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Well, when Randall and Beth opened the door and started to say "Welcome", Malik's mom immediately shushed them with "The baby's sleeping" in a harsh tone. With that as the first utterance of the interaction, I don't know what else the Pearsons could have done - they were basically told to shut up in their own house before Malik's family was even over the threshold.

I was SO HAPPY to see Judah come back! For me, the way that he and PC parted ways before was among the saddest moments of the show.

I'm sad that the show is ending, although if this season is like the last, I might have been out anyway - the whole Philbert ... everything was Not For Me, but the trailer looks promising.

I'm not sure why they brought Jenny back, tbh - I thought it was much more interesting to explore what happens when a man is the primary caregiver of a young child and how moms end up relating to him and to also acknowledge, without too much drama, that not all women feel super maternal.

Don's advice to Peggy about "this never happened" was good advice for Peggy, but not so much for Don. Peggy could, forever, tell herself that she did the best thing for the baby and she doesn't know what happened to him because you're not supposed to - it's in the best interest of the child for the birth parent to be uninvolved (at the time - whether that would be the advice today is not for me to say). But for Dick Whitman to live, the real Donald Draper had to die. There's no way to square that circle for Don.

@NJMom, this is EXCELLENT news! Thanks for sharing!

That seemed strange to me as well - with all of her feminist posturing (no Pepe Le Pew for Stevie!), you'd think she would be more understanding that not all women make the same choices. I think the whole second season was supposed to be about how Audrey was dealing with (or not) and judging herself for the abortion and when she was confronted with another woman who didn't want children, she felt a little unmoored because it didn't fit into her narrative of 'what kind of woman wouldn't want a child?' I don't know what the norms are in Australia for season length, but the best parts of this season for me were the other moms' stories and if the season were longer I think we'd have been able to get more than every episode being A plot Audrey, B plot one of the other moms. It's strangely disjointed as compared to, say, Workin' Moms, which has a similar premise.

I believe that four seasons have already aired in Canada, so it's just a question of whether Netflix will license it - I hope so. I really love this show.

I just finished the season... how long until Netflix gets the rest? I thought I read somewhere that there are four seasons that have aired in Canada right...? I have GOT to know what happens next!

I had forgotten that it was dropping yesterday! I watched the first two episodes of S2 last night and I'm so glad to have this show back. It's nice to have something to watch where the narrative tension doesn't come from people being murdered or raped or tortured.

Which didn't even work in the end, right? Didn't Logan have to call and throw his name around? That said, I do think the circumstances were different. It's one thing for Lorelai to have the conversation with the guy that she's worked with for years and probably knows really well, versus Rory making her first call to the printer and diving right in. Also: Richard was in a completely different industry than Lorelai and while he might know "business" in an overall way, he knows "high-end insurance clients", which is different from the hospitality business which - at least back of house is substantially more informal. Like... orders of magnitude less formal.

Oh man, I'm glad Kia isn't back - I don't need a return of wallpaper borders in my life. I liked Vern's room - to me, you could definitely tell that a designer had done it, because most amateurs attempting to mix that many patterns would have made a disaster. I didn't mind Mikel's room, though I thought that the shelving/tv/fireplace unit looked better in the drawing than in the room - the proportions seemed wrong once it was in there. The drawing made it look like it would be the entire wall, which would have been really cool, but once it was there it looked crammed into the corner.

I wish they would do MORE tie-ins, actually. There have been a couple of episodes where I would love to know where to source a couch or something, but I can't find the information anywhere.

I couldn't even watch it. I think I got about ten minutes in and was like, "Nope." Couldn't even leave it on while I did something else!

Agreed - it got much better after the first couple of episodes. On rewatching, I found the pilot episode almost unwatchable given how much I liked the rest of the series and skipped through it.

It's so random - he's only done one room on the reboot right? He always seemed like a nice person, but I can't say I ever really appreciated his style.

I actually liked the slat-walls in Hildi's room - they looked like they needed to be painted better, but that's because they weren't done until day two (and probably should have been painted prior to assembly rather than after). Of course, that's probably because I am tired of every wall coming down in every other home design show. Those awkward posts in the living room were obviously left behind when they pulled down what was otherwise a load-bearing wall. The floor treatments in both rooms were appalling though. In Ty's because: splinter city and Hildi's, not because there was anything wrong with the floors, per se, but I'd be so mad if my brand new carpet was pulled up! (Why didn't they put that in the rider for the show? Other people in the past have "protected" various things!)

It looked like the entrance to her room was ... off the garage? When they were all coming in at the end, you could kind of see in the background.

I am shocked that I am about to say this, but: I liked Doug's original room better. Or at least the way the stripes were painted - something about the scale of them in this room seemed off. Like, they were too small or didn't cover enough of the wall or something? I liked Laurie's room, but then I usually do - even if what she does is not exactly your taste, it's usually not a total horror show like some of the other designers.

I think that's more apparent this season - last season, there were definitely some things chosen that stuck out like a sore thumb in the rooms. (I seem to recall a set of some kind of strange feather sculptures that were just kind of set on the floor in one of the rooms, but I honestly can't recall anything else about the room!) I've been rewatching the old seasons (like... Season 2) while I putter around the house and they are much more about the design process and work than the shenanigans. You could actually get some ideas about things to do in the old ones. Of course, that was back in the day when TLC was still "The Learning Channel" and now it's... not.

You know, I've been watching old episodes (like REALLY old -Seasons 2 and 3) that I DVRed as part of the marathon before the new season started and they've shown a couple of Hildi's rooms from early on that I really liked*. It seems clear to me that at some point, she decided she wanted to play the role of the wildcard. *Specifically: there was a show in Rhode Island where the families lived on two floors of the same house - she replaced the drop ceiling tiles with wood and made a very cute kids' table; and the show in California where she based the room off the couple's new dining room set and used a lot of wood planks on the walls.

I actually watched the finale live, which I don't usually do, but I wanted to see how they'd end it. I think they did a good job with the mess they wrote themselves into, but Rebecca's big revelation about how she sees the world through songs in her head felt very off to me since, as far as I can tell, the songs have been totally deemphasized since her diagnosis. Had this season included as many songs per episode as the prior seasons, the final realization would have worked better.

Plus when Rebecca herself did that (when she ran for Miss Douche), everyone was kind of horrified. Well, and especially under the specific circumstances - Rebecca stalked Josh and then he left her at the altar, after which he apparently believed that she was going to murder his mother. Nathaniel spent months negging Rebecca, then when they got together, it was costumes and sex games and then she spent months as his side piece, after which she pushed someone off a building at his party. SHE SLEPT WITH GREG'S DAD. You don't come back from that, I don't care how much of a cartoon the show is supposed to be. Of the three, Nathaniel has the least weird baggage, but to believe that Rebecca and Nathaniel end up together after their shared history still stretches belief for this viewer.

So even though I didn't like the quintangle (whatever) design, I have to say, I was impressed by Joanie's workmanship on the floor. Back in the old days, that tile would have been totally half assed by the homeowners and would have been even worse than it was. That said, who wants that kind of industrial tile in their bedroom? A finished basement? Sure. The master bedroom? No. Plus, I feel like whole idea of the design was ruined by the striped couch that "inspired" the colors. Um, if everything in each section is supposed to be the color of that section, that couch (and fabric) doesn't belong ANYWHERE in the room and made it look worse rather than better. I liked Laurie's room as much as I like anything that she does - which is to say that there's usually one element too far. In this case, painting the wainscoting the same color as the walls. And maybe adding that ferris wheel thing ABOVE an upholstered headboard. One or the other, lady.

Am I the only one that hoped that the taco delivery guy would be the man-bunned taco guy from Rebecca's first day with Greg? And she'd realize this whole thing was dumb? Not to mention: I'm happy enough to watch the concert, but I really feel like it's a cheat for them to have said "X episodes left!" when really there's X-1: the actual episodes and the concert special. And it REALLY highlights that they didn't have enough plot for the number of episodes they were given this season.