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How would it help Emily's defense when he wasn't taking any money from her, in fact tried to get a loan to continue to pay the bills and his employees working on the case? He can't be sure another lawyer would take it up, without billing her or that Perry and Della would be able to continue the defense. Emily would be eligible for court-appointed defense but maybe not Perry and Della? Which would be bad for Emily since they've been working on a case and a new lawyer and his or her team would be starting from scratch.

I don’t know about the pace being too slow. They mean to use the whole season for this one case so it seems to drag on. But EB’s exit sure will accelerate Perry’s career change. Here we were speculating about when he would go to law school and now he has to take over a real high-profile case. Did we ever see him in court? Never mind knockout closing arguments. Does he even know court procedures? If he’s delivering a summation argument in this case, that would be a little hard to take, since he’s not licensed to practice law. If he breaks the case open outside of court, makes the DA drop his case, get the crooked cops arrested, that would be dramatic but it wouldn’t be on-brand for this character. Maybe this Perry Mason won’t try cases?

They don't say how long Keisha has been missing but it has to be at least a couple of weeks. The private investigator is asking for more money so maybe the police looked at it for a couple of weeks and then they hired a PI? And it's almost half way through the season so now the plot about her missing seems to be a tool to tell other stories, like another chance for Ronnie to make himself better about himself but it didn't pan out. Seems like they're going to gradually push this story into the background, maybe as some object lesson about how dangerous it can be in this community. Douda aspires to be more than a gangster and wants to be a proud father. OK but did he have Reg killed partly because he wanted to take care of Jake? OK, Emmet has to romance his baby momma, maybe he can build something real, like he's trying to build his business. This season it's kind of becoming the anti-Seinfeld, much hugging and learning being attempted.

https://decider.com/2020/07/10/hbo-cancels-run-after-one-season/ Sounds to me like Vicky Jones, the show runner, didn't really have a plan or at least a convincing one, for a second and later seasons. Sounds like she didn't close the deal, though HBO must have given her a hearing. Considering that they have to fill up HBO Max with content, it must have done poorly in the ratings.

That wasn't one of her better lines. But she said something about the 15-inch screen being like a hatch or portal to all the evidence out there. Some of the narration had some wonderful sequences of sentences, like the GSK wielding light into the faces of his victims, causing them disorientation -- when they were woken in the middle of the night.

So most of them moved on with their lives, have actual careers. Or maybe they were unable to sustain any kind of income between seasons like Bananas and a few others. Even with the million dollar prizes of recent seasons, it's not enough for most competitors to keep going, unless they split it say 4 ways , maybe $250k each or something like that. And then also make it worth other players to compete, maybe make say $50k a season whether they win or not. That is what people have speculated about Bananas, that MTV loves him and is willing to pay him to appear on each season. Not sure the ratings are high enough to generate the ad money it would take to say pay 10 of the most popular players that kind of money. But they really don't have to, since there are so many feeder shows and people who want to try to ride the reality show train as long as they can after their one and done seasons on BB, AYTO, etc. So many willing players and if MTV covers their travel expenses, and their food and drink for a month or 6 weeks, it's okay for enough of them to keep it going the way they have.

Would probably be a dream scenario for Bravo if they had a big cat fight on social media. Then they could use that to set up a new season of either BDM or BD where they run into each other or even have both of them working on the same crew.

I think Kaycee also is a fitness freak. The Finals with all the endurance legs sometimes hit the bigger competitors harder than average sized people. Fessy looks like he can run and run but as strong as he is, he would have to carry a bigger weight if he had to run uphill or even climb vertically in some places. I seem to recall some portions where they weighed down the guys with more weight than they did the women but they probably overcompensated for the guys being stronger by giving them more proportionate weight. Plus if any of them have had limb or joint injuries in the past, which is common for football players, that could hobble them over long distances.

Kate is "retired" but can't get too far away from Bravo. She's going to take potshots at the casts of other BD shows and she's going to make appearances it sounds like on other Bravo shows. Watch her come crawling back to BD eventually.

The Economist podcast interviews Coel. She apparently had a similar experience with a spiked drink.

I'm not saying technique and strategy doesn't matter at all but Jenny was much bigger than Dee and unlike previous Hall brawls, there was no room to slip by. We've seen in the past that some players were able to avoid full collisions, maybe more of a glancing blow and then try to slip by. In this one, once a player was able to get by his or her opponent, the opponent was almost forced to try to pull him or her back to prevent him or her from having a clear path to the bell. In previous battles, there were times where both players would just try to make it a race for the bell after short duration of contact, grappling, etc. This one, the duration of grappling, pulling, pushing was much longer. Jenny was just able to push Dee all the way to her bell, while being pretty much upright. She didn't have to get low or make her body more horizontal. For Nelson and Rogan, I would estimate 20-30 pounds difference and a couple of inches in height. Nelson did punch above his weight and Rogan said Nelson wore him out. But obviously the contact took a bigger toll on Nelson, because in the second round after they separated, Rogan stumbled but Nelson stumbled twice, couldn't really build up speed to get to the bell. Anyways, technique can matter but I don't know that any of them had any special technique. Fessy suggested to Nelson wrapping his arms around the legs and driving his legs, meaning he'd be horizontal. Football players lead with the head when they're about to tackle or hit each other, which is part of the reason there's been a lot of concussions. But it lets them get low and horizontal. People who haven't played a lot of football would not instinctively lead with the head. They're not used to it, they don't build up their neck muscles for it, etc. Even modern football players, tackling technique has deteriorated because the CBA in the NFL limits practices and contact with practices. So you see a lot of missed tackles, failure to wrap up, etc. Or they go for kill shots and miss the tackle. I don't know how good or physical a football player Cory was but he has size so he might have done well in this. He was a defensive back, who are among the worst tacklers on defense so maybe he wasn't that physical in his football days. Division I safeties, you will find have very thick necks because they train to use their heads as hammers. Fessy as a TE prospect played a more physical position but a lot of TEs these days are converted large WRs, who are not great blockers. But when they do block, TEs are mostly trying to grapple with LBs using their arms, not leading with the head and going for pancake blocks. Still if his coaches had his team do the Oklahoma drills, he would easily dominate the Hall Brawls.

Size was an advantage in the elimination. There wasn't much suspense about Jenny vs. Dee. There must be like a 40 pound weight difference, not to mention Jenny weight trains. Kind of silly Jenny boasting in her TH that she wasn't going to let Dee stop her. Come on, you have a huge physical advantage, have a little humility that the right elimination came up in this episode. Among the men left, Nelson and probably Kyle are the lightest, also not used to physical contact. But Nelson did well for himself, though took a lot out of him, unable to run without stumbling twice after the crash. Hall Brawl is popular with the challengers and presumably the viewers but you rarely have evenly matched competitors. Seems like for the producers to choose this elimination, at this point in the season, they're pretty much choosing which two players are going home. Size is almost always going to win out. We will see if the size is an advantage in the Final. Looks like running up mountains covered with snow, climbing and then skiing.. That's probably the first half of the Final. The equalizer is usually the puzzles and things like eating challenges. I enjoyed the driving challenge but it's completely random, they might as well have thrown dice, unless someone of them have experience drifting cars.

Yeah she was grinning all the way up to Chloe telling her. That would mean the producers set up that shot and pretty much ambushed her, though didn’t they announce on social media? She looked like she was spiraling, usually so put together, decided not to GAF in that minute and started to wolf down that pizza and chug the wine straight out of the pitcher. This was one of the better episodes in a long time. Brandon ate shit on camera, with his parents telling him he has to get a job, not be pursuing his dream. Lives at home, has no car. Did his parents agree to film that scene with Brandon not knowing what they were going to say to him or did he agree beforehand, knowing he was going to look sad, living at home, no car, no money, asking them for money for his album? Fact that he didn’t argue too much and agreed to work for his dad suggests he agreed to do that. Because if his parents were laying down the law for the first time on camera, you’d expect him to resist having to work, to whine more. Was entertaining. Then the scene with Camilla, she was grinning and smirking as she asked him when they’d move in together. But his reactions were real, his eyes narrowed a few times during their convo. And he was honest when he said first things he was spending money on were his album and a Tesla. Madison the actor reads one line and the class is applauding her? Guess they’re happy to be on MTV.

I think the filmmaker used whatever footage she could get her hands on and integrate it into this doc series. To be able to produce enough content for six 1-hour episodes or however many they're going to end up having, seems like she's using any and every footage she can get. Especially when it turns out that McNamara wasn't filming herself all the time. In fact some of the footage they gave is kind of surprising. A lot of it is from a time well before cell phone videos were commonly recorded. There are videos of her and that other enthusiast driving her around to places where the rapes occurred. Not sure they were planning on a documentary or mini series back then so the footage they got doesn't seem comprehensive. In fact in one sequence, they're driving around in the car and it's completely out of focus for like 5-10 seconds and it's in the show, just because there's a dialog going on that maybe the filmmaker wanted to get in.

Regardless of Keisha's fate -- maybe she will turn out to be completely unharmed -- obviously was a risky thing to be out at night alone, especially if it turns out she was abducted from that bus stop. It may or may not turn out that she suffered the same fate as those girls in the trap house. How did they end up there, maybe abducted from the streets at night like Keisha apparently was? Keisha's family is desperately looking for her but what happened to the families of those other girls? After enough time, they just gave up looking?

Leaving aside the issue of propriety, is that an aphrodisiac among twentysomethings, to brag about one's exploits, as a way to entice another young woman he's trying to conquer?

Well, the tip may be part of the fiction anyways. Probably didn't help that they couldn't get out of harbor.

No way anything would happen between them after she pointed at his package and laughed. Malia was there to witness it. You know with social media, it's surprising that they wouldn't even tip $20k, just $3k more. Not surprising that Kiko pulled it off. They wanted to build it up as some great obstacle for Kiko and the whole crew.

First half of the episode Arabella seemed like in denial when she found out about the Reddit postings. She was all smiles at the police station and then at the sit down meeting and even afterwards when she was with Zain. Then she pounced, maybe the rage built up. However, she wasn't hysterical in tone, though she might have been considering what's happened to her. She was matter of fact and unrelenting in the recitation of what Zain did. She could not be refuted. The only down side may be that she's going to be famous before her work was evaluated by the public at large. It will overshadow her work but that may be alright. Kwame has a bit of PTSD and is doing the right thing but he's in a no-win situation.

Was shocked when they said a rape conviction may only carry a 30 or 90 day sentence back in the '70s. Or maybe attempted rape carried a light sentence? No wonder rapes were rampant. They also showed the sequence of rape victims "asking for it" by dressing provocatively. Of course a couple of decades ago, there was also the "she says no but she means yes" crap circulating in the popular culture. Then the interviews with the rapists, with a couple of them proclaiming proudly that the last victim of theirs who fought back got beaten up. I think what helped change the attitudes were a number of movies and shows about rapes, showing how the victims were often treated horribly by existing laws and the justice system at the time. There were a variety of rapes, like date rapes and then the famous movie with Jodie Foster which was based on a true story. I don't know if popular culture alone drove changes to rape laws but convicted rapists are beaten up or worse in prison now, kind of a crude version of justice by felons. You certainly wouldn't have rapists willing to speak up and have their faces filmed talking about their rapes.

Not only that, Drake says the badge could let him kill Perry right then and there and get away with it. Would that scene, not just the slur but the threat, have been written after George Floyd and the protests, the general awakening we've had of racial issues? I'm not sure a black cop would get away with killing a white man in 1930s LA. Nor that cops are that well-paid in the Depression era, which Clara makes a big deal about, how he shouldn't oppose the LAPD establishment. Certainly what Drake did and will do goes against his family's interests. Risking a job in this period would be highly unusual, no matter his sense of right and wrong. So we see a black cop pursing justice against corrupt fellow police officers, kind of like the black cop in The Watchmen. Della saved the day to rescue Emily as those cops were about to torture her. But would her catching them in the act be sufficient? Why wouldn't she be in danger? Those cops murder and torture, are corrupt to the hilt. Seems like she'd have to be streaming it live from a 2020 smart phone. Some of the profanity in the dialogue seems out of place for the period. Not saying they didn't throw around the f-bomb but maybe it's more modern writers not bothering to try to render vulgar speech back then. The way Baggerly speaks seems more appropriate to the period. For instance, he blamed his youthful mistakes on "degenerate femininity" rather than calling the mother of his illegitimate son a whore or something else crude, the way Pete and other characters swear up a storm. Of course Baggerly is suppose to be religious and consciously trying to avoid vulgar language. Some other character referred to a female character as "gash" which may be something they might have said back then. But the overt crudeness isn't something that you associate with a period so long ago, only because even within our lifetime, casual swearing has increased over time.

Sure these were violations. Doesn't seem like either Bella or Kwame will report their partners. Arabella should have been able to trust Zain, a coworker. But she had just met him, maybe spent a couple of hours with him at most. So while they're coworkers, he's still a stranger. How much trust can you place in someone you just met?

Not too much new ground, though that trap house was horrific. Are they going to be looking for Keisha all season? It's been 7 days. With each passing week from here on out, the chances diminish of finding her. I think the revelation that Keisha was posting a lot of risqué pictures is kind of a revision of the character to fit the current story. She was a track athlete who was looking at an athletic scholarship but her peers knew she was taking some risks? I guess Emmet is trying to offer a 180-degree alternative to the old school soul food offered during the day. Are trendy food popups a thing in the hood? Don't they tend to be overpriced and try to target upscale clientele? Is he marketing only through social media and all those people showed up? It's a good thing the other kids and then Trig talked sense into Kevin about getting in the face of some armed gangster. BTW, wasn't it Kevin who was cultivating the relationship with Maisha? Now they paired her with Papa and Kevin is probably going to get paired with the new much slimmer girl?

I looked up the band, Dirty Projectors, which I liked more than the last band they had on, the one with all the finger snapping Dirty Projectors have been around for awhile now, see some videos on their Youtube channel from almost 10 years ago. They seemed to have gotten the female musicians and singers only in the last couple of years. Around 7 years ago, they had other women. The lead guitarist seems to be the main writer and several years ago, he did most of the singing and their other songs have more guitar solo parts. Song they did on FF was more pop and the woman singing may bring them a broader audience than the guy singing.

There is a setting that Amanda may not have enabled. Because if it's on, it shouldn't unlock when asleep. https://www.imore.com/face-id-everything-you-need-know Maybe she should learn to use her iPhone to search for answers like this.