OK, I’m old, so maybe this is shade, but:

Good god, they really are taking over! The Puget Sound will be nibbled to oblivion.

Right? Ah, the small town charm of a neighborhood Navy base! But I gotta give Whidbey credit for attracting teevee and movie producers. That stuff is downright discouraged up here on San Juan (unless it’s something like “Blackfish”).

Ugh, they’re spreading! They were brought here to be bred for food, and now they’ve just invaded the place.

Do you mean the Ale House (on a corner facing the marina)? It closed down a few years ago. I still miss it.

The most insulting part is that they don’t even have to organize, or grow opposable thumbs. They’ll just keep on reproducing and eating all our food!

Just a little nitpickery: Whidbey Island is not a town. It is an island, like in its name.

I wish. We also have a rabbit problem north of Whidbey on San Juan Island, and the foxes just can’t keep up with them, hard as they try. These rabbits, man, they ain’t bright, but they’re taking over.

Jeezis, how does Jagger do it? I’m 51 and I get worn out pulling weeds in the front yard.

And it makes for a fabulous parade!

Wear culottes, you fool.

Wheee!

Aaaah, so THAT’s what this is!

Her kniiiiives! I’m guessing we were supposed to take them as essential to the character, but they were so underused I forgot about them from week to week.

I have expected the scar-faced chick to try and do her in; up until they got on the boat.

Ergh, I could not stand the Bezzerides character. Her backstory was just...I don’t know...thoughtless, I guess; the way it was handled just sat wrong with me — facile, maybe. And then the “troubled girl” hairdo (which magically disappears once she has that baby!), clunky-ringed fingers, chain smoking. Let’s just throw…

I grew up in working class L.A. (not far from the town that Vinci is based on, even), and the L.A. location did nothing for me either. It can be a gritty, creepy, noir-ish place — in the daylight! — but none of that was made use of in this series. I was actually kinda looking forward to seeing some of my old stomping…

I’ve never understood that cover. Apples don’t poop!

“ugg” indeed.

Ooooh! Many years ago my best friend and I went dinking around at some schmancy stores; at a couple of them we actually tried on some schmancy gowns. I tried a gorgeous midnight blue Scaasi, single-shouldered column. I could not believe how well it fit — I mean, if you’ve been used to trying stuff on at Target, the…