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I don't much like Luisa i guess I find her sort of that mix of exhausting and boring. I can't bother to watch every episode since they met to verify but maybe he reacted the way he did was the ghosts of Allison and Gabriel were already weighing heavily on him and he was already seeing a future with Luisa and maybe she coudl have told him earlier before he fell deeply in love with her. Then again I'm sort of bored with their romance storyline as well. I just don't care about them being together. I find her abrasive. The surgeon did indeed read realistic to me as well. I'm on the fence if he's a dick or not. On the one hand he was not awesome with the "needy bitch" comment about a patient who seemed to have good reason to call him (concern about her daughter's machine getting jammed up in a big storm) but I didn't feel like he was supposed to be all romance and roses to Helen at this point either. This was what, the second time they'd even seen one another? He's got the single hot rich guy in NYC thing going and so he's not about to delete his Tinder profile because a patient's mom screwed him in her basement. Personally I'd find him too much work. He would probably be a great guy if he fell for her but who needs that much misery. Helen's been through too much lately to be on needles and pins about which way he'll "swipe" day to day. If I see Helen in one more depressing sex/romance scenario I don't know what I'm going to do. After the shampoo scene I'd lost any potential to feel sympathy for Allison so I'm glad she was miserable tonight. Noah is a terrible person. Oh and yeah I'm still sore from the sledgehammer of who the daddy is. Five weeks "early" and Allison's screams mingled with Cole's overwrought fire scene and finally banishing Gabriel's ghost? I can't image they did all that for nothing. It would be insane.

Why couldn't they let Jamal be gay? It's not like they have a few other regular characters who are also gay and then they could have this one character face this issue. He could, as a gay man, have many many plot lines without succumbing to the charms of Alicia Keys! Which brings me to the plot issues. I can't remember if I noticed this last season but it feels to me like every plot line that's introduced is resolved in a five minute disappointing wrap up. It's getting ridiculous. This isn't the same as having a bisexual character. I don't know what they think they're doing but it's feeling very homophobic to me and I didn't expect that from this show. It's like they're saying "hey we know he's supposed to be gay but come on no man is totally gay if a hot woman is vibing with him!" I was also super bored by the Alicia Keys story line and kept dreading move scenes with her and Jamal. Why am I supposed to care about her? She just showed up! Which brings me to how much more I want to see over the top luxury items they are into. I'd love a tour or Lucious' art collection for example! I know Cookie wears insane expensive outfits but I want more details! When they're having tea or something I want it to be nuts. I guess I'm starting to get bored with the whole show because it doesn't allow me to invest caring in anyone at this point. I'm also really hating the whole Boo Boo Kitty loses her shit story line. I loved how hard as nails she was last season and now she's trying to trap Hakeem and is quickly sliding into bunny boiling mode. I don't think it's in keeping with a character I felt I'd gotten to know. If I were to bet on anyone losing it it would be Lucious for crying out loud! Those flashbacks are chilling!

Mame and Lacey were driving me nuts with their pathetic attempts to be the one with the biggest sad sack story. They couldn't even manage to make any of it sound that bad, frankly. Mikey was genuinely in a puddle of tears during most of the episode so I really got that there's all sorts of stuff he's not saying but it's clearly emotional and same with Nyle who totally lost it during panel. ETA: the dress they put on Mame for the Nylon cover was ridiculously wrong. Harsh equal spaced black and white with a white background? Seriously? I really do want to know how the panel photos are selected. IIRC someone upthread said that Tyra probably picks the worst one and I'm on board with that theory. Also her Mom not only took the best pics this season and had a nice warm quality to her but I also think she had a really good influence on Yu Tsai. He didn't seem to do his usual douchy tantrums and disrespectful haranguing in front of any of the moms yet could still be helpful and critical when needed. Having Assy Asla do even one ep's worth of pics would have been disgraceful but more than once? He's really awful.

I thought Mikey and Nyle should have tied at first and Mame and Lacey should have gone home. I love Nyle think he's super sexy and gorgeous but yeah i don't really feel I know him. Mikey seems to skeeve a lot of people here but I think that his ridic horniness is really just part of his general high drive and I respect and like that and I think he could and maybe should win. He has a pretty bad smile when you can see his teeth and his forehead is too narrow but he's really got a passion to him. I got that when he was kissing Haddassah in Tyra's insane makeup video and a light went on like yea ok I get him now. He just goes for it and really knows how to feel things deeply and enjoy things. Mame is one of the most gorgeous, photogenic people I've ever seen but there's just nothing there for me. Lacey continues to bore me. I guess I wish I never knew about her pledge to be a virgin until marriage that may be part of my bias. I thought when Tyra was pretending that Lacey won over Mikey, I saw a homicidal gleam in Mikey's eyes that scared me. As in, he was planning to eat Tyra's liver with some Fava beans and a nice Chianti. On a similar note Kelly's overwhelming love for Nyle makes me worry for his safety. Girl's got it bunny-boiling bad. Sorry for the most nauseating post ever.

OK so I can't get over how worried I was about Barbrady's dog! Usually I have to tell myself "it's ok it's just a movie/TV show the dog is fine" now I'm stressing over a cartoon dog. I guess someone could draw a stick figure dog in peril and stress me out?

I've seen every season of AHS and so far this is the only one that isn't getting progressively worse and disappointing with each ep for me. They all tend to start out all creepy and filled with promise and potentially compelling characters and their stories then get all stupid, boring and lazy. I'm not saying Ga Ga is an actress but her voice coupled with the totally awesome bizarre background music (who does it, I tried looking it up) really works for me to set that grim yet wisful mood. Also she tends to pronounce words in a really strange way. Isn't she from New Jersey though? Maybe it's her intentional affectation for this role. I've never really heard her speak otherwise and would still think she does weird for the sake of weird.

YES! That's perfect! It's the generosity which I think is part of his intellectual side. It prevents the intellectual side from drying out the comedic material. I found myself tiring of the girlfriend plot by the end. I hope she doesn't come back. I'd be fine with watching him casually date other women or not whatever. I find him the most interesting when he's exploring issues like the ones in "Parents" and "Ladies sand Gentlemen".

Wow, anyone else watch the many years old "Jared" ep they re ran the other week? Weird weird weird.

I was all set to hate-watch this show (for some reason IDK why I like Aziz just fine) and am so shocked and delighted by how charmed I've been by it. Really impressive. I can't get over how good Aziz' dad is! I assumed he was an experienced actor! And in their scenes together Aziz looks at them with profoundly sincere affection. I'm about to watch ep 6 and have yet to find Aziz and his gf nauseatingly "schmoopy"- cute or his hipster Brooklyn pals unlikeable. There's a new balance in this show that I can't say I've seen before so maybe that's why? It's like so thoughtfully written that it doesn't tend to go overboard on anything that would start out as a win at first but then easily overdone. Maybe that's why.

Each time one of the dads would ask his son to help with some small thing and the son would say no, the closeups on the dads' faces as they went to their respective "it was hard" flashbacks had me laughing so hard I actually cried! It was so great. I also loved that "fun" is a recent concept.

I have so much to say about this ep. First of all on what psycho planet would it ever be down to Nyle VS Devin? Come on! That's ridiculous! Second of all, I laughed so hard when it was "we took you to VEGAS now you sleep in an empty cabin in the woods!" Maybe next week they get to booty tooch out of junked cars? Sharing the Kelly hate as always but tonight I was extra angry. Why would she ask Nyle "was this your best shot"? I mean...what the fuck does Nyle have to do with the shot they chose? Did I miss something for 22 seasons? Do the models get to pick their best shots for the final panel? NO?! well then how DARE she cut him off when he tried to say more. Hey Nyle, you can't hear so we'll also make you blind! I mean how do they even get away with sticking a deaf model in 100% darkness without really working something fool proof way ahead of time? I can also just imagine how being off the count and then blinded by the flash threw him off. Deaf and blind for you, Nyle! Also gasped when she told Devin his fragrance should have been called "Delusional" Why so mean? Why go the extra mile to be insulting like that? He seemed to really try to learn. He said he was there to learn, to get better so why shit on him like that? ETA I'm totally bored with Lacey and want her to go next.

Yep. I'm still not OK.

OMG that wink. THAT WINK!!!

Wow. So, I didn't think I could hate Noah and Allison any more than I did before watching tonight's ep. I felt horrible for Helen. I think it would just be delightful TV for me to watch Allison and Noah get full 24/7 custody of the four little darlings! I loathed Allison when she was all I NEED YOU NOW. And turning up with that six pack? Fuck you, bitch, fuck you, Noah! I don't know what to think of Trevor doing that to his mom. It really didn't ring true to me that he'd do that to her purse in front of a cop no less. Helen's naturally dark haircolor + hours of bleach left on= hair breaks off and there we have the explanation for her weird bangs. I LOVED Noah's dad! I LOVED the little story he tried to tell his shitty son and I LOVED Noah's reaction even though an asshat like Noah isn't really going to grow from it, is he? It's so poignant to watch this "love story" between two self involved assholes who really can't seem to see how much damage they're causing nor care even if they did. Thing is, I really don't think they see each other as actual human beings. Noah wants Allison to be The Muse (how horrible, really. Not a person who lost her son to drowning and not only did he try to drag her into the pool but he made that "why do they have to grow up comment" last week.) and damaged Allison sees Noah as a chance to forget all that life with Cole wouldn't let her. The scene in Helen's shop and the hair salon later had me cringing so hard. Part of me wished she could have slowed things down with Max but given it a go at her speed yet I totally get why she'd opt to cut it off and get wasted instead. I even felt a twinge of sympathy for her mom tonight.

My first memory of Helen's mother is of her telling the painfully thin Whitney: "Lose ten pounds and I'll take you to Paris!"

I hate Yvonne and Robert so much. First it was the ridiculous prying and then the dog! WTF? Also did Henry kill Pete? Did he injure him and leave him to suffer to death in horrible pain or did he fake kill him and only shoot so he could lie to Yvonne (I'm sorry but the actress has a terrible facelift. Jesus. She looks like potatoes we carved in grade four art class to make potato prints with)?

First of all, I'm really annoyed that they showed the first EPs early on the Showtime and then stopped. Either do it all the way through or don't bother. I went two weeks without watching and now I'm sort of cooling on it. Also, I'm not paying attention to the whole Timeline/Memories thing as much. It's too much work to try to pay attention to sweat stains and such. I'm kind of only in it at this point in hopes of watching Noah suffer.

That's totally how I read it too. The look was all "Oh, I guess you'll be available again if Noah goes to jail"

ITA She did this with her book, her music career and now this.

I'm posting from The Great Beyond because I died of second hand shame while watching that video. Tyra is horrible and I bet her makeup sucks. SO EMBARRASSING! And women can reclaim their lives with a $59 startup fee plus $14.95 monthly fees? Niiiiice...where do I sign up? I actually found Devin likeable tonight esp. when he said "oh it really does work on all skin tones" or something. Heh. Kelly almost bursts into flames of lust whenever she talks to Nyle.

I want to say that maybe I can see Devin doing work in those weird Skittles ads or the Cheetos (?) ads with the tiger(?) BUT he's so damn weird! He laughs in the weirdest way at the most irrational moments I honestly thing there's something very wrong with him.

See, I found him to be anything but. He seemed forever agitated, hostile and resentful. I also saw him trying to build a case for his future actions with Alison by trying to find Helen so disappointing for very petty reasons. I think Alison is as much to blame as he is, never bought the whole "not her marriage" argument. I do feel that the trauma she experienced as an adult definitely makes her a more damaged person that Noah. She's just as destructive and I loathe her for what she's done and the way she's done it but losing her child and not having anyone to comfort her somehow makes her seem like a person without any resources to do better. I am so drawn to the ideas in this post. I really relate to the way I've felt in my own marriage. My family is pretty casual about how and when we get together but really keep one another up to date on our lives. My in laws barely exchange information whether big or small but god help you if you don't attend every function no matter how opposite if may be to your religion, customs or general preferences. Non attendance is seen as very insulting. This attitude has caused years and years of arguments and bad feelings but I've never sought escape in an affair. I can honestly say I don't like them or being around them but I'm not married to them. They do make me feel bullied and overwhelmed and like there's a constant force trying to pull me in and assimilate me. After all I've seen around me, I've come to the conclusion that people are either going to have affairs or not and it has nothing to do with the circumstances of their relationship. You're either someone who will do this or you're not. Some people will stay in an unhappy relationship, others leave and quite a few I've known well would cheat as a passive way of ending things (getting caught).

Ugh! His unbearable sex narration made me want to run out of the room! You could just feel her hangover in that harsh daylight, too! I think she's trying to fall for him just to escape her miserable disappointment in Noah but I doubt she'll make it.

Devin is a braying jackass. During the phone incident I wasn't even focussed on how Nyle uses his phone to communicate with the rest of the group! I was just merely furious that someone would take someone else's phone and use it to take pics etc! It's called "Personal Technology" for a reason! Frankly, I can't imagine taking on the attitude that it's not my job to reach out to someone like him and make sure he feels included and not just to get into his pants, ok? (mostly, tho)

The "Vine Star" (kill me now) last night wasn't Jenny Slate.