And almost everyone speaks in an excrutiatingly slow pace. The pseudo-profundity drives me nuts.

They seek to turn a gothic soap into something profound.

It’s probably about equidistant, if you look at the Bootheel. I think it’s supposed to be about 90 miles south of St Louis. And heck, when you get into “South County” St Louis, you are already in the South.

I think what’s funny is that the supposedly giant hog operation appears to be a ramshackle metal barn that would look at home on a small family pig farm.

They cover a huge amount of ground and also seem to be everywhere.

Yeah , didn’t they say 3 miles? 5 tops? 

You summed it up: Prestige Television. That plus Amy Adams plus highly exaggerated, highly dramatic and emotionally wrought characters equals catnip for the Gillian Flynn audience, one that’s willing to overlook absurd stock figures and implausible events in a Faulkner-meets-Mayberry town (with a downtown that despite…

The complaints about the way she fits into the trope of the broken, source-sleeping female journalist make sense, but the fussiness about her journalistic “ethics” is misguided. She’s basically reporting the scene against her will. “Getting the story” is not her priority nor is it what motivates her behavior, so her…

My, god the self-conscious and stilted, literary lines John is given to say (sounding like a 40-year-old woman talking through an 18 year old boy-man), along with his mannered acting (or direction) and unnatural giggles, make his character unbearable to watch.

They also don’t use a hodgepodge of commuter airlines to actually fly the routes they sell tickets for. These carriers are more prone to problems, and small planes get lower priority when it comes to cancellation time.

In terms of whether they will hotel you for weather cancellations, they are the same as the others.

Yeah, but looks like the weather exemption is pretty much as it is in the States: “adverse weather conditions.” Maybe the EU is stricter about not letting airlines claim weather when it’s not really weather.

I’ve found almost never will an airline put you on a competitor, which used to be a routine practice. Maybe if you are super elite, but because it’s expensive and difficult for them to do it, they generally don’t. That’s why sometimes if you’re an economy flier on the big three and you get canceled because of a big…

Out of Chicago, I find them more reliable than the Big Three that fly out of O’Hare. Midway is a simpler operation, and Southwest doesn’t necessarily cancel en masse when thunderstorms or winter storms are merely predicted.

That’s weird, because in my experience, all Manhattan zips and addresses are considered by the post office as New York, NY, while those Queens get the district treatment, as in Long Island City, NY

Well, it’s not a speck of a town—that’s pretty clear. And they talk about the hog operation like it’s the region’s major employer, and one that makes her very wealthy. Such industrial-scale farms are huge.

To me it’s comical that Adora’s supposed industrial mega-hog operation that constitutes so much of the town’s economy consists of a few modest-sized ramshackle metal pig barns with a pond in front.

“Surprisingly tedious”? Maybe the reviewer is coming to her senses. The glamour-prestige combo of Amy Adams, G. Flynn, and HBO makes people oblivious to the fact that the show is a colossal, pretentious, and meandering bore. It’s hard to discern good acting because most of the characters are caricatures and so many of…

I thought the exact same thing, so I do think it was intentional. Meaningless, but deliberate I think.

The taxi said Omaha on it.