Tim McD

If I was competing on TAR and I heard one of the other racers say he didn't know who Elizabeth Taylor was, I would stop racing and go all Larry David on his ass for 20 minutes.

Truman Capote will be put on trial in hell, with a jury of people even worse than he was, like that Simpsons Halloween episode from years back.

You could do a couple of series with Vidal: Mailer vs Vidal, Buckley vs Vidal.

Same here, I kept expecting QEII to stand in the tea chest.

I hope they see the light and drop the vaudeville routines with Ben and His Band of Jocular Pals, they are forced and very cringey. Just stick with the occasional unscripted dad pun! The Erin/Mallorie art projects are becoming quite far out.

Early on we see Harry viewing CCTV footage of the pier which shows Percy kneeling before then fleeing a shadowy figure. Was that figure ever identified? Was it supposed to be Bo Lam's ghost? Those are some pretty impressive CCTV cameras if they can show the spirits of the dead.

Does anyone recognize the actress playing Mike's mother? She was in the scene in the kitchen with Dan talking about pinochle. There's no credit for the character on IMDB and she wasn't listed in the end credits.

I liked the subtle allusions to "All the President's Men"; casting F. Murray Abraham as Judge John Sirica (he played one of the plainclothes cops in the movie) and the Robert Redford soundalike voice on the phone when Woodward calls Hunt. I thought at first that they had just used Redford's audio from the film, but the dialogue is definitely different.

That whole thing from season 6 about Sandy leaking the photos made no sense to me. When Tosh tells him she knows it was him, he’s all gobsmacked, like he seriously thought he would get away with it. He leaked the photos from his work computer! The digital forensics team would bust him for that in about 2 seconds, how did he not know that? Dumbass.

And not very bright. She asked aloud if chickens could talk and if cats could give birth to rabbits, wondered why a butterfly she trapped in a jar all day didn’t live, got herself, Olivia and Jim-Bob lost in the woods chasing a chicken, and ruined Jim-Bob’s fish business by letting all the fish go because she thought one of them had adopted all the other fish. Oh, and in the very first episode she trapped herself in a trunk and almost died of asphyxiation.

Speaking of liability, it’s remarkable that they had an actual working sawmill on set, and that the actors would actually cut lumber on that huge spinning exposed blade, with no eye protection or anything.

How about Jason's hair from season 5? Maybe it was a little too realistic!

Seemed to me there were some loose ends, or maybe that's groundwork for a second season? Janice's behavior was interesting. After the subway incident, when Beth ID's herself as a journalist, she gets a funny look on her face. When Ben asks her about a husband and kids, she winces painfully. And her response to her own abduction was bonkers; she did nothing to try to escape, or alert anyone she was down there (like screaming). Her whole demeanor was bizarrely calm and collected, but never explained. Grieff, meanwhile, said that the truth of his wife's murder is a "story for another time." He also told Beth that if she knew why he decapitated his wife post-mortem, she would know why he had to murder her. Sounds like some openings for season 2! Great cast, weird to see Tucci as a murderer so soon after watching his Searching for Italy series on CNN! Never too much of David Tennant, Dolly West and the phenomenal Dylan Baker, one of the greatest character actors ever.

Wasn't there a team from last season (I think they were ex-football players?) where one of them, in his exit interview after being eliminated, said that he thought the whole thing had been a waste of time and that he regretted doing TAR?

It's on Amazon Prime, free with ads. Amazon has done a good job improving the video quality. Many episodes on the DVDs look terrible, like they were run through some awful Instagram filter.