I had forgotten that.

The obvious pop culture comparison to this episode is Jaws. Every scene had the dread of “Barry shows up and kills the people in this scene.” I thought he even wouldn’t have showed up at Sally’s but instead the end of the episode we’d see him drive to that desert place to find his family (I think last episode…

Another fine reminder tonight that this show has the brilliant ability to make wealthy, morally bad clowns empathetic by treating them with great tenderness while also satirizing their idiocy like nothing else. This ep for me showed more than any other how the Brothers Roy are very incompetent at running their…

It’s not “Ridley Scott’s adaptation” of his own movie if he’s making it himself. It’s a sequel or prequel.

They’re very creative. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show that has done that—had different title credits for each episode (and based on the content of that episode) but at the end. I would love to see more shows do it.

Of course it was Mrs. Nygaard. Ebert had a rule about who the killer was, and her butler fit that bill I think. The montage of her playing the piano as we check in on our characters was well done. The why she did it was interesting, as the show incorporated real world events pretty cleverly and I loved the end-credits…

It was ballsy for Hader and Berg to make Barry more despicable as the series went on. That incredible jail visit scene in last night’s second ep that Sarah and Barry had—with phenomenal acting by both actors—made me wonder if the show will ultimately redeem Barry. I actually prefer that, I think, than the show ending…

Yeah, I guess he might have been!

I know. It wasn’t meant to be. I was just struck with the coincidence of he playing that character and these charges. I don’t know if he ever played someone like that before, and that’s why Mike White hired him, or if White knew him personally and saw that side of him. I’m pretty disappointed about these allegations.…

Don’t watch MQ, but I’m wondering if he was filming the second season of The White Lotus concurrently and was still in the headspace of his horny, loves to hit on women character. (If, you know, he hasn’t had a covered up or open history of doing this behavior.) Not an excuse, of course.

Someone Elijah Wood’s age, I don’t think $6 million is enough for a lifetime, not in this economy. He did already buy a boat (though I guess he’s saves a lot of money by living in it) and staying at nice B & Bs takes a chunk. ETA: Okay, I guess he could use his detective skills to make smart investments.

So I guess he joins Julia Child and Josephine Baker in the list of beloved entertainers who also worked as spies. We should come up with a collective noun for them.

I mean, I do use “Asian-American” myself pretty much all the time if I don’t know the specific ethnic and national heritage of a person. We collectively don’t use the offensive former slang term involving a color anymore for the AAPI community, as we shouldn’t. So “African-American” is fine, actually.

Fair! I was carelessly using “eons,” using it very figuratively and colloquially and expecting people to get what I meant. Of course, it hasn’t been that relatively long since Black Americans (or African-Americans, I have no issue at all using that phrase and do use it) were brutally brought here.

Good point about what offensive words the term was replacing. I didn’t even think of that history.

Back when DS9 was still on, I recall a TV guide interview with Avery Brooks who had similar thoughts on Black people being called African-Americans. I’m a social dem white person, so my opinion doesn’t count very much, but I kind of agree that the term isn’t that great. For one thing, it relegates skin color to a…

I thought Paul’s brother-in-law was gonna get it tonight. They did a fake-out. Lydell hasn’t used what he knows about Della yet. I think she could be threatened with being outed by the end of the season. I don’t think she actually would be, as that would end her career.

I feel the grade’s about right. Excellent Juliet Rylance courtroom interrogation. This felt the longest episode of the season. I didn’t buy that Perry would immediately suspect Ginny as the culprit working to wreck his case. I theoretically get it: Perry doesn’t like himself, and in his insecurity, he wouldn’t believe…

Go ahead and stand, stand, so close to him! Maybe he’ll give you some of his obscene wealth. Actually, I heard the song last in a computer security app ad (can’t remember which company) so I’m sure Sting’s profiting off that as well.

How awful. I had no idea she had this history. She’s doing good talking about it, and so soon. Just having seen the Brooke Shields documentary, there’s so much in the toxic culture where women are made to feel they can’t talk about these things. It’s ridiculous that we still have these issues today.