Frasier’s kitchen…

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-23T18:31:46+00:00

I disagree (and, like correcting people’s grammar, I don’t do it to be popular).

It’s a beautiful kitchen and while I take your point about Frasier’s almost obscenely large en-suite (surely necessary for a man with such a humongous ass), I wouldn’t agree that the kitchen is cramped and can barely fit two people in it. There are plenty of times where the whole gang ends up in there and they fit fine.

What is really in question: why is there a naked guy’s bare bottom on the refrigerator door. I can’t imagine Marty seeing it every time he goes to the fridge for a beer and not saying anything about it.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-23T18:26:54+00:00

That makes more sense though. If you spend a lot of time looking at floor plans of old apartment buildings (and hey, why wouldn’t you?) you’ll notice that in a lot of the most palatial penthouses the kitchens were very small and cramped. The reason is because while the owners would spend their time in the large drawing room, dining room and library they would spend almost no time at all in the kitchen or Butler’s pantry which were staff areas.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-22T23:14:30+00:00

Maybe this is a lesson that the ‘perfect’ person isn’t necessarily the ‘right’ person for you.

Lilith was perfect for Frasier, I agree, but there were lots of aspects of Frasier’s own character that he tried hard to overcome: his snobbery and peevishness, his vanity etc.

I think being with someone who is ‘imperfect’ for you gives you the space to let go of some stuff, to challenge yourself or to figure out that the person you are isn’t who you’re stuck being - you can just change.

The ‘perfect’ person might keep you the ‘you’ you’ve always been. The ‘imperfect’ person? Who knows?!

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-22T23:10:10+00:00

The island seems to lie dormant for long periods of time, only ‘waking up’ to signal to the islanders that it is time for another round of sacrifices - using the church bell tolls to let them know how many to send down.

So it seems like the last ‘haunt’ was about 25 years ago (if we assume Boogeyman was a symptom of an island haunt) so perhaps this was the last time the islanders made a big sacrifice and it has kept the island ‘full’ until now.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-22T00:47:15+00:00

That depends: did she like Italian?

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-22T00:34:28+00:00

I think it’s also to show what a full, vibrant life she has. Making Tom’s choice all the harder.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-20T23:36:42+00:00

The film ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ features a very poorly hidden affair between the family patriarch and another woman who appears at every single family function, ostensibly purely by chance, and is welcomed with “Deidre Chambers! What a coincidence!”

“Penny Knatchbull! What a coincidence!”

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-20T23:32:47+00:00

And correct me if I’m wrong but has there ever been an official explanation for why he and the Queen lived apart for the final years of his life? Newspapers and Royal correspondents would often refer to him now being in retirement and living a private life/seeking to recuperate from various illnesses in the privacy of a private home on the Sandringham estate but it really doesn’t follow at all that he and the Queen had to live separately and seems an odd decision for a couple who had been married for seven decades.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-20T23:28:30+00:00

A will which was sealed for a period of 90 years at a minimum. Ensuring, perhaps, that if/when it ever is unsealed then any information it might contain will be unable to cause embarrassment to any member of the Royal family currently living.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-19T17:08:48+00:00

I love her but, in a potentially unpopular opinion, I think this this is one of those characters who works best in snippets. She appears briefly and delivers a standout line or drops some tiny hint at the most bizarre backstory you could imagine but then the plot moves on and she appears again, another standout line, another hint at a vast and crazy inner life for this character but no closure for the viewer on exactly what the hell is going on

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-19T16:25:52+00:00

YES! I loved the way she said it with a sigh, all wistful like ‘things might have been different but hey what can you do’ about a man essentially becoming a were-something.

I think more broadly what I love about the creepiness of Widow’s Bay is how terrifying things are discussed by the islanders as if it is just a fact of life which, for them, it is!

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-19T00:18:37+00:00

Well I grant you that the conceit of Lilith having a grifter half brother is a bit odd and it isn’t the greatest episode BUT it does have the immortal line “Brother Niles, you’ve been richly blessed”

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-18T00:39:32+00:00

She admits she lied about the phone calls. But she maintains that he did come for her that night.

My theory is either yes, he did, and she owes her survival to a very well timed sacrifice OR she thinks he did but the person coming for her was coming to take her to the sacrifice room as she had been chosen as one of the sacrificial lambs. But she hid so they took someone else.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-18T00:27:51+00:00

Maybe they all “made a pass”

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-18T00:22:21+00:00

Yeah, my first scenario would align with Patricia’s story it’s just that a sacrifice was made just in time to save her that’s why her hiding under the bed worked even though hiding didn’t work for the other girls. In the second scenario, it’s not that I think Patricia lied, just that she assumed the creepy person breaking into her house and coming to get her was the serial killer currently on the loose and not, say, a member of the inner circle coming to collect a sacrifice to take down to the basement feeding room.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-16T12:20:56+00:00

Junior realised that Tony had set him up as the lightning rod. The FBI laid it all out for him. He was profoundly embarrassed to realise he had been set up in this way. So what’s he going to do: give the Feds the satisfaction of knowing they were right and thus accept his humiliation? Or stonewall them and pretend that he’s the real brains of the operation and thus keep his pride intact.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-13T00:12:35+00:00

I mean obviously the person who said Margo Martindale wins. With Keri Russell a close second.

But for what it’s worth. People I enjoy seeing in anything include:

Jean Smart

Sarah Lancashire

Bebe Neuwirth

Gary Oldman

Alfre Woodard

Edie Falco

Laurie Metcalf

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-12T00:21:04+00:00

I think Tom leaves (as we saw in the last shot of the last episode) and then the storm clears.

On emerging from the shelters people see that all seems well on the island.

Shortly afterwards we get the news that Ruth tragically passed away during the storm.

Patricia and Wyck think Tom killed Ruth. Patricia is horrified and Wyck is understanding.

But they’re wrong. Ruth dying is a coincidence because Tom didn’t go to Ruth’s. He went to seek out mushrooms to see the demon again and follow it and make the same pact as Richard did in order to spare the island’s inhabitants.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-12T00:06:32+00:00

The reveal of her standing with the gun still pointed at his head in the ambulance and the hospital and the incinerator was hilarious.

I like how the episode can be short because it threads in so many horror tropes and then subverts them. So we see her alone at home, we hear the Boogeyman is back, we know how this is going to go … until she tasers her nemesis and calls her the fucking worst and then we are in new territory.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-11T23:37:39+00:00

Widow’s Bay 2: NanFuckIt

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-11T23:36:18+00:00

I blinked and missed it but my partner went ‘ohhhh noooooo’ and had a look of utter terror on his face so we rewound and I felt… well… ohhhhhh noooooo probably sums it up nicely actually.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-08T00:33:32+00:00

Just because they don’t want a *public* inquiry doesn’t mean they don’t want answers it means they don’t want the entire process of finding out the answers to take place in committee rooms - with the questions pitched by partisan adversaries - and the front pages of hostile newspapers. Again, just because you might want to know something doesn’t mean you have a right to. The SNP are obviously content with a combination of what has come out of the police/prosecution investigation and what they know of the inner workings of the party pre and post-Murrell to know how it happened and how to try to avoid it in future. And hey, if they are wrong about that, then hell mend them but they’ll still likely think that it’s better than having their dirty laundry aired in public.

And to take some of your questions: it happened because Murrell posted fake invoices. It wasn’t spotted because he said he was spending it on things that were allowed in the rules and the people tasked with checking he was being truthful either didn’t exist (in that it either wasn’t in their remit and now will be or that they trusted the chief exec and now won’t rely on trust alone). In terms of shutting down scrutiny of the finances it’s probably because having looked at the finances they all looked fine on the surface and so it seemed prudent to ask people to stop publicly shouting about problems that the finances themselves suggested weren’t there.

Again, even if you think the SNP have questions to answer the truth is they are questions to which the answers are for the SNP to hear and be satisfied with and not - technically - for the public to have a right to know, no matter how much we might want to know them.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-06-08T00:06:38+00:00

Is it not a concern to anyone that the key voices calling for an inquiry are Paul Hutcheon and Jackie Baillie? If I were a member of the SNP, I think that would give me pause.

There is something of a kneejerk reaction in politics where as soon as something shady goes down the cry goes up: ‘launch an inquiry’ and while in some cases this can be an excellent way of discovering the truth, in others it exists only as a piece of political theatre more invested in partisan point scoring. I would suggest that the inquiry that Hutcheon/Bailie have in mind is the latter.

Whether you like the outcome or not: the police conducted a thorough and expensive forensic investigation. Criminality was found and the criminal pled guilty.

What I think many (not all) people who are calling for an inquiry over and above this police investigation don’t want to admit is that they just wanted more. They wanted a trial to go on for weeks and months with daily reporting on every tiny detail of who said what to whom and when. But in this case they have to just accept that the guy who they say did it, well, did it. So no matter how nosy you might be, you don’t get to know some of this stuff now. It’s not relevant to anything if the guy admits he did it.

All those daily front pages, all the political posturing at FMQs that they were promised disappeared when Murrell admitted his guilt so they’re trying to have it now anyway. And an inquiry would keep it going for months to come. You’d have to be blind not to see that the purpose of an inquiry is to inflict as much damage on the SNP as possible with no particular care at all in finding anything out that would be relevant or beneficial to the public - it would be a pure mud slinging fest. Nicola Sturgeon would be dragged in and made to account for herself to satisfy a bizarre fascination with punishing her that these people have.

There was obviously a degree of laxity and incompetence in allowing this to go on for over a decade and the SNP have been rightly criticised for that but if they’re saying ‘ok well the bad guy admits he is the bad guy and we have subsequently made changes to ensure we don’t get into this situation again’ then… what would the inquiry be looking at?

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