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  • Her name is Victoria Winters

  • Carolyn suffers from undiagnosed bipolar disorder

  • The Collins’ have deforested Maine to keep their fireplace endlessly lit

  • Growing up in a Foundling Ward is proper training to be a governess

  • Victoria spends an awful lot of money on mailing stamped envelopes to herself

  • It seems highly unlikely that Roger would ever beget a child with a woman

  • There is no shortage of dodgy, older men pledging their undying loyalty to Elizabeth

  • A fortune can be made by canning sardines

  • Collinsport must be very dull if a trip to Bangor is exciting

  • A failed artist can afford a sizable two bedroom cottage in town

  • The hotel diner thrives by giving away sundaes and serving lousy coffee

  • No one questions a middle aged man entertaining a 9 year old boy in his hotel room alone

  • Vehicular manslaughter only rates five years in prison

  • Ex-convicts can amass a fortune in South America in under five years

  • Ellizabeth spends six hours on hair every morning, only to sit around the house all day

  • Elizabeth has resting disapproval face

  • Attempting to murder your father is a rite of passage

  • People care way too much about silver fountain pens

  • For all their wealth, there are only two phones in the Collinwood mansion, and they are 10 feet apart

  • No one asks who’s there before opening the front door to their isolated mansion

  • Being someone’s hired housekeeper is a lot like being someone’s wife

  • Maggie lies about the freshness of the diner’s mayonnaise

  • The hotspot in town is some dive bar that plays one song over and over

  • Being a 10 min walk from the cannery, the Evans’ house must reek to high heaven

  • Elizabeth is still paying off a 150 year-long mortgage on Collinwood

  • Room Service thinks Burke eats two steaks for dinner

  • Maggie is an expert on diesel engines, and that turns Joe on

  • Maggie is allowed 2 minutes of self-pity a day

  • David loves funerals

  • You just know there’s a secret closet full of decapitated puppies in David’s room

  • “What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?” sounds far more salacious than it turns out to be

  • Susie the Waitress won’t speak to customers

  • Roger always thought there was “something a little wrong with David”.

  • David can self-teach himself about car engines and tidal currents, but can’t learn what is the sum of 8 times 8.

  • Roger is a high-functioning alcoholic

  • Victoria plays the Foundling Sympathy Card a lot

  • Cold blowy nights are the best nights to have fun

  • Sam doesn’t want his daughter Maggie wasting her time hoping for something she’s unlikely to ever find, such as love or a happy ending.

  • Frank Garner is a champion of lost causes, such as Victoria Winters

  • Victoria thinks it’s a good idea to drink plenty of coffee before a long drive on a cold night

  • A Nor’easter usually lasts three days. It ended the next morning.

  • Lowland back roads are far less likely to be flooded than highland major highways

  • Victoria has clearly never seen inside of the Bridal suite at the Waldorf Astoria

  • Elizabeth doesn’t want anyone else but brother Roger aroused.

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Catching up again... about 30 episodes to go to the end.

  • Everyone in the Collins family is "dangerous"
  • Catherine is into rough sex
  • Men's underwear didn't exist in 1840
  • Melanie never makes any sense
  • Bramwell failed to notice Daphne was a woman
  • Death takes a holiday for Gabriel
  • The family holds a lottery to determine who'll spend the night in a locked room with John Forsythe
  • Nothing scares Julia... except love
  • Everyone knows all about the secret panels and passageways
  • Bitterness is all Bramwell can offer to any woman
  • Gabriel can't rest. He's got too much killing to do.
  • Melanie fears Kendrick will break up with her once he learns she murdered his sister.
  • Catherine wonders if possession is grounds for divorce
  • For Daphne, it's always "Cathy, Cathy. Cathy!"
  • Quentin has been to every sleazy boarding house on the waterfront
  • Julia doesn't know the truth and never has!
  • Daphne died in her marital bed from boredom
  • It's best not to think too much and see things as they really are
  • Everybody keeps trying to strangle Julia
  • No one knew Gabriel could be clever and witty

Only 6 episodes left!

  • In over 300 years, the Collins family never once changed the carpeting on the stairs
  • Brutus lived at Collinwood 120 years before Joshua had it built
  • The Collinses leave loaded guns on display in the drawing room
  • Daphne's death saved her from buying Melanie a wedding gift
  • Wanting to thin the herd, Flora drew an X on everyone's Lottery slip
  • Curses, death and ghosts are Melanie's dowry
  • Catherine plans to pass off her pregnancy as weight gain
  • Graveside funerals are conducted at night
  • No one knows what the Truth means
  • Bramwell must be warned to not touch the corpses
  • Morgan has terrible aim even at close range
  • Flora forgot that her last surviving son, Quentin, is actually the heir

And we're done. Watched the whole bloody mess from day one (Vicki's arrival) to the end. I can see why it went off the air towards the end, it seemed lost and pointless and was evolving more into romantic drama than supernatural suspense. Worth a watch if only for its historic and cultural impact on TV, but not something I plan to revisit.

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