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Mandy is one of the most annoying people I've ever watched on one of these shows, and there have been a lot of really annoying people on these shows. She is aware of the fact that Graham is under an enormous amount of stress and yet she thinks its her place to "get to the bottom" of what's happening with his mom because she's not contributing enough to the care of a baby that isn't actually her responsibility? Unless a grandparent tells the child that they need to have the baby and shouldn't have an abortion, the baby isn't actually the grandparents responsibility. There's nothing to get to the bottom of here. The fact that Graham's mom isn't going to be involved isn't a surprise and should have been known when Kayleigh decided to have and keep her child. My husband's parents chose to not be involved in helping with our children. That was their choice, and it was their right to make that choice and there was no getting to the bottom of that. We decided to have the number of children we could take care of based upon the level of resources and support we had. And ultimately Kayleigh needed to make a decision as to what to do with her pregnancy based upon the support she expected, and no one should have expected Graham's mom to contribute because nothing in her history indicated she would contribute. And I don't care why she isn't contributing - whether it is a. health issue or simply a reluctance - this is who she is and that's the end of the issue.

Well, she's been on this show for a few seasons (I think). I have absolutely no ability to recall details of this show since it immediately leaps out of my brain after I finish watching it. The other returning mom said she made enough from instagram sponsors to afford to move to the beach to be with her new boyfriend, so I'd think Lilly might be able to monetize her fame at least for a little while.

It's a pretty cutthroat industry so I'd imagine they'd get a lot of respect for successfully orchestrating that deal for Deborah. But I do wonder if the video went public, if Kayla's dad would find himself in the same position as Deborah facing Ava's betrayal, grudgingly respecting Kayla for being ruthless enough to best him at his own game. Kayla's anger at Jimmy in the elevator after the disastrous potential client meeting over him not respecting her was also influenced by the lack of respect she gets from her dad.

Marcus has made helping support Deborah's sales be the primary focus of his life. And the network basically told them if she hosts late night, she can't sell schlock on QVC (or anywhere else) because it could potentially interfere with advertising sales for the late night show (no product is going to want to advertise on a show with a host who might be hawking a competing product). I think he took the QVC meeting before she officially took that job, but the fact that she was considering the show knowing it would mean the end the empire of sales he'd spent his life building combined with how she treats him (mostly taking him for granted) was enough for him to consider QVC's offer. Undoubtably when she took the late night offer, he knew there wouldn't be much for him to do moving forward. I think it goes back to what Kiki said when she explained to Ava that she needed to set boundaries - that Deborah used to call her at all hours, expecting her to drop everything to come to her house and deal blackjack at all hours. After she had her daughter, she told Deborah she needed 24 hours notice to arrange a babysitter. Deborah offered to pay for Luna's school tuition, and the private school for showgirl, acrobat and Raiders wives' moms has amazing aftercare so now Kiki can help Deborah "whenever" and Luna learned to play the French Horn. The people in Deborah's inner orbit need to be prepared to give up everything else to deal with her needs full time. Remember Marcus saying they send gift baskets to the accountant so he picks up Deborah's calls late at night. My guess is that Deborah is pretty lonely and mostly has only her staff for support. I'll miss Marcus and Marcus's mom and her friend but I hope this would pave the way for Marcus to build a better life in which he can succeed in business and have a personal life. I also missed seeing Kiki only once this season (she was amazing in her only scene). Kiki was a great character, and I'd be sad to lose her moving forward (not sure a blackjack dealer will follow Deborah to LA, although Deborah could afford it if she really wanted to). I'm not always the world's biggest Kayla fan, but her voice mail was hysterical, and it really nailed the character ETA: I forgot one more reason why Marcus was so upset - the showcase was specifically marketed towards gay men. As a gay man who didn't have an easy time coming out (he mentioned his mom being unsupportive until his dad died) I could understand Marcus being more annoyed at Deborah missing an event specifically marketed for her gay fans. Otherwise, you'd expect him to be more annoyed at Kayla, who was the one who was actually responsible for double booking Deborah for the weekend.

I didn't love this episode ether. Their getting lost felt very predictable and as soon as they headed into the woods I expected an "they're going to get lost and have some deep conversations" episode, which I feel has been done a lot by a lot of shows . But the next episode was really good, and the roast episode was one of my favorite in the series.

I really liked this episode. I was also really glad that Bob tried to tell her about the job before sleeping with her. There are times when I like Marty's character, but I really hated when he slept with Deborah and then told her the next morning she was losing her residency at the Palmetto (her response "I'm literally naked here" was comedy gold though). But it was still a pretty awful thing to do to someone, and even though Bob doesn't get credit for cheating on his wife, at least he was honest with Deborah before they slept together. I also liked Marty kindly calling out Ava on being so unbelievably exhausting to be around while complimenting her on her positive influence on Deborah. I just renewed my Max subscription just to see where the writers and Jean Smart are going with this. It seems recently there have been some shows I liked that had a lot of potential and good actors (Reboot and So Help Me Todd) but the writing was so uneven on those shows they really didn't live up to their potential. This is one of the few shows I've found with stellar writing and acting and I'd really like to see what will happen to these characters.

That security guard is going to need to move! I don't think they let you stay in Philly if you think Pat and Gino's are pizzerias. And Amber can join the security guard in the witness protection program. I did enjoy Vinnie and Amber going out on something Vinnie claimed played to his strengths. Also, I hadn't loved Leticia through most of this, but she did a great job windsurfing (and in all fairness Rod would have struggled equally with the flag task so I don't think the roadblock imbalance came back to bite them)

It had been driving me nuts why Susan was so angry at Margaret over denying her the promotion once it became clear that it was the firm's financial mess that was the cause. At least the show finally provided an explanation, although I still find it a little hard to believe that other firms aren't aware of their financial issues and wouldn't make an exception to assuming it was Susan's fault she wasn't promoted.

I also had been losing interest in this show, but the last three episodes (the episode prior to the two part finale and the two part finale) were all really well done, and I think the show has potential for an interesting third season if they are able to continue.

When Vinnie said "Move on, move on Amber," when he was trying to end the argument in the car I was in complete agreement. They both need to move on and end this awful relationship.

I didn't love watching Angie do the soccer bubble thing because I really didn't want to see her get hurt on this race (there's a few former racers I wouldn't have minded watching getting knocked around though!) . But we've seen TAR place weight/height restrictions on road blocks before (I think Flight Time/Big Easy was affected by that) so I think if Angie was in any actual danger due to her age, they would have not let her do that roadblock. So while it is really unpleasant watching her get knocked around, the thing about bubble soccer is that eventually the opponents seem really likely to let you score (how many times could you knock down someone who looks like your mom before you'd step back and let her finish the challenge?) and I think eventually everyone could probably complete the soccer bubble task, but it seems pretty easy to imagine that if her son keeps doing all the roadblocks they are going to get stuck. And eventually their alliance is going to stop being able to bailing them out. I totally agree I prefer watching the race go around the world, and hope this was simply a response to Covid and not a long term cost saving method to try to restrict travel to one geographic location.

This might have been why her whole "I'm so much better than his previous girlfriends who were just yes girls" speech fell quite flat. She's been spectacularly unimpressive over this race, and seems to have a very high opinion of herself.

Normally I can understand Neville's frustration with Jackie's family and financial matters. But Dan was willing to take a DUI for him. It doesn't matter that Dan has made a million stupid financial decisions before this one - Dan could have taken the $500 and set it on fire and Neville never should have said a word. It's much worse that Neville got mad at Dan when he spent the money protecting Crystal, but even if he had just blown it at the track I would have lost a lot of respect for Neville tonight.

After so many stupid, poorly written character changes that made absolutely no sense and didn't enhance the show (Jackie's character assassination was the worst example) it was nice to see the writers give Estelle Parsons a positive character change that actually made sense. A viewer could realistically believe that a person facing their own mortality would evaluate their life and acknowledge their mistakes. I was glad to see Jackie and her mother have at least one happy scene together and that Jackie will have something to hold onto when the inevitable happens. And it is nice that she left a positive legacy for her entire family - helping the Conners successfully run a grift is like other families celebrating Christmas together.

I had also thought Dahmere would win the entire competition due to his strong leadership and cooking skills. I think he was rattled by Carmen constantly ignoring him and was rushing to try to keep up with her since she was sending food to the pass before he was ready. There were other chefs who were much weaker than him overall, so it felt like a very unfair elimination.