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I think the crew is doing a thoroughly mediocre job and that some constructive criticism and maybe a negative review in whatever the superyacht equivalent of yelp is would be merited, but the guests were just so astonishingly spiteful tonight. It's one thing to be demanding, but they way they went after Hannah and Brooke and then trash-talked the crew at dinner was personal, and Honey's passive-aggressive tip speech was straight-up hateful. He just seems like the type of guy who still believes in "negging."

I agree, Also, there is not "more than one type of 1942." Every Don Julio bottle has "1942" on the label to honor the founding of the company. "Don Julio 1942" is a separate, special limited edition tequila. I don't think that, given how much most guests drink and how much they're paying, some basic knowledge of high end liquors is unreasonable, especially if they specifically list it on their preference sheet. A long time ago, I tended bar at a place that was nice, but not super high-end or fancy - not nearly as much as a superyacht would be. Everyone I worked with knew the difference.

Is there any point to having a "lead deckhand" separate from the bosun in a deck department that consists of 4 people, apart from the potentially filmable drama that it might cause? (Also - I actually typed 3 people at first, because I forgot about ferry-boat guy. Who I still can't name).

From my understanding, there's a FG unit manning one side of the gate in New Seattle, and there's a US Army unit manning the other side, and the inspector guy was only providing inside info on the FG unit but not the US Army unit; the zombie cult managed to overrun the FG soldiers at gate 6, but got wiped out once they ran into the human army soldiers on the other side. Anyways, I liked this episode. I don't really care about Levon (the only one of Liv's boyfriends I liked was the musician all the way back in Season 1) and I'm iffy on the morality of creating new zombies when there's a brain shortage, but FG and Chase Graves were the ones with the brilliant idea to create zombies out of the population of Seattle by putting them in vaccines, so this is something they really ought to have thought of beforehand, and overall I like the arcs of almost all the characters and the way they've played out in this episode.

I think they're trying once again to give both Chuck and Axe someone to go after besides each other; Chuck has the AG, now Axe has the oligarch. They can even tease "Bobby goes to jail" again, but then have it revealed that they used him to get the oligarch or have an excuse for them to team up again. The returns on index funds generally beat actively managed funds by a significant amount but the very top hedge funds - SAC (which Axe Cap is supposed to be loosely inspired by), Tudor, Renaissance, Greenlight, etc. - do regularly outperform the markets (or at least did during the time when they came to prominence; some of them have fallen off. In an amazing coincidence, SAC hasn't outperformed the market since they were the targets of a real-life insider trading investigation; then they became a family office in a settlement - essentially the deal that Axe turned down in Season 1). Heh, not only did I not see the character, I also didn't even see Malkovich. I saw John Malkovich playing John Malkovich playing his character from Rounders. It's a whole new level of poor acting.

Spiros was the one who first noticed trading irregularities involving Axe while he was at the SEC and brought the case to Chuck. If I remember correctly, he actually had to goad and taunt Chuck into starting the investigation. One of the things that's always bugged me about the show is its portrayal of Chuck. To me, it can't seem to decide whether he's a zealous and ruthless prosecutor who sometimes goes over the line in pursuit of true bad guys, or whether he's just as bad as Axe but just happens to be on the "right" side, and it's not that it's drawing him in shades of gray and letting the viewer decide, it's that the characterization to me seems to actively swing back and forth. In the first season, to me he was an ambitious USA wanting a big win. both so he could help his career and to strike a blow in cleaning up Wall Street, which led him right up to the line, and then when his ego got involved over it. In Season 2, to me, the show seemed to me to show him going full-on over it and was intending to show that Chuck and Axe really were morally equivalent. This season, they seem to have drawn back and made Chuck back in to the lawyer's equivalent of the cowboy cop who sometimes bends the rules because they're so committed to justice and getting the bad guy, so much so that I don't think they're acknowledging just how much ego is involved here. Also - does anyone else think Connerty looks like Ted Cruz?

I think the "don't steal our music" fit in pretty well with the "feelings over facts." Take "Born in the USA" - yeah, the lyrics show that it is a song about a veteran coming home to a country that has failed to provide opportunities for him and implicitly failed to create a society worthy of his service. But it has an upbeat tempo, is written in a major key, and has a catchy, superficially patriotic refrain - feelings. And guess how must people remember that song? Although I find using songs without the musicians permission to be mostly a non-issue for me, as long as they got paid for the licensing.. Good for a few laughs at the expense of candidates I despise such as Donald Trump, who can go fuck himself. (I'd say he could go fuck himself long and hard, but his tiny hands probably make that impossible).

I have a hard time believing that anybody gets THAT offended by being called "buttbuddy" unless they're a bit homophobic themselves. I mean, if somebody called me that, I'd just laugh and go "how the fuck old are you, anyways, twelve?"

Maybe it's just me, but I actually don't see Bobby as being a "nice guy." Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending him in the least - I think he's a misogynistic child with zero self-control and an overly-inflated sense of self-worth - but I think his misogyny and lack of respect for women comes across in different ways than the ways it comes across in "nice guys." Danny, on the other hand, is the one I see as displaying "nice guy" qualities. His complete lack of boundaries, unwillingness to accept correction or to even entertain the idea that he might be wrong, insistence on his being right and that's what the guests really want, inability to take no for an answer and his instant jumping to play the martyr and to always have to portray himself as the "good guy" and the victim whenever he's told he can't do or have something he wants? All classic nice guy traits, although not seen in that context. But the underlying lack of respect for women is there also - there's his repeated casual use of sexist and homophobic insults for one, and there's also that one conversation where the junior deckhand is telling the Chief Stew how to better serve the guests that's about the best textbook example of mansplaining that I've seen in a while. Back to Bobby. I thought that his "you're just jealous" line at the tender was actually meant as much towards Hannah as Julia, based on their whatever-that-was a couple of episodes back, as was his dropping the hard c. Julia started backing Hannah up and was talking when the bar-girl had to get in the cab, so that's who became the target at the moment his rage reached its apex, and because he's a misogynist child, well, the boyfriend and the flirting is where he went with it. TL:DR - IMO, Danny's the type of douche who will creep on girls and not take no for an answer and then play the victim when they don't want to fuck him. Bobby's the type of douche who will end up hitting a woman who says no to him.