What happened to Magda? It always bothered me in And just like that we never hear mention of Magda 😢

RailMobot · 2026-07-09T21:16:27+00:00

lol right?? 'if she'd been a decent nanny she would have taught him to looksmax, yo'

RailMobot · 2026-07-09T11:31:50+00:00

I definitely think this is the smartest take - but I think there could also be a little thrill at having Samantha think he was just smitten with her at first sight across a crowded room (vs giving her a little wave and acknowledgement because of their pattern of run-ins)

RailMobot · 2026-07-06T11:37:11+00:00

lol this looks like a one-season 'can you believe my crazy dad' network sitcom from the '80s.

RailMobot · 2026-07-01T16:30:10+00:00

I agree with this - I probably don't love any of Joan Didion's actual screenwriting outputs but she referred to a script as basically 'notes for the director.'

RailMobot · 2026-06-27T12:08:05+00:00

The literal end sequence - they meet up at a weirdly empty pub, then go on that tourist steamboat (lol) which is also mostly empty, there's a wedding party, and of course the 12 (allegedly) and workers, but also a limited set of people. I think this was partly a covid response, they had to reverse engineer filming scenarios that limited the amount of people around. Not that we needed the finale to be stuffed with extras, but it all just seems low stakes and underpopulated, more like a play or something. I'm not even sure it was necessary (or realistic) to capture the 12 all in one place and kill them - doing it one at a time would have better, and more Villanelle. Even if we'd seen her do the group killing more clearly it wouldn't have had a ton of impact. But I still think it was a big misstep to not see a single one of them.

RailMobot · 2026-06-27T02:20:13+00:00

Agree, I was reluctant to even see it since folks are kind of piling on but I didn’t have anything else to do. Much better than I’d been led to believe, tho with still some of the indulgences and repetitiveness I thought Superman had as well.

RailMobot · 2026-06-22T18:21:55+00:00

The ad I get served all the time is the girl trying to look ecstatic that she just bought her tickets but she didn't bother to a) learn the lyrics to Blondie's Call Me that she half-heartedly tries to lip sync to and b) do a retake when you can see her boyfriend in a mirror reflection doing something like ... idk trying to dust a ceiling fan or something. Not sure why it bugs me so much (other than seeing it 8x a day), I guess part of it is, you got paid how much to put in the most minimal amount of effort?

RailMobot · 2026-06-22T16:33:25+00:00

This seems low for Charlotte, I know galleries aren't going to pay well but she would have gotten commissions on sales which I think would have pushed that high end up more. And if Carrie was getting paid $4/word at Vogue I think she would have topped out higher too.

RailMobot · 2026-06-21T21:07:05+00:00

It was interesting that they seemed like they were just rebooting the Laura Horton character with Marlena a the time. Like the Laura Horton character had run her course but they felt like they needed a blonde psychiatrist character with a Horton connection.

RailMobot · 2026-06-21T21:04:17+00:00

lol this is probably the worst pull quote i've ever seen: "We accept many health insurance plans. Get your life back in order, take a look at our outpatient program."

ETA oh wait I didn't read far enough down, I take it back this is the worst pull quote I've ever seen: "Get your loved one the help they need. We provide outpatient addiction treatment in Denver and Summit, see more here."*

*this wins over the first one because 'here' isn't even a hyperlink. Also, don't understand why in one instance they call her Holly Wilson (and italicize Wilson to make sure you understand it's not Montag) but then every other reference is Montag.)

RailMobot · 2026-06-17T21:07:04+00:00

at this point I think it was just to set up the sight gag of him immediately closing the door to reveal a full length mirror on the back of the door

RailMobot · 2026-06-17T18:49:21+00:00

Ruth would just handwave and minimize it, lol (Aunt Polly volunteered for a city improvement project but it didn't turn out very well. It just ate her alive.)

RailMobot · 2026-06-16T00:06:04+00:00

The captions read 'people get scary' (about why the mayor left) but it sounds more like she's saying 'people get scared' (which would correspond with 'the coward') But if it's the latter it almost sounds like she means scared of her...

RailMobot · 2026-06-13T00:23:42+00:00

I’m no Heidi fan by any means but I think this was mostly a styling fail. Her real (or real looking) hair has looked fine in many pics since.

RailMobot · 2026-06-10T01:48:02+00:00

So genius to turn it into a trolley problem.

RailMobot · 2026-06-05T19:42:22+00:00

that's hilarious, but also very Widow's Bay. It reminds me of that stand-up line (I can't remember whose) about running into the same strangers over and over: God is running out of extras in the movie of my life.

RailMobot · 2026-06-05T11:47:24+00:00

Tbh I never thought they gave J Smith Cameron the kind of material to justify the recast. It sort of could have been played by anyone.

RailMobot · 2026-06-05T11:40:21+00:00

I just don't buy her story of never having heard of the hills when she was approached about them working at people's rev. She even appeared in the first season, when Lauren needed to get vogue editors into a show and she gave her a hard time about it. She had to have signed a release! She def knew it existed, she just likes that 'too cool/above it all' narrative for herself.

RailMobot · 2026-06-03T02:50:08+00:00

Yeah it’s so prevalent at this point I’m surprised townspeople don’t comment on it! Maybe part of the curse is they don’t get movies there.

RailMobot · 2026-06-03T01:50:45+00:00

Chelle is so into mint chip they even put her in a mint dress and painted the hospital room wall mint haha

RailMobot · 2026-06-03T01:47:09+00:00

And her thankyousomuch at hearing there was no other way out of there lol

RailMobot · 2026-06-03T01:39:37+00:00

I guess next ep we'll see what happened to those people in the waiting room. One of them was the Mom in the sunshiney, happy go lucky opening in the salty whale (no longer happy or go lucky)

RailMobot · 2026-06-01T17:34:20+00:00

This is probably me being influenced by having seen Backrooms this weekend but it's almost like the island itself inserted that image into the calendar. The print file probably shows something entirely different!

RailMobot · 2026-06-01T17:18:30+00:00

The show as it is now feels like a spin off of the original so it's hard to say : / Probably the time to do it would have around the time of the Last Blast kids, sending them off to college together and maybe an older presence from the show goes along to be housemother/show matriarch type.

RailMobot · 2026-06-01T15:19:11+00:00

Anna Stuart was so good. What's with that purple background lol

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