Inquisitionist

Realistically, Shannon is going to live in Asheville until her kid finishes high school -- which is many years away. I think the distance issues got telescoped into one episode so that the series could move on, but that would have been a heck of a commitment to make between people who really hardly knew each other (the almost-moving-in-together nonsense of 2 weeks ago notwithstanding). Is this show on the chopping block for sure? I've been enjoying it. It's the only network show I'm currently watching.

Sorry, I meant I stopped watching during the car scene where Jake and Amy are being tailed in the dead of night.

In Godfather II, Vito's birth year is given as 1891, making the character only 55 or so at the start of The Godfather. Perhaps they retconned his age and had initially envisioned him as older.. Morgana King didn't sound like any Italian-American lady I ever heard from that era. I heard no Italian accent when she spoke. I think Sonny was boinking Lucy Mancini, who was a bride's maid. Sandra was his wife's name. FFC talked about the making of The Godfather in this NPR interview earlier this year. The story about surreptitiously auditioning Brando is great.

I hope I can get Mr. Inqui to watch this with me. He grew up in Chicago and later majored in political science at UIC. Though a bit younger than you, he has a visceral connection to these events and it's therefore sometimes hard for him to watch movie depictions. But I would love to get his perspective, so I'll work on it!

This must be where I stopped watching. Scenes of impending horror/doom are not my thing.

I recall reading that Courteney Cox wanted to have short hair again, so they just worked it into the show. I really enjoy that one, too. I love Jacques Cousteau! I love all of those, and would add TOW the Videotape on my all-time fave list. Rachel: How do you know about that story? Joey: How do YOU know about that story?

He was also perfection as Prince Yakimov in the Fortunes of War miniseries from the 1980s.

My 88-year-old mamma would be thrilled to know this! ❤️

I hope that this show is making it clearer that there really isn't such a thing as what "Italians" eat or do. The regional differences are enormous. No cream-filled breakfast buns in my homeland of Trentino! I commented to my husband that I hoped that restaurant had a vomitorium. Sorry, offal with herbs and great olive oil just tastes like gussied up garbage to me. I guess it depends on one's tastes and tolerances, but the diversity of the Italian peninsula is quite staggering. And the only place I've been so far where I'd say the food was generally sub-par was Venice. If he makes it to my homeland of Trentino, I will be truly impressed! Our staple dishes of polenta and dumplings aren't as exotic, perhaps, but they are delicious when done right. And the scenery is luscious.

Thanks for the HBO tip. I haven't seen that movie since it came out and would love to revisit it.

I was just quoting the article. 😉 Looking forward to seeing the gang again on 1/30!

From the article linked above: I don't follow country music. Is Garth Brooks considered influential?

Yeesh, they took a helluva long holiday break this year. Hope everyone is refreshed and recharged on Jan. 23!

So fitting that it ends with the luminous Olivia de Havilland. ❤️

I find it horribly distracting when it's not needed. My eyes keep getting drawn to reading ahead instead of listening to the actors. Ugh.

Thanks! I thought I was watching closely, but I missed that. It made sense that she would bow to this particular status symbol.

Speaking from late 1960s experience here... The pads typically did require use of a garter belt type thingy. No safety pins that I recall -- the belt was designed to latch onto either end of the pad. Even when I was in college in the mid-1970s, tampon usage was not widespread in my social circle. It all seems so primitive now! Yup, this kind of thinking was prevalent. I read that membership at chess.com has doubled since this show debuted. Sales of chess sets are on the rise as well. I doubt we'll see a resurgence in sales of menstrual garter belts. 🙃 Did Beth ever buy herself a pair of saddle shoes? I like the way she prioritizes. And the way she deliberately bumped through that gaggle of girls in the school hallway, as one had done to her at her locker earlier.

I had thought Schultz was a composite character, but that was his real name. This article suggests that the sympathetic portrayal in the movie is not accurate. My husband, who has read extensively about these events, said Judge Hoffman was even worse in real life than depicted. Perhaps Sorkin thought audiences needed the prosecutor to be less evil.

Utter piece of crap. At least I don't think the Fargo finale can be this bad. (I'll watch it tomorrow.)

It reminded me of how S2 made the Kennedys look like hayseeds when meeting the royals. This show is not subtle about exaggerating for effect. ::eyeroll::

Her sister had dated Charles and seemed a lot more savvy about how things work when it comes to the royals. It seems to me that Diana's family were abysmal in preparing her for what was coming. Except that we've seen Charles work hard and undergo sacrifices because of the position that was thrust on him. Being shunted off to Wales for 3 months to learn that mind-bending language just when he was hitting his stride at Cambridge was no picnic.

Agree. I thought Lisa was the only one who looked remotely good.

I feel the same way. Too many characters, too much backstory, nothing that is really anchoring my interest. Feels more like Miller's Crossing than Fargo in tone, and I wasn't a huge fan of MC. I'm there with you! Not quite ready to abandon Noah Hawley yet, but he is surely trying my patience. Ditto. This storyline sounded so promising when I first read about it, but the execution has been puzzling, to say the least.

You watch your way and I'll watch mine. 😉 Much of the material is simply UNwatchable, IMO.

Thanks, I'll go back and look for that. WU is one of the few segments I watch every week but I missed that.