TV Anonymous

I was not writing about this particular episode but the show lately. IMO, if the show airs 4 nights / week like Late Night or The Daily Show, then it can afford musical guests. If it only airs weekly, while also interrupted by commercials - unlike Last Week Tonight - then musical guests only eat into the little contents the show has.

Full Frontal airs once a week and only for 30 minutes. Why does it need musical guests?

Avery was working at midnight at New Year's Eve? Somebody needed to report Fast Track Labs to the State's Department of Labor.

The way the characters in this episode, particularly Sam the self-proclaimed Francophile, pronounced the last name Lacroix as "le-croy" drove me nuts.

Now that the season is over, I wonder why it was mostly summer in Montreal while in reality even with global warming winter in Montreal lasts for 9 months. :-)

So Brianna kept on 'inventing' things ahead of time? What would she invent next? Internal combustion engine?

Wait, what? Perhaps you should read the Jian Ghomeshi case first before making such a sweeping statement.

I thought that too. The interior wood paneling of Frasier Manor was obviously varnished. Did they have the means and the time to make varnish? I admit that I do not pay enough attention to the details of this show as I should, but was there a case that someone travelled to the future? By that I mean one travelled to the future of when one originally was. Claire, Geilis, Brianna and Roger all travelled to the past. Their travels forward were return travels. From a very superficial point of view I have to applaud Claire that after around 35 years her breasts were as perky and as firm as before, with no sign of sagging. And this was without the help of modern medicine. Wonder what her secrets were to maintain herself.

Park is friend with Keen now? Since when? In the short time Park was in the taskforce, she was mostly adversarial with Keen. She had special relationship with Reddington, but not with Keen. And was Keen really that special, in terms of working relationship? How many times did Keen burn the team? Nobody was sad when Meera Malik died on duty or when Navabi left for good, aside from Mojtabai, that is.

I have been following Law & Order franchise for quite long time. Since season 1 actually, with George Dzundza and Chris Noth. And then I watched all shows in L&O franchise: SVU, CI, TbJ, LA, even Conviction. And now, this. Is this the series that kills the franchise for me? This episode, and this season is bad. Not only that it is bad, it collects bad tropes from different TV shows. L&O franchise is supposed to be 'close to reality' shows, and there is nothing realistic about this. A cult that follows mysterious and enigmatic leader and does his bidding for him? That is from The Following. A single computer program that allows the crippling of the whole infrastructure? That is from 24. Finding where the suspects are using tangential internet information? Many, but mainly CSI: Cyber. Shutting down electricity for the whole region? Many, but most prominently Revolution.

My only exposure to the Pirate Captain Bonnet was through Outlander, and boy, does he look different in this show!

Out of topic, but if DC / Warner wants to make R-rated action-comedy movie or series featuring Flash and Aquaman, starring Ezra Miller and Jason Momoa, that would be a great idea.

Random thoughts: What Mrs. Russell did to Mrs. Van Rhiin was uncouth, even in today's standards. Hijacking one's employee without permission? Of course, Bannister was also in fault. So much fuss for one luncheon in a not-particular day. If the (fictional) lawyer did not have the lunch in the prescribed hour, that meant he did not et for the whole day? Speaking of luncheon, was it really a hardship of having just one lunch without a particular butler? Another speaking of luncheon, did Mr. Russell always have his lunch at home, every day? Mr. Larry wanted to be an architect. IIRC he was a Harvard business graduate. Did he not need to take engineering courses first? It is incredible to see how eager Mrs. Russell was to host Miss Astor. Of course with the hope to get access to Mrs. Astor. I have to say that I saw a bit of a look of defeat on Mrs. Van Rhijn face when she stepped into the magnificent dining hall.

I just wanted put it out there that it was amazing that D'Arcy able to secure a Canadian helicopter in Colorado to drop the leaflets. Of course, the meta explanation is that the production took place in British Columbia and TPTB neglected to cover the Canadian registry.

Not only that, a former U.S. servicemember who specialized in alternative therapy relevant to Jason's issue just happened to be in Colombia, just a driving distance from their safe house?

Been there, done that. She was called the Ghost Whisperer.

I think this show is the best current 30-minute comedy on TV. I would love to be proven wrong, though. So I guess the new mythology is that ghosts cannot phase through iron or steel? But why did they not try through the wall? The pocket watch if it was in mint condition must have been worth hundreds of thousand if it had been $5000 during the Gilded Age. Yes, I assume that the Woodstones were from the same era as the Russells. One thing I notice is the concept of heaven - above, hell - below. Did the religions of Thorfinn and Sasappis believe in the same concept too? That concept is very much Abrahamaic.

"We was in it." And this was coming from a school principal? SMH

It is no joke. I know plenty of people IRL that think that being an organ donor must be made mandatory.

Seriously, Logan? A modern-day adult did not know how to play chess?

"I'm so fucking sick of that rumor." "It's... not a rumor." "Fuck you, Barry!" ROFLMFAO!!

I come from a so-called developing country and therefore I have my personal pain if I watch food being wasted, fictional or IRL. Therefore, I do not really enjoy the scene where Mrs. Russell told Church to donate that extravagant spread to charity, and Church retorted with which charity should get lobster salad. Well, at least the food went to charity unlike Logan Roy that ordered the catering staff to literally throw lobsters into garbage bins.

One thing I would like to add. I do not quite understand the disdain that Mrs. Van Rhijn had towards Mr. Raikes. Yes, he did not come from money but he was a UPenn-graduate lawyer FFS. Now that he took practice in New York, his future was brilliant. Besides, it was not like Miss Brook owned or achieved anything on her own.

I learned quite a bit in this episode. So Brooklyn was where the Black high society lived? I think it is a good idea to authentically portray the life of affluent Black society in history. No, Bridgerton does not count. What was so wrong with hot soup for lunch and trifle for dessert? Bannister schooling Church on table setup was funny, though. Frontal nudity? I've a feeling we're not in Downton Abbey anymore! And unless deep down he wanted something to eventually happen, Mr. Russell was an idiot for not terminating Turner the next morning.

As far as fictional non-capital (towards the punished) punishment goes, this is as cruel as it goes. I even argue that this is crueler than Cersei Lannister forces Ellaria Sand to watch Tyene dies and her corpse rots away, without being able to touch her.