Interesting! Yeah, I agree, they could be cousins.

If you didn't know about Elizabeth's connection to Mary Kay, that scene could have played completely innocuously, imho. Busy people who are annoyed by spam phone calls, or spam doorbell rings, would react in exactly the same way. Particularly with an older lady trying to sell you beauty products who could conceivably…

Just like Scientology, Mormonism, or any other cult.

Cool! By the way, that's not always why a name is left out of the credits. Sometimes, if an actor is a big enough name, and they want to do a smallish project, they leave their name off so that they can take a smaller paycheck, and it won't affect their salary standing in Hollywood because it doesn't 'officially'…

It was Tai Chi.

I think that's a complete overreach. There's no relation between Great Expectations and a Classics department at a university. From GWU's website: "Classical Studies encompasses the art, history, and literature of ancient Greece and Italy—in short, the study of classical civilization. This discipline is the oldest and…

I was thinking "Oh, King Ecbert is her Chief of Staff." :-)

I would upvote this 15 times, if I could.

Okay, so not too much on the tangled confusion of that Delta Squad op, but I did find some more satisfying reviews!
http://www.denofgeek.com/us…
http://www.slantmagazine.co…
https://www.theguardian.com…

Will do.

Yeah, it really was a bit messy. A better reviewer would have recapped this. I'll have to see who else is still reviewing this show (Sepinwall?) and see if this was discussed.

I wasn't dialing anyone long distance until the 1980s, and in New York, I'm sure I didn't have to do it. I moved out of New York in the late 1980s though (to marry the person I was calling long-distance!), so I have no idea what happened after that time. I admit my memory may be flawed, though. That's a long time ago,…

Okay, glad you mentioned this, because I kept waiting for her to find a gun in Max's or Quinn's things because someone on the first floor was there to kill her!

Would love a time-lapse scene of her sitting on the Acela for three hours fuming at the same elevated degree she was at when she was still in the brownstone, glaring or yelling or ugly crying at the conductor, or someone who tries to sit next to her.

It doesn't matter that it was initially a set-up; once CPS has inserted itself into a family situation, my understanding is that it is very, very difficult to get clear of them. I think that was the point of that storyline: even if we know Carrie loves her child and did things that, from her perspective (and ours, as…

I thought we were supposed to infer that no one in the unit (except possibly McClendon) knew that the President was in the truck, and that they were told they were shooting at the (framed) assassin, Troubled Veteran Peter Quinn. So any observing public wouldn't have seen a military coup.

She's good in everything, like Beloved Character Actress Margo Martindale.

Putting a "1" in front of a long-distance number when dialing is a very recent convention. We didn't have to do that in the 80s.

I just rewatched all of the Mischa scenes in this episode and didn't see that bus, or anything that would definitively place him in New York at that time. Was the bus from the previous episode?

I apparently didn't watch that scene as closely as others, but are we certain Mischa was meant to still be in New York? Was it a 'prop bus' (1980s vintage equipment and signage), or just an unfortunate background appearance (real-world bus driving past while they were filming) that they neglected to edit out?