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On 3/7/2024 at 5:49 PM, Cheezwiz said:
What are they doing in Episode 8 now that our two main subjects are deceased?
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.
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On 3/2/2024 at 8:49 AM, Maximona said:
Feud: Truman versus Vidal
You could do a couple of series with Vidal: Mailer vs Vidal, Buckley vs Vidal.
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On 12/18/2023 at 9:04 PM, Jordan Baker said:
As soon as the hymn began, all I could think of was Monty Python, who used it to great effect.
Same here, I kept expecting QEII to stand in the tea chest.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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22 hours ago, barshi50 said:
Elizabeth was a real pill, wasn't she?
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.
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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.
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12 hours ago, Blergh said:
What I thought was unrealistic was the kids' 1970's hair!
How about Jason's hair from season 5? Maybe it was a little too realistic!
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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.
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On 10/21/2022 at 10:52 AM, aghst said:
Is that the cardinal sin for TAR fans, for a racer to even hint that the Race isn't all that?
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?
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3 hours ago, sATL said:
has anyone found the waltons on platforms like Pluto ?
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.
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On 10/7/2022 at 10:48 PM, MissT said:
I have a comment. On the episode "The Burnout" when the house burns down, I never understood why they didn't sleep in the shed. It was used for various visitors and from what I recall had a bed. They could have put the kids in their on the floor so no one would be separated. John boy could have stayed in there, the grandparents. It's never made sense to me. Just my thoughts. It was on last week and I thought of it again.
I wonder that all the time! Of course the inside of the shed magically got bigger as time went on. When John-Boy hides the Baldwins' typewriter in there, it's the size of a...shed. When he gets the printing press, it's sprouted into a roomy guest house.
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The only good thing Edith did was provoke this face from Mary when she announced Bertie was the new Marquess.
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2 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:
I didn't watch the show during it's original run but I'm at the point where I just about can't stand Edith anymore.
I have no sympathy for Edith, her woes are the result of her colossally bad decision making based on her immediate emotional needs with no thought of the consequences. And she deserves to get dragged by Mary, she's the one who always starts it! I joined Team Mary the moment she delivered that awesome "fishing with no bait" line in the first episode *chef's kiss*.
We're just starting season 6 again, my favorite season for a few reasons:
- Nobody's on trial for murder.
- Distinct absence of Charles Blake.
- Car racing scenes. I love how the drivers had to run to their cars.
- Robert ruins a dinner party with his blood-spewing.
- Opening Downton for tours, and how the family can't answer any questions about their own home! Also the kid who sneaks up to Robert's room to ask why he doesn't live somewhere "more comfy."
- Amelia Cruikshank.
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On 9/16/2022 at 4:00 PM, jason88cubs said:
Also, a very good article about Merie Earle who played Maude Gormley https://www.metv.com/stories/fans-of-the-waltons-have-complicated-feelings-about-maude-gormley
(Not sure about title of article though?
Nothing against Merie Earle, but I find Maude Gormley to be pretty irritating. It never made sense to me why Grandma, who does not put up with annoying behavior, would be so friendly to Maude; she can barely stand Corabeth and Corabeth isn't nearly as grating as Maude. Just walking around, squawking at everyone, making poor Abel the ice guy haul her ass all over, UGH.
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11 hours ago, sATL said:
Is this the same visiting family where the son tried to passionately kiss young Erin? I'm trying to remember what the daughter was up to - who she was trying to corrupt.
And the mother didn't know how to operate the stove - which appeared even if the stove was the top of the line fancy model, she still would have been lost in the kitchen.
That's "The Spoilers" from season 3. The dad is this clueless doofus who moves his family to the middle of nowhere and doesn't know how to do anything. When John asks him how he plans to make a living, he actually says something like "Gee, I hadn't given it much thought, do you have any ideas John?" And yeah the son rips Erin's dress trying to make a move on her, and the daughter gets irrationally enraged when John-Boy refuses to follow her advice on writing.
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We just watched "The Dust Bowl Cousins," an episode I appreciate more and more. The actors playing Ham and Cora look like they stepped right out of a Dorothea Lange photograph, and they do a great job of portraying Cora's weariness and Ham's kind of manic desperation. I also like the brief appearance of Kick Ass Grandpa, single-handedly disarming a pitchfork-wielding Job and dragging him and JB away by the scruff of their necks.
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One of the problems was that they didn't flesh out the siblings enough in the early seasons. Sure they kind of dabbled in Jason's musical stuff and Mary Ellen's nursing endeavors, but that was it. Poor Ben, Erin, Elizabeth and Jim-Bob were kind of left hanging without much defining characteristics (did Elizabeth even have any interests?) Suddenly the show loses John-Boy, Grandpa and Grandma and it was like "Oh crap, we gotta make these other kids interesting!" And I hate to say it but it didn't help that the actors playing the siblings, with the exception of Mary McDonough, were not skilled enough actors to carry a show.
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On 7/24/2022 at 1:48 PM, Blergh said:
There also was the rather icky undercurrent implied in 'The Grandchild' (Season Seven,1977) but never verbalized re the troubled orphaned backwoods unmarried girl named Cassie living alone with her creepy grandfather who'd gotten pregnant and the latter burying the stillborn great-grandchild in a box with all the emotion of disposing of a stray cat.
Not to mention Grandpa taking his own grandsons to a strip show. That was weird.
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I've heard both Richard Thomas and Kami Cotler relate how early on in the show's run, the actors, including the kids, decided to "own" their places at the table, and that is where they would sit no matter what. Occasionally a director would ask that they all switch spots for some reason, but they would flatly refuse, and the director would have to work around that. Kinda ballsy for such young whippersnappers!
BTW this is a very interesting interview with Richard Thomas, and he speaks at length about his time on The Waltons:
https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/richard-thomas#show-clips
Has anyone else noticed that some of the episodes on Amazon Prime contain scenes that aren't on the DVDs? We just watched "The Grandchild" on Prime and there were 4 scenes we never saw before.
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One of the things that made the early seasons great was that they would often film on location in the mountains and woodsy areas. I think that’s what makes “The Conflict” so great; instead of using some rinkydink set on the Burbank backlot, the production designers built Martha Corrine’s cabin in an actual mountain location, and that’s what lends the story so much authenticity.
They seemed to have abandoned this practice after the 6th season or so, pretty much confining themselves to the backlot (maybe it was budget issues?). This was unfortunate, as the WWII storylines demanded they shoot in different environs, which they did not do. Instead we have to watch Jason and John Boy 2.0 walk along a country road in France that is identical to the goddam road they took to school as kids, or Ben languishing in a Japanese POW camp that looks a lot like Drucilla’s pond without any water in it. Ugh.
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S36.E02: Trust but Verify
in The Amazing Race
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.