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I am a bit younger than the 90210 gang. I was the Ohndrea in high school. (Better clothes, hair sadly equally terrible but in a different way.) I went to a socioeconomically & ethnically diverse CA public high school that sent a lot of kids to Ivys & UCLA/Berkeley. Everyone studied for the SAT. Everyone. I wanted to take a fancy prep class but my Mom was like, "If I pay for that there will be no money left for college. Also, you're great at standardized tests. You can study on your own with books, which we can afford." She was right. I wanted to get a 700 or higher on each half, and got a 700 math, 710 verbal. I was enough of a nerd that I studied for the PSAT because I wanted to be a National Merit Finalist. (Nailed it. Life's been downhill ever since.) There's no way Andrea wouldn't have been all over that because so many colleges give National Merit scholarships. Also, all of the SAT scores on 90210 are terrible for a bunch of rich white kids.

Sonjia was the only one to design an outfit that would be flattering to women in a wide range of shapes and sizes. The flowing, but not tent-like, style of the grey top would look good on both busty and less boobily endowed women, and the whole look would be lovely on plus size women as well as those who are model slim. It was trendy enough for younger women, but the length of skirt would work well for more mature women who don't want to rock a short skirt and would be appropriate for many workplaces. Also, someone under 5 foot 11 could wear it well. Though the confessionals made it seem like she had no idea what was doing, she seemed to be the only one who understood the brief - or had any familiarity with what QVC actually sells and which demographics it targets. She was thoughtful, and she deserved the win. In contrast, Michelle's looks were only appropriate for extras in American Horror Story: Freak Show. I really wanted the judges to ask her who her woman was, because those were just nuts. And Dimitri - who over a size 2 can wear a neoprene suit with a bare midriff? And, again, where would she wear it, other than to Comic-Con, because it looked very sci-fi? When the judges said the jacket could be worn with jeans - only if they were super high-waisted or the woman felt comfortable wearing a crop top. You're still the ProjectRunwayDeisgnerILF, but come on, dude. This whole "I don't understand sportswear" attitude the designers have baffles me, both because there's like 500 people on earth who wear gowns/couture on a regular basis, and because they're wearing normal clothes while they work. Uh, maybe you ought to think about why you liked those jeans/t-shirts/sweaters that are on your back and figure out how to make some of your own.

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As a soap fan, I think this episode was 75 percent a put on. Ronn Moss recently appeared on General Hospital, as himself, performing with Player in a scenario that had Tyler's character's precocious 9 year old son Spencer hiring Player to serenade the girl he had a crush on. (Note: this scene was supposed to be campy and ridiculous.) In fact, Spencer claimed his name was "Moss.... Ronn Moss" when he booked a hotel room in an episode that aired this week. I'm not calling shenanigans, but the soap world is so small that I suspect all four of them had at least crossed paths at an event before. I believe they were being true to their personalities - that Ronn is kind of sleazy and weird and really does make Devin a shirtless cappuccino every morning and Tyler is a bit uptight and understandably anal about calories given that his character is shirtless all the time. (And that Ronn has a metabolism that allows him to live on pasta and wine and still have a flat stomach while Tyler does not.) But I think they were playing up their personas for the camera and that their wives were pretty much in on the joke. Ronn's "tantrum" about the tandem bike was not particularly convincing, and who would complain about spending a week in a Malibu beach house, or have acres of land and never go outside? Soap fans have been making fun of Ronn's scarves for years so when Devin made Tyler wear a scarf, it was basically a shout out. Hell, during the episode the GH headwriter tweeted a screencap of him in the scarf and joked about making him wear one on the show. I have a feeling that there were a lot of moments in the final meeting of them all "breaking character" and laughing that ended up on the cutting room floor. I also think that Ronn, who hasn't been doing much since he left The Bold & The Beautiful, is aiming to use this episode to land a reality show with Devin.

Thank you for explaining that, Green. If there had been a Don Draper style pitch that clearly laid out everything you wrote, I would have understood how important and risky what they are doing is. When they mentioned all of the other brands that were already on the market, it was unclear that those brands didn't have a Windows OS. Adding to my confusion was my memory that my family's first computer was an IBM and we were far from wealthy. However, that was way later than this show was set, so IBM's prices would have already been driven down by the competition.

I'd be super interested in a show about how computers went from these mysterious room sized machines that inspired people to cut off their nipples to the PCs that everyone was dying to own in the 80s. I'd be even more interested in a show about the creation of the internet. I'm less interested in a show that is about three upstarts who are part of an already established electronics company going into the PC clone business. It's like the show skipped over the most interesting parts of the story. I want to see the show about the people who create something new. If Watts, Yuppie Lee Pace and Beard with Terrible Glasses are building a computer that is actually going to be revolutionary, I wanted to get some sense of what was going to be different or better about it. What was so cool about Beard's Symphonic computer and why didn't it work? Talking about chips and RAM isn't as inherently interesting or relatable as Mad Men made advertising. But I'm still willing to give it a chance because it's different from everything else and, honestly, I decided to give it a second episode when I realized that Beard's wife wasn't just the standard prestige cable Killjoy Wife who is dragging the Great Man down but is also a software engineer. It's nice to see tech portrayed as an area in which women can excel, especially after reading an editorial today that pointed out that there were more women CS majors in the early 1980s than now.