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  1. I agree with others that she should have taken the deal. While I am exceedingly sympathetic to abuse victims (and feel there is merit in her abuse defense), a man is dead and there has to be some reckoning for that. I am surprised no one has mentioned her best friend from childhood. I am sure that woman was well-intentioned, but she came off as very cloying to me. The slow cadence, tilted head, and attempt at "soft" eyes fell flat to me. Then, she went from "I sent Christmas cards with no response....to....that explains she was a battered woman!" I was far more likely to believe the neighbor and co-workers who had been around the couple. I wish they had spent more time interviewing them and not a friend who admittedly had lost touch with her and really didn't know much about Jane's current life.
  2. Did anyone see the most recent episode about the man convicted of murdering his friend while his girlfriend was with him in the apartment? Rahul Gupta was found guilty of stabbing his best friend 11 times in "a drunken haze." His girlfriend, Taylor, was also allegedly in an alcohol coma and gave rather ambiguous statements to the police. Rahul initially confessed, but then retracted and said Taylor was the killer. I think several things pointed to Rahul being the perpetrator, especially the jailhouse call to his dad where he all but said, "Mark and I got in a fight and I grabbed the knife." I also agreed with the lead detective that although she might not have stabbed him, in many ways Taylor was inadvertently responsible for creating the atmosphere that led to the conflict. ***By the way, if I am going out with my husband to celebrate his birthday with his friends, I would likely invite a few of my own girlfriends as well. The fact that she was the lone sloppy drunk girl in a foursome of sloppy drunk guys was not a good look. Speaking of looks, someone should tell Rahul's sister that eye shadow transfer is real. I was constantly distracted by the glitter all over her face. Taylor reminded me of Bunny's girlfriend (I can't remember her name) from a few weeks ago. Basically, the final update was that Taylor's gone on with her life, has a new career and moved on. I would think that something so traumatic as being at the scene of a murder (of a close friend no less) and testifying against my boyfriend who is accused of said murder, would lightweight destroy me for a while. But these women just pick up and keep it moving like it's just another day. Weird. Seeing Mark all happy and giddy getting on the elevator knowing what awaited him was chilling.
  3. Like all of you I had S.H.E. (second hand embarrassment) watching the couple from Dallas. It almost read like one of them wanted to do the episode and the other resented them for it so the tension was playing out on screen. The way the husband was so unyielding and cold, I wouldn't be surprised if the wife wanted the exposure and he wasn't down for it..hence him getting his way via the house, media room, and office he wanted. Side note to the wife...a husband who truly wants to support his wife's home-based business would gladly give up the office space and make do with another one of the 50 billion rooms in the house for his own private space. That parting scene of her at the kitchen table pecking at her laptop while he was in the decked out office was crazy.
  4. Applecrisp, this is my issue. While I feel there is enough blame to go all around with respect to the international angle, the real problem is that DAs are so obsessed with keeping up their conviction rating, they would rather forego a trial if they aren't assured a win. As a taxpayer I would much rather the expense of presenting the evidence to a jury of citizens and taking a reasoned chance than letting what happened occur. The evidence Erin Moriarty presented in twenty minutes was compelling and I don't understand the prosecutor and judge's decision-making process. But then again, I am in education and psychology not the legal field, so what do I know? Well, I do know one thing. He will never come back and face charges. I feel like the prosecutor in Denver dropped the ball on this one. It's a shame. You go to a New Year's Party hopeful for all of the joy and excitement a new year brings and you lose your life hours later.
  5. Admittedly, I tend to hang out a lot in the Y&R thread but I've started catching B&B every now and again. Can someone help me out here? How are Thomas and Ivy not considered an incestual relationship? He is her cousin, right? From what I've gathered their grandfathers are blood brothers. But, Ridge is technically not blood related to Eric, so is that the loophole they're trying to finesse?
  6. I know, right? The Rock oozes sex appeal and charm, but that scene left me like WTF. It was almost like he had no rhythm (shudder) and then when he put his hand over her mouth, it was awkward. Um, just no. That whole scene decimated all my fantasies of The Rock in less than a two minute span of time. Damn shame, those fantasies were bangin'! **Sorry, hubby** I will say that the soundtrack this season has been stellar. When Nas and Lauryn dropped in the final scene I raised my own glass and did the club bop to the final credits.
  7. Thank you, I am glad someone else picked up on the fakeness that is Mama E. You can't tell me that she didn't (gleefully) know that her daughters had iced out Papa Dukes. But that's just the way she wants it, to keep the sympathy flowing her way. Truth be told, she doesn't strike me as a very warm and nurturing woman at all. You see how we don't hear anymore about her "counseling" service. Yeah... I don't like to talk about people's looks...but I'm about to talk about people's looks. I am convinced that if Traci was thinner, cuter, and had more polish, she would be next to Toni and Tamar as top dogs in the family and not such an outsider. But because she had a baby first, is on the thicker side, mangles the English language, is sloppy when drunk, and does not have a conventionally attractive face, she's easy prey. Especially when I'm sure the parents probably showed favoritism to Toni and Tamar as superstar and baby star, respectively. You gotta get in where you fit with the Braxton clan. Which reminds me...not everyone who likes to sing, can sing well, or who has a famous sibling who is a singer...needs to become a singer themselves. There is nothing wrong with choosing an alternative path. As long as she tries to stay in the fame and limelight orbit of her sisters, Traci will always be odd man out, or as they so sensitively called her in Season 1, the Wannabe (WTF??). If she had stayed on her cosmetology grind, she might have really done well for herself outside of the "family business." Hell, if she played her cards right she could have had a spin-off called DMV Hair, instead of the trainwreck that is Beautii 'n them from Cutting it in the Atl.
  8. I see what you did there with the scarf over the jumpsuit tease, Dateline. I was mad for 50 minutes until I realized that she was found guilty and they pulled the wardrobe okey doke.
  9. This all day. If I was single and longed to downsize without a mortgage I may try it, but no way with any other living being (including a dog). Plus, I couldn't imagine having to climb such steep stairs to go to bed each night. At least with a regular two-story home, you can stand fully erect while you drag yourself up the stairs after a long day. All of the crouching and hunching over would get old...quickly.
  10. Preach. I finally figured out who Jeremy reminds me of. Grayson from Drop Dead Diva. The writers tried to convince me that Grayson was this gorgeous swoon-worthy hunk and all I saw was a block of wood who couldn't act. Pretty--yes? Riveting and exciting--no. So the gay black producer sells out his race one week and then his same-sex comrades in the equality fight the next? What a peach. I wonder if Constance and Craig chuckle about their time together on Boston Legal? Constance looks the same for the most part, but Craig has really arm-wrestled against Father Time.
  11. ^^^ Yeah, I am curious about how this would work. It seems like they could only do this for another season or two before it gets to be...odd. I, like a lot of you, felt that Carter admitted some culpability to his sister. Maybe he did it alone, or with Aubrey, but Aliyah's visible response showed that she was shocked and hurt by what he said. I am still most intrigued by Matt's wife. I felt like they could have scrapped the Mexican illegal's storyline to focus more on her.
  12. Yeah, I'm calling shenanigans on that, too. Plus, when they would block a head shot, the other actress' hair was never in line with how they showed it from the orienting shot. For example, if Kalinda was talking, they would show Alicia's hair flat back, not as if she was turned toward her. If they had even one of them reach out to touch or brush against the other I may buy they were in the same place, but I'm thinking it was clever editing. Whatever the beef, damn, it must have been a whopper for them to take the bad feelings down to the final scene like that. Maybe someone behind the scenes will leak to social media if the final Kalicia shot was real or not.
  13. Jamanda was end game. Yasssss! So, we saw Emily had a heart surgery scar in her wedding dress, then they added the dream sequence...why the nightmares...wouldn't she ask whose heart she received? Nolan's lines were classic tonight. "Ems, you in danger, girl!".... "Miss America's Most Wanted".... Courtney Love didn't look real. It was like her face was so overinflated, but her body looked normal sized. Spooky. Um, was her scallywag mother saying that Victoria actually had sex with her father?
  14. I have a soft spot for Michael J. Fox, but I won't (can't) sit through a full season of Florrick, Canning, and Associates. Wasn't he just on his deathbed like three eps ago? Kill him off, and have his wife join Alicia's new world order law firm. Peter as VP? I feel like this is another case of supporting characters telling us that the person in power is greater than they really are (hey, Olivia and Fitz!). In six seasons I have seen little to convince me that Peter is worthy of the national political scene. Two weeks in a row and we have had Black male defendants on trial. Now that Archie is gone (by the way, her sunglass-donned exit was stellar), I need the writers to actively diversify the cast. Taye Diggs and day player Michael Boatman not withstanding.
  15. Like all of you I had seen this on another channel so, luckily, it only took me 40 minutes to watch it from start to finish. I'm always curious to see how another editing team will splice together the story. I was glad that I stopped the ff button long enough to hear the widower crying during his interrogation. It was especially eerie when he was wailing to his son when he thought he was alone. The weight of what he had done hit him like a ton of bricks. He screwed up his son's life and (because of the actions of his wandering eye) took his wife's life all over some raggedy thieving chick from next door? Then...he remarries and moves wife #2 into the same house where his first wife was brutally murdered due to his affair with her insane best friend? I can't... I wanted to hear from the two oldest sons' father... or some relative on that side other than sketchy tweaker uncle who ratted out the whole plot. Massive shade from the editors when they posted the side-by-side pics of Becky pre-prison and after. I chuckled when Tamara the neighbor said "I know why she needed Weight Watchers..." Who knew you could eat so well in prison?
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