Yep, not a great episode, but a solid one. It’s especially painful to watch the bookends of the episode, with former It Girl Margaret now fully transformed into the poster child of the sloshed lost aging 50 something trying to act 25 again. (I was actually surprised Dazzle didn’t get to respond to her comment about…

I’m torn on this episode.

That’s as far as I’ve gotten for now as well but I suspect so.

I’d been hoping for years that the show would finally take a hatchet to the Queen for her parenting, but the fairly weak B story on the Thatcher family drama means there’s no way this deserves the same grade as last week - so like a B+ or a B, even if you’re right on Freddie Fox deliciously portraying one of the…

I’m actually pretty curious how he’s going to portray the Blair years, especially since he’s already told the most interesting parts of his interaction with Elizabeth. From The Earth to the Moon had a similar dilemma when they got to Apollo 13 considering it was the namesake movie that had caused the series to be…

One can both decide to advance oneself through offering up one’s granddaughter as a brood mare even though one knows better and then cover one’s ass years later. Lovely people all around.

I’m only on Episode 5 now, but so far this is the best episode of the season.

Yeah, the fact Reagan wrote her on the day Saigon fell is telling. She may have been more comfortable in heels than in waders, but she engaged in interparty bloodletting long before the 1981 sackings and was certainly no political naif.

I’m late - it was a busy weekend - but what I found most interesting about the episode is something I’ve written about before here: that The Crown is best when it adapts to real events, but when it goes off into sheer fantasy it often borders on unwatchable.

I’ll give you this, Sam: if you’re intentionally trying to shirk jury duty, this bizarre take is something I’d suggest that you print out and bring with you for the next time you’re summoned. Even a 24 year old ADA a couple months out of law school would never let you get empaneled after this.

It’s a Southern Thing beat you by about 2 years.

Yeah, that falls into the ‘others’ category - depleted uranium rounds were something that has long been suspected but never really confirmed.

Oh, it’s somewhat naive in its geopolitics, although I don’t think it calls for taking out Saddam as much as it did for protecting the Shi’is (which is also something Schwarzkopf had mentioned in anger in like 1992 when he admitted he’d gotten bamboozled by one of the Iraqi generals on that and air.)  The plot is also…

I actually like the brief oil field scene in Jarhead better only because it portrays the other aspect of this disaster - the disastrous effect on those walking through this hellscape. One reason Gulf War Syndrome was (and is) so hard to treat is that the etiology was so diverse - some probably came from the poorly…

Bravo Zulu, Nick. First time since 2014 that any G/O site has even mentioned Veterans Day.

This is the first article on Veterans Day on any G/O site since like 2014 - I’ve been annoyed enough to occasionally post about it on November 11th of years past. It’s bad enough that they’ve ignored the day itself, but when they then periodically have bloggers haul out ‘how will this affect our poor veterans’ as a…

which is one reason why the former has been sharply criticized by those it claims to represent.

Having been forced to watch YGM by any number of exes, I always took comfort in the fact Fox Books would have been bankrupt within 5 years of the film, meaning both would have been surviving off of her selling children’s books on Amazon (or even better yet, doing so while living on of dad’s boat.)

I glanced through the summary as I’ve successfully prosecuted a couple of FDCPA cases in small claims. Yes, you can and should prosecute them in state court if you can - it’s a hell of a lot easier and cheaper and the judges generally far more sympathetic than district courts. The latter is not just vastly beyond the…

I heard a cherry bomb go off down the hill from me - and had no idea why the jerk was setting it off to wake me up from a lovely nap. I’ve now concluded it probably coincided with the first reports of the AP. Glad my neighbor was obnoxiously celebrating.