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I think they benefited a lot from the fact that so many of the characters this season had absolutely no redeeming qualities and were quite boring to watch. I couldn't have cared less about the three bickering women, or Gary, and Gaitok was a character I would have liked if I thought there was any possibility of his leaving the security job and finding something he would enjoy in customer service and most importantly dumping the gold digging Mook. But his predictable arc of being promoted to a job that isn't right for him combined with getting the awful girl was quite uninspiring. Tim's speech where he talked about his role as a protector of the family was particularly poignant. Victoria showed herself to be quite clever at times, especially figuring out how to keep her baby from joining a cult in china. She also had a lot of great one liners, although she wasn't ever actually trying to be funny. In my mind, she hires a ghost writer who writes a hysterical autobiography of her life and it winds up being a bestselling book describing the life of a woman who had everything and lost it all when her husband committed a crime.

Victoria's family really started to grow on me in the last few episodes. For fans of Natasha Rothwell, you might also want to see How To Die Alone, a series she created and starred in. She is amazing both here in white lotus and on her own show.

The parents are absolute morons. Robbie mentioned how frustrated he was with people bringing their kids to the ER and then ignoring his recommendations. But in the idiot parents' defense, they didn't actually bring their kid to the ER and then ignore the doctor's expertise. Instead, they were the idiots who left their sick kid home alone with his younger sister. She was the one who had enough sense to call 911 and get treatment for her brother. If their son wasn't that sick when they left for the movies, they may not realize how serious this situation is. Given the fact that they are clearly not very bright, I don't actually know if they left a critically ill child home alone or if their mildly sick kid deteriorated quickly while they were out. Robbie is understandably exhausted and completely overwhelmed at this point, but if he could think more rationally he would have realized these parents, like the overdose parents who weren't ready to accept what happened and donate organs, needed more time. And they needed to hear the fact that their child can't be treated with steroids unless he gets the spinal tap. And all of this needs to be directed to the dad, who seems more reasonable than his wife.

The shell shocked woman also set off my spidey sense as the shooter when she was looking around the ER this week. We could both be wrong and she might just be there to illustrate how shock affects patients. I assumed when she said that the idiot new girlfriend who came to her place of employment wearing a Bonus Mom shirt was "the gift that keeps on giving" and pulled on her pants leg that she was the reason for the ankle monitor.

The bracelet malfunctioned in a previous episode, and falsely claimed she was outside her allowed zone. She spoke to the monitoring station and told them she was still at work and the bracelet was wrong about her location AGAIN in the exasperated tone of someone who has dealt with it malfunctioning a lot. I didn't put much stock in the fact that it went off. I was a little sad she didn't cut the thing off and hand it to one of the many police waiting on the injured cop and told them to call the monitoring station and deal with it, because if she doesn't respond she really can get in trouble and it will be harder for her to fix than the cops.

We won't miss the bickering team, although one of them (and I can't tell them apart since I just cover my ears when I hear screeching) did mention having things to work on, so hopefully they will mature in the future. Good job by Brett and Mark in overcoming really bad taxi luck this week. Jonathan & Ana wasting their express pass, and not thinking through how to assign the rice weights may come back to haunt them. The screeching girls would have eliminated themselves sooner or later and this would have been a good time to strengthen their alliances and try to get rid of a stronger team.

It was her first day at work. Unless someone starts flashing the office and then passes out drunk, you just take note of your suspicions and keep watching your colleague closely. Gender has nothing to do with this.

Mook seems like a gold digger. She's keeping him for backup in case he starts to make more money or if she can't find anyone better.

I live in a community with cicadas every few years. We were at my older son's school and the other children were playing with cicadas. Another mom is terrified of bugs, and once the kids realized that they started chasing her with the cicadas. She was really upset, but it was better her than me because I'm from NY and used to kill cockroaches by stomping on them when I taught in the NYC public school system and would have stomped on any cicada they put on me (my students were really impressed I could kill cockroaches and not miss a beat in my lesson). But since I didn't react when they brought a cicada near me, they moved on to the mom who screamed and ran away from them and chased her with it (and no it wasn't my kid or I would have intervened)

Victoria has been awful, but she was right about the boat and also only one of her three children - Saxon - is the kind of complete douchebag one might expect from her. The other two are remarkably impressive, given how much of a mess their parents appear to be (being impressive on this show usually just requires not being a douchebag, but the daughter actually seems to notice how much pain the dad is in and cares about that and the son seems genuinely charming). On this show, compared to the other selfish narcissists running round everywhere both children would be candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. Two decent children would indicate at least a possibility of some potential in Victoria.

Jackye and Lauren at least seemed like lovely people who really appreciated their brief time on TAR and clearly have a wonderful relationship with each other. But honestly the producers need to stop casting people for whom the only question is "will they be philliminated on the field during the first leg, or will they actually manage to complete one leg before being eliminated at the mat." Having difficulty climbing the pole in Hong Kong is reasonable for this show; having difficulty climbing a flight of stairs is not.

Either he's a better actor than I thought or he is somehow genuinely grateful for his awful wife who put him in a 3 hour car ride with pets he was allergic to last week. It's particularly sad to see him clinging to the youngest child, who hasn't turned spoiled and feral yet. The oldest daughter seems like a fairly good kid - its too bad they've not hired enough help to let her have a childhood.

I thought it was a really good show. I hope it gets picked up somewhere else. I wasn't familiar with Natasha Rothwell 's work before, but thought she was an amazing actress in this.

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.