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This may have been one of the first family & emotional breakthroughs on the show that actually felt genuine and earned. The people even came out looking like self-respecting humans rather than caricatures. I've tried every single one of them. There's always room for one more! :-)

I don't know... the guy is being sued, it's in his best interest to say as little as possible and not give away any additional information. He's also surely been coached by lawyers exactly what will be asked, and how to answer the questions. I haven't watched the entire thing but I have a hard time faulting anyone for trying to protect themselves. He doesn't come across slimy to me. Just completely on guard yet uninterested. Seems like Deposition 101. Found a few articles detailing the case. Didn't seem too interesting but it was hard to follow exactly what happened. Also, this cracks me up at 22:20.

I don't know... the guy is being sued, it's in his best interest to say as little as possible and not give away any additional information. He's also surely been coached by lawyers exactly what will be asked, and how to answer the questions. I haven't watched the entire thing but I have a hard time faulting anyone for trying to protect themselves. He doesn't come across slimy to me. Just completely on guard yet uninterested. Seems like Deposition 101. Found a few articles detailing the case. Didn't seem too interesting but it was hard to follow exactly what happened.

Obviously Flacco is no Peyton Manning, but if Elway's strategy is basically to build the rest of the team up, then bring in an aging but once successful QB who is being run out of his home town, to be the final piece of the puzzle and make a run at the Super Bowl... At least that's a unique approach. Drafting a QB is always a crapshoot, and the cost of getting the 1 or 2 "sure things" at the top of the draft each year is enormous. You either have to be terrible, in which case, the chances of that QB prospect living up to his potential is not good. Or you need to mortgage future drafts to trade up and get the QB, in which case you won't be able to as effectively build around him for a few seasons. Other than that you can pick a guy in the mid to late rounds and hope to find a Brady or a Wilson. Elway has been taking shots at that by drafting Osweiler and Siemian, and while they didn't pan out, he's certainly not ignoring the position. I'm not a Broncos fan or a Flacco fan, but I hope he's successful there and wins a SB, because it might upset the status quo for how teams are handling QBs right now, which is something that desperately needs to happen.

I don't think it was helmet to helmet. I haven't seen any super slow mo shots from the right camera angle, but from seeing it live and watching replays it sure looks like he hit the QB right in the chest, below the helmet. Keep in mind that Bercovici's helmet fell off again just a few plays later without taking a brutal hit, and there were a few other helmet losses during the game. It seems like there were some fitting or helmet strap issues that are hopefully fixed before this week. All that said, the hit would no doubt have been a penalty in the NFL. We'll see whether the AAF tightens its rules or lets the players get away with some harder hits than the NFL does.

Right, I'm not saying Haskins is a bad QB. I don't watch nearly enough college football for that. I'm just saying he's not very interesting to the media. He's a pocket passer (unless for some reason you listen to Stephen A. Smith), he doesn't have historic football ties, he hasn't been hyped for years as the next Elway (Luck), he wasn't a college sensation (Tebow, Manziel), he hasn't been embroiled in controversy (Winston), and there's not even a looming question over which QB will get picked #1 and which #2 like there is many years (Mayfield vs Goff, Winston vs Mariota, Luck vs RGIII, etc.) Even watching his highlight reel - it's mostly him throwing from a clean pocket, or to open receivers. As a Giants fan, I wouldn't hate taking him at #6. (Although I think there are better options and greater needs.) Then again, the Giants thrive on boring, uncontroversial pocket passers.

There's always one or two people during the draft season that the sports media latches onto and shakes for all it's worth. None of the other QBs are all that interesting this draft, there don't seem to be any super star RBs or WRs, and while the defensive class is deep, well, I guess they're not as exciting as a 5'10" - no wait, more like 5'9" - no way, could he possibly be only 5'8"? - quarterback prospect. The only interesting thing about KM to me is that he doesn't seem to have the injury history that most running QBs have. At least, based on my 5 minutes of research into him, I didn't find anything.

I believe they're also streaming live on YouTube and on the AAF website, if you're into that sort of thing. Hopefully if they remain popular we'll get some more major network broadcasts. One more major rule change: Teams can only rush 5 defenders max This was a smart, prescient rule, but the defenses still played significantly better than offenses this first week. Dropped passes abound! Everyone was saying that offenses takes longer to gel than defenses, and that played out exactly as predicted. I loved all the games. If the AAF can keep the game more fun than the NFL than they'll have a winning product. (Not saying they'll ever compete 1 for 1 with the NFL, that's not the goal.) In my mind, more fun = faster pace, fewer penalties, fewer injuries, fewer commercials, lots of creative and dynamic play making. Since all players are on the same contract, there's much less drama over super stars and a lot more focus on the game itself. And the lack of a million commercial breaks is already a HUGE boon! I noticed the NFL Network broadcast would simply not let go of the "they're trying to get a second chance at the NFL" narrative. I reckon they said "NFL" 10 times as often as they did "AAF." It's fine if some players are there for that reason, but like college ball, I also want to see a good product in and of itself, with players being proud to play THIS game and competing for THIS championship. The first CBS broadcast mentioned it a few times but it wasn't a constant tirade like the NFLN game. All in all, I was happy with what I saw and I'll be here each week. Haven't decided who to cheer for yet!

No, that's a much later episode. Emancipation is the 3rd episode of season 1, where they visit a Mongol society and Sam is sold into (sex) slavery. On the one hand, it makes sense that they would encounter cultures that still hold outdated beliefs about genders, races, equality, etc. On the other, it was just terribly executed at every level. I guess the positive aspect here is that SG1 got it's indisputably worst episode out of the way right up front. Compare that to say, any Star Trek series (and I adore them all) where you could make a case for their worst episodes coming in their final season or two.

The pitches always feel contrived. I'll take their word that they are not entirely scripted, but they certainly can feel that way. I don't think we even heard numbers discussed in either of the pitches. Chalk it up mostly to TV editing. But also, these companies listen to the pitches because of Marcus. So they're a bit of a formality, and I think the people being pitched know that it's as much a lesson to the entrepreneur as it is a real business pitch. What Marcus really meant was, "no contacts, except for me, and the fact that you're on a TV show." Home Base is great!

Yahoo has been putting the episodes online the day after they air. https://view.yahoo.com/show/the-profit/episode/61275221/after-the-casery

Sounds like the plot of a Doctor Who episode! I'm excited to see Captain Pike.

My biggest takeaway from this episode is that Marcus believes wallpaper is a hot market it get into.

Critics love it because it catered to the zeitgeist. Read through a few of their reviews and you'll see they're almost exclusively praising the show for its so-called progressiveness rather than evaluating the story telling itself or the actual quality of the show. Also worth noting that out of the 38 critic reviews attributing to its overall 94% rating, only 6 of those reviews (15%) were written after October 22, and 27 of them were written before episode 2 aired. In other words, they're not really rating the entire season. That isn't to say the user reviews are fair evaluations either. The usual garbage is there. However, perusing them, many are more informed and provide better analysis than the critics' reviews. Here's a decent one that hits on some of the major problems with the season (all emphasis mine):

For a brief period in the late 90s/early 00s domain squatting was probably more lucrative than drugs!

Sorry, there's no way a domain name like santastoys.com was selling for $100. More like 10-50 times that amount. (Gather up boys and girls, it's lesson time! The cost of "owning" a .com and a .net are both around only $10-$20 / year. But since that's so cheap, people buy up every possible domain name you can imagine and "squat" on them until someone is interested in it. They then sell the ownership for a much higher amount. You pay the yearly fee to the domain registrar whether you purchased a brand new, unused domain or purchased it from someone who previously owned it. I have no doubt a domain like santastoys.com was owned by a squatter and selling for at least a few thousand dollars, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was in the tens of thousands.) This was an interesting investment for Marcus. He only bought interest in the online store, which was not bringing in any revenue at all. He then basically rebuilt everything that already existed. No revenue, no marketing history, no brand recognition, and no online store. In all respects, it's a brand new business that Marcus created. Essentially, he gave up $100k and 50% of a company he created to this couple to operate as a fulfillment center to his new online toy store. That feels like a bad investment to me. I'm shocked he didn't ask for 100% of the online business, or something in the range of 90% so they still have a little incentive with it. I suppose long-term if he wants to attack the vacated Toys R Us brick & mortar market he has a very slight foothold with this first storefront. Assuming he can get them to sell some of their ownership stake off-camera. But Santa's Toys sounds much more like a seasonal holiday store that pops up for a few months in malls across America than it does a general, all-year toy store. Maybe a few specialty locations could survive all year in tourist heavy locales, but I can't picture one staying open year round in any of the 4 malls near me. (In fact, there ARE toy shops that open up seasonally in these malls already. They generally move in after the Halloween shops close.)

Coming from someone who had never heard of a Bedouin tent, was that a crack and not a compliment? I thought he was saying it tasted authentic to wherever the flatbread originated, not having anything to do with Jiwan's heritage.

Was she a realtor? I thought she said builder, as in construction of some sort, but when I watched the audio quality was bad. Success is pretty relative for a realtor, so if that's what she was I have to agree with you on questioning that.

Are they leading up to the show ending? Or a big season-ending cliffhanger? It feels like a lot of the characters are suddenly headed in different directions. Amy leaves to manage another store. Jonah finally takes initiative to do something more with his life. Dina finds her perfect job, as the assistant (to the) ornithologist at an aviary. Mateo... gets deported? Brett lands a gig as a stripper at an old person's home. Marcus discovers his calling in Hollywood set design.

I also loved and miss The Taste. It wasn't perfect but it was leagues ahead of most shows. Still, since the judges change each episode (and each round) on this show, there isn't nearly as much time to build up bias toward the contestants. Although Martha Higareda seemed to have the hots for the taco guy (Ochoa?).

Still in the middle of this episode, but boy... Is there anything more 50s than this Catskills resort? The moving in scene was brilliantly shot. Miriam shouting, "we're going to the Catskills" should have been cheesy (even if done tongue in cheek), but Brosnahan totally made it work! Also, I know by 1959 he was already in Hollywood working with Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner, but I'm really hoping for a Mel Brooks cameo! (I mean, Lenny Bruce style, where someone else portrays real-life Mel Brooks. Although I wouldn't mind him actually making an appearance.)

I think that would be too far out of left field and wouldn't fit in with the show. It's not a bad idea but I think they would have had to introduce it from the very start for it to make thematical sense. In general, this second season feels weird because they seem to be trying to expand the characters beyond just Miriam. In the first season it was mostly about her, and the screen time the others got directly affected her. (From what I recall!) While some of those characters are fine and their stories are probably enjoyable, it feels like a bit of a shift from S1. The wedding scene in this episode suffered because of how it was positioned. Episode 2 was all about Miriam's rising trajectory and how great she's doing in her new life. They wanted to show that everything not all great, that she isn't perfect, that she doesn't always read the audience, and that her new life is separating her from her old life. (Much like how her parents' renewed outlook on life is clashing with the old.) But it was too far separated from E2 that the two sides weren't taken together, and it felt like a big step back. If the wedding scene happened immediately after her takedown of the comedians last episode it would have been fine. Still awkward and uncomfortable, but it would make sense. She's riding the high of her coarse comedy and the adulation she is receiving, and simply carries that over to the wrong audience. Not sure if I want Joel and Miriam getting back together to be the endgame, but I agree with others that he's being written much better this season. I'm not hating every second he's on screen!

At first I thought you were making a joke just because he's Asian, but then I discovered he's actually in the movie! Heh! I'm sad that the cast aren't really doing shows that I'm interested in, but am glad to see them succeeding!

I never thought the "we're traveling to X country" as anything more than metaphorical. It wasn't so much annoying to me as extremely cheesy. Agreed completely about the editing! Some of the problems I noted in the first few episodes were fixed later on. I hope that (assuming we get more seasons) this is able to carry over, and that it didn't get better simply because there were fewer contestants and thus more time to focus. In most cooking competition shows I have assumed contestants generally have recipes submitted before the actual filming so the ingredients are on hand. Especially on Masterchef when they are cooking somewhere remotely as a team, and they "make up recipes" and magically all the ingredients for X many people are available. But the narration in FT very deliberately says that the contestants must "conceive and cook" the recipe in the time allowed. Some of the ingredients they used were so obscure that I just have a hard time believing they happened to be on-hand. I've always wondered what happens to those well-stocked pantries after filming! Does anyone know where they filmed this?

I... am completely baffled that anyone could think this. They're completely opposite characters. Could you expand on what you mean by Garrett being the male version of Dina? That's par for the course with Mateo. I wouldn't expect anything better from him.