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I mean sure kids didn't have social media back in the day, but they lived in the city, their parents talked, there were newspapers around, to say they were entirely sheltered from pop culture, as it would have been, seems unlikely. It wasn't like sex or something else beyond the pale.

Blake and Eliza are new endgame, I get it, even if I don't see a romantic chemistry. He was clearly designed to tick all the boxes- single dad to a precocious daughter who struggles with school (just like Eliza's dad), not so tied to gender roles of the era, etc etc. It's just all very "perfect." Though can't we just not have a romance then? If the show was retooled to focus on her detectiving, to the point it was renamed, why cram in another romance? Also, small aside. Wouldn't Sophia's (is that her name) schoolmates know at least in general who Eliza is? She's been in the papers. Or do they think that Sophia is making up that she knows her, though her did works at Scotland yard.

Same. It looked like they hired 10 or so, which was a lot more than I thought, and seemed like a huge jump from zero to new clerical office. When the inevitable happens and the new inspector visits Eliza at home, oh the hijinks that will ensue... (and are they going to hire a cook and a maid now? We know Eliza can't cook, so is Ivy going to do her new job and still all the house work?)

Totally. Violet said something about how he can't use a phone without help. But he can take a bus ride for who knows how far from his residential home to Poplar by himself? Which is it? With so many stories like the squalor family who appeared to be having their 4th child in 9 years (though I do not believe Karen with the bad heart is 10, I would have pegged her as younger) with no income and no financial abilities, I don't have much stake in Nonatus house providing anything useful to people falling through the cracks either. Like, family planning.

So the new detective has a daughter and so a mysterious and tragic dead wife, I assume. But why would his personal effects (ie novels ie Treasure Island) be sent to his office?

Having just read the book, any reasons why they changed so many [minor?] things (name of Melissa's husband, Cecily's dog, Cecily threw a glass vs knife, why Melissa stayed in England, etc)?

Minor quibbling point, but why does young Ian still wear his hair that way? Like, he's been away from the natives for a while now, time to stop cos-playing.

I know the answer is "because tv show" but everyone in the boat except Angelica was wearing a like jacket?

I'm super behind on episodes, but I found this all very strange as well. They didn't sell their AZ home, their home schooled children are just going to start going to school (do they speak spanish?) I would have put money on them buying a rental there. Looks like real estate agent mom started her own school (no comment on her qualifications or the very whoo hoo type of schooling) in the "3 cabinas and various covered areas have been converted into classrooms" https://www.stepsinlifecr.co so they live where?

So the same. I'm hoping (though realize it's unlikely) that she isn't dead after all.

My unpopular opinion - the books are terrible and have not aged well. I guess because I didn't read them back when they came out, but I have no loyalty to their storylines, and writers should change away. I only started reading after last season, and as I loved season 2 (another unpopular opinion lol) I went right for that book. I was horrified, not only was it a repeat of "now they have to get married because they were together alone" from the Daphne storyline, Kate had no spice once they got together. Anthony was a jerk and she never put up a fight.

Maybe I wasn't paying attention enough in earlier seasons, but I was a little shocked by Matthew's mother in the board scene. Didn't Matthew's father have to sell her tiara (the one that Trixie wanted to wear for the wedding)? In the board scene she put all the blame on Matthew, ignoring the previous mismanagement.

I agree, and though I know what the writers said, I'm pretending that the slap happened but this episode it was just William's flashback/dream so he prefers to remember it differently (ie with Eliza doing the kissing and not doing the slapping).

I haven't watched beyond episode 1 yet (I'm such a sucker for spoilers lol!) But per a couple of sites it was scheduling conflicts.https://parade.com/tv/miss-scarlet-and-the-duke-season-4 so sad that there will be no Moses this season!

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436781 It is a real painting, and there is plenty of speculation on the internet that it shows people with Downs Syndrome. But who knows, that time period wasn't known for great face depictions (so many old man faced baby Jesuses) and Down Syndrome wasn't medically categorized until the mid 1800s.