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Well EH is 52-53 but maybe his character is suppose to be in his mid 40s at the most. I don't know that the character would have worked better with a relatively unknown actor. I guess we bring some preconceptions because of EH's previous roles and maybe what we know of his personal life.

So no word yet on when season 4 will premier. There's been no official word so others have pieced together a possible timeline. For instance this site believes some filming was done in May. https://www.napolike.com/lamica-geniale-4-ultima-stagione-quando-inizia-cast-anticipazioni That's much later than one would hope. Season 3 ended airing in February 2022. So if they have been filming as recently as mid 2023, we may not get season 4 until next year. In the mean time, I've found the Max Richter "Recomposed" theme of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in some other shows or movies. Not sure which but it's unmistakeable and seems to have been used in more than one work. OK, found a site and it was in a season 2 episode of The Crown, in fact it was used on that show before it was used on MBF. But it made me want to look up the music used on the series, because I don't think there is an official soundtrack release. Found this site which lists the music used on the show and links to some Youtube videos of the songs. https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/film-tv/my-brilliant-friend-theme-tune-soundtrack/

Well they're moving for his career. She had to give up her career, possibly forever. So she probably wanted it to be as nice as possible. Vietnam is a developing country so she wanted to live in an expat enclave, be as close to home as possible.

No he kept asking how far from work and the realtor said it was close to the freeway. I don't think Vietnam has a subway system. I remember reading that mopeds are a big problem, in terms of pollution. They're unregulated and there are so many of them that it's dirty. They make owning a car there very expensive. They've tried to encourage people to use buses but most people, especially the young, won't give up those mopeds.

Or maybe not rely on just anyone to take care of an expensive dress? Anyways, the show paid for the dress even though they pretended like Jason is paying. If the guests were really upset about the dress and the tips were real, it would have been under $10k. But not so coincidentally it’s around the same amount as every other charter on every BD show, around $1500 per cast member, give or take a couple hundred — funny how that works out, it’s as if they’re guaranteed to average around that amount or something.

I’m not a particular fan of Hawke. I don’t even remember Dead Poets at all. The Before movies obviously were much more recent but I don’t recall their specific convos or memorable scenes or lines. I thought he was great in this episode, which was more about people connecting on the most human level. The show is about the experience of a particular group of Native Americans but this episode was more elemental. It reminds me a lot of the Nick Offerman episode of The Last of Us.

Elora didn’t seem like she had the slightest interest in meeting her dad, even when she discovered his name a few episodes ago. Did she just accept all these years that he was out of the picture, that he didn’t want to see her? She didn’t seem to resent him not being around in her life, in fact may not even have confronted him if he didn’t confront her first. She couldn’t even look at him in the face. The timing was fortuitous though, Rick is a much better version of himself than before he became a father again. She might have hated him growing up. He showed her that he was a good father and wanted to be a father to her as well. So a happy ending for Elora, she lost the only family she had known but maybe gaining a new one.

Also did anyone catch that he half-jokingly talked about having another kid to fill up that long sofa in that one place and she said she was done having kids, made a point of emphasizing it. Hope they last for the sake of the two young children but there appears to be some fissures in that marriage. Maybe they won't develop into big cracks that split them apart but all is not smooth sailing in paradise -- or shall we say the Saigon River?

That was interesting that he brought up how she ambushed him into meeting her parents after dating only 3 months and she had to defend it, that they were going to a wedding in her home town so he should have deduced that her parents would be there. They went back and forth about the budget, which either he wasn't being realistic about or it was set artificially too low. She said when the younger daughter was out of her crib, they'd need to fit a bed in and for House #2, there wasn't room for even a child's bed. So maybe they plan to stick around at least a couple of years. Was suppose to be a big career move for the husband or else I don't think they'd have moved to Vietnam, with her giving up her job. Or how old before a toddler becomes too big for a crib? The younger one was 21 months. So maybe they'd need a bed for her in a year.

I don't think that $1500 budget was realistic at all. They only looked at modern high rises and even in Vietnam, asking for 3 bedrooms in a central location, that price wasn't realistic. Either the husband is that cheap or the producers set an unrealistic budget. They both worked in CA so they were probably spending more than even $2200 a month on housing. Plus he's going to have a car, which seems a luxury in a big, dense city, though it may be that HCMC doesn't have subways or other mass transport. The one time I visited, it's packed full of people on mopeds, so traffic is probably crazy. Presumably they're moving, which involves her giving up her income, because he's getting a big bump up in pay. Or maybe it puts him on a better track for promotions. But he kept saying they're on one income. Well why would you move from two CA incomes to move to Vietnam unless you're getting a big bump up in pay? It wasn't because they wanted to travel and loved Vietnam or give international experience to their children, which are the usual HHI tropes. Notice too that she wanted to live in an expat area. So the girls are going to international schools with probably other Westerner kids. They may go to the markets and interact some with locals but it sounded like she wanted to be around people who spoke English. Not saying she didn't want to assimilate more into the culture but for all we know, this is a temporary assignment, maybe a couple of years -- they didn't say whether they sold a home back in CA or kept it or maybe they were also renting. The interesting thing were the baby cafes at the end. Those two toddlers were getting pedicures? That has to be strictly a service catering to expats. Vietnamese people aren't taking their 2 year olds and putting them in robes to get beauty treatments while they sip cappuccinos.

This is the final season. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/breeders-canceled-fx-1235656688/

It must be classy comments like the above. That must be the Southern charm this show is referring to.

Thing is, why would Joao try to start a serious relationship? He's on a TV show and in an environment where people are doing casual hookups and once you're off the boat, you go separate ways, which in this case means going to separate countries, indeed separate continents. So unless at least one of them is wealthy and willing to travel often or pay for their partner to visit him or her, a long distance thing is unlikely. Plus, he's shown a side of him that gives women reason to be wary, both on TV and in Tsarina's social circle. They try to make it seem like Joao and Tsarina had this great chemistry but how natural and spontaneous can they be with all the cameras and lights around? Or are we suppose to believe that they had all these interactions not shown on the show where they had this strong mutual attraction and they always enjoyed being around each other. Even without a TV show production going on, you wonder how often people who work charters or cruises develop something serious. Joao himself said that Culver's captain friend may not want a couple to work on his charter. Because away from the Bravo BD circus, on real working boats, they don't want staff to have potential emotional issues, like one gets upset with the other or there's infidelity and one or both no longer want to be around each other, let alone work together in the close quarters of these boats.

They're hoping it goes viral like the VPR dumb scandal, which I vaguely understand since I don't watch that show. I guess it's betrayal but on that show, the scandal was actual infidelity, not violating the bro code. So someone was actually cheated on by another cast member who was suppose to be his or her friend.

Unfortunately, a young woman or even a teen girl being victim of sexual assault while blacked out drunk is not that uncommon an occurrence. I remember hearing that some unbelievable large percentage of girls fall victim to such scenarios, drinking too much, maybe even spiked drinks, then being taken advantage of.

One thing I noticed about BD shows is that the crew are very chummy with the guests. Margot was telling that woman with the burned dress how great she looked. Of course they're hugging them when they board or depart and now you have them having some extended convos, like some guests ask about who likes whom or who's hooking up with whom among the crew. The crew are suppose to be performing service for the guests but I don't know if being overly friendly and chatting them up is to make a bigger tip or they met them off camera and got familiar with them, so they're more likely to have some longer convos than you typically get from a client-service person relationship. Plus, since a lot of the shows are oriented around crew hookups, it seems guests are playing along to prompt the crew to gossip about crew hookups.

Next week is series finale. So in this penultimate episode, Jackie still remembers the affair but she's forgetting other things, like where she is or the age of her great grandson. Luke gets his place back in the program but is doing 6-hour bus rides each way because he's worried about bonding with his infant son. Even if he quits, the job he gets could be demanding of his time and he isn't able to see his son anyways, which is what millions of parents of young kids go through. So he won't rage at the kid the way Paul did at him. But he might smother the poor kid. Ava is getting a double bed for sleepovers with her girlfriend but she couldn't ask for it herself, her parents took the initiative. It's interesting, when Luke said he will ask for a deferment or just quit the program, Paul was calm and Ally was the one that was raising her voice. It's like these writers didn't see the first couple of seasons. Somehow Paul found zen since those years and he looks for a way to find a solution, in a calm, rational way, rather than scream and curse.

I guess the guests really did want it, though that wasn't a real Teppanyaki show. She just mostly grilled in front of them and lit that dumb onion ring stack called a volcano. She didn't try to do fancy moves with the knife and spatula. They're from the Bay Area but I don't even know if such places exist but apparently they go to one particular place a lot. Only saw a few pieces of food being tossed but afterwards the deck crew had to spray the whole floor to clean it? So was Tsarina flinging dozens of pieces of food that they didn't show? Maybe these guests use pot themselves, not just run a business growing it. So they're not too discriminating about the food, just want to have enough on hand. Jaimee really liked Culver at the start didn't she? She was going to burn Tsarina, she didn't care. Now she really likes Luka. But she said she herself was cheated on and didn't want to do the same. She may get over Luka as quickly as she got over Culver. But she didn't want anything serious probably. She was put on the spot with the dumb "will you be my girlfriend" stunt. Tsarina seems to still be having regrets at the end when she sees Joao appearing to cry.

My guide shows them running the 2 hour block like 3 times. Then a separate WWHL listing much later.

So appears to be a 2 hour episode? None of the guides list 2 episodes, just 1 episode which runs 2 hours. Also, my guide shows that Aesha and Jason will be on WWHL. However, here on the West Coast, WWHL won't air until like 3:30 AM! So check your DVRs. No reunion listed for next Monday either, just a bunch of BDM reruns until 9 PM for the new BDM season premier. So the WWHL appearance may be the closest thing to a reunion of this season of BDDU.

That's the thing, with SAG ATRA on strike, actors may not come on the show while the strike is going on. He could get political pundits and journalists. But the liberal ones may decide not to cross picket lines. So he might only have Republicans and conservatives willing to cross the picket lines.

Kwabena sabotages himself with the TV producer, thinking that he was going to steal his movie idea. Hope it doesn't become a regular thing. Maybe he learns about the development process and the workings of the industry a bit. This episode has a much more somber tone than the previous ones. Maurice is the anxious expectant father but he's seen as a threat because he's a large black man raising his voice in the maternity ward, asking them to check on Funmi. Then the emergency C-section, made it seem like the episode was headed towards a heavy ending. But all ended well and they brought the comedy back at the end of the episode when Kwabena imagines the baby taunting him about taking his room.

I think the little speedo shows with the men is a producer thing. Happened on two different charters.

Hadn't heard that. Forgot how last season ended, whether they were still trying to maintain that charade of Whitney and Naomi. This show just ghosts previous cast members, no official explanation of main cast members disappearing, like Ravanel, Jenna, Cameran, Chelsea, Landon, Kathryn, Danni, Pringle. Not sure how ratings have been trending over the seasons but they could drop Shep and Craig and it might not make that much of a difference because I don't think the ratings were as high as BD or VPR or the RHW shows.

Paige is on her own show right? I would think there are more TV opportunities in NY than in SC. She may not appear that often on SC anyways.