Podcast confirms that a double went round and round in circles, digging, for the crane shots.

According to the podcast, that was his double (except, of course, for the close shots).

Incidentally, the Toronto subway (TTC) was used for the train scene, from upstairs turnstiles to the platform downstairs. For some reason, I'm convinced it was the Bay Street station.

That was a great read, thanks!

Yes, William is the perfect example!

I'm horrified by the very idea of Pascha doing this. But that's what he is to me—an idea. He seems more like a symbol—"Unhappy Russian Kid"—"Oh Yeah, The Kid That They're Doing That To"—than a vulnerable person who I want to protect. The season just hasn't brought me close to the new supporting players. I don't mean…

Just to kill my own theory: How long ago did the woman's husband disappear? I hadn't thought about the timeline.

"No matter how hard he tries to put the murdered "good Samaritan" behind him, there's always something to remind him what Hector Salamanca did." Are you saying that Allen was, in fact, the good Samaritan? If so, I agree with you.

I may have heard it wrong, but I think that in one of her voice-overs, Moss refers to fertile women as getting "red-tagged" — and that eartag shown in the bath was red, marking her as breeding stock even if she's found without bonnet and gown.

Good point that she's glum about it. Maybe that will prove to be the fault line and she'll come apart. But to me, she overcompensates, with the result that she absolutely follows the line—her stoniness about Pasha being the prime example. I think about her in terms of Gabriel. He began to have qualms about what he was…

What else could he possibly say to her? His job is to give hope to struggling people.

I don't think they're closer than ever, but I bought the marriage. Philip has grown more and more disillusioned with the job, while Elizabeth has buried her own doubts by becoming harder and more committed. So in that way, I find them far apart. But when they married, I had to think of those real-life couples who…

Yes, I don't think a human being took my comments down; somehow, disqus was programmed to do it. For the record, this happened to me in a "Feud" discussion.

I've had comments removed as spam. I don't know why, except that each one had three paragraph breaks.

And when they re-surface, and have the nerve to give out an Academy Award, like Kim Novak in 2014, God help them.

Thanks for the link! I watched it, and then watched the trailer. Was amazed to see that the great Michael Gough was in Trog as "Sam Murdoch."

Marlene Dietrich, also famous for her cheekbones, did the same thing.

I know what you're saying, but to me Crawford is a bit different. Some actors work so much in a certain kind of role (because it's the only thing they're offered) that they seem to go numb, fall into bad habits and, without knowing it, turn into caricatures of themselves. At about that point, with their stardom is…

I feel like I've seen Charles and Diana done over and over and over, but there's still a lot of nuance and trauma there. (Just look at the depth of the movie "The Queen.") And I imagine the narrative will have tentacles, just as the Bette and Joan story does, following a lot of different threads. A Charles and Diana…

Yes, Grand Hotel, I adore her work in the 20s and 30s. I have always thought she was fantastically gifted, and it shows in her movies from those years. She's neurotic, anxious, beautiful, edgy, very transparent. But when the 40s came along she seemed to kill the gift and go for image alone. And the image was…