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Peter O'Toole was a ghost dad in "High Spirits" (1988). Laszlo's dad's ghost had such similar voice, appearance, and mannerisms, that I didn't even recognize Steve Coogan. I just kept seeing Peter O'Toole.

Wow, great episode! (You can tell because it has so many comments.) I liked how Jay was getting frustrated playing Christian to Trevor's Cyrano de Bergerac (via Sam), which we knew would happen, so when the question of "best restaurant" came up, he just couldn't anymore. He knows restaurants, and started with "Well, 20 years ago, <someplace> might have been it, but..." and went on to name two or three places that have since surpassed it. No delayed delivery, and it helped sell the "Michael Jackson knows what he's talking about" illusion. That gave him the confidence to continue on his own.

So they arranged for Roylin and Trowbridge to be in the same room, with Dennison watching/listening, knowing that they would talk and Dennison could be convinced that Trowbridge really was innocent. But just as Margaret's little plan went horribly wrong, so did Kate's. I believe Margaret is dead. We saw blood, lots of it, coming from the back of her head. Nicky did a real number on her. Is that irony?

I agree. They made a point of showing him coughing a bit for (maybe?) a few days before Rio came to get him. As soon as he started coughing, I figured his time was running out.

Lots of physical comedy in this one, mostly from Harry. Different but not unwelcome. I thought the plotline with Heather was fun. Harry's never been twitterpated before, and it hit him hard. I mentioned a few episodes back that I finally realized that Harry isn't an idiot; he's just immature, which is a bit dangerous when combined with naivete. But in his interactions and Joseph, and now Heather, we see that that appears to be a pattern. The aliens make be stronger, or more advanced technologically, but it's balanced by them having grade school mentality, junior high at best. Harry and Joseph verbally sparred at that level, before Joseph left Harry's cabin last episode. This episode, I was cracking up when Harry was writing "Do you like me?" notes to Heather, and even using his friend to ferry the note. And Heather didn't act indignant, like she couldn't believe how dumb it all was. She was touched, though she did try to hide it.

I love Alan Tudyk, and I mostly like this show, but Harry gets to be a bit too much for me sometimes. I thought I'd finally figured it out last season: He's not just an alien, with a different way of thinking and having to learn everything about acting like a human, he's also an idiot. Not quite. Asta got it right, he's emotionally immature, which does have some overlap with "idiot" but it isn't really the same. Suddenly, trading barbs with Max, his juvenile and grade-school insults, it all made sense. Being selfish and completely unaware of other people's feelings I also put off to him just being an idiot, but immaturity also explains that much better. Harry has shown himself to be quite intelligent sometimes. And he didn't kill Asta because that would have made him sad. Hey, that's progress. Anyway, I'm glad the show is still going. We're still catching up, and this season looks promising.

That's all true. But it seems (to me anyway) that Will wouldn't act as judge and jury in either case. In both cases, there was wrongdoing committed by an officer of the law, and he had to do the right thing. It's not a huge thing, especially since I personally agree that letting Amanda off the hook is actually for the greater good. It's just that it seems a bit inconsistent on Will's part. He would arrest his longtime friend (and oftentimes more than friend) and potentially destroy that relationship, but I don't remember if he did anything at all about Amanda.

That ending threw me. When I saw the painting of Harry and Asta from behind, my thought was that Goliath was there somehow. I didn't jump to "Harry is Goliath" because that doesn't make any sense. I know, they're obviously going to explain it, but for right now, I'm not on board with Harry actually being Goliath.

I think it (Beetlejuice not having more screen time) makes sense. The original story was more about Adam and Barbara and learning how to navigate the afterlife, with Lydia's relationship with them and with her own living parents a close second. I agree with Keaton that shifting the focus to be all about Beetlejuice would probably upset the balance. He's definitely one of those characters where a little goes a long way. He did play a key role in the plot of the first movie, and it says a lot that his 17 minutes of screen time made such an impression, but it sounds like they're going for a similar formula to the first movie, with Beetlejuice more of a catalyst than the "star" of the show.

Wow, I had no idea. Looking forward to it.

I don't think so. She made Ian promise to never tell Mike, and as far as we've seen, he kept that promise. It's either going to be one of those things that seemed important but never comes up again, or if/when we get a Season 4 and Mike is all sad about Iris, Ian shares the information with him to somehow make him feel better. It could work, if Ian figures that he can share it, now that she's dead, but I have no idea what it could be and how it could have that effect on Mike.

I don't think that that was Bunny who got shot with his hands up. Bunny knew that the whole episode on the bridge was "fake" and would know to stay well away from it all. That was Konstantin's boat. Konstantin and Iris were coming back there from something, and Milo was already aboard, with his own guys. It was a show of strength, announcing who was in charge. I too was confused by the two shots and a thump, though. Presumably one of them shot the other, but the only way that makes sense is that one of them was loyal to Milo and the other was not, and Milo knew it. It was weird.

Same. Unfortunately, as far as I know, there isn't a Season 2 (yet).

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more threads are still left hanging out there. I forgot that Robert was still alive; for some reason I thought Kyle had taken him out, and even after that line about his vest catching it, I guess the idea that Robert was finally gone stuck in my head. I've seen elsewhere that supposedly a Season 4 is going to happen. So we'll see.

That felt like a series finale. Closure on Robert, Milo, Konstantin, Iris, and Kareem. And Mike ends up back at the cabin, which we haven't seen since Season 1. Looks like Evelyn is going to pursue both Ian and Kyle, but Mike's voiceover mentioned prison and what it does to you, etc., while we looked at Kyle sitting in the back of a squad car. No one here is completely clean, but Ian and Kyle both arguably did the right thing for the wrong reasons, or the wrong thing for the right reasons, or something, so part of their tragedy will be going to prison even if they're both "good guys" in the bigger picture. The Russian invasion was thwarted, and Kingstown can go back to just being run by Mike and Bunny, on their respective sides of the law, with that huge grey area in between.