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BUT HIGGINS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE ON AN EMPLOYMENT VISA! I still can not cope with this storyline six months later because of the above. If she'd wanted to prolong her stay, Robin could have applied for an extension because as her boss, that is part of his job. None of this "I wanted to stay so I did it myself and failed" bullshit. , She's working in a higher management function which I assume would be in her favour. Really don't get it.

God, Charles, you utter dickhead. I think if someone took my child to go stay thousands of miles away from me I think I would have made a huge scene not caring if the entire world was watching. I am still no big fan of Diana, but I loved her scenes as a mother. Charles and Camilla must have (had) the most bizarre pillow talks ever. Glamourous balls. He said glamourous balls on national tv. I cringed across the space time continuum. I was noticing the stark difference of sunlit, loving Australia and cold, tough love England. That conversation with the Queen though. Whatever made Diana think that she of all people would understand her plight? It baffled me. That hug at end wins for funniest thing I've ever seen on this show. There was much snorting.

I mostly find that Higgins is written too much as a super human being who is not allowed to have human emotions. Remember that online dating scam episode in season 1? They'd made up a dating profile which was too high brow for Magnum and they asked Higgins what her favourite Spanish opera was. She of course names it without hesitation and I literally said "Who the fuck has a favourite Spanish opera?" My friend still laughs at me over that reaction two years later. It's stuff like that that can push a character into insufferable fairly quickly. I find it strange that people find her plethora of skills cute or adorable. No, it's not. She's allowed to have traits which she can not do. Show us those. Jeebus, Higgins. Death wishes are also not cute.

I agree that all the children bar Carol Thatcher and Anne were absolute insufferable shitheads. But I did feel for Anne. Trying to make it clear to her mother that her marriage wasn't working and basically getting cold shouldered as an answer. I think her problem is that she doesn't listen to her children when it's necessary to listen.

Well, I admired his gumption at least. I vaguely knew about this, but I didn't know that he succeeded twice. I kept wondering about the cameras and why there weren't any at the back of the building whatsoever. Turns out, BP wasn't guarded better then the average office building at night. You'd think there would be more then one security post or more then one person behind the monitors at any given time. There's a gift room in Buckingham Palace. Which amused me greatly. I thought the actor playing Fagan did a stellar job. He did the desperation and the slow descent into Fuck It All very well. Loved him pointing out the decrepit state of the palace too. And that the Queen did not have an electric toothbrush (did many people have those in the mid 80's?) I thought Philip was very amused by the whole situation, even after the second incident.

I mentioned the British actors bingo in the first episode thread, and dude, that was Dudley Dursley. I knew I knew those those eyes. Also, I never got to finish earlier but yes, chess can be hot.

I know it took a lot of craft and time and money to replicate the wedding dress and that's it? Just the one shot. I always thought it was too much wedding dress for such a thin woman but I'd liked to have seen it fully. Or have a more elaborate wedding sequence. I figured the wedding would actually be the piece the resistance of this season. But then it wasn't. What a poor little caged bird Diana was. She didn't even get a say in the wedding arrangements. Which I thought was the cruellest thing of all. You know, the whole grin and bear it marriage format might have worked really up until the 1910's or so, but it didn't work in 1981. Also, if Mary tied up her ladies to teach them to stand still, she was of a far more formidable character then Diana was. I thought the opening scene of Diana going out with her flatmates was actually well done. Shame she wasn't apparently allowed to invite them over or have any form of support system in those six weeks. I'm a ballet geek, but is that really a useful skill for royal brides? I imagined she'd have to perform in Swan Lake to impress people for a second. That lunch scene had all the subtlety of a brick. I have no qualms with Camilla as a person but I felt she might have been grossly misrepresented here.

Well, if they called it the "Proverbial Lambs To The Slaughter" it would have worked too. Only on episode two, but both episodes so far have had a "sex and nudity" warning beforehand. I kept looking for a naked lady in a portrait in the background because none was shown directly. How about an animal abuse or suffering tag instead Netflix? I also thought there was something sacreligious about it. I watched the Thatcher half both amused and annoyed. Surely pictures exist of the Royal Family traipsing in the mud pre dating the Thatcher era, no? What did she think would happen? Assholes, the lot of them. I thought the idea of Philip taking Diana hunting sort of odd. Doesn't that take a whole day away in what must already be a short weekend?

I don't know that surgeons are allowed to ask their patients to dinner just like that, but ok. Having seen the promo pictures for the premiere episode, I am no longer violently opposed to the boyfriend plotline. As long as he gives her back after the mid season finale, ok? Because there's sexual tension to be dragged out ad infinitum.

All these events happened before my time too, and I never really understood Diana. I'm sure she was a nice woman and she's iconic but it just never resonated with me. But I did like the woodsprite costume. I thought it was sweet. As soon as Lord Mountbatten mentioned the lobster, I remembered what would happen. I liked that the funeral scene was overlapped with the IRA claiming responsibility and drowned out Charles's speech. That was some explosion though. Poor Anne, I would have also liked to see her wedding. It felt sort of shoved in there without purpose. I was aghast that Philip, was jealous of his own son. Just what the hell? You're in your 60's, how is this even reasonable?

I thought the final episode was slow going for the first three quarters because they were basically being guilt tripped while knocked out. But those last fifteen minutes slayed me. There were so many ghosts in that house, and it stopped being scary and then it was just sad. I wept buckets over Nell's goodbye speech and Steve's closing monologue.

I rewound the Poppy monologue like five times, it was so good. I am bizarrely obsessed because I know the actress appears in Bly Manor too and she really I don't know, beguiled me like crazy. She wasn't all that scary when it got into the swing of things, really. Just stuck there too, and apparently dying didn't cure the crazy so she has that heaped on top. I was amused the the granny ghost just basically went back to bed and tattle taled to Olivia. Yeah. That suicide scene just broke me. Ugh. Oh, Abigail. My heart shattered when I realised she hadn't been a ghost after all and then she died and became one anyway. I know I'm royally late finishing this but I just can't with my emotions.

I enjoyed this episode far more then the Peter/Rebecca torture hour one episode previously. It didn't necessarily have to be in black and white but okay. Why was the plague doctor taking off his mask walking into a room with an infected patient? Also, would big manor houses really have served as plague houses? I figure places like that would never have gone unoccupied for long in the 17th and 18th centuries. It irked me like crazy. Poor little Nameless Boy. It's a shame they never said who he was or why he was there other then just a hapless victim.

Note to self: read entire thread before posting nonsense five minutes after watching the last episode. I was impressed with this series and I'm sorry there won't be any more. I think Hannah was a recent ghost? Everyone else had died so long ago that they went largely unseen and/or unheard. The house kept haunting Dani long after she left it, though. I don't think she really knew Viola's entire backstory, just felt her overwhelming grief and sorrow and that's what got to her in the end. They sure did dispatch of those ghosts quickly, even Peter and Rebecca. I wasn't sorry to see either of them go though. It was strange that the children would suffer no after effects from living there. Miles is ten, surely it wasn't something he just clicked on and off once he left or wasn't in therapy for for years afterwards. And that Dani and Jamie would not stay in touch with them. The scene at the wedding reminded me of Cold Case episode endings. You know what I'm going to miss most (and which I rewound a few times before starting the last episode) are the opening credits. I find them strangely mesmerising.

Um, that was easily resolved. Just poof, all those ghosts gone. Things I wished were clarified: Who was the little boy? Why was he at the house? Was he someones child somewhere down the line? I felt that needed some clarification. I love that Henry went from absent uncle to forever guardian in under what, ten minutes. Adult Flora didn't look like she was born in 1980. Not sure what year the aftermath was set in, but I'm guessing fairly deep into the 21st century. Dani flying back to Bly to drown herself in the lake didn't make much sense initially but then it did. I guess Viola had seen enough and done enough and felt like she needed to rest on the grounds on which she was born. I like the Alzheimer theory upthread too. Poor Jamie. To be the last one standing in a ghost story. She is and will always be my favourite character in this series. I did like the song at the end, but it's a rough time and it's the small things that get to me. I did watch part of Hill House and all of this but am only now noticing that Victoria Pedretti has one brown and one green eye.

I don't know anything about chess either, but there's a certain beauty in the way it's portrayed here. Thirteen? Seriously? Ana Taylor Joy (I think that's her name) is probably portraying the most gawky teenager ever. Um, shouldn't Jolene have reached her majority at this point? Not sure how much time passed between the overdose and the adoption but it must be at least five years. Jolene must have been at least fifteen when Beth arrived so this phases me.

I was so anticipating the eventual overdose. This was like pick your favourite British actor bingo. Caught four of them within the first twenty minutes. I did anticipate it being a British show rather then an American one.

Maybe it's all the pandemic life stress, but I cried during Jamie's moonflower speech. And I don't cry over things on tv/Netflix ever. It just got to me I guess. "I miss you mummy", oh God, there we go again 😪 I didn't find the faceless child that scary, I retain that all the ghosts featured here are fairly lackluster. I assume the Lady of the Lake doesn't feel like haunting more then one night a week. Why isn't she more omnipresent anyway? Isn't she the key ghost, the most malevolent? Thought Hannah was more ambling in this episode, and Dani talking about her appearing and disappearing makes it feel like maybe she's almost ready to (let) go.

The actor playing Miles is doing such a superb job. He's got all the mannerisms down so well. I missed the "You are/You Were" transition because I was still too transfixed by everything going on this episode. So The Lady of The Lake is like a train you don't want to get in the way of?

I knew it.

Yeah, if those children are regularly left alone at night while the staff has bonfires and drinking parties on the lawn no wonder they're messed up.. I find the ghosts surprisingly lacksadaisical thus far. One just stands there and the other wanders the stairs in the night and yet another hovers behind the window. I was wondering why Dani was given a wedding dress at what appeared to be her wedding, it only dawned on me halfway through the episode. That 17th century gravestone was surprisingly clear. It didn't appear to have weathered over time at all.

It's intriguing enough to keep going I guess. Not the same jump scare that Hill House was, especially if you imagine that a lot of it is borne from trauma and loss. Jamie and Dani are friendship goals. All I could think when Jamie answered that final phone call was that the neighbour wasn't actually named Peter as well. Because I'm mature like that.

I think this show would work better if it wasn't Wallander related and thus had not set the bar too high for itself. Because I did find the story interesting but the actor playing Wallander somewhat impassionate whenever exciting things happened.

So, episode eight. I think the worst part of the not knowing is the not knowing anything at all. When exactly did she disappear? Did she get a call and leave the house, was she at her mothers voluntarily and things went south? I felt like the episode glossed over all these things focusing instead on the stepfather for much of the episode. She was living with a boyfriend/fiance so where was his side of the story? All her sisters have is some educated guesswork and nothing more. I might have been annoyed that the brother could not find a shirt that buttoned properly to be interviewed in front of millions of people. Why did the court decide the son was better off with the grandma? The woman has a murder charge on her record, plus the threat she made to her other daughter. I figure in small towns, those rumours would definitely reach authorative ears.