I asked about this on Twitter, and someone suggested that the masters for the UK framing scenes don't exist, and haven't been remastered for any of the home video or streaming releases for this reason.

Thanks for reading! The logic for the Lost Classic coverage was to "fill in" coverage so that the site would have reviews of all six seasons—we never intended to go back to Season 4, and TV Club Classic faded into history in ways that made trying to push to do it pretty futile.

In this comment thread! For free! (I appreciate your interest, truly, but TV Club Classic is dead—long live TV Club Classic Archives.)

I don't know if she fired the waitress for being late—I think she fired her because she took it on herself to decide when she should be working. She had spoken to another waitress, not Fiona, about it, and since it wasn't busy made a unilateral decision not to come into work on time. I don't disagree with much else of…

In at least one specific instance, yes, although my takeaway was that he continued to have sex with her. Still motivated by fear, but as noted elsewhere, he has had a string of partners who also had sex with women, and so it was weird that didn't come up to help contextualize his perspective here.

Ian basically argues that bisexuality can't exist in the midst of that conversation, so I'd certainly suggest there are elements of biphobia in his argument.

Where was all this discussion when our TV Club Classic coverage withered and died?

I'm not suggesting that Frank doesn't matter. His presence is meaningful, but there's a reason why so many of his stories have completely separated him from his family. Look at the Bianca digression in S5, as an example—it's not a bad story, but it's also disconnected from the rest of the family, and the show has…

Batman's a scientist! (This dude is not a scientist. There's a dimension of insanity built into this premise.)

Well, *I* didn't mention that, but it was indeed dropped from coverage.

Sure, the pilot voiceover is there, but otherwise this has been much more focused on Fiona.

it was only four when they first went up, wasn't aware they had added the rest—I had some students who watched it over the summer, and then used their parents' Showtime log-ins to watch the rest.

This show hasn't been centered around Frank…well, ever.

I've never actually subscribed to Showtime (they post screeners for their shows for press), and so I sort of naturally fell behind on shows that I wasn't writing about and that I lost interest in. Fell behind on Homeland too. There just isn't enough time.

So, I don't know if these are actual spoilers or not, but please in the future remember that you don't get to define whether someone else wants spoilers. (This came up in my notifications. I couldn't exactly avoid reading it. I would rather not know, if it's true.)

I think that's likely a lost cause, although if y'all want to start a thread to discuss it here, I won't stop you. (I stopped watching a few seasons ago.)

Interesting. I mean, also spoilers, but I suppose a trip to prison is going to show up in the previews for that episode anyway.

Good point about the stereotypes—in truth, for me I just ended up seeing it all as a way to blow up a relationship that wasn't working, and transition Ian toward something else. For me, it's a byproduct of "TV writing as problem solving": they had a problem with the relationship, so they needed a solution, and someone…

What I'm trying to get at with "stable" is that it gives the appearance—to him, and dangerously to others—that it's going to work. I agree with you that his rules are built to be broken, and he's building a system that won't be able to sustain itself against various triggers (She Who Must Not Be Named, etc.). But for…

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