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The "lusty tornado" scene (where Kate was intensely flirting with and being flirted with by her husband and the foreign secretary) was ridiculous to me. Not only did it seem totally out of character for Kate's normally brusque personality, but it was out of character for Dennison's reserved and proper personality, and inappropriate behavior for an ambassador representing her country at a function. I also have a hard time believing in this possible romantic triangle because I see zero chemistry between Kate and Dennison, and it bugs me that a show can't have a strong female lead without softening her with flirtation and romance.

My head just exploded trying to follow this, LOL. More seriously, before they knew this was a scam, did one of the characters say that Sophie was Sam's great-aunt? I thought there was some mention of them being cousins.

Well, I was in my late 20s in the late 70s and loved pop/rock music as well as other genres, but even though the group's name sounds familiar, I don't remember knowing their music. Also, Sam was presumably a career military guy and straight-laced, so it's believable that he would not have been into music or not familiar with any artists except the most famous ones (Beatles, Stones, etc.) in that era.

I was bored by the first episode (though a little more interested when we rewatched after vacation), but at least something interesting happened in the second episode. Still, the whole kidnapping thing seemed unrealistic.

My husband and I started watching this on vacation, but I couldn't even get through the first episode because (1) I didn't want to think about politics on vacation (even fictional politics) and (2) the situation and dialogue (including husband-wife interactions) felt too artificial. But we've been home a week now and my husband wanted to give it another chance, so we rewatched the first episode last night. This time I was able to get through the episode, though it still didn't grab me. However, my husband likes it. I'll see how I feel after the second episode, but there are so many things to watch on Netflix and other streamers that I don't want to waste time on shows that are not really compelling or at least entertaining.

This is exactly why the show is not as compelling to me as the book. The show makes it look like all of this started in our present day, but (IIRC) the book was framed as a thesis or research project on how society developed as one based on female power. I remember that there were drawings of historical or archeological finds that dated long before present day (maybe 1500+ years as you mention), although much of the narrative did seem to take place in a modern context (the storylines we see in the show).

I'm sorry to hear that you know this from personal experience. Hope you are doing well.

She and another patient in the chemo treatment room were wearing what looked like a gray cap, and I wondered whether that was supposed to be a cold cap. But I think cold caps need to be attached to something to keep them cold (based on images I found in a Google search), and the ones I found in the search did not look like the one she and the other patient was wearing. So I don't know what the point was of showing those gray caps. Peia was not wearing one, though she did have a black scarf covering her head.

Two years could be an eternity for teenagers. Aside from the risk of Candice learning that Clark is Superman and Jordan has powers while living with them that long, I'm sure Lois and Clark would be (rightly) worried about Candice and Jonathan having sex in the home when no one else is there. Not that they couldn't find another place to have sex if they really wanted to, but living together makes it a lot easier. And perhaps more important, what if Candice and Jonathan fall out of "love" (I don't see it as a really mature lifetime love) at some point in those two years? That would create a really awkward situation, especially if they get interested in other people. It's not clear to me if Candice has a lot of friends in Smallville, but even if she did that's asking a lot for anyone else's parents to take in someone they don't know well for two years, to support her financially and in other ways. And with all the drama in the Cushing/Cortez household, it probably wouldn't be a good idea for Candice to be added to the mix (and you can't force friendship, so there's no guarantee that things would go well between Sarah and Candice--though I'm not sure if they are already friends). I agree that the suddenness is odd and she should be able to finish out the year before moving. But since she's still a minor, social services (if there is such a thing in the show world) would probably want her to live with a family member ASAP rather than living as an indefinite "guest" with another family that has two teenage boys.

Good point, and it reminded me that Crash's head should have returned to his body after Isaac and then Flower tossed it. Is there an explanation other than "that's what the writers want"? I almost didn't catch that one, but when I realized what she'd said, I nearly rolled off the couch laughing. I'm embarrassed to admit that I heard her shout "Barbarella" but don't get why it was funny, other than the movie had nothing to do with baseball.

But if Jay is the chef at this destination restaurant, will he still have time to cook the regular B&B meals? I think he has made both breakfast and dinner for the few guests so far (correct me if wrong). Maybe he could still make breakfast (someone has to, since that's what the second B is for), but for dinner I guess the guests would eat at the barn restaurant instead of the smaller scale house dining room.

I think the woman in Racine had the nanny cam video of the VP yelling at his daughter. I agree that is probably why they killed her, but (like so much else in this series) it didn't make sense. Who was she and why would she have that video? Was she actually the nanny of the VP's daughter and then kept the video when she left the job? How did the assassins or their boss know where the video was, all these years later? (The incriminating video seemed to have been taken when Maddie was a young teen.) Overall I thought the last couple of episodes were much better than the preceding ones, at least in terms of tension. But I probably won't be in for a second season.

If that's the point, would they want her as a figurehead just because of her association with football players and history as a model? It just doesn't quite make sense to me from a business standpoint, but maybe we will find out more later.

I love the show, but the Keeley plot is distracting to me because it doesn't seem believable that she could go from someone mainly identified as football star's girlfriend and model (I guess--it was hard for me to tell what kind of modeling she did) to powerhouse PR businesswoman in the last year or so, without any apparent business education or training. It's true that she came up with and implemented ideas for commercial deals for the players last season, but I would think someone wanting to invest a ton of money in a PR business would need to see more experience than that when picking a CEO. I was even more confused when she ran into Shandy at the shoot and they were talking about being models and Keeley being the one to make it. I don't remember the exact dialogue, but I got the impression that Shandy and Keeley were almost groupies and/or party girls who got commercial (not fashion of other high-level) modeling gigs from being seen with football players. And Shandy did not look like a model to me; actually, neither does Keeley aside from her thinness. They are good-looking but not the type of beauties I usually associate with fashion and commercial models.

Just started watching The Power on Amazon Prime (highly recommended, but a totally different type of show than TL). Toheeb Jimoh has an important role, and I think--not 100% sure--that Juno Temple has a minor role early in series. The character has the same hair and distinctive voice and accent, but in The Power she looks older than in TL--maybe because she is not dressed and made up glamorously.

Putting in spoiler tags because I can't remember if it was in this episode:

It's the President! Quite a comedown since his 24 days, but he may be the best actor on this show so far. Agree with everyone about the female psycho assassin, both the acting and the amount of screen time she gets--every time she appears I feel like yelling "Get off my screen!" Just hope somebody found the baby in Wisconsin.

I'd love to see all of that! Exploring how the ghosts met, learned to communicate, and became friends would be fascinating. I would expect Sam and Jay to be curious about this, so the writers should make a couple of episodes where Sam or Jay asks questions and the answers unfold in flashbacks (i.e., "ghost stories"--I'll show myself out).

This episode was really powerful (pun intended), especially the mayor's speech at the end. I'm sure some viewers will hate the "woke" messaging, but it was poignant and relevant. As a woman, a mother, and a grandmother, I wish we had the power--in whatever form needed, not necessarily physical--to protect ourselves and fight back against ignorance, hate, abuse, and oppression. I also related painfully to the mayor's interactions with her daughter. Although Jos is also prickly toward her father, in general she gives him less crap than she gives her mother, and that is often the pattern with teenage daughters and their parents. It's so difficult as a mother to feel rejected by your child no matter how much you try to reach her and say and show that you love her. My relationship with my daughter got much better once she was no longer living at home, but even in her 30s and with a child of her own, she reverts to that teenage sulky attitude when she comes home to visit for more than a couple of days.

That was excellent casting. I also thought they were related in real life. Same here. There was a facial resemblance and an even stronger resemblance in voice/speech style. The latter could have been an acting choice rather than the natural voice and speech style of the actress playing Alicia, but either way it was striking.

I read the book a few months ago and loved the original concept. Girl power in every sense! But it will be interesting to see how the darker aspects of the book are addressed in this series. I imagine that the series will not include the most graphic scenes from the book, but it should at least suggest them.

I always worry when a book I love is adapted as a movie or series, because it's often disappointing, but at least this first episode is really well done.

He was distracting me because I couldn't believe how old he looked, especially because he's almost a decade younger than me. But also because there was something weird about his face (aside from age), and it took a couple of scenes before I realized who he was. I'm not a fan of most political dramas and don't care much about the rivalry between the FBI and the White House bigwigs, but I do want to know how the Wisconsin action connects to the DC action.

OK, that makes sense. But did the intern come to the police station because John called to ask him for help (as a distraction), or did someone else call him to tell him what John was planning? I think by the way the scene was directed we were meant to think John called him, but maybe it was someone higher in the conspiracy (like Daddy Lannister?--sorry, I mainly associate Charles Dance with that role) who called the intern while surveilling John and figuring out what John was looking for. In any case, if these evil conspirators are so powerful, why couldn't they have someone from the coroner's office take the fob from Miles' personal effects.

Still very confused but it is getting more interesting with the latest clues and the reveal of Daddy being alive and apparently part of the conspiracy. So who was the victim of the gunshot in the flashback to John's childhood when he ran away from his mother and came back to the house, and did we even see a body or just blood and brain bits on the wall? I guess the identity of the victim will be an important reveal in a later episode. Was the intern actually trying to hurt or even kill John when they started fighting, or was this an elaborate fake fight to allow John to get the stuff he stole from the police evidence? At first I thought it was fake, but that didn't really make sense since John already had the evidence and just needed to put it in the car and leave. And the seriousness of the intern's attack seemed to confuse and shock John. So if the intern is working for the big bad (which would also explain why he didn't die in the explosion--he probably set it from a safe distance), why did he help John by getting the copy away from her desk, and why didn't he take the evidence after he had knocked John down? The writing for the FBI guy seems over the top, but maybe the attitude he shows toward the female agent is realistic. I also don't really like the writing for the female agent and for Hailey and/or their interactions with John, but for now I can accept it as long as the mystery is handled well.