That said, both Pandora and Naomi were meant to have their own episodes in Season 4, but unfortunately they had their episode run slashed part way into production, forcing a change in direction at the last minute.

I gather there was to be a second Freighter-based flashback at some point (and if you rewatch Meet Kevin Johnson and Ji Yeon you can totally see them setting one up) but the shortened season put paid to it. I assume they'd have turned up in that, though I doubt they'd have dominated.

Yeah, Danger 5 is more my kind of thing. There's a sweetness to Please Like Me that's completely at odds with typically leaden Australian content, but it also comes across as a tad… precious.

Bear in mind that it's been a while since I saw the episode, but isn't it dead by 'Triangle'?

It's a real shame, but I hated Please Like Me for is early twenties cast. I felt they were pretty shallow, lacking the observational touches that would make this kind of show true to life. It felt like a real Mary-Sue piece, one keen to replicate the world of the twenty-something as seen by a privileged few, rather…

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You checked out In The Flesh or Cracker yet? Seem like they might be your thing.

The second season was helmed by Tim Minear. Due to flagging ratings Murphy's taken back the reigns, and so we're seeing his particular foibles spill through again.

Why would you wish that on anyone?

Well, she's clearly putting the moves on him in order to get closer to this Clairvoyant guy. She's manipulating him. Pretty entertaining performance too.

They're occasionally poorly shot, but that's the typical consequence of having multiple directors of varying qualities working on a television show's budget and time-frame.

I'm dreading the inevitable Human Centipede joke.

Unfortunately a perfectly normal reaction for a university student, particularly one who'd have spent any time in a dorm or frat or whatever, which doesn't strike me as unusual for Ward. There's a lot of educated men out there whose sum total understanding of gender studies amounts to calling Germaine Greer a shrew,…

She's a regular, so yeah. :D

There's nothing that explicitly links them to the source body sitting in the court room. They could have been operating independently.

"I, Alice Liddell, wish that Jafar would fuck off and stop bothering me" would probably solve things just as fast.

Excellent. I really need to check out the original to see how strictly this hews to the graft — and who doesn't like Jo Brandt? The woman's a walking wonder — but this was brilliantly constructed. Probably the best structured episode of the year. Certainly the best since Breaking Bad folded — though the last three…

I guess they're leaving it open? I dunno. There's literally nothing stopping Jafar from doing the same thing to anyone else Alice likes, or a cartful of innocents. This is a losing strategy for her.

That feels like a dangerous wish to make. I take it that the genie magic isn't particularly capricious in this case, but I could imagine "coming to no harm" to mean having time stop, or something similar.

It's really quite driven isn't it? Nothing else in genre tv right now seems to have quite as clearly defined set of goals for its cast, excepting maybe Sleepy Hollow. I think that says more about the poor state of genre tv right now, unfortunately.