Rickster

The perceived difference in age may be due to casting. I’ve just started reading the book. Luke is mentioned as being 32. Cora’s age is less clear, but she meets her future husband at 17 and her son is 11. Given a likely path through courtship, marriage and pregnancy, she’s probably only a couple of years older, at most. I believe they meet when he starts treating her husband.

I didn’t mind Maddie (and the actress) as a naive legal intern in the original Bosch, but this cop business is not working out and highlights her weak acting. I’m hoping she gets written out, or maybe a smaller role in a different career path.

Right, because she was not a featured Dr. on the show. The show was Dr. Brad and Dr. Ebonie. Sarah was not going to have her own patients on TV at that point. It just seemed like patients went to Dr. Brad and when they went to the OR, suddenly a different Dr. took the lead (just my opinion). It took a couple of seasons before she officially joined the cast.

We were wondering why she didn’t wear a face shield or goggles during the procedure. Maybe she thought it would embarrass the patient?

Actually in the early shows (before she was a featured Dr.) it seemed like he was assisting her in the surgeries.

By now, you probably know they did do the story. I do wonder if they cut it down due to the other news. On a lighter note, I noticed Jenna not knowing how to pronounce “ingenue” during a segment last week, and the rest of the cast needling her a little about it.

Exactly what I thought after I saw this scene last night.

I’d really doubt the body will be found in the apartment. Also forensics (powder residue) won’t support suicide either. He might end up buried in the desert.

Thinking about his performance here and at the Master's, it might be helpful to him if whoever puts together the pairings and start times would put him in an afternoon start on Thursday instead of the morning. I'm guessing they want him on the course on Friday afternoon to drive viewership, on the course and on TV, but it gives him no time to recover for a Saturday morning start (since he is unlikely to be among the leaders for a Saturday afternoon tee time at this point).

When Bosch meets his father, dad tells the little kid to go outside, and the kid does the trademark “alright alright alright”, even with a bit of a Texas accent.

That was the kid doing the Matthew McConaughey impression, right?

Although I guess there’s already a degree of randomness in the questions each competitor has to answer, I think it’s unfair to the competitors to have them face different chasers in the cash builder rounds. It might even be somewhere in Standards & Practices about treating competitors equally. I really could do without the chaser’s lounge.

That helps explain some of the odd discussion about mattresses with his wife (I just assumed they were sleeping in separate bedrooms).

Sicily was listed as last season.

No, he hasn’t done Liguria. I think Liguria and Sardinia are probably the prime destinations for a third season. Maybe something around Puglia? It would be interesting to try to figure out how many more episodes he could do.

I live in the same town as the good Dr., and she claims in the local paper they paid $60,000 for the three day trip.

We watched the first three episodes. Without giving anything away, the people in the marsh are just two local girls, one of whom disappears and is believed by the locals to have been taken by the serpent. I agree Clair Danes’ companion is very puzzling and it’s not explained. She’s very “familiar” to be just a servant or nanny, yet she is treated like a servant at times. We are enjoying it, but it is slow moving.

I’m pretty sure she had a different black outfit in this week’s episode. Maybe this was the one filmed after covid.

I don’t want to seem obsessed with Polecano, but it did seem like both competitors were able to get closer to the pole before having to let go.

One person making it through Polecano and two (!) through the port-a-potties made this a pretty unique episode. Muppets were much less annoying, too.

He was inside the house (or a set made to look like the interior) when the tremor hit. He saw the glass cracking from the inside.

Have only seen one episode, but I agree with a lot of this. I'm finding the plot lines so far interesting, but I really miss the whole cast ensemble from the previous incarnation of the show. I never thought Maddie was on a path to become a cop. I found it jarring when it was revealed at the end of the last season, and think it was obviously done to keep viewers who watched this for the police action. An odd point to make maybe, but I found it interesting that characters now use "fuck" a lot more than they did on the prior version. Not sure why the scriptwriters decided to change this. I'm also finding it hard to get used to the commercials (or at least not being able to FF through them like the cable shows I DVR)

Finished this last night. I knew only a little about the story, mostly because it became the basis for an opera. Agreed that this was excellently done. I wish it had gotten more publicity. Did not realize Polaroids went back this far. I guess this could be the first instance of a selfie getting one into a lot of trouble.

Actually, it seems both new chasers appeared on Jeopardy, Brandon was on Teen Jeopardy. I’ve only seen the GSN version in reruns, where sometimes they had the A&B packages and sometimes not. Might have been a change in a specific season. I thought the questions in the first contestant’s cash builder significantly harder than those for the other two, but I guess that depends on your areas of knowledge.

Apparently there is also a B&B as part of the property. I don’t understand enough Italian to figure out exactly how their menu is priced, but the restaurant does not seem super expensive by Michelin standards.