shamed or felt shamed because they did not or could not go. In addition, the WWII generation was still suffering from the Depression. For some, the military was an answer to widespread unemployment. WWI was a recent memory and its veterans were the parents of these kids.

And the victims still suffer, terribly, without funds to ease that suffering. Erika is crafty and canny. All the best grifters are. As this season demonstrates, she's learned how to put on her fun-time gal persona for the cameras.

There are pharmacies/stores in many neighborhoods in Arlington, VA, where Ashley lives. I don't even notice them anymore. Little known fact: more and more dementia patients are using tinctures to counter successfully the anxiety and anger that often comes as dementia progresses. My friend worked hard with a doctor to find the right formula that works for my friend's wife.

This is true. However the reality was one crew didn't always fly in the same plane. Planes were damaged or malfunctioning and needed maintenance and were taken out of service abruptly. One mechanic told me that the turnover was so great, and the need for large numbers of planes for big missions so high, that they would have to fly planes whose nose art was incomplete. I noticed Koeghan when watching "Saltburn" and went back and watched "The Killing of a Sacred Deer." He's good in this as is Anthony Boyle as Crosby. Trivia: Tom Hanks visited Thorpe Abbots about seven years ago during pre-production. He walked around kind of under the radar and asked lots of questions of the volunteers who have preserved the area. The flight tower we see in the series is the real deal.

My dad was considered old at 22. They called him the Old Man.

My siblings and I enjoyed the first two episodes. I even wept a little, and I remembered the guys who did not live long enough to see this series make it to air. Harry Crosby (the vomiting navigator) was a real guy who wrote the book "A Wing and a Prayer." Lemmons, the ground crew member who lit up the oil on the tarmac, was also a real guy and his daughter is involved in today's Bloody 100th memorial group. Having a B-17 practically on top of another B-17 is reminiscent of the real-life Piggyback Flight, where two got stuck together. As did many guys, my dad performed multiple roles. He was primarily a navigator and he also was bombadier, with a little flight engineering thrown in. He was certified in the Norden bomb sight. Episode 2 showed that the bombadier had flight control of the aircraft during the bombing. My dad joked it was the closest he got to being a pilot. When they landed after a mission the military intelligence guys would race to the aircraft, grab the sight, and run back to develop the images in secret in order to verify whether the bombs had hit the targets and how much damage had been done. His buddy was 5' 6" and spent most of the missions crammed into the ball turret in the plane's belly. Joked about peeing ice cubes - eventually the flight suits were heated, but not at first. I agree there's too much footage of the guys fightin' and drinkin' and carrying on. Also, I think that Austin Butler forgot to get rid of his Elvis accent. Perhaps this is to appeal to an audience younger than I am. But I like that they are trying to portray the mission environment, from take-off to "counting them in." There are only seven or eight B-17s today that are airworthy, but I think they are grounded due to the deaths that occurred when two different planes were operating tourist flights and crashed. I rode an old B-17 about 10 years ago and checked it off my bucket list. Looking forward to the next episode.

I am loving Cush Jumbo in this. She's underplaying the personality of June - reserved, analytical - which helps make the series more realistic. Capaldi is perfect for these menacing creepy guy roles.

Annemarie works at "surgical centers." I'm guessing those are outpatient cosmetic surgery places.

Hilarious that Christina Ricci pointed out that the tile Megan chose for the remodel was an exact match for the old tile Christina had already installed in her home. Could Kate Bosworth have laid it on any thicker as she thanked Jeff? That had to be an act (although the work was lovely).

Is there published documentation on the ratings this season? Given the streaming environment, it's hard to track who's watching. I'm not; I've been sticking to this forum for the shade and notable updates. Still waiting for them to dump Erika. The fact that she's still collecting a Bravo paycheck and gloating about those fucking earrings depresses me to the core.

If jobs and reputation were in jeopardy, it's weird that Bravo allowed so much footage to make it into the episodes for the world to see. They had to explain the black eye, but they could have directed the cast to handle it differently for the cameras. "Oh, we were clowning around drunk and Jen accidentally hit me with an elbow." End of story and drama. Judges do this during Zoom court proceedings, usually to shut up an obnoxious defendant. It's fabulous. I recommend it to Bravo during the reunions, because they are unbearable to watch. Andy could have a big red Mute button next to his chair.

All the PAs I've encountered explain their training and jobs as "we can do anything an MD can do except 'cut' (surgery)." That's the key distinction between PAs and MDs.

I need to start watching earlier than I did last night, as I became lost as to what the heck was going on. Won't the defrosting corpsicles stink, even in a cold hockey rink? The whiny Malamute made me laugh. True to form and no acting there. I think the actor was cleaning the dog's ears and the dog wasn't having it.

Years ago I met him at events in Santa Fe, and we also ran into him running errands as well. He chatted with my friend who was a member of the American Indian Movement. At all occasions he was quiet yet friendly, quite dignified. He may have been resisting Gates' efforts to make him emote-on-demand. As we all know, documenting Indians' forced removal from the Southeast to the West was not a priority - it was such a difficult effort that even some of the accompanying soldiers struggled. The Cherokee were removed over an extremely bitter winter, and much of their travel was over mountains. That's why they had relatively more loss of life. I've never encountered this, but one never knows. Between the boarding schools, forced removals, and assimilation to White ways, many of their traditional names were lost to history. Or White names were forced onto them, or they married/partnered with the colonizers. Studi referred to being married to a settler, another name for colonizers and their descendants. Wikipedia says he is the son of a ranch hand named Andy Studie, but this information may be incorrect or has been discovered since the show was produced. The long pauses are very common in modern Native American communication styles. Although there are exceptions, they do not feel the need to fill dead air with talk, and they often are thinking before speaking. When I first began working with tribes, I was counseled to listen more and talk less, and not be uncomfortable with silence during conversation. To me, Studi was processing his thoughts and making a decision not to speak unless he knew what he wanted to say.

I expected him to whip out a Coke. I prefer ambient sounds in scenes, and the music really annoyed me. I liked the first episode. Skilled actors with real faces, realistic script (well, except for the supernatural stuff), great setting...I am thrilled any time we can get quality programming. Murder mystery = bonus points.