Honestly, with the exception of the last couple, those prices seem pretty damn reasonable. I’m not big on public proposals, but if your partner is a sports fan who loves being the center attention and you’re very, very sure they’ll say yes it could be money well spent.

This is shockingly cheaper than I would have expected.

Would anyone listen to a TV guy on how to fix anything?

If you want a pet that will be happy being left alone most of the time, get a cat.

I also have no idea what the inside of a pyramid would look like, but that set looked cheap. And I feel like the set designers are trying to throw in reflective surfaces everywhere they can. On limestone inside a pyramid? Sure, why not. 

Nah. Gotta do the same volume dance with a 5.1 rig here.

I’m enjoying the show overall. I agree with others that the trial scene was frustratingly stupid. I hate it when characters unnecessarily withhold information or exposition because the plot demands that information not yet be shared. That’s bad plotting!

Oscar Isaac has been terrific, though. I’m borderline in favor at…

That whole trial thing was just... bad. It really pulled me out of an otherwise enjoyable episode. Isaac was fantastic, at a technical acting level, when Khonshu would take over to talk, but the entire sequence made little sense. Both Khonshu and Marc have very convincing knowledge they could share about what Harrow…

Yup. The vibe it seems we’re supposed to get is that Khonshu has a history of crying wolf, i.e. he tells Marc that their case against Harrow has to be indisputable. Harrow comes through the portal without the cane, and you can guess that maybe he left the scarab with the cane, and that maybe even Ammit temporarily…

yeah i had to watch it at like 10 points higher my normal volume.

I feel like the sound mixing or sound editing for this series is a bit off. I have a hard time making out some of the dialogue. Anyone else having this issue?

There was a plot beat that drove me absolutely nuts in this episode, especially since there was no even lip service level attempt at explaining it.

That trial of the gods scene was so damn stupid and ultimately unnecessary that I still keep cracking up about it.

I think you probably have something vis-a-vis avoiding exposition. That sounds right, especially as someone who teaches college kids screenwriting. Because they are also just absolutely terrified of doing something as “awful” as writing exposition.

Right?! That woman he was supposed to date calls him up angry about him blowing her off but before that date, at the museum, he was acting really confused and forgetful and then when she calls he doesn’t even know what fucking day of the week it is! That is not normal flake behavior! She really should have been…

Steven Grant really spent the whole first episode having what looked like a serious mental health crisis, with every single person in his life immediately blowing it off and not believing him, and I found that very frustrating. I would do that to a person on a bus, but not a coworker.

Respond vaguer.

Personally, I feel like the longer they tease out the explanation for Steven’s former obliviousness to his other identity the less fucks I give about any of this. Characterization edging is bullshit. And why? So we can repeat the same goddam action beats from the pilot?

I’ve heard it applied to films, and even seasons of TV. But yeah not the second episode.

What an entanglement.