Razzberry

When Mary starts with the f-bombs, you know she's pissed and you'd best watch your back! I love historical dramas and this series was a step up from their usual heavily fictionalized fare. I half expected to see the entire Jane Grey debacle, Mary's reign, and Elizabeth's coronation compressed into this episode. Hopefully they are saving it for season 2! Lots of drama on the stairs...nice try at slut-shaming, but Elizabeth became the virgin.

It seems like they ended it before Elizabeth really became the Elizabeth we're familiar with, so I take that as a good sign it will have a season 2. I just hope we don't have to wait a long time!

Two in the chest from a frightened home owner should contain him.

Not from the Starz series, but I didn't know where else to post it.

Oh no, the dreaded cough of death. Can't say that I'll miss his tantrums, bird pluckings, or Burning Man entertainments. So much scratching, clawing, scheming and cursing by power-mad courtiers. It's bound to get even darker. Nice to see Amy depicted.

Thanks for the heads up. Looking for it I came across another episode about Katherine Parr that covers the scandal, Parr, Seymore, Elizabeth, Henry. Very interesting. On Google Play, no signup needed. Not Just the Tudors: Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen

I finally got caught up and now they're taking a break. Really enjoying it so far, even though it seemed like "Becoming Thomas" for a while. It was hard to watch a queen and a princess both losing their minds over that maniac. Was glad when he finally got the axe, to be honest. Didn't care for their depiction of Katherine Parr either. She always seemed so responsible and all about education. Alison Weir takes the view that her behavior can be explained by the fact she'd never been in love before, despite being widowed several times, and Thomas must have been incredibly charismatic. So she was blinded by love, at least for a while, until the day she caught them in an intimate embrace or something.

Calling it now for season 2. Angela/Emily will actually turn out to be Harper's biological daughter. He seemed way too bitter and judgmental about her mother. 😉 We'll never know the context of the scene in the trailer when Dan is being followed while driving his dogs in a tan station wagon. Aiming a gun at them looked pretty cool though.

Nippy is a shark that patrols California beaches who authorities suspect ate Howard whole.

Dan seems to have magical powers when it comes to airlines. Maybe he smuggled Emily out of the country the same way he smuggled his gun into it. Too much handwaving in a spy story and it doesn't hold together, imo.

Bridges and Lithgow are the only reasons I watched the entire season, even though Bridges was unfortunately somewhat limited. Lithgow turned out to be my favorite player, but only because he's the most emo-driven master spy I've ever seen and it's unintentionally hilarious. Little wonder he felt an instant kinship with Angela, who physically assaults her instructor for calling her Freckles. He can't even take a phone call without almost coming undone.

Hazben seems totally dominated by his wife, which is not a good look for a warlord. You'd think the daughter's freckles would make him wonder about the baby-daddy, but I guess DNA kits don't exist there? All this stupidity could have been easily avoided. We're back to this "little girl" nonsense.. Sez you. Look, she's a woman in her thirties and a federal agent. Frankly I don't give a damn. Her father could have been anyone, most likely of European ancestry.

It's almost like this clunky line of dialogue was inserted later, after someone realized that Zoe's following the lawyer so readily made no sense. Not that it makes more sense afterwards. After all, the only thing the lawyer with the severe haircut said was "We should find a place to talk more privately." or something like that. She knew her name, but no threats were involved. I know it's a silly question at this point, but where did Dan get the gun? And poor Harper, this career agency man, constantly looks like he's going to break down in tears and is being ordered around by his 30 year old surrogate "daughter". Could be the onset of Alzheimer's, I suppose.

I love that IMDb lists a "CIA consultant" in the credits. As if it's an accurate depiction of their operations, or that they even care about that. The implausible situations would be easier to swallow with a bit of dark comedy, but it takes itself so seriously. I do hope that they get some new writers for season 2.

I think virtually all of RT's critical reviews were written after viewing the first three episodes only. Even though the public's viewing options and habits have changed, critics still rush to press based on limited samples when it comes to series, and rarely update their reviews. The show will hype those glowing phrases like "Best show on TV!" forever. I can't imagine book reviews based on the first couple of chapters, or movie reviews on the first 30 minutes as being very meaningful.

After a few hours of Emily's monotone sermons the kidnappers will probably shoot her or themselves.

I got a low rent B-grade James Bond vibe. Bote's ace assassin is there, now giving money to street vendors for no reason. Tune in next week when he rescues a litter of kittens and helps a blind man cross the road.

Perversely, I'm actually looking forward to this for some reason. Maybe just to see how bad it can get. Dangerous Dan arrives to the Showdown in the Desert with a girlfriend he's known for a week. Should be good. 😉

The current direction was established right off the bat. They knew his shoes and other items would wash ashore and that's why they brought them. It's not a big deal breaker for me, but it could be for someone investigating the disappearance.

Sure, but mostly it doesn't, at least in California where I SCUBA dive. Maybe in Boston, I don't know.

You can walk into the ocean and drown yourself, but your body or some parts will wash up on shore just like Howard's shoes. To escape this you'd need to swim a long ways out, further than anyone committing suicide would be motivated to do. Doesn't wash.

If the cops fail to pursue it as a murder, Howard's case would still be red meat for the multitude of true crime shows and podcasts, Unless we're supposed to believe that Dateline, 20/20, Cold Justice, Disappeared, Suspicion, Dead of Night, Highway to Hell, Secrets and Lies, In Pursuit, and countless others don't exist in this universe, Howard will live on as a very mysterious disappearance. I can almost hear Keith Morrison sarcastically questioning the timing of the refrigerator removal. Most of these shows don't actually do much investigating of their own, but they do help keep a spotlight on cold cases.

Getting a sample of her DNA would be the only way to know with certainty, not to mention a lot easier.

I keep hoping that eventually things will click into place and make sense, but honestly I stopped trying to figure out where the writers are going with this spy thriller. It seems to be heading into soap opera territory with the Emily character. When Bridges or Lithgow aren't in it, my attention wanders.

Was it this scene? IIRC, she was saying that he DOES have it in him and he's full of crap, in a manner of speaking. I may need to watch it again though.