# "Terriers" Question (spoilers likely -- hoped for) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780 "2010-09-23T16:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/21 "2010-10-11T10:18:44Z")
Been catching up with this show. I love it. I didn’t think I would, because the leads came across as losers at first, but the unpredictability of the storylines, against what is a standard concept, has me intrigued, and I’ve grown to like all the characters. Hope it continues. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/22 "2010-10-15T09:34:57Z")
Whaddayaknow. The actress playing his sister is his real sister. That’s almost unique. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/23 "2010-10-15T13:46:58Z")
Like the show…sort of confused about the Gretch the Ex’s fiancee…is he a bad guy involved in the developement scandle because he said there was cancer in the dirt sample? The they found out it was planted? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/24 "2010-10-15T14:58:54Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Like the show..sort of confused about the Gretch the Ex’s fiancee..is he a bad guy involved in the developement scandle because he said there was cancer in the dirt sample? The they found out it was planted? That was weird, wasn’t it? I suppose it’s possible, but it might be like Stephanie said, he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. If he **is** involved in some shenanigans, it was smart of him to lay off Hank, about the credit cards, and not to tell Gretchen what Hank did. Except that Hank’s suspicions might be raised, since he was so nice about it. I like how the writers are using Stephanie. Sometimes wacky characters are overused, but we’re getting just enough of her. “Crafts?” “No, she’s rebuilding the engine.” And “I’m his pity date, but we’re not sleeping together.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/25 "2010-10-15T22:11:39Z")
I really like this show; it funny, smart, real (Hank: “Were you expecting it to blow up?” Britt: “Yeah, kinda.”) and at times, touching. Heck, the beauty shop scene with the dying lady on this week’s episode almost had me reaching for a kleenex. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/26 "2010-10-16T05:46:14Z")
Nice to see a thread on this show. I hope it survives. And seconding ExTank: “I’m digging it. Between this, Sons of Anarchy, Rescue Me, Damages, and Justified, FX is my go-to network for prime-time TV.” FX has some original series that **rawk**. ---
**Author:** ![Hap\_Shaughnessy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecc23a/32.png) [@Hap\_Shaughnessy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hap_Shaughnessy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/27 "2010-10-16T08:00:28Z")
Terriers are my very favourite breed… [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR5negCF024](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR5negCF024) Cute and cuddly, easy dogs to feed… ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/28 "2010-10-16T17:55:16Z")
I really like the theme song. It’s always a charge when they play the hook just before the show starts. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/29 "2010-10-16T20:16:36Z")
At first I worried about the multi-episode story arc, but that’s grown on me. And it appears that it’s not over (even if Hank and Britt might think it is). The fact that there are mostly no really good (or really bad) people in it is key. The most recent episode showed the darker side of Katie. Fitting in with this would be if Jason was sort of a bad guy with regards to the polluted land thing. But maybe he was forced into it against his better judgment. Something like that. It could put Hank on the spot wrt Gretchen. Does he bring Jason down and hurt Gretchen or let the guy off the hook? The sister is good, especially in small doses. Plays scrabble and rebuilds engines. Nice. Why didn’t Jason just report his CC stolen and get a new one? End of problem. No need to have an awkward talk with Hank or anything. As to the theme song. I like it mainly because it reminds me of _The Tao of Steve_. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/30 "2010-10-16T21:22:55Z")
FYI: the theme song is [Steel Neenas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD1W6uvaEZ4) by Robert Duncan. Can’t find too much else out about him, expcet that he may have written the theme/intro for _The Unit._ ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/31 "2010-10-16T21:26:51Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Why didn’t Jason just report his CC stolen and get a new one? End of problem. No need to have an awkward talk with Hank or anything. The writer(s) and the writing for this show seem too smart to let that seeming goof go buy; I’m willing to bet there’s a reason Jason can’t withstand too much scrutiny of his finances. Or maybe Jason just meant no more hijinks, like stealing his credit cards. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/32 "2010-10-23T16:43:00Z")
I wish I didn’t have so much bad TV in my head. I keep waiting for stuff to happen that would happen in “normal” TV, but the writers don’t go there. Like this week, with Stephanie and the little girl. I’m thinking Steph is going to hurt her somehow, but instead the kid is a hallucination. So I wait for Steph to go batshit in some other way, but instead she realizes that she’s not ready for the real world. The photo she was holding – would that be a real photo of Karina and Donal? The little girl in the photo looked amazingly like the hallucination though, so maybe not. Or maybe they just got lucky and found a child actress who looked like Karina as a child. I do think that Katie will burst and tell Britt about her slip. The writers and the actress are doing a good job with that – the tension she’s feeling. The actor who played Adam did a good job too. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/33 "2010-10-24T01:38:32Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I wish I didn’t have so much bad TV in my head. I keep waiting for stuff to happen that would happen in “normal” TV, but the writers don’t go there. Like this week, with Stephanie and the little girl. I’m thinking Steph is going to hurt her somehow, but instead the kid is a hallucination. So I wait for Steph to go batshit in some other way, but instead she realizes that she’s not ready for the real world. I was thinking the same thing too. And when she ran across the street at the end I was expecting her to get hit by a car. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/34 "2010-10-24T16:45:53Z")
And to make a bouquet from the neighbor’s delphiniums! 🙂 Steph said that Hank used the bearer bonds to pay for the assisted living place. Shall we assume he had to fence them, so he didn’t get the full $250K? And that if he didn’t get the full $250K, he had to use all of them? And that when Britt finds out he’s been cut out yet again, they’ll break up? That’d be a logical place to end the first season. I haven’t heard yet if it’s been renewed. They might not write the finale until they know if there’ll be another season. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/35 "2010-10-24T17:58:46Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Steph said that Hank used the bearer bonds to pay for the assisted living place. Shall we assume he had to fence them, so he didn’t get the full $250K? And that if he didn’t get the full $250K, he had to use all of them? And that when Britt finds out he’s been cut out yet again, they’ll break up? That’d be a logical place to end the first season. It didn’t occur to me that Steph meant all of the bearer bonds were spent, but it is a delicious assumption to make. With any luck, Britt will discover this right around the time he discovers that Hank knew about Katie’s infidelity so that he can go absolutely nuclear with rage. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/36 "2010-10-24T19:09:56Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I haven’t heard yet if it’s been renewed. They might not write the finale until they know if there’ll be another season. From the interview on Sepinwall’s podcast–well worth a listen if you’re a fan of the show, by the way–my understanding is that they have the entire first season in the can. Hopefully they wrote it so that it’ll give us some fairly satisfying resolution (yet still left enough threads for a potential second season). The numbers are an absolute disaster; I’d be floored if FX brings it back for another round unless it makes a very strong showing in the rest of the season. If you ever get to thinking that you’ve got a bit too much faith in your fellow man, compare the numbers for Terriers to the numbers for Steven Segal: Lawman… ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/37 "2010-10-26T04:18:55Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Steph said that Hank used the bearer bonds to pay for the assisted living place. Shall we assume he had to fence them, so he didn’t get the full $250K? My understanding is that bearer bonds are like cash - really big cash, so no need to fence them. > [@LawMonkey](#): > > If you ever get to thinking that you’ve got a bit too much faith in your fellow man, compare the numbers for Terriers to the numbers for Steven Segal: Lawman… Or Jersey Shore… ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/38 "2010-10-26T06:45:13Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > My understanding is that bearer bonds are like cash - really big cash, so no need to fence them. I looked them up on [Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond) after they showed up on Terriers. It looks like they’re pretty much defunct outside of their lives as a convenient TV/film trope, so they’re probably pretty free to make up whatever rules they want for them in the Terriersverse (long may it grace our TVs!). I’m actually kind of interested to learn more about the rules as they existed; in TV/Hollywoodland, they’re pretty much treated as being same-as-cash, but surely an eyebrow would be raised if you showed up somewhere with $250K in bearer bonds and asked to cash them out, right? This might be something for GQ, heh. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/39 "2010-10-26T18:45:22Z")
_Love_ this show. I will really miss it if it doesn’t get picked up for a second season. Boy, I hope that Hank didn’t use all of the bearer bonds for Steph’s assisted living facility…but Britt will still be pissed when he finds out that Hank used _any_ of them, because he wanted to use some for his wedding and Hank gave him this big song and dance about needing to wait a few years. I’m glad Britt finally stood up for himself, btw: I think I’d like the show a _little_ bit more if Hank stopped screwing him over/taking him for granted. > [@Morbo](#): > > does the actor that plays Britt use the same Southern accent he did on **True Blood**? It wasn’t a southern accent, it was a Cajun accent. Which would be kind of out of place in California. 🙂 > [@Snooooopy](#): > > I really like the theme song. Me, too! It’s the only one I don’t fast-forward through. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780/40 "2010-10-28T22:29:05Z")
I think the most recent episode is setting us up for Hank to fulfill Gustafson’s prediction. Hank failing his partner is the gun on the mantel – the writers have to do this. I just hope he has a good reason, but it might be a result of Hank backsliding. Refusing morphine sorta sets that up too. He’s doing good when it comes to the big things – his ex getting engaged, him getting shot – he stays sober and refuses morphine – maybe it’ll be something small that sets him off, like a flat tire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terriers-question-spoilers-likely-hoped-for/554780.md?page=3)