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S02.E02: Last Looks

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Snazzy Daisy

Snazzy Daisy

Natasha Lyonne co-wrote and directed this episode. 👏🏻

I like this episode better than the previous one.

One confusing scene — they show us a shot of a dug grave to make us believe that Charlie is buried alive. The camera then pans out to a shot of her in a box, ready to be incinerated. What’s that? So lazy to watch it again. 😣

Greta was right all along — she’s trapped in that funeral home, for eternity. 💔

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Chaos Theory

Chaos Theory

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When did Katie Holmes become a middle aged woman?

Oh God what does that make me?

Another half way decent murder plan that gets screwed up by the little things.   
 

Hey I like your car.   Let me introduce you to a woman who is about to get murdered.

“you wanna be a corpse.  It pays cash.”  

The scene with Charlie and Fred talking about how all his family remains were still in the house was really well done.   Greta was unhappy and being in this house surrounded by his family was all he knew.

I think they did a good job of making him out to be a guy who has nothing else.   It was Greta and his funeral home.    I really liked the scene with him and Charlie talking about how his relatives ashes (sorry remains) are still in the house.   This is a guy who grew up and spent his entire life surrounded by his dead relatives.    Heck he even had his morning coffee with the picture of his dead father.   Greta wanted to take that from him.   If she just wanted out that would be one thing but she wanted half and to sell the funeral home which would have left him with nothing.

Not saying Fred was a good guy or a victim.   Heck he is likely the type to turn into a serial killer just to keep everything he cares about in the funaral home with him.   Just saying that I initially found him interesting a character..  

 

 

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fishcakes

fishcakes

I found Giancarlo's character far more sympathetic than Katie's, at least until he tried to burn Charlie alive. She suddenly announces that she's leaving him and that she expects him to sell the business his family has run for generations and the way that he currently makes his living and send her half of the proceeds? That is very ballsy/delusional.

I did like that Charlie could detect no lies in what he was telling her because strictly speaking he told the truth. He said she told him she was leaving with the crew and that's what she did. Since he put most of her remains in the urn that was part of the movie set, which they took with them, technically she did leave with the crew.

I, too, was surprised by how bad Katie looked so I had to google some recent photos and they appear to have aged her up for the show.

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seacliffsal

seacliffsal

I liked this episode much more than the first episode.  Felt the secondary/film crew characters had a bit more development and that made them more interesting. Also liked the development of Fred-he had many dimensions which allowed me to feel some sympathy but also revulsion.  Complexity.

I liked that the show made it really clear that Charlie works for cash, so helps explain how she is able to survive.

 

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Chaos Theory

Chaos Theory

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This was my favorite episode of the first three.  (I won’t spoil #3). I really loved both Gretta and Fred as  characters.  I thought the story was really well done and sad from both their perspectives.   You have a guy who has grown up in that house who knows what every corner of the home means to someone in his family and a wife who hates the life and wants out.   Something was going to give.     The resolution made sense and I loved the ending with the house catching on fire.   

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merylinkid

merylinkid

On 5/9/2025 at 1:12 PM, Chaos Theory said:

think they did a good job of making him out to be a guy who has nothing else.   It was Greta and his funeral home.    I really liked the scene with him and Charlie talking about how his relatives ashes (sorry remains) are still in the house.   This is a guy who grew up and spent his entire life surrounded by his dead relatives.    Heck he even had his morning coffee with the picture of his dead father.  

It was even more than that.   I got it when he was complaining to the movie people about trampling dad's flowers, grandad's flowers, great-aunt's flowers, etc.   The whole place was just a shrine to his family.   

But as a family law attorney, the whole you can buy me out thing grated.   It's a family business, he inherited before Greta came along.   She has no right, title or interest in the business.   He wouldn't need to buy her out.   On the other hand, he had no kids.   Who was going to get the business that meant so much to him because it was family after he died?  

Let me just say, pressing your loved one's remains into a record is just creepy.  

Also, they really shouldn't have paired Giancarlo Esposito with Katie Holmes.  He acted circles around her.    

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Irlandesa

Irlandesa

1 hour ago, merylinkid said:

But as a family law attorney, the whole you can buy me out thing grated.   It's a family business, he inherited before Greta came along.   She has no right, title or interest in the business.   He wouldn't need to buy her out. 

I thought about that too. And she was a cosmotologist so it's not like she could make the argument that she put a lot of money back into the place. 

I too had sympathy for him even though he was considerably older than Katie's young grieving character when they married.  I was happy he was allowed to go up in flames with his family's home.

tennisgurl

tennisgurl

I liked this episode more than the last one, which I liked for the character stuff but not for the case, but I liked the case here. I actually felt for both the husband and wife until he killed her, he loved his calling and was distressed at ending his families legacy and she probably married someone too quickly who she didn't really love and wanted a more exciting life, they were two people who just should not have been together. Creating a record of a persons ashes is pretty creepy but I can also kind of see the appeal, I cant lie. 

I really liked the supporting cast and characters, the film crew were really fun and I even liked the biker family, this show always does a great job with its quicky cast. Charlie connects with people so easily and quickly.

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shapeshifter

shapeshifter

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On 5/10/2025 at 4:22 AM, AnimeMania said:

Kevin Corrigan as Tommy

I didn’t recognize him physically, but Kevin Corrigan still has the same presence as when he was Sam Weiss in Fringe in — wow 🤯 — frickin 2009.

Giancarlo Esposito’s Fred met an end that was clearly an homage to his Breaking Bad end — an equally sinister character, also circa 2009.

Charlie’s shoes noisily stepping around the killer’s lair to create dramatic tension had to be an on-purpose callback to the myriad such scenes in murder mysteries.
 

 

Probably everything you wanted to know about exploding electronics during cremation and more: slate.com/technology/2017/10/implanted-medical-devices-are-saving-lives-theyre-also-causing-exploding-corpses.html

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DearEvette

DearEvette

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This was a very good episode.

I agree that both Fred and Greta were sympathetic and  not at the same time.  I felt bad for him because Greta had no right to assume they'd sell and he'd give her half.  But, dude, get a lawyer not a fireplace poker. LOL.

Charlie being a corpse was pretty funny.

I liked the girl lunch scene. I loved how welcoming and supportive they all were of Greta.

At the end though it felt very horror-movie adjacent.

On 5/12/2025 at 6:25 PM, shapeshifter said:

Giancarlo Esposito’s Fred met an end that was clearly an homage to his Breaking Bad end — an equally sinister character, also circa 2009.

100%.  It played out the same which made me giggle, down to the horrified realization, and the 'No!' as the last word with the exact same expression on his face.

That house and business was clearly all he lived for and with it gone, he felt no need to try to live.  Which felt very fitting to me.

Imagine how much good in the world Beatrix Hasp could do if she put her powers of finding people to good.  Nobody would be a missing person for long given how well she manages to find Charlie.

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