I doubt the guests would notice, as long as the girls dressed correctly.

How many prostitutes do you see at every casino on the Vegas strip? Lots and those are expensive places.

Does Albie have a pretty wounded bird thing, or does he just like Portia? It seems weird to say he has a type off of a sample size of one.

but Mike is playing with italian comedies and tragedies, like the reviewer pointed out. these are fundamental tropes to the story he is telling.

IIRC Lucia watched everyone getting off the boat and also sat in front of the hotel when Dom and his family walked out the first day. She may not have been formally introduced to Albie but would have seen him with both Dom and Bert, and IRL presumably there would have been some kind of family resemblance. It seems…

Harper does not confront her husband, because she wants to give him a chance to come clean on his own. She asks him multiple times, what he did that night. And if he told her the truth - Cameron invited sex workers to their room, they took drugs, Cameron slept with the sex workers, but he didn’t - that would be a…

I forgot to shout out Bert’s cogent assessment last episode about the ways in which the old are no longer respected but instead reviled as ugly reminders of less enlightened pasts. (Admittedly, Bert is clearly cut from the sexual harassments cloth, but he’s also astute.) I think Bert’s lament that he may never again…

Valentina has already violated HR guidelines. Like Armond, she’s a sympathetic character, but also a bit of a predator.

I thought Lucia started things up with Albie since his dad ended things earlier than she expected, and now she’s gonna end up blackmailing him for more money. Give me more money or your son finds out I’m a prostitute who also banged your dad etc etc. I imagine that wouldn’t sit well with poor Albie if/when it comes…

I very much agree that this didn’t need to be a full blown musical.

Haven’t seen this yet but is that Todd from The Magicians! Ha! Everything’s coming up Todd!

Bert is cringe (there, I did it!), but he owns it. Dominic is kinda pathetic. Michael Imperioli is nailing it though.

Pretty much agree with the list so far (haven’t seen episode 4 yet), but I think maybe Albie’s rank is going to slide fast, and his lecture about The Godfather and naiveté around Portia (at his age and…

It also defies logic that Ethan would worry about adhering to bro-code with a guy he KNOWS is just after his money AND his wife has just confirmed to be a cheating philanderer. I’d have preferred they flipped the script here and had Ethan and Harper strengthen their somewhat awkward marriage by uniting and scheming to…

I think that’s exactly it with Valentina. She’s very much projecting when asking if Rocco is bothering the attractive worker. It’s Valentina who’s interested in her, and she’s sticking to Rocco as an attempt to put Valentina off. 

A sci-fi setting would be quite the departure. But the anthology series could get away from the water with a hotel catering to African safaris or walkabouts in the Australian bush.

In my defence I was being very basic with my analogies, in that ITV has been around since 1955 and Channel 4 since 82. Date wise I was trying to match them to NBC and Fox.

I think a number of Sondheim shows have better second acts...

Im very curious what gets cut?  Surely not Master of the House!

Well then I guess the 2019 touring version was unabridged, it was solidly 4 hours of music which I liked but I definitely noticed people around me just dozing off.

It probably would have been mediocre like Big Sky, but it’s a weird thing to pass on by a network. Kelley and Neve on network tv just seems easy audience guarantee.

I saw recently and I would say Act 1 is probably better but the second isn't too shabby either.  The tone does change heavily from school drama to rebellion prequel to Wizard of Oz but even then, a sudden tone shift is fine for a musical and doesn't require two movies.  Also the ending of part 1 is so gonna be Defying…