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I know! My thought was that at minimum it did not pass the "Is it necessary? Is it kind?" test. Love seeing Amy and Nick together again. (Big Parks & Rec fan, and it's worth checking out for anyone who hasn't seen it. It's got a very sweet, positive vibe for a comedy while also being quite funny and on the nose. I believe it's available on Netflix.) Also loved the GBBS shoutouts -- a ripoff in all the best ways ? The busy interstitials might start to grate, but hey, it's only six eps. I've got a series recording set up ?

Here is the link: http://n.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full

I think I'm done with this show, or at least I won't care much if it's not renewed. I was multitasking during episode 7 and once I started giving my full attention to episode 8, I just couldn't get engaged. I found I didn't care about anyone, synth or human, and that is a far cry from S1 when I loved the family and Mia (and Odie!). And a couple of eps back, I was perfectly fine with Agnes blowing herself up. Buh-bye, you were a pain. I don't know exactly when this show went off the rails, and I'm really not used to British series failing this hard. Usually they are smart enough to pull the plug when it's time.

I know her from River (on Netflix), all of which kind of broke my heart, her performance included. A sad, dreamy police inspector show. Wound up watching this twice (wasn't paying attention at the beginning and was dozing toward the end, no fault of the show) and it holds up very well on second viewing.

Or, as I heard that position described years ago, "Life begins at conception and ends at birth."

I wish this miniseries had gotten more attention -- I've been talking it up to anyone who will listen. I happened to have taken a day off from work on the final day of the standoff so watched the whole thing/couldn't tear myself away. At the time I know I was thinking, "Well, the government must know what they're doing, with the tanks and the tear gas; it's the government." (Having lived through Watergate, I should have known better.) But the last two eps I have just been watching in horror. Clusterf*** indeed. And heartbreaking. I felt that basing the miniseries on two books from different perspectives was really smart, and the acting was phenomenal. I won't forget this for a long time. Hope it gets some Emmy love too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/movies/sound-mixing-sound-editing-explainer.html

Saw them all at AMC's Best Picture Showcase. My faves are The Shape of Water, Dunkirk, The Post, and Get Out.

I am not a big fan of long hair on men, much prefer a short cut, but if it is well-groomed and doesn't look scraggly (see: one of the Fab Five on Netflix's reboot of Queer Eye), I can sometimes give it a pass. But the combo of the long messy hair and the beard this season I'm really not feeling. I get that YMMV in terms of what one personally finds attractive, just sayin' this is such an unappealing look to me. Not what the show is about, obvs, but I think Chip is an attractive-enough guy when better-groomed :-)

Also a lot of use of the F-word -- so we're basically getting R-rated content on the USA Network ;-) Anyone notice all the Putin posters in the after-credits street scene? Heh. Thanks to everyone who posted about Vera and the "Brave Traveler" ep. I would never have remembered that otherwise. Looking forward to returning here for S4!

I think it was a combination of that + she'd had an awful lot of flesh-on-flesh contact + (because I think of a good shower as "cheaper than therapy") just wanting to feel clean of whatever The Big Event was. Thought the news was deliberately left vague, and I'm okay with that. I think a lot of things about Trump, but oddly enough, "evil" isn't one of them. I did think it was an interesting demonstration of how we rely on our phones for the breaking news of the day and then how we collectively mourn either in social media or IRL. Kind of about connectedness too.

I meant presenting the actual awards, which I read was intentional. Sorry for any confusion.

I was kinda bored by the whole thing, kept falling asleep (and I never do that during awards shows). Winners were repetitive: Big Little Lies again, Three Billboards... again, This Is Us again. And I feel like the all-female presenters fell a bit flat. #MeToo #TIMESUP are great, but it seems a bit overboard to ban men from presenting. (If it's from fear of an Ansari/J. Franco revelation, I get it, but still...)

I will now be working on a crossword puzzle for the next little while.

Not a big Bobby Cannavale fan (don't not like him, just kind of meh on him), but he stole every scene he and Rami were in, which I really didn't think was possible. I guess I have to give props to anyone who can take my eyes off Rami ;-) As someone living in Texas, I had to rearrange my brain cells a bit seeing the Red Wheelbarrow piggy until I realized that NYC BBQ would be pork-based. And I found myself agreeing with both sides on the free milkshake timing.

Back in the day, when TWoP (which had mutual founders with this site) was still a thing, the Dawson's Creek/Katie Holmes thread was completely hijacked (in a good way, IMO) and became pretty much a discussion of Scientology. I actually credit that thread for where I first learned about the "Church." As is the case with PTV, the forums were packed with smart, in-depth information. I am reading Going Clear a little bit at a time (for the sake of my blood pressure) and today happened to come across the factoid that Haggis was a writer on Diff'rent Strokes and that his writing partner, Howard Meyers (quoting from the book), "who was also a Scientologist, decided to follow a splinter group led by David Mayo, who had been one of the highest officials in the church. Haggis told Meyers that he couldn't work with him anymore. Because Meyers was the senior writer on the show, Haggis resigned and went looking for other work."

Dang, I really need to get to season 2 of Black Mirror.

I wish we could see clips for all the acting nominees.* I haven't see Handmaid's Tale or Big Little Lies but that little extra something might persuade me to. *rather than a sketch with "Emmy"

Except rape is a crime of violence, not of sex. Not to mention all the sideways, matter-of-fact comments to the effect of "Why would anyone rape you?" (See above, re: misunderstanding of rape as a sex crime.) I agree. Though Beth was great in keeping her professional demeanor in the hospital, and then letting it all loose with the Reverend, my understanding of suicidal people (not a professional one!) is that they are virtually incapable of seeing or caring about the pain their death will cause to their surviving family. Their own pain is greater than anything and everything else.

Someone else also asked this above, and it is a rather uncommon name in the TV-verse (and of course, we BrBa fans would love to think it's a shout-out). But I grew up across the street from a family of Ermentrauts (slightly different spelling, I know). It's not an uncommon German name IRL.

That's funny, that scene, when it went up to a crane shot, had me thinking "That is the creepiest thing I have seen since...last week." I've been watching Bates on a double-bill with The Americans the last two weeks because I've been enjoying Breaking Bad* mini-marathons over on AMC Monday nights, and nothing against The Americans, but Bates is literally jaw-droppingly good. The last act consistently has me with my mouth agape, hardly believing what I'm seeing. The subtle shift in Freddie's body language mentioned above when Mother took over was amazing. And kudos on the teleplay credit, really well done. (*Three of the best shows on television, right there, thank you!) Kept trying to figure out what was on the dinner plates. Caught the garlic bread and thought I saw some apples and some other random fruit or vegetable...whatever was on the plates was yellow and green but I couldn't connect the shape to anything. My DVR cut off during the previews with a beautiful long shot at night that had the motel rooms to the right of frame, looking up the parking lot to the Bates Motel sign in the distance. It was so gorgeously composed that I lingered on it for a while. Once again struck by how good the cinematography is on this show.

I do not like this format. I know Survivor has switched up the contestant rules ad nauseum over the years, but part of what makes TAR TAR is the "existing relationship." I've always felt that, along with the travel component, it set the show apart from other reality competitions. There's something about the Philiminated team almost always commenting that "I wouldn't have wanted to do this with anyone else {sniffle} {sob} and I'm so glad we had this opportunity etc." Perhaps over the course of the Race there will be teams who form a genuine connection and can have a lite version of that moment, I dunno.

You can go into a real wormhole on the interwebs reading about how Psycho was made. I was a film minor in college and it was one of the films we studied. I have really appreciated (and, okay, geeked out over) how Bates has incorporated various technical aspects of its source material. (And elements of the script sometimes, as with the hotel stationery line mentioned upthread.)

What was most striking to me about the shower-murder scene was that, in the midst of working in a lot of shots the movie used, it didn't do the one thing that was always part of what made Psycho such brilliant filmmaking -- you never actually saw the knife touch Marion, but it was edited in such a way that you felt that you had. Bates's take definitely did not shy away from showing the knife pierce Sam's flesh. In fact, there was one shot where he's stabbed in the back that the camera lingered long enough that I started to feel squicky -- and I've got a pretty high gore quotient.

For all that this show has classic horror and gore in its DNA, the scenes that are most terrifying to me are seeing these kinds of subtle, quiet changes that Freddie Highmore goes through as Norman/Norma when nothing "happens" but everything happens. That point in this episode (the scene Stringey refers to upthread) when it seemed Norman was as self-aware as he may be capable of being, when he saw the condition of the house as it really is (e.g., the kitchen table with one meal untouched) and knew what was happening to him was heartbreaking.