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Totally. As much as I couldn't believe that (though I did enjoy a shot where his boards were in the background behind him and showed that he had tried using the word "moron" to crack the cipher) - I really couldn't believe that actual cryptographers at the FBI weren't on it and getting to the coded message first. Maybe I missed it and they said cryptographers were working it at the same time, but come on. Those people are experts and they will use real tools. Not scrawling stuff like "moron" by hand and cracking the cipher that way. Only 6 more episodes for Remy to tell his team to roll out. But nothing will top the episode maybe 2 seasons ago when he called them "little homies." Dylan McDermott must have improvised that. I refuse to believe it was in the script.

The women are the only group who don't yet have physical violence in the mix, so I wonder if that's to mislead into thinking one of them is not the shooter. I don't know how Mike White would escalate, with only 25% of the series left, their behavior to get them there, though. What I wouldn't mind seeing is an escalation of their active dislike of each other, continuing to progress from their passive-aggressive 2-on-1 shit-talking. It gets worse and worse until the end, when they all get reminders of the younger women back home they feel rivalries with and they have no affinity with whatsoever. Like Jaclyn sees pap shots of her younger husband with some younger model and gets a call from her agent, giving her the unfortunate news she didn't get a role she was desperately wanting. Producers think she's too old to play Kevin Bacon's wife and they cast Amanda Seyfried instead. (Who I think did recently play a married couple in a movie.) Laurie checks her work e-mail or her office assistant texts her that a junior female attorney at the firm is getting a lot of the credit for a deal they worked on together but Laurie masterminded, or is being fast-tracked to partner because some existing partner (a man, of course) is now mentoring her. Kate, I don't remember if she works or how old her kids are. But I can imagine something like, her kids don't pay much attention to her and they only care about what some younger female influencers are saying. Other moms in the PTA pooh-pooh Kate's ideas for fundraisers in the group chat. (Kate had never used the app they wanted to use for communication and had to install it to begin with.) The other moms are younger and they have jobs, which leads them to have different suggestions that are more modern and social media savvy, which Kate knows nothing about. The only other part of her identity back home is "wife," but her husband is never around and always working. She falls in line with his beliefs and attitudes to try to get him to like her more, or at least not give him another reason to ignore her. His work-wife already gets way more of his time. So the women have some big final blow-up only to get these unpleasant reminders of what's going on back home. Combined with whatever happens with the shooting, they are ready to bury the hatchet. Not because they are true friends or were ever true friends, but - They live far away from each other so it's easier to curate the perception of their lives being great. Easier to prop up the illusion than with people back home. They know how to manipulate the dynamics of the group to feel good/superior about themselves when they want to. They have a shared history and do in some ways kind of like each other. It's better than what they have with the other women at home they compete with. As they get older and struggle more with various failures and difficulties in life, they at least know the other women are dealing with similar things. The inevitable comparisons are on a more level field than with others. When they leave the resort, one of them says to the group, "Well, it's been fun, ladies. Let's do this again in a couple of years?" "Yeah," another replies. They aren't aware of what each other is really going through in their real lives, but you can see it on their faces. "I don't know what I would do without you as friends." "I heard The White Lotus in Italy is great," says the third one.

I don't think it's going to turn out that Rick's dad is actually Sritala, but if that does happen, I imagine Rick will take that so much better after hearing Frank's monologue than if he never heard it at all. "Oh," he'd nearly collapse in relief after Sritala explains she always felt like a woman her whole life, even though that meant leaving Rick and Rick's mom behind. "That's so normal. Compared to other people I know." Frank's monologue hits as random, but seems applicable to the Ratliffs. I was out of control, I was insatiable. And you know, after about 1000 nights like that, you start to lose it. Tim's greed - he even spoke about the $10MM he made from his illegal dealings like that is measly. Why does it have such a grip on me, because she's the opposite of me? Is she gonna complete me in some way? Piper is running away from her family and her life to the complete opposite. I don't even know how much she likes Buddhism on its own merits vs. being so different from her family. I see Piper as a fairly empty vessel (not unlike Beck in season 1 of "You" tbh). She just wants "not like them" and thinks Buddhism/meditation will be the answer. But when it's not the answer, I don't think she has any sense of self to fall back on. I'd think: I am her. And I'm fucking me. When Saxon sees himself in Lochlan (which he thinks he's always wanted; he's always trying to make Lochlan be like him and be in his image), and how Lochlan is ... whatever he ends up doing of a sexual nature in the remaining episodes ... it may be an epiphany for Saxon. I don't know if Saxon will turn over another leaf like Frank did with spirituality and celibacy, but experiencing someone like himself preying on Saxon will probably be jarringly new to him. Don't think this is going to happen, but if Lochlan repeats Saxon's earlier line of "wanting young come" (or whatever that was) in a sexual context to Saxon, I will run from my house screaming. That would be far beyond the standard yelling of "no!" at the tv. If neighbors or police stop me, I will tell them, "you don't understand, the latest episode of The White Lotus," and they look it up online and say, "oh yeah ... this Sam Rockwell monologue ... whoa," and I will say, "no, a later episode," and they will say, "you mean more wildly uncomfortable than the Sam Rockwell monologue?" and I will fall to my knees, whispering incoherently.

Absolutely. Severide is Squad Lieutenant at a house he loves and Lead Fire Cop for all of Chicago. He doesn't want anything else at work. I guess the only way we'll get any insight into the weird Pascal marriage is if Dom tells someone at the firehouse, a chaplain, or a therapist (ha! yeah right). If Tuesday was still in the picture, I would hope that Dom would have an informative heart-to-heart with the dog about his weird marriage, but that's not going to happen. We might get some flashbacks to give us answers. Maybe his traumatic loss will lead to him approving Damon back at 51. He would never do that under normal circumstances. Are they going to put Damon on Engine so at least he is not reporting to his sister-in-law? Or will they just toss all sensibility and rules out and say, no, the more family in the same chain of command, the better? One thing the adoption guy should have asked, and I hope he asked, is "who takes custody of your adopted child in the event you are both incapacitated or worse?" Who would Kidd and Severide designate??? Kidd avoided her family for a really long time, but I guess they have reconnected and she could say her Aunt or her cousin. Kelly has no family to rely on. He can't name youngster Damon. Would they say, " our great friends and fellow parents, Matt Casey and Sylvie Brett in Oregon?????"

FBI International is apparently cheaper to produce, which is why the flagship show and Most Wanted required the actors to take some episodes off throughout the current season, while International was not. I wasn't sure if I remembered this correctly, but then found this Deadline article: https://deadline.com/2024/05/fbi-fbi-most-wanted-cast-episode-reduction-2024-25-1235920167/ I don't know all the places in Europe where the cases have taken place, but I guess they mostly film in Hungary and probably supplement with some scenic or panoramic shots from the real city/country. (Not unlike shows that film in Vancouver, but the setting is supposed to be New York or LA, etc.) Filming in places like Hungary and Bulgaria is much cheaper than in North America, even if you have to construct entire towns as a set. A lot of smaller-budget movies seem to do that. That said, production costs tend to go up season-over-season, so that may have contributed to International's cancellation, or the producers were told they need to cut costs in a way that is not feasible, even if you take actors out for a few episodes, simplify cases with sequences that are cheaper to shoot, and so on.

I bet Ormewood's daughter, Cooper, would enjoy the face-swapping app with Will. From what I hear, she seems like the right age for being into the "Dogman" character, so she would probably love to see Will's head on Betty's body and vice versa. I knew it couldn't be Kenan because he came up as an alt suspect too early. When Freddy brought up that they went to school together and Kenan didn't remember, I thought it was possible that Freddy would be the one who caught Kenan in a lie he told about the Alice Finney days, because he remembered enough about Kenan that Kenan had no idea that anyone else would know. Then we went to blackout and I knew that interrogation would not happen and the plot would zag instead of zig. There was also a part of me that wondered, if it's not John and it's not Kenan ... is Joyce the sister involved somehow? Glad she wasn't so John can go back home to family. When Caroline recovers enough to go out, she is going to get her favorite Mexican food and give the head mariachi guy the biggest hug she can manage. GBI and APD should rent out that restaurant for her post-recovery party. Pete's ME origin story was a standard one for a tv show, but he sold it. He is capable of way more than just severed finger jokes, all right?? I miss you, Betty Mariachi White Trent.

I wonder if Carol and Melissa from Abbott Elementary would be kindred spirits, frenemies, or competitive adversaries. They lucked out that Carol's storage unit is still intact and housing all of her items. She died over a year ago. Either Jerry is still paying for the unit (maybe he also keeps some things in there) or Carol prepaid far in advance and the contents haven't gone up for auction or disposed of. After the death of their accountant, I'd think the crime family would want to recover the incriminating records she had, but maybe the books Jay and Sam found are the older years (still within statute of limitations) that were off the mafia's radar, while the current year and more recent years were in Carol's office or on-site at a mafia storefront. Not sure why Isaac jumped to sharing a room with Alberta when he could have said, "I will share with Hetty," considering his strong friendship with her and wanting to prevent Hetty or Trevor, now in single rooms with no roommates to catch them, from sneaking into each other's rooms. Isaac and Hetty tried sharing back in season 1, but it's not like they couldn't live together. Once he could stop dodging her advances after coming out, they were fine. OK, I do understand why Isaac said he would share with Alberta - for narrative purposes and to give Hetty and Trevor their W. "Did not graduate."

Not sure if people here saw Morris in Rosewood, which ran for a couple seasons years ago with Jaina Lee Ortiz, but his flippant "smartest guy in the room" demeanor here reminds me more of his Rosewood doctor character. At least it does from memory, I have not watched Rosewood since it aired, but it's on Hulu. Barrett "my stats!!!" Cain from The Resident was more aggressively villainous and narcissistically self-centered than Watson here. I couldn't believe it when Watson forcefully pulled the patient back from the ledge and didn't do anything to control his fall. Just let him land hard on his back with no intervention to protect his head. (The actor fell with his neck craned up so his head didn't touch the ground.) This man was shot in the head!!! I think they said he had a craniotomy. He has a giant head wound and a bullet lodged in his brain!!! Not a good move, Watson. "Oopsie, I stopped him from killing himself and then I killed him a few seconds later." Must be Watson's BDE. Now that was definitely a Barrett Cain thing to do. And then Barrett would have billed the patient $500 for 5 minutes of his precious time. I don't like anyone on the team. Not compelling at all, don't want to know or spend time with any of them. Derian is kind of interesting, but I really would not want to know her IRL so she makes me very uncomfortable. I guess Watson has so much hubris that he doesn't think Derian would ever turn on him or sacrifice him in order to save herself or get ahead. That must also be Watson's BDE talking. Watson has no right to be harrumphing left and right about his wife moving on without him. Even he admits he left her and just expected her to be waiting for him whenever he came back. Just go get your own Gummi, man. Stop this shit. More of Watson's BDE. Watson's BDE has way more personality than Watson himself.

I couldn't believe it when they said anything in front of Annie after she gave them the Heisman as hard as she could for her client!!! They all stepped out in the hall and Hicks, Merrin Dungey, and Deacon were openly talking about "we'll keep watching him, he'll lead us to the girl" in front of his defense attorney!!! What! Why. Very weird writing. Even if Annie wasn't the public defender - just regular Annie, Deacon's wife - why would you talk about how you're going to keep going after a suspect in front of her like, yeah she belongs in this conversation, she should hear this. Miko is going to come back from Vegas after getting drunkenly married to Annie's sister. No, not really. Deacon is right - Nicole will dump him the second it suits her. Maybe after she releases this book she's writing and uses him to promote her self-published work on social media.

My assumption regarding the fire fighting at night is it's easier to manage the continuity across scenes. The fire scenes take up so much of the episode that they take days to shoot. Compare to the rescues on, say, Chicago Fire, which often are just a few minutes on-screen and then it's back to the firehouse or some other hijinks. A 40+ minute show is usually 8 or so shooting days. Fire Country's firefighting scenes take up most of the episode (it seems like at least half of the runtime). Shows don't shoot episodes in chronological order of the scenes, so if it's always moonlight-only + stage lighting in the fire scenes on Fire Country, they can keep more continuity in appearance if one scene was shot on Tuesday 11 pm, then cut to something shot on Thursday at 1 am, then next is a scene shot on Wednesday at 9 pm. Vs shooting in the daytime and when the editors cut it together, it's a scene with the sun at 11 am, followed by one at dusk, then followed by one at 3 pm. Managing this by requiring scenes to be shot so overhead daylight doesn't jump around across days of shooting is too restrictive. I also wonder if nighttime shoots make CGI fire in post-production easier or cheaper? This one, I don't know about. Off the top of my head, thinking about daytime rescues on Fire Country - the dispensary robbery was mostly indoors with a little bit of outside. The plane rescue with Jared Padalecki was daytime, but I don't remember it taking that long? Anyway. Gabriela is becoming more bearable and even Manny the backslider showed some restraint and ability to change. Firefighter Jesus slayed the dragon as we all knew he would, Declan Porter from "Revenge" will live another day to secretly pine after his cubicle neighbor, and the guy stuck in the pillory may just live in there now, permanently. Did they ever show him getting out of it?

David Guintoli!! I wish I had been surprised he appeared at the end, but the guest credits spoiled it. And James Roday Rodriguez got to direct him. What a fun little reunion. He looked great. I assume Roman ran to keep his family safe/out of whatever he had gotten into, after Agent Flynn was murdered. I don't think he killed her. Or maybe this is too straightforward and they will write something more ambiguous on Roman's part.

If this episode was meant to be aired this week several months ago, and FOX didn't change anything about the planned airing schedule, then this was the episode slated for after the Super Bowl until the show actually debuted and the low ratings obviously took the Super Bowl slot off the table. It was more "exciting" than other episodes, I'll give it that, but would have been so underwhelming as the post-Super Bowl show. I really do like that this show is not sensationalized the way that Baywatch was. As the only other lifeguard show people know of, the comparison is inevitable, even for the most casual of viewers. However, the problem is the show isn't giving enough of, basically, everything. 13 episodes in and all we've seen of Will is nice guy of poor character when it comes to women, just flip-flopping and cheating all over the place. But I don't know anything about why he is that way, so it just rings as empty. I mean, they couldn't even give us the decency of understanding even a smidge why he was with Julie, besides "rebound." At least show them laughing, show them legitimately getting along as planned life partners. All we ever saw was his obvious discomfort into fitting into her world and committing to her. We don't know why he even proposed in the first place. Denial? Well, maybe. But that makes him look like even more like an empty vessel of very little agency and conviction. And then we see him and Em having an affair where she, the other woman, is super pissed he's not being loyal in what he said he would do for her, at the expense of his actual partner. Neither of them address why this time around would be any different and how they will overcome the original reasons they broke up in the first place. Em just tells him, "it's hard, that's what makes this right." What is that BS. Laka was 100% right about everything. With all of this "telling" and absolutely no "showing," I have no problem understanding what I'm seeing but I just don't care. I didn't watch Animal Kingdom so I don't know if Matt Kester is actually really good at developing characters people care about, but it is not happening here. Not even in what seems like was planned to be the most visible and highly promoted episode of the series.

It is 100% a cost-cutting measure that is part of renewal decisions. The Chicago shows do it and FBI and FBI: Most Wanted also do it. The only reason FBI: International doesn't do it (this year) is because the lower cost of production oversees doesn't require it. Who knows - in order to get renewed next year, the producers may be told they need to drop costs even lower and now FBI: International has to make their series regulars fractional, too. Ghosts started out doing it in season 1, then stopped, and is now back to it, though not as much as season 1. Since it's norm now, as opposed to actors contracted for all episodes and then one spontaneously can't be in the episode because of illness or family emergency, I think they don't explain the absences on-air because they know they'd be explaining in numerous episodes. They probably think it's like "normal work" where employees take a PTO day and the people who are working that day don't talk to each other about why so-and-so isn't there.

I don't follow you. Where did we see Faith setting up the guest bathroom? Did we even see the guest bathroom? Oh sorry, I meant that as, Faith wasn't in the guest bathroom in that scene - that must be her room - because she wouldn't be setting up the guest bathroom at that point in her move-in. lulz I can see many people are also confused about what happened when Evelyn was taken. The officers Faith yelled at were milling about outside the condo building and defended themselves by saying, "it was a wellness check." But I was not sure if they thought it was a wellness check-up for Juanita, based on Evelyn's call, or a wellness check for Evelyn because she was interrupted during her 911 call by the bad guys and the dispatcher heard that. Or a check for both! It didn't make sense that the dispatcher would hear Evelyn in distress, never to return to the call - maybe a dropped phone on the floor, fighting/yelling in the background, or Evelyn only having time to say, "they're here!" after reporting a possible assault and kidnapping - and the officers would be told "wellness check." Possibly could be told "wellness check" for Juanita. Faith said, according to 911, Evelyn saw Juanita let the men in, so maybe that was "wellness check" for Juanita rather than active abduction for either woman. Because the officers were outside the building, not at a specific residence, I couldn't tell if they were there for Juanita or Evelyn or both. I would absolutely believe that Evelyn didn't remember Faith's exact address to tell 911. Faith had just moved in and Evelyn had never been there before. Even if she plugged the address into her car navigation or told a rideshare driver, I don't expect her to remember it later. I wouldn't. And no way did she know Juanita's address. Attached condos make that even harder - it's not like Single Family Residences where you can say, "I'm at 110 Main St - the woman is across the street on the odd-numbered side, the house with the blue shutters and pink flowerbeds." With the way the officers were just meandering outside in the courtyard, maybe all Evelyn had been able to tell 911 was stuff like, Faith's street name but not the numeric address, color of buildings, the woman is across the courtyard, we're on the ground floor, I don't know her address number, I don't know my daughter's address number. So the dillydallying officers didn't know where to go on their own. lulz I can see Evelyn being the kind of person who would not have Faith's new address on her phone, but she printed out a hard copy of the realty listing and had it in her purse. So maybe that's why she was in the guest room when the guys broke in. It's official. I have fallen down a deep hole of attempted comprehension. Someone call 911 for my wellness check.

The ghosts have seen The Cutting Edge dozens of times, but Thor has not watched Home Alone yet? Get on that, stat! The simple, "easy" miscounting error at the airport shuttles by the beautiful and most responsible cousin may make him feel a little better. Add in the comedy (you cannot tell me he wouldn't love the physical attacks on Harry and Marv) and the fact that he has already changed his views on something he once hated (Christmas) in a positive way, so just keep on going. Howwwww did Sam figure out a road sign was on Pete's path and contact the proper authorities to change the message in time? And how much did that cost?? Though that is in keeping with Sam and Jay being bad with money. Jay not exempt from that this episode, either, with his 100/200 lbs of shrimp needed urgently for no customers yet.