Production of the season started very late, like over a month after everything else. I would assume it would be to accommodate Gina's movie schedule or something like that.
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Production of the season started very late, like over a month after everything else. I would assume it would be to accommodate Gina's movie schedule or something like that.
That actually makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
mugurumakensei
Member
You mean Brogelio.
Maybe? I never cared about Rafael enough to notice.
Michael tries his hand at a new career in the promo for next year's episodes.
Leona Lewis
Banned
Wow, that episode was stellar.
The writing and the direction were so on point. And even the dialogue seemed to have a more naturalistic, improvisational feel than usual (like Michael and Jane's conversation about religion, Rafael's "Amen," Jane and Xo locking horns about Bruce, and Michael's wonderfully deadpan delivery throughout the episode). The acting seemed to be more down to earth and less scripted, if that makes any sense.
So how long until he next episode? EDIT: Oh, after Inauguration Day. That's a long time to wait after only 7 episode :-(
Oh, and #nunsontherun is officially my new favorite hashtag.
The writing and the direction were so on point. And even the dialogue seemed to have a more naturalistic, improvisational feel than usual (like Michael and Jane's conversation about religion, Rafael's "Amen," Jane and Xo locking horns about Bruce, and Michael's wonderfully deadpan delivery throughout the episode). The acting seemed to be more down to earth and less scripted, if that makes any sense.
So how long until he next episode? EDIT: Oh, after Inauguration Day. That's a long time to wait after only 7 episode :-(
Oh, and #nunsontherun is officially my new favorite hashtag.
No new episode until Jan 23rd, almost 2 months away? Yet No Tomorrow keeps going with the new episodes at least through next week? I guess they are trying to burn that off, but still. It's painful after only 7 episodes and a late start to the season. Gina is getting too popular and busy for this show. 
Advocatus Diaboli
Member
What a fantastic midseason finale. I take this show at face value, revel in the twists, and don't think too hard about it, so Rafael's parentage surprised me. (I wonder if Rose knew all along? Or Luisa?)
As far as some general thoughts, as much as I was Team Rafael in Season 1, I'm glad the show's moved past the love triangle aspect and has developed ways to integrate different pairings. The Rafael/Rogelio bromance is probably my favorite thing on the show . . . and the Michael/Rogelio bromance follows it.
I wonder if Catalina's just a red herring. She's trouble, but I sincerely hope she's not another crime lord or golddigger; I just hope she has some much-needed nuance. Petra started as a one-note character and (really) quickly turned into my favorite character, after all.
My only real complaint is that it looks like Xo's irrationally backsliding and that they're running out of material for her besides part-time jobs and part-time lovers. Even Alba's getting more character growth than she is.
As far as some general thoughts, as much as I was Team Rafael in Season 1, I'm glad the show's moved past the love triangle aspect and has developed ways to integrate different pairings. The Rafael/Rogelio bromance is probably my favorite thing on the show . . . and the Michael/Rogelio bromance follows it.
I wonder if Catalina's just a red herring. She's trouble, but I sincerely hope she's not another crime lord or golddigger; I just hope she has some much-needed nuance. Petra started as a one-note character and (really) quickly turned into my favorite character, after all.
My only real complaint is that it looks like Xo's irrationally backsliding and that they're running out of material for her besides part-time jobs and part-time lovers. Even Alba's getting more character growth than she is.
The "big reveal" was kind of underwhelming. So Rafael ISN'T blood related to a family of crime lords and this is a... bad thing? And he's actually Italian, which means Matelio, Anna, and Elsa are actually half-Italian. Ok...?
Kind of getting sick of Jane and Michael having minor dumb fights every episode after getting married. I don't know if we're in the minority or what, but my husband and I have never had a disconnect of communication like they seem to have.
Kind of getting sick of Jane and Michael having minor dumb fights every episode after getting married. I don't know if we're in the minority or what, but my husband and I have never had a disconnect of communication like they seem to have.
The big reveal is more about the emotional impact it has on Rafael rather than anything like ethnicity. He's had this huge, conflicting relationship with the awful Solanos (and Luisa, bless her) his whole life. He feels obligated to do things like protect his father's legacy. Ideally this'll help him separate from a pretty self destructive cycle. Plus maybe he'll have nice birth parents.
And yeah Jane and Michael fighting over the tiny things is getting annoying. I know they don't want to show them as perfect or make Michael a doormat but it'd be nice to mix it up. It's fun when they work together on that goofy level.
I'm not doing that, it's Rafael who's doing that to himself. Besides it's been pretty well established that the Solanos are awful, awful parents too. They're not adoptive parents so much as someone who BOUGHT him. Probably healthy for Rafael if he can distance himself.
I'm sure he won't suddenly stop loving Luisa, but the next best character out of that family is what, his father? He was a criminal but at least unlike the rest he didn't kill anyone.
I didn't mean you were personally doing that, I'm saying that if that's what the show is going for, they're undermining the adoptive child/parent relationship.
She's been unsufferable about a lot of shit lately. That seems to be the weekly thing: Jane is unsufferable about something->gets told->she calms down a bit.
Xo still acting like a damn child with this Bruno thing.
They would be undermining horrible adoptive child parent relationships. The Solanos are awful parents regardless of biology.
He's not going to disown his adoptive sister.
No new episode until Jan 23rd, almost 2 months away? Yet No Tomorrow keeps going with the new episodes at least through next week? I guess they are trying to burn that off, but still. It's painful after only 7 episodes and a late start to the season. Gina is getting too popular and busy for this show.
Oh! Dang. I didn't realize that was the midseason finale. O_O I just came in here to lament no new ep this week. Ah, well. Terrific ep last week. (I've been really enjoying this season a lot, more than some parts of S2, but I know that's a minority opinion ITT so I was especially glad to see more people keen on the latest ep.)
Leona Lewis
Banned
I'm in full agreement that this season is better than S2 in most ways. Last season's finale was one of the series' best episodes, but it took a lot of boring Michael vs. Rafael episodes (a love triangle I was never really interested in) to get there.
What really annoyed the crap out of me tbh in S2 was the forced moment of Michael accidentally hurting Mateo. It's not as though Michael learned something from that moment, I have no doubt he would be a tender parent regardless of that and we hadn't seen any pattern of aggression from him that that was the culmination of. So yeah, some of the Michael vs. Rafe stuff was super tiring last season. Also, for me, Sin Rostro has been the dullest subplot of the series along w/ most anything Luisa, so any of that in S1-2 fell flat for me, and when I read that they wanted to use the reveal of Rose as the cop from S2 whose name is escaping me who I originally thought was Rose but then thought they proved wasn't and then it's a silly Mission Impossible mask, that they wanted to use this reveal to explore Rose's character and how a criminal mastermind could also love someone, well... it hasn't been a strong suit this season either, so I'm glad it's been more limited.
So yeah, very keen on this season so far! It's dialed back what I personally didn't like as much and has had a nice zoomed-in focus on everyday life and conflicts for Jane. And, everything with Petra for that soapy goodness.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Fun episode. Glad that Petra is back in power.
Btw there's some wild potential, spoilers that came from a Spanish interview Ivonne Coll gave. It's crazy they'd let an actor let something like this slip. Click at your own risk. I wouldn't want to be spoiled on this and hope it isn't true:
Btw there's some wild potential, spoilers that came from a Spanish interview Ivonne Coll gave. It's crazy they'd let an actor let something like this slip. Click at your own risk. I wouldn't want to be spoiled on this and hope it isn't true:
Michael will die in a few episodes, Jane's a widow, four year time skip.
Oh shit. Glad I read that spoiler, honestly. This show needs some more momentum to keep me going. Crazy that they spilled that though. Fuckin' Abuela!
Haven't watched this week's episode; will do so tonight. I can't really remember what happened 2 months ago. First time a recap will actually do me some good.
Wow, I really hope that IS true. Sounds really exciting.
Advocatus Diaboli
Member
100% agreed.
He's the worst character on the show -- I mean, there's literally nothing left to do with him. Especially after tonight's episode.
eternalcircle
Member
Regarding the above spoilers...
Maybe it will happen on the February 6th episode. It said Jennie Snyder Urman is co writing it and it seems like she usually writes the big ones. She hasn't written one since the season 3 premiere.
Yeah that's the episode that was mentioned in relation to the spoiler. Gina's said some
big changes are coming in the show soon and I think she's changed to a more mature hairstyle
I mean I get how it'd be good for
Jane's character arc and to reinvigorate some of the plots that've been dragging but boy do I love Michael
eternalcircle
Member
So this must mean that Jane and Rafael are endgame then. Maybe they're finding it increasingly hard to give Rafael storylines that don't involve going after Jane, lol. Either that or they're going to have Jane raise him alone. I don't see them bringing in some random love interest.
eternalcircle
Member
I love how everyone in this thread is excited for this. 😂
Maybe not. No Tomorrow
gave the main character a new love interest in the final episode and made it work. Still, I think Jane and Rafael make a good couple, so I'm cool with them getting back together.
eternalcircle
Member
I would be too! I think they'd make a good couple. I just thought that if anything, Rafael would end up back with Petra, lol. It seemed like that's what they were hinting at for a while and it would kind of make sense. But I'd prefer him with Jane.
I don't think
Petra getting back with him is happening anymore. She's way too pissed at him.
VICTORsaurio
Member
Lol at that spoiler,
I mean we all saw it coming by last years finale, only to end up being a fake out and then turning out to be the real deal.
eternalcircle
Member
I kind of love it though.
Most people probably won't see it coming for that exact reason. They think he's safe now.
Good episode. Petra continues to impress.
Interestingly the next two episodes are BOTH written by Jennie Urman, so read into that how you will. The episode promo for next week shows something small but powerful:
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Interestingly the next two episodes are BOTH written by Jennie Urman, so read into that how you will. The episode promo for next week shows something small but powerful:
Rogelio's penis. The promos are basically for the Rogelio show now.
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Advocatus Diaboli
Member
I'm going to enjoy the big reveal of
!
But really, I just want some
. I would rather see a Scott/Esteban buddy cop episode.
Sin Rostro ripping off Michael's face, as Michael actually died at the end of season 2, which by some technicalities makes Jane a virgin again
But really, I just want some
death to the worst character on the show
This would be amazing if it were real.
eternalcircle
Member
Did it happen?!
Won't get to watch until tomorrow
Won't get to watch until tomorrow
That's an alarming response.