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  1. That was awful. Angela Kang should never be allowed near a television studio, or even a television, again.
  2. Just binged this and I loved it. Season 3 has more than a few missteps (noted by Bryce above—I blame the departure of Graham Yost after S2) but I cared about the characters and I’m sad that I won’t see them anymore. I had to handwave a lot of the con plotholes and the age problems noted above, but I loved the cast and the performances; the scenes with Ribisi and Jane Adams in S2 were terrific acting.
  3. I thought the Mexican episodes were involving if predictable. But this one got right back to the least entertaining part of the show, kiddie soap opera.
  4. The most disappointing change in my opinion is the radical transformation of Despair to a depressed college student. I don’t like the casting of Desire, who is supposed to be irresistibly beautiful to everyone (and is far from it here), or Lucifer, “the most beautiful of all the angels”. Gwendolyn Christie is a lovely woman but not that. But they completely wimped out with this version of Despair.
  5. Bite your tongue I cannot abide the Honey scenes. Besides the ridiculousness of featuring a 66 year old woman doing action/suspense scenes not long after suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, I can’t take her character. That scene in episode 7 with her and her therapist was unbearable.
  6. Such a terrible end for the series. The pointless fake-out with the auto accident was a complete waste of time.
  7. Finally catching up to S5 on Netflix. The scene with Jimmy’s freakout (“I am so far beyond you, I am a god”) is a good explanation for why he and Walt eventually found each other. Mutual hubris.
  8. Did I miss if they ever gave the reason for the Delvey name? Anna’s mother pointedly mentioned that it wasn’t her maiden name, and I assumed they’d bring it up again.
  9. I chuckled at “Good luck with your brilliant idea” said sarcastically to Rand, who wants to make money selling things online. This was two years before Amazon.
  10. This one went on forever. The standoff between Elric and Dexter took up 3/4 of the episode, not a good sign for those of us who were hoping for plot advancement.
  11. Still no reactions to NM Season 3? Spoilers abound below. I found it gripping and involving until the final episode, when I thought the whole season lost steam. I think they tried to fit too much into it with the murdered-women subplot, which had little to nothing to do with the main thrust of the series. We’d invested all this time in an enormous amount of characters and the intricate politics among the various cartel families, and I wanted to see more of them and not an ultimately pointless subplot. I was puzzled by the complete disappearance of the Pacho-assassination subplot. Pacho was one of the most interesting and charismatic characters on the show and we don’t find out what happens to him? Odd. Mayra Hermosillo (who looks like an older, prettier AOC) is a terrific actress but had very little to do beyond furrowing her brow. I was curious to see the dynamics of a woman taking over the leadership of a cartel, but they didn’t explore this at all. The season had that The Wire feeling, where you wanted less cop time and more time with the drug crews. I wanted a whole lot less of Breslin with his boring girlfriend and more cartel time.
  12. Season 1: Was never a David Kelley fan but this was involving from beginning to end. Nice work by Molly Parker and Olivia Thirlby. Nina Arianda gives a breakout performance, and BBT carries the show. S2: An enormous drop in quality from S1. Watched it mainly for Patty. Episode 7 was truly awful. S3: while S2 was unpleasant and plothole-y, this was just annoying. The Marisol thing felt tacked-on as a reaction to the unsatisfying ending of the previous season. S4: A slight recovery, but only slight. The endless scenes of Jimmy driving/wandering through scrub desert in S3 were replaced by endless scenes of Jimmy shuffling through San Francisco Chinatown at night in the rain/fog. Does it really rain that much in SF?
  13. Speaking of meta, did anyone else notice Season 6 Jerry quoting Marlo? “The game is the game”.
  14. To me it’s “what if Northern Exposure had been a soap opera?”
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