In S1, Lara warns him that Wendy is a liability because she lives in the same house as the DA investigating them - it’s dangerous. Lie #1 is when he pretends he's consulting his wife about bringing Wendy back, like she has some say in the matter. It's BS. I love how they end each season with a face-off between Chuck +…

You have good reason to question her motives. The timing of all the events make it very ambiguous (a mark of good writing by the show!) We never get a chance to see what she would have done because all the events transpire too fast. You say what does the lie matter if the end result was what Lara wanted. Was it…

Thanks for explaining. I guess I think of a trophy wife as the gold digger who just marries the guy for his money. She was a nurse when she met him. He fell in love with her because she was helping people at 9/11, even after she lost her own brother. They married before he became a billionaire. As for Wendy, my theory…

Gotta love Hollywood geography. Axe zips around from the Hamptons, to Westport CT to Brooklyn, to the 9/11 memorial waaaay downtown in Manhattan, but they make it seem like he's running a few quick errands in a small town. And speaking of geography, if Chuck is the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York,…

They are both complete sociopaths. Axe is a warlord… Rhodes is a straight up gangster. At least Axe looks after his own (so far). Rhodes will use anyone and everyone as his chess pieces - even every his own family. Exploiting his own son isn't off limits. I'm rooting for Connerty to take them both down, and Wendy ride…

You're within your rights to hate Lara… but I don't really follow your read on her. What exactly is fraudulent about her? What's a billionaire's wife supposed to do? Sit home and knit? Play nice when someone talks trash in public about your family? She's no trophy wife. She believed they were a true marriage; partners…

Hard to claim entrapment when there's video evidence that you maliciously poisoned people in order to tank an IPO. Chuck dangled a carrot… knowing full well Axe would choose to do something illegal to bite it. But setting a convicted felon free and allowing people to be poisoned so you can trap your enemy; using your…

I don't believe using the trust funds was illegal, it just totally tanks Chuck's Governor run if it gets out because as a public servant, he promised not to touch it for his own financial gain (conflict of interest). As for Ira, it's not a question of keeping his mouth shut… as Chuck's lawyer he is legally obligated…

There's a scene in S1 where Chuck talks about playing chess when he was young, and if he felt his opponent did not respect the game… becoming so consumed by rage and so focused on taking his opponent down he forgets to win. I think that's what's at play in his Axe rivalry; along with a lot of latent insecurity about…

This article should have been titled "A muslim, a leprechaun and a zombie walk into a bar…"
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It's an interesting dynamic. Laura doesn't believe in anything, and her life feels pretty meaningless and empty to her. Yet her husband practically worships her; is willing to sacrifice himself for her. He may not be religious, but his love for her and his faith IN her (misguided though it may be), gave him strength,…

The Man. Well put. We live in the age of Global Capitalism. Mr. World seems to be the personification of powerful Corporations and the global economy. they exert some control over politicians and governments via money, lobbyists, shady back room deals. Collectively, corporations have vast amounts of information about…

I get the impression that Shadow imagines maybe he's hallucinating a lot of what's going on, which may explain why he's relatively calm alone in his hotel room with Laura. If you recall from previous episodes, he's been "seeing" her fairly often already; we assumed it was memories but it could have felt quite real to…

Most aggravating trope? When a character throws/destroys their cell phone as an immature display of how emotional they are. I have never in all my years seen an actual human do this. Ever. It's ridiculous. Every time I see this on TV I just groan.

Sorry. I'm out. I read the Outlander series years ago and I loved it. So I was really looking forward to this show. I'm a big fan of many Starz productions, but this one just keeps getting darker and more terrible to the point of being unwatchable. The Claire I met in the books was smart, and there was a lot more…