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    S01.E07: Haunting

    in The Watcher

    This may be a minor plot point but I am still scratching my head over the Dakota character. He was Leonora's son right? Why wasn't he at her funeral? And did the homeowners ever figure out their relationship? I thought they were all together at the police station when he was interviewed, but it was never mentioned. You'd think they'd be a little surprised/taken aback by that knowledge. Oh well! Messy plot holes everywhere. Is Ryan Murphy just lazy or is there something wrong with him?

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    S02.E09: I Will Tell of All Your Deeds

    in The Righteous Gemstones

    I had never even heard of this show until a few months ago, when season 2 was being discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour. MAN am I glad I checked it out. I was skeptical at first because I found East Bound and Down unwatchable. but wow, has Danny McBride (and writers) got their comedy pacing down to a science. The show makes me screech out loud, with the sight gags and the script. Uncle Baby Billy's exit from the parking lot dragging his grift-trailer is burned into my brain and I laugh every time I think about it.

    Great acting from all the characters, because I love all of these knuckleheads. And John Goodman is just...perfection.

    I also like that it isn't a full-on takedown of megachurches, that would be too easy. Instead, it's the characters and the ridiculous scenarios where they mine the best humor. I can't wait for season 3!

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    Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

    in Morning Joe

    The 8:00 hour just keeps getting weirder. They started airing DeBlasio's earlier interview with Willie, cut it off mid-sentence to go to commercial, then rewound and started re-airing it from the beginning. So the show went on until about 9:15 when the let Steph Ruhl start. WTF is going on in that control room?

    Morning Joe: All Episodes Talk

    in Morning Joe

    4 hours ago, millennium said:

    What kind of commercials do you guys see?    Here, it's a cavalcade of erectile dysfunction, Peroni's (sic?) disease, and Depends for men.   What's the demographic for this show?   All the Mike Barnicles of the world?

    Plus colon cancer testing kits (!)

    S01.E02: Red Flags and Parades

    in Dirty John

    · Edited by zentropa

    I am totally in. I listened to the podcast, which was essentially a documentary so I approached it that way. Sort of clinically. But seeing it dramatized on the screen is bringing a whole new tension and frisson (that family!) to the whole enterprise. And The Cliffhanger! It is hard to imagine how Debra will keep plowing through on the Tractor of Denial but I can't wait to see it.

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    S01.E04: Ripe

    in Sharp Objects [V]

    OK I rewound the last minute several times... wanted to understand if the girl in the shed was Amma. I came to the conclusion that the murder was real ...only to persevere through the closing credits to see the previews and ...

    Amma lives!

    I shrieked in frustration. I feel this production is breaking some sort of episodic fiction codes.

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    S01.E03: Fix

    in Sharp Objects [V]

    On 7/25/2018 at 1:34 PM, ferjy said:

    We see the "baby" on the building as she's driving after Amma. It got me wondering if Camille could be Amma's mother. I think the timeline would fit if Amma is about 15. They also seem to have stressed a few scenes of Camille saying she has no children, it got me wondering. Might be why Amma gets to Camille so much.

     

     

    This was my suspicion too. In the convenience store, one of Amma's friends says that Camille is older enough to be her mother.

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    Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

    in Commercials

    "This is a story about mail and packages.

    And it's also a story about people.

    People who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams.

    They're handing us more than mail. They're handing us their business.

    And while we make more ecommerce deliveries than anyone in the country,

    We never forget that your business is our business."

     

    OK FINE. But I'm still waiting for the fucking story.

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    Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

    in Commercials

    53 minutes ago, Blergh said:

    That apartment was at least two floors up which, via gravity and velocity means that, unless he's wearing a catcher's bib, mitt and face guard, there's a good probability he'd have injured himself had he actually tried to catch this guitar (and she didn't even tell him to catch it before she threw it out). Moreover, he and that poor bystander pushing the shopping cart could have been seriously debilitated had it actually hit either/both of them.

       However; I agree with the rest of your post and wish they just had had her put all his belongings in a large pile in front her locked door with a big 'GO AWAY!' note on it!

    P.S. And I haven't forgotten that ATT  had been legally ruled a monopoly so customers need to consider that before thinking of them as 'liberators'.

     

    I had to speak to ATT customer service on another matter today and at the end of the conversation, she asked if she could help with any other matters.  Me: "As a matter of fact..."

    When I started to describe my issues with the sexist, racially insensitive commercial she started cracking up. She said when the ad was previewed for ATT staff, they all had the same reaction! 

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    Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

    in Commercials

    11 hours ago, SyracuseMug said:

    I'm not sure if this DirectTV commercial has been mentioned here yet, but I feel more irritated every time I see it. Who is the target audience? Am I supposed to think it’s funny when someone destroys someone else’s property, and comes close to injuring that person in the process? All it does is make me wonder what the AT&T ad executives were thinking. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2xhmgfUgs

    I always wonder if they had switched genders what major outrage would ensue. Throwing someone's stuff out a 2nd floor window, destroying property, putting people below in danger...all to demonstrate some she-power bullshit? Nonsense. Hate the voiceover too.

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