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I missed the first half...I'm just gonna presume it didn't matter. Meh.

They better hope a mime doesn't try to rape anyone, or that a "saloon girl" doesn't hit on anyone's husband. Things were dicey on the Prairie. Agreed, though, even folks on the Prairie would've turned their nose up at that pitiful display from Marian. I'm not sure if we've ever seen such a privileged lack of room reading before -- even from other Fellows' characters -- Marian is obtuse in heretofore unimagined ways.

Tom & Lorenzo's take on the costuming...fabulous, as always.

Y'all? Did...did Ressler actually shoot someone he intended to shoot? From some distance away? Maybe he needs to stay on the pills.

Titus of Tampa Bay was so close to getting an inside room in the real house, too.

I don't subscribe either and both let me in, sorry they're not working for you. In both, he talks about the ending hug between Kirsten & Jeevan being their starting point, and the thing they always used when they pitched the show, so they knew that's where they wanted to end up. In the first he talks more about the changes to Tyler from the book and why he thought that route worked better and about seeing Hamlet (and Shakespeare, broadly) as a universal notion of how people relate to each other. The second focuses on finding "joy" in the pandemic, music, etc. I'm posting a link to Sepinwall's tweet below because sometimes I can get in that way when a direct link won't work. I can try to pull some quotes if there's something you're particularly interested in...

And, one more: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/station-eleven-finale-interview-1279145/

In contrast to most everyone here, I liked it. Were there problems throughout the series? Sure. To me, this felt like more of a show centered on a particular vibe that needed hand-waving for "weird shit happens during an apocalypse in a sci-fi novel" -- but it made me feel and think and that's more than I expected going into it. BTW, there are a good number of answers to the questions y'all are asking in the interview I linked to in the media thread...the showrunner recounts his choices on a lot of the issues you guys note (you probably won't like the answers, but at least you can read what he intended, lol).

Good read ...interview with the showrunner following the finale, so spoilers, obviously:

Ooh, this should be really fun...some of y'all may remember the awesome costume/color analysis TLo used to do for Mad Men back in the day:

I'm glad y'all replayed it to check, lol -- I only watched once and was like: "who in the what now?" I was a little worried he may have been in a relationship with the mother and raped the daughter (since they were all in the same household), but it was really hard to tell...and then Lee said his aunt, whom he remembered, never talked about any of it, so who knows? One of y'all who hasn't watched yet, pay close attention and let us know, lol. For what it's worth, one of my friends who is a writer in Hollywood said there was never much hidden / secret about Rebecca Hall's lineage for most folks (who seemed to presume it to be so, as she did). I mostly know David Chang from that streaming Netflix show from early in the pandemic (at least it was early to me, I suppose I could've been late to the show) where he visits different kinds of food and compares it to what he knows, etc. Again, for what it's worth, a lot of folks in the forums seemed to find it redeeming of his personality, and as I new viewer who didn't know much, I wasn't any more put off by him than most "celebrity chef" types.

Yep, shapshifter -- they did both the "are you related to anyone else who's been on the show" and they very interesting thing I quite like, where they actually have to use the DNA to find relatives because something is missing for some reason in the paper trail. Lee Daniels' "cousin" was: Me, too -- I always enjoy it when we get something that feels "different" or "new" to the show and Rebecca Hall's story, in particular, felt like this. Also like that they pointed out the strange family dynamic (whatever it might have been...as usual, I found myself worried that there may have been unaddressed rape / incest) happening with some folks that Lee Daniels actually knew IRL.

In addition to Snackwells, I feel a need to shout out Umbros over bike shorts while playing soccer, lol -- the wardrobe of my sorority intramurals career. That look said mid-90s to me before the soundtrack even kicked in. :) I'm also with those who wish we could avoid the supernatural elements, but thought, WAAAAALLLLTTTT, upon the son getting creepy; liking the slow reveals on folks knowing each other in the present timeline; loving Ricci getting her psycho on; appreciating the flashback casting. (Side note: I kinda love the fact that about a dozen of us clearly all watch the same shows, lol -- hello familiar faces!)

Nope. And I've literally read it that way every. single. time. You'd think I'd have figured it out, but nope. Brain says, "okra." Might've added something to the episode -- cut to Red, snacking on some gumbo or something. *shrugs*

Yeah, given that she didn't have a source of income and consumed such a huge volume of pricey drugs, I presumed Tamika the "street mom" was pimping her out for drugs (as I'm betting her stepdad and others, sadly, had done for years) in addition to her basic petty theft sideline. The cynical side of me thought Tamika or Danny (or both, or others) sent her to detox to get cleaned up enough so that she looked better to be an earner (she was rough looking by the end there -- open bleeding sores from all the skin-popping, etc.)...and then she went right back to it. So many sad cases that haven't worked out this season. Man.

When he popped in for a two line part, I thought maybe he just needed to meet his union insurance minimum, but then I remembered he was in the final season of Pose not long ago (sadly playing someone's dad, not vogue-ing: The category is -- Cuban actors we can afford!). Maybe he can head upstate now that Dexter is coming back in an attempt avenge the literal worst finale in the history of TV. But I digress... We asked for well-and-truly-dead-Liz and more Dembe and they gave us both. For that, I can't argue. Did they heap on the usual nonsense in buckets right along with it? Of course they did. I expect it at this point. *shrugs* We've made it this long, friends -- eh, might as well. I'm with saber5055 -- I've missed the fabulous snark from all y'all...let's do this! p.s. Does Harold just keep a random piece of chalk lying around in case there's a mailbox dead-drop he needs to mark, but not permanently so? Good thing the response was instantaneous, looked like rain later.

Thank you -- someone had to say it, lol. I appreciate that he's probably just trying to funnel some much needed resources into a very hard hit industry, but, man...it's BORING.

I know! I usually only get to see her when she's slumming it on Bar Rescue (guilty pleasure show -- don't judge, lol). In any case, I really enjoyed this season. It was happy and easy and brought some much needed joy at a fairly shitty time in the world at large. I knew my girl Dawn was out after the first dish, but all of the food looked amazing and all three seemed absolutely worthy of the win, so not mad at it.

Probably because that new Top Chef Amateurs is on next...they did that when they showed the preview of it a while back.

Well, Blais is clear about his favorite. Jeez.

After reading that Bokenkamp is also leaving, I think that it was likely his vision all along to have Red be Katarina and we got pretty strong suggestions that was the case given the final montage (seeing Katarina holding baby Liz is clearly Red's vision, not Lizzie's, since I doubt Lizzie remembers being a new born and I think we got a quick shot of the baby being handed to her as well -- all Red's visions as Lizzie dies + the notion that she wouldn't kill him if she knew who he was), but I think they didn't outright say it because he's leaving and they want wiggle room for the new person to change that if they want to (whether that means ignoring it outright, or changing whatever it was supposed to be) so the show can keep going. I'm betting NBC knew it would alienate all sides (conservatives would be upset, trans folks would be upset, people who have any kind of notion of the timeline the show has presented wouldn't like it, etc.) and since they're moving on to a new showrunner anyway, they were just as happy to leave it vague. In any case, Lizzie seems well and truly dead to me (in true Blacklist fashion, though, can I just say that was the worst dye-pack deployment I've seen in ages -- you could see it under her shirt just before they set it off, lol), and that pleases me to no end. Let's see what they do now -- maybe we'll get the Red/Dembe hour we've always wanted! *hope springs eternal*

Just saw the same thing from TVLine, DaphneCat: https://tvline.com/2021/06/15/the-blacklist-megan-boone-leaving-liz-keen-season-9-nbc/ Might have said, "Thank you, Jeebus!" out loud. *g*

I kinda just wanted it to end with Pray Tell blowing out the candles after he came home from their last big show at the ball. I'd rather make up my own tales of how everyone wound up. *shrugs*

That's (part of) the problem, though. IT SHOULDN'T. You said Louis CK fell in this group for you -- well, Louis CK whipped his dick out whenever he felt like it, women DID complain, and he can still do a comedy set in a NY club whenever he wants. Bill Cosby raped dozens of women, and it was a fairly well-known behavior in Hollywood, but he was still hired constantly for whatever work he wanted. The whole point of this episode is that being funny [if you're a man] trumps everything. And it SHOULDN'T. Funny men shouldn't get to rape women at work and then get more of the same work. The other point of this episode is that funny doesn't trump shit if you're a woman. (Ask Kathy Griffin. And hundreds of others.) Related -- if you're a man, who's the gatekeeper to women getting work at all in these places, then funny doesn't even enter the equation. If you didn't see Katt WIlliams (of all people, lol) making this exact point about why 'cancel culture' is NOT a thing and shouldn't be that was all over the Twitterverse yesterday, check it out.