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On the plus side, Gabby's has gotten a lot more screen time this season, lol.

Awwwe! Why'd you have to go and bring that up?! I just got it pushed far enough to the back of my memory banks that I could accept it, lol!

Hey, glad to help.....I'm a bit of a music junkie, lol. I can totally see trying to make a Wilbury's connection, they're essentially a rock 'n' roll version of the Highwamen. They came out a few years later and I sometimes wonder if it was a conscious decision or if it was as organic as they claimed....then I think, who cares, it was great!

The Lost Highways...I think? Google tells me there's a 1997 David Lynch movie named Lost Highway, but I somehow doubt the guys sat and discussed cult films to come up with a band name. Only Avery strikes me as intellectual enough to be into that. The band name is The Last Highways. I believe it's in reference to Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, collectively known as The Highwaymen for those who weren't aware. When they first started talking about making it a regular thing, Gunnar made the point that they could be a similar type group or situation. I'm assuming the "Last" refers to the fact that nobody in country music plays or writes songs like those four guys anymore, and WAG want to try and keep that tradition alive, so they are "the last of the highwaymen" or "The Last Highways" for short. Adding a female hasn't necessarily ruined it for me, I think they still sound great, but it kind of shoots their original philosophy in the foot. Gunnar complaining about always singing the high parts and why don't we get a girl to do it was just stupid because he has a naturally higher register than the other two and still sings higher parts; adding a female didn't replace his parts, it just added to their overall vocal range. Sam Palladio is great , but that rehearsal where he coughed and cleared his throat before suggesting the female addition was arguably his worst acting on the show, lol! The worst part about this is she's only being written in to inject so much useless, unnecessary conflict into these guys' lives at this point.

Yes. He used to see dead people, now he makes dead people.

I found season 1s darkness more absurd. I don't find a teenage girl turning to web porn because she's lonely, or an outcast joining a gang and basically trashing his future because he's following the same stupid path as his father that absurd. I feel like this season went more towards realism and it's hurting the show. I liked Alice cleaning blood off the floor and the Cooper women and Jones men hiding bodies and cars because that is absurd so it's funny to me. I actually find Chic pretty absurd too so he doesn't bother me the way he's bothering others. It's a sign, I hope, that things are going back towards dark humor rather than just gritty depressing darkness. I loved the dark humor of season 1. Hell, I loved Archie's shirtless vigilante group because it was so absurd and so very Archie. But then things, IMO, took a turn for the humorless. We all do see things differently, and we all want different things from the show. That is why I think pandering to an audience is the worst idea for a show. Because by pandering to one sect they are alienating another. They need to write the story they want to write because then the writing will be stronger and their passion for the story will draw more people in. Trouble is, I think they lost sight of what they want and are trying to give us what we want, but there are so many of us and we all want different things. It's just never going to work. I want it to go back towards dark humor. I don't want no darkness, I just don't want realistic darkness. I have life for that. Give me couples and families bonding over hiding bodies, give me incest twins, and grandmothers who think their grandchildren should have been drown at birth, give me evil maple syrup magnets and shirtless vigilantes. Leave out the Mafioso crap and the gangland skinnings and teenage online prostitution. And especially don't equate mental illness with overt sexuality just because it's happening to a pretty female that they want to get stripped down to her underwear as much as possible. I think that might just be a near perfect assessment. Your point about pandering made me reconsider my thought regarding the show vs the real world. If the show has tried to reflect anything of the real world, I would say it is issues of political correctness, however ham fisted they've managed it. I think they've done a great job of achieving diversity of representation, though some characters stories could use a little more flesh *cough* Josie, *cough* Kevin and Reggie, but some situations just seem hackneyed, trite or hypocritical. The things done to Chuck by the women in response to things he did and didn't do in regard to The Women's Movement come to mind, and the idea of the Serpents gang being derived from the remnants of a Native tribe is a little left field bizarre and feels a bit shoehorned in. Like you say, we have real life for this; give us the sublimely absurd escapism offered off the top.

Yeah.. I know I remember but this season feels way too dark. I feel like it’s not even fun. At least last season the kids acted like kids. We haven’t seen anything remotely like that this season. At least in my opinion. Fair enough. I just find the darkness is offset by how absurd it all is, lol. It's interesting how people perceive things differently; I have a friend who turned the pilot off after 20 minutes because he thought the kids didn't act like kids at all. I don't necessarily disagree with him, but I don't particularly care, either. It initially bothered me more how ridiculously insane most of the parents seemed to be, but I've come to realize that the show isn't even remotely trying to reflect anything of the real world. Now I just sit back and try to enjoy the ride, lol! ;)

Yeah. I don’t know, it’s just not my favorite thing. And a season ago, this show felt very different and more lighter than what it is now. You must have missed the borderline incest between distant cousins Polly Cooper and Brother Blossom, as well as the drug kingpin masquerading as a maple syrup magnate who hung himself after it was discovered he was the one who murdered his own son, lol. ;)

LMAO! Hey, it's been a couple years, maybe she's matured a bit....you know, because new writers. ;) Anyway, we can relax, it didn't happen,lol.

For the first time this season, nothing REALLY made me want to scratch my eyeballs out. It wasn't great but I think the focus and pacing of each storyline was more well balanced. Deacon and Jessie weren't abnormally awkward and uncomfortable for a change and Chip definitely brought his 'A' game; I was genuinely moved. Did anyone else, just for a minute, think that the guys might track down or run into Layla Grant in their quest for female talent? I would have been ok with that possibly, if only to give the character a bit more closure.

I just finished watching Fire and found it is not one that had stuck with me. Once I started it came back to me of course, and Mark Sheppard is great as always, but I still didn't find it to be one of the better efforts of the season thus far. I must have missed something because I couldn't figure out why Amanda Pays' character had come over with the family from Scotland Yard or what she was investigating on their behalf. Why was Sheppard's character attacking them when he'd been hired to stay on as caretaker of the property even after killing the previous owners, unbeknownst to anyone; what was his motivation? Did I miss something or was he just a pyro-kinetic nut job?

Spurred by the new season, I just started to rewatch the original series from the start. Back when it was on I didn't start watching the show until season 4, I think, so I had a lot of catching up to do. I'm about to start Beyond The Sea and I'm surprised that it, and these others, are all from season 1 - Ice, Fallen Angel, Eve, E.B.E, both Squeeze and Tooms and The Erlenmeyer Flask. There are plenty of clunkers here, so far, but these really stand out to me as prime examples of why the show was given the chance to grow and become as good as it did. If I'd have been asked, prior to watching them again, I would've guessed these were all from season 2 or 3 and I'll bet there will be a couple more I forgot about before I get to the end of season 1.

Oh, that's right, now I remember why he's SO evil, lol! That was some straight up villainous sarcasm. Bravo! :)

That's what I heard, lmao!

OK, good. Thanks, lol! Now I can watch this episode with relative peace of mind. Cheers!

what the hell is going on?! In the recap for last weeks episode "The Fugees", they showed Kev and V saying they were going to find Svetlana a sugar daddy, she says she's past her whoring prime, then Kev turns around the laptop showing the top 10 websites for finding a man, or something to that affect. when the hell did that happen, I never saw any of that? I even put on the episode and fastforwarded to all the relevant scenes; nothing. WTF?! Did I miss something or am I just going crazy? anybody got answers for me? it's driving me a little nuts.

Oh, I don't blame him either, she treated him horribly most of the time. I just felt there were moments leading up to her bringing him breakfast only to learn he had left that showed her softening and warming up to him. It was just too little, too late.

I am also most likely in the minority on this; I felt at times that Vic was starting to come around to seeing Travis' potential, even if he wasn't always the smartest, most suave guy around. As a guy who hasn't always found her to be the most attractive to me, personally, I have to concur; She was looking quite exceptionally fine!

Yeah, pretty much this in it's entirety. I never bought Waltoria for a second and the minute they started making overtures in that direction I thought "oh come on, what is this BS?". Glad to see there are a number of us here that agree. If anything, I was hoping for a reveal of Travis as the father and them both maturing and bonding over the loss but nope, Travis' story ends with a broken heart, meltdown disappearance, c'est la vie. Honestly, I found the idea of Cady running for sheriff a far more believable premise than that of Walt and Vic falling in love. Sure, she's not a cop, but being a lawyer she probably knows the law as well, if not better, than half of Walt's entire staff when they started. Vic was already a cop in Philly when she transferred/moved and he hired her. How much training did Ferg have when he was hired, was he ever a cop somewhere else? Zack said he loved being a cop, but the only time he ever was, happened to be when Walt hired him for five minutes. For that matter, how much law enforcement experience did Walt have himself when Lucian hired HIM all those years ago? Is that really how county sheriff offices operate? Contrary to what most seem to think, I would say Cady running for sheriff falls more on the realistic side for me than does Walt and Vic's relationship, though I could see her only doing it for an indeterminate amount of time before deciding once again to pursue bigger things.

Yeah, that much I remembered. I just finished the finale. I liked the way it played out, though I kind of saw it coming. I think you'll be ok. As for the finale itself, it was pretty decent, for the most part. There were some things I didn't care for but it wrapped the story fairly well.

For the life of me, I can't remember if they've ever revealed who the actual father is. I've watched a little bit of the next episode and I'm trying to anticipate different characters reactions.

Lol, that's exactly what I thought!

I never even considered that as a possibility but I love it! Exactly what I said too. I wonder if she somehow managed to actually make herself a meta human.

A thousand times yes!

OMG, can't believe I missed that, LOL. Too funny!