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I adore Ray, but I can't feel too sorry for him re: Marnie. I have a lot of "nice guy" friends myself, and most of them (much to my eternal frustration) will pass right by high quality "nice girls" that would really care for them and go straight for the girls that will make them miserable ...so long as that girl is prettier. I don't think Ray would have gotten all moony over Marnie if she wasn't hot. I know it's a man thing, and often a woman thing too, but, I wish it wasn't. Props to Ray for coming to his senses.

Damn. I liked her. She was as capable as Carrie without the crazy or quivering lip. Quinn would've been better off with her. I was hoping he'd share what he knows, and those two could be the heroes. But off course they had to clear the road back to Carrie. The show reached Jack Bauer levels of absurdity with Quinn rising out of the water (not even breathing heavy!). I knew he would, but c'mon now. It's not like he's kept up top physical conditioning of late. And the whole "hitman thinks you're dead in the water but really you're holding your breath for a super long time" is way too cliche at this point. If I was a hitman, I'd wait a full 10 minutes, walk off, but hide and watch to make sure my target wasn't David Blaine or something. Surely the hitman has seen Alias or Bourne Identity or other such shows. Having said that, I'm quite happy that Quinn remains unkillable. And it better stay that way! As for Carrie losing Franny and her "all I hear is unfit mother, unfit mother!!" meltdown. Wow, still ALL ABOUT YOU CARRIE. That's our girl.

Next up, Adam comes to the it's-only-been-obvious-since-the-beginning-of-time realization that Jessa is vapid and shallow, while falling in love with complicated Hannah all over again via the film. Meanwhile, Hannah is redeemed, matured and gets her life together because unprotected, booze-black-out sex really changes a person. We know she will be a super mother, cuz when her own mom was heavily drugged, distraught and missing, Hannah stepped right into the motherly role to find her, only stopping for ice cream once. Jesus wept.

My heart just always goes out to everyone in these shows. I was molested when young and I'm just as bad as Tanisha. I got obese by 5th grade, but then in high school discovered bulimia and anorexia, and then cutting and alcohol. So I became a skinny drunk instead. And stayed that way for 30 years. Nobody cared cuz I still looked good. When I finally got sober, guess what? The eating disorders came back! So it's not easy folks. I've been in therapy pretty much my whole life. And I am a very self-aware, introspective, contemplative, high-functioning person. I think your brain gets physically changed when these things happen in youth. It's a tough fight. As for shame, when you are violated in certain ways, you kind of become accustomed to, or frozen, about being shamed. So, it doesn't shock me that these women let themselves be filmed this way.

The opening credits look like a female hand to me. But maybe he is just well lotioned and supple. I could do without so much of the 60's-70's prog music. I mean, pottery is groovy and all, but don't they have some other CD's?! I love the UK competition shows. Just genial artistry among generally nice folks, without all the fake drama and judges shouting.

I hate to say it, but this show almost has to end soon. I mean, there can only be so many major crises, political conspiracies, terrorist plots wherein only Saul/Carrie and sometimes Quinn figure out and save the day. Quinn can only be kidnapped and beat down so many times. Carrie can only get so many men killed. (RIP Nurse Jackie's husband!) After what Franny is going through this season, I can't imagine Carrie going back to active service, so how many more ways can they contrive to bring the action to her. Having said that, I would totally watch a spin-off about Quinn.

If Hannah ends up finding redemption and maturity via having a baby, I will cut a bitch! I mean, Rachel did it on Friends for fucks sake! I know this can't possibly be LD's endgame, but if it is, I will be so disappointed.

Totally wanted Griffin to break out with some swager and a Scottish brogue. Maybe he still will. It would give the actor the chance to do something besides be a very pretty slice of white bread. They could very well go through with Duke's spirit inhabiting Griffin. I mean, we have had vampires, aliens, weather machines and untold peoples brought back from the dead!

Jesus God, what a dud reveal. And after all this time. Seriously, they couldn't just give us a couple days of screaming and throwing glassware before they started in with hours of tepid explanation while Sonny nods off like he's watching PBS and Mikey puts on his "dadgummit with me and the females" sad panda face. Ugh! In other news, I just don't think I will ever warm to BM as Jason. Love him or hate him, SBu made the character unique. He WAS stone cold and those moments he did allow a smile or a little tenderness really meant something. Now, he's just a dude.

Is it me, or has Wendy only been covering a couple items in hot topics lately. She used pack a lot of items in and really move it along and even run out of time. But now it's 3 or so topics and she really stretches them out, randomly chatting with Suzanne or Norman or cutting to the audience or telling how much she doesn't really care. I don't get it cuz there is plenty of celeb stuff to talk about. Maybe it's just less for her to have to remember. Also, cannot believe she said of the Oscars accountant that he made a mistake and should be fired! Girl, you make egregious mistakes just about every single day! (PS. I don't personally have an opinion on whether he should be fired.)

I've never been pregnant, does it render you unable to shout "Yo, down here babe!"? Sooo, Carly's off to prove Bobbi wrong by confronting.... Nell! Ha, yeah, she knows looking Sonny in the eyes and asking for the truth is pretty much pointless!

Um, I wasn't paying super close attention, because, well, who can, but did Sam call OJ a crazy bitch? Sam that is not Hostage 101! You have been kidnapped enough times to know. When OJ was bloviating about Duke, Sam should have countered with "Hey I SCUBA'd to try to find my dead husband, so I get it."

Anybody watching Special Forces Ultimte Hell Week? It's a BBC show. It's in its second season right now, but the first season was much more awesome. It featured one of the officers from this Selection show, but he had a much different personality then --more hard core, and flat out said he did not approve of women being there! And he yelled so much he lost his freaking voice by the end of his episode! It was so hard core and not scripted. Tons of people were actually injured and it seemed most of the cast was removed by medics. I am watching second season, but it's a basket of kittens compared to the first!

WTF of the day, Bobbie to Carly: "Oh hey, I just dropped by to say hi and thought I'd go into your office, rifle through your mail and throw out shit that looked unimportant."

Jesus God my eyes!!! What in the almighty Cialis commercial hell am I looking at?! Michael is actually going to get into Nelle's USED BATH WATER?!?! *convulsive shuddering*

^Not true! I was pulling for Quinn before he showered. ...and also, in the shower.

Damn, Carrie sure gets a lot of people killed or nearly killed, just by being Carrie. I always enjoy the moments when Rupert's accent slips out. Usually it's in an intense scene, like in the house stand off when he was ordering the nanny downstairs. So Carrie rolls up to her house like, oh hi, I'm the owner blah blah. And the authorities tell her to shush up and sit her on the stoop. Um, wouldn't they have been informed who lives there and her history as a high ranking CIA Officer and maybe give a little listen to what she has to say. Then they missed Quin's very obvious phone! Yeah.

Good times. I only wish Anna's story could involve Patty and Emma too. And Robert. ... ... Okay, Luke can come too. He and Robert can figure out that OJ is behind it. Nelle to Carly: "Like, OMG! Like everything just always works out for you, doesn't it?!" Well, aside from the small matter of her son being recently blown up, yeah, it pretty much does.

Oh my, I laughed and laughed when Valentine picked Anna up off the floor. He damn near dropped her. Twice! His leg put near gave out on him. Come on man, she weighs like 60 pounds! She's a pro though, she remained calmly "unconscious."

Just was able to watch. So sad for Carleigh. Fowler deserved it, but it was about as close to a tie as you can get. Mentally/emotionally it probably was a tie. Physcially, Fowler himself said he only had a couple more days in him. I would actually have been okay with TPTB having a pow wow and declaring it a tie, but I guess that would be anti-climactic. I hope they at least slip Carleigh a little bonus money. Agree with RHN that she got screwed during the reunion. Wasn't she sitting in a two-some to be interviewed, whereas Dave, Fowler and Callie got solo spots. WTF?! Having said that, Survivor could learn a LOT from Alone about reunion shows. Imagine, actually hearing from each participant instead of listening to Jeff talk. :) During the recaps it seemed pretty obvious to me that Fowler packed on quite a few pre-emptive pounds. Maybe Carleigh did too, couldn't tell. Seems like that would be an obvious thing to do. Even Survivor people do that! You can be sure next season's crop will. All in all, another great season. Enjoyed everyone's comments here!

There is a lot of love for Boy George here! Me too, he's so cheeky. He was hilarious on last season of The Voice UK and will be on the upcoming season of The Voice Australia for those who can't get enough!

Without passing any judgement, one thing I got from Dave's FB post was that he was upset they didn't show more of his earlier footage. But for me, he was totally putting on the "Dave Show" early on and I wasn't really enjoying it. Too much love for the camera. I wouldn't want to see too many fireside monologues of Dave doing his carvings. His pantry was impressive. It's a shame he let the starvation get away from him. But he was riding a high, and I can see that happening.

As much as I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt, she has been on before and acted the same way, with the same voice, and, pretty much said the same things to each person. I've had counselors like this and I find it ineffective and patronizing. I don't think most addicts are frozen at whatever age their addiction started. In all the groups I've been in, most were high functioning. Sure there are often underlying mental disorders (depression, bi-polar, PTSD, anxiety, etc.) but very few had arrested development. Having said that, I do think Kirsten lacked a sense of personal responsibility.

Dave seemed to be already crossing over. He had the starvation delerium "high" going, what with feeling he was truly at one with nature and seeing the vibrations of the trees and everything. Dude, that's your brain fritzing out! (see also: high altitude delerium and serene drowning people) I wonder if maybe he was to the point where he was not even that hungry anymore and that's why he felt he could conserve those fish. Really would like to know what the medical crew saw the week prior, cuz you can't tell me he wasn't a hella skeletal batshit mess then, too. You'd think they would be monitoring him daily at some point, lest they come back a week later to find him unconscious. Meanwhile, Fowler needs a hug and a single-story island home. Megan needs to not chew her rosehips 25 times before swallowing. And Carleigh needs to NOT sing a sad song about all the loved ones she's missing with the drum she spent days building for purpose of keeping her sane.

I find the episodes where the person has a lot of resistance much more interesting. She was a hella mess, but I had a lot of compassion for Kirsten. Maybe because I was an alcoholic for 30-years and understand resistance, or maybe cuz she just seemed so Goddamn miserable. Aggressive misery just permeated through every interaction between that family. Too bad they can't all get counseling like on Intervention. But maybe not with that counselor. Granted it's based on the couple minutes we saw, but that counselor does not seem up to the task of such a complex hardcore case to me. With her sweet baby whisper voice and cloying compliments, I don't think that is going to be the kind of direct, intensive therapy that a personality like Kirsten is probably going to need. In any case, hope Kirsten is able to find another coping mechanism besides her "FEWWWD!!" (I have to admit, it cracked me up every time she bellowed for it!)