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It wasn't bad enough that she was sleeping with Wild Bill Primm. She has to help him paste his hair in under his hat to preserve his look. I loved the comment when Beautiful was sewing in the hair extensions about the other woman was nice but she did not know anything about white hair. It was totally a play on white stylist don't know how to do black hair, makeup, etc., and frankly I love when the show plays the reverse race trope card. :-)

Just a vaginal ultrasound; she had mentioned to Booth earlier that she thought she could not get pregnant. The invasive tests plus her being besotted with Booth caused Quinn to think that romance, power, and picket fences might be possible. The test results burst that bubble, hence the freak out. But it caused Rachel to come back, so all is well.

I may be the only one on this thread that agrees with you on this. I will even take it a bit further and say that the episode and maybe the entire season is about 'white privilege' and how black folks are just part of the scenery. White women have been lying and getting Black men killed since the founding of the nation; and even when they are caught red-handed it is still about their pain. Black Lives Matter and other civil-rights groups are calling this out and they get called racists for their trouble. When a person of color tries to talk about race or ethnicity in this nation, it is the 'white' establishment that gets overly sensitive and butt-hurt, thinking that it is some kind of personal affront. Black and LGBTQ people die and the media only cares about how 'white' folks are going to feel and react to the tragedy. Rachael, Coleman, and the entire Everlasting crew are mirroring this way of behaving. Jay did not fight too much for the woman he wanted to appear (I forget her name) to get the hell out of Dodge after Rachael talked her into leaving college to do a 'reality' show. Darius and Romeo signed up for this to improve Darius' image with women after he called the reporter a bitch. they walked into this shit-show with their eyes partially opened, not knowing that they had no control over any of this narrative. Rachael instead of doing her normal job after being demoted, gets Quinn a 'handler' who wants to elevate a television show. Coleman is out of his depth and instead of sitting back and letting Quinn, Chet, and Rachael show him how it is done, piggybacks on Rachael 'liberal guilt' and talks her into making the show be more than fluff. Now we have two Black Men possibly mortally injured, and it's all about the 'white folks' pain. I sorry that others can't see it but this is one of the best pieces of social satire I have seen/read in quite a while. The best way to show some truths is to place real life in the picture frame and put it in our face. This season mirrors our desire for fifteen minutes of fame and fearing of confronting our racial history, and we are totally seeing our own reflections with our comments. I'm not even sure the writers knew that they would get this many people up in arms, and the real payoff may be a Peabody Award and the cancelation of the series.

A friend's daughter is so allergic to tree nuts that her boyfriend once ate cookies with nuts in them, forgot to brush his teeth, and six hours later the daughter went into shock from making out with said boyfriend. Her parents have to double bag any nuts in the house when she visits.

There were actually free Black Men in NC and while Tom Lea may have been pissed that Kizzy was with him, he would have been stupid to kill him. To kill a Freeman would have afforded a poorer slaveholder like Tom a trial, and he definitely would lost all of his land and slaves before the jury had acquitted him. It was mentioned in the later Chicken George story on the plantation with his family that killing a Freeman was not worth the trouble it would cause, and remember even in those days, it was never a secret who was walking around with their papers. I thought some of the Django-like moments were over the top, but I appreciate that the killings were done in ways that did not track back on the killers. Slaves were money and you kill off a bunch without any real justification, you are taking money out of your pocket, and I appreciate that they kept reminding us that this was always about property and money, old fashioned capitalism. My thoughts on George killing the old master's son and just walking away is that the civil war had just been lost and there were no other White People on the land. The old master had to persuade the newly freed slaves to keep working the land as sharecroppers and he would pay them later. Who was going to come after George and his family after he shot the young master? His father and mother were too week to do anything, hell his father could not keep the son from string up his own wife just a few years earlier; and his half dead wife, yeah right, with no other white people around and no way to quickly get to town to form a posse, old master did the right thing, he went back in the house a got the sharecropping folks to help him bury his son with no questions asked.

Go back and look at that scene again. This was the Christmas Party and on the very large plantations the overseers and sometimes their family would be invited. if you look the overseer never went inside the house, he stayed on the porch. He knew his place which made this scene very telling and Curran played it perfectly with his glares at the owners and the gentlefolk inside. I also appreciated the subtle scene with the Doctor delivering the baby and immediately knowing that it was fathered by a white man (if not him more than likely the Scottish Overseer, who looked shocked on the sideline), and named him Noah and proceeded to treat him as his special pet. This version is better at showing the psychological knots these people tied themselves in to justify their system of oppression.

Pine was nervous about Freddie Hamid because his family owned the hotel and Pine was sure that at some point he might realize that he had seen him before, which he did right before Pine "drowned" him. Freddie's father had hired him to be the night manager. What I really liked this story is how they used various forms of bigotry to motivate the actions of several characters. Sofi/Samira went to Pine to give him the info she had on Freddie because he was English (white savior). Pine was moved to help because he has a 'white knight complex', which is also why he was drawn to the woman in Devon and to Jed. Angela was look down upon by her colleagues in MI because she is not of their 'class', Everything she brought to them was side-eyed and her section seemed to be full of smart, working-class 2nd generation Brits-of-color. Pine on the other hand said a few thing's to the agent that he gave Sofi papers to that gave me the impression that he had been SAS of some other type of special forces while he was in the military. Roper and Sandy(?) looked down on him even after knowing some of his history because a middle-class 2nd gen soldier would not lower himself to work as a night manager unless he had some serious issues. This is what made it easy to buy him as the guy with the fake Devon passport, and roper could turn him into Andrew Birch in order to bind him to his operation and make him a fall guy for later. This bigotry is also why he could not see Jed being drawn to him for anything other than a quickie. Roper thought of Jed as a beautiful girl from the wrong side of the tracks who would never leave her sugar daddy for a glorified servant. Roper and Tobias Menzies character and their MI6 and CIA cohorts were looking to re-draw the map of the Middle-East to ensure maximum control for themselves (not sure this is not true in reality). Roper contempt for his customers was always obvious to me and when he made the slur I knew his goose would be thoroughly cooked. Everything in this series was based on the assumptions of others on a man who was not in his perceived place.

The US has four air bases in Turkey, and if the maps are correct at least two of them are on the Syrian border, Eastern and Western edges; so it might be a stretch in terms of this story, but not by much. Since Roper has contacts in the Government, the satellite feeds and the fireworks being ignored by various intelligence agencies can also be plausible in terms of the story. I think Roper has many resources that are not being telegraphed to the audience, which I like because I like to use my brain sometimes while watching television; so I think he is more than able to pay his private army and still look more than well off, let's face it Roper knows how to roll with the big boys. I also think it is a production decision to not show Roper and crew in airplanes. The driving from airports and using local livery services allows them to show respect towards the locals as well as give a haughty colonialist vibe to the viewers; and since some of the drivers are bodyguards, they stand out a bit less.

Someone should just slap Robert, sheesh!. Maryum is maybe a little too confident for the likes of Tami and Barbra. I think it was mentioned that her father still lives in the area where this was filmed, and even though she lives in another state, I could she why she would think that she might be recognized, especially since Ali and family still do fundraising for Parkinson's research. Maryum got on my nerves a bit, but she seemed to have some insight on some of the inmates mental and self-esteem issues. and she was aware enough to realized she said the wrong thing and apologized. I got "uppity N" vibes from Tami and Barbra ymmv. Jeff needs therapy and Robert needs a strait jacket! Zac is smokin and probably soon to be divorced. Hope Isaiah stays at school in New Jersey. Someone should slap Robert!

New to this forum and I feel I need to comment. I am sure some artistic license was taken but there is a bit more truth than some may realize with various forms on early-onset Alzheimer's. A good friend of mine died a few months ago and it was ten years to the day of initial diagnosis. We all thought that a form of depression was happening because she had recently been downsized from her job. Her husband did not think her agoraphobia was anything more than a symptom of that depression. She had good recollection for a year to 18 months, then her cognitive decline became rapid and within five years she had forgotten everyone and could no longer speak. The only thing that she recognized at the end was music (she had been a classical musician as a younger woman) Her last five years were difficult for her family and friends.