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Yep this is a great show. Great cast. Lot's of twists and turns, double-crosses, uncertainty about true motivations of the characters. Highly recommend for anyone that likes engrossing spy thriller shows.

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adopted a child from a Russian orphanage

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Within the last year I have met two different (unrelated) guys who have adult daughters that they adopted from Russia as infants. Both guys are successful businessmen, and the daughters were apparently raised in upper middle class households and given every advantage possible. Both described essentially the same situation...namely, no matter how good things go for the daughters, they eventually do something to self-sabotage the situation. They both described a constant cycle of the girls starting to get on track (start college, do well at a job, hang out with good friends, etc.) but then they inevitably do something to destroy it all. Then they start getting better with help, but eventually do it all over again. They both also described the girls causing serious conflict within the household by going against other siblings or the moms.

The dads are stuck because they love their daughters and feel obligated to help them like any troubled child...but they resign themselves to the fact that it will just happen again. And the dads also have to be protective of the other family members. It sounds heartbreaking and exhausting. It sounds like the girls both have some type of internal trauma or "programming" that they just can't seem to shake.

Church should hire Deacon Dustin after he gets back from Atlanta

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decimated

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Only 10%???!!!???

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Now do Trump.

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Y’all really try your best to ruin everything.

Off the top of my head… the class-based mockery of Marmalade and Babs, Niedermeyer as a pre-Vietnam character seen through post-Vietnam perspective, the subtle racism of the bar scene (NL was not racially PC at all), the ruse of using an obituary to trick and seduce Fawn’s roommate, “Senator and Mrs Blutarsky”

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AH has essentially nothing to do w/NL

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I was an avid reader of NL magazine in the 70s and I thought Animal House shared a lot of the same type of humor. There were some raunchy things, but there were also some clever humor that could have come straight out of the magazine.

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Animal House sucks, and was horribly damaging in its influence on movie comedy

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Strongly disagree with this one. National Lampoon magazine stood out as raunchy but still wildly clever in the mid-to-late 70s...Animal House was the first mainstream movie that really captured that ethos.

Can a movie that truly sucks be deeply influential on an entire genre? I don't think it can. The fact that imitators/copiers failed to hit the mark should not count against AH.

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I saw The Who during their farewell tour in Worcester, MA in 1982...

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I saw a Who farewell tour in the Astrodome in 1990. I really believed it was the end of an era and felt that I had to drive 4 hours each way and stay in a hotel to see something special. As they continued to play live I was a little bitter about the deceptive tactics, But it became so common that I got over it. And Pete Townshend is such a musical genius I couldn't stay mad at him.

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you made the case for how idiotic Trump and his advisors are

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Nope. I hope that you are at least getting paid a penny a post or something like that for spewing this nonsense.