TV Watched -- The Sinner S04 E03

Here are my brief stream of consciousness bullet points on episode three (SPOILERS), where the Muldoon family is fleshed out a little:

• Harry tails grandma Muldoon the mainland (all filmed in Nova Scotia, not Maine)

• She’s taking brown envelopes from guys on construction sites

• We meet Percy’s mother, again no Maine accent, teenage mom abandoned baby, has decent second life, “Grandma Muldoon is a tyrant”

• Bowdoin College name-checked

• We meet Percy’s coke snorting roommate from Portland, chunky, cue Pacino, “cuz she got a BIG ASS”

• Are there nightclubs in Portland where kids snort coke on the bar? I doubt it

• More mysterious objects arranged artfully in the woods

• Bill gets Sonya to come with him to Grandma Muldoon’s

• Dinner is pretty weird and awful, two Muldoon brothers don’t get along

• Sean was Percy’s teenage Dad

• Sean hurt his shoulder working the boats, that’s why he crushes and snorts 600 milligrams of Oxy a day

• Show closes with homosexual mouth kiss on the beach, I’m praying they don’t become characters on the show

• Whose body is that floating there? You guessed it: not Percy

• But tune in next week!

Manager at the Gap, can afford cocaine

TV Watched -- The Sinner S04 E02

Here are my brief stream of consciousness bullet points on episode two (SPOILERS), where the Lam family is fleshed out a little:

• CJ Lam, actor is 39 years old but is playing 20 year old? Doesn’t quite fly

• How many Hong Kong Chinese are working as lobstermen in Maine? I would guess exactly ZERO…

• This whole Chinese angle to the show may be more check box ticking to be more “inclusive” even though it makes no sense

• The Lams do speak Cantonese, but also perfect unaccented English

• CJ is sniffing white powder, cocaine I suppose?

• Bill goes back to visit tiny skinhead zombie, “Diez,” who is local drug dealer

• Jewish hippie chick was screwing CJ Lam, but she’s always high and asks him to hurt her which he thinks is ewwww gross

• Bill runs into naked old witch at backyard barbecue, so it was another old lady, not grandma Muldoon

• CJ pumping iron (10 lb barbells) in his attic, getting ready for next fight with Muldoon boys

• Fails though as Muldoon boys rough him up (not the face, just some artful scratches) and break an arm

• Weird Boomer stuff as Bill and Sonya discuss suicide and Sonya goes and stands on cliff ledge, unfortunately Bill doesn’t push her off

• Shirtless CJ in bed with hippie chick, but she got him hooked on white powder so that’s not good

You used me! (and then stopped, alas)

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“Don't correct the man, Brat.“

Unsupervised

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“Looks like there's a little leftover nuclear waste. No problem. I'll just put it where nobody'll find it for a million years. So, now you know the whole true story of nuclear energy, our no longer misunderstood friend. So, keep on smilin'.”

The Simpsons S01 E02

“If you ask me, humankind has freedom... a freedom fraught with paradoxes. Freud shows how childhood shapes our subconscious mind... but this helps us to think for ourselves.”

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“I wish that you wouldn’t [trash my father]. Because, aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he’s the only father I have. Therefore, he is my model of manhood, and my estimation of him will govern the prospects of my adult relationships. So I hope you bear in mind that any knock at him is a knock at me. And I am far too young to defend myself against such onslaughts.“