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  1. The episode was also identified as episode 4 on YouTube TV. Let's hope things go well and we don't end up with desperation scheduling. The US version of Life on Mars was not great, but it wasn't awful, and I watched it all. But no-one else did. When it went on hiatus before Christmas, we were half way through a two-part episode with a splendid cliffhanger. ABC needed a ratings recovery in the second half of the season, so they put a completely different episode on when the show returned in January, so as not to confuse first time viewers. We didn't see the cliffhanger resolved for many more weeks. I believe the series also got shown in that shoddy order elsewhere. And the least said about the finale the better.
  2. But NotMackenzieCrook was "playing" the dad of this week's missing person, so presumably we'll never see him again. Those five seconds on a photograph waved about in front of the camera is all we'll get. We've already seen Colter's father in flashback, and presumably we aren't going to see him in the present day, unless he didn't actually die in what we've seen so far. We'd perhaps need an older actor anyway. Mind you, if Paramount+ placing this in its list of sci-fi shows isn't a mistake, anything's possible.
  3. It would have been very odd if he had been. I didn't think to even look in the credits, as I wouldn't have expected the character to be listed. Is it normal for someone in a photograph to be credited? Perhaps there was a cut flashback or something, but that could have been confused with Colter's family flashbacks.
  4. The in-joke would be a slightly famous actor appearing only as a character in a photograph for five seconds, never to be seen again. The family I am referring to is that of the Case of the Week, not Colter's. I'm sure Colter will continue to get vague texts at inopportune moments, we'll see more flashbacks, and then Colter will return to his trailer one night to find his brother half way through a bottle of bourbon, ready for a big ol' chat.
  5. It at least started promisingly. They went into the first few ad breaks with intriguing plot developments that had you wanting to know what happened next. But unfortunately, by the end the tropes others have mentioned above crept in. I'll still give it a few more episodes and see how it goes. A couple of things confused me though. When they cut to the flashback where a young Colter was climbing, with his Dad watching from below, it took me quite a few seconds to realise that that's what we were being shown. Initially I thought it was the present day, and we were seeing the missing kid and his Dad together. The actor playing what turned out to be the bad guy looked too much like the man in the photograph that Colter took with him. It was unclear how old the photo was so it was easy to accept visual differences and misinterpret the scene. But that's not the most confusing thing. I swear the man in the photograph is Mackenzie Crook, i.e. Gareth from The Office UK, who was also in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. If it's not him, the similarity is uncanny. And if it is him, it might be a production in-joke, but it distracted from the storyline of him being dead. I was expecting him to appear at the end magically alive. But presumably in this format, there will be a missing person of the week and we will never see this family ever again.
  6. IIRC even the final of the FA Cup wasn't shown on broadcast ESPN last season! This game is a chance for Wrexham to reach the First Round "Proper", where clubs from the two divisions above them enter the competiton. If they then managed to be drawn against one of the bigger League One clubs, you can imagine a big circus around that. Last season, they did reach the First Round, but I don't think we were shown any of the FA Cup on "Welcome to Wrexham". I was surprised by that, because they played at Marine in the Fourth Qualifying Round. They could have done a quick piece on the magic of the FA Cup, and how a couple of years ago Marine (three divisions below Wrexham) managed to get to the round where the Premier League clubs enter the competiton, and ended up with a home game against Tottenham Hotspur. That would have been his grandmother they were talking about. Do we know how well the show has rated? It seems like they've been burning off episodes on FX so they can get it all on Hulu as quickly as possible. Presumably they are making a second season about the current Wrexham season. They will need their Hollywood ending with promotion though.
  7. This whole thing is a smaller scale version of what happened at Portsmouth. Michael Eisner (former CEO at Disney) paid $7.5m for the club in 2017, also having to win approval of a Supporters Trust. At that time, Portsmouth had just been promoted to League One (tier 3 - Wrexham are in tier 5). They are still in League One today, though they are doing well this season so far. This article is from 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/csylt/2019/08/03/disneys-ex-boss-reveals-magic-formula-for-getting-into-soccers-premier-league/ So Eisner hasn't gone crazy. He's cautious, and rightly so. He wants promotion to the Championship (tier 2) but too many clubs up there spend beyond their means and get into terrible trouble (e.g. Derby County). I'd be surprised if RR McReynolds haven't looked closely at what's been done at Portsmouth. The Premier League is probably a bit of an ask for Wrexham, but there are plenty of clubs in League One now who were in Wrexham's division 5-6 years ago, e.g. Lincoln, Forest Green. Based on the previews, it appears that this week's episodes of the show will see them finally see the team play in person, so that should be entertaining for all.
  8. It seems that some sort of Watergate still happened. In the 70s to 80s time jump montage, we hear a phone call from Reagan (as president post 1976) pardoning Nixon. Ted Kennedy wouldn't have done it while he was president, and of course without a second Nixon term, there's no VP Agnew resignation nor Ford as either VP or president to pardon Nixon. It seems safe to assume that everything up to the Soviets first landing on the moon is identical to our universe, so JFK and RFK died in exactly the same way as we know. Meanwhile, Maradona's handball goal didn't stand, and England won that quarter final of the 1986 World Cup (on penalties? or did Gary Lineker score that chance near the end to win 2-1?). I'd like to think that England went on to beat Belgium in the semi finals, but I imagine they lost to West Germany in the final.
  9. The air traffic controllers sketch was slightly unfortunately timed, at least to anyone who might have seen it from the UK. A few days earlier, a newly signed player for Cardiff City Football Club in Wales was travelling to Cardiff from his previous club in Nantes, France on a small private plane, which crashed into the English Channel. Only in the past 24 hours has the wreckage been found. The player's name was Emiliano Sala, and Cardiff City still technically owe Nantes most of a $20m transfer fee. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47118340 But it's highly unlikely that the SNL writers were aware of this.
  10. Kira is unavoidably a key problem in establishing that the entire series has taken place over the course of a year, as the actress is now nearly twice the age she was at the start. Recasting would been distracting, and quite strange in a series where so many other characters are played by the same person. I suppose they could have made each season occupy a year of time, though it may have cut down the furious pace. It's a bit like 24, where so much happens, you can't believe that something you saw 22 episodes ago actually happened last night, and Kiefer Sutherland hasn't even been to the bathroom since then.
  11. No, there really are three versions. I just checked the bilingual S01E01, found a scene in Welsh, then went to find it on the Netflix version, and sure enough, there it is in English. I was surprised how similar the two scenes felt. Having read the subtitles just seconds earlier, it seemed like I was watching exactly the same scene again, as if they'd spoken English the first time too, which of course they hadn't. Another thing that surprised me is how much *more* Welsh there is in the bilingual version now compared to the first season. As noted above, these days it's in English if Mathias is present, otherwise it's in Welsh, but in the first episode, I found several scenes in English when Mathias was elsewhere, that could have been in Welsh. Perhaps the producers wanted to ease the BBC Wales/Four audience in gently. Thinking about it, it's not surprising that they film the whole thing in both languages, even Netflix aside. As I understand it, they film each scene in English first, then Welsh, mostly to help the crew, many of whom are not Welsh speakers. They therefore know what to expect in the Welsh take even though they can't understand it. That's the same format the show has always used on its BBC airing - the S4C version (which is 100% Welsh) shows the whole episode as a single entity. I've no idea why the Beeb insists in splitting them in half! It's unfortunate that they have to chop the episode up on BBC Wales. I think that's simply because they can't opt out of the national news at 10pm. The subject matter means they can't start it before 9pm, so at 90 minutes they either have to chop it up, or start it at 10.45pm. Chopping it up is probably better than not having it end until after midnight. I suppose they could join it back together for iPlayer though. The good news is that when it's on nationally on BBC Four in a few weeks, there is no reason for it not to be in one piece.
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