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18 minutes ago, Ellaria Sand said:
I would like to see Stan have this epiphany as well but I fear that we are running out of time. It shouldn't happen in one episode, IMO. Stan is the FBI agent at the center of this show. His reaction and response should derive from his experience and training as well as humanity (or lack of). It has to be complex. And it should be all on Stan not Aderholt or - please - Renee.
I agree. I hope it's not as literally shitty as I felt it was on Breaking Bad.
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I've yet to see Adam come anywhere near his potential. I haven't liked any of his dances so far and I'm trying not to assume it's because of his teacher but it has to be. Hopefully this changes as it's still only week 2.
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On 5/3/2018 at 4:37 PM, whiporee said:
I found myself feeling extremely sorry for both Paige and Henry because they had parents who weren't really parents. Philizabeth had kids as props and had been conditioned in their training to not develop attachments. And yet there were these two kids, with secretive parents who carried beliefs they kept hidden that were completely contradictory to what they had been taught everywhere they turned. It really became clear tonight, that neither Phillip or Elizabeth has any way to actually talk to their son. Henry's whole life -- literally, his whole existence -- has just been one lie after another. Nothing -- nothing at all -- is real. Phillip and his conversation in the car, where the kid is trying to help out his father and Phillip has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA of how to respond. Because he sees the kid not as a person but as a prop. The same thing in the slot car place, when Phillip is trying to go through a motion of how a father and son acts together, but he's so frustrated because he has an instinctual love for his child but has no way of actually feeling it or expressing it. Complain all you want -- that's some seriously good writing there.
Those are two instances of something very normal from two very loving, but imperfect parents: it's perfectly normal to be out of touch w/ your teenagers or withhold expressing your "adult" issues onto them. I've seen countless examples of Philip and Elizabeth's love for their children that many children can only be so fortunate to have.
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23 hours ago, Uke said:
Mirai: Wow! That was great! (Witney, take note, that's how those lifts are supposed look). I think she may have to watch her mouth with her comments and asides. She comes off a little snide. (I didn't see much of the winter olympics and virtually no media) 7? The 8s were good.
Mirai speaks like her bestie Adam. That's who she seems to be imitating in her voice and attitude, and it can come off fun and sassy on him but snide on a woman. Not to me, though, I adore her and hope she wins but will probably lose to Adam.
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3 hours ago, dr pepper said:
He could have done it better. Something like: i've done a lot of travelling and i've seen a lot of things, and there's one thing i really need to share with you, namely that there are some bad people out there looking to catch american kids off their guard and kidnap them. So, please. If you meet anyone new there, no matter how nice they seem, and they ask you to come with them to another country, just don't!
I think a teenage girl could easily shrug that off as overprotective nagging. Like, "Thanks, Dad. You're being a little paranoid." What he said was much more unsettling and to the point.
I liked the scene, and it recalled when Philip showed himself to Martha because it was what she needed.
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1 hour ago, CaliCheeseSucks said:
I honestly don't see any comparison between fan distaste for Paige Jennings and and that towards Skyler White.
Breaking Bad fanboys hated Skyler because she was an impediment to Walter's plans. It was a very specific misogyny directed at a woman who wasn't letting her 'man' live the life he wanted to live. Breaking Bad unfortunately had a segment of its fan base that thought Walter White was a 'good guy' - because he finally threw off the oppressive chains of his nagging wife. Fans who understood what an anti-hero was knew that no one was supposed to root for Walter (or the many other bad guys on the show, for that matter).
I loved Skylar and the actress was excellent. Although, isn't an antihero just one who doesn't have the conventional "good guy" traits but, in spite of this, you may find yourself rooting for them? I've not known it to mean you aren't "supposed" to root for them. I usually am drawn to them (Dexter, the Jennings, Walter White) as they interestingly muddle the black and white binary of right and wrong, making matters more grey.
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9 hours ago, JFParnell said:
Oh, Lizzie. We were 20 minutes in and no one had died yet. I thought maybe you were going to take a break from your murder spree. That was ugly, and I can't imagine a single viewer out there who is any longer (or was anyone ever?) rooting for her character to become anything but a corpse resting on a slab in a morgue. Elizabeth must be stopped.
8 hours ago, MissBluxom said:I really love the Elizabeth character and I truly wish that I knew that character in my lonely life. Spending time talking with Elizabeth would be an enormously entertaining way to spend my time. Face it. Like her or hater her, she is still enormously interesting and entertaining.
I don't want anything to do with her but Elizabeth is one of my favorite characters. Keri has made her utterly convincing and full of life in her rich multilayered portrayal. She's a calm, strong female which is refreshing, but has had her moments of softness and vulnerability. She doesn't enjoy harming others, like with Young-Hee, and she kills for a means to an end, not for pleasure (e.g., when a warehouse worker showed her a photo of his child and she warned him by taking the photo, but let him go). I do not need to agree with a character or find them likable to appreciate them. I do need to believe why they are doing what they are doing, and it helps if the portrayal has depth (which is why I don't care for Paige).
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2 hours ago, jjj said:
So, Elizabeth still has a tiny molecule of soul left; was it the painter that made her realize this, and not massacre the child?
What would have happened if the kid had run into the room mid-murders? It gave me flashbacks to Black Mirror's "Crocodile" episode.
I hope that wasn't Kimmie's first time because now she'll forever wonder if she was that bad in bed.
Paige was so cocky after sucker punching two guys who weren't about to hit a girl.
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Mirai and Alan are the couple I'm most excited about.
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5 hours ago, Lady Iris said:
I miss Peter Quinn.
Shirtless, tattooed, mysterious Dante made me forget about Quinn for a couple episodes.
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I would like an update/closure on the Kimmy story and agree the actress was convincing and compelling, especially compared to Holly Taylor.
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I don't see why this inevitable conclusion couldn't have been reached the season she was conceived. Instead she was filler for when the writers felt it was easier to do Life at Home instead of Homeland.
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2 minutes ago, Maya S said:
This is her second season, she was with Jake T. Austin in season 23.
Right, thanks. They were eliminated first so it feels like her first season.
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20 hours ago, scrb said:
Not only that, she chokes the guy to death, with those burly arms of hers.
IRL, he'd easily throw KR off of him or flip her over his head.
In the previous episode, she wrestles a bigger man for the gun.
I can buy that she would know advanced fighting techniques, be quicker and more decisive in delivering blows.
Maybe because I am used to seeing women Elizabeth's weight class executing submissions like rear-naked chokes in mixed martial arts, this doesn't strain my credulity more than...say, mousy Paige wanting to be a spy or being taken seriously as a recruit. Submissions like in jujitsu are most effective when you have the element of surprise like she tends to and when you have the proper technique they can incapacitate someone who isn't able to defend (either because of lack of knowledge or lack of being ready because of the element of surprise) in a matter of seconds.
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22 hours ago, boyznkatz said:
I think Paige has been in the news because she recently revealed in her new book that she was raped at age 14 and bullied as a result. She did talk about the bullying on the show, but not the rape. Just curious, does dwts not allow people to talk about sexual assault or domestic violence? Her bully story makes a lot of sense now, but I admit I was scratching my head when she discussed it on the show.
I doubt DwtS has a rule about that. She didn't mention it until her book deal in the climate of #metoo. I don't know if she wanted to before but there would have been opportunity since she regularly participates in media and social media . (She attributes changing her last name because of this, leaving out reports that the family changed their name and moved after her brother was incarcerated for sexually abusing a minor.)
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I'm grossed out Adam went to Jenna. Does Val have that much influence to get her the favorite in her very first season?
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I hate the desperate mugging and the even more desperate shoving herself next to the Mic when she was subbing in for a pro. Gracious subs at the time did the opposite and would step aside to let the pro stand next to their partner and the mic to be interviewed. Not this girl. Rubs me the wrong way. She seems like a hyperambitious fameseeker, common with her social media first generation.
I wish someone else got Adam like Lindsay.
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The Russian stew scene reminded me of the Russian caviar scene from Season 1. Then they enjoyed it together but now Philip is too full from American Chinese food--not even the authentic food of a culture but the Americanized assimilated version of it.
14 hours ago, tennisgurl said:Elizabeth's lecture to Paige the other day about how the world isnt black and white and is actually grey is seriously hilarious on every level coming from Elizabeth, who has the most black and white thinking of any person this entire show. Almost everyone else can at least somewhat see the grayness of this conflict, and that its more complicated than Team A is Good Always and Team B is Bad Always, to varying degrees, but Elizabeth is just "USSR is good and the US is bad" over and over, even in the face of the complete freaking obvious. Anything bad about the USSR is just American propaganda, and anything American is bad because...West is bad.
Because there is no other way that an intelligent person who has lived in the US for most of her life now could be that ridiculously narrow minded.
She is like the millions of politically polarized people in the world who can see/admit to nuance except when it conflicts with their political beliefs. In America, depending on who you ask, they're called Republicans or Democrats.
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This episode was taken straight out of the most contrived gimmicks used on daytime soaps. Oleg deserves better.
What a shame if Dante is dead but Franny, the most painfully contrived plot device, lives to be whirled out another day.
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In the first vid they are literally sitting down with a tabloid to justify talking shit about her and she is not there to defend herself. So they are proving her point that they are ganging up on her by ganging up on her.
It's tough having sisters and for there not to be a rivalry. To be fair, she is reaping back some of what she sowed in bragging about how she married a good man compared to them etc. I can't stand Towanda tho.
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1 hour ago, hkit said:
But what I cannot abide is the sadistic need to put others in their place - especially when those people are coming to him for help and are in no position to cause harm.
In his mind, they are in position and trying to use Shark Tank to better position themselves to cause harm by ripping people off. That's something he's demonstrated he can't stand.
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IMO Mark's giant ego is mostly justified while Bethenny's is not. If you're familiar with her motormouth and persona from Housewives she is like a brat who can't go longer than a few moments before having to hear herself speak (with her acerbic grating voice) and she had nothing substantial to say about it, as it turns out.
I agree with Lori and Mark on the hearts of palm pasta being promising for their category. Kelp noodles are also in this category but aren't as convenient to prepare because they need to be softened first or else they taste like eating wires. The konjac and soy variety taste like rubber. The popular zucchini noodles taste like grass to me because that's how shredded raw zucchini tastes whereas hearts of palm are delicious on their own so I definitely want to try them.
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Don't care about his business but it was fantastic tension watching the Coin Out guy manage to stay just above getting kicked out of the tank. Like Barb said, it was a rare sighting to see someone go toe to toe with the Sharks on attack and, in particular, Mark. I like and dislike Mark's (arguably warranted) arrogance so it was very fun to watch.
I felt bad watching the suitcase/"cool car" guy talk himself out of a deal for his original product. He had no idea how he would be perceived and was at a disadvantage of not being a student of the show and making classic errors.
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Whatever she thinks she started was done at least a year ago by Camila from Fifth Harmony in their video "Work," watched by millennials everywhere. It actually looked hot on that girl instead of unfortunate and desperate.
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I think that is intentional and makes sense because their work is doubly dehumanizing now that she's doing it all herself (and training a petulant liability of a daughter doesn't help). She isn't carrying on like a typical relateable person because she isn't. But she is still human and Keri does portray her internal conflict in a skillful nuanced way true to her hardened character. In order to be what she is, she has to believe the ends justify the means and she is conditioned to compartmentalize emotions from work. However, we see when the emotions threaten to come out, e.g., when she has to take a moment and collect herself after the double murder to contain the strain registered on her face; when she looks hard at herself in the mirror and gulps before tying the suicide pill around her neck; when she wants to hear from her son because she's scared she may not have the chance again. If she lets herself feel more, she won't be able to perform for her life's mission, so she just keeps smoking as her only release.