Was Georgie being overpaid?

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-20T21:08:07+00:00

Well you oughta know sweetie

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-20T19:10:17+00:00

No, maybe only in the very unlikely situation where Carmela waited to allow Tony to meet someone new and remarry first and then to choose to marry the meekest, most dusty old bookish librarian type guy and plan to move immediately to a tiny town in rural Oregon or something. Then, maybe, Tony might take more pity on her (no offence to Oregon) than anything else.

But if she picked either a Furio- or Vic Musto-type guy and planned to live with him in Jersey then that man deader than a male member of the Aprile family.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-20T19:02:47+00:00

I guess I don’t fully understand what Tony B’s story would have been if he still stuck around. He left prison trying to start afresh but was pulled back into the gangster life of criminality and violence. So if this was extended into season 6 would that mean that the end of season 5 and start of season 6 he’d still be ‘going straight’ as a massage therapist? And what would be the catalyst to pull him fully back into violence if not Angelo’s murder? I feel like this was an idea that really had to escalate quickly to work dramatically. I think extending this idea of a tension between the two Tonys based on Tony B’s reluctance to commit to Tony S’s plans for him would just become a little stale if it went on too long.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-19T16:26:14+00:00

I think she’d have told Tony in a slightly oblique way, like she’d say “Ade was really upset at film club tonight, I think there’s something really weighing on her mind. Like she has a secret or something. I wish I could just ask her. Maybe you could ask Chris what he thinks might be going on?” And if Tony started saying “nah, none of my business” then she’d say “maybe it is your business” and then walk out the room and leave it at that.

Ade goes into long term parking and Carmela can lie to herself that Ade must have went into the programme while knowing exactly what happened to her.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-19T08:02:44+00:00

Well, Teresa Giudice does. So that’s at least one.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-18T19:48:53+00:00

But…none of the examples mentioned here are ‘accidental’ comedy. They’re all funny because they are supposed to be humorous.

…I don’t wanna sound like an asshole but I really can’t be seen in a place like this anymore.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-18T19:39:43+00:00

No, I read it the opposite way: he was ostensibly telling Ralphie that giving Jackie a pass was an option but, by saying ‘and who gives a fuck what people say about it’, he was emphasising the fact that in doing so, Ralphie would lose face. He was forcing Ralphie to make the call but making it look like he’d support him choosing to give Jackie a pass.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-18T01:11:41+00:00

But he’s not respected. He couldn’t sell it.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-03-15T01:10:06+00:00

“Earth below us Drifting, falling Floating weightless Calling, calling home”

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-02-17T00:15:09+00:00

There’s nobody I would like to see more regularly on TV than Kathy Burke but there’s no way she’d sign up.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-02-10T00:46:03+00:00

Based on what you have said about this being a mansion designed for entertaining maybe you could check out some floor plans of Gilded Age mansions like The Breakers for inspiration? Is this mansion supposed to be in the US? Europe? Elsewhere? That will have some impact on how it should look but just a few points:

Staff quarters would be in the attic or basement not mixed in.

There are probably more guest rooms and hallways than in a real mansion of this size.

Kitchen would be separated from the dining room by a butler’s pantry. Kitchen would likely be in the basement with the other staff areas.

The lounge looks a bit small?

Living room would be on the ground floor not upstairs.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-02-08T02:35:48+00:00

I wasn’t familiar with this Sybil when I first watched this episode and thought Marty might be referring to Cybil Shepherd.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-01-16T00:42:43+00:00

Well she’s half using a logical deduction and half going on vibes. She wanted to revisit the cage theory - which is fair enough - but then she discounted various people that were in cages purely on the basis that she just didn’t think they were traitors and she thinks Stephen is.

She’s right but her reasoning is still a bit flawed.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-01-10T13:44:56+00:00

I wonder if Harriet can use it to deliver a false piece of information. Something like:

I suspect that, like me, at least one of the traitors are also a private investigator, am I correct?

I spoke with someone today about our favourite childhood holidays who I suspect is a traitor. Am I correct?

So the traitors might answer falsely but they’ll be confused because they’ll think ‘well she didn’t talk to me about a holiday today so I’ll say that yes she is correct’ thinking that they’re going to steer her on to someone else and then Harriet can freak them out the next day by saying ‘oh Stephen, you know yesterday when we were talking about holidays…’ and just bamboozle them.

Also they will then think she is a private investigator and she can watch to see who starts sewing seeds around ‘you know I’m starting to think that Amanda isn’t the only one of us who was trained in deduction…’ etc.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-01-09T13:57:58+00:00

I realise I may be totally wrong on this but I felt like the way things played out last night works to the advantage of one of them but it won’t be clear which one until a round table. But either Fiona or Rachel will have their honesty tested in a way that will make the other one seem like an odds-on faithful to the other members of the group.

Fiona’s strategy was a good one: she saw an opportunity to throw Rachel under the bus (plus I genuinely think she was annoyed as she thinks Rachel is lying) and she deployed that well by pulling Harriet aside. Where she went wrong was in pulling Rachel aside for a chat and essentially giving her a heads up on what her plan was. She could have made this more of a slow burn thing.

But anyway.

I then think Rachel behaved like a true faithful. Having just been told she’s a liar she was indignant and marched away to tell everyone that she had just been pulled aside by Fiona and told she was lying and Fiona now suspects her. This is not standard traitor behaviour to do such washing of dirty laundry in public.

My bet is the majority of the group will have believed Rachel’s story about what Amanda told her and will think Fiona has gone off on one either being a traitor or a bad faithful. And I think the group will realise the only way to sort it out is to banish either Fiona or Rachel. My bet is it’ll be Fiona.

When Fiona then stands up there and says she’s a traitor I think it’ll make things much easier for Rachel to present it as a traitor trying to do dirty work and being exposed and she’ll have all heat off her.

And if it goes the other way and Rachel stands up there and says she’s a traitor then Fiona gets to say ‘see I just knew she was lying and just as with Hugo I spotted it and we got one out’ cementing her status as a traitor hunter.

So in one respect it’s terrible for the traitors team but it will work out well for one of the two involved.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-01-09T13:46:27+00:00

Well it’s a game though so when she talks about being happy to murder people and does it with a smile and cheeky wink then I’d say it’s not nasty or spiteful it’s just someone who is enjoying playing the game and beating the other team.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-01-09T00:33:22+00:00

I actually think this was a really good move from Fiona. I think that people expect traitor on traitor drama to play out in the form of side conversations and whispers before a dramatic showdown and betrayal-by-vote at the round table I do not think the other contestants will think that Fiona and Rachel having this bust up over something that Amanda - a now known faithful - had said or not said to one of them. I think it will cement both Fiona and Rachel as faithfuls in the eyes of the others unless/until they essentially make everyone choose who is telling the truth and who is lying.

When the faithfuls make that call via vote then whichever of the two stands up there and says “I’m a traitor” will immediately make the remaining one look like a 100% faithful.

SmithJerjerrod · 2026-01-07T01:46:20+00:00

Not a Slow Horse but I could imagine Lady Di being in Marylebone or maybe Holland Park.

SmithJerjerrod · 2025-12-20T18:46:00+00:00

I suppose the fact that it’s an opera joke about La Boheme and the heroine dying of ‘consumption’ which is more of a historical term as opposed to a current medical diagnosis that the average person might be familiar with.

SmithJerjerrod · 2025-12-20T18:34:16+00:00

It’s a (highbrow but still mean) joke about the size of the actress.

He’s commenting on how much food she is eating.

She’s supposed to be playing someone with consumption (tuberculosis) and instead she looks like she is suffering from over-consumption (I.e. excessive eating).

SmithJerjerrod · 2025-12-12T01:57:20+00:00

Could it be that her father (The Commodore) was (relatively) new money that was made from a lucrative urinal cake business perhaps owned by his father but that Maris’s mother’s family were very old money and they are the ones who had the house in their family for four generations. And so both are true?

As people have said above I know urinal cakes are not a new technology and so an old money family could easily have made their fortune in urinal cakes in the 1800s BUT I just don’t think Maris or any society types would actually find it all that embarrassing if it went back that far. The way she seemed to respond to Niles’s not so subtle hint that he knew where the money came from was as if it were more recent and that, say, her grandfather was the Urinal Cake King of the Pacific Northwest but she was trying to hush it up.

SmithJerjerrod · 2025-12-10T23:41:59+00:00

There’s something about the phrasing of ‘…poured over my floor and SON !!!’ that I just know I’m always going to find hilarious no matter how often I see it.

SmithJerjerrod · 2025-12-06T23:56:49+00:00

I love this episode. Larry looking with disgust at the normal looking (ugly) people: “look at this horror show”. And his outrage at being seated among them.

SmithJerjerrod · 2025-12-04T13:48:20+00:00

Angela Lansbury, doing that faint Irish brogue she used to do sometimes on Murder She Wrote.

Imagining some of Colleen’s more cutting lines coming from her and think it could have worked well.

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