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If Aaron is obsessed with the number 8, then wouldn't it have made more sense to wait a year and get married on August 8th of this year? Granted the year would no longer have an 8 in it, but their anniversary years (save every 10th) aren't going to have a second 8 in it either now, whereas they would have always had two 8s if they got married on August 8th... and now I've put more thought than I ever wanted to into numerology.

Jordan is like an alien trying to perform the role of "human male." There's not an authentic thing about him.

Anyone could do better than Tom Schwartz, a grown man who has never held down a job long-term, regularly gets black out drunk, and is generally a passive aggressive prick. I'd be filled with rage, too, if I'd wasted the better part of a decade on Schwartz. Don't get me wrong. Katie is no prize, either. I just... really, really dislike Tom Schwartz.

I'm no James fan, but good God does he ever have shitty parents.

Jesus, Lala if you actually believe the words you're saying to Lisa then you have less self-awareness than Scheana. Also, Scheana cannot sell you out if what you did was on camera.

I tend to agree with this, largely because I think that if there was even a shred of actual evidence against him, the Portuguese police wouldn't have turned against the McCanns. I found it horrifying that the press immediately and openly started identifying him as a pedophile even though there appears to be no real evidence that that's the case (though, having said that, I'm only 5 episodes in so I don't know whether the doc circles back to him and presents a stronger case against him). The series feels as much like an indictment of the press as anything. I agree with the criticisms about the show's pacing. There's no good reason for the episodes to be as long as they are and some of them certainly feel much longer than they actually are. I also found it somewhat difficult to focus whenever they cut to an interview with Robbyn Swan, because the slow, precise way that she speaks always makes me think she's auditioning to get her own podcast.

No kidding; call that mofo's bluff. Although I doubt that someone that narcissistic ever had any actual intention of killing himself. I wish the show had done a better job at explaining what parental alienation is. Having worked in family law for many years I've seen a few cases of parental alienation (not to anywhere near the extent demonstrated here) and it's so much more than just one parent speaking "badly" about the other. It's an intense form of abuse/manipulation in which one parent isolates the child (or children) from the other parent, making the child dependent on the abusive parent (because that parent is now all they have, the other one having become persona non grata) and so enmeshed with the abuser's point of view that keeping the abusive parent happy becomes the most important thing to them. That doesn't excuse what Karrie did. She absolutely should be punished for her role in her mother's murder, but I think her grandmother is right that there's still a chance for her once she has some intensive therapy and now that she's out of her father's clutches.

Sorry, I thought you meant it wasn't part of the show's script.

I don't think Rinna let it go because it was unscripted (and moments like that are exactly the kinds of things that should be scripted because when Camille started in on Dorit I gasped and clutched the pearls I'm not even wearing - I doubt that anything else in this season is going to be as entertaining as Camille going in like she's got no f*cks to give). Rinna let it go because she's gung ho about seeing LVP get taken down so she's not going to admit that there's anything wrong with Dorit because Dorit is now the catalyst for pushing LVP out of the circle.

"This is no longer about Lucy." How conveeeeeeenient for you Dorit.

I am dying at Dorinda quoting Tyler Perry.

"I'm guilty... of being innocent fabulous!" Do the HWs come up with their own taglines or does someone actually get paid to come up with them?

Because if LVP asked Teddi directly then she would have no plausible deniability about her role in the gossip coming out (which she would need in the event that Teddi chickened out on the plot, which is what Teddi is saying happened, and someone was going to be left holding the bag). By going through a third party LVP can (or thought she could) keep her finger prints off the gun. I love LVP (and will 100% watch Vanderpump Dogs if that's really going to be a thing), but I absolutely believe that rather than lash out at someone directly she'll deal with it by concocting some Machiavellian scheme like she's the Littlefinger of the Housewives shared universe.

It made me think of this. Like, don't even bother ordering steak if that's what you're going to do to it.

Because it wasn't about clearing things up, it was about LVP getting people on her side. I hate how this has become about LVP vs. Teddi instead of what it should actually be about, which is the shitty thing Dorit did to that dog.

He creeps me out so much. I don't know how else to explain except to say that he has "psycho eyes."

Just a guess, but maybe LVP gave Dorit a hard time when she returned the first dog, so to avoid getting another round of that she gave the second dog away (or dropped it at a shelter herself and came up with the "re-homing" story when she was caught) rather than returning it, thinking that she could get away with it and that LVP would never be the wiser. Why she would think that I don't know, since someone who loves dogs as much as LVP wasn't just going to forget that she had one and never ask after how it was doing, but a side effect of Dorit's belief that truth is malleable is that she doesn't appreciate the connection between actions and consequences.

Because Kyle thinks that her relationship with Kim is the exception to every rule. I liked how when Camille said that every woman has lashed out at everyone else (or words to that effect) the editors only showed clips of the other women going after Camille and not the other way around. I've thoroughly enjoyed Camille since she came back, but I still remember season 1 Camille and she was just as bad as any of 'em.

If her mother and the PI are correct that the notes she wrote that convinced the cop that she was crazy were actually her writing down things that her husband was searching on the computer - e.g. "Can a woman be the anti-Christ?" - then, yeah, I'm thinking it's possible that there's some mental health issues there.

Does Lala realize, as she's bragging about all the swag she gets from her transactional relationship, that one day she's going to be cast out and he's going to be lavishing all this stuff on some other, younger girl? Given that his ex-wife is only 30, I'm guessing that there's not much time left before the buzzer rings on Lala's time in the sun.

I find Spielberg's position on this really elitist and hypocritical. Elitist for two reasons, first because not everyone lives in a place like Los Angeles or New York where every movie under the sun can be found playing somewhere on a big screen. A lot of people live in places where smaller movies don't play in their local theater and they would never get a chance to see movies like Roma on a big screen. Netflix makes it possible for smaller movies like that to be seen by larger audiences. Secondly because Netflix has given a greater platform to filmmakers of color, female filmmakers, lgbtq filmmakers, etc., who would otherwise have a difficult time getting their work seen, which makes Spielberg's position seem like the kind of cultural gatekeeping that has kept Hollywood so insular and lacking in diversity. Hypocritical because when The Post was up for awards last year (and Bridge of Spies a few years ago, and Lincoln a few years before that) screeners certainly went out to members of the Academy so that they could watch the movies in the comfort of their own homes. There's no fundamental difference between someone seeing a movie via a screener and someone watching it via Netflix except that screeners only go to people in the industry. If they're going to put rules in place to outlaw Netflix, then they should pass a rule against seeing movies via screeners, too.

Especially when the details of their story keeps changing and they have clear injuries of their own. I'm sure Aaron Major did punch a wall. I'm also sure that he did that because his hand was already busted and he needed an excuse for why. The original investigator seemed so uninterested in even considering the case to be a homicide that I was half expecting the show to reveal that he was a friend of the Major family. Instead I guess his issue was some combination of laziness/complacency and misogyny (if he had uttered the phrase "Bitches be crazy" I wouldn't have been surprised; that certainly seemed to be his approach to dealing with the victim's mother).

James is such an entitled baby. You aren't owed another chance just because you want one and his behavior in his conversation with Lisa should be all the proof she needs that he hasn't changed a damn bit yet.

I think part of the thing with Brokeback v. Crash was also that some AMPAS members went on the record as stating that they wouldn't even watch Brokeback because it was a love story about two men, so some of the anger about Crash's win was about the homophobia that was on display during award season and not just about the quality of the two films in comparison to each other. It's one thing to watch a movie and say you didn't like it, it's another to say that you won't even watch the movie because (paraphrasing) "Ew, gay."

I remember when Kate Winslet won, her dad had to whistle from way up in the balconies for her to be able to place him.