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I don't think there are any shortage of cases where one person killed multiple people (an especially shocking one for you younger people - look up Richard Speck). And I hope that more and more cold cases are cracked using DNA. Amazing how the guilty party in this case was the last of the brothers tested because he had led such a squeaky clean life. It's weird how a person can rape and murder two people and then go on with their life as if they had never done anything wrong. I'm glad that he was finally caught.

My blood was boiling while watching this episode. The one poor guy being put in jail really had me enraged. I'm hoping that these people whose lives and finances were destroyed by the post office and their software get some kind of justice by the end of this show.

The "Justice for Joy" episode really bothered me. That poor woman was murdered by that psycho over a lousy $20 pot deal and the police investigating her murder were told to back off from the scumbag because he was an informer? Good God, unless he was an informant on some multi-million dollar cartel sting, it seems that Joy's life was valued at zero by that police force. And unfortunately, I can believe that April was scared of her ex-husband for years. She probably got the crap kicked out of her by him on more than one occasion and knowing that he could kill her friend and burn down her house, she could easily think that he had nothing to lose if he killed her too. It wouldn't surprise me that maybe he was so murderous towards Joy because maybe she had told April to get the hell away from this guy. There has to be more to the murder/house burning than just the pot deal, although from reading the newspaper everyday, people are killed for a lot less.

Ok, so did anybody watch the case about Jane Dorotik? This is the first that I've seen anything about this case (I wasn't watching true crime TV 20 years ago). From what they showed here, it appears that she became the victim of bad police work.

I think that CBS has found that shows that aren't non-stop gun fights/explosions/people getting the shit kicked out of them have a viewership in the dreaded over 50 Female category and for some strange reason advertisers don't like or want us. And I'm getting to the point where I'm fed up to here with violent stupidity and want to spend more of my viewing time watching PBS or TCM and to hell with network TV AND their advertisers for shoving this crap down our throats. The original premise of this show was a good one and I thought that Robyn was over and done with the CIA and that doesn't seem to be the case now. And yeah, I thought that Fisk was gonna buy the farm when he was on the call with Robyn, but maybe that will be next week's episode unless Donal Logue has a long contract with this show.

I think that Naomi Watts looked more like CZ when she (Naomi) was young. I found Chloe hard to believe as CZ as well. Of all the swans portrayed, I think that CZ Guest was the only one of the women "to the manor born", though the families of Babe Paley and Lee Bouvier certainly were wannabes (and groomed their daughters to marry rich).

Well Christie, I peaked at your spoiler and I can say Thank You for saving my companion and me from wasting 5 more hours of our lives. We sat through episode 1 and neither of us could see the appeal of these people. It was like really badly done Somerset Maugham (and at least his writing had a sense of humor). I actually laughed when I read your spoiler. I just hope that the poor woman we saw him married to in Episode 1 got a happy ending.

Ok, so it looks as if they are using many of the exact same sets as "Funny Woman" (I wonder if both shows were filming at the same time?). I'm enjoying the show and got a laugh when a character said "Sister George", because that was the first thing that came to my mind about the entire premise of this show. "The Killing of Sister George" started out as a "shocking" (due to it's lesbian theme) early 1960s play and was made into a shocking- for- it's- day movie in 1968. "Sister George" is the name of a beloved older woman character in a soap opera type tv show who the studio bosses decide must be killed off. The actress playing Sister George is a very tough cigar smoking old broad who is not going to go quietly. I saw the movie about 10 years ago and it was uh, interesting. "Nolly" is taking place almost 15 years after "Sister George" so the movie would have been known to most of the "Cross Roads" cast and writers.

Made through the first episode and thought "why?". Wuthering Heights this ain't. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but the male lead is not really all that attractive and he has the personality of a luke warm bowl of oatmeal. And so far, Alice comes across as borderline bat-shit crazy and not a very nice person. If Jack were my friend, I'd tell him to run for the hills. There is nothing we have been shown that makes either of these characters remotely interesting as people. And for the shallow aside - whoever decided that Alice should sport the Carolyn Bessette look of severe pulled back hair, no eye makeup, and bold lipstick, is doing the actress no favors. At least pencil in her eyebrows!

Yes, one has got to read this and understand why Slim Keith was so angry. And my God, the way he beyond trash-talked Ann Woodward! That's heavy-duty stuff when you accuse somebody of not only being a former hooker but also a very cold-blooded murderer. If the woman was already shunned from the social circles she wanted to be in and then Capote puts out a story like this - well, I guess you can understand why she committed suicide. Frankly, other than Slim Keith and Ann Woodward, I don't understand why the other women were so incensed. Ok, yeah, so Babe was probably embarrassed but it wasn't a secret that her husband was a notorious womanizer. And my guess is that the "lady" in that tale might not have been Happy Rockefeller but more likely Pamela Churchill Harriman, who by the way, had an affair with a Rothschild who refused to marry her. And she had also been a lover of Bill Paley as well as all other sorts of very rich men. I think that Truman took all sorts of bits and pieces of these society women's lives and added it to his story. I'm going to admit that I've read very little of Capote's writing and I'm going to guess that the works that made him famous were better written than this was. The lurid tales he was recounting kept me reading, but man, the writing was awful. Anyway, thanks for linking this - it was good to be able to read the story behind Feud - Capote vs The Swans.

I haven't watched the finale yet so can't comment on that, but I think that at least some of Truman's ashes were scattered with Jack's at some property that they left to the Nature Conservancy in The Hamptons. I also read somewhere that Joanne Carson claimed to have some of Truman's ashes but that has been disputed.

I haven't been able to read the Belle Burden NY Times piece (it's always behind a fire wall), but a few nights ago I WAS able to read a 1990 article about Babe from Vanity Fair magazine, and according to that article she wasn't the best mother as most of her efforts were focused on Bill Paley and his expectations of her. Even her children with him took 2nd place (and from the article, they were much more troubled than the kids both she and Bill had from their first marriages). The article was a long read but enlightening to the life that Babe had. And I guess I'll go slink off to the bad table near the kitchen as I'm still enjoying this show for all of the craziness. I'm viewing it as a work of gonzo fiction inspired by Truman Capote and his NY High Society friends. This past episode didn't have the laughs the previous episode did (my God, the line Truman said about Herb Ross made me almost choke on my glass of wine), but I thought it to be poetic and beautiful in it's strange way. I'm going to really miss this show when it's over.

Anybody watch last night's Dateline? How very sad a story - the poor victim had been dating his new girlfriend for such a short period of time and got murdered because she had an obsessed ex. I'm still almost flabbergasted about how much in denial the murderer's parents are in. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that it was there son on the video. Even the guy's wife obviously realized it was him on the video. I'm glad that she finally got her life together and didn't give him an alibi. And I believe her 100% when she said that she had been getting pressure from both her husband AND his parents to give him that alibi. I think that the charge that she was trying to essentially "blackmail" him was bullshit. The guy was nothing but a cold-blooded murderer and I hope that he spends the rest of his life behind bars.

I'm very sorry (mortified actually) that I hurt people's feelings and meant no disrespect. To everybody whom I offended, please accept my apologies - life in general has enough to grind our teeth over and TV shouldn't be one of those things. Again, apologies.

I'm beginning to think that there is a large audience of PBS British Drama viewers who like to think themselves above watching soap operas or reality TV crap like The Real Housewives of Bayonne but will more than happily tune in to soap operas as long as they are disguised as something else. Grantchester isn't supposed to be about a minister and cop solving crimes together -seems that a chunk of it's viewers supposedly REALLY want all the soap stuff (ministers having sex with gorgeous young women, married or not. The cop cheating on his wife, the Gay minister, blah, blah, blah); just like apparently a segment of it's views will not tune into to Miss Scarlet if the hot, dark, brooding cop is out of the picture because they don't want crimes - they want romance! Lacy Baugher wants a bodice ripper and not a detective show. I'm a viewer who wants the detective show and roots for a woman who, although she can be a self-centered pain the butt, is also great at solving crimes and trying to make her way in a world where women were mostly relegated to being wives or spinsters looking after their parents or other people's kids. Poor Lacy feels "cheated", well, Portofino Hotel will be back soon enough, plenty of "sexual tension" there. And there's always Bravo and the networks.