Sir RaiderDuck OMS

So does this mean we can expect Brittany and Yazan on the mothership show in a year? Meanwhile, Sumit will soon realize that now that his mother knows a suicide threat will work, he can expect more of them anytime he doesn't do what she wants. Jihoon and Deaven will likely never occupy the same room ever again.

If his catfishing activities gave him a criminal record in India, he may not be able to get a US visa.

I assume it's more sympathy for being in the reality TV fishbowl and having your every move examined. I think the only things they're coached to say are the "I can't wait for next week's episode!" stuff.

Thinking about it some more, I'm now of the opinion that Sumit is only doing this to spite his parents. He's resentful of their control over his life and so is deliberately marrying the most objectionable person (a poor old American they personally hate) he can find. They're used to having control, as evidenced by their attitude when they first sat down: his father said something like "You've had your fun and we're not mad, but now it's time for you to come home with us." We're seeing a childish tantrum from a guy in his 30s who thinks he's been wronged and wants to personally hurt those responsible: he's thrilled that his parents feel humiliated in front of their friends and family. Methinks Jenny walking out was less about Sumit's recriminations to his family and more about the realization that she's being used in this manner. Ari's mom was practically begging her to get on that plane. Meanwhile, the baptism ceremony was straight Eastern Orthodox, which is why Ari was a little weirded out by it. Eastern Orthodox and western Christianity split apart well over a millennium ago (after which one evolved in Constantinople and the other in Rome) and their practices have grown different with time.

It's functionally the same thing. Muslims view Islam as something that has to come from inside you. It's illegal to force someone to convert for that very reason, and becoming a Muslim just to gain acceptance is considered worse than not converting at all. If Cheesestick had really wanted to work things out, he would have told her before buying a plane ticket. Telling her after he's purchased a (likely non-refundable) ticket makes the whole thing a fait accompli. Obaida reminded me of Frank Zappa for some reason.

What a total fucking ass. Your wife takes the time and the trouble to learn that song, then goes to all the further trouble to stage and costume it that way, all because she wants to give you something special that 99.99% of men in the world would NEVER receive: a custom-made, professionally-shot video of their wife singing a famous song with a world-class orchestra, and your reaction is to mock it to your jealous sister??? I actually had to hit Pause because I was shouting at the television until Mrs. RaiderDuck calmed me down. Listen here, you pompous self-centered twit: the quality of the end product is not remotely the point. The point is the love and the thought and the effort that went into the gift. Who goddamn motherfucking CARES if it's no good??? You still respect the gift and the person who gave it to you. Asshole.

Given the unsavory history of the name "Charles" as a British monarch, and given Charles' likely desire to link his tenure to someone more popular than himself, there have been persistent rumors that Charles will take his grandfather's name upon assuming the throne and reign as King George VII.

It's long been rumored that when Elizabeth dies, Charles will radically slim down the BRF to a "lean and mean" version consisting of just him, Camilla, and his children and grandchildren. Anne, Andrew, Edward, and their descendants (and Margaret's descendants and all those distant cousins) will be out: they'll still have their personal properties and probably be allowed to keep their current Prince and Princess titles, but won't be able to pass them on and will get no more royal $$$. In other words, they'll de facto become run-of-the-mill nobles. This may also be an additional reason for Harry and Meghan's separation from the rest of the BRF: they see the writing on the wall and realize that William will probably cut them out one day as well, and so are making their transition now.

According to my wife who watched Harry and Meghan's wedding, Andrew's daughters Beatrice and Eugenie were giggling and smirking to each other during the entire homily. Mrs. RaiderDuck found their behavior extremely childish and inappropriate, and was thrilled when Eugenie's wedding was sparsely attended* and Meghan then upstaged Eugenie at the reception by announcing her own pregnancy. *Supposedly, one of the things causing Andrew to be on the outs with the rest of the BRF even before his disastrous Epstein interview was his insistence that Eugenie be given a full-on royal wedding: its cost made the Royals look bad, and the poor attendance made them look bad a second time. So they paid through the nose for a PR fiasco. Heckuva job there, Andy.

Some higher-up on the show (might have been Morgan himself, but I'm not sure) defended the exclusion of Ann's marriage and attempted kidnapping by saying this is a show about those who wear the Crown, not their other children and siblings, and we have something similar here. Bottom line is that 10 hours only leaves room to tell X number of stories in depth. As for Fagan himself: Out of work and poor, but somehow finds money for cigarettes Rude and obnoxious to the lady at the Unemployment office who is only asking a question SHE IS REQUIRED TO ASK (as someone who used to work in Technical Support and had to hear lots of dumb jokes and snide comments about stupid required questions, this really grated on me -- yes, we know the question is dumb, but we have to ask it, and being snide with us will take more time and energy on your part than answering it, and you'll still have to answer it anyway. So just answer the goddamn question so we can move the fuck on) Stalks his ex-wife and tries to start a fistfight with her new man Goes to his children's school and actually does start a fistfight with him in front of his (Fagan's) children, thus putting them in the middle of something they had zero say in And that's even before he breaks into someone's home. TWICE. The episode obviously wants me to sympathize with him. No.

Phillip and Elizabeth always assumed Charles would be a Type A macho man just like his father, and didn't know how to treat a child who was the polar opposite. This episode made me glad I only had one child: no need to worry about favorites. And since my wife and I were both only children, we found the whole "favorite sibling" dynamic fascinating.

According to the book The Day Diana Died, Charles really took her death hard, and not just because of its effect on his sons: he had always genuinely liked (if not loved) Diana and had come to realize how badly she'd been treated by himself and the BRF (a full-on reconciliation was out of the question, of course, as he had only ever really loved Camilla). The Queen, by contrast, felt sorry for her grandsons but was primarily concerned with getting Diana's royal jewelry back. She initially refused to either address the nation about Diana's passing or allow Charles to speak publicly about it. The Queen finally relented and delivered her brief televised eulogy of Diana only after an enraged Charles threatened to abdicate and then address the nation as a private citizen.

Remember that Gillian Anderson and series creator/showrunner Peter Morgan have been living together for years. If an individual director doesn't like her portrayal (which is very good if not perfect -- the real Thatcher didn't constantly turn her head away from people, then look at them side-eyed), there's not much they can do.

Amit and his new wife obviously think this impending Sumit/Dimwit (aka Jenny) marriage is a horrible idea: she was just too nice to say anything (or maybe she didn't want to get in the middle of the brothers' relationship). And now even Sumit may be trying to sabotage it by telling someone who could clue the folks in. As dumb as Jenny is, she correctly senses she's being played. Methinks their enforced quarantine together made his fantasy of bagging an American woman less appealing. A badge around your neck to ward off COVID??? Words fail me. Ari was clearly hoping her folks would volunteer to pay for a bigger apartment. Cheesestick and Ice Queen just need to go their separate ways.

Christ on a crutch, Phillip. Did it ever occur to you that the reason your uncle started watching out for Charles more than you was because your son needed the help and you didn't??? What an insecure 58-year-old child you are.

Diana hated both her stepmother Raine and Raine's mother Barbara to the point of excluding Barbara from the wedding. Diana's mother Frances left her father (Earl John Spencer) for a married man (who, decades later, dumped her for a younger woman). The Earl got custody of the kids and married Raine several years later. A year or so into his second marriage, the Earl suffered a major stroke and Raine spent months by his bedside nursing him back to health. After that, he was devoted to her for the remainder of his life, even though she and Diana never got along. No way Netflix is going to risk the media's wrath by actually wounding an animal. If the PM says there's a crisis (and having multiple Ministers going on TV and suggesting you be replaced certainly qualifies), the Queen can't exactly say "No, there's not." I hope this season features more meetings with Elizabeth and Thatcher. Colman and Anderson ever-so-politely tearing into each other is a joy to watch.

Did you see his interview in the taxi? He looked like a guy who took a bunch of uppers and is now coming down off them: heavy-lidded, thousand-yard stare. Then when he was at the airport, he was twitchy, nervous and generally acting like a refugee from the Manson Family. I think he's working multiple jobs to make ends meet and is taking whatever he can to stay awake.

If the TLC camera crew wasn't with her, there's a very good chance she would have been hustled off to a side street and brutalized and/or violated, with the Jordanian police probably blaming her afterwards.

That's a good question. So far, everything's been negative: he's lost his job, his home, his family (except for his brother), and he may be hooked on amphetamines. The solution is obvious: cut off contact with Brittney and crawl back to his father, blame Brittney for lying to him, beg for his forgiveness and promise to marry a nice Jordanian woman. Baba will probably take him back immediately and may even trust his judgement again someday.

Here's Brittney's situation as I see it: she's spent her adult life as a Boy Toy for a series of rich old (70s and 80s) men. She's also supplemented her income by doing her sexy pictures and twerking videos. But she's now 26 and getting older every day. The rich old pervs who were interested in young, seemingly innocent 18 and 19-year-old Brittney will have little interest in someone the wrong side of 25, and even her pics and videos will enter MILF territory in a few more years. So she's trying to jump-start a career as a Social Media Influencer by appearing on TLC. However, her behavior has been so narcissistic and her personality so unappealing that it's hard to see any brands wanting to be associated with her, especially if she gets Yazan killed (which remains a distinct possibility). She may be faced with the reality of entering the workforce as 26-year-old with only a High School Diploma (assuming she has one) and no work experience, which means she'll start off cleaning toilets at your local McDonald's and have to work her way up.

Day considers her treatment of David to be 100% Nicole's fault. It's classic "Look what you made me do!" behavior. Nicole's whiny entitlement reaches its zenith: it takes some serious obliviousness to be sitting amongst a jury of people whose exits you helped engineer, then act offended to be sitting among them. You could tell she was furious that anyone DARE not let her win. As I told Mrs. RaiderDuck last night: Nicole could stab you in the back, stand there and watch you bleed to death, and consider it nothing more than part of the game. Meanwhile, if you brush up against her accidentally, it's the most heinous unforgivable personal insult EVER. I think he had a good speech prepared, but it was a speech to be used versus Nicole: "I glommed on to the alpha male of the house, let him do all my dirty work for me, then cut him loose at the end; meanwhile, I was super-nice and friendly towards everyone, yo." Not a bad argument in that situation, but a terrible one to be used when the guy you glommed on to is sitting opposite you; you're literally telling everyone that he did all the work. I took two things away from Enzo's speech and behavior: 1) If he'd won final HoH, he was 100% taking Nicole with him, and 2) He felt guilty as hell that Cody took him and ditched Nicole in the process. He literally did not feel worthy to sit beside Cody in a F2.

When Nicole was lying there with her hands beneath the covers, softly repeating "Nicole, YOU are the winner of Big Brother All-Stars" or whatever, did anyone else wonder whether she was... er.... jilling off???

Day will vote against Nicole out of anger for her lying to Day's face about David's vote some weeks ago. Her exit interview made it plain that she took it personally. David will join Day because he wants to be accepted by her. He was obviously hurt and frustrated by Day's insistence (since recanted by her) that he'd lied, and he'll vote her way to ensure he's in her good graces. Memphis is a sexist pig, and so will vote for the alpha male (Enzo or Cody) over the woman (Nicole) ten times out of ten. Tyler will know that Nicole was basically carried by Cody and so will vote for Cody (because he did the carrying) or Enzo (because he didn't have anyone carrying him and still made the F2). Christmas will vote against Nicole because they hate each other. That's five votes, which is enough to win. Dani MIGHT vote for Nicole in an F2, and Cody will vote for her if Enzo wins the last HoH (if Cody makes the F2, Enzo will vote for him). Not sure Nicole gets any other votes. Ian and Kevin are semi-wild cards, but if the prevailing sentiment in the jury house is anti-Nicole (and I think it will be), they'll go along with the crowd. Kevin just wants to be accepted, and Ian won't care enough about the outcome to swim against the tide: if everyone's voting for Cody or Enzo to win over Nicole, he'll say "Yeah, whatever. Cody/Enzo it is. May I get the hell out of here now?" This will also apply to Tyler to some degree. Final tally: 9-0 or 8-1 for Cody over Nicole, or 8-1 or 7-2 for Enzo over Nicole, both dependent on Dani's vote.

You may be thinking of Nick Viall's season and his disastrous volleyball game in St. Thomas: there were six (I think) women left and they were divided into teams of three each to play volleyball in front of Nick. The winning team was going to spend more time with him that evening whilst the losing team would be sent back to the hotel. But Nick's fav Vanessa (aka The Black Hole of Charisma) was on the losing team and started in with her regularly scheduled "I don't know if I even wanna BE here anymore" crying jag, so Nick let everyone stay on for the evening. Bad move. The winning team, who'd busted their butts for the victory, was now wondering why they'd even bothered, the other two members of the losing team knew they were only there because of Vanessa, and Vanessa herself was still inconsolable. One of the producers (not sure if it was Harrison) said they considered each season with a returnee contestant as the new Bachelor(ette) to be a direct sequel to the last season; when they don't cast anyone from the previous season, it's basically them pushing the Reset button. Every time Clare looks at Dale, she's obviously starstruck. Dude could be reading the phone book and she'd think it was the greatest thing ever. Someone please tell me these dates are going to get less lame as the season goes on. Yes, I know they're quarantined, but there is stuff to do around La Quinta that wouldn't involve exposure to COVID.

Part of the problem with this season was casting people who all knew each other and are in contact IRL. The big alliances were mostly set up before the show even began, and other castmembers were either gaslit into going along, or didn't win early challenges and so were voted out.