this is gonna get autobiographical

Cordelia Cupp

they showed that eyewitness testimonies are generally pretty unreliable and you have to take them with a grain of salt

just because there is evidence of someone doing something suspicious does not mean they are the murderer or a suspect (ex. minor spoiler: just because a man is wearing the dead person’s shirt doesn’t mean that he’s the murderer it literally just means that he’s wearing the dead guy’s shirt and that alone is not evidence that he murdered him)

Detective Cordelia Cupp

the love story between Elsyie and Bruce

the young boy whose special interest is the White House, which meant that he was able to help on the case

Cordelia! Cupp!

Sheila! the fanboy Secret Service Agent! pretty much all of the staff

Kylie Minogue

Detective Cupp

Things I didn’t like about The Residence:

they didn’t reveal in the last episode that Hugh Jackman actually was there and had been playing himself the whole time

The color is bright, the dark scenes aren't hard to see stuff in, it's crisp. I have a deep fondness for being able to see the fucking screen.

ALSO also, they are really weirdly good about a tone shift when people would normally be yelling. Like, instead of making you cuss and reach for the volume because SUDDENLY YELLING right in the middle of everyone talking quietly, most of the telling is muted (toned down, but not silent). This made it REALLY easy to not worry about volume control every ten seconds.

like, that's the tragedy of MOTOE, that one bad person can ruin so many lives.

and how in The Residence, one of the problems in figuring out who killed Wynter is the fact that a ton of staff members have motives...

but not because Wynter was cruel and careless, he WASN'T. he was hard-working, dedicated, loyal, meticulous, professional, honorable, and above all motivated by a deep, deep love for the place he worked. every motive everyone has for killing him is, ultimately: he's a good man who wants to do a good job.

that's the tragedy in The Residence, that being very good can get you treated exactly the same way as being very bad.

I read this post and was like "oh that's so smart, you're so right." And then like, went on with whatever I was doing.

And then that night I'm laying in bed and my eyes snap open and my brain is like "her sister was HELEN."

Cassandra forsaw the fall of Troy and was not believed.

Benoit to Marta: Personally, I don’t think you should give a single red dime to any of the Thrombeys, but it’s your money, not mine.

Benoit to Jud: I saw no diamond. Whatever you choose to do or not do with some hypothetical diamond has nothing to do with me, because I saw nothing.