>>>Anyone know why some of the characters' words are printed in subtitles? The entire show is in English...
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>>Didn't have that here. Maybe they felt some of the accents would be confusing in the US and people wouldn't understand what they where saying.
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>I understand they did that with the film that made Bob Hoskins, "The Long Good Friday", as the Cockney accents were too much to expect ..."

There are a few American shows where we turn on the subtitles because we keep missing what they are saying.

I was up in Walsall last week and the receptionist (strong black country accent) and I had a lot of trouble understanding each other. It was really nice to hear a strong regional accent like that.