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4.08 - Coffee, Tea or Steele - hi there, absurd depraved 80's decadence! Arab oil sheikhs and everything! So Laura gets sidelined and harassed for being a woman, which hasn't been a major theme for a while, at least not this blatantly. I wonder if it's deliberately to go hand in hand with the odious 1%er setting. 

4.09 - Good grief, cheekbones. Also, suspenders. On to the list of things we need to get men wearing again you go.   Also, "Kafkaesque". Aw, and Laura takes Christmas really seriously. Of course she does. And Steele...doesn't. Because *wibble*. No fair pulling the Dickensian stuff like that in what starts out as a silly episode, and with cheekbones and suspenders. Really, it's just bloody cheating. *wibble*. 

That image of the top floors of a very tall, steel and glass, building exploding, ouch. What history will do to a nice piece of  Christmas thriller-farce. And Vietnam, also ouch. I can't tell how much of this is supposed to be played for laughs (everything is about 'Nam, man*) and how much is just tragic. Or both, or how we're supposed to swing along with the changing emotional tone of the episode. Whatever, it works for me. And I really should have called who the villain was!


*I did a couple weeks of watches in psycho-settlements out past Hebron back in boot camp. We were once greeted by a man in a cowboy hat, an ankle length coat, a long white beard and two pistols on his belt, who explained in this amazing American accent that he used to in the Marines, man, in 'Nam, man, and he's got more weapons than a platoon in his house, man, and if anyone he didn't like so much as looked sideways at him, he'd blow their head off. Man. Didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

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