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Not sure where to put this - it is not about Gene or the 1970's panelists --- Buzzer is running a Match Game 73 mini-marathon right now. I am not sure how early these episodes were in the first season, but I am thinking it was pretty early on. The questions are very different - there is no set up, just a sentence with a blank in it. For instance, one question was "Mary blanked her wedding dress" - the contestant said "sold" to which Gene replied that it should end in "ed" and the celebrities said things like "burned" "wore" "bought" The show wasn't nearly as much fun.

I remember watching Suits a few years ago and, after the episode was over, I turned to my husband and said "I love this show!" Oh, those were the days - witty dialogue, intelligent cases, great fashions, heartfelt storylines. Now? Great fashions is all that is left. They make everything so convoluted that every storyline becomes a multi-episode arc. Mike can get out early if he gets info from his cellmate that will convict Sutter. Mike gets that information, but his feelings get in the way and he tells Harvey he has nothing. So Harvey gives Cahill the program proving that Sutter is guilty of insider trading. But, for some reason, Cahill can't just use this program, as proof, he has to get one of Sutter's people to turn on him. Then, either Cahill has found a witness and Harvey plays "bad cop" to try to smoke out who that witness is, or Harvey pretends to play "bad cop" to find the witness who doesn't exist yet, so that one of Sutter's people will turn on Sutter and Cahill will have the witness that Harvey is pretending to look for. This witness is so good that Cahill's bosses don't follow through with Mike's deal, since Mike never gave them any info that would help convict Cahill. Mike, of course, gets upset that they don't give him the deal after "all he has done" which, from the perspective of Cahill's people, is nothing.*** However, this witness, who was so good that Cahill no longer needed Mike to inform, is rendered useless after Harvey asks him 2 questions in a deposition. Meanwhile, Mike tries to get Kevin's wife to turn on her father. He gets her to come to the prison and gives her some unconvincing reason that I don't remember as to why she should rat out her dad, instead of saying "Harvey is you father's lawyer and he told me that the prosecution got the program and has enough to convict your dad and, if he goes to prison, you will go to prison, so I suggest you take a plea and testify or your kids will be in foster care" Because, somehow it isn't legal for Mike to say that, but in the end, Harvey himself tells her basically the same story, but this time it is okay because Harvey is there to talk to his other client, Kevin, and, somehow, it is okay for Mike and Kevin's wife to just happen to be in the same room. It is like the writers are conducting some sort of science experiment to see how much stupidity viewers will put up with before they quit watching. *** Side note to Mike - it doesn't matter how much angst you have over everything, it doesn't matter how hard you work to get close to your cellmate, it doesn't matter what your cellmate tells you, if you don't give Cahill anything he can use. Your deal was to give Cahill info that would convict Sutter, not get info to convict Sutter and not tell anyone. And Louis's big romance is so far from reality - any woman with any sense or self esteem would be telling Louis to stay away. This "romance" of his only works in the television world of romance. I am surprised we haven't been subjected to standard TV trope of Louis and the girlfriend yelling at each other then magically, mid yelling, start passionately kissing. And Louis hasn't exhibited any behavior that most woman would find irresistible. Apparently, the designer is drawn to men who are creepy. As for the innocence project story, I am kind of hoping that Rachel and Jessica get him out and then he thanks them and tells them that he actually did commit the murder. Rachel is too gullible to ever be a good lawyer.

I would like this show so much better if posters would now be saying "Hey, I saw the first episode the other day and had forgotten that Mike originally wasn't a lawyer - I wonder where they would have gone with that storyline if they hadn't dropped it" I finally figured out what bugs me about the actress that plays Rachel - whenever she is supposed to be very serious (her big dramatic lines), she whispers; It is like she went to the David Caruso school of emoting. If I were the designer, I would have thought Louis was a creep - "You've only known me for a few days, we have spent what, maybe two hours together, and you buy a house just so I can decorate it and you can be closer to me? Stay away from me or I am getting a restraining order."

I can see why they titled this one "Bedtime Story" it was boring enough to put one to sleep. The only way anyone connected with this show could explain this season - "I was drunk." My version of what happens next - the Abbies go through the gate and eat the humans that are left. Then they move into the houses and when CJ comes out of the cryo to do his check in 20 years, the Abbies are living in town and acting human-ish - Abbies walking around with briefcases or riding the merry-go-round. One Abby is selling ice cream to the little Abbies exiting the school. However, it turns out that Red Vines are intoxicating and there are more than one Abby wandering around town drunk, growling to themselves. Meanwhile, the viruses Kerry injected herself with died out centuries ago. She never got sick, but she did run into Adam out in the wilderness. They are afraid to go into town because of the Abbies living there (they don't realize that the Abbies have domesticated themselves) so they remain outside the fence, living off of nature. The baby we saw at the end is Kerry and Adam's baby (yeah, Kerry was infertile, but it isn't like any of the other details were set in stone). Thanks for all the great recaps Otto. When CJ and Theo were having their philosophical discussion about "if you save one, you kill another," CJ mentioned that about 300 of the pods still had people in them that had never been released. CJ pointed out hat they could let some of those people out to make room for more of the ones who are currently living, but then the recently released would die. So you could enjoy the time you spent reading the funny comments on this forum? Perhaps Pilcher thought the merry-go-round would be much more popular than it was. And, instead of stories about survival and the end of mankind or "Lord of the Flies" style stories of what happens when a teenager is in a position of power, we got the soap opera story of Jason discovering he's been having sex with his mother. What was the point of that anyway? Were the writers thinking "We need to kill off Jason, but we can't have an Abby do it, because we just did that with Megan, and I see no reason why anyone else in town who's life has been ruined by Jason and his tyrannical ways would want to kill him, so we need to have him get shot in a struggle with...um ....Kerry...because ..errr...uh...because he discovers that she is really his mother. Then we can devote an entire episode explaining how that happened, which is good because we only thought of plots for 6 of the ten episodes and need some filler."

Nope, it appears that the geniuses running WP decided that the doctor should be the last one they thaw. Pilcher decided it was more important to pack two styles of uniforms instead of vitamins and medicine. Given what we have seen of Margret's intelligence, I am guessing that the Abbies have understood fire and how to make it for centuries, but the people of WP think Abbies didn't know about fire until now. Pilcher and Jason were so positive that Abbies were like animals that it never occurred to them that the Abbies might be putting those opposable thumbs to use.

Finally saw this episode (and episode 9 - only one more to go). I still don't understand why it only rain in town and not in the forest. Every scene (well every one that I was paying attention to) in town has wet streets - really wet streets, but when they are in the forest, there are no glistening drops on the leaves, no mud on the ground. ow do all those plants get water? How did the Merry-go-round get in WP? Did Pilcher pack all the parts of a Merry-go-round in the mountain - "Hey, I want to ride a plastic horse in the future, so lets make room for all these big metal parts by getting rid of those boxes of vitamins and the freeze-dried food packs, but don't touch the Red Vines!" How are all those Abbies going to know what Margret wants if the Abbies don't have an ice cream truck?

The DVR didn't record the Beauty and the Beast episode. Is it worth watching trying to find a way to see it? Note: I watch this show primarily to see someone make a beautiful cake and to try to figure out of the Big Catastrophe was re-enacted or not (if the none of the cakes were wonderful and there was no big catastrophe, I would skip it). It looked to me like she built the whole thing out of cake and didn't use a dowel. However, she mentioned that the weight of the rice cakes was making the bottom crack. I don't know what was going on with that thing, but there seemed to be no logic to it. Have to give her props for trying to finish, because she had no hope of anything better than 3rd place, even if the cake made it to the podium. And their cakes were already baked so they spent the whole 8 hours decorating. However, there were usually only two people on a team the whole time, instead of getting the 2 extra helpers. I wonder if most contestants would prefer 3 more hours and no extra help, or the shorter time with assistants - I would think the former.

Still catching up. Don't really expect anyone to be reading this post, but just have to comment anyway... When Pilcher walked out of the cryo chamber with his oddly styled, weirdly colored hair, and started talking about how he wants drive out another race and build a giant wall, it reminded me of a certain presidential candidate. Why did Pilcher pack so many red-vine, which are, apparently, still soft and chewy after 2,000 years, and he didn't bother to pack a few cases of vitamins? Yeah, the Pilcher we know would have definitely wanted to see what was going on and adjust his predictions based on the actual outcome. I think the actor playing Pilcher couldn't commit to more time or wanted too much money. I saw it and it made me laugh out loud. My other favorite comedic moment this episode was when hypnoteacher was rudely making comments about Theo's marriage and he says that he may have already found someone new and she sgets this gleam in her eye and starts looking coy. Still, I am glad Margaret killed her off before we had to watch hypnoteacher try to flirt with Dr. Theo.

I am still weeks behind ... Why didn't Pilcher pack up a bunch of vitamins? When the alarm goes off and they all rush out to the street and get in jeeps, the streets are wet, as though it had recently rained. At first I thought "How could it rain inside a dome?" but then I remembered that was last summer's laughably stupid show. Anyway, it has recently rained in WP. Yet the Abbies were able to burn down a field of crops - crops that were still green and growing. The crops shouldn't have burned that quickly unless -- A. They were stupid enough that they only planted corn and the corn was near the end of it's life cycle. B. The crops were being grown so far from town that it didn't rain there, which would also be stupid. C. In addition to discovering fire, the Abbies have discovered gasoline

I am still weeks behind in watching this show, but just have to throw my two cents in --- Maybe this gets explained in a future episode, but I don't understand how this town got built. Did they build it in 2015 and it just sat there for 2,000 years (that would explain why they needed a wall even though they thought the Abbies would be gone by the time the Piners thawed)? If that is the case, then wood that had't been painted in 2,000 years shoudl have rotted away and the sun and weather should have damaged most everything. Or did they stockpile a ton of building supplies in something weatherproof, and they thawed the construction workers, electricians, and carpenters first (although the architect is now a beautician, so the town was more likely built by dentists and morticians)? And the supplies make no sense either - where are they getting stuff from - is one of those freezers holding enough 2,000 year old paint to keep the town looking fresh for centuries to come? I thought they had delivery trucks coming and going int he first season. The boy could be gay, it would make sense that there would be gay people in WP, but I found the way they decided he was gay to be ridiculous - Boy: Doctor, I am really young and a virgin, and I was in a room with a girl I don't know well (or don't like much). I never saw her naked, just in a big bathrobe. There were bright lights shining in my eyes, and some bad oldies song playing too loudly. They told me that there were cameras and they were filming us. Plus, there was a picture of Pilcher staring at us. I couldn't get aroused. Doctor: I think you are gay. Judging by the Donna Reed holding an infant in the corner, I am going with: K = Kissing T = Touching S = Stimulation (because it sounds more clinical than sucking or stroking) L = Lubrication P = Penetration C = Conception C = Childbirth I don't think it has anything to do with wanting to increase the population of WP. Her husband is dead, she is in a wheelchair, and nobody likes her (I don't have proof of that, but I can't imagine why anyone would like her). She isn't "gettin' any" so she has to to resort to watching sex tapes. They didn't pack any sex tapes (or they would have shown them to the kids), meaning that she has to make them by forcing children to have sex in a bright room with cameras.

Oh yeah, it is "Lying Ted Cruz" and "Crooked Hillary Clinton." It makes me sad that there are so many people that would vote for someone stuck in fifth grade bully mode. But I guess it explains why scammers still send out phishing emails - there are a lot of people out there with little to no common sense, who will be attracted to whatever or whomever is shiniest, loudest, orangest....

Given that she was at the RNC, I expected her to say "No, except for that lying Hillary Clinton"

I am having trouble understanding where the "36" is coming from. There are 4 Judge Cuts episodes, with 7 acts chosen in each: 4x7=28 There were 5 Golden Buzzer acts chosen in the audition rounds: 28+5=33 How do they get from 33 to 36?

So glad Tapeface made it through. I may change my mind later, but I think I will probably stop watching this season if he is ever eliminated (I seem to be having a little trouble with commitment this morning).

The DVR automatically recorded this show, but I hadn't gotten around to watching any of it until a few days ago. I just finished (suffered through) the third episode of season 2. As I watched I was reminded of Under the Dome - one has a wall, the other had a clear dome, but there are a lot of similarities --- odd, unexplained things going on outside the wall/dome, food shortages, crazy people, no medical help, people being resurrected, hangings, really bad writing, horrible acting, terrible plots, etc... Then it hit me - this is my replacement for Under the Dome. When UTD was cancelled, I was kind of sad, not because I liked the show, but because I liked to hate the show and reading the forums was a delight - everyone pointing out the ridiculousness and making fun of the show. The forums were laugh out loud funny. And I missed it. No other show I watch is bad enough for enough posters to poke fun at it. The first thing I did when I sat down at the computer this morning was check the Wayward Pines forum. I read the one for episode 2 (because I had slept through chunks of episode 3) and the posts were hilarious.*** I was going to give up on this show, but now that I know reading the forums will be fun, it will suffer through the watching. *** having only read the posts for episode 2, I realize that I may be sticking my foot in my mouth here - perhaps that was the only episode people made fun of, or perhaps the show improves dramatically and now everyone loves it, but for now I will relish the idea of getting a good laugh with my cereal in the morning.

I realize the conventions are probably a lot of work for the people involved in this show, and can understand that they might need the week before to get ready, but it feels like they just had two week off less than a month ago. After the last break, felt like the show lost some momentum, lost its edge. If it doesn't get it back with the convention coverage, I may drop it from my DVR. I am relatively new to this show, just started watching a few months ago when I got tired of the other news programs treating Trump like he was a celebrity instead of someone who might end up running the country. I enjoyed TDS not highlighting the ridiculousness of what Trump says and pointing out his made up facts. Is it normal for them to take so much time off?

That blond girl singer had more airtime than Nick Cannon - seemed like 80% of the footage of people talking backstage was of her talking to someone else.

He actually got an Emmy nomination for his role on St. Elsewhere. And he got a few more (daytime) Emmy nominations for Bobby's World, a long running children's show he wrote, produced, and did voices for. I understand having a successful singer (Mel B) as a judge, since there are so many musical acts that try out - probably pertinent to the dancing acts too. I can see the purpose of having a judge (Howie) who is involved in other forms of entertainment, because he may have a better understanding of the difficulties of keeping an audience entertained with something other than song and dance. Simon is useful because of his years of experience judging various shows. (Side note: I am not saying that I think these three are terrific judges - or terrible ones either - just that I understand wanting to have judges with these backgrounds). I don't understand why a fashion model (Heidi) would be desirable as a judge, except, perhaps for the quick change acts.

I suppose the reason why we see do many dressers/trunks/industrial storage cabinets turned into bars is because they often have to find a new purpose for something or transform something into something else or make something for a bachelor pad and there are not a lot of things that fit those descriptions - what else can you turn a dresser into? The other transformations/repurposings usually are turning something into a coffee table, an end table, or a nightstand, but those don't usually involve as much transforming, jsut cut off the legs and paint. At least they seem to have gotten away from turning 2 chairs into a bench. I think the most ridiculous flips, in general, are when they turn something into a light fixture. Who is going use up space in their tiny NYC apartment for a light fixture that consists of a ladder with a couple of bulbs hanging from it. It doesn't even make a good source of lighting.

I agree, Lab Lady. Lara is getting too involved and it isn't fair. She is a celebrity and when she starts haggling, sellers/buyers would probably be more likely to go along with what she asks. I don'[t even like her giving advice. I am fine with her speaking to the viewers - "That chair they bought sells online for $500 a piece, if it is in the original mahogany, but it looks like they plan to paint it, which will lower the value. When you flip furniture, it is a good idea to see what similar items go for online" - but don't tell the flippers.

I don't see how this will stop them from showing us random singers giving money to random players or wasting time on Probst talking to former players or children about how they liked this season or a players's mother or spouse about how proud they are. The reunion could be longer if it wasn't shown live, which woudl give them time to discuss the stuff viewers like me actually care about. However, even if they have more film to choose from, I don't have faith that they will actually choose the right things to air. The reason why we see Probst asking about crushes and obscure celebrities getting too much aritime is because that is what they powers tha be want to focus on. They could do a live reunion and tell Probst not to talk to audience members, but to ask the players more questions instead, but someone somewhere must think that the world really, really wants to know what what Mayim Bialik thinks about Survivor.

For years, I have said that, if there is ever someone running for president who isn't a career politician and doesn't let the party leaders call the shots, I will vote for him/her. I was tired of the pandering, polished soundbites, lying, hypocrisy, and even the ridiculous hand gestures they make when giving speeches. Then came Trump, and, being a person with any IQ above 63, I realized that I didn't have to stick to my "promise." He may not be paying much attention to what party leaders want, and his soundbites are not what most would call polished Inflamatory is the adjective that comes to mind), but Trump embodies more of what I dislike about politicians than any career politician I can think of. Plus, his hand gestures may not be the typical ones,but they are more ridiculous.

And age is relative based on what ever age you are. The older you get, the higher the number that defines old to you is. Teenagers think 30 is old - if you are in your 30's, you think 50 is old - if you are in your 50's, you think 70 is old, etc...To the bulk of the audience, the "old" comic was "old" I think her act works better if she goes for the "I am so old" jokes than if she tells jokes about what happened when she was "playing tennis the other day" even if she plays tennis every day in real life. Plus, her jokes may be older than her age, but she talked about things that people her age can relate to, at least indirectly. When you are nearing sixty, you will probably know at least one person in your age range who are experiencing what she is talking about. Also, for a stand up comic who is starting out (for the second time) she is old. I had no problem with her act and thought she was funny enough to go through (except that first joke which I blocked from my memory).

Some help please - I am trying to figure out which season is which - Is this correct? PBS GBBS Season 1 = GBBO Season 4 PBS GBBS Season 2 = GBBO Season 5 PBS GBBS Season 3 = GBBO Season 6

They gave us a break from Allison's talking heads about her son, and, instead, we got to hear how much Allison wants everyone else to lose. That, coupled with talking heads from others about being glad someone else may lose, made me realize that I prefer hearing about Allison's son. Yeah, if you are going to win, everybody else has to lose, and I am sure their talking heads (or most of them) are in response to questions asked by the production team, but I* am still annoyed with the people in charge for trying to manufacture drama. This could have the potential of being another Face Off, but instead they make it like most every other competition show out there.