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I really wanted to love this, but ultimately it fell flat for me. Everything was just... not enough. I could forgive a lot if just a one of the elements were cranked to 100 - sickeningly beautiful scenery, elegant or witty or thoughtful dialogue, stirring love story, sexy chemistry. Theo James is hot but that can’t even quite make up for Sidney’s dickishness. I didn’t like how Charlotte’s character was written. She’s like a grab bag of “spunky female” tropes, like jumping in on the men’s game (and winning it!) and running off to London on her own. Supposedly outspoken but then Sidney was the one leading their whole “relationship” as she stood back wide eyed and trembling as he alternated between berating her and professing his affection. Occasionally she got a shot in at him but I never felt that they were equally matched. When he chased down her carriage to again reject her to her face, I felt nothing but “oh. Okay then.” Sigh. I just wish someone had written these characters totally differently and gifted us a lovely little love story in these trying times. In this alternate story, Sidney would be gruff but never cruel (and don’t forget, super hot) and we’d come to see him open up thanks to Charlotte’s joie de vivre or whatever central trait she’d been given. If they couldn’t be together at the end for whatever reason, we’d be heartbroken but understanding and happy to have seen their story anyway.

I can’t remember- how did Elizabeth gain the upper hand with George?

Yes, I originally was screaming in my head for her to just say no! But later remembered she'd been drugged with "Compliance", so I guess anyone who goes on stage is disposed to agree to whatever is asked of them. Horrible. Poor Abi.

Can someone explain to me what exactly she was doing when she was in the tree and kept waking the robot after counting to 1000? I know she was draining the battery, or not allowing it to recharge... but why count to 1000 each time?

Ugh, this really annoyed me. I get that it's just TV, it's a comedy, etc... but COME. ON. Show Erica frantically pacing around rocking her, trying to feed her, trying to sing or shush her... same effect of "baby won't stop crying", none of the parent-viewers screaming at the TV "PICK HER UP!!!!!!" I'm getting really tired of this show. The concept was good and there's some really interesting territory to be mined in the "everyone is dead, we can go anywhere and do anything" world, but they just don't do anything with it. They spend entire seasons sitting in the same house, doing "wacky" things with people's leftover belongings, but none of it makes any sense. Like this season, when they get to Zihuatanejo and it's horrible; the blonde one (damn, normally I am not a forgetter of names, but obv this show isn't holding my attention) says that they filmed the Zihuatanejo scenes in the USVI, oops, guess we're stuck here now, let's make the best of it. Argh! You have a boat! Go to the USVI, or literally ANYWHERE ELSE in the world!

Really? I mean, Kaitlin Olsen, sure, but Mickey? Mickey is definitely not the picture of health. I view her as that kind of skinny-fat alcoholic who survives on a diet of Cheetos and tequila. Maybe I'm biased from seeing her as Sweet Dee 2.0, a woman who has a heart attack and then goes on a mission to "get healthy" by investing in tons of questionable supplements and workout outfits.

I looked to Elizabeth when he said that, expecting to see some flicker of emotion, and there was nothing. Does she really have no feeling for Julia, who died because Demelza brought the sickness home after caring for Elizabeth and Geoffrey Charles? A cruel comment like that, and it soared over her head. Maybe we can chalk it up to the laudanum?

Re: Jon Bernthal, I am pretty sure he was killed right after the heist he was in?They were all in the elevator, he said something like "if you don't see me again, I'm dead", he steps off the elevator, and as the doors are almost closed it looked like someone threw a bag over his head. Did anyone else see that? My husband commented on it too, but Googling around it looks like an open question and no one mentions seeing that so maybe we were both mistaking what we saw! She mentioned a couple of times being unhappy with her life and wanting to leave. The whole thing about "heading west on 20, driving as far as I can and never coming back" and, in a different scene, she says something like "there's nothing keeping me here anymore" and you see Baby filing that away, so it made sense to me that he would ask her to go with him and that she'd go. I really liked this movie! As someone said above, it felt like a fun summer watch, nothing to get too bogged down in. Kind of like Drive - fun beats, fast cars, nearly silent, handsome protagonists with a heart. What more could a girl ask for? ?

I "figured out" that the security guy was the brother way before most everyone else it seems - am I the only one who watched with CC on? I can see how it could have been missed but the security team guys called him Brax several times. I was surprised to like this movie since I definitely went in with preconceived notions about Ben Affleck playing a math genius. I like Ben but mostly as a loveable criminal type, like he played in that movie about bank heists (looked it up, The Town). Glad to see there will be a sequel!

Oh totally! Like literally shake my head and say no, that's not her, that's a different, younger actress. I keep forgetting!