I think it comes down to directing. If you compare the "everybody in town is a suspect montage" that happens while Tennent talks on tv, it is done with so much more flair in the british one. The directing on this one for that same sequence is really flat and uninspired. Emotional directing and musical cues make this…

About the only real cultural change I saw was that Anna Gunn felt much more comfortable encouraging her kid to be emotional than Ellie did in the original one.

Elle's younger kid was treated like a baby but looked too old. It was really distracting. Unless that kid has a mental condition you probably shouldn't treat a 5 year old like a 5 month old.

I hear they get bad wifi so that probably explains it.

et's millah tiem

As long as she stays on the right colored tiles she'll be fine.

WERE THEY INSANE? That is like the best acted and most emotional scene in the whole series and they cut it?!? WTF?

Two things:
1. Psychic Steve sucks, this is a logical universe and so the lengths I have to bend my mind to convince myself "no he's just a lucky guesser" are not worth it.
2. The acting, framing, and directing in the Mark/Joe prison exchange is incredible. In a series of emotional moments the impact of that scene was…

It was Laura Palmer.

I agree strongly, but I choose to believe he's just a weirdo who guesses well, as opposed to the alternative that magic somehow exists in this otherwise grounded show.

It really felt like episode 7 was the real season finale and this was just table setting to get everything in a "relative neutral" state as prep for next season. I will give the show credit that they didn't have Oliver fall off that ladder and die. But aside from that this episode kinda spun it's wheels. Also was…

The British model is kinda lame. I hear way too much "British tv is quality over quantity" but then lots of them aren't, 10-13 Episodes a season is pretty good. Britsh people with their 3 episode seasons are just crazy, and almost never is the show 'that good' that it warrants such a short season.

Except for when it doesn't. Lots of British series have short seasons and still aren't good, then you'll have other shows like Star Trek: TNG or The Simpsons which were putting out lots and lots of good episodes a season.

I loved that scene, I was so happy that this show finally was like "alright alright let's care about the plot". I was all ready to praise the show as "artsy but not up it's own butt with style over substance"…

Something about how they shot that slow walk to the car was weird and clumsy.

Either they messed up their logic or she messed up telling her story because based on how the body swapping should work it shouldn't have been her mom switched into a body having sex but rather her body changed back from her mom's body to her teen body in mid sex, which is creepy as hell.

Agree to disagree. I couldn't watch it enough to give it a fair chance but from what I saw it seemed pretty trash.

I have yet to see anything from that show which is acted with any acting layers or nuance, acting which we see weekly from Jared. but I don't really watch TBBT because I find it horrible so I certainly can't say for sure.

The Gavin scene at the end felt totally wrong for me. Had they omitted that part of the plot I would've felt a lot better about the show.

Yeah they set that up so carefully that I was totally invested in what turned out to be faux-stakes. I really believed they were fucked.