I'm not sure I'd rule out Baby Billy somehow either.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
can't rule out Aimee-Leigh either
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
its gotta be eric andre hes got the motive and he would have the cool motobois too
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
what if Joe Jonas is actually the man at the top of that operation?
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
he does have tremendous presence
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
im just thinkin bout the eli/gideon motorcycle transition from the season opener
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
Good memory! Also, would kind of justify Gideon being all but AWOL this season; I think his siblings have had more lines than he has.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
Gideon is interesting, but it's hard to piece together a motive for killing Eli. He is mad about getting the Grandaddy Roy house? He didn't seem that upset about it, and it would likely fall on Jesse. I suppose he may now be too loyal to Jesse and his mother, killing Eli to help them out? It seems likely that he'd love his own Grandfather. Perhaps he's discovered something about Eli's past and views it as hypocritical and/or revealing his own inner mean streak.
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
idk iirc gideon in the bible tests god three times so maybe this is a 3 season arc lol
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
the bikers are the 4 Jonas brothers, right?
― frogbs, Sunday, 13 February 2022 22:50 (two years ago) link
Well they finally gave Gideon something to do huh
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2022 13:14 (two years ago) link
i did find it funny every time they chased the motorcycle gang, only to face a hail of bullets, like they didn't anticipate they would shoot at them.
lol at Gideon using the underside of the motorcycle as a shield.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 February 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link
and throwing star in BJ's head, lol.
fwiw I feel like if you were on a moving motorcycle and started firing an automatic weapon like that the recoil would throw you off the bike pretty much instantaneously
lotta plot threads to wrap up in these final two episodes, seems clear that the bikers were sent by the Lissons and that Junior probably knows Eli likely had something to do with his Dad's disappearance but its still pretty unclear what happened to Schwartzman's character. thinking one of these eps is going to show that whole scene
― frogbs, Monday, 14 February 2022 15:43 (two years ago) link
There has to be at least one episode in every Hill/McBride show where you finish an episode and wonder, “what the fuck did I just watch?”
this one definitely had some of that energy
― mh, Monday, 14 February 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
I understand they want to delay the reveal payoff a little longer, but it was driving me nuts that neither Jesse nor Gideon walked over and yanked off the bikers' helmet.
Poor Keefe gettin' poked in the eye.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 February 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
totally called that right before it happened
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 14 February 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
xp The way this season has been, they probably all shook it off and got a move on before they had a chance. This was bizarre. Loved it.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 14 February 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
I did too, but I can't say I anticipated the particular, er, angle we'd get on what happened.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 February 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
This was some quality ridiculously awesomely bad (so, awesome) television. All the barfing, the well telegraphed glory hole telescope to the eye, the ninja star in the head, the cattle prod holster ... basically next level fucking around what-the -fuckery.
They did have that close-up (misdirect?) of a long-haired blonde guy in the audience at their sermon, then you see long blonde hair sticking out of a guy's helmet. The only long haired blonde guy I recall (besides Keef) is the wrestler that was sent to threaten Eli. But this show ... none of that shit really matters. This show is the kind of goof-off where you can clearly see a guy's long blonde hair sticking out from under a helmet, but when they go to unmask him it'll turn out to be Eric Andre. There's got to be something liberating about introducing a plot-heavy melodrama that has no interest in logic or reason or anything, just a hilariously indulgent goof, including all the stuff that's not funny. In that sense it kind of reminds me of "Arrested Development," and if "AD" hadn't done it first (?) "Gemstones" is the kind of show that I could have seen ending each episode with a "next week" preview of stuff that never happens.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 14:08 (two years ago) link
MacCaulay CULKIN!!!!
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 03:43 (two years ago) link
for a show that has pretty short episodes, and short seasons, I really feel like they've been milking things since episode 5.
not that it wasn't 'good' per se, but there's been a lot of wheel spinning ever since episode 5.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 03:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah with only two episodes left I was surprised a lot more didn’t happen there but the finale oughta be pretty good
― frogbs, Monday, 21 February 2022 06:00 (two years ago) link
Alright now I think Amber is behind everything.
― Chris L, Monday, 21 February 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
well she did shoot one of them so
― frogbs, Monday, 21 February 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
Not fatally
― Chris L, Monday, 21 February 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
I haven’t charted out how it makes sense or anything, just have a feeling that’s where they’re going with it.
― Chris L, Monday, 21 February 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me since Eli was supposed to be on that bus and unless I'm forgetting something Amber didn't seem to put up much of a fight getting on it herself. also the Lissons are definitely involved, didn't they mention early on that they ran some charity for troubled teens or something? so that's who the cycle ninjas were. the idea that they would go through all this for just a $10m investment is kinda nuts so there's likely a bit more to the story. and it's still unclear what happened to the reporter and the two other people at his place. obviously the implication is that Junior did it but it kinda seems that he's just a low level goon? were any of those guys ever shown actually killing anyone?
― frogbs, Monday, 21 February 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
reporter was killed by Baby Billy for not letting him use his HBO Max password anymore
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
wait I forgot they were orphans. which explains why they had "no records"?
― frogbs, Monday, 21 February 2022 16:20 (two years ago) link
the reporter said he had dirt on Eli's wife and we never found out what that was?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
now she's yukkin it up with Uncle Baby Billy
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
MacCaulay was all, "fucking no way is my little brother going to be the only one with that premium cable show shine".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
I don't think that was anything, just poking around to see if Eli would reveal anything. Junior did say that he came by to talk to him so I'm guessing the story was actually about Eli's wrestling goon past
I don't think Eli murdered anyone but I would guess that next week we're gonna find out that the story about why he had blood on his pants was not exactly true
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
yeah I think the dirt on Eli's wife was basically the reporter trying to 'relieve' Eli into thinking he didn't know anything about the REAL shit he was up to in his past, and that he'd be more willing to give a softball interview about his wife's rudeness and as a side benefit, could show he didn't duck teh reporter. but Eli don't roll that way.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
Eli killed the reporter.
the reporter secretly sent back a video to his family back home and said IF I'M NOT HOME IN ONE WEEK, CALL THESE PEOPLE.
which were his motorcycle mafia friends. who he also bought drugs from.
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
I don't think Eli or any of the other Gemstones are murderers. besides Tiffany of course
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
maybe it's Torsten trying to get all da houses
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
eli got the blood on him cause hes a damn vampire, he became a vampire
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
i was thinking Amber maaaybe but reporter theory seems more “plausible”… not that anything is really actually plausible lolhow good was Macaulay tho love a Culkin!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
right Amber willingly stepping into a bus she knew Eli was going to be murdered in doesn't make sense BUT I did think the Gemstones maybe had their own drivers so the motorcycle crew knowing where they'd be was kind of odd. idk this show stretches reality quite a bit so I'm expecting something crazy
that said the one thing that really bothers me is that "Eli Gemstone" is his actual name, even when he was a goon slumming it in Memphis.
and yeah Macaulay Culkin was great, perfect casting
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
What a weird, goofy, bizarre show.
The signs at the rollercoaster were all time. "Thou Shalt Hold On," "Thou Shalt Have Fun," "Thou Shalt Loop the Loop" ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 01:18 (two years ago) link
You missed the best one “Thou shalt not be sick”
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 01:52 (two years ago) link
moving company in recent episode was called “Smooth Move”s/out to the exlax commercial
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
Almost forgot the other gag, their warm-up vocalizing. "Children of the Corn," "Dane Cook" ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
the fake restaurants that seem real!
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
i cant remember if it was this ep or the one before it but i really liked when baby billy tried to peel out & trashed his trailer of health elixir
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link
the chicken restaurant having a gravy version of the coca-cola freestyle machine kills me
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 14:45 (two years ago) link
one weird thing someone noticed is if you freeze frame the receipt of Baby Billy's purchases you find out the show is set in October 2022
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link
maybe we’ll get the gravy machine by then
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link