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Right after the button was pushed, we heard him say something like, "come this way" (paraphrasing). So I expect he (and perhaps some of the Cybermasters) got away. When was the last time we had a Dalek-less season?

So is that what happened at the end? Regardless of the meaning behind the vision shown to the parents, did the boy die?

I wish they'd do with Carol what they once did with Rick: get her through the angst to the other side, and from then on just be an awesome badass until the next helicopter comes along. Long live #TerminusCarol !

Agreed. But that's more the writers' fault. Although some actors stand up to that kind of plot-driven manipulation for their character's sake.

Actually didn't it cut the opposite way? The wife and son in the tub, followed by the Pieta? Based on the cult leader's final words at the square, I presume it was suicide. I have to wonder what Ester did with her son, then.

In the post #metoo era, which has explicitly made clear that relationships with unequal power dynamics are unethical, not to mention already having to dissolve a mature, functional relationship with Lim because she became his boss (thereby setting up that very type of relationship), how can Melendez possibly think that what he's doing with Claire is reasonable? A mentoring relationship can take place entirely inside the confines of their place of business. Adding a social aspect to it, especially one that excludes the peers of the weaker party, going so far as to make it "secret", is just madness. I know she's going through stuff that affects her judgement, but I thought he had better sense than this, especially because he knows she's emotionally vulnerable. By god, if he keeps going with this, then when it's inevitably discovered he should at the very least be removed from his teaching role.

Saddest thing about all this? Jimmy is a really good lawyer. Or maybe just a really good con man. Is there a difference?

Agree on the divorce episode of Mr. Pickles it was incredible. I expect Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers could have done better, but not by much.

I've heard a lot about Edie Falco but never really watched her in anything, so I was hyped to give this a try. It was...ordinary. A good actor can cover a multitude of sins, but this is pretty cookie-cutter writing so far.

The Young Pope was MUCH more interesting. Agree this season is far too surrealistic. Maybe that would go down better if the rest of the show were more interesting, or even if Law were back in the lead. And too much emphasis on the sexy PR lady and her businessman husband's machinations. I liked the show better when the focus was on the pope shaking up Catholicism. I don't find Voiello's machiavellianism compelling at all.

He mentioned in an earlier episode that he liked MM, and if he became pope would he be able to meet him. I love that MM thought he was meeting Pius. Even the show knows that it's not nearly as good without Law front and center.

I thought this was funnier than last week. Not out yet. 🙂

Maybe this thing can only be/control one person at a time. Maybe once it's done with Jack it will go on to the bar owner.

Yes what was the point of that, other than to be too precious by half. Talk about dramatic self-consciousness. The downside to Brannox's elevation? He has the most boring speeches. Saying nothing and going on far too long. Is that on purpose, or is the writing this season just...bad?

For me, this episode was much less funny than the previous one. Disappointed.

So if there was no police box Tardis before One, and we've seen every regeneration onscreen, this has to be alternate timeline, right?

Didn't we see a scene where the War Doctor regenerated into Nine? And that control room definitely looked like early Tardis, very bare bones. We know the Doctor stole the Tardis, but was it already stuck as a police box when it was stolen? Could this doctor be even earlier than One?

I agree with this. As interesting as some of the other characters are, this show is primarily a vehicle for Law. He dominates every scene he's in, even when he's silent. He needs to come back full force soon, or this season will not match the last one.

I didn't see that movie, was that monster confined to Ireland? Because if it wasn't, that wouldn't have comforted me at all.

As I noted earlier, I do like the show and I liked the surrealism in the first season. But the incongruous juxtapositions of the first two episodes seemed to go on long enough to steal story time, which is kind of an unpardonable indulgence. Maybe Sorrentino is trying to be David Lynch. I'm not prepared for that here lol.

There is, and he's always the same, and he's always used the same way in every book. I am disappointed to see this trope again. I think that was a flashback to her father watching the session videos of her as a little girl being tested. Presumably his reaction was "Damn my little girl is some kind of freak." Holly mirrored that reaction after Ralph commented on her parents' allowing that treatment of her. I'm laughing because I first read that as "wondering if Batman was the director" lol. Because of course if he was, outside the window is exactly where the camera would be. He was called to go there, but being a douchebag who didn't want to do his job, he detoured by the strip bar first, so by the time he got there, everyone else was gone. It seems he encountered the monster there (maybe still there since discarding its Maitland persona?), who is now exerting some kind of control over him. This is the fate of douchebags in King books lol. I haven't read this particular King book yet, but I get the sense that he won't be used as a doppelgänger source, but as a way to control Ralph. Coming in the same episode as the warning delivered through Terry's daughter, I think maybe this is what she meant about something bad happening that Ralph should be afraid of.

I like the show, but I feel it's trying too hard with the surrealism. In the first season a little of that went a long way. This time it seems they're making the age-old mistake of "if it's popular, do it more". A lot of sidekick spinoff shows should have taught them to be wary of that.

I was just thinking that finally Leland/Jake was going to get interesting, give Emerson something to work with, and then... wow that ending, what the AF. I'm not feeling it. Colour me disappointed. Re: Andy making some assumptions about Ben. I know the early talk for the show was about a potentially developing romance between Kristen and David, but I don't see any chemistry there. Does anyone else see more of a spark with Kristen and Ben, or is it just me?

Agreed, Emerson is much more compelling when his character is nuanced. Ben Linus was a masterclass in that kind of acting.

I had a slightly different perspective on that. I didn't get the sense that he had some pre-existing concern that Terry may have molested his son. I think he was appalled by the savagery perpetrated on the Peterson boy (including sodomy) by someone who had contact with his own son, and the thought that Terry may have worked his way up to that level of evil with some more conventional molestation of other boys (including, possibly, his own).