Bill McCuddy: “Uhm…stick around until Episode 3 and thank me later.

“Leila George is Greta Scacchi‘s daughter, of course. Playing young Cate Blanchett. Thankfully Vincent D’Onofrio‘s genes were recessive.

“As a bonus she has Blanchett’s mannerisms down pat.

“How the episode 3 sex scenes got made in an era of on-set intimacy police, I have no clue.

“Do you know the old Orson Welles story? He’s lunching late in his life at his daily LA haunt (Ma Maison, I think) when an older lady from Kansas comes to the table. Wants to know about Citizen Kane. Orson had heard every question about Citizen Kane except this one, it turned out.

“’Mr. Welles, do you realize when Kane says rosebud there’s no one in the room to hear it? So how do we know he said it?”

“Welles allegedly turned ashen and said something like “No, I did not realize it, and don’t you ever tell another living soul.”

“The same thing is true about the damning book that Lesley Manville, playing Kevin Kline‘s late wife, has written in Disclaimer. One person is dead and the other person never told anyone. So how’d Manville know any of this? She didn’t.