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I suspect that the producers really prod the rejected women to thank Gerry and commend him. And if they want to a chance at being The Golden Bachelorette, they know they have to play along. I don’t know if they’ll even do a season of The Golden Bachelorette. It would be kind of messed up if they did multiple seasons of The Golden Bachelor but never gave us the reverse. It would send the message that older women can’t be desirable. That said, I probably wouldn’t watch The Golden Bachelorette. If the men they cast are anything like the men on the regular Bachelorette, it would be unbearable. Men in their sixties or older engaging in constant dick-measuring contests? No thank you! And I’d have to wonder why men that age who claim they’re looking for love can’t find it. (Even though I know there are some eligible men who are just picky, or just getting over their late wives, etc.) I might make an exception for a season with Susan, Sandra or Edith as the Bachelorette, though! But I can’t imagine they would be cast. Faith is much more likely, but she rubbed me the wrong way a few times, like her “I’m not like these other girls with all their shopping!” plea to Gary early in the season. (I thought she was going to start singing, “They wear short skirts/I wear t-shirts…”) And Joan seems nice but bland. As a fellow resident of the DC area, I recognize her as someone who’s way too buttoned-up to fully enjoy herself. Also, god help me, something about her appearance reminds me of a (much more attractive, obviously) Ann Coulter. They could probably find us someone new who’s fabulous, too. But I like the idea of men applying specifically because they saw the Bachelorette on this season and fell for her.

I wasn't surprised that he picked Theresa over Faith. I think Faith's attachment to her home probably played a significant role there. I know some people interpreted Faith's "I'd leave with him in a heartbeat" comment to mean that she would move for him, but I just took it to mean that she would have followed him onto the plane. I think Gerry would have come across better if he'd said, "I do love you. But I fell in love with multiple women," as opposed to making it sound like his feelings of love just...passed. Re: a golden bachelorette - if they're going to choose one of these women, I think it would very likely be Faith. If the producers were interested in someone else, I think they would have insisted that Gerry bring her along to the final 3.

When did she say that she would move? If I were Gerry, I'd have huge reservations about Faith offering to move. She's clearly attached to her life in her hometown (much more than Leslie, I'm guessing). If she moved, she'd be doing it solely for him. She has so much more to give up than a typical bachelor contestant.

I just binge-watched the season thus far, and I have many, many opinions! My first thought - the editors made it seem very, very obvious that Theresa is leaving. Is it normal for them to make it so obvious? It really makes me wonder if he's going to give Faith the boot, instead. Presumably because she doesn't want to move to Indiana.

Alex is going to bring down Paul after she realizes he’s evil, right? I can’t believe she’s naive enough to think she’ll be able to hire her UBA colleagues and pay them all well. Yeah, sure.

Were Bradley's phone records part of it?

Once Laura started snooping on Bradley's computer, I could believe that she would find enough to suspect the truth. She found an email suggesting that Bradley might have edited something out of her Jan. 6 footage. She saw that Bradley made a bunch of phone calls to Hal that day. She probably knew enough about Hal to be aware of his political views, and his social media postings confirmed it. The messages between them suggested that she did him a big favor. Laura doesn't have ironclad proof, but she has very good reason to be suspicious. Do we know how she got into Bradley's accounts? That's the most implausible aspect of it, I think.

When Garland was blocked, there were about a million people on the internet saying that it would have been good for abortion rights if he'd been confirmed, and pointing out that Mitch McConnell's endgame was overturning Roe (and that it could happen if Trump won and replaced some justices). I don't see how that insight makes her special.

This was the eighth episode of the season, so things should really be heating up, but I'm just not feeling it. The possibility of the network being sold seems anti-climactic, because I just don't buy that Paul is buying the network and firing Cory and selling it for parts with Fred's help. Among other reasons, I really, really don't see the writers allowing an Elon Musk stand-in to be triumphant. And I don't think Bradley's Jan. 6 antics are going to be exposed, either, because her career would be over. Two other things that jump out at me: 1. The writers must despise Yanko, to keep making him out to be the voice of idiocy. Telling Chris right before they go on the air that women should be forced give birth so that adoptive parents can have their babies? 2. Why would anyone have said that the Merrick Garland Supreme Court fiasco would lead to Roe being overturned? Scalia was a vote against Roe. His vote being replaced with a Trump appointee wouldn't have changed the Roe math at all.

These UBA journalists just do whatever they want, huh? I understand your fury, Chris, but you're a freaking morning show anchor. You get big bucks to maintain some level of neutrality, and to not pull stunts like this. Between Chris taking "abort the court" to social media, and Bradley deleting her footage, and Alex screwing her interview subject as soon as cameras stopped rolling, it's really a free-for-all. Meanwhile, if I were Nestor Carbonnel, I'd be begging to be let out of my contract. Yanko has nothing to do besides occasionally behave like an idiot.

My guess is that DHP understood that this reboot was never going to match the magic of the original. He's undoubtedly loaded from the original run, so it's not as if he needs the money.

I actually hated the Deion Sanders Weekend Update segment. Deion Sanders gave a really terrific, brutally honest press conference after that loss. It was the kind of media appearance I'd love to see other coaches emulate. And then Kenan uses it as an opportunity to do the exact same "this person is delusional" shtick we've seen him do for 20 years now. Like most of his "impressions" he barely even attempted to sound anything like the celebrity, and he just put a shit-eating grin on his face and broke a lot. The only thing that segment had in common with the actual press conference was the way he was dressed.

I'm sorry, but that first Ice Spice performance was just dire.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would, but I definitely had a few issues. 1) Why on earth didn't Freddie just tell Frasier the truth about Eve and the baby? It made no sense to keep it a secret, and it didn't add much humor to the episode either. 2) Frasier gets offered a job as a full-time Harvard professor on the spot? Sure, that's how highly coveted professorship positions are given out. 3) Frasier's biggest goal in life was to be a good father? Then why did he accept a job 3,000 miles away when Freddie was a small child? 4) Frasier's boss being unable to conceal her lust for Freddie was cringeworthy as hell. 5) l'm not sure how I feel about Frasier being presumptuous enough to effectively announce to his son, "You and I are going to live in the same apartment from now on." In the original series he could be a jackass, but this was a stretch. Question for anyone who might know: Would it be realistic for a flag to be flown for Martin above the Washington statehouse? I could see that if he died in the line of duty, but is that an honor that would realistically be given to someone who retired 30 years ago?

I'm on the same page as you here. Even if she was 100% certain that he understood, you'd think she'd want to call him her son. For that reason, I felt like the scene never fully shot its load (for lack of a better metaphor).

It sounds like Stella was angry at Paul for two reasons: 1) Her idea was about using technology to help people, and Paul turned it into a racial profiling tool for the police, and 2) He paid her only $50K for a "billion dollar" idea, and never gave her credit. Regarding #2, I don't think that would be any kind of scandal. He and Stella tried selling the idea, and no one wanted it, so he paid her the standard price for it. He didn't necessarily know how much money it would end up being worth, and he may have developed it significantly before he was able to profit off of it.

The pacing of last season was a complete mess, but they really seem to have figured it out this time. I'm very pleased with how most of these episodes flow, and this was no exception. I really want to see what comes next! That said, this week on Things That Would Never Happen, we have: 1) Another network bigshot (in this case, the person about to buy it) agreeing to be grilled on-air in a no-holds-barred interview on said network, 2) The most esteemed interviewer on that network dropping the f-bomb during the interview, 3) An Elon Musk stand-in who's delighted when people publicly stand up to him and make him look bad, and 4) Hal, of all people, suddenly having a burning desire to be morally upstanding, and then changing course because Bradley's happiness is so important to him. Also, what was with Paul throwing Mitch's rapey tendencies in Alex's face during the interview (the comment about Mitch's door-closing button)? Alex just ignores that and sleeps with him? Huh?

Can't you just feel the romantic and sexual chemistry oozing out of them in those photos? LOL!

Actors aren't eligible for the guest acting Emmys if they appeared in more than 50% of a season's episodes. So all of them would be eligible for the supporting categories.

Did we know that Bradley and Laura were openly a couple? And that they were hosting The Morning Show from their love nest? I'd like to believe that the morning news viewers of America would be okay with that, but I'm guessing a lot of them would be turned off. (And even the gay-friendly viewers would probably be turned off by their complete lack of chemistry.) As harsh as Laura was, she was right about Bradley's mother. And I don't say that because of her mother's beliefs on COVID or her political beliefs. The woman was just a toxic nightmare. (As is Hal.) Also, Bradley was way too touchy about her background. "The educational system in this country is in trouble" wasn't a slam against West Virginia. That argument had a lot more to do with Bradley's insecurities than anything else.

To be fair, back when the Sazz character was first introduced someone here predicted that she'd be a future victim. Their thinking being that her looking just like Charles makes it an easy setup. I wasn't crazy about this resolution. I despise the "they only meant to shove them, not kili them" resolution that so many mysteries resort to. (There were so many damned episodes of Cold Case that ended that way ::grumble::.) I've never found those resolutions particularly satisfying. And they've already done it on this show, wiith Mabel's friend dying the same way! Speaking of unsatisfying - that was a terrible cliffhanger last week. "Oh my God, Donna's in the courtroom!" They never even bothered to follow up on it. I'm glad the season had a lot of charms apart from the mystery - like the theater setting, and Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd, and cameos from people like Mel Brooks and Matthew Broderick.

I think the "look outside the nursery" part was very significant. I suspect that Donna and/or Cliff are responsible for one of the two attempts on Ben's life, but not the other. And I took the outside of the nursery part to mean someone who isn't connected to the musical. Tobert would seem to be the most obvious suspect, but the obvious reason for him to kill Ben is that it would be good for his documentary. And that would be way too similar to the season two killers' motive, so I don't think that's it. Regarding Dickie and Loretta, I have to wonder if Dickie already knows that Loretta is his mother (or at least strongly suspects it). The way he looks at her shows that he sees her as a maternal figure the very least, at. It could just be that she's filling that role in his life in a way that no one else has, but it's pretty blatant.

She had handlers, but either they didn't prepare her for anything meaningful, or Cybil ignored everything they told her. She did everything wrong. They would have given her statements about how important diversity is to her, and what steps she's taken to improve diversity, and how proud she is that The Morning Show is produced by a Black woman, and the director of the news division is an Asian woman, and the networks star anchors are all women. (At least it appears to be that way from what we've seen.) And if she had any savvy whatsoever, she would have pointed out that being trained by your colleagues is not a substitute for on-air experience.

Oh no, they did not just get rid of the most sensible character on this show - not to mention the only one who understands that Bradley Jackson is not the second coming of Christ! The interview was riveting, but I don't buy for a second that Cybil would be so clumsy. In the incredibly bizarre event that a network aired something like that, she would have been heavily coached, and prepared for anything, and given some useful soundbites.

While I was glad that Bean and Mora got to live happily ever after, I was disappointed that we saw so little of them together. The scene in season 3 where they had sex on the beach honestly struck me as one of the most romantic and passionate things I've seen in ages - and I'm not even attracted to women! The voice actresses had incredible chemistry, and I wish we could have seen more of their dynamic. Anyway...in the end, I think it was a bad idea for the show to revive so many dead characters. Death ended up meaning nothing. I felt nothing when Mora died, because it was so obvious that she would be revived.