Recent content by JLZ

Not my cleverest thought.

BBM, because the defence appear to be resiling from the agreed facts? If the defence hadn't conceded certain facts the prosecution might have wanted to bring additional evidence.

"The real Erin". I suggest that there isn't one presentation that's real and the rest are fake. I think she isn't connected up underneath, and whatever she's performing at the time is as real as she gets. I'm thinking of the religious conversion experience, the series of contrasting...

And notice that she's triangulating in both directions. Wanting the parents to side with her against Simon. And complaining to Simon about his parents, as we saw with the birthday invitation, expecting him to support her position of grievance.

I suspect that on some level before Simon declared himself separated Erin thought that her marriage was a brilliant success on her own original design, and that Simon recognized his privilege in being part of it.

I think you're approaching this backwards. Have you heard anything to make you think she murdered people? After you've made that call, you can reflect on her character, or not. Either way she'll be human, complex and imperfect.

I hadn't read that far when I posted, and then I saw you said the same thing, but faster.

To put it delicately, the child is loyal.

I think she is raising the possibility that the death cap traces in the dehydrator were from another foraging occasion when she did not eat or feed anybody the mushrooms because the experiment didn't work to her satisfaction. That the death caps that killed the guests could have been from...

She could confess on the stand, wouldn't that be dramatic, and it would stop the case right there. But perhaps she's enjoying the catharsis, doesn't want it to stop.

It's not the bad language or the expression of anger that bothers me. It's the fiction. Like she's playing a noir version of the Sims or something.

I wondered if they were trying to present him as a gold-digger, with the first inheritance coming just before they married.

It might be leading up to saying she hardly ate any of the lunch, because she has emotional issues with food and this was a stressful occasion.

It would be, but then you factor in a hypochondriac hospital-phobic manipulative mother, and his emotional state is anyone's guess.

Her "communication style" has my blood pressure zooming. He didn't say she was ridiculous--but if he did--she just called his father a liar! He's trying to talk her down. I'd be wanting to knock her down. Then, she'd like not to react that way (aggressively) again? How about saying she...