Hmmm, different eppy feel tonight. Wide range of emotion from despair to joy.
Is Arthur gone for good? Was he the poo master?
I still feel that the reason for the lesbian scene is that Claire is going to explore the other side, unless it’s just a dead end tangent.
Still not sure how I feel about George. He almost seems too normal (if you ignore the fact that nothing is known about him).
Nate is still a basket case and all the other kid’s mom (didn’t catch her name) was looking for was a quick “wham bam thank you mam”
Brenda’s normal cat feeding neighbor is turning out to be anything but normal. I was really hoping that story line was over when he walked out. He gives me the creeps. (I wasn’t able to catch all of their conversations due to some background noise at the house) She was really looking forward to having a Ward & June Cleaver type of relationsip, but it’s not to be.
I think Arthur’s gone for good. And I do think he was the Poo-Giver. Both boxes were just placed at the house; the first with no return address and the second not even in a box, just included in the gift basket.
What happened with Rico? Has he decided not to give whats-her-name the money?
I didn’t quite pick up on what happened between Brenda and Joe when they were in bed. She asked him to put the condom on, and that’s when it seemed to go downhill. It was like he couldn’t get the condom on and he said he’d just get her off instead.
I still think there’s something weird about George. I’m with Claire - what’s so cut-throat and competitive about the field of geology? Remember last season Ruth was looking at his book, and it didn’t have his picture on it, and had been published by a vanity press (or something like that) ? There was something off about the whole thing. Plus his description of Formica from last week was not quite right - remember how Arthur later looked it up? Add in the fact that his kids don’t talk to him and he’s had 6 or 7 wives… I think he’s hiding a big secret and is lying about something.
The “Mommy & Me” mom was kind freaky, too. She’s divorced, and lives in that big house with a nanny and a housekeeper, and she doesn’t work? I thought at first, when she gave Nate that book on death, that she was a widow and had gotten some big settlement because her husband had died in an accident, but then she said she was divorced. When Nate had gotten back in the bed, and you saw someone walking down the hall, I thought it was going to be her husband - I was thinking she was a big liar, too.
And how did the teenager die, laughing herself to death, and with her mouth stuck in that smile? Are all the deaths going to be ULs this season? :rolleyes:
And we never see the Dead Person talking to David or Nate or Rico anymore. I liked that part, where they’d offer some bit of wisdom or end up consoling the living.
I think her neck was broken, from the way her body was positioned after she fell off the bed. Not aware that that would be a UL. Personally, I loved the line, “Wish I knew what was so goddamned funny.”
Isn’t there a UL of someone laughing themselves to death, with a smile stuck on their face that the mortician can’t remove?
I’m being rather anal and nitpicky, but if the parents called 911, the paramedics would have tried to revive her, and probably would have put an ET tube down her throat - she wouldn’t have had a smile “stuck” on her face. If she fell and broke her neck and died instantly, her muscles would have relaxed, and she wouldn’t have had that smile stuck on her face, either.
It did make for a funny line for Rico, though.
I don’t think there was any decision made not to give her the money. In fact, at the Fishers’ yard sale, Rico was in the background, when his wife was talking about spending the $50 from the TV, looking at a jewelry box with a ballerina inside, probably to give to the stripper’s daughter. We didn’t see him purchase it, but it’s enough to give me the impression that he still wants/feels compelled to be in the stripper’s life.
From what he was saying later, it seems like he’s into the Dominant-Submissive type of sex, so I guess he thought that since he wasn’t “man” enough to get the condom on himself that sort of ruined the moment for him.
At the very end, he implied that he prefers to be the submissive one, “Remember when I told you I could wait on you hand and foot, all day?” I think the condom ruining the moment was more representative of “normal” sex, which killed it for him.
I think you’re right. I think he’s going to give her the money, but he’s very conflicted about it, thus the Madonna/Whore dream. He’s got a very bad case of The Guilts. And I’m sure he’s going to buy the ballerina box for the stripper’s kid. . . and Vanessa will freak! Maybe he wants to get caught. Maybe he wants Vanessa to stop him from doing something that will end their marriage. Maybe he wants to be punished, just as Brenda’s new friend wants to be punished.
And I’m glad Nate decided to come back to the family. He is needed there.
I think Arthur is definitely the poo-provider. And I hope he is gone permanently. He was too creepy, even for SFU.
i was sort of half-watching the episode, so maybe my critique isn’t fair, but i wasn’t impressed with it. seemed pretty cliched to me.
so brenda’s guy isn’t completely “normal.” is anyone normal? maybe i should rephrase. is anyone normal in hbo-land? no. she’s more fucked up than he’ll ever be.
so now nate is the one that was used. so what. i’m getting sick of the character.
claire is falling for the “talented” lesbian. i find her more annoying than anything. so what’s her talent? she makes shitty looking clothes and acts like an idiot on a stage. yeah, that’s pretty compelling stuff. lets stuff some more art major cliches in there, please.
rico is really getting handled. it’s hard for me to believe he’s getting milked so completely just because some stripper gave him a blowjob. sure, he feels for the kid, but come on. it’s not his kid. maybe i’m just cheap and coldhearted. i say dump the whore. sure, she could always blackmail him (future storyline? of course!) but he’s giving her enough as is.
david and keith? not much going on this week. shopping for arthur was kind of funny, though.
arthur’s gone. for good, i hope. there’s really nothing else for him to do. his uber-creepiness was strangely endearing, though.
ruth and george? that’s the only storyline that i’m interested in. i think it’s obvious ruth is less enamored with the guy these days. and the geology bullshit is getting outrageous (oil, claire. oil). i don’t know what his angle is. i doubt he’s just a con man. it seems like a lot of work just to screw someone out of a funeral home. i hope we learn more about his background next episode.
I would like Brenda to have some “normal” sex. Not “missionary-all-the-time” sex but the kind where it’s not just her and a partner living out a fantasy, but real, passionate sex. I suppose that went downhill when she gave in and had sex with him without getting to know him better.
But she was never going to have “normal” sex with this guy anyway. She had a ridiculous 90-day ban on sex so she could get to know him first. As if magically, after 90 days, she would know him well enough to have “normal” sex with him. And he kept pressuring her to have sex, like they were a couple of teenagers. Neither of them is going about this relationship the right way. I don’t think it will work.
What I do think will happen, is that Brenda will become pregnant with Nate’s child from the night Nate told Brenda about Lisa’s body being found. Especially since Rachel Griffiths was pregnant in real life–although I’m not sure about the shooting schedule and the timing of the pregnancy. It’s just a gut reaction.
Not too sure what to make of the most recent episode yet … still digesting it all. And WTH is up with all the dream sequences … not just on SFU, but on other HBO shows, most notably Tony Soprano’s long-assed dream that ran … what some 20 minutes of the show almost?! At least the ones on SFU weren’t that long, I guess; they were still weird though.
–Looks like Claire might be getting ready to explore her feminine side. I think the friend has a crush on Claire, btw.
–Brenda’s neightbor is turning out to be a bit on the kinky side, but Brenda should be able to handle it–it’s not -too- kinky … so far.
–Infinity is playing Rico like a fiddle! I’m starting to wonder if she has a drug habit, though; she’s got to be making fairly good money as an “exotic dancer” so where’s it all going?
–There’s definitely something off about George. Poor Arthur, I think he’s gone for good, and also that he was the mystery sender of dookie, but maybe not. Geolrge is definitely giving me the crrep vibes though.
Count me as one who thinks Arthur is poo-innocent. I’m guessing it has something to do with George’s past, which I imagine we’ll find out a lot more about through the season. I mean:
*6 previous marriages?
*Children who wouldn’t come to his wedding? (Granted, it’s his SEVENTH, but still…)
*Working in a “controversial” (“Oil, Claire. Oil.”) field like geology and he didn’t have his picture on the back of his textbook…?
I dunno, I find him creepier than Arthur.
I’m waiting for more poo to arrive at Fisher-Diaz. Maybe Maya’s doing it.
oh, and are dream sequences de riguere on hbo these days? rico’s was wholly unnecessary. total masturbation for the director. if you didn’t see the madonna/whore dichotomy, you weren’t watching.
rico was the sort of anchor of the show for me, up until this season. he seemed to be the most normal of the bunch. just a guy trying to make ends meet, dealing with actual problems (money, kids, bitchy sister-in-law, being taken for granted at home and work…). sure, he was a hypocrite, but he wasn’t whining about existential shit all the time. not that anyhting’s wrong with that, but he just seemed to be the foundation of the show. now he’s unexplicably sprung by this hooker, who’s a total mess, and doesn’t even have sex with him. just seems like a huge stretch for the character. i’m not really feeling it.
oh, and russell’s “Froggy went a Courtin’” was a bit strange. funny, though.
I agree. This has been my favorite show since the very first season, but jeez, I need something to happen already. It just seems to me like this show peeked on the second season and I have been waiting and waiting for it to get that exciting again and its just not happening. I found the 3rd season rather boring and was sure that this season would make up for it. But, for me, not so much . . so far. I don’t know what I am expecting, but something that peaks my interest more than an old guy who may or may not have a weird past, or Nate sleeping with some chick from Maya’s daycare. Oooh scandal, drama! Its just not doing it for me.
Don’t get me wrong, I still love the show, but I feel like its going down hill sometimes.
The bonfire scene at the end was a bit off-putting to me. I’m sure the neighbors of Fisher & Diaz didn’t enjoy the symbolic embers of the Fisher family’s past floating down on their roofs. At least the home isn’t anywhere near the hills. And spraying lighter fluid from the bottle onto an already burning fire is pretty damn risky, though I got away with it once before I realized I was doing something stupid… (Don’t try that at home kids!)
Next weeks’ corpse: a drunk guy standing on the LA subway platform really has to pee…
I’m sorry Arthur’s gone. They never really used his “uniqueness” to it’s fullest. His affair with Ruth was good start, but then he just segued to potted palm status. I don’t believe he was the poo guy, actually I think it’s George sending it to cause a rift in the family, one he can exploit, a divide and conquer ploy. The two dookie deliveries have certainly affected Ruth, wonder if she’s going to go on another series of finding herself exploits[where’s that oddball sister of hers, maybe she’ll come to visit and cause sparks with George] Rico has been behaving bizarrely, at least for him. I suspect the exotic dancer has a drug habit, and will snuff it before season’s end. The upshot? Rico will feel he has to assume responsibility for the little girl, who I agree will be the recipient of the jewelry box.
I can’t think of any college textbook I’ve had that had the author’s picture on it. Textbooks don’t need that kind of decoration to sell. They sell because instructors make you shell out $60 or so to get it and grade you on information in it.
However, I don’t trust George very much at all either. Despite his height. (I’m 6’5", a little bit shorter than James Cromwell.)
I can think of college textbooks with and without photos. “Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs” has an interesting one – three authors, and they did a composite photo taking bits and pieces of their three faces and put that on the back cover. Creepy.
It’s not so much that his photo isn’t there, I guess – it’s that they made a deal out of it. It just felt like a detail that would come into play later on…
That’s what I’m thinking. It was just a small detail that I think will pop up later. And now that I think about it, was it actually a college textbook or was it just a plain old book?
That bugged me, too. I kept thinking how dangerous that was and couldn’t they be ticketed for something like that?
No no no! A woman is in her car after buying groceries and thinks she’s shot in the head, so she’s holding her brains in until someone comes to her aid. So someone sees her and finds that a can of Pillsbury biscuits has exploded and hit her in the head—but in this case, her brains are really falling out of her head!! She then dies in front of the person who came to help her.
But of course, they have to fake us out first. Maybe a woman will be in the parking lot, with her baby in the shopping cart seat. The woman is on the phone with her back to the cart, when a car comes from out of nowhere and almost hits the cart, but just misses. As it turns out, the car that almost hits the baby is the woman who just had the can of biscuits explode and hit her in the head!
