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Penman61

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  1. Aren't all circles flat?
  2. My list of questions this finale darn well better answer: Who killed Annie K. and why? Did a slab avalanche really kill the scientists? How did Liz’s partner and child die? Why was Annie’s tongue found at the Tsalal facility? What did all the “She’s awake!” warnings mean? What happened to Raymond Clark and why was he having that seizure in Ep 1? Why the caribou mass suicide? Folded clothes? WTF with the rolling oranges?!?
  3. Just imagining Maisie Williams being told by her agent about this new series about Dior and Chanel and post-war French fashion and couture: Maisie: "This show sounds great! Would be a relief to get away from all that torture and rape and violence in Game of Thrones..." [Reads first page of The New Look script.] Maisie, grumbling: "Seven hells..."
  4. LOL I'm embarrassed to say that this didn't occur to me; I was careening ahead on a sled made of dudgeon. You might be right! :) I'd have to look at the scene again, but I guess I'd wonder why there wasn't any pushback, i.e., "Well, that's Anchorage's story, and we know it's bs" or whatever. Also, ISTR Liz accepting the avalanche explanation pretty convincingly? Need to rewatch...
  5. That's fine, but slab avalanches don't happen IN FLAT AREAS, which is clearly where the scientists were found. Also, like other avalanches, there would have been plenty of obvious recent evidence that an AVALANCHE had just happened; they even have a geology teacher to help with that. Also, an avalanche would NOT have resulted in the corpsicle; the bodies would have been strewn AWAY from each other, not intertwined like they were playing Arctic Twister. Finally, did the victims have time to REMOVE AND CAREFULLY FOLD THEIR CLOTHES as the avalanche approached? I’m all-capping here because I'm getting frustrated with this show's writers not doing their one job: Make me suspend my disbelief. It's just lazy, and I guess they're counting on us not paying attention...to a crime mystery story. <sigh>
  6. When I was growing up in Alaska decades ago, straight single women had a response when told that (very real) way-more-men-than-women ratio: Yes, the odds are good--but the goods are odd. Grateful this episode picked up the plot pacing, but I am disappointed that it looks like the scientists' death is going to be attributed to a "slab avalanche," which is apparently a loose translation of deus ex machina. I'm not Googling, and I've never heard of such a thing, but ok, fine. Yet another creepy, evocative setup with a fairly pedestrian/made-up payoff. Jodie Foster is just amazing in this. Kali Reis' part is equally if not more meaty, and though she is often competent, she is not up to this role's range and depth, which, admittedly, asks a lot of an actor. I wish she were, because her character is the core of this show.
  7. There's a long TV history of "They're making a documentary of us!" episodes, going back to at least M*A*S*H. And I'm disposed to appreciate the attempt to give us a very different view of characters/situations we know. But this didn't work for me. First, they way overdid characters shouting "Are you filming this? Stop filming this!!" I mean, once, maybe twice, but multiple times in multiple ways? It's just lazy writing and strains credulity. Also: The line "the only thing unforgivable is deliberate cruelty" is Blanche from "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams, so I don't know why this show is acting like Capote wrote/said it. Perhaps I missed a moment? Or did Williams steal it from Capote?
  8. Google says you’re correct. I’ll fix my post. :) And to be clear, Max will STREAM ep5 early, this Friday. Cable Max shows ep5 at its regular Sunday night slot.
  9. Lol this show is getting worse…AND now we’ll have to wait even longer to find out just how shitty it gets? Correction: Ep 5 streams early this Friday 2/9, not in 2 weeks.
  10. I haven’t pinpointed the problems, but these last 2 eps are losing me, and I want to like this show. I feel like story/character beats are repeating already, that we’re going too deep and wide on the supernatural stuff, and that no satisfyingly plausible explanation for all this will be possible, esp with just 2 episodes left.
  11. Yup, I thought that gesture was both maternally-intended AND inappropriate from a boss.
  12. I think this is possible, and I really hope you're right, because if it was real, that is just outright demon possession shit that is beneath this show.
  13. That last 10 minutes turned into True Detective: The Exorcist Blair Witch Project Heretic.
  14. Seems like it should/will be a bigger deal that Pete found that the Tsalal research station is being funded by a company named…Tuttle. Season 1’s cult was headed by a man/company named…Tuttle. This, together with Travis Cohle being Rust Cohle’s dad, makes me think S1 and S4 will be materially connected (rather than merely connected at a more abstract level, e.g. spiral motif).
  15. No. In Ep1 we saw Navarro walk up to Annie’s body next to the shipping containers as she described the condition of the body in voiceover. My guess is that what we saw in the trailer was a life-size effigy of Annie made by Clark after her death, for some mystical/grieving/voodoo purpose.
  16. I rewatched and I agree now. But is it truly possible to be frozen alive (or revived) after 2+ days?
  17. Two things confused me tonight: 1) In the opener, the frozen victim who started moving/screaming when his hand was broken off: was that just dropped? What’s his status? After the credits, I thought we heard radio talk about a victim in an induced coma who might need leg amputation—was that this victim? 2) I thought Peter Prior was Liz’s son, but tonight when Hank/dad slapped him, he said something about her “not being your blood.” How are Liz and Prior connected? UPDATE: Peter is Liz’s subordinate and mentee but not her son. Some Ep1 exchanges misdirected me.
  18. I'll defer to others with first-hand knowledge northern AK villages, but my sense is that, in contrast to what the show depicts, those towns are: 1) not among mountains/glaciers but the flatter coastal/alluvial plains and 2) have much less well-developed infrastructure. Overall, I really liked this opener. I liked S1, thought S2 was unintentionally hilarious and hilariously bad ("Am I diminished?"), and was fine with S3. This S4 premiere has my hopes up. :)
  19. I grew up in Alaska (though not "north of the Arctic Circle"), and I didn't know anything about where this season was shot. My first observation (aside from questioning whether caribou herd on a glacier) was that the town and infrastructure look way too nice for rural Alaska. Then I noticed all the Icelandic names in the credits lol.
  20. Wait, so that guy in the final scene was Thrawn, right?
  21. I absolutely agree that the character of Carrie is selfish, shallow, and surprisingly lacking in self-awareness at key moments. But I must defend SJP as an actress: She is amazing. She conjures empathy from places I can't pinpoint, and I always, always believe her, even when the laugh lines are clunkers (often). She has the insight/skill as an actress to look dumbfounded when caught in her selfishness--aren't we all always surprised at first to discover how selfish we've been? She is truly talented, and I will always be grateful for those moments--too few--when the writing on this show was equal to her gifts.
  22. Since I railed on Che's very NOT COOL coercing/shaming Miranda into a 3-way with CHE'S EX some episodes back, you're goddamn right I'm going to rail on Giuseppe's extremely selfish bullying/coercing Anthony into anal sex. First, the idea that Anthony--a gay man who's been sexually active for DECADES in probably the most target-rich sexual urban environment--hasn't sorted out what sexual practices he likes and doesn't like is...unbelievable. I mean, hope springs eternal, you can teach old dogs new anal tricks (that got weird, sorry), blah blah, but the way Anthony has been written is that he seems like he's got his sexual menu sorted, after all these years and experiences. He doesn't bottom. That said, I very much like the idea that one theme of this reboot would be "At 60-ish, you think you know yourself--and you probably do--but not 100%. There are some surprises left!" That's been my own experience. I could absolutely believe that a new partner could make Anthony revisit some of his ideas both emotionally and sexually. Sure. But THE WAY THESE WRITERS DID IT, JUST LIKE WITH HEY-HEY CHE AND THEIR THREEWAY, WAS REAL COERCIVE HORSE SHIT. I have a lot of experience on both ends (sorry, again) of this equation, and the number one first most important biggest only ever rule for the (cis-male) recipient is that YOU HAVE TO WANT TO DO IT. Everything flows from that. If you have doubts, if you feel bullied or pressured, if you're uncomfortable, receptive anal sex will not be pleasurable. Heck, you can feel ready, loved, safe, relaxed, and IT CAN STILL NOT BE PLEASURABLE. (Having them in the sideways position showed SOMEBODY involved knew some basics; not having ANTHONY be in charge of motion--a must for a first-timer--was a missed opportunity.) Having Anthony brow-beaten into his first experience receiving anal sex and having it played for laughs at his discomfort--and then just leaving it there!--is really appalling on a show that wears its self-satisfied sex-positive laurels a little too blithely. I'm looking forward to the new generation of queer creators with better awareness and less residual internalized homophobia/misogyny. Just a huge missed opportunity all around.
  23. Lol hold up, Che: why would Miranda not know what to do with a clitoris? She’s had one for 50+ years, no?
  24. I’m a gay man in the same age/culture bracket as Anthony, and his top-or-bottom-only-ever is just factually wrong: how did so many of us contract hiv if a LOT of us weren’t both top and bottom, at least occasionally? I mean, individually, we like what we like, but that piece of his explanation/justification was weird. And of course Anthony’s characterization of being the bottom as being “the woman” is so deeply offensive and misogynist that I’m surprised the younger enlightened cosmopolitan poet didn’t read him the riot act; that he didn’t shows Anthony (and MPK) have some very ugly anti-woman feeling coursing around in all that vaunted gender enlightenment gay men are supposed to have.
  25. LOL at TPTB salvaging Che's character by having them, literally, SAVE A PUPPY! On the next AJLT: Che brokers a Middle East peace deal. I mean, come on.
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