Was that murder, though? Let's not forget that he simultaneously doomed her but also saved someone else's life. Someone else that maybe didn't beat her kids.

It was especially strange and noticeable on a show that makes such good use of its real life Chicago locations in other scenes.

Three of them are not the most likable. But what did the youngest girl ever do to earn your hate? Almost choke to death? Get bashed in the head due to her mom's reckless driving?

LMAO at Helen's ditching mediation blowing up in her face.

I wanted to upvote your comment, but then you had to go and say you hated children…

I agree! Interesting that I've missed the ones that focus on smaller scale relationships. I will definitely check those out.

Oh god yes! It was fantastic. I didn't see it when it first came out, but as it happens I binge-watched it not long before the Emmys. So then when everyone else was like "WTF is this thing I've never heard of" I was like "score!". :)

Interesting. I've only seen two Bergman films, which is weird because I really liked one ("The Seventh Seal") and absolutely loved the other ("Persona"). I'm not sure I see the connection with either of those, but I definitely see a Woody Allen kinship, and I know he idolizes Bergman. It's probably more evident in…

Showtime leaves their shows on forever, probably on the theory that you seem to be alluding to: if there are a few thousand diehard fans of a show that will cancel the service if the show is cancelled, may as well leave it on. HBO may be more conscious of maintaining an image of consistently high quality

Right, and I don't think they can ever really know whether it is working. When people sign up for Netflix or cancel it, there's no way of knowing exactly what influenced them either way. It's a binary choice with many factors going into it.

It really was. All the scenes with Yvonne and Robert are especially stellar. Unlike the reviewer, I loved both sides of the "present" storyline (I think of it as the past, and the lawyer scenes as the present, but most seem to call that the "future"). The only part of the show I could do without is the Scotty…

I wonder if Rossum really ran track? That did not look like just "acting".

I kind of feel like it is. I can get porn when I want porn; this show is too good to keep using her in this blatant way.

She was on SNL for a year or so.

Processed flour and sugar are super bad for you, you are right about that part. But pure paleo goes too far. There are agricultural products that are super good for you: oats and beans for instance.

I didn't like the opening dream sequence of the funeral, and was on the verge of switching it off, but then I got sucked in afterward and I'm on board (in a sense: it goes on my pile of "things I want to watch at some point", but I'm just so swamped with such things…I mean, I still have three seasons of "The Wire" to…

I liked "Scrotal Recall", but I also like this.

It's perfect for the show in theory, but I'd still rather not watch it over and over (especially as I often sit down to TV with some kind of snack—a bowl of oats in this case). And yes, the toothbrush in the toilet bowl is by far the worst part.

Thanks!

But Frank DID leave. He is living with the agorophobe!