The moment at the end when Al ask Earn where was Lorraine. And Earn, quizzically says, your Mother? I think that’s worth noting as another well written twist.

Who else thought for a second that Noho Hank showed up in the car following Kim?

As if he has much of an influence on Succession. Anybody who knows Jesse Armstrong’s work knows it’s Armstrong all the way.

Kim’s going to be fist-deep inside a toddler’s chest cavity ripping their heart out by the end of the season and I’ll still be like “honestly love that for her”

I wish they had a reaction shot of Alfred after watching the end of the commercial, but probably something along the lines of:

Love Sally and Kiernan Shipka is great, but this comment made me realize Who is Bob Benson? is the spin-off I need.

And Ken Cosgrove is a show-runner on some SF TV series (maybe Space: 1999 if we are going with real 1975 series), and his old colleague Paul Kinsey is bothering him by sending him one awful script after another, still trying to break into show business.

Touch Paul Bellini

The design is really striking & helps build the anxiousness. And great catch re bringing in the furniture from Europe.

“Sounds like Santa’s slave, but I respect the rebrand,” Paper Boi says, classically.

Raikes gets run over by a train.

I believe the HBO extras mention that Carrie Coon was very very pregnant by the filming of the last few episodes.  Thus the cut of her dresses to hide her bump.

2-3 decades actually is “a lot of time.”  

And, things about men are considered to be universal whereas things about women are considered niche. This is the same for shows focused on white people (considered universal) versus those focused on people of color (considered niche).

It’s partly because it’s still considered acceptable for women to enter male spaces, but not the other way around. So, you can make a male-centric show, and it’s cool if a girl watches it, but you can’t make a female-centric show and have it acceptable for a boy to watch it.

We’re starting to drift away from those gendered concepts, but only in one direction. The things that are being marketed to all demographics are overwhelmingly male-centric. It’s now okay for girls to like things that were thought of as boys’ media (outside of strident gatekeepers), but the opposite is still uncommon.…

I once used Cyprus Hill liner notes as a source text for a high school paper on legalizing marijuana.

The reason This Country worked so well is because Daisy May Cooper and her brother Charlie truly lived the life they depicted. They had very few credits between them, and wrote a sitcom about the area they grew up in. It feels very lived in and avoids many of the usual pitfalls of the mockumentary (mostly by casting…

If this is half as good as BBC original, then it’ll be great. Tom Davis (who created the show) is a comedy genius for this.

Someone already beat me to it with regards to an explanation, but DNA only helps if you have the source match already on file. If Adam doesn’t have a criminal background, it’s highly unlikely law enforcement will be able to find a match for his DNA.