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Beyond the way they looked and acted on stage, none of their story tracked with Fleetwood Mac's history.

Oh, while I was busy praising Culkin's performance, MacFadyen was his usual fantastic self, as well. Really composed for quite some time, then the tears finally came. And then of course he was able to inject his humor regarding the santa claus stocking. Someone please remind me: What's in the files Tom instructed Greg to delete?

I've read lots of examples over the years of actors being really emotionally impacted by their roles/performances. Janet Leigh wouldn't shower after making Psycho. Isabella Adjani was in therapy for years after making Possession. The Shining really fucked up Shelly Duval, but that probably had more to do with Kubrick torturing her than the character, perhaps.

Yeah they took forever to show his face lying on the floor of the plane. We kept getting shots of a torso but there was plenty of time for us to wonder if this was a Logan manipulation. Killing him off in episode 3 is pretty wild. And I am absolutely amazed they kept that secret. Culkin should get an emmy for that performance.

Her comments will have no impact on whether the show's a success. If it's a great program, people are gonna watch. If it's not, they won't.

I was expecting this be the Bond/Vesper scene from the train.

The clouds of cocoa coughs just slay me

Guess that dude's never seen a silo explosion.

Same for Burger. This season has been damn good so far.

I was going to give this a shot, simply because 100% of the world's population thought Top Gun Maverick was going to be a disaster and it wound up being incredible. But if Sepinwall is singing its praises, then I'm definitely in.

Maybe the old man ordered the hit, and the Nygaard oil baroness is trying to blow the lid off his heroin import business?

Thus the cliche of wealth being created and lost within 3 generations (although statistics show 70% of the time it's lost within 2). Businesses aren't the only example of this. It's been true throughout history with great leaders/monarchs. I'm working my way through The People Profiles series on English monarchs (in addition to Dan Jones' books The Plantagenets and Wars of the Roses) and it's fascinating how often a weak king follows a strong one, who's then followed by a strong one, etc. Great example: Edward I (Longshanks of Braveheart fame) was the son a weak Henry III but from an early age showed himself a great warrior and proved to be a strong kind. His son Edward II was a disaster and was deposed by his wife and her mistress. His son, Edward III, seized power from his mother the queen and her lover when he was 17, and proved to be one of the greatest of all the English/British monarchs. His eldest son and heir predeceased him, so he was followed by his grandson Richard II, who was so awful he was deposed by Henry IV, who then spent his reign putting down rebellions. Then we had a rare situation of 2 strong kings in a row, as Henry V is world famous, but his son Henry VI....... hello Wars of the Roses. Sorry for the derail, I just find that point really interesting. I think the same holds true for entire generations.

Well that was fascinating. Somebody paid the 2023 equivalent of over 200 grand to whack McCutcheon, and then planted a fingerprint to ensure the triggermen get caught. Whoever that is has the juice to pressure Burger into offering a deal, to put an end to Perry's investigation of the crime, and Burger seemed pretty nervous that Mason turned it down. And the only thing Perry had really discovered by that point was the Councilman's wife (right?) in the nut house. And the middleman on the McCutcheon hit was ordered to stop selling smack to some rich dude's wife, which brings me back to my question about what the ships were importing, which seems obvious now (to me) to be opium to be processed into heroin (or the finished product itself). And the converse sneakers dude said they never stop coming back--unless they're dead. Or, perhaps, in psychiatric hospital. So I guess she was McCutcheon's mistress. Goldstein the produce supply guy was in on it at some level and I guess Brooks had to be, as well? Or maybe neither were really privy to what was really going on but their grand jury testimony would have raised too many questions. I'm pretty sure I've got it figured out. Because, before we ever meet this character, we're told that he'd done two prison terms, and one of those was in the United States. The guy behind all this is clearly Virgil Sollozzo.

I was puzzled, as well, by Kendall's reaction to Mattson's video call, but I guess what you guys are saying makes sense, if he's sensing weakness there and deciding to exploit it. Poor Roman, the only one of the bunch with anything close to a soul and daddy plays it like a fiddle. No way Logan missed that

I never thought of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as comic relief. They're recruited as spies and then given the mission of delivering a letter to the King of England instructing him to have Hamlet whacked. I do think Pistol, Bardolph and Nim, along with Falstaff are pretty apt, from Henry IV part 2 and Henry V.

Is anyone watching The Night Agent. I just saw the trailer for it upon logging into Netflix. 74/81 rating on RT. About to watch the first episode, I guess.

My memory is horrible on a good day. So... Is Mason aware that Brooks McCutcheon had received a grand jury summons? I don't recall that he has. He'd surely want to know what that grand jury was investigating.

Interesting point. So far, the purpose he's served is as a revenue stream for Mason's firm so they can afford to take the pro-bono defense of the Mexican boys. But you may be right and it's probably not coincidence that he's in the same business as the Goldstein dude who got whacked due to his being summoned before the grand jury.

Shooting Max Cady right at the start would've been the smartest move.

The Cape Fear remake was incredible.

Herein lies the problem that you just fail to grasp: You want him on that wall. You need him on that wall. Your perception of my gullibility might arise from your lack of cynicism. Maybe I should've put American hero in quotes. My point is that he's absolutely NOT someone who needs to be entrusted with the kind of enormous responsibility that his job entailed. But as a rabid dog to turn loose on the enemy? Sure. He could be useful there. And I thought I made clear I thought he was full of shit regarding his "I could have ended everything" but would have spent the rest of his life in prison. He was trying to say he weighed making a noble sacrifice but nevertheless followed the letter of the law. Horseshit. Again... there were children on the receiving end of this psychological torture. And tear gas.

So, thinking about this a little bit more. This contract killing of McCutcheon wasn't solely to take him out, but part of a larger plot to, I'm assuming, ruin the whole McCutcheon family. Thus, the phone number getting stuffed into the evidence box to lead the defense team to the discovery of the gal in the mental facility who happened to be married to an important city councilman. No idea how that relates to old man McCutcheon's oil business but we're not supposed to know yet. So, the bad guy has to be the rich lady Della dined with during the piano lesson, right? She profits if McCutcheon goes down, doesn't she? Isn't she an oil baroness? Can't imagine why else she'd be getting so much screen time. And I'm still puzzled by what's going on with Detective Holcombe. What were those ships importing? Heroin? Foreign oil? Rubber Dog Shit from Hong Kong?

Many who hated it, myself included, over time came round to thinking it was artfully done. There are some interviews about it that David Chase did over the years, that are helpful in that regard.

And yeah, Ms Street's hiding a nice, firm looking bod under those dresses.

I'm admittedly still lost, but I was left with the impression that brothers had been renting the gun quite a bit and "practicing," as Drake said, so they were able to make the shot that killed McCutcheon, but it obviously wasn't a random mugging gone wrong. Someone hired them to take him out and paid handsomely, thus the bag full of cash hidden under the old car. The kids are confessing to the murder but not telling the whole story for fear their family will lose the cash or be harmed by whoever hired them. Am I missing something?