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4 hours ago, Helobious said:

Some surprising depth to Milchek’s character.

Becoming my favorite character this season. 

4 hours ago, Red Five said:

You know, Mark was right. The funeral was dumb. Irving isn't dead any more than someone at your work on indefinite leave is dead. From their perspective, will they ever see him again? Maybe, maybe not. That doesn't tend to happen with dead people. 

Mark was also in a weird place. I mean he fucked his “girlfriend” only to learn it was her … twin? He was distracted.

The innie/outie relationship is complex, but in the end “firing”’someone will basically kill their innie, they likely won’t be back.

That said I wonder if Irv was reintegrated. His outie seems to know a lot. 

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Maybe I'm late to this idea, but I'm starting to think maybe the at-work portion of life experienced by the innies is a simulation and isn't being experienced physically, but rather takes place in their minds. With that in mind, maybe Mark's wife is actually dead IRL and that's why he can only see her at work. But who really knows ...

Or if you wanna give it a really good twist ... given the perpetual winter and odd lighting in the outies' world, I wouldn't be totally surprised if the outie world is the simulation and the innies' office is actual reality.

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10 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

This show is fucking stupid. I’ve tried too hard to like it. All the acting talent in the world. Weird weird story and colossal waste of my time. 

Not everything is for everyone. I bailed on Game of Thrones and Slow Horses after a few episodes of each, due to tremendous boredom.

But this is a really good show. 

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30 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Not everything is for everyone. I bailed on Game of Thrones and Slow Horses after a few episodes of each, due to tremendous boredom.

But this is a really good show. 

slow horses is one of the best shows on tv. you should get back on that.

On 2/14/2025 at 8:30 AM, gsoda3 said:

Yes, and it's how he knew the newspaper Milchik showed them was fake. 

the bullshit gazette?

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37 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Not everything is for everyone. I bailed on Game of Thrones and Slow Horses after a few episodes of each, due to tremendous boredom.

But this is a really good show. 

Yeah I know. That’s the only reason I posted in the thread. Because I want to like it. I just don’t. However, you bailed on 2 of the best shows ever. And I doubt Slow Horses goes the way of GOT with its rush to finish and frankly subpar last 2 seasons. 

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Oh FYI & nsiap, some location info, from another board.

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The waterfall and lake are part of Minnewaska Preserve, 2 hours north of New York City in the Shawangunk Ridge. Specifically Awosting Falls and Lake Minnewaska. It's a really beautiful area. The diner they meet at is Phoenicia Diner on Route 28 in the Catskill Mountains. Mark S.'s and Cobell's blue townhouses are in Nyack on route 9W. The Lumon building itself is a famous Saarinen-designed building, the old Bell Labs offices in New Jersey. They film a lot of the downtown scenes in Beacon, NY. I'm not entirely sure about this one, but Devon and Rickon's house looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonia house and there's a complex of them in the woods in Pleasantville, NY.

 

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6 hours ago, wood said:

given the perpetual winter and odd lighting in the outies' world, I wouldn't be totally surprised if the outie world is the simulation and the innies' office is actual reality.

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Oh FYI & nsiap, some location info, from another board.
The waterfall and lake are part of Minnewaska Preserve, 2 hours north of New York City in the Shawangunk Ridge. Specifically Awosting Falls and Lake Minnewaska. It's a really beautiful area. The diner they meet at is Phoenicia Diner on Route 28 in the Catskill Mountains. Mark S.'s and Cobell's blue townhouses are in Nyack on route 9W. The Lumon building itself is a famous Saarinen-designed building, the old Bell Labs offices in New Jersey. They film a lot of the downtown scenes in Beacon, NY. I'm not entirely sure about this one, but Devon and Rickon's house looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonia house and there's a complex of them in the woods in Pleasantville, NY.
 

Yeah if you watch after the credits they usually give some back story. They mentioned Minnewaska, which that waterfall is pretty iconic if you’ve visited. Beautiful area.
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The paperclip was the wrong direction making it difficult to understand where to start reading, or some BS like that? and it wasn't just feedback but rather its own printed section in the review. And Milcheck now has Ms. Huang spying and reporting on him. Then again, Milcheck is just getting a taste of his own medicine from how he turned on Cobel.

I have to think that Milcheck is going to have more doubts about Lumon. And he could be like Cobel in that you have faith in the mission but doubts about the senior mgmt. 

And Mark is 85% done with the Cold Harbor file. the action is going to heat up soon.

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20 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The paperclip was the wrong direction making it difficult to understand where to start reading, or some BS like that? and it wasn't just feedback but rather its own printed section in the review. And Milcheck now has Ms. Huang spying and reporting on him. Then again, Milcheck is just getting a taste of his own medicine from how he turned on Cobel.

I have to think that Milcheck is going to have more doubts about Lumon. And he could be like Cobel in that you have faith in the mission but doubts about the senior mgmt. 

And Mark is 85% done with the Cold Harbor file. the action is going to heat up soon.

I'm not sure if anyone else caught the comment, but the giant dude with the goofy hair conducting Milchick's review stated it was his monthly performance review. Talk about micromanagement.

And then there was Natalie practically screaming in anguish through her (big, beautiful, and deeply expressive) eyes for Milchick to chill tfo when he started asking her uncomfortable questions. It's like she's terrified that their conversation was being recorded.

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7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I'm not sure if anyone else caught the comment, but the giant dude with the goofy hair conducting Milchick's review stated it was his monthly performance review. Talk about micromanagement.

And then there was Natalie practically screaming in anguish through her (big, beautiful, and deeply expressive) eyes for Milchick to chill tfo when he started asking her uncomfortable questions. It's like she's terrified that their conversation was being recorded.

I need to rewatch to remember the exact line but I loved when reviewer mentioned that lunch would be provided for reviews lasting 8 hours. Then he hands Milcheck a lunch menu.

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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I need to rewatch to remember the exact line but I loved when reviewer mentioned that lunch would be provided for reviews lasting 8 hours. Then he hands Milcheck a lunch menu.

That got a loud guffaw out of me.

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The performance review being a fully generated brochure with different size fonts and full capitalization made me chuckle. 

Also, poor dumb Ricken not realizing he's being used as a propaganda tool. I'm still trying to figure out how someone as smart and cynical as Devon would marry him. 

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Anyone else watch Somebody, Somewhere on HBO? The performance review guy was Iceland.

Rickon and Devon's relationship is weird, but there is something generally weird about all the non-severed (outies?) in Keir. The guy who hosted the no-food dinner party. Rebeck, who warned Mark about the wounds on the back of her head from her birds. Etc. 

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5 minutes ago, austingirl said:

Anyone else watch Somebody, Somewhere on HBO? The performance review guy was Iceland.

Rickon and Devon's relationship is weird, but there is something generally weird about all the non-severed (outies?) in Keir. The guy who hosted the no-food dinner party. Rebeck, who warned Mark about the wounds on the back of her head from her birds. Etc. 

Pretty sure he also played the bad guy on the Tourist. 

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He's fantastic.  He's the lead in an Icelandic series called "Trapped" that I watched years ago- Might still be available on netflix.

He also had a brief but brilliant role in True Detective season 1.

 

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On 2/17/2025 at 8:04 AM, mdmost said:

The WTF look that Helly made when Milchick started talking about the Swedish word for the lord doing subterfuge was great. She is a fantastic actress

Pretty crazy she’s not better known this deep into her career.  The show itself is a showcase for her and she’s wonderful.  Also, credit to the DP’s who are shooting all the close-up shots and capturing all the subtlety from the cast.
 

Milchik guy is pretty great, too.  

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19 hours ago, austingirl said:

Anyone else watch Somebody, Somewhere on HBO? The performance review guy was Iceland.

Rickon and Devon's relationship is weird, but there is something generally weird about all the non-severed (outies?) in Keir. The guy who hosted the no-food dinner party. Rebeck, who warned Mark about the wounds on the back of her head from her birds. Etc. 

That wasn't Rickon?

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40 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

That wasn't Rickon?

It may have been; I just remember the black guy who was there saying that he hadn't been to a food-based dinner party in forever. Or something to that effect.

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23 hours ago, austingirl said:

It may have been; I just remember the black guy who was there saying that he hadn't been to a food-based dinner party in forever. Or something to that effect.

That weird black guy was also the one who took credit for finding Devin and Ricken's baby, exclaiming "I found your child!" Definitely some strange friends Ricken and Devin have.

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On 2/17/2025 at 2:33 PM, mdmost said:

The performance review being a fully generated brochure with different size fonts and full capitalization made me chuckle. 

Also, poor dumb Ricken not realizing he's being used as a propaganda tool. I'm still trying to figure out how someone as smart and cynical as Devon would marry him. 

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Yeah, their relationship is really weird. It doesn't appear to make all that much sense. Granted we've only gotten them in bits and spurts, so who knows?

 

On 2/18/2025 at 9:42 AM, LCHorn said:

Pretty crazy she’s not better known this deep into her career.  The show itself is a showcase for her and she’s wonderful.  Also, credit to the DP’s who are shooting all the close-up shots and capturing all the subtlety from the cast.
 

Milchik guy is pretty great, too.  

 

I think it's a testament to how hard the industry is. Look at their careers. Tillman (Milchik) has been acting for 10 years and barely has any appearances until this show. Lower (Helly) has been getting roles since 2008 but this is the first thing I can remember her in.

 

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