Sarah D. Bunting

Son Of A Grifter is a great read! Frustrating, but compelling. There are used copies on Amazon starting at a dollar. Didn't Mary Tyler Moore play Sante or am I crazy?

If he had just left that hat on its hook...

Heyohhhhh

She's going to be known as A Certain Harpy from now on.

^ That would have been my rationale for that guess too.

Yep, I believe Connie Britton's also been cast.

Yeah, they claimed they announced it, but knowing about it beforehand wouldn't have helped, really.

I did see that, and read it while leaning on a boulder of salt (hee).

Fixed on the page, sorry about that!

hi guys! Thanks so much for the kind words. We definitely hope to get back to Season 3: The Piz-ness as soon as we can -- although it seems go90 pulled VM from its rotation of shows, so maybe it's for the best that we're also taking a break. (Is it still airing on POP at all?) We for sure have less patience for certain things in the show than "civilian" viewers, probably because of how we have to approach it analysis-wise, but it's still such a great show to think about and unpack. We'll miss doing that with you guys...but feel free to keep it going in here and we'll chime in on things!

The man himself doesn't care nearly as much about this as I do, but was pleased to find he actually had lines plural. Now I'm walking around the house drawing down on the cats and barking, "WHERE'S THE ACETONE?!"

Sorry.

[Stack voice] Update! Listener Beth found him in S02.E16, at about the 42-minute mark (he's on the left):

Thank you, that makes complete sense.

My esteemed colleague John Ramos and I did a Stayin' Alive drinking game almost 20 years ago: https://tomatonation.com/culture-and-criticism/staying-drunk/

goddammit Grosswirth

Bless your heart for noticing that. - an Aries

Just one of the services we proudly provide. hee hee

Thanks for the book rec; someone on Twitter mentioned it also. @rwgrab, that was my issue too. The fact is, there's just a big hole at the center of things where someone who might have been convinced to tell the truth -- even against his best interest, and primarily to show off to l.e., but still -- died years ago and can't fill things in. Without Rothstein, it's functionally impossible to get at what might have been going on. And I had hoped they would get into more detail about Wells, i.e. whether he had a delay or some sort or struggled with substance abuse, and I suspect getting his family's cooperation was not really on the table given everything else they felt about the handling of the case/his remains...but here again we have a Duplass-produced project that seems to leave big gaps that make it much more difficult to speculate. Definitely very watchable, but these serieseses do have a certain frustrating element to them in that way.

That's a good point re: Keith. Pretty OOC for him to do that.

Aw, my people. Watched the last two yesterday; found them a bit of a letdown, which I think probably wouldn't have been the case if I hadn't had the big gap between viewings. Has anyone else streamed the whole thing yet?

We may not have, as we record these fairly far in advance -- apologies! We're back 5/14.

"my recollection is that Terrance Cook is hospitalized because he was shot during his attempt to break into Naima's house" We're going to be complaining about this in a future episode so just roll your eyes now, because I forgot this was a thing. I thought he was "just" on suicide watch. The way he's discharged is very weird regardless of what he's in the hospital for.

thanks -- glad you're feeling better!

YES. What a strange, stale biscuit he is.