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  1. On 5/27/2023 at 8:18 PM, bolverk said:

    Not much on Webster but I did come across this:

    After the dramatic exit of Paxton's top staff in 2020, those brought into senior roles included a California attorney who donated $10,000 to help Paxton fight his 2015 securities fraud indictment and Tom Kelly Gleason, a former ice cream company owner whose father gave $50,000 to the attorney general's legal defense fund.

    Gleason was fired less than two months into his new job as a law enforcement adviser. Paxton's office has not disclosed why, but three people with knowledge of the matter said Gleason included child pornography in a work presentation at the agency's Austin headquarters.

    The people said Gleason displayed the video -- which one of them described as showing a man raping a small child -- in a misguided effort to underscore agency investigators' difficult work. It was met with outrage and caused the meeting to quickly dissolve.

    Afterward, Paxton's top deputy, Brent Webster, told staff not to talk about what happened, according to one of the people.

    https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/dysfunction-in-texas-ags-office-as-ken-paxton-seeks-third-term/3085983/

    I worked with Brent's wife for 9 years. Delivered a meal to their house when they had their first kid, who's the same age as my youngest. I think he was a public defender in Wilco back then. I didn't know him well at all but his wife is one of the kindest people I know. When I had a miscarriage she wrote me a lovely card that I still have. And fun fact - his wife's sister is the founder of Camp Gladiator. 

    Anyway, he definitely seems like an asshole now. Maybe he was then, too. I'm going to reach out to his wife and see how she's doing.

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  2. 22 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said:

    So yeah…. The last two episodes seemed to missing big chunks that would have helped me better understand character motivation.  I feel like they think they are being high brow and presuming the viewer is sophisticated enough to get things that aren’t shown on screen or are alluded to, but really it’s poor plotting. 
     

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    I presume Juliette Lewis wanted off the show.  Goth Cop Kevin’s death Carrie’s absolutely zero weight with her gone too.  That whole murder investigation solution. Was dumb. 

     

    I thought the second-to-last episode was great, but they fumbled a bit with the finale. Still enjoyed it but a few things.

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    1. Was really hoping to find out who the running girl in the first scene of the first episode is, but I guess that's off the table till season 3.

    2. Am I the only one who thinks Callie kind of sucks? She gives me major Paige (from The Americans) vibes.

    3. How did Shauna end up the group's resident butcher in the 1996 timeline? Did I miss something?

    4. What's with the tree Ben found? I can't tell how much of this they are expecting us to think is supernatural vs. just a bunch of starving people hallucinating. Like the girl who keeps hearing dripping and the other one walking around with a dead mouse pet.

     

  3. On 5/20/2023 at 2:37 PM, Augustus said:

    Well I got through the finale with the lighthouse and the foghorns.

    The voice on the radio creeped me the fuck out.  That was one of the most legit scary moments in a movie/tv series I've ever seen.  Very, very well done!

    You're talking about the finale of s1, right?

  4. 9 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

    I felt the same. I guess he had a thing for the mayor for longer or more deeply than they showed, because I kept thinking he needed to get a hold of himself.

    For a very subdued character it felt like too much.

    Plus, given, uh, the implication [/dennis] of a closed off silo, I'd think a "upper levels" officer could find him a GILF fairly easily, but I digress.

    I had assumed they were married or otherwise together - I was surprised when they made it seem like a big reveal that they were into each other and wanted to retire together.

  5. I swear that when Holston went outside and they showed outside from his POV, the bodies disappeared. When you view cleanings from the inside, you see the bodies, but I don't think they're actually there. I'll need to look up the clip from when the camera feed blipped last week, but I don't think the bodies were shown then either.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Was the use of “red right hand” meant to evoke peaky blinders?  Because that’s the first thing I thought of, but didn’t really feel like they established a reference with Roy walking. But, I am an idiot, and could have missed something obvious. 

    That song always makes me think of Scream, but I don’t think they were trying to evoke another show. More like trying to draw contrast between the lyrics about the actual devil and this grumpy man in a super bright, out of character clothing choice he wears out of love.

  7. 11 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Also, Rebecca pulling out the green matchbook and it’s entangled with one of Ted’s army men?

    I hope that doesn’t mean Tedbecca is end game.

    Obviously this means that Ted and Sam are end game.

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  8. On 1/18/2022 at 1:31 PM, Jiggy-Z said:

    Another sick thought:

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    Shauna's teenage daughter is obviously not the baby she was carrying in the woods.  Possible that child died after birth and was eaten..or stayed in the woods with the "others" only to grow up and and torment the survivors.

     

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    The showrunners promised that Shauna's baby wouldn't get eaten, but look at those motherfuckers loopholing that shit with a hallucination. The end of last week's episode was heartbreaking and explained a lot about her current personality. 

    I LOLed at Jeff trying to look like a badass at the police station with his NWA blasting.

  9. I just got back from seeing it. It's definitely more horror than comedy, but I liked it. Some fun callbacks to the earlier movies, too. The intro was great, particularly the scene with the title card. 

    I will say that I watched The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 only recently, so I don't have the nostalgia for them that a lot of people have. I liked Evil Dead Rise as a movie in its own right.

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  10. On 5/2/2023 at 1:03 PM, utxmike05 said:

    Did Keeley get ugly(ier)?  Her face looks weird this season...and the accent is now annoying. lol

     

    23 hours ago, Grade of D as in David said:

    It look like she lost weight and she's definitely pulling her hair back tighter. So her face looks weird but she has her tits pushed up which is definitely distracting me from her face changes

    I've noticed that this season, Keeley seems to be dressing a lot more girly than she has in the past - pink everything, big pink headbands, etc. She's always been feminine but her style was previously more sexy/grown-up. Which is funny because I think they've shown more of her making out with Jack than they ever did with Roy or Jamie.

    Nate's storyline has been so inconsistent this season. In the past few episodes it's like they've forgotten he ever turned into an asshole. Him and Jade make no sense together - I get that he frequents her restaurant and she felt sorry for him when the supermodel ditched him, but I still feel like they went from 0 to 60.

    A lot of the overall storylines don't make a lot of sense to me anymore, but I've found that I still like the show for the characters - Roy still makes me laugh with his grumpiness, Jamie isn't such a dick anymore and is just a big dumb sweet teddy bear, Trent is a great addition to the Diamond Dogs, and Keeley and Rebecca's relationship is still the best one on the show. Ted Lasso night is a bright spot in my week, for sure.

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  11. 1 hour ago, burntorangebongos said:

    Well, that was weird. I woke up at 6ish this morning to pee and I asked Bonnie if she needs to go outside. Since her slipped disc incident with her back in 2020, she walks to me and I let her off the bed so she doesn't jump down anymore. Well she couldn't get up and when she did, she flopped over. I picked her up and carried her outside worried it was her back, but she wasn't in any pain, when last time she was howling with it. I set her on the ground, and she tried walking but fell over. I had to hold her so she could pee. She was wobbly like a newborn deer.

    I decided to take her to the vet but I didn't want to go to an emergency one, so I put her back on the bed to nap while we waited until I could call the vet and take her in after 8.  As the morning wore on, she got more stable.  She did eat laying down prone on her pillow and did do all her business on shaky legs, but she seemed stronger. When I got her to the vet, she was much improved. They did blood work and he checked her over and couldn't figure out why. If she had a stroke, she wouldn't have recovered so quickly so he was baffled because her blood work was normal. Has anyone's dog experienced something like this? She seems fine now.  

     

    My parents have a pug with epilepsy, and when she has an episode she loses feeling in her back legs and can't walk for a while. But she definitely visibly freaks out when it happens. Hope you figure it out and that it doesn't happen again. It's scary to witness, for sure.

  12. Loved seeing Trent party it up with Colin and show up as a friend for him. I've always thought he's the sexiest man on the show and I'm glad they didn't have him do anything nefarious with what he knew about Colin.

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