Aw. I wonder if leaving DS made Denise's grades go up.
That's some reaction of Roger's to Ang! Go Louis! Carolyn is VERY comfortable in Angelique's presence... I thought it was a mistake at first, but no, it's very cool. She's being fatalistic and morbidly ironic, which is how you get when you have enough taken away, including any power to do anything about it... if you're lucky. I've got one foot planted in that place mentally all the time, so I know.
I enjoy Extreme Dripping Irony Carolyn very much, putting herself in Ang's face, inches away, saying "I can't imagine much of anything shocking you!" I always like characters who do ironic running commentaries on events. I'd be that in real life, if I could.
I like Joan Bennett very much here. I tend to think of her as a former film star slumming on daytime TV (not happily, so slumming's the wrong word), cringing as they go farther and farther into the supernatural, less willing to commit as it all gets too "out there" for her. I'm reading that into things to some extent-- that impression goes back to childhood and takes a lot of time to undo. Anyway, Liz is in visible turmoil from what's happening to Carolyn, even before knowing she'd died. That's one terrible part of it, if she's this torn up even before hearing the news, what happens after? Well handled. It gets the viewer thinking. We can see Liz thinking too. Suddenly we get what we hardly ever get in later DS: someone emotionally processing.
Who decided that a stuffed wolverine or whatever in the hall was decorative? The Ang murder storyline is now moving too fast. At this point in viewing, I thought that they'd better switch to Claude North fast. Which they didn't. [spoiler]Carolyn's dead,[/spoiler] making us think PT's winding up, but it can't be.
We get the first of many mind-numbing repeated shots of "Hi, like my medeival frisbee?" Guy. (the stained glass window.)