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Yes, exactly.
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In the end Hurley killed Lake too, not just his patients. So all bets were off for Lake.
And also what a stunning ending to the story! Never saw that one coming in a million years!!!
I think Mercurio had to come up with a thing SO bad that in the end Hurley would break the omerta vow between the doctors that they cover for each other.
Hurley continuing to do surgery with scalpels next to other doctor's hands inside blood soaked bodily cavities meant in his career he could end up infecting any doctor he worked with with a deadly or life long blood borne disease. Lake had to act.
We see that their surgeries are often emergency in nature with people coming off the street and into theater. So the patients might have deadly blood borne disease that could not be diagnosed before surgery--unlike elective surgery where a patient can be fully screened in advance.
So in the end Hurley's ineptitude was potentially deathly to the entire surgical staff as well as patients!! </spoiler>
One that you might enjoy if you have not seen it--again focusing on the lives of young women in that era--is "Lilies."
Beloved "Lilies" also shares a sad legacy with "Berkeley Square" by being canceled abruptly after just one season, which like Berkeley Square, was crying out for a continuing story. I seem to recall at the time when the IMDB boards were active that we fans of "Lilies" crying out for "more! oh no!" It's cancellation was a huge disappointment for fans.
"Lilies" was written by Heidi Thomas who many years later created "Call the Midwife" with early episodes based on books by Jennifer Worth.
If you can find it, "Upstairs Downstairs" -- the original not the remake. It was written about social mores and lives of women and men in the same era as "Berkeley Square." It took on major social themes and many of the writers were highly prominent men and women in the literary world.
"North and South" (not the American civil war version) with Richard Armitage is a good quality series. Yes, it's from Mrs. Gaskell's famous book of the northern industrial world. Terrific series exploring the north/south English divide during the height of the industrial revolution through the "northern" man played by Armitage and the "southern England" love interest played by Daniela Denby-Ashe.
I never suspected Bertie only because he was portrayed as loving little Charlotte so much he always went to her mementos to look at them fondly. But who knows!
Yes, it was probably Evil Nanny. No reason she'd have not been up to the same tricks with a previous crying child as she was with Charlie.
It seems she reacted with panic, because one dead child when even upper class children died in infancy at alarming rates, might be understood in that time, but a second would be curtains for her. No investigation about Charlotte was ever referenced to hint at anything.
Her death was accepted without question.
But then a second child at the hands of the Evil Nanny. Oopsie.
Whether or not she knew it was the truth........
...I believe her answer to the inspector would have been the same either way.
The scandal that would have created in society and with the police would have destroyed the Hutchinson family's reputation first, and second would have ended her great-niece's chances at a "good match."
The tabloids of the day would have destroyed that family. They would have had to return to Britain from India and the whole thing would have been a complete disaster at a time when one's reputation was ALL.
She said in another scene that her commitment to take care of her niece's reputation and keep her commitment to looking after her so she could have a successful season and make a good match....and that promise she had made to her charge's parents was one she was going to keep at all costs.
So she would no doubt have lied to the inspector even if she had doubts.
That's correct. They are still toying with us as to who H is....
Hints galore but nothing firm as yet (at least as far as I can tell.)
The following is not based on anything actually seen in the show, so not a spoiler or anything.
But I've wondered from the first season if they would make something of Hastings's time in the RUC?
It would be great!
It's worked brilliantly for Morse with Endeavour.
Yes, I would love a season 2! I remember even wailing to the high heavens when The Missing was first on that Baptiste needed his own spin-off! And many posters were on board with that big time and we were discussing it back then.
But I never thought it would actually happen.
And now it has, but who knows about a season 2 with The Virus interrupting productions.
Given the turn of events with the economy that is going to hit Hollywood and tv show renewals like a ton of bricks, I suspect we've seen the last of Manifest.
I was sad watching a few of the premiere shows like "Bosch" this spring, because it hit me that for every single one that has future seasons planned and renewed, we may actually never see any new seasons of these shows ever again. Most might simply disappear. The best we might hope for for some shows is that it takes 2 years instead of 1 to back into production.
Even before the shut down, it was looking like Manifest had lost a lot of viewers in this recent season.
I rarely if ever watch network shows, in fact this might have been the first one since the Reagan Administration! :-)) And now I remember why. You invest in long plot arcs that often get dropped in the middle and you never get any resolution. But a time travel theme drew me in. Silly me.
At the end of the first season, I thought...hmmm.....we probably are never going to know where the jeebus that plane was for 5 years. Fan fic will be the only answer now, I suspect.
When seen in its totality, the ending was fine, in fact rather brilliant. But it takes some unpacking in one's head to get there...
I didn't get the impression Carrie is being let in on Russian secrets. Instead, she's working assets---we saw her make her pick up at the theater when she went to the ladies' room. That's how she got her first huge intel after 2 years of cultivation--because the scroll in the book she sent Saul said: here's the first drop there will be more.
And yes, she will likely get caught at some point and pay the price. But she's still giving 100% to Saul and her country. Saul's convo with Jenna was prophetic---he told Jenna that Carrie always does what's right no matter what. It's the no matter what that's going to be her end in Russia probably.
The ending with the jazz concert in the theater was perfect to convey what the entire finale episode was about--Carrie's the new asset.
And it showed she created perfect cover for her pick-up. She was known from the first season to be a big jazz fan. So going to a jazz concert with a favored group would be a natural that Yev would never question. Ergo, she used that concert set up for her intel grab from her first big asset and her fandom was an unquestioned reason to be there.
All along in the finale and penultimate ep, we were misdirected about what Carrie was doing and why. She had already developed Plan B after Saul's asset died, but we were not let into the secret until the very end--when we realized most of the finale with Carrie had been a complete misdirection by the writers. She was workin' a plan all in her head as to where she was going--and it was to Russia to replace Saul's asset.
The ending was perfect. It was a gotcha moment from the writers!
Ah! Yes.
I stand to be corrected by anybody with a better memory than mine, but I do not think Reddington turned out to be Keen's dad.
<spoiler>First, he was a Russian as we found out later, who had the surgery to LOOK like Reddington---which of course does not mean he could not be the dad since he had an affair with Keen's (alleged anyway) mom.
But if memory serves, they tested Keen's DNA against the DNA in the blood on the clothing that the FBI had in their evidence lock up. And that was clothing from Keen's real dad, not the guy posing as Reddington after the plastic surgery. Everybody presumed it was Spader/Reddington's DNA too, naturally. But it was her real dad's. As far as I can remember, nobody took a cheek swab from The New Reddington at the time they compared Keen's with the blood DNA. It was just blood DNA from the clothing the FBI had.....<spoiler/>
Yes, yes, yes! I can see why they chose Bosch because those approximate 2 dozen novels were just sitting there waiting to be mined; as well as Bosch simply being an intriguing character anti-hero around which to form a tv series.
But Haller has such great characters around him. Like his aged mentor attorney from whom he often seeks wisdom (as well as getting ideas for running a game on the prosecutors using shady machinations, ha).
My fave is when he sneaks deli meals into him in the nursing home against the food policy and the nurses go ape. Just typical Haller going against authority to feed his friend what he wants to eat while he mines his legal experience for tricky legal tips.
Yes, having to update Harry to the Gulf War was probably a necessary time frame choice, so that they did not have to undergo the extreme expense and trouble of producing a period show that would have to have 1990s---everything. Cars, clothes, the works. Making it current was likely a wise choice.
But the poster above is correct that Harry's tunnel experience in Vietnam is the core and being of who he is as a cop. It informs his life--the way he lives it, the way he sees things, and the way he knows to be cautious in threatening situations. The Black Echo explained it all perfectly.
The tunnel rat is who Harry is on the streets and on the job. It's what he knows and it's a great way to do writer's shorthand on who Harry's basic make-up as a person and a cop..
But they could not have it all I guess. Some compromises had to be done to bring it into contemporary LA. Glad Connelly got some tunnel mention in anyway with regard to Harry in Afghanistan.
Not exactly the same meaningful thing as the legendary tunnel rats of Vietnam lore, but it's something.
Indeed.
I wish they'd make some Micky Hallers on Amazon Prime. The Gods of Guilt, The Brass Verdict or The Fifth Witness would make fantastic tv series. Nobody writes courtroom twists and turns and red herrings like Connelly--and Haller ALWAYS has sumthin' up his sleeve to surprise us and give us that extra twist.
Those Haller courtroom scenes are works of high art! ha Seems like a gold mine sitting there waiting to be adapted.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought Season 5 was the weakest so far.
Though at first the problem I had (so thought it was only me) was that up until Season 5 they've been kind of using rather old books and starting from years ago and moving forward. Having read every book starting way back when they came out in the early 90s some of these stories were now "new" to me again when the show started back at the beginning of the series and was working forward. With the old stories and new twists to them, it was like watching something for the first time and it was great.
But for some reason this past year they jumped past a LOT of books and used a rather recent one, by comparison to ones over 10-20 years old--and it was Harry going undercover in the pills scam.
Unfortunately for me anyway, which took away from the season feeling "fresh" again, was that I'd just finished that book on my ipod a few months before the series aired.
That's why I thought maybe season 5's weaknesses were just me---because I'd just listened to the pills scam book very recently so it was just not a mystery at all about who dunnit and why.
There are SO many great books between the ones they left off with for Seasons 3 and 4. Wish they had not jumped into such a recent book, bypassing many that are worthy of the filmed series.
Might have something to do with the wife's character and Maddie. But they've managed to make those things work in the new timeline they have for Harry in the tv series. In the books he was a Vietnam vet, because the books began in the early 90s etc.
Here's hoping season 6 is better. Waiting a whole year in excitement to be let down is a bummer, ha.
Oh and another thing I found pushing me away from the series was the other book/story they used about the gangsters. Harry turned the house where his daughter lives into a slaughterhouse shoot out blood bath. He's a danger and is toxic to his daughter. I'm losing the love. Ugh.