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He cancelled the phone records request because his phone number was on them, lots
Were you a big fan of season1? I wasn’t really - I thought it was meandering and off-key somehow. I generally like Hiddleston (and generally don’t like Elizabeth Debicki), but it just never grabbed me. However while I wasn’t a BIG fan, I thought it was okay.
So, I’m just sort of musing half to myself whether season 2 is likely to be more enjoyable for me than season 1. The investment isn’t huge, but I’d prefer it if I had a thought that it was the stronger season.
Not a huge fan of Season one. I wandered into watching it accidentally looking for spy shows. I thought it was a bit sluggish with some good characters, beautiful location cinematography and decent acting.
Season two seemed grittier to me with more character tension dynamics and development. Some of it was predictable but I found it entertaining.
I liked the new character, Teddy Dos Santos. He is mesmerizing on screen and has an interesting story arc in the second season.
Season two definitely adds depth to the story.
Thanks, I appreciate the perspective 
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We’re about 3 episodes in. Not really getting into it at all. Like @Chefguy says, it feels like a tired retread of similar but better shows. After being on vacation for a week I asked my wife if she wanted to get back into it, and she said “eh, maybe let’s watch something else” and that was kind of the answer I was hoping for, so we may be done with it. I can barely remember what’s going on with it anymore, or who is what to who.
I’ve heard from earlier posts in this thread that there’s some kind of significant plot twist toward the end, but one needs to be into the plot to appreciate a twist. Maybe I’ll just spoil it for myself and be done with it.
We’re almost through the first season of Cross (2024) on Prime. At first, it was a bit confusing, but the last couple of episodes have been really good. My biggest issue is the lighting, which is quite dark. Apparently, everyone only uses low-wattage lamps in their homes.
We watched S1 of Happy Valley on Britbox over the weekend. Holy crap that was intense.
I also started rewatching Schitt’s Creek on HBOMax. My wife and I watched the first two or three seasons awhile back when it was on Netflix then just sort of quit watching it. (My wife absolutely loathes Chris Elliott so it was a big ask to get her to watch it at all in the first place.) So now I’m just rewatching by myself.
Right, I forgot that part. That’s part of my issue with shows that have, IMO, too many moving parts. I end up forgetting something like that (which I guess really didn’t matter in the end anyways). This would’ve been a good thing for Priya to actually confront him about.
Very very quick recap of the ending, 100% spoiler here:
Mom doesn’t have dementia, she’s pretending she does and using it as a cover to murder a group of people responsible for setting up her daughter (Anna, the newscaster) and a friend to get raped.
Lexy, the blonde wife of the camera guy Anna’s sleeping with, turns out to be that former friend of Anna’s. She looks considerably different than she did when they were in high school so Anna never put it together. The murders, IIRC, end up pinned on Lexy as Lexy had the motive. Also, Lexy ends up getting shot by Priya.
In the end, the whole thing was orchestrated by mom to get Anna to move back home, get back on the news and get back with her husband.
And, rethinking it, obviously that was where Lexy’s animosity towards Anna was coming from. Not professional competitiveness or her husband cheating on her with Anna.
Separate question or maybe more of a plot hole:
Mom took off her clothes after the murders so she could look like a old woman with mental health issues walking down the street naked and not covered in someone else’s blood. Around the same time (or not long after) the police would be investigating the murder. Am I wrong in thinking they should’ve found her bloody clothes in the woods? I don’t think there was anywhere near enough time for her to go back and get them and I don’t think she was far enough away that the cops wouldn’t have found them. It seems like if she wanted to go that route, we should’ve seen her tossing them in someone’s garbage bin (and on garbage day so they’re never found) or down a sewer.
watched the last series of “queer eye”. they were in and around dc. i needed something a bit more upbeat after watching “lead children”.
Thanks, I appreciate the ‘His & Hers’ plot spoiler-- after a half second of deliberation, I clicked on it. I’m glad I did, since that is one frickin’ ridonkulous plot twist. I would have been angry had I stuck with the series only to get that ending.
Is it about children that are heavy, dull, and relatively easy to bend?
You can’t really know that, considering you’d have missed several hours of plot and backstory leading up to it.
Naw, I watched it all the way through and it was ridonkulous.
Well then, you must be right. I’ll try to forget that I liked it.
True, if I had committed to the show more and watched the whole thing through, the ending may have seemed more clever, or at least maybe more ‘earned’, than it was by my having spoiled it to myself.
And, apologies if I’m inadvertently disrespecting your favorable memory of the show. It’s all subjective-- I’m sure there are fictional things I’ve enjoyed that you would find to be ‘ridonkulous’.
Oh, you didn’t. I’d forgotten I’d read the book, and by the time I realized it, I just stuck with the show, despite it being too long (like most miniseries seem to me to be nowadays). I’d forgotten the ending and was surprised that I didn’t see it coming (again). I’d rate it maybe a 6 out of 10. So, not terribly invested.
I think I can. I stalled out after episode three because the increasing improbability and not at all naturalistic story beats were just getting silly. If it were a black comedy, I’d be on board. But they played it pretty straight, which just didn’t work for me. In other words I already didn’t like it halfway through.
After reading that spoiler, I did a search for a finale synopsis and got this (very spoilery) Hollywood Reporter article.
I’m sorry, but for me that is awful. I hate the first twist (best friend didn’t recognize her? really?) and the second one is beyond contrived. I don’t mind twist-endings at all and I don’t mind whodunits who don’t hint at the twist as I’m not the sort of whodunit fan who watches to sort out a puzzle. If the solution comes out of left field that’s fine as long as its done well.
But considering where I was halfway in I’m pretty certain I would have been rolling my eyes enough to make them sore 
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We were watching it and I got bored and confused. I thought it was done with only 20 minutes left, so I went to IMDB to read a plot summary before the last scene. It was there that the plot twist was mentioned (in a spoiler box), so I decided to wait it out. Ugh, what a waste of the buildup.
Watching S2 of The Last of Us. It’s holding my interest so far.
I absolutely hate low lighting! It makes it even more difficult to watch on a tablet.
But thank you for the commentary. I cancelled all of my streaming accounts except for Prime so I don’t have a lot of options these days.
I think I will give it a shot.