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The producers of "Money Heist" have confirmed that the upcoming fifth season will also be the last for Netflix's most successful non-English language series. Alas, all good things must come to an end. As much as I love the show, I don't see how they could stretch it out beyond Season 5, and nothing is worse than a great series that goes to sh*t because the producers dragged it out for too long. Miguel Angel Silvestre from Sense8 & Narcos will be joining the cast, so we'll have some eye candy to look forward to. Show runner Alex Pina said that they've been working on the series finale for almost a year and seems confident that this last season will be the best ever. Shooting to start soon, but of course no word yet on when Season 5 will debut on Netflix.

I'm a big Toyota fan, although I've read that not all models have the brand's vaunted reliability (the C-HR ain't so hot, for example). But if you go with a Corolla, a stalwart of the brand and a model within your price range, you should be OK. Besides reliability, another big advantage of Toyota is maintenance costs do tend to be lower compared to most other car companies.

I've read In Cold Blood twice, once in my teens and again ~15 years ago. I'm sure I'll re-read it at least one more time. I just finished Espía de Dios (God's Spy) by Juan Gómez Jurado, the pulpiest pulp fiction I've ever read. It's about a serial killer within the Vatican who is killing off cardinals who are possible papal successors to Pope John Paul II. Wow, what a damn page-turner! I have to applaud the author for his research. While the story is fiction, the author definitely has a lot of details down pat about the Catholic Church and the Vatican in particular. And the fictitious elements are so much damn fun, like the Holy Alliance (basically a secret Vatican version of the CIA, covertly shaping religion & politics since the 1500s) and the Hand of St. Michael (an elite corp of Jason Bournes within the Holly Alliance). I just started La Peregrina (The Pilgrim), a story (fiction) about the trials & adventures that established the origins of the Catholic pilgrimage, el Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James). Even though I am about as lapsed a Catholic as you'll ever meet, I do plan on making my own pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela one day. As a Filipino, I acknowledge that our lives & culture would be very different if Spain and by extension the Philippines had not been catholicized.

14 Marlins have tested positive for Covid19 but so far not one other player on the other 29 teams. The Marlins might be sunk, but predictions that the entire MLB season is finished are premature.

How do you like the show? I've heard good things, and the trailer is awesome.

The guiltiest of guilty pleasures is back! Yuppers, your favorite crew of Marbellan male strippers will return. No details on when exactly we'll see Toy Boy returning to Netflix, but a second season has been confirmed. Please oh please, give Germán a bigger role. He was mostly just eye candy in Season 1, not involved in any major storylines.

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In light of your descriptions, I'm not tempted to watch "White Lines," but I have to ask: what on earth is a "big truck living room"?

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Pretty sure that's Dominic Thiem, although now that you mention it, Thiem & Tommy Paul have very similar upper-body physiques. Tommy Paul is pretty cute, by the way. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a shirtless pic. http://www.tennis-forecast.com/sites/default/files/photosplayer/paul.png

Maria, the oldest woman in Spain at 113 years old, survives coronavirus Get this, she never even had any symptoms! The staff at the nursing home tested her only because she was suffering from a urine infection. But she never developed a cough, fever, or any other symptoms. Although she is currently in isolation, her family is eagerly awaiting the lifting of the quarantine so they can start visiting her again.

I wholeheartedly agree. I get anxious when I hear people talk about "when" a vaccine is developed as opposed to the very real possibility that we may never come up with one or at best one with limited immunity. The SARS outbreak was in 2007, MERS in 2017, yet no vaccine for either strain of those coronaviruses has yet been developed.

There is a stark difference between coronavirus deaths & collateral damage deaths. The coronavirus figure is assiduously tracked & published daily whereas the collateral damage (suicides, delayed/canceled chemotherapy, etc.) is impossible to pin down. This difference puts politicians in a bind because it makes the political price they pay for acknowledging collateral damage far steeper.

Tim & Matt hosted a free chat session a couple of weeks ago with guests Dean (Adonis Phoenix) & Xavier (Adonis Las Vegas). Dean's problem in Phoenix was he just couldn't recruit the talent. He said that too many guys were looking at Adonis as their meal ticket, easy money for which they weren't willing to do much if anything to make Adonis in Phoenix a success. Xavier's problem in Las Vegas was licensing. Clark County is super-strict with licensing. They make every start-up jump through umpteen hoops, and for a strip club the licensing requirements are exponentially worse. Based on Xavier's experience, I think Adonis has abandoned Las Vegas forever.

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I've been following him on Twitter for a while now. That face ... so adorable ... just melts me.

"until there's a universal availability of a safe and effective vaccine" seems to be the mantra of those who urge extending lockdown, but are we so sure that a vaccine will ever be developed? I think political leaders need to factor in the possibility that instead of 12-18 months to develop a vaccine, it might take years. I am growing increasingly nervous that we seem to be banking too much on the speedy development of a vaccine even though we have none for other coronaviruses like SARS (outbreak 17 years ago) & MERS (7 years ago).

I am sorry for the posters who have taken pay cuts, but I'm glad to see they are keeping a positive attitude about it, that is, being grateful for still having a job, albeit at reduced pay. While waiting in line for a prescription this week, the woman in front of me (despite the marked-off 6-foot distancing) struck up conversation. She told me that she had been working for 5-1/2 months at a job when she got laid off. Unfortunately, you need to work 6 months to qualify for unemployment in Nevada. Ouch! I responded, "Oh my God, that is so heartbreaking." She just said, "Yeah" and turned around.

How sad that the very notion of fully stocked shelves of toilet paper sounds like something out of "The Stepford Wives."

In the same vein, I'd go for Spanish pastry chef & master chocolatier Miquel Guarro. I love cooking competitions like "Masterchef," and Guarro as one of the judges on Spain's "Bake Off" made the show a whole lot more fun to watch.

I was able to see it thanks to a link in another thread. I had been wanting to see it for a while since I've had a crush on one of the actors (the Spanish redhead) for years. The film is tough to understand initially because it jumps back & forth in time (20 years) without the actors' appearance changing one bit. The confusion actually started to annoy me while watching it, until I figured out why (I think) at the end. The film definitely isn't for everyone. Personally, I loved it. It certainly helps that the two leads are so attractive. In a few months, I'll make it a point to watch it again. Good to know that it's on Amazon Prime. PS: Juan Barberini's Argentine accent could melt buttah.

Thanks for the video link. When I looked at his RentMen ad, I knew the face looked familiar but couldn't remember where from. It was starting to drive me a bit nuts, LOL.

I heard a way of saying "pot calling the kettle black" that cracked me up: "zozoak beleari, ipurbeltz." The language is Basque & literally translates to: "the raven to the crow, 'black ass'"

I heard a way of saying "pot calling the kettle black" that cracked me up: "zozoak beleari, ipurbeltz." The language is Basque & literally translates to: "the raven to the crow, 'black ass'"

Thanks, @Alfstoria. I was able to watch "End of the Century," a movie I had my eye on for a while (because I follow one of the actors on Twitter). It's confusing as hell at first because the movie shifts from present-day to 20 years ago, without the slightest change in the actors' appearance, then back, again, without warning. Two gay men hook up in Barcelona, only to realize they had hooked up 20 years before. Their meeting 20 years ago had a much greater impact on one more so than the other. A bit slow at the beginning and confusing as hell until you figure out the time shifts, but a damn good movie. Both leads are gorgeous. I have a big ol' crush on the Spanish redhead, but the brunette Argentine is hella attractive as well, and with an accent that could melt butter.