Looking forward to Travis' noir-detective episode - Paul Walter Hauser will nail it. And I need more interactions between Elizabeth Perkins and Ken Jeong - the pairing we didn't know we needed.
I laughed so hard at the hand clenching. SO FUCKING HARD. I watched it like three more times to confirm the setup was simply that HE BANGED HIS HAND.
We're off to a good start, and I like that they're already allowing themselves the freedom to retell outside of the night of the murder. Travis's hard-boiled episode is going to be so much fun, as will Ulysses's Indiana Jones adventure.
Really enjoyable start to the series, feel like so far it's doing a good job of recapturing what worked in the first season which isn't always easy with a mostly brand new cast.
Paul Walter Hauser making an early bid to be this year's MVP.
Early money is on the adopted sister as the killer - the only reason for her to be adopted is if that's a crucial detail and can't help but feel it's going to come down to some forbidden romance with her adopted brother.
Hannah was my first thought as the killer because she just immediately stood out - Anna Konkle was hilarious and really brought out some quirks in that character.
I had to pause the show after the “silence and alcohol” line, perfect delivery.
Theory time:
Shady business partner has probably stolen all the money and was taking advantage of Edgar somehow, but not the killer. Also I’m convinced he engineered the “aniq picks up the wrong Asian people” situation.
Taiwanese shaved ice being smoother and more flavourful than Hawaiian shaved ice will be a key plot
Me late to catch up on second episode, but me will still comment, because that what me do!
Me think genre-of-week is weakest element of the show, and once novelty of Jane Austen setting wears off, there no real joke to it, and me feel like they could have done more with juxtaposition of modern stuff like Adderall and crypto being shoehorned into that format. That being said, it did make Grace into someone deeply sympathetic (who still could possibly be murder). There something profoundly heartbreaking about Edgar not wanting to have sex on their wedding night. (And Jane Austen framing mean we not get any hint as to what sex life might have been like with someone that uptight and seemingly afraid of everything.) And about Grace wanting storybook love story so badly that she build that story around someone who not necessarily fit role.
Also, me glad Zoë Chao get to do something different this season, and that that mean she get to play Zoe midway between Romcom Meet-Cute of season one, and her delightfully prickly Party Down character. First two episodes give her plenty of shading — fiercely protective of sister, to point where we might start to suspect her, but also has skewed perception on relationships because of Brett.
Very excited this show is back on the air. I immensely enjoyed the first season, and while they'll need to do something really special to top the musical episode, they're off to a solid start. I definitely think keeping the three characters they did was smart though Danner's presence is perhaps a bit of a stretch.
Not calling the cops immediately is certainly suspicious of Sebastian and Isabel. Here is my current list of suspects from likely to least likely based on motive:
Sebastian: Definitely some shady stuff, though maybe too obvious
Hannah: The emphasis on her being adopted has to be relevant
Feng: Could see him hoping his daughter inherits money? This is also a meta choice in that somehow Ken: Jeong brings the most Ben Schwartz energy this season
Isabel: Would be a bit strange to kill her son, unless somehow she was in love with Sebastian and killed Edgar so they could be together??
Travis: Obvious MO but seems a bit bumbling
Vivian: Didn't want a weird person marrying her daughter?
Grace: Clearly not perfectly happy with him
Ulysses: He probably should be higher, but as of what we now know what would his motive be? That said, a brief part of me thought he was somehow trying to poison Edgar with the Camel milk?
Zoe: She has a motive (not liking Edgar for her sister), but I don't think the show would make a lead the killer.
Aniq: Same as above, though it would be funny if he did it accidentally like how everything else has gone wrong this weekend.
Looking forward to Travis' noir-detective episode - Paul Walter Hauser will nail it. And I need more interactions between Elizabeth Perkins and Ken Jeong - the pairing we didn't know we needed.
I laughed so hard at the hand clenching. SO FUCKING HARD. I watched it like three more times to confirm the setup was simply that HE BANGED HIS HAND.
We're off to a good start, and I like that they're already allowing themselves the freedom to retell outside of the night of the murder. Travis's hard-boiled episode is going to be so much fun, as will Ulysses's Indiana Jones adventure.
Really enjoyable start to the series, feel like so far it's doing a good job of recapturing what worked in the first season which isn't always easy with a mostly brand new cast.
Paul Walter Hauser making an early bid to be this year's MVP.
Early money is on the adopted sister as the killer - the only reason for her to be adopted is if that's a crucial detail and can't help but feel it's going to come down to some forbidden romance with her adopted brother.
Hannah was my first thought as the killer because she just immediately stood out - Anna Konkle was hilarious and really brought out some quirks in that character.
I had to pause the show after the “silence and alcohol” line, perfect delivery.
Theory time:
Shady business partner has probably stolen all the money and was taking advantage of Edgar somehow, but not the killer. Also I’m convinced he engineered the “aniq picks up the wrong Asian people” situation.
Taiwanese shaved ice being smoother and more flavourful than Hawaiian shaved ice will be a key plot
Wait, new theory. There is no killer
Me late to catch up on second episode, but me will still comment, because that what me do!
Me think genre-of-week is weakest element of the show, and once novelty of Jane Austen setting wears off, there no real joke to it, and me feel like they could have done more with juxtaposition of modern stuff like Adderall and crypto being shoehorned into that format. That being said, it did make Grace into someone deeply sympathetic (who still could possibly be murder). There something profoundly heartbreaking about Edgar not wanting to have sex on their wedding night. (And Jane Austen framing mean we not get any hint as to what sex life might have been like with someone that uptight and seemingly afraid of everything.) And about Grace wanting storybook love story so badly that she build that story around someone who not necessarily fit role.
Also, me glad Zoë Chao get to do something different this season, and that that mean she get to play Zoe midway between Romcom Meet-Cute of season one, and her delightfully prickly Party Down character. First two episodes give her plenty of shading — fiercely protective of sister, to point where we might start to suspect her, but also has skewed perception on relationships because of Brett.
Very excited this show is back on the air. I immensely enjoyed the first season, and while they'll need to do something really special to top the musical episode, they're off to a solid start. I definitely think keeping the three characters they did was smart though Danner's presence is perhaps a bit of a stretch.
Not calling the cops immediately is certainly suspicious of Sebastian and Isabel. Here is my current list of suspects from likely to least likely based on motive:
Sebastian: Definitely some shady stuff, though maybe too obvious
Hannah: The emphasis on her being adopted has to be relevant
Feng: Could see him hoping his daughter inherits money? This is also a meta choice in that somehow Ken: Jeong brings the most Ben Schwartz energy this season
Isabel: Would be a bit strange to kill her son, unless somehow she was in love with Sebastian and killed Edgar so they could be together??
Travis: Obvious MO but seems a bit bumbling
Vivian: Didn't want a weird person marrying her daughter?
Grace: Clearly not perfectly happy with him
Ulysses: He probably should be higher, but as of what we now know what would his motive be? That said, a brief part of me thought he was somehow trying to poison Edgar with the Camel milk?
Zoe: She has a motive (not liking Edgar for her sister), but I don't think the show would make a lead the killer.
Aniq: Same as above, though it would be funny if he did it accidentally like how everything else has gone wrong this weekend.