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Helllooooooo....... (loooo.... looooo) There's an echo in here. :) Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the ADT guy in the cold opens? The cop on this week's murder case reminded me of Ron Howard.

I'll third that on the montage. Best one I've seen lately, outside of the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul shows. I backed it up and watched it two more times. I am a fan of the "why" of these types of crimes. I find the psychology fascinating. And I love the dark comedy, too. Yep, this one is right up my alley.... came along just when I was looking for something new, and good, to watch. Off to watch episode three.

I encourage you to stick with it. I had to watch a second time, as well, just to get some of the characters straight, but it becomes very clear, very quickly, who everyone is. You won't have a problem. It is so worth it! The third season does not disappoint, and in some ways, it's the best so far.

So happy Black Mirror was nominated, and won, because I love this series so much. But I am probably one of the few who did not love San Junipero. Can't put my finger on it... but something just felt off about the relationship between the two women. I liked the premise of the story, but tonally, it didn't work for me. I was totally engrossed in the other episodes, though. I still think White Christmas was one of the best of the series, so far. Can't wait for the new ones.

Oh, my GOD. That's terrible!!!

He should be dead by now. But he's not. His secret, revealed.

You were talking about Roose Bolton, right? That man's voice could melt the Wall. Yes, Roose (not Ramsay). The only bad thing about his death was never to hear that voice again. Good Lord! (no pun intended) :)

I thought the same about Lord Bolton. He was a POS, but that voice.... <swoon>

This isn't a joke, per se.... but I'm a sucker for visual puns, and I just had to make this.

Americans do say "screw you" quite a bit, so maybe that's what they meant? Perhaps "petal" was just tacked on, since it's what a Brit might say? That's the only thing I can think of, since "petal" is really not part of the average person's vernacular here.

I was imagining Jesse Pinkman doing this, and then yelling, "Yeah, bitch! MAGNETS! OH!"

"Hey! Can someone please give Jaime a hand?"

That was my thought, as well. When they were talking about what kind of light it could have been, and Ellie mentions a phone, I thought, "bingo."

I noticed it... but I also noticed that he mentioned it was an old saying (or something like that). So, I then assumed it wasn't original to The Usual Suspects. I looked it up, and found that is is actually a quote from the French poet, Charles Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867), and that it was paraphrased in TUS. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire "La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." (The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.) Paraphrased in The Usual Suspects as "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

I don't know about Minnesota, but out here in California, when you get newspapers delivered to your house, there's no mailing label with your name and address on it. At least we were spared from seeing Varga throw up all that ice cream. Thank you.

Since I was bored, I kept an eye on that sliding glass door, and how the blinds were still swaying during the Alison/Cole conversation. I was waiting for them to be moving in one scene, and then not be moving in the next scene (this is how I entertain myself sometimes). Most of the time, the door was only open a fraction of the way, since Alison didn't close it all the way. But in the very last shot of it, before Noah comes back in, it's open wide enough that a person could have walked through it. Nice going, continuity department... and thanks for giving me something interesting to notice.

Thanks for the comparison to Westworld. I gave up on that one after only a few episodes.

Yes, I also now hate the pointless POVs. That novelty has worn off, for me. If nothing we see is the absolute truth, then the differing POVs are worthless, unless playing "spot the differences" is your idea of a good time. The writers can be sloppy about any detail, and justify it by saying, "Well, that was just so-and-so's point of view, and memories are flawed." Ugh. Sorry, but I need SOME truth. At this point, I struggle to find anyone or anything to like.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I was obsessed with SFU. I've seen each episode several times. There may have been big things about it, but there were also many, many quiet things about it as well. It was mostly about family, and the way the characters related to each other, the dreamy-ness of many of its scenes, the profoundness, the humanity, the emotionality of it, and its dark humor, that I find similar between the two. They both made me *feel* something... where many shows do not. Few shows will get me to choke up like that. They both felt very real to me, and I mourned the ending of both of them... I was sad saying goodbye to characters I had come to care about. Not sure if that's what others meant when they compared the two, but that's what I meant.

Like Six Feet Under, this show actually made me *feel* something throughout its run. I cried a few times during the finale. Sure, it wasn't quite like SFU's finale (nothing compares to that, in my opinion), but I thought it was wonderful, just the same. Daniel and Kerwin "driving" in New York just killed me.

I believe that after the visit from the detectives, Alison had a second thoughts about that. Their visit made her think twice. She was holding the jar while talking to them, but after they left, we saw her look at the jar, then slide it aside... to show she was rejecting that idea. Not that I am excusing her for thinking about it in the first place, but I thought this showed that she didn't actually go through with it.

How many times over the years, have I thought this very thing while watching a TV show? If only the truth had been told, "x" would not have had to happen. But without lies and misunderstandings, 90% of the silly plots/episodes throughout TV history (granted, mostly in sitcoms, but you get my drift) would never have been written.