A shout-out to Mark Mothersbaugh’s work on the score for this episode. I rarely notice the scoring, probably because the cast is usually talking a mile a minute over it, but the driving strings underscoring the extended sequence where Colin Robinson discovers and then enters and investigates the hidden room was some…

Also, it’s pronounced ‘Wrecks-mmm’ (Like ‘Wrecks-em’ but you almost completely elide the ‘e’ sound). I’m back in Canada now, but when I lived in the UK for five years in the 1990s I was in a little town in North Wales equidistant to both Wrexham and Chester; I did most of my shopping in the latter, but there was a…

- Are Nadja and the doll Nadja bathing in a bathtub full of blood?

- Nice to see The Jazzmen Three at the wedding. I guess the vampires thought they weren’t so bad after all.

- So, does the fact that Shaw-nay! had the brain scramblies make him impervious to severe after-effects of the 428 hypnoses?

Did anyone else notice that a) Nandor’s ‘fake’ head-twisting of Guillermo to end the fight looked and sounded awfully real and b) we don’t see either of them the next day?

Matt Berry’s ‘What hath the Dark Lord wrought?’ was the line reading of the night.

That Suez Canal Ever Given joke was worth the price of admission on its own. Just perfect.

I’m wondering if Agnes is being loosely set up as an equivalent of Consuelo Vanderbilt, a noted beauty and heiress of the time. Her ambitious mother - not the Mrs. Vanderbilt of this series, but a relation - wanted nothing less than a title for her only daughter, and kept a very tight rein on Consuelo, eventually…

2021 is determined to suck right up until the very end.

Will we be getting an obituary for Sally Anne Howes, who played Truly Scrumptious in ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’? Her career was never as illustrious as that of Julie Andrews - from whom she took over the role of Eliza Doolittle in ‘My Fair Lady’ in the original Broadway run - but like Andrews she started acting and…

I still think that when the $2 coin came out - after the loonie was introduced - we missed a golden chance to call it the ‘doubloonie’.

The return of creepy paper!

Agreed. It’s now right up there with ‘She speaks - the bullshit!’ as my most quotable line from the show.

‘I do apologize for my colleague. He is demented.’ Nadja has Nandor’s back.

The pronunciation they finally settled on for The Sire’s name sounded a fair bit like ‘Guillermo’.

Colin Robinson appears so ‘normal’, and so familiar with modern life, and then comes out with stuff that makes you realize how not normal he is. Things like ‘To quote my favourite comedian, Monty Python.’

Also loved Olivia Colman’s tribute a few minutes later when, during her acceptance speech, she said ‘Michaela Cole - f*ck yeah!’ 

It would have been hilarious if they’d given Guillermo the money to go all over the world and he’d just gone somewhere nice for the day and had a blast before heading to the house, scooping up some dirt, and returning to Atlantic City.

Yes, I noticed a lot more swearing. It got to be a bit annoying.