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Vermont to Puerto Morales. Older couple, want to get away from Vermont winters ASAP. They don't want renovation projects either, be able to move in now and live out their new lives. Modest budget so they want to get in right away before prices go up. House 1 was way under budget but needs a lot of work, including maybe adding a pool. House 2 was mostly ready to move in condo. There is a yard that needs to be cleaned up but otherwise the complex has all the amenities they want like pool, tennis courts. House 3 was a model home for a community being built. It would be customized and seemed the nicest. But they'd have to wait at least a year. Neither, especially the guy, wants to live through another cold winter. They eliminate House 1 and choose House 2 to move in ASAP. No question this move was for keeps, not for TV, not for blog, not for sabbatical abroad. Retirement in a hot, affordable place. Probably a common thing for American expats in Mexico and Central America.

One thing about the PL is that it's very demanding. This past season Chelsea fired two managers and they still ended up with one of the worst finished for that club in a long time. US sports leagues don't pay out high salaries to more than one coach a season or replace coaches more than once. So yeah Ted could have been fired when the team was relegated and he could be fired the next season if they drop way below in the standings. We know Rebecca wouldn't but other clubs wouldn't be too forgiving. A couple of million is nice but if Ted could have banked even a year at over 10 million Pounds, he'd be more secure financially. So is he living with his son and his mother or is he living apart from them? IF there is divorce, he could be liable for alimony and child support so even a couple of million would be eaten away.

Their app is stupid. It randomly plays a different song no matter how many times I tap Father and Son. First time it played Wild Child, which is what confused me. I've tried it a couple more times and it again played anything but Father and Son. Glad I don't subscribe to their service if they're going to put out this shit app.

What is the song they play over the ending montage to show what happens to the characters and Ted coaching his son's soccer team back in Kansas? All these places are saying it ends with Cat Stevens' Father and Son but I play that on Amazon Music and that's not it.

So does that mean Ted and Michelle are together again, just like that? He returns to her home, like he went away on the business trip and just returned. Nothing about all the things which caused them to split in the first place. And he's a better man than most to take her back, after she'd dated someone who didn't observe professional boundaries, while they were not fully divorced? Also, he doesn't really have a job unless coaching his son's youth soccer team is a paid position. So Ted is eschewing millions because he won't move his family to London? I know he's portrayed as salt of the earth, middle American folksy guy but he's really going to pass up London and millions? Often a cause of stress in marriages is finances. He's doing okay now, probably got paid well in two seasons in London. But it's not lasting forever. The next job he gets may not be as enjoyable, or have so many people with whom he became close. OTOH, Ted is portrayed as having this supernatural personality that just wins people over.

May have to check it out because of the furor this show seems to have caused. Nothing else on and I guess HBO gambled on this after Succession and Barry ended.

Johan, the Malmo realtor was hamming it up. "That's a Spanish balcony!" He was selling the other places and pretty much negated Suresh's demands for two bathrooms. Maybe they can do more episodes in Sweden with him as their agent there.

Actually Gene ending up in prison is a writing choice, a dubious one. Barry killed Janice, whose death Gene grieved over. But her father chose to come up with some unfounded conspiracy theory that Gene got Barry to kill her, which makes no sense, since he lacked motive for wanting Janice dead.

Gouda wife worked but then found out they're moving and then they're having a baby almost the same time. So that may be what she's thinking about, raising the kid but then maybe go back to work.

First 2 episodes of the podcast popped up in my feed. Starting to listen now, she talks briefly about her show ending and being offered a play, then thinking what to do next.

Her family is there so I guess that's another tie to the area. She said he's the one pushing for them to move back near her family, not necessarily her. Can't recall whether they showed them tasting cheese? Or maybe there are even tours there to the farms or factories? In the Amsterdam episodes there were short segments of house hunters sampling at all the cheese shops in that city.

Wonder why they chose to buy instead of rent. Maybe demand is that much greater than supply? Floor kept emphasizing that they have to act right away because the homes she showed wouldn't last.

Watched it, it's different from her Parks and Recreation or White Lotus roles. It's more dramatic, not comic at all, no satire. Emily is in a bleak, desperate situation. But she has a criminal tendency. Once presented with the opportunity, she was going to go for it. That aggravated assault in her past made her walk out of the job interview and later she says her only mistake was not hurting her ex boyfriend enough that he still called the cops. It's one thing to defend herself when the guy was choking her but she turned it into threatening him. Same thing with the robbery at her apartment, she grabbed the stun gun and chased after them, threatening the girl. Wonder why she chose to do this role. Certainly plays against type.

On different podcasts, I heard some interesting takes. First the director Mark Mylod said he thought for a second the mask was off in that bar scene for Roman. He doesn't see Roman getting better or happy. In another podcast, someone observed that Shiv wants Tom more the worse he treats her instead of being her lapdog the first few years. And it was a woman who said it, that unconsciously, Shiv was more attracted the worse Tom was to her, like betraying her in Italy and then the yelling match on the terrace and then taking the CEO job. Maybe it worked on her because it wasn't dissimilar from the way Logan treated her.

Maybe I’m misremembering but some of the scenes of Barry’s kills in early seasons were set up with comic undertones rather than grim scenes of violence. So I get that Hader thinks Barry must pay for his crimes but some of the murders helped to establish the show’s mixture of comedy and drama. Certainly even these scenes where their horrific nature is underplayed or glossed over all contribute to his body count. But I get the sense that Berg and Hader initially hadn’t plotted out the end of the show or this particular ending. Instead when they were doing post-episode discussions about the episodes, their demeanor and tone were light, maybe even jovial, because they knew the comic elements were driving both the popularity and critical reception of the show in the first two seasons. It feels like they abruptly shifted gears, especially this last season and finale. I believe this is Hader’s first show where he makes the final creative decisions. Maybe he has some other ideas or he wanted to take a break from the grind so they kind of wrapped things up fast. It’s only 4 seasons but they’ve been at it for a couple years more because of the pandemic, so maybe there’s a burnout factor.

I’ve heard from several sources including Jeremy Strong that Armstrong doesn’t think people change. So there was never going to be redemption arcs for any of these characters. Nor would any of the Roys grow from these experiences in the future.

They HAVE to do a movie in a couple of years like they did with SATC. Then sequels if they go well. But Armstrong seems to be satisfied with how he ended so he may not be interested.

Andy Greenwald pointed out that most productions wouldn't put a child actor in the middle of something potentially traumatic like that shootout scene. He said it was notable that Barry leaned into it, put John in the shootout rather than shield him. I'm sure they explained to the actor, his agent, his parents that it was all make believe. It was short at least.

So why do they do all the cutaway shots of Glen sleeping or just lying down while the crew are up to their drunken hijinks? He must have told them they could film him late at night when he's alone, while the other BD captains don't get filmed lying in bed or a couch. Maybe they objected to them trying to film such moments. All it shows is that Bravo makes them go out, to the some club and ply them with booze, so they get into arguments or make out, while Glen is having a quiet night, guess if they're not working or going out, they'd have similarly low-key evenings. Not like Glen is going to harass the young women in the cast so what's the point of trying to show what a boring time he's having? He probably is having video chat with his girlfriend or maybe video chat sex. Dare Bravo to film and air that! So they had to put up with the corny guests and got a big tip as a result. Guy trying too hard to be life of the party but the crew put up with it. I don't remember the talent show at all and probably won't remember it when they do something similar next season or maybe on the next BD show. No new stunts, they just recycle the same ones and same guests.

Fairly affordable apartment in the Cambridge area. She could really save money if she didn't have a car but her job must demand her being able to come to the work site promptly. That may not be so great for lifestyle if the job is too demanding. Maybe they reimburse her for car expenses, or at least pay by mileage. Recently watched Cunk on Earth which involved a lot of sit down segments with professors, from Cambridge, Oxford and other UK universities. Philomena Cunk is like Ali G character, saying outlandish things and non sequiturs. The professors never react, as if they aren't in on the joke. Or maybe they edit it so they don't seem to react like most people would, not taking her seriously, understanding that it's an act. Maybe this house hunter will go to some talks given at the university.

So she went to college in the US even though she's Australian? The Big Door Prize had Chris O'Dowd living in TX as an Irish expat who married American and also went to school in the US. Maybe these actors got tired of doing an American accent. Or maybe Apple wants more accents, since they air a lot of shows made in other countries with foreign casts like Bad Sisters and Trying, Pachinko, etc.

Logan said they’re not serious people. One reason they’re not is because of this intense hatred and envy among them. Things they say to each other are funny but some are pretty vicious. What Shiv said to Tom on that terrace is what they’ve been saying to each other and about one another for all their lives. The open contempt and vitriol poisoned the well long time ago. They were probably incapable of working in concert or having common goals, a dysfunction that Logan created and cultivated. It’s no wonder he created ATN to divide the country, since he knew very well how to divide or wedge people apart for his benefit. He probably didn’t expect that they would band together and fight him instead of each other. Until the end he was counting on picking at least one of them out to play against the others. It was Romans turn when Logan died. So sure, he was right in his judgement of them but he created and made them the way they are. Obvious comparison is to Lear, as Lear’s daughters try to curry favor with him but Lear was far from blameless for how the daughters were.

It seems Hader was worried about another bad character not facing justice at the end of a series. He had had Barry escape consequences all this time, in comic ways like when that detective arrested him and it looked like Barry was done for and the detective said he'd let him go if he killed his wife's lover and Barry said "WHAT?!?" Or him escaping prison in this season and pretty much living in hiding, not a great life but still he didn't have to face the consequences for all his deeds. So he was going to kill off the character or lock him up no matter what. Just don't think Cousineau is as culpable or deserving of being put away in prison. He may have been venal and vain but he didn't commit half the crimes that characters like Barry, Fuches and Hank committed. He's the only one paying maybe a fate worse than death.

It was mostly personal for her, for them. Think about all the awful things they've done to each other. She has reasons to believe Kendall would stab her in the back again. After all, they had an understanding when she agreed Ken and Roman could be co-CEOs, that they wouldn't ignore her, which they promptly did. So on that beach, he made more promises, about her doing social media or something. She has no reason to trust him. Maybe when it was her turn to vote she realized she was the swing vote and she decided he can't let him win. She could have said that she thinks the company will do worse under Kendall than if they're just sold now. That was a plausible argument because Ken didn't have a vision. His argument to her and Roman was about keeping it in the family, whether or not that was better for the business. So is loyalty to family that important, considering all the shitty things they've said and done to each other?

One of the reasons, maybe the only reason Tom would keep Greg on is to do all the mass layoffs. In other words, delegate some of the "pain sponge" function. Greg is going to have to hope that he can win the lawsuit against Greenpeace.