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Couldn't agree more. An audience can only take so much manufactured bullshit for the protagonist to endure. Ken Follet went crazy with that shit in Pillars of the Earth and its sequels. The reason those novels were 18,000 pages long is because every time it looked like something positive might happen for the characters you're rooting for, God would send the 10 plagues of Egypt on them.

I owe Bella Ramsey an apology. I did not expect to like her in this role but she's been outstanding. I was probably a little biased because despite how much I loved her as Lady Mormont, I hated her as Lady Jane Grey in Becoming Elizabeth. Very talented young lady.

You might want to apologize to Nicole if you haven't already.

Good grief, can we let poor Spencer get to the fucking United States? This is soap opera-ish with the non-stop obstructions. Tugboat capsizes, then he's challenged to a duel and you just knew we wouldn't get to see him whip some ass and then that's that. No, it's gotta end with the two of them getting separated, of course. I didn't know you could pay somebody's land taxes and then receive their land if they didn't pay you back. Gotta see if that particular law is still on the books. Wasn't thinking about the anti-miscegenation laws, I was just thinking they'd kill his family.

I've reviewed the cross of Alex again, and I'm just astounded at Waters' strategy. He spent such an enormous amount of time hammering home that Alex is a thief, embezzler and liar--which backfired in my opinion because Alex did a masterful job enthusiastically admitting/owning his wrongdoing in all of that, he ultimately came off like a man who was repentant and accountable and Waters began to look like he was badgering a dude who was eagerly confessing his sins--and so little time, relatively, going after the sequence of events that night and how the circumstantial evidence appears to contradict Alex's *multiple* versions of what happened. I know it's important to establish that nothing the man says is reliable in any way, but he went overboard attacking Alex's credibility and failed to box Alex into a corner regarding the murders and his contradictory statements/testimony. Maybe Waters will knock it out of the park during closing arguments but at this moment I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if a juror or two feels they have a reasonable doubt.

I need a legal mind to help me out here. If Alex Murdaugh was being forced to turn over all his finances/financial info in the wrongful death suit against his son Paul, then would that not be because Alex Murdaugh is somehow liable, under the law, for the wrongful death? And if that's the case, how does Paul's death prevent the case itself and the disclosure of Alex's financial info from moving forward?

If you haven't seen "Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone," it's a director's cut of GFIII, and it's edited a little differently, and the sequence of events makes it a little easier to follow. I recommend it.

Am I the only one who thinks Keith Moreland (that's who's on this broadcast with Swindell, right?) sounds like Tim McCarver? Have I mentioned this before? I think I have.

I didn't watch the whole run, and I'm not sure how many episodes I saw. But I like the one where the dude was able to squeeze himself through any opening no matter how small. That seemed like a hell of super power to have.

I just started a re-watch of True Detective season one, so I'm looking forward to Daddario's world-class breasts on full display. Didn't get anyof that in Mayfair, though they did amazing work in a couple of her dresses. One of the only scenes in season 1 of White Lotus that gave me an out-loud chuckle was when the brat daughter and her friend were being snooty to Daddario at the poolside, and then Daddario pulls off her long t-shirt or whatever loose garment she was wearing to reveal her bikini-clad body, and the spoiled kid's jaw dropped a little bit and she just said, "......oh fuck" or something like that.

It's a ton better than this disaster. It stays closer to the general story in the novels, though it's set in what I took to be the 1920's. And the nature of Lestat's relationship with Louis is reimagined as a romantic couple. The vamps were pretty androgynous in the Interview novel, but she made some changes to that later on, even having Marius and (now I can't remember) have sex after both were vampires. Claudia is a bit older, as well. I wasn't impressed with it. But compared to this, it's the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Or maybe it'd be better to call them Middle Earth movies.

He really did. Big time. There was an abundance of circumstantial evidence that, in the hands of a competent prosecutor, would have left no reasonable doubt whatsoever in the minds of jurors. This guy left the door wide open for a hung jury.

I assume last night was the season finale. Good Lord what an abortion.

And I'm guessing as soon as that lawyer got a look at the financials he'd have told the family in a heartbeat "take the 500K from the boat policy" because that'd be the only chance of his collecting any fee at all. And why does the civil suit go away just because Paul is dead? Wasn't Paul a minor when the accident happened, or am I misremembering?

One day technology will advance to a point where we'll be able to get the dogs to tell us what happened.

Indeed. The video on Paul's phone is some murder mystery twist-ending stuff. How on earth has Chappelle not gotten hold of this fiasco? Re-direct!!!

I'm willing to believe a lot of things, but not that he had Cousin Eddie "Shoot me in the head but just graze me." I think he either wanted Eddie to kill him, or Eddie accidentally nearly killed him. But I was responding to the notion that killing Paul and Maggie was part of a murder/suicide and he couldn't bring himself to finish the suicide.

If he planned to kill himself, why kill Paul and Maggie. If he really wanted Buster to be able to inherit an insurance payoff, then he obviously loves at least one of his sons. Is it possible to love one but be capable of murdering the other? I heard him finish his cross. I just wondered what you heard that he hadn't already said.

Specifically how?

Man, his son Paul really fucked him with that video. I can't manufacture much sympathy for the little psychopath, but I'm glad he reached out from the grave and blew up his dad's lie. And.... cross is over. Will we have re-direct?

It's a fascinating progression in his line of thinking, going from hiring someone to kill himself, to murdering his wife and son. I honestly can't fathom how someone pulls a trigger and blows his own son's head off, even if he hates the little shit. But it happens.

Does he really have a cousin named Eddie?

I'm seeing tons of comments on the YouTube chat saying, "He's a liar and a thief but I'm just not sure killed his wife and son."

I would assume they wouldn't, but the more I think about it, after it came out his voice was on the video from Paul's phone, maybe they figured he had to.