Inquisitionist

I remember him showing up on TV quite a bit in the early 70s, things like The Love Boat. He also played a love interest of Rhoda's in an early season of Mary Tyler Moore. So cute! I'm pretty sure I saw it during one of its early runs on TV, in the late 1960s, when I was 13-ish. Loved it then and still enjoy watching it again now!

Thanks. I did some research after seeing the show on Saturday and was aware of all this. But I am a fan of the changes. I felt as though I'd been punched in the gut -- in a good way. ;-) The film I Am a Camera doesn't seem to have been very well received, but I'm going to keep an eye out for it as well. Interesting that a character in a short story has inspired so many interpretations.

Damn, sorry I missed this. I just saw a terrific stage production of Cabaret and hadn't realized how much the storyline and characters were changed for the film (which I haven't seen in quite a while). I also hadn't known that some songs written directly for the film later made their way into stage productions (Money, Money and Mein Herr). I'm now reading Goodbye, Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Minnelli's Sally Bowles isn't really much like the character he knew and wrote about, but she sure made an impression!

It was the finale of S1, which set the stage for ending most seasons with a flashback episode. Those are among my favorites!

The Sauce Zone.

Watched this episode (and No. 3) with my husband last night. We both figured out Kevin's involvement before the episode was half over. The accidentally part was a little bit of a surprise. I agree with your latter assessment. There are some interesting layers going on. That must be some cost/benefit trade-off if they're will to take such risks to avoid involving the police. Brandon's brief run-in gives a flavor of why.

Yes, the skit melded the two references brilliantly!

Dare I say that I don't think Sam Waterston is a very good actor in general? Oh, he's done some work that I've admired, but in this series, as in L&O, his performance feels like a collection of tics.

Followed by Donna saying, gleefully: I love breakfast cereal!

But that name absolutely cracks me up. I'd love to know who came up with that and how. Is it a play on Ralph Macchio? One of my favorite Leslie lines is "Jean Ralphio, dance up on me" in The Fight.

LOL, do you mean like this?

It seems to be a race between Metcalf and Alison Janney. I've seen both of those performances. Janney was very good, but the role didn't entail much range.

There's a marvelous piece about Laurie Metcalf in the NY Times today: Laurie Metcalf Was Hiding in Plain Sight I would love, love, love it if Metcalf scooped up the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. I've had the pleasure of seeing her on stage at Steppenwolf Theater twice. Sooooo good!

Ah, the Vulture review connected some dots for me: I had missed the relationship between Kevin and Keisha.

Does Emmett have a relationship with the murder storyline? So far, he seems to be a separate thread on the outskirts of the main storyline, but I may have missed something. I live about 15 miles north of where these stories and characters are set, but it feels like a different world. Nicely done so far.

A bit of a Steppenwolf Theater reunion, with Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, and Lois Smith all hitting home runs in sizeable roles. I was prepared to be underwhelmed by this movie, given the hype, but I found it delightful and engrossing. Well done, Greta Gerwig!

Sam: And it wasn't four women. It was four hundred women, easy. Diane: They'd have to be.

Thanks, Loandbehold!

So when is it coming back? I'm not watching anything else on F/X right now so I don't see promo ads...

Agree, and this seems to be where the storyline was headed as the episode ended. On to Ep. 5 now..

Unfortunately, sitcom writers don't seem to know what to do with happily married characters so they often write them into divorce.

Another New Yorker article, this time from 2007, confirms a lot of prior thread comments about Diana. I'm very curious to see how this series depicts Diana. If it falls into the saintly victim mode, I'll be very disappointed.

It is always a treat to see Stephen Dillane. What a fine actor!

Indeed, the New Yorker article that I quoted above seems largely based on a book that had recently been published: I'm not aware of Charles "badmouthing" Diana after her death, so I also would infer that the paragraph I quoted from The New Yorker article is drawn from this book, which in turn is based on things Charles said earlier (perhaps to friends who then spoke to Sally Bedell Smith. In any event, I thought that paragraph had a particularly compelling insight about how Charles had experienced deference from almost everyone he'd encountered in life before Diana, but I'd urge everyone to read the entire article.

An interesting profile of Charles, from about a year ago in The New Yorker. Seems like he was always thrust into roles for which he was not really suited, but was determined to handle as best he could. The psychological toll of "duty" can be crushing.