A friend who is a network series writer has told me that for traditional TV writing - as opposed to movies - the general rule is that you make sure every major plot point is mentioned twice at different times precisely because of what you’re mentioning: you expect your viewer more than likely to be distracted during…

Had forgotten about that. As I’ve said, the show is dense.

Interesting catch, but it’s hard to tell if that’s the case.

The right question scene was the best of the show so far; among other things, it shows why Danvers is not just a small town police chief but was exiled for whatever reason.

That’s from the phone call as she’s walking into the high school and juggling the conversation with the nurse with the police radio.

“And in 10 minutes, [a new emergency exit] probably there [too]!”

he’ll be treating the material with as much respect as he can muster.

Many, including this writer, consider Killers the better film

In the naughts, Ambien was generally prescribed for everyone at 10 mg strength; in retrospect this was way too much for me (and plenty of others; you generally start at 5 mg now, and I can count on one hand how many times I’ve needed to go up to 10 mg in the last 5 years or so.)

Thanks, knew it was recent.

Now if she actually replaces James Buchanan on that wall mural in Belfast, this whole weird extended joke might actually be worth something....

I think it was Polly Klaas’ sister wrote an absolutely searing OpEd on this recently. Apparently it must not have appeared in Nash-Betts’ feed.

Applegate has had a really tough road in recent years between the MS diagnosis and the double mastectomy and oophorectomy.

I thought there were a lot of elements successfully planted in the opener; whether or not they’ll pay off remains to be seen. The openly supernatural aspect is on one level fine but on another a little jarring given how the show has previously handled the hints of it; they’re going to have to walk a fine line with how…

I viewed the sandwich stream as being broadcast to a family member, which would be on point for people stuck in a remote location. It would also fit with the Spanish speaker call to the police station that the secretary completely garbled.

Gomez is a great cast for this, but I’d be even more curious who they’d get to play Governor Moonbeam-era Jerry Brown - along with how they’d portray the relationship.

Yeah, I didn’t include Debicki largely because I skipped so much of the Diana storyline that I honestly didn’t feel I could make a judgement on her performance, much like Dominic West (whose work I’ve seen a lot more of.)

In looking at the best lead actor nominees, the only one you could realistically substitute DiCaprio in for would be Colman Domingo in Rustin, and I don’t think the demands on the former for his Killers role were anywhere close. It was a decent performance, but there just wasn’t a whole lot of nuance involved in…

As I’ve said before, cautiously hopeful seems about right based on what I’ve read both here and elsewhere. We’ll see.

If Chris Perfetti had bothered with a shirt, his suit selection might have been one of the better ones of the evening. It’s striking, but doing it shirtless was a strange decision that greatly overrides the suit itself.