Roku here - autoupdated, but did have to re-login.  Luckily that proved to only be a semi-minor pain in the ass rather than the major one I was anticipating, so I guess that’s good.  Now to find the setting in the app that automatically doesn’t show me one fucking reality show ever in the listings, and we’re good to…

Yeah, I don’t know why it’s so easy to anthropomorphize these things, but it is and I do and have no regrets.

Yeah, that was my rationale too, as well as him actually smiling at seeing Jaime beat his beloved team.

Yeah, Trump was forming the cult, and now DeSantis is trying to take the cult away from its idolized Great Leader, while somehow managing to display an even less humanesque personality.  Unless Trump drops dead (so pray we all), not happening.

Re: Jamie’s dad - I guessed rehab, my wife guessed a memory ward.  Neither of us thought of prison, but now I do think that’s a reasonable possibility too.

Ted bursting into tears talking about how he felt afraid to be close to his son sure pulled a whole bunch of tears out of me over here.  That entire exchange with his mom was superb.

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“that’s the total, not the annual cost”

Now that sounds like something that might make the customer experience better, and no modern airline will stand for that, no sir!

If it helps, that’s the total, not the annual cost.

Ha, you’re totally right that the WAGs gathering at the funeral was reminiscent of Six.  I didn’t put that together when watching but that’s a fun note.

Matsson’s use of “American CEO” meant that he was still being cagy about it being Shiv (because he is absolutely going to shiv her), but no way he’d go with Kendall.  If this means anything at all, it’s a doorway for him to pick Greg, the most perfect puppet non-person there’s ever been.

“Did they somehow film this “Survivor” style? With multiple crews doing multiple scenes at the same time, keeping out of each other’s shots?”

Per the post-show featurette, yes.

Sure, but the stock dip wouldn’t be as severe (or long-lasting) if it doesn’t become a big headline-grabbing scandal. It’s mitigating damage, not eliminating it entirely.

Also that brief shot showed a cop bicycling in front of him, so it could have been purely coincidence due to the heightened police presence, but I’m going to go with the much more hilarious interpretation that he somehow obtained a police bike escort for his big ride to the funeral.

“RoyCo Managment trainee guy, we hardly knew ye.”

Don’t worry, he ended up in a plum job in the Macro Data Refinement division.

My read on the exchange is less “is this blackmail?”, as I think his intent was pretty clearly to convey the coercive message “pay me or I will put out videos saying your game sucks,” and more “did he mask the language carefully enough to just barely squeak under the line?” (For what it’s worth, I am a lawyer,…

“He then extrapolated from that first short story a world that made absolutely zero sense.”

Out of curiosity, what elements did you think made no sense?

Let us additionally note: the total number of seated Black U.S. Senators stands at 11, over the entire history of the country to date, and only reached double digits when Kamala Harris was elected. I suppose he’s slightly correct to say there’s been progress; he’s dead wrong to suggest there’s been all that much until…

Might have been a funny rejoinder if the thing I’m referencing hadn’t happened pretty early on.