Emily is threatened by Gina’s growing friendship with Shannon. Tamra and Shannon coach Vicki on how to deal with Kelly on their upcoming trip to Arizona. Kelly deals with family issues, as her brother JR encourages her to fix her estranged relationships with her mom and younger brother. Gina is frustrated by Emily’s repeated efforts to convince her to join the Vegas trip. Kelly, Shannon and Tamra get to know Braunwyn’s eccentric mom over dinner as they try to convince Kelly to go on the group trip to Arizona.
The Affair: Season 5 Episode 1
Aired: August 25, 2019
Synopsis: Noah embarks on his journey with the Descent movie by getting acquainted with his star, Sasha Mann. Helen mourns a tragic event. Sierra welcomes a new arrival. Joanie struggles with an upcoming birthday.
Directed by: Colin Bucksey
Written by: Sarah Treem
The Affair: Season 5 Episode 8
Aired: October 13, 2019
Synopsis: Allegations against Noah surface and he seeks guidance on how to handle the situation. Helen celebrates a birthday and protects Sierra during an extremely trying time.
Directed by: Reginald Hudlin
Story by: Kristina Woo & David Henry Hwang
Teleplay by: Kristina Woo & Sarah Treem
When this 30 for 30 got announced I got the idea to possibly do something like this. Originally I was going to try and do all 5 episodes in one post, but after listening to the first episode I quickly realized there's way too much to fit into just one post.
I basically tried to lay out everything notable worth mentioning after listening, however I'd highly recommend giving it a listen as just reading the text doesn't do it justice.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27399095/the-sterling-affairs-30-30-podcast-how-listen
Episode 1 Summary
2010 - 2012
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Sterling wasn't a basketball guy, he was a personal injury lawyer who got filthy rich off real estate.
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Shelly and Donald Sterling love to use the word fabulous.
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V Stiviano met Donald Sterling in 2010 at a Superbowl party.
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Stiviano changed her name to just the letter V shortly after meeting Donald.
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Stiviano had been running a food truck business and trying to get onto reality TV shows, before meeting Donald.
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Stiviano "broke every last rule in the mistress terms and agreements"
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Stiviano would tell people in the Clippers front office that “I’m going to own the office one day" and “This is going to be my team one day.”
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Stiviano would stalk Shelly Sterling and show up wherever she went
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Shelly and Donald sat in their courtside seats together. And V sat in her seats directly across the court. Other nights, V would sit next to Donald, and Shelly was nowhere to be seen.
Ryan Hollis:
> she would just parade around the arena and it was so awkward like we kind of know what’s going on but you’re doing it in front of our faces as if we were silly….so it was an odd, odd situation.
Matt Barnes:
> nobody liked her. we knew why she was here and we all thought it was crazy to begin with but you know it wasn’t our place to speak on it at the time.
> Shelly would call the team president Andy Roeser demanding that V not be allowed in the building. Then Donald would call Roeser and ask him to leave four tickets for her.
Christmas Day 2012 to January 1st 2013
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Stiviano called the Sterling household on Christmas day while all the Sterlings were sitting down for dinner
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Donald Sterling was pacing their tennis courts outside while arguing with Stiviano over the phone
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After the call ended, Shelly and Donald fought and their son Scott had to step in before it got violent. Scott demanded his father stop disrespec
I'm just looking to see what exactly Bernie is all about as off 2020.
In the last scene, Tony tells Silvio, Artie and Tony Blundetto about Fran and JFK's affair but he exaggerates it. I didn't understand why he did that. Was it just for effect ?
The Affair: Season 4 Episode 5
Aired: July 15, 2018
Synopsis: Vik decides it’s time he started living for himself. But is he ready to face the consequences? Cole meets Nan, an old friend of his father’s, who sends him on a journey to exorcise the ghosts of his past.
Directed by: Jessica Yu
Story by : David Henry Hwang
Teleplay by : David Henry Hwang & Sharr White
I’ve been looking for a while and I can’t seem to find a complete list anywhere. If anyone could make one or find one that would help a lot since I’m trying to find out just how many affairs he had
TOS:
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Charlie X
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Tomorrow is Yesterday
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This Side of Paradise
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Friday's Child
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Journey to Babel
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By Any Other Name
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The Ultimate Computer
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The Enterprise Incident
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That Which Survives
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The Way to Eden
TAS: Yesteryear
TNG:
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Encounter at Farpoint
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The Naked Now
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Lonely Among Us
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Too Short a Season
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Heart of Glory
DS9: Dax
Okay, to be fair, it's about 95% of the people mentioned, there were times where I just couldn't make out the name.
Here's the list, in order that they are mentioned in the podcast.
I'm hoping to spend some time researching all these folks mentioned, just another step forward in pursuit of knowledge and understanding of the world.
I also took some notes that I took that I decided to leave in.
- Richard Pryor
- Muhammad Ali
- Lenny bureaux
- George Carlin
- Sam Kinison
- Roseanne Barr
Jones riverJoan Rivers the comedian - thank you flickuppercut- Phillis diller
- Monique
- Ms. Patt comedian
- Aristophanes
- Plato
- Aristocracy (theme)
- Socrates
- Jonathon Swift
- Mark Twain
- Nathaniel west
- Ishmael Reed
Dose eskees? 16:50 (anyone want to take a stab at this name?)Fyodor Dostoevsky. (thank you BassJuices)- Franz kakfa
- Anton Chekhov (the student)
- Curtis mayfield
- Steven Sondheim
- Hobbs (the comic)
- Race matters by Cornell west
- Jesus
- Donald trump
- Omar talib
- Aretha Franklin
- Mary j blige
- Trumps mom (lol, not sure how much this one is worth exploring.)
- Shakespeare
- Thomas Moore
- G.K chesterton
- The squad (group of girls)
- Hillary Clinton 34:00
- Mitch McConell
- Francis belleme
- Elizabeth lee bates
- Walt Whitman
- John Dewey
- Helen Keller
- Ryan hole neighbor 20th century (this one might need some research on, I believe it's around the 36:00 mark)
- Martin Luther king jr
- Ella Baker
- Joseph McCarthy
- Smith act (communism)
- Benjamin Davis
- Karl Marx
- Jeff stout philosopher (egalitarian freedom tradition)
- Anne Braden
- Miles Horton
- Rosa parks
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua
- Edward zahid
- Louie Armstrong
- Brubeck (artist)
- Paul Desmond
- David rottenger
- Noam Chomsky
- Stanley aronowtiz
- Rockefeller’s
- Harry Bridges
- Long shorman
- Jack London
- Zed Oakland 53:00
- Bernie Sanders
- Upton Sinclair (child labor)
Kronkite (?)Walter Cronkite the broadcaster - thank you flickuppercut- Samuel Beckett
- Michael wood (officer from Baltimore)
- John brown white supremacy
- Marie Ellen pleasant
- Lydia Maria childs (author)
- David walker author colored
- Dorris day
- Martin Heidegger
- August Wilson playwright
- Sarah Vaughn
- Roman bearden
- Mary barrack
- Phillip Roth
- Roberto Unger
- Ashford and Simpson
- Beethoven
- Stephen Sondheim
- Sweeney Todd
- Rakim
- Tupac
- LeBron James
- Jordan
- Jerry West
- Muhammad Ali
- Jack Johnson boxer
- Prince
- Miles Davis
- Elijah Muhammad
- Malcom x
- Na
My wife and son are Star Trek fans, but they're not as afflicted as I am, so I curated a selection of episodes to watch before the debut of Picard. I chose episodes based on their focus, so long as they fell into one of five categories: Picard episode, Data episode, Seven episode, Romulan episode, and Borg episode. Also, every episode I chose had to at least be "pretty good."
(Of course, at this stage, we don't really know how much screen time Seven will get in the new series, for example, so watching a bunch of Voyager episodes may prove to be a waste of time if she's only in it for an episode. That's the risk and your mileage may vary.)
In order:
ENT - "Minefield"
(See below for "Regeneration")
ENT - "United"
ENT - "The Aenar"
TOS - "Balance of Terror"
(Didn't include "The Deadly Years" as the Romulans weren't really a focus of the episode.)
TOS - "The Enterprise Incident"
TNG - "Encounter at Farpoint"
TNG - "The Battle"
TNG - "Datalore"
(Didn't choose "The Neutral Zone" because the Romulan story was a relatively minor B-plot compared to the awakened cryo-sleepers.)
TNG - "The Measure of a Man"
TNG - "Q Who"
TNG - "Who Watches the Watchers"
TNG - "The Enemy"
TNG - "The Defector"
TNG - "The Offspring"
TNG - "Allegiance"
TNG - "Captain's Holiday"
TNG - "Sarek"
TNG - "The Best of Both Worlds"
(Just for kicks, when Admiral Hanson's signal cut out during the Battle of Wolf 359, I paused the Blu-ray and went to the CBS app and we watched the first few minutes of DS9's "The Emissary." It was pretty cool.)
TNG - "Family"
TNG - "Brothers"
TNG - "Data's Day"
TNG - "Qpid"
TNG - "The Drumhead"
TNG - "The Mind's Eye"
TNG - "Darmok"
TNG - "Unification"
TNG - "I, Borg"
TNG - "The Inner Light"
TNG - "Chain of Command"
TNG - "Face of the Enemy"
TNG - "Tapestry"
TNG - "Starship Mine"
TNG - "Lessons"
TNG - "The Chase"
TNG - "Descent"
TNG - "Gambit"
TNG - "Attached"
TNG - "The Pegasus" (At least for the teaser scene set on "Captain Picard Day")
TNG - "All Good Things ..."
Star Trek: Generations
(I contemplated adding some DS9 Romulan episodes, but because the Romulans were present only as a player in the Dominion War, that felt a bit off topic.)
Star Trek: First Contact
ENT - "Regeneration"
VOY - "Unity" (as suggested by u/Xenics)
VOY - "Scorpion"
VOY - "The Raven"
VOY - "The Omega Directive"
VOY - "Drone"
VOY
... keep reading on reddit ➡13 - Lee INV (his thought process is never shown even when he is extremely critical to the result lol)
12 - Jacqui INV
11 - Tarzan INV
10 - Locky UTR 2 (big character in S2, one of the smallest ones here)
9 - Zach MOR P 2 (as he himself said: "Surprise!")
8- Sharn CP 2 (very low visibility, has been improving somewhat lately)
7 - AK CP 2 (and even that may be a stretch)
6 - Nick CP 3 (probably just a fan-favorite edit, also bad position in the game)
5 - Shonee CP 3 (another fan-favorite edit, has gone really quiet after her "revenge" arc was completed)
4 - David OTT 4 (I can already see the episode where he is blindsided with two idols in his pocket as clearly as if it has already been shown)
3 - Brooke MOR 3 (another very mild edit, with some potential to blow up post-merge)
2 - Harry CP 3 (one of my only two real contenders at the moment, really a very well-rounded edit that's neither too big nor too small)
1- Moana CP 3 (it's a close call if she or Harry should be at the top spot. They both have a hint of arrogance in their confessionals that's a bit worrying - but they're still far ahead of anyone else, imho).
I'm fairly new at this, any alternative points-of-view welcome!
I'm not sure how many people are actually interested at this point in this series.
I binge-watched all of the first season this week-end. I found a clue in the finale, something that might be a key to a better understanding of what's going on here.
In episode 10, Alison is talking to Phoebe about the affair, and in particular about a moment near the beginning of it.
>ALISON - There was this moment at the very beginning... when I was walking away from Noah and he grabbed my hand and he pulled me back to him. And he just looked at me. He really just looked at me. It was the most perfect erotic moment of my life. And I sometimes think like everything that's happened since is just us circling each other trying to get back to that moment and...
>PHOEBE - ...yeah. But you never can.
>ALISON - but why not?
>PHOEBE - Because it wasn't real.
...cut to Alison waking up.
I initially posted it as a comment in another thread about the viewpoints, who was lying and who was truthful. I want to examine this moment a bit further. I think it's a very important moment to understand the show a bit better. I will first mention that there is a possibility that the above scene never happened and was a dream, but this would have other implications outside of the scope of this post.
During this discussion between Alison and Phoebe we see a flashback to another scene. The other scene is from Episode 3:
- the flashback is mirrored, horizontally flipped. It's an Alison flashback to a Noah scene. This might be a clue to understanding a couple things a bit better. Are there other scenes that are horizontally mirrored like this one?
- the flashback is silent. The original is not, it's essentially a monologue by Noah, how he needs to be in control. Here's the dialogue.
> NOAH - Listen. You can't rush me. We have to do this at my speed, okay?
> ALISON - Okay.
> NOAH - I know I sound like an asshole but I want to be in charge, okay?
> ALISON - Okay.
> NOAH - Okay, good. Kiss me.
- the moment happened after the town council meeting. The two accounts for the evening vary wildly. Note that either way, Noah didn't make it to the council. Since we now know that this scene happened for both of them, we can only speculate when exactly did it happen. For Noah, it was at night, right after talking to Oscar, right after the town council, and it was over in time to catch his family watching a movie on TV. Allison was wearing a dress during the flashbac
Emily is threatened by Gina’s growing friendship with Shannon. Tamra and Shannon coach Vicki on how to deal with Kelly on their upcoming trip to Arizona. Kelly deals with family issues, as her brother JR encourages her to fix her estranged relationships with her mom and younger brother. Gina is frustrated by Emily’s repeated efforts to convince her to join the Vegas trip. Kelly, Shannon and Tamra get to know Braunwyn’s eccentric mom over dinner as they try to convince Kelly to go on the group trip to Arizona.
