JasminePhyllisia

Thanks for explaining. Hopefully if the business folds, those hard workers can collect a decent amount of unemployment.

I wasn't offended when my husband first saw a picture of my late father and commented that he looked like Saddam Hussein! I guess it just came out.

The cellphone video of a Friday afternoon was a little vague. Was it summer? Many small offices would probably be empty on a Friday afternoon in summer. Was the point that this particular worker was forced to stay while everyone else was allowed to have the afternoon off? If so, would anyone have noticed or cared if she had left? Need more context. And where was OSHA in regards to the insanely hot working conditions?

I watched a few more Christmas movies, here are some observations: Rocky Mountain Christmas: This wasn't as schmaltzy to me as some of the others, such as The Christmas Cottage which I bailed on after 15 minutes. Points for the female lead Sara wearing the same coat (red wool with fur-trimmed hood) multiple times, even though she did have more than one. Sara learns her uncle may be selling the ranch, leaves the ranch for her daily trip to town and where she meets up with her friend and says "Did I tell you my uncle might be selling the ranch?" Well, you just got here, so no. Crown for Christmas: Held my interest through the end, and for once the kid (Theodora) wasn't precocious, a bad actor or impossibly perfect. Danica's makeup was a bit heavy-handed but it did balance the prim uniform. Plus her purple eyeshadow matched the engagement ring. A governess is a private teacher, right? But the only academic lesson I saw Theodora get was the fractions while baking cookies which was unplanned. Good thing she'll never have to work anyway. It seemed like they misused the word governess, and what they really meant was nanny. Those sketches weren't very good, in fact some of them were downright unflattering. The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Must be a fan fave because it's from 2008 but Hallmark has repeated it several times just in the past few days. The few scenes of violence (Henry Winkler knocking down a thief, Morgan fighting with the toy store owner for the bike) show how dated this one is. Those scenes wouldn't be in the sterile 2017 movies. Henry Winkler brought some character and after a quick look at IMDb boy is he in demand. This guy does not say no to anything! I loved him in Holes. In this movie I liked the part where he recorded the weather forecast from a few days earlier to make it seem like Denver was still snowed under. Kid was annoying, poor acting, seemed to be reading from cue cards. Morgan the stray visitor and love interest had that distracting (to me) hairstyle--overly gelled and coiffed--that seems to be a favorite of the Hallmark film stylists. And it was even that perfect after he had just stepped out of the shower! I actually laughed at the name of Morgan's sort-of girlfriend in Denver, I think it was "Morning Mist" or something like that. I liked the exchange where Jennifer laughed in his face and he embarrassedly mumbled some excuse about it being her parents decision, not her fault. Effed-up Christmas timeline that seems to be a hallmark (no pun intended) of these movies. Much emphasis was made of Jennifer being super organized, but she is just getting to her Christmas cards at 1:30 am Christmas Eve day?

Okay I'm starting to enjoy this and will DVR some of the faves mentioned above. I watched "The Christmas Bucket List" with Alicia Witt and noted so many of the clichés mentioned in this thread: girl from the city finding Christmas enlightenment in a small town, cozy log cabin decorated to the hilt, female lead has an astonishing number of winter coats...etc. When her date took her to sled on a section of the mountain that was "special" to him, I just knew that his reason why it was special would be "I used to come here with my dad," and sure enough he spoke nearly those exact words. The most annoying (and surprising) thing to me about this movie is that we're supposed to believe the female lead who is (at least) 35 is utterly shocked when this single man who's been taking her out on all types of Christmas-themed dates reveals he is actually romantically interested in her, not just doing it to be friendly, and he actually tries to kiss her!

In that case maybe they got a post-episode bump and couldn't keep up with the sudden increased demand for their products.

This is the one Hallmark Christmas movie I've (deliberately) watched in literally a few years. The last one I can remember watching was a few years ago, it had Neil Patrick Harris and Debbie Reynolds and I don't think it was new then. I didn't see the first half of Mistletoe Promise so didn't realize that was Jamie King until reading your post. I kept thinking she looked like Kimberly Williams Paisley, who was in a TV movie mentioned up thread called Follow the Stars Home, a minor masterpiece (at least in the world of Hallmark movies) which I've watched many times.

Hmmm could it be they were monitoring this site for reviews from their episode and happened to see your post? I know there are a lot of sites people could be talking about the show but still this smacks of PR/damage control to me.

I did watch Parenthood but never saw MP in anything before or since and that guy made an important point which was she was not a big enough celebrity to carry this off as a celebrity brand, so they really didn't have that going for them (even in her hometown!) As if this episode wasn't already a major shitshow I happened to see, after the last scene with Marcus and Monica's emotional conversation on the porch, the commercial break included a commercial for Gold Bond Eczema Relief cream. Hold on, isn't the Sea Buckthorn stuff an eczema treatment? Total coincidence I'm sure!!

Agreed. I can't think of any specifics but I'm a longtime fan of the show. Sometimes he takes an organic (if not-quite-professional looking) logo that may already be familiar with locals and customers and has his designers sterilize it so that it doesn't stand out in the crowd. Maybe that's what he's going for, but still in my experience a unique logo pops out.

Beth's wardrobe continues to be amazing and my favorite part of the show.

I thought of this too! Those looks must take a lot of maintenance, makeup, hair products, etc. And they are basically homeless living in an abandoned warehouse? Not credible at all. Nice realistic touch though when they robbed the convenience store and Madonna girl had a box of tampons among her loot.

Agreed. Can we add Menendez brothers to this list?

I wasn't familiar with the case before seeing this but it was a sad story, and I think there are some Casey Anthony parallels when looking at the parents and grandfather. And yes, it seems every show about a missing girl includes at least one exclamation that "She lit up a room!" This one is right up there with "Nobody ever locked their doors in this neighborhood!"

I've had the same reaction when watching shows about this case. I feel like the parents were extremely reckless and careless and Elizabeth seems to go out of her way (too much, almost) to emphasize she doesn't blame her parents. Sorry, but I do.

Yes! Maybe I don't watch enough TV but flashback within a flashback? Too much Freudian digging into Jack's childhood unless they are going to make it relevant and tie it directly into the explanation of his death. Also, was Rebecca really wearing a cold-shoulder dress in a flashback to (about) 1990? I defy the wardrobe people to prove that this style was in back then.

RE: your comment: I'm beginning to wonder what training Beth and Randall got in what to expect from a foster child. I've been thinking the same thing. Is there no counseling available to them from the foster care system? If not, they can certainly afford to get some. They assumed that they could handle this since "our girls are good, but we made them great!" (No, the writers made them unrealistically perfect and precocious actually.) First-time foster parents need advice, counseling--maybe from other far more experienced foster parents of teens. And as I remember they were promised a file or something about Deja's history, obviously they didn't get it yet if they don't know about her alopecia and any other potential physical and psychological afflictions she may suffer from. Regardless, I'm thinking there will just be a few more "two steps forward, one step back" mishaps before they tie this situation up with a big happy bow.

I like seeing the big three together as teens, there for each other although even then Randall was a bit of a third wheel. As adults there seems to be a gap in terms of any sort of relationship between Kate and Randall (and Beth). I rarely see her interacting with either of them or their kids. It would be interesting to see if any sort of bond ever develops between her and Deja. But unlikely.

I don't like Beth only because I don't like the way her character is written. I've never been a fan of the TV show/commercial cliché of the smart, superior wife who speaks to her silly, inferior husband in condescending tones. As an actress I don't think she shines in her supposed love for William. She says the lines but doesn't seem to feel them.

Late to this party but I think it deserved the Emmy nominations. I was riveted throughout. I went in knowing nothing about the two of them except that Carrie Fisher was Princess Leia and Debbie Reynolds was an amazing actress who stole the show in a movie called "Mother." What a fascinating history and dynamic between the two of them. I am definitely going to watch Postcards from the Edge. So much sadness, especially in that scene with Carrie and her dying father, just desperately trying to have a bonding moment with him and he was so out of it. I was distracted by Carrie's exaggerated duck lip thing when posing for pictures. My impression was she had some plastic surgery to make her lips fuller and was making the most of it.

Paula Zahn needs a replacement, pronto. I get that the hosts aren't actually in the same room with the people they "interview." But her fake interviews take the cake for phoniness. She has only three facial expressions, all bad: faux empathy, faux shock and faux sadness. Her blurred face looks like a wax figure. She doesn't care about the devastatingly sad stories she reports on, and it shows.

I was frustrated by the whole episode, yes why weren't the police dispatched sooner? How did those big beautiful houses not have better security systems? With the burglaries rampant in those adjacent neighborhoods where was the police investigation, why did two women have to get shot before a full-on investigation, and why weren't the residents aware of the danger? Both of the victims called the police right away, but the only place they had to hide was a closet with no escape route.

I just discovered "Obsession: Dark Desires" on ID and boy is it horrifying based on the two I've seen so far. "SOS SMS" was truly creepy and suspenseful, but the episode "Cornered" omg so appalling and horrifying. If you haven't seen it: Brooklyn 2002, a single mom has a stalker, an older man from her neighborhood. When she won't go out with him he throws a rock through her window. Then he attacks her with a bayonet, slicing her hand, leg and stomach. She nearly bleeds to death but escapes. He is not a citizen (he's from the Phillippines) but he doesn't get deported and his brother puts up $100 thousand bail so he's back on the street. Next he burns her friend's apartment building down while she's in it. All the residents escape fortunately. The man gets sentenced to FIVE years. I hope this is scripted because I can't believe a person can get away with all that with such a light sentence!

Sad story, amazingly strong child (and woman.) It bothers me that it took so long to solve the case, he was a neighbor at the time. She gave his actual first name, that should have narrowed things down quite a bit.

Agreed, and agreed. I can't get enough of Pete. I love the crappy, shabby outfit he was wearing at the yard sale--a too-small bright purple polo and those baggy brown pants. Maybe he's worn it before but I only just noticed it in the yard sale scenes. I also like his line about the couch, that it was real Crate & Barrel, not CB2. And noticed at the end she hadn't sold it.