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I'm not believing this man is "the" victim and can't say anyone is "supposed" to feel any certain way but when the entire frigging premise of his story/ show is that he got himself entangled with Martha and did fuck all to get himself out precisely because he was such a caring, concerned and empathetic guy (except,apparently, for people in his life who were exceedingly good to him)- then yeah, show your fucking work! So, I'll let others decide how they feel about the precioussss but I'm not buying what he's selling and personally I feel *strongly* that he's full of himself and full of shit.

I can see the interest in watching if for nothing beyond Jessica Gunning's outstanding portrayal of Martha. It is Donny that frustrated and then repelled. As the series went on I saw someone I deeply dislike because I don't think he had any concern for anyone beyond himself. He didn't actually care about Martha and her mental illness, he fed it and then commercialized it. He sure didn't show any consolation for Teri when he minimized her reaction to the situation by reminding her who, and only who, was really the victim in the story. Even the well-being of his parents, shown to be almost impossibly perfectly loving and supporting, wasn't what got him racing to their home: it was what she might reveal to them about him. I didn't like the character, who in this case, weirdly IS the real person and everything I've read since about Richard Gadd and this whole show/story has only reinforced that dislike and added to it a really strong distrust of him. And, yes, good grief- portraying himself as a twenty-something while looking 40ish just took me out of the Darrian scenes. Think a much older actor would have been a bit more convincing.

Wow! I can't agree with this whole post more. The true victims, imo, were Liz, Keely and his parents. He not only refused to take action to shield them from abuse they only got because of him but acted hurt and put-upon when it was suggested he should🤦 I was bummed to see Keely and Liz still taking responsibility for him after everything; lovely people, they both deserve relationships where caring and support are reciprocated.

I'm down to final 2 episodes to go and finding Donny dishonest, lazy, selfish and unattractive in every sense of the word and just incredibly unlikeable. What a damp, spineless waste of skin. I just can't believe that anyone could find this morose sailcat sexually beguiling or in any degree loveable but here he is with ex-girlfriend infinitely out of his league and new love interest who seems to have personality, education and brains until going into deep depression because he can't perform sexually...nah, nope it's just not believable that even the most mentally ill of deranged stalkers wouldn't have lost interest by week 2. Martha actor is incredible and can make me want to slap her then hug her in just a few words but no level of acting can make that attraction ring true, imo.

She actually helped him a great deal with his research for the book, even going to Kansas and meeting and talking with people alongside him. He apparently gave her little to no credit for this help which, along with his jealousy re: TKAM's success killed the friendship. I feel much sympathy for the abandoned child he was but the adult Truman comes across to me as too incredibly self-centered to be a good friend, especially to women. Joanne Carson, the exception ,was still caping for him till she died and it feels like he used her and allowed her to cater to him in return for her adoration 🤷. Read an article recently that stated he lived at her house when in LA for years after the Swans booted him from their island, and took over 2 of the 3 bedrooms in said house. Really not a fan of Ryan Murphy. It takes some kind of perverse skill to turn inherently interesting source material into something so vapid and so far from actual narrative honesty. I'll probably finish this series now that I've stuck around this long but won't be giving any time to any of his future projects.

I love, love, love Ava! After Janine, she is my favorite by far and I was bummed when she didn't get the Emmy. I know she's not suited for her job but that's not uncommon in any field and this isn't really a documentary. Mr Johnson is so unrealistic with all his past life BS but that's what makes him interesting 🤷. I can relate to the hate, though, because every time mush-mouth Melissa and her plastic face, pleather 'Grease'pants and OTP scenery munching self comes on I boo. Seeing that her tedious relationship drama looks to possibly be brewing anew to take up time that, imo, would be better used showing my girl Ava getting in on that sweet online $200 air or Tariq doing ANYTHING hurts me.

Yeah, was thinking Scotty was maybe eating a Bisquick Blizzard from Dairy Queen due to all the product placement it was getting. However you make pancakes beating them into submission like Dot is never a good idea unless you want them to bounce! Am I the only one wondering why lead kidnapper Munch was wearing a skirt? It really didn't look like a kilt but in either case it just seemed odd that nobody mentioned the fact that old boy was committing his felonies decked out like Olive Oyl. Seconding Witt being an incompetent law officer but be he seems like a really good guy who can only improve and I'm feeling him as a major upgrade for Indira's deadbeat BF.

I've never seen Severance but I think "mess" is being too kind. And I, too, forced myself to finish this series when I could've been doing something worthwhile with all that wasted time. Checkers with my dog, maybe.

I'm liking this so far but doesn't feel like a comedy at all. Christoph Waltz giving me nightmares.

Only started this series last month and, while I would be hesitant to call it "good" overall, it's entertaining. Favorite part of this episode was definitely nasty little Termite getting ground into the concrete by Homelander's boot. Felt like an homage to the 1950’s movie 'The Fly' but I cried for days after seeing the little fly/scientist mashup get splattered as he wailed in terror at the approaching spider. Termite's squish just cracked me up. Nasty little bastard deserved it for ruining MM's favorite jacket and trying to highjack Frenchie's very personal space.

I've watched only first 3 episodes of each series and so far I like the American ghosts better but think the couple are really, really bad actors. Love the UK couple because they're less otp sitcom and more natural. Especially like the female lead who I also think bears a striking resemblance to Margot Kidder and the hubby actor is so likeable that his mouth-breathing is bearable to watch. Both sets of basement ghosts are highpoints for me but love, love the UK crew and wish I could live with them and get help with dyi projects.

It's quiet in here. If nothing else this show looks good; creepy settings every which way and low lit like TWD back when anyone actually cared enough to strain eye to see what was going on. I'm only thru this episode but see no resemblance to source material?? Salem's Lot but, whatever. Brody is working hard here but unfortunately seems to have taken classes in whispering for actors in the footsteps of Christian Bale, Walton Goggins, and far too many others to name. Not a fan of the whispering, raspy or otherwise. The psycho girl in tattered dress is fairly creepy despite the overdone mmake-up which kind of pulls me out of the story by bringing to mind Courtney Love, admittedly a horror show, but wrong kind. The kids are too attractive to be related to Adrian Brody and Schitt's Creek Stevie is epic miscasting🤦 but it's October and I'm gonna slog through this even if I gotta go it alone.

I called it "Where's Waldo" red when first seeing the hair, the glasses and the knit cap Ronald was sporting outside his girlfriend's job. The resemblance had to be intentional!

So, TPTB could have spared me the tedious droning and cartoonish posturing of the shark-jumpin'est character since that jacket's original owner by simply giving Mrs Fonzie Negan-Smith a friggin' CD player??

I know it's completely pathetic but this silly show is the highlight of my week and this episode ranks very close to City Council in my top 2. It just keeps getting better and better. Laszlo and Nandor's off-camera bitching about who still has best hair in house as Colin floats down hallway under his newly-sprouted hair jungle? Still giggling at that.

Agree on everything you said up until last sentence. I love this show so much and Matt Berry is my favorite! That said, I have to say that other than a few laughs (Guillermo and Colin, mainly) I thought this was but far weakest episode so far. It felt oddly self-aggrandizing with stunt casting turned up to 11. I was really disappointed because I knew that there was going to be "very special" guest stars and hoped for something much better than the highschool drama level acting and paper thin plot that was only there to shoehorn in as many friends as possible. Hope they're over the back-patting and back to the show I love next week.

I watched in a darkened room too and I have a 4k Samsung so don't think my tv is the problem. It was like trying to watch a freaking audiobook. Later tried watching on laptop held up to my nose so that I could turn the screen when scenes changed to get better view but didn't help much. Read an article this morning about how the makers have been purposely using only "natural" light for past several seasons in order to be more authentic because they didn't actually have giant electric lights back in 'those days' which never happened anyhow and people were too poor to be burning candles inside! WTF?, just sounds like such lazy bs excuse-making because most of the interior scenes are shot in castles held by people who can likely afford wax because they can surely afford face-fuls of what appear to be professionally applied cosmetics amd the services of some really first-rate tailors and dress-makers so.... It just seems counter-productive to spend so much money, time and effort to make what should be a visually great series and, at the same time, make it so hard to actually see.

Mariano Rivera, thankyewverymuch! I'd like to have an opinion about the episode but like so many others I couldn't actually see 90+ % of it. Too bad there's already a show named 'What We Do In The Shadows' because that could be a really good descriptive subtitle for so many Game of Thrones episodes and last night's was the biggest offender I can recall.

I don't require my make-believe vampire sitcoms to share my political and or gender political beliefs - or to remotely give a flying dog bone toy about them. I watch to be entertained and to laugh. This show makes me insanely giggly and that's all I'm here for. There are lots of other places online and in real life to take shit seriously. However, in Lazlo's defense I didn't make the assumption that he ONLY remembered women for their sexual organs nor did I hear him suggest that women are ONLY holes so, yeah, YMMV but if I can get past his slaughter of unarmed raccoons without hurt feelings and a call to PETA I think I'm going to just take this silly, silly show for what it is and keep my knickers un-bunched. Still want Colin and Evie in smaller doses, personally.

This is my new favorite show! Don't know if anything will ever compare to 2nd episode's raccoon Pied Piper and City Council's raving Renfield complete with UHF-quality visual but Nandor tossing that bone off the roof had me on the floor. I like Colin but there was too much of him and Evie in latest episode for me; it just dragged on and on and took too much time from my beloved Lazlo and his filthy Oedipal gardening 😂. Those new world werewolves really ARE swear-wolves.

I think Corrina was the ex-wife and Yuna the newer model. I couldn't get over how much Connie Nielsen seemed to be doing a really good Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek) impersonation, especially in her first scene. This cracked me up and took me completely out of the story (the tiny bit there was) anytime she was onscreen. Seconding the person who found Chris Pine's acting a revelation; thought he ruined Kirk role - mainly due to heinously bad casting, which was only other role I'd seen him in but he really impressed me as Jay. This series could and should have been so much better. Disappointed.