Especially with the nasty fight over her assets and care by the various people involved with it, which she may not have even been competent enough to weigh in on. That’s a terrible situation.

The thought that’s been at the back of my mind while watching the last few episodes is the soap opera side has turned into a combination of Redshirts and Soapdish. The Narrative takes over the brains of the characters to do stupid things, and every opportunity to go tropish is telegraphed and taken.

They did quite a bit more behind the scenes, which probably explains why he flew over to the US and put up with doing Fallon earlier this week.

Long before L&O, he starred in another cop show that you don’t mention - Bert D’Angelo, Superstar - and that I had completely forgotten was originally a spinoff from Streets of San Francisco. Michael Douglas, Karl Malden, and Paul Sorvino; that’s a whole lot of talent for 1970s TV.

Yeah, I’ve had the latter on my want-to-watch list for a while; may just cave in and buy it. You’d definitely like Hiroshima then; it has all of that in there, and the scene where the Emperor tells the Cabinet that they can’t go on has someone collapse on the floor weeping.

Hey, we are watching the same show after all! That said, I’d probably veer a little closer to a B- given the As The Hab Turns ending.

Nope.

Eh, while it was the wallflower-confessing song of choice for teenage girls spending quality time with their diaries in the mid 1990s, “Fade Into You” also can at least be viewed as a bittersweet realization that the person you’re into isn’t available. That’s made it hold up over the years.

There can be terrible hospice experiences. I had a relative who went into a formal hospice (as in, not at home) with basically no liver function, which is an absolutely agonizing way to die without medication. The hospice utterly screwed things up and she did not receive anesthesiology until she was almost dead; the…

Yep, this is like the Twinkies ‘crisis’ a decade back. No way with this kind of outcry is it going to be eliminated; it’ll just come back at double the price and smaller, but with probably a slightly better sugar taco.

I’m not sure we watched the same episode. This was at best a D; easily the worst of the season, and one of the worst of the series.

But that deadline only applied to the preamble of the ERA, Kelly said.

Yeah, when I talk with the younguns about HIV and the 80s and 90s, I tend to recommend the HBO adaptation of And The Band Played On as well as All is Bright from Homicide: Life on The Street. The first is a bit dated and we now know it got some stuff wrong but really captures the era; the second is just a brutal…

I didn’t quite like this as much as you; wasn’t an outright bad episode, just wasn’t very good and more like the traditional setup episodes of S1 and 2. More like B/B-.

I honestly wonder if the lockdown helped Apple, since their initial offerings were generally terrible; See and The Morning Show were just bad shows despite some fairly talented actors involved. Even S1 of For All Mankind was wildly uneven to the point where it’s the rare production where some network input (like,…

You know, you’re right. I had completely forgotten the pool party even though it was, what, two weeks ago?

An A- is exceedingly generous; for me, this was the weakest episode of the season, and barely gets to a B-. It started well, and ended well, but in between had all sorts of problems.

More like unresolved grief from a child’s suicide, managing average but not devastating geriatric health issues that would normally result in assisted living but can’t because of the secret in their yard, suspicion of younger folks, the general loss of being involved in their community with the death and disability of…

It’s been a while since I read Bridge of Years - in fact, since I read any Wilson at all, which I should rectify - but it’s not a terrible comp from what I remember, just this had rather different world building.

Not terribly surprising.