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    Dr Emilio LizardoGenevieve Valentine
    2/20/18 6:06am

    I seem to forget most of what happened moments after the show ends. It’s just not making much of an impression beyond the sometimes over-indulgent cinematography.

    I also still have trouble with Teddy Roosevelt. He’s too historic a figure for all this. He has better than plot-armor, he has history-armor. Like when Connor tells him that he’ll be sorry for demanding his badge and gun. Really? I mean he may suffer some setbacks in his life, but I’m pretty sure things are going to work out OK for him in the end.

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      storynerdDr Emilio Lizardo
      2/20/18 6:57am

      I don’t know. It could dash any dreams he had of becoming president.

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      DR DarkeDr Emilio Lizardo
      2/20/18 9:13am

      Its’anough to make the Ganglia...Twitch, Dr. Lizardo!

      I keep coming back to discovering Sean Astin was originally chosen to play TR, and wondering how much better the Roosevelt parts of the show would be with him in the role. As a hardcore politics nerd (I once sat at the same table as him for an hour as he talked one of the GoT actors off the ledge about Brexit), Astin would have known Roosevelt was deeply...passionate about everything, basically, and one reason he accomplished so much was he just sort of swept you along with him.

      The novel begins with Moore and Kreizler meeting for lunch following Roosevelt’s funeral, and even now I remember Moore commenting on how impossible it was to imagine Roosevelt dead, as he was always so full of life and enthusiasms, ranging from a Nationwide Minimum Wage to Saving the Spotted Owl. It also discusses, at some length, their friendship - a friendship which seems basically nonexistent here with Brian Geraghty in the role, but which I would have expected Sean Astin to highlight in his performance.

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    NevermindGenevieve Valentine
    2/20/18 1:11am

    This show is a blast to watch. Yes indeed, Genevieve Valentine, it is weird and that’s why I love it so. On top of all the main quirky perversions, now we have more Kreizler secrets to reveal, unexplained reactions from John Moore and Jocasta Complex to boot!

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      EricMontreal22Nevermind
      2/20/18 4:59am

      I agree. I could quibble about some things, but the episodes seem to fly by—partly due to the weird.

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    FatherOctavianGenevieve Valentine
    2/19/18 10:39pm

    Stephen Louis Grush’s appearance as Jesse Pomeroy was the first time since this series began where the actor didn’t feel acutely aware that he was in a period piece.

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      NevermindFatherOctavian
      2/20/18 1:15am

      Agreed. Furthermore, his face wasn’t so ugly, all those murders because of an eye? Nah.

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    bigstimpycatGenevieve Valentine
    2/19/18 10:51pm

    i loved this book but could only get through 2 episodes of this show.

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      kinjwhatbigstimpycat
      2/19/18 11:39pm

      So far it seems like they have changed the killer from the one in the book. But then Kreizler said Willem isn’t the killer so I still have hope he’s a red herring. I’ll be pretty disappointed if they go with the rich guy, the profile of the book’s killer is so unexpected and specific and interesting compared to Willem. It would also be a pretty poor mystery if everyone except our heroes already knows who did it.

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      Nevermindkinjwhat
      2/20/18 1:01am

      But, but, but...he has silver teeth! What of that?

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    DR DarkeGenevieve Valentine
    2/20/18 12:35am
    • If I see one more period procedural where the aggrieved companion-apprentice waits until they’re on the train to ask where they’re going instead of just refusing to board until they get a mission briefing, I don’t know what I’m going to do.

    In “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”, Sherlock Holmes tries to keep Dr. Watson out of his plan to burgle Milverton’s study for what he’s using to blackmail Holmes’s client - but Watson categorically refuses to let him go alone. That’s a nice twist-up on “Bringing the Reluctant Companion/Apprentice Into Potential Danger”....

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    SteveResGenevieve Valentine
    4/24/18 3:31pm

    I could have done without that direct lift from The Silence Of The Lambs. They made such drama out of Roosevelt approaching and hammering the door you could see the switcheroo coming a mile away. I found that hugely disappointing, but the rest of the episode was very good. I was relieved to see Roosevelt finally growing a pair and firing that awful Captain.

    The cast are fantastic, I love their interactions, particularly Kreizler and John, Kreizler and Sara, Sara and the Jewish brothers, and well, John with anyone else to be fair. More David Warner please!

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    Kaneda JonesGenevieve Valentine
    2/21/18 8:38am

    you take this show on one end and altered carbon on the other and think real hard on it and realize that real life is just the current, bland because its familiar, boring cinematography version of “rich people do what they want”.

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    JulianWithTheRedCorvetteGenevieve Valentine
    2/20/18 9:09am

    I’d be all for The Alienist getting weirder. This show already kinda reminds me of Penny Dreadful; PD was at it’s best when it slid feet first into Gothic Camp Weirdness.

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    Architeuthis Ex MachïnaGenevieve Valentine
    2/21/18 7:42am

    Whoa, I didn’t realize that was Sean Young!

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    The Kinja Caffeine SpiderGenevieve Valentine
    2/21/18 12:54am

    Who expected it to do anything else?

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