I had heard about the ships’ discovery a few years ago, but it took me a bit to realize that, oh, yeah, this is about THAT expedition, so then I checked into it. They got the names of all the officers and crew correct as well as much of their personal histories to the extent that we know. Even the involvement of…

“Celebrating the end of war and celebrating victory are meaningfully different things, especially in that context.”

“the white people celebrating tens of thousands of deaths in the streets”

The dog looked like a Smoyed. I at first thought it was a American Eskimoe but then it got bigger in the montage. Hopefully we see more of it.

Get out of my head! You said, pretty much everything, that I was going to say.

Thanks so much Seabreeze, and I also reviewed Feud on this site, if you haven’t seen those reviews yet. I also found these two series to be similar, and I loved them both.

Thanks. I’m doing fine. Commenting once in a while if I feel I have something to add to these boards. Mostly, I starred comments that I find deserving. I’m usually late to most of the articles; haven’t even seen the latest “Fosse/Verdon”.

If Frank Langella or Gary Oldman had shown up, I would have had a heart attack.

Oh shit, if James Marsters had shown up as Spike I would have lost my goddamned mind.

That’s all very nice of you to say, thanks. And I’m with you on The Terror, it’s like I can’t wait to be filled with bone-deep, unshakeable dread.

Our cats (Psyche and Beowulf) passed four and six years ago, at ages 19 and 21. Two nights ago — we were finally ready to open our hearts again! — we brought home a pair of rescue kittens from a shelter. And the last two evenings, having cats watch tv with me again...I realized how much I’d been missing that. I hope…

It’s super gross to self-promote but I wrote a thing about The Americans and The Terror in March, if you’re interested: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/03/the-ending-is-already-written-the-americans-the-terror-and-the-power-of-dread/

I just find myself yelling “This show!” at my cat in disbelief during every commercial break.

Re: Mr. Goodsir. That’s the ring that the very first guy to die (of consumption, I think?) told Goodsir to take and give to his sister. Goodsir forgot to take it and was upset when the man was buried with it.

You are very welcome.

I did watch Threshold, and liked it as a vehicle for Carla Gugino and the rest of the stellar cast. I even got the DVDs from netflix so I could see the unaired episodes, not that they really cleared very much up about the barely comprehensible plot.

Rufus Sewell was definitely good in She-Creature, though I am even more of a fan of Carla Gugino, who I think had one of her better roles in it (she excels in pulpy stuff, IMO).

She-Creature with Carla Gugino I think is the one killer mermaid movie that succeeds on a pulpy B-movie level.

Another way to look at it, and the way I’ve been choosing to look at it, is that if they play “Commissioner Roosevelt” as TEDDY BY GOD ROUGH RIDER TALK-SOFTLY/BIG-STICK ROOSEVELT, then it becomes a show about Teddy Roosevelt vs a serial killer, and not a show about an old-timey psychiatrist and his team of misfit…

Every time he is on screen I find myself thinking “who’s that again? Teddy Roosevelt? REALLY?”