Accidental Martyr

I liked the first two seasons of Maron but this season is really falling flat.

I guess they can't rewind the video to see what happened to the camera at Plot 33 when the coffee-spiller looked away for a second? I guess they also didn't bother to send anyone to check on the camera and see what was going on there? No one was concerned that someone might go inside and find that computer that just happened to be sitting there with all the info that they have supposedly gone to great lengths to keep anyone from finding out? OK, sure.

How did Jim and Julia put a bomb in that boat? How did they do it without any of the Aktion guys seeing them? Why was that guy just wandering around by the water? What set off the bomb? This show is like a student film written and produced by middle school kids.

5000 cameras? ...but they never saw those guys steal a dump truck and drive it through the fence. That was supposed to the entire town at the "reckoning"? It looked like there were maybe 100 people there.

I would watch that.

Timing is another thing that some people have a hard time with if they haven't done on-camera work before. You tell someone they have a minute for this piece and they say, "What? I only have 1 minute? That's not enough time!" You start rolling and they say everything they have to say in 30 seconds and you give them the 30 second cue and they start stammering and "umming" and "ahhing" trying to get to the end. Then they say, "Wow! A minute sure seems longer than I thought!"

And the live audience had never seen them at all or knew anything about them before that day.

There is absolutely no reason why Dom should still be on this show. (If he's for real and it's not a manufactured act, as others have suggested.) I've worked in TV and video production for over 20 years (behind the camera) and have seen many types of people attempt to do on-camera work. It's really something that pretty much has to come naturally to someone. It's tough to learn how to be natural and relaxed in front of the camera, especially not in the few weeks it takes to shoot this show. I've seen people improve their on-camera presence, but it's sometimes a pretty long process. There is no way he's going to learn this. He's awful. (Unless this is scripted and all of a sudden he turns into a super TV personality at the flip of a switch.) Don't the contestants have to submit an audition tape? I can't imagine Dom's performance being something that would get him cast on this show. Emilia's act seemed fake to me. I almost wonder if it was scripted.

I guess Julia's leg is OK.

Yeah, for a place with a few hundred people who are supposedly under 24 hr. surveillance, it sure was easy to steal a (2000 year-old) dump truck and drive it through the fence.

How is there any alcohol left in this town?

I liked hearing the beginning of Warren Zevon's "Detox Mansion" when Ray woke up from his shotgun induced Conway Twitty dream.

I'm getting to that point, too. The show was awful but it's been fun seeing what new thing there will be to ridicule each week. Now it's getting so far beyond awful into a whole new realm of...something. It's getting to the point where it's not really fun to make fun of anymore.

Did anyone bother to put that fire out?

They made sure to get a good shot of Barbie's new (virtual) Toyota.

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I still think the bombing that Ethan failed to prevent is somehow important to the entire scenario. Exactly how, I don't know.

I think the story Mrs. Fisher told about the family committing suicide was just a "boogeyman" type story to try and keep the kids from revealing "the truth". I still don't think the scenario explained by Fisher is the whole, or even the real, "truth".

Check out Frozen River.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_river

I watched it a couple of weeks ago on Hulu. I'll keep watching, if for no other reason than to find out how it ends. Lots of weirdness, obviously, but at times it almost felt a little too weird. It looks like it has potential though, and since it's only 10 episodes it doesn't really require that much of a long term commitment. BTW, I think Melissa Leo is a shape-shifter. I didn't realize she was playing the nurse until the credits. The same thing happened when I watched Prisoners. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392214

The whole Las Vegas wedding storyline that gets recycled in countless TV shows is pretty ridiculous. For a Vegas wedding to be legal, just like anywhere else, you have to first obtain a marriage license from the Clark County Marriage License Bureau. If anyone has gone through the steps to get a license, obviously the marriage is legal. If you don't have a marriage license then you aren't married. That's why all of the "I didn't know our Vegas marriage was real" plot devices are stupid. If Penny and Leonard are going to get married in Vegas they will have to get a license before the ceremony will be a legal wedding. http://www.702wedding.com/las-vegas-marriage-license.asp

I'm glad Josh Brener is coming back.

"She's in a blue Crosstrek!"

The fluctuating timeline bothers me more in some episodes than others, but this one was pretty glaring. The episodes that revolve around specific historic events (Charles and Diana's wedding, opening of Al Capone's vault, etc.) are the ones with the most obvious flaws. This episode appears to be set in the fall of 1984 since it obviously revolves around the 1984 election and presidential debates. Some of the biggest discrepancies: American Gladiators aired from 1989-1996. America's Funniest Home Videos didn't begin airing as a weekly series until January 1990. Public Enemy's first album wasn't released until 1987. I like the show but sometimes they include things that happened just too far apart, especially when things from the 90's start getting mixed in.