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Bill was surprisingly supportive of this, and questioned whether Jillian was truly correct that this drug was bad for all all of of the time. This is also the first I recall of Bill ever expressing any sympathy for people with weight problems. Of course the basis of that seemed to be his own personal stoner "munchie" issues. Nevertheless, he agreed that for some, losing weight is a difficult challenge and not always an indication of poor self control. Based on this he seemed to push back on Jillian's view that no one should ever take this drug. Also, I know little about this drug, but if Jillian were correct that it essentially stops working after about 70 days, why are so many people taking it, and for longer than 70 days? Btw, lots of drugs work through mechanisms that are poorly understood, but we generally use them anyway.

A bit of googling tell me that at least 4 states do have a statute of limitations at least for the most severe class of homicide: Alabama, Indiana, Kansas and Virginia. Some other states (like Missouri and Montana) have an applicable statute of limitations for less severe classes of homicide. But the overwhelming majority of states (including New York) do not have any statute of limitations applicable to the most severe class of homicide. That was news to me too.

Apparently it is true that Florida has no statue of limitations for murder. I thought they made that up, but no. Nevertheless, as a matter of proximate cause, a twenty-year lag time is hard to sell for this "murder." You could almost just a plausibly blame a poor diet. I didn't quite catch what Norma was planning to do with that gun, though perhaps it's a simple as Robert jokingly(?) said, offing Maxime? Why would Norma be so angry with Maxine at this point? While she may never have wanted her nefrew to marry her in the first place, Maxine seems to be one of the few people, other than Robert, who truly care for her and show her some genuine kindness. What is Robert's deal anyway, and his connection to Norma? Is he some sort of secret love child of the Delcorte family or something?

Just as with its UK original incarnation, what works best for this reality show is that the competition seems gentle, cooperative and friendly. No one appears to be aweful, so you can root for just about anybody. I'd be curious about how many potential candidates passed through casting. They do seem to find basically nice and friendly people. There really can't be any truly objective measure of who should "win" most challenges since art is quintesentially subjective. Nevertheless, the artistic choices and talents of some do seem to exceed those of others. The chess sets episode confused me because in almost no one's set could you tell what any of the pieces really were. That is, no one's set was truly usable. I was surprised in the final episode that all three threw their spouts. More elegant, narrowly-tapered, and curved spouts can be pulled like a handles and then split in half, hollowed and rejoined. I do wonder how much happens off screen, like how they come up with their ideas (and whether at least some of that is fed to them) and how long it takes for them to draw what appear to be pretty detailed drawings beforehand. Also, I don't get why they use a "drying room." This show is not shown in real time so who cares if it takes an extra day or two to dry stuff. Studios I've used have "damp rooms" to slow the drying process, not speed it up. I suppose using a "drying room" may be a cost issue, to keep the filming process shorter to some extent? Keifer and Jenn's throwing skills seemed to rival those of Seth. I was rooting for Jackie and was sorry to see her go so early.

It was on the old invitation she found. Without actually reading the text from the invitation, I inferred that's what it said from the next scene where Maxime charges back home and demands to speak with Douglas right away. Moreover, this is the most strident and forceful we've seen Maxine so far, so that also suggested something quite serious. Also, on a somewhat petty note, at least to me, Kaia Jordan Gerber looks just like Rachel Bilson. Indeed, I thought her character was being played by Rachel Bilson, but was also puzzled by that. Though Rachel Bilson is still far from "old," at least outside of Hollywood (42), isn't she not quite young enough to play this part at this point? Kaia is 22.

Though this isn't as much of a "thing" as it once was since the novelty of a Prius as worn off a bit, but there has been a long line of TV episodes that used a Prius as a signal, or clarion for that matter, suggesting that the character driving it is virtuous and worthy of the audience's sympathy. Southpark did an entire episode about this years ago (they referred to it there as a "Pius" as I recall). Others that come to mind are Curb, Six Feet Under and Weeds.

The moon is not only objectively large for any moon, but by far the largest in size relative to the planet it orbits. That is, no moon in our solar system comes anywhere close to our moon as a percentage of mass of the orbited planet - here Earth. The part of this episode that didn't quite ring true was the premise that no one else other than team Aleida & Margo can solve this problem. Really? If these two don't team up, no one else, or no other group, in the entire world (or maybe even the world plus moon and Mars now) that can solve this problem? Also, is the Roscosmos head so thick that she's totally lost with her Margo earpiece? How did she get to her position knowing so little?

Because C.Z. Guest understood some things were better left unsaid when talking with Truman Capote. Maybe, but more likely because CZ was either left out of the infamous Capote writing, or portrayed more generously than the other Swans

Margo didn't rat him out. She only pointed out the error, not who made it. He took responsibility for that himself even though he personally didn't seem to have made that mistake but was in charge of who did (and he seemed to know of it too). Moreover, what alternative did Margo have? Should she have said "I can't find the mistake" to save some nameless Soviet bureaucrat she'd never met? What would happen to Margo if she did that? Margo was understandably weirded out by the whole affair because she was still the direct cause of the Soviet engineer's misfortune, even if she didn't know who he was, or what role he played in screwing up the English to metric translation. Moreover, in response to Margo's question about what would happen to him, the head Roscosmos gal promised Margo that his employment would simply "change." That appears to have been at best a euphemism (it's literally correct that going from "chief engineer" to "gulag prisoner" is a "change in employment"), but it more accurately seems to have been a flagrant lie. Margo was seemingly also upset because the one Roscosmos friend she seems to have made (who informed her of the KGB's kidnapping of the engineer) would drop Margo in a minute if that friend learned of Margo's involvement. Margo's demeanor appropriately displayed a mixture of fear, guilt and hopelessness.

Maybe, but there's really no way to know, or presume that it must be. While employers commonly require employees to agree that inventions developed as part of their employment belong to the employer (here NASA), this is not always the case. But employees can cut their own deals too, and Kelly is as far from a typical NASA employee as you can get - she's kind of "space royalty," and may have gotten some custom deal that gave her certain rights not normally shared with "ordinary" employees. Moreover, maybe NASA just didn't care. "Not caring" is more common than many might think. The very foundation of Microsoft is essentially due to a single fact: IBM didn't care about the rights to the operating system that Microsoft wrote for them because IBM was about hardware, not software. So when Microsort asked for those rights, IBM give that to them with little to no thought. While the Margo plot was tense and compelling, I found it confusing. Why does Margo need to keep her true identity and reason for being in Russia secret from the Russians themselves? Why didn't she just explain who she was? Maybe the thugs would have ignored that, but who was she protecting and why? If her "deal" with the KGB or whomever spirited her out of the US required her to keep her identity secret, we were never informed about that, nor why such a provision would need to adhered to under these circumstances. It just didn't make sense. It's not like she's in a witness protection program. She's in the foreign country for which she spied. In other words, she's on their side, and has no position with respect to the coup plotters or coup resistors. How and why would she take sides in that anyway? They can do that on Earth too. That's what the IRS does. Maybe the amounts shown so far (several thousand dollars) aren't high enough to trigger some inquiry, but there's no indication that he's mindful of this concern, and he should be. Compare his carefree attitude with that of say Carmela Soprano, who after secretly sealing some cash, was quite careful to open up multiple bank deposits so that no single deposit would exceed $10,000 because she knew that that's the deposit level that sets off IRS concerns.

I'd didn't quite buy her naivate about the presumed Soviet coup issues. She's been shown to be nothing but bright, and well enough attuned to emotional/social issues to secure the top spot at overly-bureaucratic NASA for decades. More specifically, she can read people and groups and navigate successfully around them (at least after being pushed by Von Braunto do that better). And apparently she's now fluent, or nearly so, in Russian (but with what seems to be a horendous still southern accent, however). How can she not get that this type of political turmoil is something best left unpoked? Even the baker knew to keep his mouth shut. Margo is presumably far smarter and worldly then he is. While she may not have grown up in a culture where people instinctively know to stay far away from certain kinds of trouble, she's certainly been there long enough to pick that up. That would seem to be a lot easier to learn than Russian. The Expanse was more attentive to scientific reality. The Expanse did not have people living for years on Mars' surface, unprotected from radiation issues. While For All Mankind mentions radiation issues and shows some radiation-caused damage (Molly's blindness and presumed death of the Dutch astronaut she saved), this show doesn't quite reach The Expanse's level of scientific authenticity. For All Mankind is also inconsistent with how it treats gravity issues, but it is still engaging and filled with interesting stories.

American beer is made to maximize sales and profits - that is, it's made so that people drink as much as possible of it. German beer manufacturers have other priorities. While many (maybe most) might agree that German beer generally tastes better, that's a wholly subjective judgment. On a flight from Zurich to NYC a while back, I sat next to a friendly Swiss gentleman who insisted on ordering an American beer. In his heavily accented English that to me was indistinguishable from that of someone from Germany, he explained he loved everything about the US (apparently including its beer) and was quite weary of anything German because he regarded the freedom enjoyed by Switzerland today as entirely the result of American support during WWII and resistence to Germany. Regarding the Sheldon's nameless roomate/frenemy and his computer science work on a Pascal compiler, I was surprised to hear that level of detail. Pascal is the first computer language I learned in the early 1980's and I continued to use it into the 1990s. I thought it sort of faded out by 1993 or so, but minimal googling confirms that not only was it still being used then, but work on various compilers for it was indeed also going on during this time. So, accuracy points for that. It's still around today, but it's sort of the betamax of computer languages at this point.

He has so much to confess, he'd hardly know where to begin. He only said he picked up a few words. That's believable enough after spending time there during the Korean War. No one - including Ed - tried to pass this off as "fluent," and he clearly had trouble with anything other than a few simple words. Too bad googletranslate doesn't exist (yet?) in this timeline. She was a compelling character, and will be missed, despite the inexcusable tryst with Danny. One of the things that keeps stories interesting on this show is the writters' ease with, and frequency of, killing off central characters. You can't count on anyone surviving, anywhere, any time. Just when you thought the Baldwins on Mars were are at the greatest risk of death or harm, the one on Earth gets blown up, and just before she can save anyone else (other than Danny's even stupider and more irresponsible brother). The most significant reason for this surprise is it really makes no sense at all. If any third country could be landing people on Mars, it would be China, or maybe India. But we have no information on what's going on in China in this timeline, or whether the USSR and China remain allied at all.

The old Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue (which is landmarked, of course) became become the New York City headquarters of Amazon. Amazon spend years renovating the space but assumed occupancy a while back. It's hard to think of a more emblematic change in retail commerce than that. Forget those gloves.

For many years, I'd done double-spaced after a period, but converted to single spacing a few years ago basically to save space in page-limited documents. I hadn't realized there was a generational divide over this issue, however. They definitely succeeded in capturing a Columbo-eque tone, and it works well for this already-firmly-established character. While Columbo's false facade arose from his rumpled, disorganized, and seemingly-bumbling persona, Elsbeth's flows from her quirkiness and seemingly-easily-distracted and short attention span persona. The look she gave the Stephen Moyer character when they first met - like "haven't we seen each other before somewhere?" - took me back to True Blood.

Had, for example, Ed had a reciprocal relationship with someone that was almost indistinguishable from his own daughter, the ick and moral suspect would have triggered even more outrage. Not a fan of either Danny or his brother's unhinged mental states, but Danny's confession to Ed did provide some context, at least in part, for why Danny was so duranged. While Danny was of course wrong to blame himself for his friend's death, he was not wrong to admit that he used him, framed him repeatly and generally treated him poorly. And he has to live with never being able to make that right. That would trouble even a pretty stable person, and Danny isn't starting from stability. I'm not sure what to make of Danny's brother. He's just offputting in every way.

Whenever I see people jogging inside a space station that's creating artificial gravity by spinning, I wonder if the joggers are moving fast enough noticably to counteract that spinning and meaningfully add or subtract to the artificial gravitational effect. A jogger running in against the opposite direction of rotation would decrease that artificial gravity, while jogging in the same direction would increase it, to some degree. As best as I can tell, on Polaris/Phoenix, the answer is no meaningful change would be felt by the jogger. Wikipeadia tells me the diameter of Polaris is 137 meters. The formula for acceration imparted through spinning is A = sq(ω)r. 9.8m/s/s = sq(ω) x 68.5m ω = .3782/s, meaning the speed of rotation of Polaris to generate artifical gravity of 1G is just over 1/3 of a rotation each second. Since the circumference of the the Polaris ring is 430.4 m (C = 2πr), that means the relative velocity of the ring rotates at about 143 m/s. Average jogging speed is about 2.25 m/s. Since that's only about 1.5% of the relative velocity of the ring's rotation, no mater which direction a jogger ran in Polaris, the effect of that movement would be unlikely to be noticed at all.

The construction of rotating space hotel as envisioned here would be an enormous undertaking that would require resources far beyond those of even the very richest private investors. Nevertheless, if the show can warp the time line to rewrite history such that fusion power is real in this timeline, perhaps building something like this is no more fanciful than that. But they did get certain things right. As also portrayed in the movie Gravity, space junk is a very serious real and growing problem. A rotating structure like this would break apart if rotating too fast. I don't know if the 4G threshold mentioned here would be a reasonably likely failure point. That would depend on its size and rotational speed. The larger the structure, the slower the rotation would need to be to simulate gravity (of 1G or anything else). People wouldn't feel anything unusual at 1.05 G, but probably would at 1.4 G, though here most of the guests still didn't seem to realize something was wrong (some seemed drunk). Also, pouring a liquid in a rotating structure like this would not pour straight down because of the coreolis effect. The Expanse got that one right, as shown here, but this show, not so much: Consider throwing a ball out from a spinning merrygoround. From the perspective of a stationary observer not on the merrygoround, the ball travels in straight line. But from the perspective of the thrower on the merrygoround, the ball's path curves like the water in this Expanse clip. See also:

Regarding from the News post: Even if "Belinda" inherited nothing from "Tanya," there's a easy explanation for how "Belinda" could have ended up in Thailand still as a White Lotus employee. The Four Season's hotel chain - the likely real world site where much this and past seasons will be, and were, filmed - has an "exchange" program for their employees where some are "rotated" to other Four Season locations around the world for some period of time. When I had the good fortune to spend some time in the Four Seasons in Mumbai, India, I noticed one employee who did not appear to be a local - a young blond women - who I later learned was Mexican and regularly employed at the Four Seasons in Puerta Vallarta. I spoke with her in Spanish, much to her delight, and she explained this exchange program to me. It's easy to imagine the fictional White Lotus having something similar.

John is a likeable character for whom it's easy to root, but the patent nonsense continues to irk. Patent applications are not “accepted;” the primary components of an application are “allowed” or “rejected.” If rejected, those components (called “claims”) can be modified to some degree and sent back to the patent office for another try with argument about why they should be allowed. There’s no indication that that happened here. Moreover, none of this happens quickly, as in the presumed time frame presented here. Also, the issuance of a patent is not, as presented here, not like a large money lottery ticket win. The vast majority of issued patents, i.e., those patent applications allowed by the Patent Office, never make a dime for anyone (other than the patent lawyers and the Patent Office of course). Only some patents make vast fortunes, but those are the ones most well-known. It is nevertheless correct – then and now – that inventors often need savvy business types to monetize their patents, and young Mr. Russell seems like a stand up guy unlikely “steal” the clock invention in a presumed season 3.

I found the relationship, such that it was, between Lucy and Tim to be one of the more interesting parts of this series, but I didn't quite get why Lucy's hospital visit steeled her enough to confront Hawk after 30 years and leave. Her explanation didn't make all that much sense to me. Maybe she had already subconciously made up her mind and just needed the reality of the situation - medical crisis and all - to make her voice her decision. I also don't get why we heard nothing futher about her brother. Wouldn't you expect he'd be a good source of information for Lucy to ask oh so many questions?

I don't understand the accident particulars and how or why those would become the giant obstacle holding Sully back from reconnecting with his daughter. He didn't appear drunk, she clearly wasn't seriously injured (though that might not have been apparent at the time), and it's far from clear he was at fault at all. Why would this pose a problem for him dealing with his daughter? I don't get it. Regarding the trial and legal non-sense, leading questions are not only allowed on cross-examination, but they're pretty much the only type of cross examination questions that should be asked. And motions to dismiss don't get made, considered and granted in 30 miliseconds, as shown here.

Not all of us would buy that. Had the writters wrote in something like this proposed comment, we would, however, recognize an effort - however feabile - to "try" to look somewhat more realistic. But such an effort would still be without even a tenuous connection to reality. Even during past times with less transparency and more corruption, the Patent Office has never preferred particular inventors over others based on membership in some guild or club.

I suspected from a Tim-Lucy telephone conversation in a prior episode that they'd more than made peace with each other. This second telephone conversation may further support that. My un-spoiled suspicion is that Lucy will learn that Tim played a fundamantal part in Hawk's return to his family and sobering up. While she can't erase Tim from Hawk's life, she can still acknowledge that he helped her and her family the best way he could. Regarding Fire Island, they got most of that right (other than physically). I don't know where this was filmed but that didn't look like the Altantic Ocean or the pine forested east-coast barrier Island that is Fire Island. It's not surprising that Hawk would act freer there. Part of the reason why Fire Island was then, and remains now, a bubble where the usual "rules" just don't apply, is it's physical isolation from "the mainland." This was expressly discussed in the episode as well. Because no road goes there, (it's only reachable by ferry and air) it's nearly impossible to get there by accident. It's the perfect place for Hawk to let his guard down far more than he does anywhere else.

At least we didn't have to suffer (yet?) with a "stolen invention" story. I suspected the seemingly-kind clock club person might be angling to "steal" Jack's wonderous clock invention. Not so much, so far. Nevertheless, the clock tanget story continues to be wontonly stupid. Because the Patent Office never bases the patentability of an invention on an inventor's membership in any group, Jack's admission into the ridulously German-sounding clock club wouldn't change anything. However, it remains true even today that it can be shockingly easy to renew a patent application after the Patent Office rejects it. The Brooklyn Bridge story was far more successful. As with a prior episode that featured the electrication of downtown Manhattan, this is where this series can shine. There's far more to mine in the technological and social progress taking place at this time than in wallowing in the opera box wars. The wonder and joy that all seemed to have with the Brooklyn Bridge's opening reads true. And it's a fundamental part of how the world we now live in came to be. That all could share in that wonder and joy was nice to see, even if the different groups weren't together to do that.