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Anyone catch this premiere?  Kidman.  Hugh Grant.  Some kind of blasts from the past in Lily Rabe and Janel Moloney (West Wing).  David E. Kelley production.

Very Big Little Lies.

I'm intrigued.

I really really liked it.

I have been having to restrain myself from looking up a plot summary of the book it’s based on.

We really enjoyed the first episode. Looks to be an excellent mystery. The actors were all great.


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Definitely in and ready for tonight's second episode.

On 10/31/2020 at 10:20 AM, futureman said:

is this actually HBO or that HBO max bullshit. 

HBO, and the first 2 episodes have been very good

Watched the first 2 episodes and really like it so far. Reminds me of Big Little Lies but more sinister.

...Way too many posts without discussion of the full frontal scene in Ep. 1.

Watched both episodes last night. It was really good and that chick is smoke.

Nicole Kidman has gone from hot to not to oddly attractive again over the past 20 years.

So, this will end up with Grace being the killer won't it? 

On a rewatch, she seems to be a bit of an unreliable narrator.  She sees visions of Elena and imagines encounters that she may not have been privy to. 

During the second counseling session with the gay couple, the camera and Grace both focus on the black guy gripping his husband's hand and arm.  He's been outed as being controlling and the husband wanting some danger in his life.  The other client is told she's a perfectionist who doesn't see men in her life for who they are.  Maybe both sessions are Grace projecting herself on her clients.

When we have the flashback to locker room, we are shown that we are not getting complete scenes when they first occur. So, there's probably more interactions with Elena that we have not seen yet.

 

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On 11/5/2020 at 7:38 AM, CooterBrown said:

Watched both episodes last night. It was really good and that chick is smoke.

Nicole Kidman has gone from hot to not to oddly attractive again over the past 20 years.

Redheads.

So, this will end up with Grace being the killer won't it? 


That’s been a small concern of mine. It seems a little too predictable of a twist so I’m hoping it plays out differently.

Phenomenal tits, and i enjoy the story so far as well. Let's get some more locker room flash backs.

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On 11/6/2020 at 2:27 PM, CooterBrown said:

So, this will end up with Grace being the killer won't it? 

On a rewatch, she seems to be a bit of an unreliable narrator.  She sees visions of Elena and imagines encounters that she may not have been privy to. 

During the second counseling session with the gay couple, the camera and Grace both focus on the black guy gripping his husband's hand and arm.  He's been outed as being controlling and the husband wanting some danger in his life.  The other client is told she's a perfectionist who doesn't see men in her life for who they are.  Maybe both sessions are Grace projecting herself on her clients.

When we have the flashback to locker room, we are shown that we are not getting complete scenes when they first occur. So, there's probably more interactions with Elena that we have not seen yet.

 

You bastard!  You fiend!

Pretty good third ep.  In a world where English actors do passable American accents routinely, the public defender annoyingly let some british leak through his New Yawk accent.  

Could be the dad at this point.  However, we were once again shown some unreliable narration when Grace envisioned the husband watching Jonathan and Elena bumping uglies on the floor of the studio.  Probably projecting what she saw onto Elena's husband. 

Now, with Grace's dad, when he goes and sits outside the studio, where is that in the timeline? I didn't catch if he was dressed the same as he was in the prior scene.

I'd rank the suspects like this:  Grace, Grace's dad, Jonathan, Elena's husband.

 

this show is really good. i have no idea who did it, which is good...

Nicole Kidman's skin is just...translucent. i'm jelly. 

Episode 1 was exactly why I couldn't watch Big Little Lies.  That snarky "rich white mommy" cliché is so tired.  Then they killed off the hot naked chick.  But the wife insisted I stick with it since I made her watch Fargo, so I am in for the whole thing.  Episode 2 was pretty good.  Fell asleep in Episode 3 waiting for something to happen other than Nicole Kidman discussing her and her son's feelings.  Wife told me something did happen but literally in the last 30 seconds of the episode.

So now that we’ve seen the video of Grace near the crime scene, it makes me think she didn’t do it.

I am suspicious of Lilly Rabe’s character (can’t remember her name, Grace’s lawyer friend) for no other reason except I expect the show reveal the killer to be someone completely unexpected but that someone has to be a “main” character.

I'm sort of near the Liquor and Poker part of the spectrum. The show has a lumbering tempo and lacks the small moment sparks of Big Little Lies which I liked a lot.

I feel like I've watched Kidman walk about 30 miles on the New York sidewalks. Enough already. I don't care much about her son or her school friends. It's nice seeing Hugh Grant expanding his range after growing too old for romcoms.

It's good enough to keep watching, but it's not memorable at all.

So now that we’ve seen the video of Grace near the crime scene, it makes me think she didn’t do it.

I am suspicious of Lilly Rabe’s character (can’t remember her name, Grace’s lawyer friend) for no other reason except I expect the show reveal the killer to be someone completely unexpected but that someone has to be a “main” character.

Roger Ebert called that the Economy of Characters Rule. Generally, it has to be a character you’ve met.
10 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

So now that we’ve seen the video of Grace near the crime scene, it makes me think she didn’t do it.

I am suspicious of Lilly Rabe’s character (can’t remember her name, Grace’s lawyer friend) for no other reason except I expect the show reveal the killer to be someone completely unexpected but that someone has to be a “main” character.

Thought the same thing after the way they were eyeing each other in the courtroom. Bet old Hugh was tappin that too and she got jealous

Love the actors, but I had to watch this last episode for 59 minutes to see...

matilda de angelis...italian.  she likes me.

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15 hours ago, Liquor and Poker said:

Episode 1 was exactly why I couldn't watch Big Little Lies.  That snarky "rich white mommy" cliché is so tired.  Then they killed off the hot naked chick.  But the wife insisted I stick with it since I made her watch Fargo, so I am in for the whole thing.  Episode 2 was pretty good.  Fell asleep in Episode 3 waiting for something to happen other than Nicole Kidman discussing her and her son's feelings.  Wife told me something did happen but literally in the last 30 seconds of the episode.

Is there a term for the novelized fiction upon which this show, Big Little Lies, and Little Fires Everywhere is based on?  Bored housewife fiction?  

14 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

I feel like I've watched Kidman walk about 30 miles on the New York sidewalks. Enough already.

The thing I keep laughing about is how often she walks for blocks and blocks in Manhattan all by herself.  No one else around.  I've only been alone on a street in Manhattan at 4am on a Sunday/Monday, and only then for about a block.  Oh, and no scaffolding on any of those buildings.

this is like Lakeway moms but in Manhattan. big little lies was Lakeway moms in Cali. its funny to watch.

 

My guess is: 1. blonde lawyer friend; 2. grace's dad; 3. grace

no way the husbands did it.

53 minutes ago, HillaryFan420 said:

Is there a term for the novelized fiction upon which this show, Big Little Lies, and Little Fires Everywhere is based on?  Bored housewife fiction?  

Revenge fantasy/moral satisfaction for women who are pissed that their husbands find women younger than them attractive?  That's too long.

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I dunno.  I'm enjoying it.  The actors and acting are actually a bit higher-tier than BLL.

I guess I like whodunits more than whosegonnadoit and whatretheygonnado.

Didn’t Hugh Grant say he was going on a trip to Cleveland during the party while the perfectly tittied Mrs. Alves was still at the party?

Anyone having trouble watching to first ep on HBO Max? The second ep starts up just fine.

I’m still enjoying it.

Agreed that Grace is a little less likely now that they’ve implicated her in episode 3.

Keifer’s dad or the lawyer friend. Who else could it be? The doctor dude from the hospital?

 

On a side note, I thought Donald Sutherland was dead for some reason. Nice to see he’s still kickin. One of the greats. 

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not only is he still alive but still able to perform at a high level. very nice part of this cast.

1 hour ago, Longhorn94 said:

not only is he still alive but still able to perform at a high level. very nice part of this cast.

Yes, his retort to the detective along the lines of "if you want my thoughts on justice, get a fuckin warrant" was fantastic.  

1 hour ago, Longhorn94 said:

not only is he still alive but still able to perform at a high level. very nice part of this cast.

He's nails.  His career has been Incredible, with a string of big roles from about 1970 through the early 80s, then switching seemlessly to more supporting roles, which he continues today. Had a cameo in "Kentucky Fried Movie."  Biggest miss:  taking $35,000 v. the 2% of gross offered to him for his small role in "Animal House."  Cost him $2.8 million in late-70s dollars.  

He'll get roles as long as he wants to continue acting.

Watched episodes one and two so far, Hugh Grant has aged a lot since I last saw him.  Nicole Kidman, not so much.   Interested in where they go with this, I don’t remember who all is in the opening scene but in most of these movies or docs the killer is in the opening scene...

I think Sutherland’s character is involved. 

 

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I'm an old-fashioned cocksucker (pronounced corksucker).

This is a really good series. I have no idea who did it: dad, mom, kid? all of them? quality acting and production, and the story is really well paced and thought out.

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It has plodded a tad the last couple of eps, but the big moments are worth it.

On 11/9/2020 at 10:06 PM, CooterBrown said:


Roger Ebert called that the Economy of Characters Rule. Generally, it has to be a character you’ve met.

There are no unnecessary characters; has ruined many film or ep of Murdoch Mysteries

On 11/11/2020 at 8:24 PM, bschoolprof said:

Keifer’s dad or the lawyer friend. Who else could it be? The doctor dude from the hospital?

 

On a side note, I thought Donald Sutherland was dead for some reason. Nice to see he’s still kickin. One of the greats. 

2020 is not over yet.

Well the discovery at the end of the last episode kinda narrows down the suspect list. 

As soon as they said the murder weapon was missing, I had a bad feeling one of the parents would discover it in the kid’s possession. Absolutely stupid of him to keep it though.

I’m wondering if Hugh Grant intentionally takes the fall at this point.

I’m thinking it being the kid is too on the nose. I’m in on it being grandpa. He planted the hammer there. The parents will think it’s their son and Jonathan will take the fall to keep the secret. The grandpa gets what he wants, Jonathan out of his daughter’s life. It also explains the brief shot of him sitting outside the studio. We don’t know if that was shown in the right spot in the timeline. It could’ve been when he killed her.

6 episodes is perfect for this. Just like Bodyguard. I wish more shows would keep these things short and sweet. 

I enjoy the acting, but the story line like an NBA game-just watch the last two minutes .

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