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I didn't see that as Naomi suggesting that Naomi cash out because she'd benefit some way. Just an opinion that it might not be the worst option for Kendall. He has equity in Waystar but he's got no power there. Also, arguably, it would be better for his emotional health if he disengaged from the business and the family, kind of like how Connor has no involvement with Waystar. Of course Connor has nutty ideas since he has so much time on his hands but maybe being a crackpot isn't as emotionally painful as being cockblocked repeatedly by his father and siblings repeatedly.

Yeah I think what happens with the company is a side plot. Obviously they need to retain control of the company and make it more competitive as traditional media is threatened by tech. Hence the plot about merging/acquiring Gojo, which was originally Kendall's idea. But the main thing is the family interactions, especially the siblings. They're all damaged and lash out at each other or in the case of Kendall, he lashed out at Greg in that moment -- but certainly not as vicious as Roman can be. As long as Logan is lucid and wants to be at the head of the company, nothing is going to change much. He has to entertain succession questions and people like Lukas wishing he was gone but he's not going away until he's ready to leave or is incapacitated. Otherwise, they will have to drag him out kicking and screaming. Logan likes to manipulate his children, pit them against each other, play games. IRL, the children would probably be fighting over the throne after he dies or he's no longer capable of running the company. Unlikely he will anoint any of them.

I wonder if they planned for Molly to end up with Taurean at the end when they introduced the character a few seasons ago. Initially he was an irritating presence in Molly's office, as a ultra competitive co-worker and then he wasn't even in most of the episodes since. Or they just decided to pick him because they had to pair her with someone by the finale. Though in the Wine Down, they talked about people being around each other for years and suddenly seeing a person in a new light. I understand they were at a retreat but aren't lawyers generally conservative, trying to uphold a professional image all the time? Someone posted Molly on social media dancing but she doesn't recall it because she was drunk? Maybe not a good career move? Issa is still struggling professionally, still references juggling her business with driving Lyft. Well maybe she isn't driving but she's not financially secure. So this beef with Crenshawn is the last thing she needs. But I don't quite get street artists and fashion designers refusing to work with Issa's company. She apparently has corporate sponsors, through her alumni networks. So this group was willing to work with her and her sponsor until they weren't? Crenshawn presumably got paid, even if he went off script. He may want to hold a grudge against Issa for whatever reason, and demanding an apology when he's the one who didn't honor the understanding they had before the show? Meanwhile this new group is passing on her company because of Crenshawn, who still got paid BTW? I enjoyed the daydream sequences, guess it's a different way to show what's going on in Issa's mind than when she's seeing her alter ego in the bathroom mirror. The physical humor of both scenes is definitely a departure. But in the second one Condola brags about being with Lawrence now, with him moving back to LA, with a job paying him a billion dollars, and a bigger dick than when he was with Issa. Would she not mind it if she was back with Lawrence and had the financial security of his income to alleviate some of the worries she has?

They cast the smallest woman they could find just for the visuals of her struggling with all of Larry's luggage -- why does he take so much to stay a night or two over at Freddy's -- and Larry wrestling with her. Seth Rogen was okay, a guest star who wasn't as funny as one might expect. Guest stars often hit but I don't know, I think Suzie doing another swearing jag would have been funnier. They're actually filming the show or just building the sets? After 11 seasons over 20 years, they will actually have a show within a show? Larry's been pitching new TV shows over the course of CYE's run but the joke was, he never successfully got a show made, even with the former Seinfeld stars attached. I don't now if Freddy is as funny as Marty Funkhauser. The conflicts Larry had with Marty produced better scenes than anything between Larry and Freddy. Like this episode, the thing about the last Perrier, just didn't hit. The roofer story wasn't that funny, the thing with the chiropractor with bad underwear, meh. Since when do chiropractors write prescriptions for drugs? There are so many plots he's juggling in each episode this season. Is it just to get as many guest actors on the show? I don't recognize the limo driver or the roofer but maybe Larry liked those actors and wanted to get them on the show?

At the beginning, there were so many things to mock about the over the top party preparations. But by the end, with him looking out over the railing from his terrace on top of a skyscraper, it was a callback to season 2, when he made a habit of going up to the top of the Waystar building and someone noticed and put up tall barriers so he couldn't climb over. Not to make a diagnosis but manic-depressive, overcompensation? Overwhelming need to be loved and get affirmation, which is why he was desperately looking for the gift from his children. Not sure why A-list celebrities, athletes and tech giant CEOs would go to his party. He's just son of a rich mogul, tried to be CEO on his own but never made it. Tom as soon as he found out he probably wasn't going to prison went to cuddle with the person with whom he feels the closest. Shiv was enjoying her champagne (thought I didn't quite get Roman's crack about her with the champagne and her saying she doesn't like to drink at the office). Kendall sees that Shiv and Roman only came to see Lukas, who only came for pasta, pussy and privacy -- party favors of the rich and famous! Even though he's in competition with his very flawed siblings -- Connor hurts himself celebrating almost getting 1% polling -- he very much wants their affection too. That hideous scene at the end -- Roman taunting Shiv, trying to provoke Kendall and Kendall lashing out at Connor for not giving up his coat -- was a new low for the siblings. Only good thing Kendall did for family in this episode was to forbid Greg from dating Comfry, which made her say yes to going out with Greg -- well that and the dumb party favors he saddled her with.

Yeah they gave away all the secrets. I thought they might stretch the "does Harrison also have a Dark Passenger" plot for most of the season. Presumably, Harrison knows about Dexter so is he really going to go "how dare you looked through my things?" But less than half way in (?) maybe they plan to have some father-son bonding activities involving knives and avoiding detection. Also, no more suspense about the identity of the Runaway killer. Another middle aged serial killer (like Trinity) who's been operating for who knows how long. But are the missing girls only a recent thing? Because Caldwell didn't start killing only in the last year or two. Meanwhile, he's running a con to find out what really happened to his son, found out Dexter knew about the son's past incident. Was the bullied kid really going to massacre his classmates? So Harrison prevented carnage and he's already living by the Code? Or he isn't living by the Code, he was just feeding his appetite and used the supposed Columbine wannabe as a cover? But that's not sustainable, how many people can he attack, even supposedly in self-defense, before his cover is blown? So Dexter will teach?

Cabo San Lucas - $2 million budget down there, they wanted a 5 BR, 5BA villa with views of the Pacific. They went for the most expensive option even though the wife wanted to stay on budget and charming Mexican details. They had two older children, with at least one about to leave the nest but they wanted a home big enough to host them and friends. Sounds like he is retired but wanted to buy and flip homes down there or "invest" in them somehow. Said the Pacific side of CSL is more quiet or tranquil or something like that? Most of the other CSL episodes have been about people who wanted a vacation home, with restaurants and views nearby. I guess the older couple didn't prioritize that as much. Interesting though, most of the budgets in CSL have been a fraction of their budget.

On this one, I'm not sure the numbers should have given them a huge advantage, unless they're able to relay with say a couple of them going ahead with one back and another loading up. Also take turns carrying the bag. But apparently they carried more per turn and two people carried each bag and so that ended up being the winning strategy. I thought all the teams spilled so much money that it was going to slow them down to pick them off the ground. Presumably most of it was regular paper but they had the odd dollar bills on the ground. We've had Finals where teams had to carry heavy things for distances, so that could hurt the 3-person teams. I don't think the Agency vote should have been much suspense. Big T all but promised Tori that she would choose Emy in the Lair and probably Tori told Devin that. In any case, Emerald really didn't believe Big T could win down there. And yet, when I saw the pools filled with ice, I thought that would get one of the players to quit but they only had to go in for dips every few minutes and most of the players were wearing t-shirts so it was probably pretty warm despite being at night. It doesn't even look like Emy followed CT's directions on the puzzle but either she knew what she was doing or the pieces just fell together right. So this was episode 16 and there are now 6 men and 5 women left. Next week will get it down to 5 men but then you have uneven teams if they run the Final with 5 of each gender. Unless they don't have 3 teams for the Final, you're going to have one team with just one male. As it is now, it's unbalanced for Emerald to have 3 women while the other cells have one woman each. If they're really running as teams in the Final, it has to be endurance, puzzles and eating. Not too much requiring upper body strength or else it disadvantages one team. Have we seen Emy running like the others to build up fitness? Nelson and Logan may be most fit, as they're younger than CT and Kyle. Imanuel is probably fit but don't know about doughy Devin.

Therapist with billionaire clients talk about how they're like characters in Succession./ https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/22/therapist-super-rich-succession-billionaires Unsurprisingly, they develop little empathy for people outside their bubble.

Could be they moved from Singapore to get more land. So they were always going to prioritize having room for the horse or else they probably didn't have to move at all. He says he could do work remotely but is in finance. He alludes to doing the cooking or at least she doesn't cook. Guessing Julianne also doesn't keep the house either. They could have domestic help while she goes riding. But he could be semi-retired or the talk about surfing was just for the show. They also talked about building a new home and they have the acreage for it. Maintaining the horse, the stables, that probably requires help as well. Neither of them are cleaning up the stables or washing the horse, keeping that mane trim, etc. I could understand house hunters with low budgets doing the show, especially the domestic house hunters who are young and reaching financially to buy homes. Always perplexed that people with a lot of money would do the show but they could probably divulge as much or as little of their lives as they want. They didn't reveal a lot about their children or themselves other than they met in Tokyo and she grew up in a farm and want to give that life to their children.

Batiste had brought the wheelchair with the door open for Emma and then he started chasing Andras. So Emma may have unfolded it and got on it herself. But I doubt only those last steps were the only places that wheelchair couldn't access. the guy who put on the mask was the wannabe who was harassing Zsofia's father and then Zsofia beat him up with his own skateboard.

But we're learning from the pandemic that a lot of people don't want to be around their kids all day. They like working from home but not if kids can't go to school. You see interviews with parents, "please reopen the schools, please take my kids." They say it in a joking way but they desperately want their kids off their hands. I'm sure they prioritize their kids in their minds, like putting them in good schools.

Is Lee that corny or are the writers feeding him those corny lines?

According to IMDB, Justin Kirk is credited in just one episode, so we aren't suppose to see him again this season. So is Mencken a one-off character? It's kind of a big deal, backing a president who would owe them. So whether he wins or loses, it would be a big deal either way for Logan, Roman, Shiv, ATN, Waystar. I guess they could do it offscreen, that the guy wins and gets the DOJ to back off. Then Kendall would lose all leverage. Looks like Hope Davis is credited for two episodes. So she's done as well. Adrien Brody is credited for two episodes. He may have been in the background of this one so his character may be done as well. Skarsgard is going to also do just one episode. That would mean the struggle for power would be all within the Roy family. And all these guest stars are what, just to get some big names into the show?

Guest stars like Kaley Cuoco are probably doing one-shot appearances, rather than doing a number of shows. She's in demand, whereas Vince Vaughn may no longer be. So maybe the case with Lucy Liu and Bowen. They probably may not appear again or if they do, it will be one-offs, not some continuous recurring roles. They may be trying to fit these stars in however they can and Larry can have them as dates since his dates don't become relationships, at least in the later seasons. Larry isn't settling down in his old age. He isn't going for early bird dinners or glued to his seat watching Fox News all day. Still plays golf, pitches shows and gets into shenanigans. So he's not age-appropriate in the rest of his life, why should he be age-appropriate in the women he sleeps with? Or not, in the case of Gabby or Lucy Liu? But it's done for comedy, not to promote a view that only much younger women are worth dating.

The long drawn-out succession process is just another way Logan abuses the kids. He's repeatedly dangling it in front of the different kids, being sweet and different times to one while being mean to others.

Heather and Fraser wants Jessica not to drag them down because she isn't cheerful. Really? They're not even talking about when she's interacting with the charter guests, they're talking about her in the laundry room by herself. Who are they to demand she have a certain mood? More TV BS probably and they got her to give them pictures of her with her grandmother to make it a story on this episode. So the next morning, she's doing the signing while she works like the other crew, which is a contrivance. Even one of the guests was being sing-songy while approaching the boat. It's not a GD musical Bravo and if it was, get better songs and singers! How the hell does Fraser get his radio buried under a hatch? Just happened to drop it in there? If they chose to show footage of him looking for the radio and talking to other cast about it, what did they leave on the cutting room floor? The kid with the case of money handcuffed to his wrist, come on his parents didn't let him do that or give him handcuffs, again some TV fakery. The thing with everything blowing off the boat, guess it's time to play the "who's going to get fired" game again, which is on every season of BD/BDM/BDSY. That along with Fraser looking for his radio, since that's suppose to be a fireable offense. And mopey Jessica, fired because she's not smiling enough.🙄 Jake tries to sweet talk Rayna rather than berate her work in front of others. And he's engaged but not really. But apparently he's down for anything and anyone, from the previews. That must be a prerequisite in casting.

It's been awhile since they depicted the politics in Molly's office. Taurean is a rival and it looked like Molly didn't want to pass off a key assignment to someone else. She was going to figure out a way to do it at all costs. But he's the one which caused her relationship with Lawrence to fall apart. And she's been always looking for Lawrence while she seemed to close the chapter on Daniel and never looked at it again. It's been a couple of seasons so if they wanted to revisit the character and the relationship, they had their chances. This episode seems to be about how Molly is going to change. Like she said, she was sleeping with a random guy while her mother and family was having a life-changing event. She's regretful she couldn't give her mother grandchildren. Doesn't necessarily mean she's going to hurry up and get married by the end of the show but it looks like they will depict her making some changes. As for Lawrence at the end, the way she froze and the way they had that gaze across the room chemistry, they do seem to be telegraphing Lawrence and Issa as the end game. People don't always follow or pursue the one who gives them butterflies so maybe they don't go that route. But it's Hollywood so it wouldn't be shocking.

Hey maybe like the shows in the show, Larry doesn't get final word on casting. Maybe the HBO execs are making him cast these younger actresses. No?

Gabby is only suppose to be 36?

I thought as he saw his life passing by, while bleeding out in the forest, this was going to be how they finally got Baptiste to try to solve cases, stop butting in. But it's suppose to be some kind of epiphany which made him open to taking Emma's advice, clean up his life and try again with Celia -- though if they had Emma and Julien get it on, after all the intense things they went through together, the way she nagged him out of his stupor to try to get back into the case, it would have been credible too. This is suppose to be it for Baptiste the intrepid retired cop helping people but it's not inconceivable that he takes up more cases. Like a smoker who quit cold turkey, he's bound to have relapses? Over the course of 2 seasons of The Missing and these 2 seasons of Baptiste, he's gotten more and more hands-on, not just solving cases but actually getting involved in putting the bad guys away. In The Missing, he was this terminal cancer guy and he wanted to help people in the months he had left. I checked the credits and all 16 episodes of The Missing and all 12 episodes of Baptiste were written by Harry and Jack Williams. So it's not like some different creative people behind the scenes reimagined the character and the show. I wonder when they first came up with the character whether they planned all along to make him a terminal cancer case at first and then fully recovered but crippled and charging into physical confrontations with criminals. One reason he had to go after Andras himself, he felt an urgency, a kind of ticking time bomb scenario that he was desperate to stop. Another reason is that the local police were not at all sympathetic to his activities. Still though, as soon as they spotted Andras, they should have called the cops first. The cops may have ignored them but at least try to get the authorities involved. All Andras had to do was keep running, Baptiste wasn't going to catch him. Or better yet, just jump into his car and speed away. I think Emma would have made Julien look around for Will rather than chase after Andras. Baptiste the show tried to recapture the agony of the parents of the missing children in The Missing. I don't think it quite rose to that level of intense heartbreak though. The Chambers losing their daughter and the family disintegrating, no longer being so close, is meant to try to convey a similar parental or familial pain. Yet it just didn't feel the same. May have to watch The Missing again, followed by Baptiste.

If you work for a company where current crimes are being committed and you continued to work there, helped cover it up, even if you didn't yourself participate in those crimes, do you have any kind of criminal liability? Guess similar question if you become aware of past crimes but you cover it up by having documents destroyed. I think there are definitely laws requiring retention of documents or at least emails. That is why people are warned not to put certain things on emails, because you assume it's always subject to legal discovery or disclosure. Does that extend to paper documents?

Let me get this straight, Tom and Shiv have the money to have any wine in the world (or for that matter, any winery in Chianti or Bordeaux) but they commission a private label wine that comes with a screw top and doesn't taste like any other wine? More a sign of the state of their marriage -- funky, Germanic, agricultural, not very nice.

"I don't have a lot of boundaries. St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Schumacher. I'll borrow from anyone. And, you know, if Franco or H or Travis Bickle had a good pitch, fuck it, I'm a man for all seasons." "Sluice out the fucking porridge and add some sriracha. Poach some of those TikTok psychos, you know? E-girls with fucking guns and Juul pods, you know?" "We're strictly bone broth and dick pills." "I think I owe it to my country to say... I don't think you should crown - or make Connor president." "I'm not saying it's going to be the full Third Reich, but I am genuinely concerned that we could slide into a... into a... a Russian Berlusconied Brazilian fuck pile." "We need one voice on this, or we could fall apart, and hand it to the fuck-fuck donkey gang." "Rick, come on! You jerked off to Reagan's headshot for 30 years, and now you're Tom Joad?" "I think what I realized is that I'm just not that interested in being a commercial playwright." "I mean, the audience helped you discover that, didn't they, babe?" "Con, maybe don't abandon me upstate with Larry Lech here."

You'd think Dexter would have scoped out places to move to which would have easy disposal of body parts. But he presumably wasn't planning to kill in Iron Lake so he had to go check out the abandoned mine, though he seemed prepared with the high tech snow shoes and the headband light. HOWEVER, shouldn't bears be hibernating in the winter? And would they hibernate in an old mine?