Hooray!

There were no political and military figures to reference and represent in Honduras. I don't know if they were concerned about offending people in Africa so much as they were concerned about accuracy of the head of state/dancers/dress/military etc.

Turns out she was. But we first see her at the end of an episode apropos of nothing, and we were wondering how she fit into the story.

I think one of my first political ideas was how offensive that song must be.

What the hell happened with Lenny and his parents? The weird panting at the end makes me think some kind of orgy (I'm too young and missed the hippie age — did mothers really walk around their kids topless?).

Probably. I can't think of any other work of narrative art that so perfectly capsulates what it feels like to be Catholic. How both difficult and beautiful faith is, etc.

I hope we don't find out why Pius was abandoned. I like the mystery of it, and I can't think of any reasoning that would change Pius's perception of it. I think the only thing that would help Pius is simply finding them.

Everybody loves a St. Thomas Becket reference!

I don't see how it does. Being saintly doesn't make you correct about everything.

I'm pretty sure they didn't name the country so they could keep it as fictional as possible. Kinda surprised so few people understand that.

Minor quibble: Sister Antonia isn't a nun. She's a religious sister.

It's all just marketing. Media wants to sell advertising, assumes their prime demographic of males 18-40 are obsessed with sex, add a dash of misogyny and entertainment had to write around that. Someone coined the term "sex sells" and media has been in a feedback loop ever since.

He went for the reasons he told the Real Housewife. He's at the lowest, most lonely point in his life. I assumed he went to the party in hopes of distracting himself from his guilt.

I don't think the bathroom scene was supposed to be remotely sexy. I think it was supposed to be just as gross as it was. I think the writers wanted a last straw to justify Dussolier abandoning Rome and Lenny and head back to his lovers in Honduras.

I felt so badly for Voiello; what a great scene. Everything the soccer announcer was saying was so spot on, and Voiello wearing his old jersey was just the perfect touch.

I think your interpretation is interesting, and I like it. I'd however argue that if I were to imagine St. Mary being disappointed with me, which I'm sure she actually is,
I'd still imagine her as an adult woman. But maybe she's not the Madonna but the Church herself.

Which I find so refreshing. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I'm sick to death of every TV drama even outside of HBO going full sexy sexy sex sex sex. It's just so insulting. Adults aren't universally controll d by their libidos no matter what popular media tries to make us believe. It's like when pop psychology…

I think this is why Lenny continues to insist he doesn't believe in God. God listens to Lenny's prayers about other people all the time, but Lenny thinks God is pointedly ignoring his own (self-assumed) needs. Because despite his age of late forties, Lenny is still in a childlike state of self absorption. (He's the…

Does the Madonna ever appear as a girl? If she does, I don't think it makes sense from an icon point of view that she would be sadly crying. When I think of a sad Madonna I think if Our Lady if Sorrows, where she would be an adult woman.

This show is so strange, but I love it. I'm so impressed that the writers are approaching scheming court intrigue from a far more realistic and less sexy angle.