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Episode 3 is a delight. "Yaaah. gently caress you, dog.  "
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I thought that section in particular was a little weak and had Charlie taking some pretty wild chances on how things would go, but I figure the idea was that once they realize the whale has hosed off and all the implications that has for the casino (and them!) they were in such a rush to race up there to confirm it that Cliff dropped the phone. What bugged me about that sequence in particular was that Charlie raced up there after them, presumably to make sure they really grasped how much she had hosed them over to make them pay for what they did to her friend, which was just continuing to put her more in harm's way. Something I really liked about episode 2 and 3's conclusions, which I'd like to think is because she's learned, is that Charlie isn't there for either of the murderer's final reckoning, she's just moved on confident that she's set things up so that somebody with power AND a sense of responsibility will do what needs to be done, and she doesn't need to be there to see it.
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Feb 1, 2023 15:48
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Yeah but there was no reason for her to think or even not to expect that Junior himself would immediately want to kill her as a final petty revenge on her for ruining him, and she couldn't know whether Cliff would sit back and allow that or if he'd even just happily go along with an order from Jr. to kill her for him. Unrelated to all that, I love the bit in episode 2 where Charlie lies herself and she's TERRIBLE at it. Just immediately winces and gives away she's talking complete poo poo.
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Feb 2, 2023 04:08
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Feb 3, 2023 13:04
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Judith Light AND S. Epatha Merkerson  smug n stuff posted:E5 was great—so many great little gags, like the mob guy in the passenger seat. "I would go and see that movie!"
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I really enjoyed episode 6, loved that Charlie was largely piecing it all together largely without the benefit of her "magic power", coming to (halfway) right conclusions and then setting everything up for the confession. I think part of what made the episode work for me was that they'd gotten away with the murder scott-free and if they'd followed the original plan then they'd have probably gotten away with everything. But they had to get greedy, which kept them in Charlie's orbit, which allowed the younger actress to find the notes in the jacket, which lead to the blackmail attempt, which lead to the second planned murder, which lead to Charlie learning more info and finding out at opportune times that people were lying (or telling the truth) and eventually lead to the "confession". This is just a really fun show!
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Doktor Avalanche posted:i can't get over them plagiarising not just the plot of an episode of their dumb show but the exact loving lines, lmao Ahaha I know! "You wrote the script, baby!" and then it turns out she just straight up cribbed it from an episode of their terrible show (Spooky, my God).
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Feb 12, 2023 10:26
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Angepain posted:Also regarding the honour of the racist dog in ep3 I'm pretty sure the last shot of the dog with the radio DJ means that it's actually his and that the dog wasn't racist after all, it just knew his voice. Which would make sense with why the dog was so keen to get off the car right next to the radio station. Oh that's absolutely how I read it, Charlie assumed the dog was racist but the dog can't understand what the guy on the radio is saying, he just liked the nice voice!
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Aye Doc posted:Peacock still seem to be in the "oh my god we need HOW MUCH content to maintain subscribers???" phase of things, you can let a little hope into your heart for Poker Face Apparently they just scrapped a deal they had with Comcast(?) where subscribers to that got Paramount's streaming service (Plus?) included, so either they're expecting plenty of people to fork out the extra cash to keep it or they're about to lose a number of "subscribers". I don't care about any of that, just keep giving Rian Johnson money to make this show!
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Feb 16, 2023 04:28
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Really loved that episode and how it played around a bit with the formula. Particularly liked how the guy weaponized her ability to make her investigate his rival but LOVED that what ended up raising her suspicions is when he actually did a GOOD thing and reassured the kid about the seat-belt in the go-kart, and his well-intentioned lie there exposed his whole scheme. The ending where technically he gets away with everything and is rewarded but you know he's completely hosed and so does he was also very well-handled.
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Feb 19, 2023 10:13
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I absolutely loved that episode, that scene where the killer is smoothly (without knowing Charlie's power) telling the truth via obfuscation and then just as the door is closing tells ONE lie, which then turns into her just baldfacedly laying out one after another after another in front of a twitching Charlie
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Feb 24, 2023 16:51
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Signs that you done hosed up: https://i.imgur.com/yPEQVZR.mp4
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Feb 24, 2023 19:40
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I knew she was in a couple of shows that I haven't seen before like Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll, but I somehow failed to make the connection that Natasha Lyonne played Jessica (the unbelievably cool, laidback character who helps the nerdy guy build up his reputation) in American Pie 
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Feb 25, 2023 03:36
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I'm pretty sure she's actually already said it in an earlier episode? I remember doing the Leo point at the screen when it happened!
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Feb 26, 2023 00:56
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Finally caught up with the episode and loved it, and that ending 
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Well I love how that wrapped up, and it was particularly satisfying that what did Cliff in was that initial murder of Charlie's friend, rather than all his other crap, and OF COURSE he immediately turned the moment the pressure was on him. Roll on more
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Jose Oquendo posted:Just based on the montage stuff, I'd be down with a comedy Benjamin Bratt as a fixer TV series. His only solace: Burn Notice.
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cant cook creole bream posted:I really liked Cliff as a character. You could see in his face, how deliberately he kept choosing his words to not lie. And he was honestly quite smart about it. Yeah, really dug that he was so careful about not only not saying anything that was a lie, but framing his responses in a way that felt natural rather than tiptoeing around her ability. "How'd that chip get there?" "It was there when we arrived."
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Benjamin Bratt stars as Robert Culp in Columbo 2: Poker Face!Annabel Pee posted:That penis ring prop really didn’t look like it would be hard to take off or hard enough to do that to an eye. The crying drunk girl explained it all, it was a talisman that would protect her!
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Mar 10, 2023 00:33
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Show was designed to cater to the ultimate male fantasy: that any of us could ever be anywhere remotely as cool as Natasha Lyonne. Please stop setting unreasonable expectations, television!
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Mar 10, 2023 04:31
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Loved the whole season really but I think The Orpheus Syndrome was the "best" of them all, it really felt like they had the show figured out and everything was firing on all cylinders. Least favorite episode is next week's.... because there isn't going to be one 
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Mar 12, 2023 00:56
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Ahaha, love JGL's reasoning for that character. Sometimes people are just assholes!
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The Benson reveal in that episode absolutely loving killed me
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