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  1. 1 hour ago, Madding crowd said:

    Yes, me too. But the writers of the show are being careful to keep the conversations about things known in the news like someone’s divorce without going into details that would make the scenes more interesting. Since the black and white ball never happened, I’m thinking the real life lunches and dinners were boring and the show doesn’t have anything interesting to say about the swans except that they are rich and either cheated or got cheated on in one of their many marriages. 

    ?  The Black and White ball happened.  From Wikipedia:

    "The Black and White Ball was a masquerade ball held on November 28, 1966, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Hosted by author Truman Capote, the ball was in honor of The Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham."

    This was obviously the episode that got most of these actresses to sign on to the project.

    If any one is keeping score, I fell asleep again.  It's just not compelling.

     

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  2. This was great!  Loved them having to take care of the big baby.  I was trapped on the couch under my cat and couldn't read all the texts between Jane and Hihi, but that last one came through in 128 pt type.

     

  3. What more did we learn about Zayd's mysterious abilities?  That he really really likes to write numbers close together?

    We did learn something about Jean Pierre's motivations when he met with his former army comrade.

     

  4. I thought the message said they had failed the mission and that they only had two more fails.

    Leading me to think that the couple in the start of Episode 1 had 3 fails.

    What I can't figure out is why a mysterious agency would want anyone to deliver a bomb cake to a random couple or to give "truth serum" to someone who had just bought an expensive piece of art.

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  5. 1 hour ago, sugarbaker design said:

    And he did it for money.  What a piece of shit.

    I hope so too.  There's a good TV-movie/mini-series called The Two Mrs. Grenvilles from the 80s, it's a fictionalized account of Ann Woodward's story, based on the novel by Dominic Dunne.

    I recently read a book by Roseanne Montillo about Ann Woodward's life called Deliberate Cruelty.  It covers Capote and the Swans as well.

    This is awfully campy - I keep falling asleep.

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  6. 11 hours ago, peeayebee said:

     

    It was a ship. They called it a dredge. I saw the body with the blue hair floating in the water inside the ship -- obviously a vision or ghost or whatever of Navarro's sister -- but I didn't notice the other ghosts having blue hair. 

    It's a dredge.  They process sediment to locate ore.  Probably related to whatever is being mined.  They are so big that they are often just abandoned when they are no longer needed.  I've seen a big one like that in Idaho.

    If the Coast Guard found a body, they would have taken fingerprints.  She probably had been picked up for disturbing the peace before.

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  7. 45 minutes ago, thuganomics85 said:

    I know for me personally, straight-up horror has never been my cup of tea, so while this serious always had its suspense and supernatural moments, I'm not wild about the obvious jump scares and this ghost girl/spirit that keeps popping up (although, I am curious to see how she factors in and if the dead scientists had saw her as well at the end.)

     

    I just keep thinking that everything that Navarro is seeing happened after she fell and hit her head on the ice.

    The oranges are freaky.  Is this the Godfather?

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  8. 5 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

    I know, I’ve been wondering if Tara’s getting paid by the word or something, because she just. Never. Shuts. Up. It’s been infuriating to watch.

    If you watch on Peacock you get Ashley Wagner and Adam Ripon who do occasionally stop talking.  But then you have to put up with Peacock weirdness like the blank screens while they're running the Zamboni.

    I suspect Tara is just like that in real life.

  9. Janelle was annoying as all get out, and I know why some people (CT, Sandra, Dan, Parvati, and Phaedra) voted for her.  But everyone else?  Why would the person who pissed off everyone else by selfishly going for shields be a traitor? As an act?

    Since they did this bird call challenge, I guess we won't get a repeat of the church bells and music boxes one.  Which is too bad.

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  10. 1 hour ago, sugarbaker design said:

    I never thought it would be The Bachelor and the guy from Love Island who would be the smartest players.

    And everyone has been taking Bergie for granted the whole time.   He was the only one who could read the map.   He figured out how to get into the walled garden (through the door, duh) so they could get the shields.  In the previous game, he figured out the pattern of lights.  He's like the anti-Ryan Lochte!

    And Sandra sure got pissed once her name was brought up as a potential traitor!

    Dan's toast if he doesn't name names ASAP.

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  11. I'm still confused by a lot of this, but I think I'm supposed to be.

    Who is the woman in Hagerty's house?  Who is the guy in the wheelchair?

    Why does Lenker continue to flaunt proper conduct?  She's practically waving a red flag and shouting "Fire me!"

     

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  12. On 1/18/2024 at 8:42 AM, Mermaid Under said:

    Where did the name Studi come from?  From what little they showed of his family tree, it didn't seem to be his mother's name.

    He is an actor, it may be a stage name.

    I was surprised that they were able to do geneological tracing of his Cherokee ancestors, especially back before census records of them.  Census, church records, and ship manifests seem to be the bread and butter of this analysis and his ancestors wouldn't have shown up in any of them.

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  13. 1 hour ago, sugarbaker design said:

    I can easily see Dan and Parvati throwing Phaedra under the bus.

    Best moment:  Sandra incredulous at the idea of sharing a birth year with Larsa since Larsa looks ten years older!!!

    Larsa looks like she was "improved" and then encased in plastic.  Sandra looks like a real person.

    It seemed odd that Phaedra didn't consider that she was outnumbered and possibly not the big killer running the show.  Plus, if she wants to win, she'll have to take out all of the other housewives eventually.

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  14. I did but it certainly started to feel like work.  Fun watching the Bill's fans throw snow in the air when the team did something good.

    The hot football news around here are the jackets that Kristin Juszczyk made for Taylor S. and Brittany M.  A few weeks back she made one for Simone Biles so we'll get to see that this weekend.

  15. Speaking of lourd music - why was the vcr/dvd of Ferris Bueller stuck on the Twist and Shout scene?

    It was great when Danvers found the player and turned it off by smashing it.

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  16. 5 hours ago, bluegirl147 said:

    The NFL is trying to squeeze fans.  It started with Prime games on Thursdays. When the NFL network had Thursday night games the team's local market could watch on a local channel.  Prime took that way.  There are people who don't have Prime.  Hell there are people who don't have internet. The NFL has always been about money but it's gotten worse.

    Oh and since it's something we talk about every week there were some horrible calls in the KC game. 

    Of course the NFL is trying to squeeze fans.  But the reason they are putting games on streaming sites is to try to attract new fans from those who no longer access broadcast TV and get everything through streaming.  You know, those pesky millennials.

    In the meantime, I've paid my money to attend a playoff game next week in Santa Clara, and I don't know what day or time it is.  Because the greedy NFL is going to look at all the matchups and decide what will make them the most money.

    There were some truly dreadful calls in the game last night, and all in KC's favor.

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  17. On 1/10/2024 at 6:55 PM, StatisticalOutlier said:

    I'm interested in urban planning, so Reston has been on my "must see" list for a long time and I finally made it there. 

    The gallery is located among the condos that face Lake Anne due south of the shopping area (but you have to go around the lake a little to get there).  Also in this area is this cool rock garden, I guess you'd call it.  There's a whole row of units that have decorated their outdoor areas with rocks.

    Reston is home to the national headquarters of the U.S. Geological Survey and many employees live in town.  They love their rocks.

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  18. 17 hours ago, Dev F said:

    It's also not a great omen for everyone else's storyline that the episode in which they all looked forward to some nice, reassuring future was titled after the fantasy of a positive future that Margo and Sergei will never get to see.

    Or the episode is named after Terry Gilliam's movie of a hyper-bureaucratic dystopian future.

    Poor Sergei, he should have stayed in hiding.

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