Dadidovich is an experienced Canadian actress that has had roles in detective/cop shows like Monk, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, and Psych. Her character, Nancy Simpson, gets a more detailed character description than most of the other recurring characters. She is playing Paul Woodrugh’s mother, and is described as:

a girly girl, a former showgirl continually sucking on cigarettes and margaritas as she mourns the loss of male sexual attention. What little of her hopes remain she has transferred onto her adult son, who, in her eyes, is God’s gift to women

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Rambin (aka Glimmer from The Hunger Games) is going to play Sophia, “a beauty with a history of drug problems”.

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Spencer landed this role after impressing as Dana Scott in the show Suits. Her character, Alicia, is the survivor of a sexual attack.

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Michael Irby’s performance as Detective Richard Paul on the show Almost Human likely helped him land this role. He is set to play Elvis, the partner of McAdam’s character Ani Bezzerides.

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British actress Kelly Reilly is best known for her recent performance as Dr. Catherine Black in the show Black Box. She is set to play Morgan, a character that has only been described as “self-possessed”.

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This likely links back to the previous line about El-P’s former crew The Weathermen, since they got their name from a radical left wing group formed in 1960’s Michigan that aimed to overthrow the U.S. government.

The symbol of the Weathermen

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Gads Hill Place was the name of the mansion that Charles Dickens grew up in. This is likely an homage to the great British author as Fitzgerald was known to be a fan of his.

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While Nick’s description of Gatsby throughout the novel makes it clear he does admire him, it should be noted that the one “compliment” he gives to him isn’t really a compliment.

Nick has spent most of his story revealing his scorn for members of the upper class like Tom, Daisy, and Jordan, so Nick saying that the one true compliment he ever gave to Gatsby was that he was worth more than members of Old Money is backhanded at best.

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This echoes Gatsby “stretching out his arms towards toward the dark water in a curious way” in Chapter 1. Since we know in both cases he is metaphorically reaching for Daisy, describing her as a “wisp of air” hints that what he was reaching for was never as substantial or attainable as he thought.

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Jessup is playing right into Kaffee’s hands. Kaffee’s strategy going into the trial was based on the belief that:

I think [Jessup] wants to say it. I think he’s pissed off that he’s gotta hide from us. I think he wants to say that he made a command decision and that’s the end of it. He eats breakfast 80 yards away from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill him, and no one’s gonna tell him how to run his base. Least of all the pushy broad, the smart Jew, and the Harvard clown. I need to shake him and put him on the defensive.

He achieved this partially earlier when Jessup questioned Kaffee about his military service, and is about to bait Jessup into a confession based on pride.

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