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HC87

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  1. I really dug how they made this ep sort of a "retro sci-fi" circa late '60s Manson murders, "2001" etc Thought was a cool choice.

    Aaron Paul was awesome as usual. My favorite ep of this season easily. 

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  2. First ep this season I didn't really feel it.....maybe the Bruins OT loss put me in a foul mood before I watched this tonight. 

    Just seemed more of the same..... nothing really new or interesting (for me anyway) seemed to transpire on tonight's ep.

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  3. I guess '80s music is now the de facto soundtrack for sci-fi series now. 

    Pretty sure that was The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" being played instrumentally on the carousel scene.

    Kind of weird that there are a fair amount of malls in America today that look like that one did. 

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  4. Bill has really bought into the "higher education is useless" bs that conservatives have been pushing lately.

    Tafoya is a former sports broadcaster....she was usually the reporter down on the field during football games. Looks like she is reinventing herself as a conservative gadfly....she's been on some different Fox shows lately like Gutfeld etc. She was particularly loathesome last night, she'll fit right in at Fox and other right-wing outlets.

    Begala brought up some great points I thought....his brand of policies, sort of center-left, is a winning one politically speaking imo.

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  5. 26 minutes ago, methodwriter85 said:

    They really seem intent on portraying the Roys as "blue collar salt of the Earth" types while Michelle's family is depicted as genteel New England WASP's.

    The two towns should actually be flip-flopped (in terms of how they are portrayed anyway).....Mattapoisett is a much more white collar enclave than Plainville is.  The Roys are sort of "rough around the edges" but they are fairly successful in their businesses. 

    It's actually kind of interesting, not sure if this in anyway played into Michelle's issues, but Plainville is seen as sort of the "poor cousin" in the King Philip regional school system. The other 2 towns in it, Norfolk and Wrentham, are seen as the more desireable towns to live in. 

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  6. Grew up in Mattapoisett and coached boy's tennis at King Philip (yes, one l) HS so this case has always fascinated me having spent a lot of time in both communities. I don't personally know any of the people involved in this but know some who do. 

    One thing they have taken dramatic license with is portraying Mattapoisett as a "rough" town. It's a beautiful sea-side community on Buzzard's Bay, which is in just about every way, a much more desirable town to live in/come from etc than Michelle's Plainville. 

    They have done a good job duplicating exteriors/interiors of restaurants in Mattapoisett, King Philip HS etc.....the real school colors are green&yellow not the red&black (I think they showed) though.

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  7. I found Bill to be very testy this week....like others have said here, he's more and more becoming the grumpy old neighbor most everyone doesn't want to deal with anymore. 

    To label some progressive ideas etc as so "out there" -- he is basically parroting right-wing talking points. While this could be the case in some instances, he makes no mention of the thoughts/ideas that are equally, if not moreso, out of step on the conservative side of the political aisle.

    Terrible panel imo as well.....this show is really losing its touch imo...I could see it losing a big part of its audience moving forward. 

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  8. Humor me, but couldn't that attempted coup plot (using the divorce agreement) by the Roy children been attempted long ago??? 

    Seems like they just strung out this season on intra-family back-stabbing.

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  9. While I love the characters (and characterizations) of this show, the narrative is really lacking....2 episodes left to this season and really, barely anything has happened to advance the story-line this season. 

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