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Smith should have lifetime ban of attending the awards ceremony. He can still be nominated and win, but not attend. I doubt they'll even give him one year suspension on anything. Just MHO, YMMV.

The apology tweet was fine, except he forgot to add: "My son is wrong. That is NOT how we do things."

It's Texas. Isn't football a religion or something?

To my midwestern self, "Keh so" and "Kay so" would be pronounced exactly the same. I pronounce it "KEE so." Is that wrong? My cynical self always assumes in the this type of matchup that they keep the teams pretty even in scoring, regardless of how the judges actually feel. I think they think it ramps up the drama. Yawn. I agree the scoring was convoluted and I didn't get it until the first actual head-to-head. I liked the Quickfire challenge. Football one was okay. I'm just glad Top Chef is back.

Looks like Johnny also added a new weird jacket. I think it looks fine. Tara's dress seems to be the same as what Anna designed.

That's exactly how she skated to me--a grim, joyless grind of a "performance." Not caring one ounce if she won.

I'm fine with having no medal ceremonies. I think it will help keep the pressure on to complete the investigation. If medals are awarded, then a feeling of what-evs may ensue. The athletes will know how they placed and can take pride in that. Why would going through a sham ceremony be of anyone's benefit? YMMV.

I say let's just have Karnecki come in and analyze all possible scenarios and declare the winners! No actual skating needed.

One thing that really struck me last night is that they NEVER. SHUT. UP. Constant chatter which may be but usually is not about the person skiing at the moment. They were trying to get any crumb of good news to say about Mikaela, lauding her excessively for even trying. They are acting like she's come back from two broken legs and a coma. I think Mikaela herself is acting fine in the situation, but the commentators are ridiculous.

I didn't like Scott as an announcer either, but the prize for banality has to go to Peggy Fleming. I don't remember her ever saying anything insightful and still remember her stupidest remark, "She knows this routine like the back of her hand." Well, duh.

Hee. Yes, I was just thinking that I wish Tara would think about what she's about to say and decide if it adds anything to the conversation or is just banal "You really need to bring it to the Olympics" or "This is their moment" drivel. Or I wish they'd only say things that are applicable to this skater, not generalities. That would cut out at least 80% of the chatter.

Last night's primetime coverage had so much filler it was really annoying. They spent so much time analyzing Nathan Chen's score (not to mention repeating his short program). You would think there could be, oh, I don't know, actual events going on. I feel for all the other non-highest-profile-or-non-American athletes who are constantly ignored. At least I was able to set up In Demand specific sports in advance so it will pick up USA. I don't have Peacock and it's insulting to have NBC do half of an event and tell everyone to watch the rest on Peacock.

Each has its place in the industry, which is why I didn't like him as a judge. He focused too much on what he himself does--churn out very similar clothes every year. I would have like to have seen Fern Mallis(sp?) as a judge instead.

I don't hold Shantall being eliminated against her because I believe so much is scripted that if she really was going to be out for good, the judges may not have eliminated her to begin with. I don't remember what Coral did that episode, but it may have been just as worthy of elimination. To me most of the designers were equal in talent.

If I picked the collection that had the two single outfits I loved best, it would be Shantall's (the black and white ones). If I picked the collection that had the highest overall number of outfits I liked vs. disliked, it would be Kristina's. I was quite surprised by her collection and I really like the prints. I like quite a few of Coral's too. I would have been fine with any of the three winning. I hated everything in Chasity's except the one blue/purple top and pants that had nothing to do with the rest of the collection. I suppose celebrities could wear her stuff on stage, but even for that, it wasn't very attractive. Just tacky and dated, IMO. The finale dress didn't even make an impact because of all the ruffles coming down the runway before it. If you have to state yourself how important to the industry you are, then you are not. TH's tunnel vision judging even made me miss Elaine.