Sarah D. Bunting

I do not remember this AT ALL and we are always harping on the look on Again With This, because the Bev Niners do it constantly, especially Steve. The More You Knooowww

It is, like mild Cracker Barrel, serviceable cheese.

Thanks for the kind words -- and the correction; I'm never going to know the differences amongst guns on my own. Well, except a .44, which isn't relevant here. (I...hope.) re: the claw hammer -- maybe it IS common. My point was the terminology, though, that if you ask 10 people on the street to go into a hardware store and get you "a hammer," 8 of them will come out with the claw kind. The other 2 will ask which sort of hammer you want. (Where I live, it's more like 4/6, but this neighborhood has a high concentration of tradespeople.)

Thanks, Nanna! And THANK YOU, Maxine! I just kept thinking of Steve's dumb license plate and I couldn't come up with the actual code.

Me too! What was the broadcast version, do you remember?

Sadly, specifying which player bonked a gimme is not usually necessary. It's always this guy. (hee)

Both of you get out.

I am informed via email that Bill Kurtis is on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, not PHC. Oops! Sorry, Bill!

I think you misheard. I don't remember precisely but I think my point was that the actor who did play Manson in Aquarius was too short to play Koresh? Anyway: welcome! And feel free to file corrections; I just "accused" Bill Kurtis of working in Prairie Home Companion in a recent Mini, which he does not do.

^ We'll look into this; thanks! And sorry!

[thank you for helping me make "hilarrible" happen]

WITH those nails, too.

I think it was Scenes From The Class Struggle In Beverly Hills. Insufficiently virginal for his tastes, I guess. Did he remind anyone else physically of the actor who plays the James Dean/poetry boho guy in Peggy Sue Got Married?

Not at the moment, no -- but let me know if it's any good.

Same. And, having just discovered his first book was about the Oliver North case, double same.

Well, yes -- but the show is not consistent as to that, is the issue. We understand that it isn't an ensemble drama; the show is named after her, after all. But 1) we do see other characters doing things VM doesn't know about/interacting with each other away from her, so the argument that it's her show loses a little force there, and 2) her being in the foreground/the primary POV isn't the issue, it's how consistently other characters in her orbit are drawn, right down to how frequently they appear (a budget thing not in the writers' control) and how they're drawn episode to episode versus one-shot characters who often seem to get more depth and higher polish. If this isn't bothersome to you, that's awesome. To me, it's a little frustrating, because the show is so good and so promising. Like, if shit is out of character on Dawson's Creek, who cares, you don't expect much, but on VM it's like a poppyseed at the gumline. IMO, of course.

@txhorns79 that one's in my to-read stack and I remember thinking the same thing about it...but then also thinking, well, then it's Toobin Crime Story since they used a book of his for the OJ season.

I mostly found it striking that I'd seen Moriarty twice in a week. @sinkwriter thanks! re: comments that Criss isn't playing Cunanan's charm/it "should be less obvious" that he's lying, I think you have a few things at work here. In serial-killer narratives there's always this central question, namely why did this happen/how could this have been stopped from happening/WHY wasn't it stopped from etc. The answer really is that there is no answer -- killers kill; it's not, unfortunately, something we can control per se, although extensive reading on the topic may make us feel like we can, but that's another monologue :) -- but in the case of a high-functioning sociopath like Cunanan, it's basically that he was harmless, until he wasn't. The lies were obvious, but they didn't seem significant, just sad. And often getting caught lying precipitates far more serious actual transgressions. So there's that. In THIS narrative there's also the meta idea of perspective, so creating confusion about what happened versus what Cunanan merely said/wanted to have happened is part of a larger comment on both the nature of truth and the stories some LGBTQ people may have had to create around themselves in order to exist in the world 20 years ago. Finally, when you're portraying a serial killer, a person who took and destroyed lives, even if he was a charming and generous delight to many many people and not a danger to the vast majority, it's very hard not to feel obliged to tip it a little away from that out of respect for the carnage he left in his wake. I'd say you see this somewhat in Mark Harmon's portrayal of Bundy, which is excellent, but renders Bundy as "off" in a way that I suspect was not quite the actual presentation. Not that he wasn't off; I just think it was less...performative. Which, duh, but it's TV. These theories brought to you by evening overcaffeination!

Much improved, thanks!

^ Can't wait for your comments after you've listened.

Interesting idea; not sure I buy it given the kids apparently weren't affected -- and would have been sooner/more severely given their smaller body mass, no? I'm not a doctor.

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Ugh. Also, Cathy Moriarty was in this week's This Is Us, no? Give the other actors a chance, kid. heh. Unrelated: apologies to listeners of the podcast verzh of the recap; I think I was mispronouncing "Cote."

I could have done without the focus-pull shot of both man and bird on the autopsy table, side by side. At least have a character be like "...really?" in the scene to cut the air a little, if that makes sense.