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It's moved from HBO to Showtime. They're 3 or 4 episodes in on the current season. Shane is no longer on camera, at least not yet. Many of the former correspondents are still on the show -- Isobel, Gianna. There are a couple of new faces. They've done two segments on the coronavirus, one from Bergamo, Italy and one at a NY-area hospital. Both are pretty heartbreaking, though the one on NY focuses on the health care workers where 60-70 of staff have been infected with various stages of the disease.

So Chuck is going to therapy which ends with doing eye moving exercises. After that he decides to go to war with Wendy over the divorce, denying her a big glass palace -- so much for her privacy. Chuck starts talking about how he's like Dexter Morgan, controlled by a Dark Passenger. But that follow-the-lights therapy was something out of another Showtime show, The Affair. Meanwhile, Axe and Wags go up north again, to a pseudo-Davos gathering of rich Americans hosted by Mike Prince. This "Mike" is suppose to be where they talk about how they as the rich elite can give back or make the world better place. Axe isn't having it. He's a "fucking carnivorous monster" and so is everyone else at that gathering. They're out to win and they rich people who want to do good are delusional, he says. Prince says "you didn't build it" that he stood on other people's shoulders and took advantage of infrastructure, liquidity, etc. to become rich. Axe says he benefitted from the paved roads but he was the driver. Bobby is unconvinced but his ulterior motive for going up there was to cut deals with people who are involved in medical ayahuasca. So the previous trip up North was to scope out a business opportunity, not spiritual discovery -- as if we should be surprised. Wags tries to cut a deal by taking this investor to a strip club, only to find the headliner is Brandi, his own daughter. Hence the name of the episode, though apparently they just threw in that scene in order to use the episode name. Chuck is also using his Dark Passenger to manipulate his friend Judge DeGiulio into a post as the Solicitor General, where he can be more useful to the NY AG, rather than DeGiulio's preferred spot on the Supreme Court. Turns out the judge authored the infamous torture memo. Back at Axe Cap, Lauren is recruited by Wendy to smooth over relations with a major client, while Taylor runs into ex boyfriend Oscar at the Mike and finds that Oscar doesn't want to keep his money as long as Mason Cap is under the roof of Axe Cap. So they tell Oscar how bad a chess player he is. Bobby thinks they have the medical ayahuasca deal done but then Prince comes up with the ayahuasca shaman, scuttling Axe's deal. That pisses him off, now knows he's at war with Prince. He also tells Wendy to "gut" Chuck in the divorce, probably going to get her the best divorce lawyer. At this point, what is holding Bobby and Wendy back from fucking?

Don’t know, don’t care. NY Times wants a truth commission. No, she can go to the police if she’s alleging a crime. 27 years too late but that’s on her. She wasn’t even claiming sexual assault a year ago. End her 15 minutes of fame please.

Yeah I remember that but apparently Lila forgot about it. I think later on, the Caraccis and the Solaras appear like rivals, especially that New Years Eve battle where they were shooting guns from rooftops. So maybe she just wanted someone who looked at the Solaras as enemies, because as we recall Marcello went to Lila's parents and got their permission to marry her but she wasn't going to have any of it. At 13, was Stefano already a bad apple? Or do kids learn to become bullies from their parents? OTOH, Alfonso was gentle back then and gentle as a grownup. So of course, the girls have zero interest in him.😄

Just watched the pilot, which makes it look like the loner but brilliant girl and the popular big man on campus love story. But it sounds like there’s a lot more to it. The young actress is a Londoner but she’s got the Irish accent dead on — well at least to my ears even though I’ve never been to Dublin. Probably some other English actors in the cast as well? See that it’s at least a joint BBC production.

Trailer, show premiers 5/17/20. Creator and show runner. worked on Gotham as producer and also The Mentalist. Jerry Bruckheimer is exec. producer so some muscle. I don't recognize any of the actors. From the trailer, it's nominally a story about a young woman who decides to investigate a murder in Cape Cod. She hooks up with other women, gets high a lot. So a queer, Millenial/Gen Z version of Sharp Objects? Not sure if this is a limited series or they hope to run multiple seasons if the ratings are there. If nothing else, maybe we get a look at a lot of Cape Cod but it appears they will show the underbelly of it, not the glamorous travelogue version, necessarily. Never been to New England so I don't know what kind of glamor there is. Must be an attraction for some well-off people from Boston area but not as glamorous as Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket?

I'm not sure if Stefano would have beat Lila. Once Lila decided that she hated him, he wanted her more and really tried to win her over. He let her pull a knife on him and walk away, even though the Solaras are gangsters, even more so than Stefano. He hasn't tried to seduce her again but his brother Michele, wants Lila now -- is there one male who doesn't want her? But I think it's partly because she refused to design more shoes and also because he saw that Stefano and Lila had obvious problems. You wouldn't think Elena's father would hit her mother but her mother did hit Elena early on, so that has to come from somewhere. Likewise, Lila's father wasn't shown hitting her mother but the fact that he'd throw her out the window shows how easily they will resort to violence. Nino's father isn't the hitting type either, though he's a creep otherwise. So Stefano has to own being a wife beater, can't be blamed solely on culture. Hell we think we're so evolved compared to the times depicted in the show. But DV is still a big thing nowadays.

That was so contrived and forced. You can tell the other cast mates were prodded to talk it up in the talking heads. I wonder how close to Maddie Gras they filmed in New Orleans, which would have been around Feb 25. Mardi Gras this year is linked to a Coronavirus outbreak which affected the state of Louisiana. Even though they throw beads to passerbys I think MG would have been too late to be airing episodes now. NJ and NY are among the hardest hit states so are they staying there or have they bailed?

Jenna will never win. She’s just not checked out in this challenge, she’s just not fierce and does t seem to train like someone like Tori. She wasted years with Jay, now wasting them with Zach and is really wasting time on the Challenges. But for some reason the producers like showing her being a weepy doormat. And they like to show Bananas and Wes’ antics, wasted so much of this episode on that dumb shit. I’d rather see them show the elimination than that manufactured drama. Bayleigh and Swaggy talk up a such a big game but they don’t perform — he’s 6-4? Probably doesn’t bode well for Wes to have a secret alliance with them. The previews show Jenna and Nany around so apparently they don’t go in. They also show Dee in an elimination again, which is surprising since she’s a tough competitor.

Yeah I doubt she’s a big IG figure. But I’ve seen some pretty good practical info on these blogs which I’ve found by searching say 10 day Thailand itinerary, to get ideas. But certainly no money in those. Unless she’s actually running guided tours or something. So in this case, they have some other source of money they don’t want to really disclose on the show.

There are a lot of bloggers who put up practical info. But where they may get a lot of traffic is on Youtube and Instagram. These are often attractive young women, who often post photos of themselves in swim suits at scenic locales. Or they glam it up with hair and makeup professionally done and have pictures taken professionally but posted to IG. If they build enough traffic they can endorse products for real money.

Prague: She went on and on about the ceilings, said it would be worth paying $200 more a month for decorative ceilings than for stainless steel appliances. In the end they settled for a more plain looking place, but cheaper, roomier. He talked about wanting to travel, because his father died before he could. He gave up a good job in order to be his girlfriend's lackey.

I haven't seen it but he seems like the type who'd just take the high road regardless of the people or situation. He has nothing to gain by denigrating people so no matter how much Bravo wanted him to stir things up, he may not be that kind. Then again he did sign up for the show, unless he never watched or heard about the other BD shows or Bravo in general.

The plots did get convoluted as the series went on. Became a senator, which is kind of farcical for such a flawed, undisciplined guy. Brilliant but too easily distracted by the partying and gambling to really get anywhere. But the joke is that there are many such corrupted and flawed people in the Australian legal and political ranks? Not exactly a glowing portrayal of Aussie society. Then again, it mocked the US politicians too, a bit in that last season. US Secretary of Defense is named Potemkin? Otherwise no other overt jokes about Putin having control over a certain US politician. Every character comes across flawed. Wendy married that drug pushing guy who was going to shoot his way out of trouble and then was involved with the sociopath political consultant lesbian. Then one of the Australian prime minister had those plumbers killed. Maybe if I was familiar with Australian politics, I would recognize characters like Cal and other "polys" as being caricatures of real life Australian politicians?

I guess there was a lot of money in that school district. But was he only in charge of one high school or the whole district? Why does a public school or school district have a business manager? He must have been making a very high salary if he still gets a $180k pension. But he only embezzled $2.2 million? Or only charged with stealing that much? Pamela is the one who went out of control, got her own family involved in the grift. But $4.3 million buys 2 oceanside homes plus other stuff? Was it like maybe in the '80s or something?

Yeah she was in another episode. Name is Floor. The other Holland agent, who usually does the Amsterdam episodes, is more chipper and bubbly. Forget her name. Other agent name is Sarah, an older blond woman, either American or maybe English.

Elena works hard at university but still lacks confidence. She isn't sure about her worth, even though she finishes her degree with the highest grades. Doesn't help that she has to fight provincial attitudes, like her Latin professor who tells her that she can't cut it in academia because of her accent and a well-known family. She had the good fortune to meet Franco who helped her adjust to life at university and then meets another young man with good family connections She has to get out her life story, which is titled The Digression, including the "racy" part where she becomes a woman on Ischia. She was headed to be an ordinary teacher back in her neighborhood until Pietro gets her book published. Future isn't looking as promising for Lila, who's left Stefano and is losing her beauty working at that salami factory. Unless Enzo becomes a programming whiz at Olivetti or something, she's reverted to the mean in the neighborhood. So does Nino recognize from Lenu's book that it's his father whom he despises who's in the book? He abandoned Lila and the kid but is Elena going to blow her engagement to Pietro for Nino? Damn, it's going to be a long time before season 3 is out ...

Stratton was relatively too cool to have Constantin hold a knife to his neck. He's not the regular civilian that he's suppose to be. This isn't some guy who just happens to figure out how to slip police like that and then also conspire with the call girl to pull the heist. Show does a good job of ramping up suspense several times, like Julien finding the head, Edward walking along the parapet, Julien breaking into the creeper's padlocked basement.

Interview with Nolan in Variety. sounds like they have no plan to get rid of ERW. They are just being canny about how the character would return.

That 12 leader who visited Dasha said don't kill Eve but put a wedge between Eve and V. Plus it turned out Dasha stole Niko's phone and texted Eve, posing as Niko, which caused her to come up to Poland. So the ploy was to get Eve to think V. killed Niko.

And they didn't even use them that much. What about rubber bullets or bean bags used as shots? I don't know, they said 1% are outliers. They alone are going to overthrow civilization? In Inside the Episode, they were proud of the lighting and the fog and how it gave the riot scenes some great look they were touting. Eh, those riot scenes were on screen for maybe a few minutes. Just wanted to see him get to Incite for the climax. Seemed really too easy, to get to the computer that controls the world, with the actual control center in the lobby, not buried in the basement through layers of security. And one more time, what about a few more security access levels before Caleb gets to say "shut down and erase yourself?" Or at least backups? Actually for something like that, I would bet there are multiple data centers and physical instance of the big orb, which are sync'd continuously.

Sorry that was in the previews for next episode. Maybe I should have spoiled it. He just admitted to Ruby that they did.

BTW looked like they may have telegraphed the return of Nathan at some point. I don't think the parking space thing was a big deal, just to have a visual gag of them both trying to get into the spot. Guess they really wanted to make use of the drone cameras this season.

Simpsons did a parody of the Succession opening for tonight’s opening. Episode is called Warrin’ Priests Part 2.

Why did Konstantin have V. kill the accountant’s widow off book? If the 12 wanted the accountant dead, they would have the widow killed, especially if he left instructions with her to drop some file if he died? Anyways, obviously the 12 is some Russian organization, likely with the support of the Russian state, in order to be able to operate throughout Europe, have all kinds of resources. Doubtful it’s just some rogue, secretive organization which just happens to operate out of Russia and have all these Russian agents. So MI5 and whatever Eve is doing with those reporters, trying to identify the 12 seems a little besides the point. Just assume it’s a state sponsored organization out to assassinate prominent Europeans and work on taking down the known agents, imposing sanctions, etc.