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Am I wrong in thinking that it wasn't just lack of navigation that did Bizzy & Sunny in, but also that they didn't read the clue? The clue said that they were to look for the plaza next to Mercado de Puerto? It seemed that they weren't looking for "Mercado de Puerto" as a specific place, they were just looking for some random plaza around a port.

(Bolding mine) That was quite the slap in the face to Drew. If he still thinks he was not ever just a placeholder for Jason, that should do it. And if there's a tiny part of him that thinks he has another chance with Carly, he's the biggest idiot in Port Charles, which is saying a lot. Tell Carly how amazing she is. I have these same problems with TJ/TB. They keep having TJ say stuff like "I know it's too late to do anything about Kristina being the surrogate and me not liking it" and he gets all handmaideny about her having any sort of life. Big of him to admit BL's shower/bachelorette party was a special event Kristina should be able to attend. And the whole stupid oh-nos! about the proximity to Sonny. It would be there even if Kristina weren't their surrogate.

Amen to all and lol

I thought that was the best voiceover of the series. I can just picture the collective audience going "Huh?!!" when Sheldon announced he was going to MIT. I know I did! I agree this was one of their best episodes. It was a little bittersweet because I have the feeling this was the last time we're going to see Dr. Sturgis and Dr. Linkletter. If so, I'm glad they went out on a positive note. Missy telling Sheldon she was turning his room into a dance studio was priceless. I really hope one of the remaining episodes focuses on her, rather than limiting her to zingy one-liners. George handling the recruiting process like the father of an athlete was hysterical. He's a lot smarter than his family gives him credit for. I'm really going to miss this show. 😭

I read that and then watched the Offer on Paramount Plus which also told the story of the making of the Godfather. I highly recommend both. And I'm not even a big Godfather fan. LOL

@blackwing We read a lot of the same books. I just finished the latest Jane Wunderly, love the Gethsemane Brown books, and have made the Anthony Slayton books a purchase and not just wait from the library. I enjoyed the second Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect, more than the first. Still not great, but enjoyable. The Launch Party by Lauren Forry had a lot of enormous plot holes. I mean, if you’re going to put a mystery on the moon, research the science. I am enjoying the Door County mysteries by Annelise Ryan. The sleuth is a cryptid hunter, which is interesting. Really good use of the Wisconsin setting. I am recommending Mark De Castrique series, starting with Secret Lives. The protagonist is Ethel Crestwater, a septuagenarian retired FBI agent who runs a boarding house. It’s a bit of a spy series crossed over with mystery. I enjoyed The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan which is thinly disguised Hillary Clinton solves a murder fanfic.

So is Sam really going to be writing checks to cover all of Pete's traveling "expenses"? Won't the airlines, hotels, buses, taxis, cruise lines, etc. wonder why this crazy woman keeps sending them money? (Maybe she'll just lie and tell Pete she sent the checks.)

I agree and thought that she was going to break up with Thor before he confessed to her.

A Man In Full is a 6 episode TV Series streaming on May 2, 2024 on Netflix, based on the 1998 Tom Wolfe novel of the same name. When Atlanta real estate mogul Charlie Croker faces sudden bankruptcy, political and business interests collide as Charlie defends his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace. The Atlanta real estate tycoon must claw his way back to the top. Jeff Daniels as Charlie Croker, a crude, rude, irrepressible, recently divorced Atlanta real estate mogul on the verge of bankruptcy, defends his empire against all takers — and at any cost. Diane Lane plays Martha Croker, ahe emerges from the shadow of her ex-husband Charlie and poses a personal and financial threat with three decades of marital baggage. Evan Roe as Wally Croker, Charlie and Martha’s son, Wally navigates his parent’s divorce with wit, humor, and an outlook on life that’s wise beyond his years. Sarah Jones as Serena Croker, Charlie’s second wife. She’s an authentic Southern beauty who is both a voice of reason and a steady hand as Charlie’s world tilts off of it's axis. Jerrika Hinton as Henrietta White, she guides her husband, Roger, though a moment of soul-searching to protect what’s best for their family. Aml Ameen plays Roger White, an attorney for Croker Industries. He is kind and driven by a deep sense of morality, Roger quickly finds himself entangled in Charlie’s mess. Jon Michael Hill as Conrad Hensley, a humble, hardworking employee of Croker Industries who faces a life-altering decision after a series of unfortunate events. Chanté Adams as Jill Hensley, Charlie’s beloved executive assistant. Married to Conrad Hensley, the couple is expecting their first child when their personal life suddenly turns upside down. Josh Pais as Herbert Richman, a successful owner of a fitness center empire, who is suddenly pulled into Charlie’s orbit when their business interests collide. William Jackson Harper plays Wes Jordan, the incumbent mayor of Atlanta who’s up for re-election. Wes will do whatever it takes to ensure victory over his opponent, who is quickly gaining in the polls. Tom Pelphrey plays Raymond Peepgrass. Subordinated, libidinous and frustrated, he is an oppressed and lowly loan officer on the verge of personal and professional chaos. He wants respect, but he’ll settle for sex, vengeance and some money. Lucy Liu as Joyce Newman, the founder of a successful clean beauty company. Joyce struggles with a crisis of conscious that threatens to undo friendships and business ventures. Bill Camp as Harry Zale, known in business circles as “The Workout Artiste,” a term to describe the “bootcamps” he puts debtors through, Zale stands between any hope Charlie has of saving his business empire.

Wikipedia says that airport has been operating since the 60s, he would probably know. He still needs to find a shuttle or a taxi with an empty seat somehow that is going to the right place, so there are some operational difficulties for him. He had a hard time navigating his own town, he can totally get lost in a different country that he only knows from brochures. What was that (retro-looking) burrito-smelling robot, by the way? I've never seen anything like that. No kidding, really weird place. "Oh, right. The arrow. I was murdered by a little girl." - "Where? In Sporting Goods?" Now there's an image! And they said it like it's a reasonable possibility. Nancy was crushing it. "Totally. I can't read, but same page." "If you cut me, do I not bleed? I mean, no, none of us do, but you know what I mean." "Cost Thor how? - You'll see. You'll see... (leaves, comes back) I actually need to go this way." And the clincher at the end, "I also slept with Pete's widow carol. - Me too." Flower is so sweet and understanding and compassionate. But I have to say, I agree with someone who said last week that they are not feeling the Flower-Thor romance. They are just saying lines to each other, I am not seeing any chemistry there. Maybe it's a conscious choice on the show's part? I mean, we've seen Flower's doubts about Thor, now she brings Nancy into the relationship...

This is a bit more about El Ideas

Mandy's mother continues to irk me. I am irked.

Chyrons for the mystery judges: Phillip Foss Chef/Owner El Ideas Sophia Roe Chef/Writer/Founder, Apartment Miso El Ideas (I think this is it but it's not a very informative website) Apartment Miso

I was wondering the same thing. I thought you had to have everything with you at the mat. The only time I remember teams dropping backpacks is on the sprint to the last mat. I could easily be wrong on this. I've read somewhere, not sure at this point where as I've been re-watching all the seasons and reading different threads/articles in different places, that the teams can drop their packs as soon as they can see Phil. I think, if so, this was instituted after the infamous J/V event when he dropped his pack on the street and V picked it up because she thought it would be stolen, this is what led to the 'incident'. Also, there isn't always a 'sprint' to the mat, most of the time there is not so why not just wear your packs so you don't have to go back for them. If it is a sprint and you want to drop them you have to do it fast. Some people look like they can just eel out of it no problem, but sometimes it's a bit harder and it might be better to just wear it. People drop their packs all the time, in the 'competitors' season 30, there was a sprint to the mat where the last team would be eliminated in the first leg, I think all but one dropped their packs and guess who was last on the mat. I think I didn't give any spoilers? If I did let me know and I'll tag them. Here is a link of that sprint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIIrkG404kU

I got horribly lost in Northern California last summer because there was no cell service and the written instructions I'd been sent (no paper map) were woefully inadequate/wrong. Not to mention cell phone batteries running down.

Maybe, but 3 in a row reminded me of 41 and 42. It wouldn't surprise me if next week there is some kind of reference to those seasons.

I loved S1 and like someone else here posted, wish subsequent seasons had picked up on the remaining (& still alive!) characters. Need to rewatch it as all I can now recall are some bizarre scenes (e.g., shoot-out in a bldg while FBi agents are sitting in a car outside arguing; l think that was Key & Peele 😄). To this day, I feel uncomfortable whenever I see a wood chipper.

I was there when my mother finally got her own credit card in the 1970s. She was a big proponent of women's rights. Emily is not a feminist but she is the embodiment of the new freedoms that women now enjoy. In the 1950s she wouldn't have felt as free to act like a traditional man about relationships without a thought about her "reputation". If she did she would have suffered way more social ostracism and judgment from men and women. She still does but not as much, especially from the younger generation. Emily is immature and unfortunately at her age catching up is going to be very difficult if not impossible even with therapy. She is stuck at a high school level of maturity when it comes to relationships. It is sad. As others have said, she is acting like a high school girl whose first boyfriend dumped her. She is stuck in that anger/hate phase of the breakup and isn't coming out of it so fast. And even sadder is that it wasn't even a full relationship! She never even had sex with the guy. Unfortunately Brennan fed into all her Daddy issues and she reacted out of proportion to the situation. Now I know why she never let herself get emotionally attached to any man. She has too many Daddy issues and it brings all of that out for her. She might get past her anger and hate in time but for now she just looks immature and vindictive. Here's more of my assessment of Emily: When she keeps going on about how attractive she is to men, etc., it's because she sees Brennan like her father that never noticed or appreciated her and it presses her buttons of how rejected she felt by her father, so she has to come back with how attractive she is. She is reacting like a victim, she is not being a narcissist, in my opinion. There's a difference.

That is classic Charles Ingalls, and really, classic TV. A few choice words solves serious problems for ever. Worked on Sprague and weird horse guy.

I hope not. I really wanted Victoria to put her niece in her place. Although I hope Summer helps Victoria to see her behavior was like Summers right now and she changes her attitude towards Adam.

Whatever happened to your attempt to get an appointment with a neurologist? I meant to follow up on that a couple of weeks ago. Did you abandon that weird doctor matching site?

Did your homemade fix for the brake button work?

I just looked up the ingredients in Lume, the special ingredient used to help control odor is an AHA, mandelic acid. It works by eating away the dead skin cells in the area because "odor" is caused by the bacteria naturally living on your skin eating said skin cells. If you get rid of the dead skin cells, then there's nothing for the bacteria to eat and no odor is caused. I am curious as to the concentration of mandelic acid in the formula for it to be safe to use on your more sensitive areas of the body and also work on your feet and underarms. I suspect it's not going to be that effective on your feet and that's why it's so heavily fragranced.

MaryLand is a 3 Episode Limited Series that will air on PBS on May 5, 2024 at 9pm. It aired in the UK on May 2023 on ITV. MaryLand is a story about two sisters, Becca and Rosaline, who find themselves thrown together by the sudden death of their mother, Mary. They find out that Mary was living an entirely secret life on the Isle of Man, a 33-mile-long island that sits in the middle of the Irish Sea, far from the home she made with her husband, Becca, and Rosaline. As the sisters travel through their grief and discover their mother's secrets, they meet their mother's quirky friend, Cathy, who seems to know more about their mother than they do. Becca and Rosaline find themselves asking fundamental questions about their identities and their relationship with the men in their lives. Mary's death offers them a chance to not only reframe their relationship, but to find out what binds them together and what drives them apart, a chance to fundamentally reshape who they are. At its heart, MaryLand is a love story between two sisters. Suranne Jones as Becca, a busy working mom Eve Best as Rosaline, a career woman in London Stockard Channing as Cathy, Mary's friend Hugh Quarshie as Pete, the man who finds Mary's body George Costigan as Richard, Becca and Rosaline's father Dean Lennox Kelly as Jacob, a taxi driver on the Isle of Man Andrew Knott as Jim, Becca's husband Rhiannon Clements as Lauren, Becca's eldest daughter Yasmin Davies as Molly, Becca's youngest daughter Judy Clifton as Mary, Becca and Rosaline's mother Ben Addis as DT Ian Quayle Dave Artus as Alan Morgan Cranton-Jones as Funeral Director Connor Calland as Ollie Steph Lacey as Solicitor Geraldine McAlinden as Mallory Lee Clotworthy as Karaoke Host Ed White as Nick

I've mentioned it before, I think, but it's something Hollywood seems to always get wrong about every job, at least as far as the main protagonist is concerned. Focal characters are always diligent, punctual go-getters who put in the extra work to make sure they've done their jobs right, even if it means having to re-open a task at the end of the day instead of simply declaring the task "done" and going home. I have no statistics, obviously, but having worked in workplaces with lots of other people, I can safely say that there are very few people who are so dedicated to their jobs that they'll put in the extra mile to get things right. Now, I grant that the amount of people who "hot dog" at their jobs likely depends on the field, and most of my experiences are at low-paying jobs where employee motivation is already a struggle, but, knowing we're all humans, even at so-called "better" jobs, not everyone is going to be on top of their jobs all the time. Even the best will get lazy and give in to the temptation to cut corners, even if it would be disastrous for them to do so. Perhaps there's a good reason why Hollywood makes their characters so dedicated to their jobs. Firstly, a character who is lazy is typically not very likeable, and, secondly, it's not a very satisfying story if plots were always resolved because a character was simply lazy. This goes both ways- for the protagonist and the antagonist. You want your protagonist to succeed because they overcame everything the antagonist threw at them, not because the antagonist got bored halfway through the story. Conversely, a loss for the protagonists would not be impactful if they were not shown trying so hard to do everything they can to succeed at the challenge only to fall short. If the protagonist simply went through the motions and failed because of it, the audience would very much wonder if the protagonist would have succeeded had they actually tried, and they might wonder how serious the challenge really was if the protagonist didn't offer any effort in trying to overcome it. So while it's not accurate for Hollywood characters to be dedicated go-getters, it's a more satisfying story to write them that way.