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Seems like they dropped the Sanctuary Moon flashbacks in the last 2-3 episodes. Might be just as well, MB outgrows SM or TV shows in general and they could have more time for the main cast scenes, since everyone complained about the length of the episodes.

Surprising that these rights are still so valuable. how many views could they be getting outside the US?

He presumably will get his armor and weapons back at some point, or he wouldn't be Murder Bot? Well the PresAux hippies be back in season 2 and beyond or will there be a new cast of supporting characters? PresAux rescued him, got pretty un-hippy like in dealing with Corporation Rim or whatever, using strong-arm legal tactics which you'd think they'd be above. They certainly went out of their way, even Gurathin, using Santuary Moon to find his memory dump. For now, MB doesn't want to be one of the hippies, though he says they're his favorite humans.

Only 4 episodes but each trip must take at least a week or two and probably there's some planning, to transport crew and get filming licenses and so forth.

I haven't watched any of AJLT but it's interesting to hear that Carrie inherited all of Big's money. My recollection was that she wasn't interested in him because he was rich. She found out later. But really, she could have guessed he was rich from the way he dressed and had a car with a driver back in the day. She was deconstructing the different expensive shoes women wore so she could have done the same with Big and the other rich men in NYC. I listened to a discussion of romcoms both classic romcoms and two recent ones, the movie Materialists and a new Netflix show called Too Much which was created by Lena Dunham. In the Materialists, a young matchmaker woman lays her cards on the table, says she makes $80k and only want to date men who make more than that. So the Pedro Pascal character shows her his $12 million apartment in Manhattan. I guess SATC did go into it a bit with Miranda dating Steve, who's a good guy but not a big money maker like she is.

Probably shows like Love Island are doing well in the ratings. Only other Bravo show I've watched is Southern Charm and that's become about showmances too, not as bad as BD where the cast are all expected to cavort in the hot tub and just get sloppy drunk every couple of days.

Obvious what the ruse was, though they showed close ups of Santi looking at Clark and Zero -- he was getting progressively mad. That's pretty good acting by Santi the character, not the actor playing him. Did Clark even notice that he was getting mad? In fact, the whole hustle relied on Zero and Santi both acting very well as first-time hustlers while Pryce and Mitts have been hustling for years. They had to taunt Clark in front of all the other restaurant patrons to do a series of bets showing their golf skills in order for him to agree to the bet. So Pryce wins the bet by skipping the ball several times across the pond? Will Olyphant be back for the next episode, which is the finale, likely the season not series finale?

If the sandwich place makes so much money that they could franchise it, why not close down The Bear which may not be profitable or not hugely profitable? Though they made it appear like it's Ebra's decision whether they franchise it. They might have given him some equity but can't imagine he owns all of it.

Seems like they’re hinting that Kerry will intervene and “deport” them — interesting choice of words considering what’s going on — if they get too abusive with the crew. Of course these asshole guests will generate drama in the galley where crew are venting about them and the inevitable confrontation between the cast, including Kerry, and these people, who could be ringers coached to be as rude as possible. Are there people so self-unaware that they’d go on a TV show and act like this? They’d come off better if they were actors cast or hired in this case to be like this on camera to get reactions from the crew. Yeah the triangle seems contrived. They’re sneaking in kisses and gropes during supposed work hours. The captain isn’t going to fire the cast members for acting out while they’re suppose to be on the “job” because the job is more to engage in reality TV hookups than wiping down the deck or doing housekeeping of the cabins.

Megan Stalter will be a start of a new Netflix show, co-created by Lena Dunham. https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/comedy-too-much-netflix-release-date/

Lena is the co-creator of a new Netflix show called Too Much, starring Megan Stalter from HBO Max Hacks. https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/comedy-too-much-netflix-release-date/

Looks like the group had the most fun they've had in awhile at that fake farm -- obviously some fancy Airbnb or an event space to appeal to city people. Don't think them throwing eggs at Mike was spontaneous. Otherwise, most of them seem to have a lot of laughs. They can't all remain happy with each other or pretend to be so. It wouldn't be JS without some beef at some point. Jenni said that if Nicole's birth mother didn't give her up for adoption there would be no Snookie. Then they showed flashbacks to Nic trying to break the ice with the others by saying "party's here!" When the show became a sensation, Mike the Situation and Snookie were the most recognized cast members -- maybe the other cast should have used colorful nicknames. Maybe it got those two more appearance money before they all started making far more than they probably dreamed of.

Never played the games. Decided to check this out because of the raves. Liked the pilot, guess the story is about life in a post apocalyptic world so we have to see when the bombs drop. Then they show the mutations. Seems like these are more about gameplay logic, not story telling logic. Hence not only do the cockroaches survive the end of the world, they turn into some apex predators which threaten humans be being more than signs of filth. Probably in the game you have to learn to take them out so you develop skills to kill more formidable enemies? Cold fusion is like the holy grail which is going to change the Wasteland. Yet the writers have to have tongue firmly planted in cheek right, since it’s considered a joke in scientific history? Why not re-fire old nuclear plants or cobble together remnants of PV, wind turbines, geothermal, etc.? Cooper was a TV cowboy but he’s got real gunslinger skills which make him the biggest badass is this world? Brotherhood is some remnant of the military industrial complex or at least has access to some advanced weapons. They already have power for those suits so why aren’t they already ruling the world? As for the megalomaniac CEOs, they may love power more than money but they don’t mind having money, especially the privileged lifestyles they have. So would they really blow up the world to abandon their mansions, yachts, private jets to go live in holes in the ground, which essentially the vaults are? Maybe one or two might but all of them? Sure the oligarchs may be building bunkers in New Zealand to survive some apocalypse but that is their last resort exit strategy. They’re not giving up their posh lifestyles anytime soon to precipitate the end of the world. Musk talks about colonizing Mars but he himself isn’t planning to go on the first ships, if ever. But for the purpose of the show and presumably the games, they needed villains. One very noticeable idiosyncrasy is the period music from the Inkspots in the soundtrack. I guess this is retro future, vaguely ‘50s and ‘60s when the world ended but the music evokes a much older period, long before rock would take over starting in the ‘50s and ‘60s. You get this music over 200 years from now and it just seems to be a strange choice because it calls attention to itself. I never had an Xbox so I don’t know if it was one of the first Fallout games or some other game exclusive or prominent on the Xbox consoles but I recall a game which featured these underwater suits with a retro future design and it had soundtrack with similar period music, like something from the ‘20s. Maybe licensing rock music for games would have been too prohibitive.

Good point, he wasn't even a deckhand. I think people found that he was a yacht broker. Maybe he did deck work years ago but more recently was a yacht broker.

They'll probably keep introducing new characters, part of the extended family, just to get these guest stars on the show. Brie Larson may never appear again or maybe a brief scene like Sarah Paulson this season in season 5. JLC probably will appear again. Maybe Odenkirk and Rob Reiner will appear again as well. If season 5 is also 10 episodes, there will be about the same number of cameos.

Well his voiceover with the snark and all the references to SM is suppose to carry the show. If the narration wasn't human enough, then the show would be unwatchable. In fiction, we just assume that robots and androids are sentient, at least some of them. If they were just dumb appliances there would be no reason to have them as characters. But this show comes along at this time with all the AI hype, about how AI is on the verge of sentience, how there could be super intelligence where AI is better than humans but also, AI bots can be friends or companions to humans, etc. The PresAux hippies treat MB like one of their own or at least a sentient being. We don't see the interactions between the other sec units and their human clients or masters. It seems the norm though is that sec units just carry out whatever the humans want and there's very little interchange. At first, MB didn't really talk back much to the hippies, just warned them to go inside if he detected threats. But they kept trying to engage him, as if he was a peer. The other group don't see to act that way towards their sec units. So why are these PresAux people like that? Culturally they seem to believe in equality? Sec units are there to protect them but they care what MB thinks. The other group may think sec units have sentience but they just don't seem to care about whatever opinions their sec units have or may be thinking. Or maybe NotRita was always chatting up her sec units the way Mensah has been trying to talk to MB.

So the writers and the author of the book may use this explanation. But shouldn't a governor module prevent hacking it in the first place? If it were that simple, you'd think there would be many sec units which have their own agendas.

Is this the second time MB is on the verge of death? Can't they repair him just like they repaired him the first time? Unless this show is canceled after one season, that's what will probably happen. So why is it that only MB is capable of guile and deception while the other security units which are superior at fighting at least, seem to be lemmings, who obey everything which the other group want them to do? The other group of humans scorn Sanctuary Moon. That's how you know the hippies are better? Still, MB watched like 2800 episodes of SM? Kind of a limited view of humanity or did he watch anything else?

Guess the gang is back for another shot. Santi throwing shade at Indiana, didn’t want to go back to that life. But also said he doesn’t want to wonder if he could have made it. Should have repeated that point a few times. Pryce wasn’t trying to convince him to reconsider when he talked about the good times they had being more important to him than the golf. That seemed genuine. Santi did become kind of the son he didn’t see grow up, as he dreamed of how his son would have been like at various milestones in his life. I would think though that it’s going to take more for Santi to convince Zero to rejoin after the harsh things he said to them. Also, what a line when they said that’s like giving pussy to the state of Florida. So Zero throwing shade at Florida —which states will the other characters denigrate?

Manda observed that Jaime had a temper and so did Eddie. Eddie vowed that he’d never hit his kids the way he was by his father. But he talks about Jaime not being good at football and the other fathers laughing at Jaime and how he couldn’t look back at Jaime in that moment, reassure and encourage him instead of making him feel that his own father was ashamed of him. Jaime had brought that up with the psychologist, that his father couldn’t look at him. Eddie said that he and Jaime used to play together —probably video football games — but eventually work became more demanding. Manda said a couple of times that they made Jaime, that they should have done better. Then Eddie said they made Lisa, who’s turned out to be a great person.

They telegraphed firing Caio all season. It’s as if there’s a quota they have to meet so Kerry and other cast play along with the narrative, repeatedly criticizing him in the talking heads, to lay the groundwork. But don’t worry, they have a replacement or two in their pocket, just happen to be in the islands at the same time or could get there shortly. The hookups are not only encouraged but pushed. The cast is made to understand that if they don’t flirt or hookup, they won’t get as much air time in the episodes. Presumably all the people who sign up for the show want to be in as many scenes which end up on the air so they’re competing for airtime.

We saw Eva Longoria briefly in one of the episodes of season 4. Rob and Ryan have invested in a Mexican club with a number of other celebrities and they're developing "Bienvenido a Necaxa" but that show may mainly be for Latin American markets through FX and Disney + Latin America. They also invested in a Columbian club as well, again with an investment group with several other celebrities. https://sports.yahoo.com/ryan-reynolds-eva-longoria-rob-191245289.html Wondering which will prove more lucrative, the money they get from these "documentary" shows or when they sell the team for much higher than they purchased and invested in.

Can't imagine he wouldn't still be under contract if the rest of the cast are signed. He is the lead and featured prominently in the promotion for the show. The story was that the show runner wanted to do only 4 seasons but the network made him add a season which turned out to be season 3. If that's the case, they probably made sure all the cast was under contract.

Families can get messy and that must apply to extended family, people who aren't related but become members, like Richie and now Syd. These characters are intense but that means exhausting at times. The first season became noticed because of the chaos and the fighting. Seems like the writers want to keep dipping back into that well. Truth is, people don't change their personalities, their inclinations to get into confrontations, have loud shouting matches. Not unless they make some sustained effort to change, through therapy or whatever. Richie threatens to "end" Carmy for saying that he went to the funeral. Why is that such an affront? Yeah he wasn't there for the rest of the family but is that a reason to fight? I don't know why the initial reaction to Carmy bowing out is to scream at him, as Syd and Richie do. Well it could be seen as him bailing on them but the clock was almost expired at that point. They had fair warning that their time could be finite. Does Carmy cutting himself out of the partnership means the restaurant will survive because there will be more money left over for the remaining partners and for the operating budget? Usually, partners share in the profits of the business but if the business is just staying above water, there aren't that much profits to share. Do partners who work at the restaurant not draw a salary in addition to sharing the profits? So Carmy no longer being a partner isn't necessarily going to improve the financial prospects, especially since Richie is replacing him as a partner as Syd requested. BTW, Syd repeatedly taking drags of that cigarette wasn't authentic to her character. People don't smoke a cigarette because of stress. Have her go in a grab a bottle of that $45 a glass wine or something.

So the sandwiches are to go only? With the robot delivery, minimal staff? Certainly goes against Carm's idea that restaurants are places where people have their best memories, where they're taken care of. Rob Reiner's plan is to open two more sandwich places? Computer seems to think that there might be something there. Maybe a way for the show to come full circle, having Mikey's original business save this family business. But Ebra says he has to get Carmy's blessing. Doesn't Carmy still own The Beef, that is until he's formally out of the partnership agreement? So it would be Jimmy, Sugar, Syd and Richie deciding, if they go ahead with the changes to the partnership agreement? That's why it's odd that Rob Reiner pitched to Ebra and those two other guys, no member of the Berzatto family. Because the Rob Reiner character is also going to get a cut of the profits from the expansion.