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People I know are trying hard to convince me to watch this. I watched the pilot and found it one-dimensional, dull, unsubtle and filled with obvious choices and tropes I have seen 100 times before. Half the dialogue was so anvilicious it was more like the actors were inscribing their lines on sledgehammers and beating the audience over the head with them than actually speaking and the other half bore no resemblance to anything any actual human has or would ever say. So... does it get any better?

I need to know where I can buy a pink hoodie with 1968 Dodge Chargers on it.

This is turning into, I dunno, "Millennial Dexter". It definitely doesn't have the twisted magic of the first season and it does feel like a bit of a retread. Also, I really want to know how Joe got his plexiglass cell set up in the storage unit. Did he have it disassembled and shipped from NY? Or did he buy a new one? Travel around the bowels of the film industry for a while and you will find oh so very very many Forties. I have met dozens. Lots of them are pretty too, so I don't mind his actor. I think he's actually really good and nails the part.

Now what do we suppose really happened to Love's husband? If he existed, that is... Delilah was a little bit zero-to-sixty in 2 seconds in that last scene. I sure hope Anavrin offers its employees good health insurance.

This is starting to get slow. But I want to know more. I second the above question - when is the 4th episode coming?

The overwhelming problem with this show - as many have said - is that there is just too much going on, making it near impossible to follow. But also, the writers don't seem to have enough ideas to go round; Doug/Sam and John/Petra are basically the same storyline (woman involved with Treadstone falls for male subject - regardless of whether Petra is conning him). With fewer storylines and more screentime to explore characters, this would be a lot more engaging. Jeremy Irvine's wavering fake American accent is atrocious. I have literally no idea what's going on in Tara's storyline. "Maybe you need to make some life changes." - seriously, Sebastian? Who talks like this in the middle of a nuclear missile plot involving crypto-currency, a dead friend and many other cliches and buzzwords? You have just tied Sam's idiotic question to Doug about whether their marriage was OK for dumbest dialogue of the season. Said it before/will say it again;

God this is so SLOW. LOL at Brian J Smith's wife going "Are we OK?" after lying to him their entire marriage and hiding the fact that he is a brainwashed assassin and she knew all along and was part of the whole deal. Like, sure, babe. Maybe we need a few sessions of couples' therapy but we'll be just dandy after that. Just warn the therapist that I might have to skip a meeting or two if I have to get triggered and go off and kill someone else.

So I guess we do not see all the characters in all the episodes. On the plus side, this week's characters are my favorites. On the minus side, damn was this talky. I mean all Nurse Wife and Oil Guy Husband did (besides getting rid of the body) was talk talk talk all episode long. Have these writers not heard of show don't tell? I also don't understand what happened at the end - why was he going off with that crew to seemingly do a robbery? I thought he was going to kill the woman at Cloonie's Bar?

I thought it looked familiar! I really want to like this show, but it feels so the same as everything else. It's like they reached into the grab-bag of Serious Espionage Cliches and pulled out "Sick Friend/Coworker/Boss", "Unstable Political Regime", "Friendly Politician You Respect Dies In Front Of You", "Vehicular Ambush" and "Weapons Smuggling". Are we going to find out what happened to Abbie Cornish/Cathy or has she been Bond Girled down the memory hole?

This is the fightiest show ever.

Yes that's him - thanks, I couldn't remember his character's name!

Sorry, I misread/misunderstood what you wrote! I'm thinking that whatever "great plan" the red-haired spy lady thought of back in the day may have something to do with it. I'm also wondering if (using spoiler tags in case my guess is correct)...

It's a split timeline. The storyline with Eddie Irvine in it is taking place in 1973. Everything else is set in the present, including the Korean storyline.

Serious contrivance. It would have been way more believable if she was an Uber driver rather than driving a black cab which isn't that easy of a job to get! This is a weird show. It's a bit slow and rather unexciting considering the subject matter, and it all feels a bit... antiseptic. But I'm not out just yet. South Korea is my favorite storyline.

Aw sad. Now I need some new crap to be angry with myself for watching/liking. Would actually be nice if it did get picked up elsewhere and retooled a bit. It could have been genuinely good!

Today someone was talking about some viral video which featured a baby panda trying to eat metal, repeatedly falling off its perch and almost killing itself, peeing directly onto its keeper and generally being utterly stupid and self-destructive but still adorably cute and near-impossible to stay angry with. That made me think of this show so I thought I'd stop by and see if it had been cancelled yet?

It's likely a courtesy credit given to him as a sweetener because he's a star name/one that allows him input into the scripts/direction of the show and possibly a producer fee. It's very unlikely he or his production company (which he probably has) put any money into the show.

El Rey has decided to spin off to his own show, "The Way of El Rey" where he rides his motorcycle cross-country, singing and helping people out along the road.

I am pleased with my calling of this. Ah this show, so free of logic. Maybe Mr. P's job as "maintenance" also involved getting rid of any bodies of people who died in the hotel so it wouldn't spoil the party ambience? Yeah, I got nuthin' I did not see Javi's Cougar being Ingrid's mom coming. I really like Anne Winters. She made Ingrid likable even when she was being EVOL, although it does seem like half the characters on this show are rich and the other half are all poor, resentful and will do anything to get over to the other side. If there is a season two and she gets rid of her mom and gets with Javi, does that make them "Jagrid"? That green screen on the beach behind Danny and Alicia at the end was horrible. This show could have been so much better and yet I still hope it gets renewed.

I did notice that in the scene where he was walking with Mr. P he did walk as if he had the prosthetic.

Honestly, this is written at the level of an early 1970's Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Santiago (hanging up the phone): "Hey Gigi, that was the cops who did the human-trafficking bust at our hotel last week that nobody ever found out about including our kids and the staff. They're giving us immunity even though we seemingly didn't tell them that we owe the mob money or that Mateo, our "employee", works for Theresa, who has disappeared completely, or that we got him to sabotage our competition and almost killed a bunch of people including Javi and made Ingrid lose her baby. They do know you helped that girl who was being trafficked though!" Gigi: "I wonder who could have told them that?" Santiago: "Yeah, it's a mystery. let's pretend to think about it for a second, then we can stash all this in the memory hole in the basement along with El Rey, the hotel next door and it's rapey owner and you can go do a light comedy subplot about Carolina's love life!" Gigi: "Excellent idea! Oh, you know what, though? After that, we should tell your son, the booze, drugs and sex addict who just completed rehab that we lied to him about his mother committing suicide without any sort of preparation at all because that couldn't ever possibly cause him to have a relapse, could it?" Santiago: "Nah. After all, it's not like we told his rehab counsellor about the history of mental health issues in the family when we packed him off there! It's also not like he has the greatest memory since he was apparently 17-going-on-27 when she died but claims to have barely any memories of her. He'll be fine!" And. Yet. I. Still. Watch. Also, what the hell is the timeline of all this? Judging by Gigi's hair in the scene where she found Beatriz, the suicide took place in about 1978. If Sky is dead and does not make a dramatic reappearance next week, my money is on the killer being

Psychologically it's probably similar to having a gambling addiction. They just keep throwing more and more money into it thinking eventually they're going to hit it big, and they can't walk away because it will mean all that money down the drain for nothing. Meanwhile they're getting validation from these organizations, being told how great they are and how rich they're going to be. This is more or less it. It's the same as people who fall for the infamous Nigerian Prince scam emails, Scientology or any other pyramid scheme like this - or even a business they set up that isn't working out. When you're in this situation, you get to a psychological place where you literally can't admit to yourself that you've been scammed. Doing so would mean admitting to yourself that (a) all the money you sank into this (which you likely couldn't afford) is gone, (b) no miracle is going to happen, (c) you have been a fool and (d) now you have to figure out how to pay all the debt you're likely in and how to carry on with your life in the face of crushing disappointment and without the hope the scam gave you. You're in too deep, so you go deeper and give it just one more week, one more month, one more year and before you know it, a big chunk of your life has gone by and you have nothing to show for it. Often less than nothing. Dreams give people a reason to get up in the morning and people who have very little - and even less chances to bring anything good into their lives - are easy targets for empty promises. In the most passing way I knew a couple in London in the mid-90's who were involved in an eerily similar scam to Kiki & Skars' characters, albeit with less of the overt culty-stuff depicted in the show (which probably wouldn't have worked in England!) This couple bought cleaning products to sell on too. They were desperately poor, with little education, saw the woman who was their "handler" driving her base-model BMW, wanted what she had and talked endlessly about how this was going to make them rich and get them their own home away from the shared house they lived in. They were perfect targets for her, worked every hour at it and I hope they escaped. Watched the pilot and Kirsten Dunst was awesome, but it was a little slow for me and the story seems to meander a bit. Not sure if I'll continue.

Actually, I think it wouldn't - the testimony of the woman Gigi pretended to spill her drink on likely would, combined with proof that they were in hock to Theresa, but Danny would have had no idea that they weren't there with full knowledge of what was going on; he knows Santiago has something going on with the mob and has seen Theresa there before, but he doesn't know exactly what's happening - that Santiago is in debt. And he knows his sister disappeared. He'd most likely think that Santiago and Theresa tried to traffic her and then killed her or something like that. Plus after this big freaking takedown where all these people were arrested, the cops were (presumably) amendable to not perp-walking them out the main entrance and nobody bothered to tell Mrs. P or convene an emergency staff meeting of senior, trusted staff to warn her what was happening or prepare contingency plans in case guests saw anything. I really wish this show had a bit more edge to it and would take a step closer to reality. It would have been way preferable to me to have a bit more screentime dedicated to building and telling this storyline properly instead of, say, Carolina's idiotic lovelife.

That made no sense at all. Off-screen, Santiago and Gigi went and talked to the cops who busted the event, presumably explained they were in debt to Theresa, which is why they were there and how she was able to force them to host it. Somehow they also convinced the cops to hush up the bust (which would have driven them out of business). But surely they'd have wanted to know why the cops were there already and would have been told about Danny, since Danny, Gigi and Santiago would all have to testify if/when Theresa got picked up. So we go into next week's episode with them (GIgi and Santiago) still unaware of who Danny is and why he's there.

Oh God this show. It's like eating sour gummi bears as a midnight snack. I know I shouldn't, but the sugary empty calories taste so, so good and are so, so more-ish and I just can't stop and then next morning, I'm like "Ugh, WHY?" Yoli, regardless of her immigration status, Marisa wanting you to be out so you can take your relationship public is really not the same as you inviting her to quit her job and run off to another country with you and your wanted-criminal father. "How could you do this to my wanted-criminal, ex-husband?! I can't trust you at all!" (Or words to that effect), screamed Gigi, the woman who slept with and then married her recently-dead best friend's husband. Alicia, you know how this hotel is supposed to be in dire straits financially? Well it really doesn't help if you waive fees and comp every guest who cries and gives you a sob story. I am surprised they didn't teach you this on your MA Hotel Management course. Where did you get this degree, Trump University? I get why Javi is never supposed to drink or drug again but I'm not sure what the hell kind of post-rehab program includes no sex. Is that, like, EVER? Still, even though it was stupid and one-dimensional like Stoned Mrs. P, Bryan Craig was very good at selling the comedy when he was trying to get Jason laid. The lady detective sure did a good OMG I Never Thought Of That face when Danny pointed out to her that it was surprising someone like Mateo could get a job as a luxury hotel manager, even though she was the one who dug up his file full of convictions and is a professional cop and probably should have been able to make that logic connection herself. Congrats, Danny, looks like you found someone who is an even worse detective than you are! The Peg Bundy Crime Empire: Clean Used Cars, Dirty Money and... hanging around hotels? I bet Ingrid would love to be her protege though! I really hope this gets renewed.