ItCouldBeWorse

The sub's name was Cassidy Geoffrey. Since Cassidy is non gender-specific, they might not have changed their first name.

Sas said the dreamer had to be susceptible to being influenced. It's possible that Hetty is not.

Yes-you can't apply a new rule retroactively. I don't understand how he could be punished for breaking a rule that did not exist at the time. Sabrina Brier: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/style/sabrina-brier-tiktok.html Agreed. Exactly He posted it immediately. No one has seen the documentary footage yet.

Funny, I took it to mean that she added vegetables to the sauce in addition to the meat, like sautéed onion, mushrooms, etc. So she enhanced a recipe that Mary customarily prepared, making it healthier.

Exactly. She was meant to be channeling her mother with her complaints, I think. And although she did take on the responsibility all on her own, her father had no trouble taking advantage of that, and complained when she decided to spread the work around. He's not working full time in the summer, is he?

Yes. Mary took surprisingly little interest in CeCe. It was Connie who stepped up when Mandy was homeless. They're not eating dinners without any meat in Texas back then. George would never go for it. Yes. I don't know if he would have been allowed to stay on his own.

When George told Missy that he was paying for everything, she should have said that she was his kid, not his wife (with regard to running the house). And if she was still living at home after graduating high school, then they could renegotiate. I'm hoping that Georgie will finally get out of the gambling business and go to work for Mandy's dad at the tire shop.

And it doesn't seem to be a particularly good college, just a close college. Even though Mark is not a 1st generation college attendee (although did Darlene say last episode that she never graduated, in which case, perhaps he is?), a kid with top grades and strong activities from a poor family would have not-so-great and better colleges throwing merit scholarships at him in the hopes that he would raise their statistics. It's not a choice between "get a full scholarship to Harvard" or "pay full price for nearest college to home". The whole situation is bizarre and completely unrealistic.

I feel like episode 5, with James Baldwin, was entirely made up. And I'm not just talking about the ending.

She has access to experimental meds because she's part of a study. But I guess she'll be dropped for non-cooperation, which also means her results won't help others. Her CC is likely near its maximum, too, so what will she do for money? And now her caretaker is unemployed with 2 new dogs.

I assumed he was living at home to save money, but who knows what Darlene's indenture-hood covers.

That's right. I remember wondering how a full-time nurse could take care of them. Hopefully she has someone at home to do it.

1) It was also made clear that Bev couldn't afford round-the-clock care by herself at home in that episode and that Jackie would have to help pay. Which would place Jackie under considerable financial strain, which we have not seen. And if Bev (understandably) can't pay $5000 per month or whatever for a full-time caretaker herself, she's not going to be able to make her minimum cc payments, either. 2) Becky and Tyler must be very quiet when they canoodle since Becky shares a bedroom with Beverly Rose. And Mark's window seat/bed living room set up was visible in this episode, so they better not be using the living room couch that Darlene is so protective of. I hate when shows utilize the paucity of bedrooms for storylines when it's convenient, and then pretend there's no limit when it's not. 3) Dan is going to have a cow when he finds out how expensive vet care is for 2 (purebred?) dogs.

I think that's an invention for the series.

Agreed, but my point was that if the tacos contain real meat, Darlene is no longer a vegetarian. She should have taken hers from a separate tray or something. (At the beginning of the opening, the tacos were all on a serving tray.)

Anderson Cooper has a podcast called "All There is with Anderson Cooper" where he discusses grief, prompted by the suicide of his brother, the early death of his father, and his mother's more recent death. It's very interesting. There's also a documentary Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper (that he exec-produced) that's currently on Max. I'm sure that eventually someone will try to film a fictionalized version of Gloria's complete life.

Alan Sepinwall recently wrote about these episodes: A strong return overall (including Mr. Johnson shamelessly stealing the plots of movies like The Godfather and The Distinguished Gentleman for his career day speeches), so I'm going to say he is not always completely truthful! Yes, he played Augustus "Pug" Pugliese, an attorney at the same firm as Jennifer and Nikki. Definitely a good guy.

I did too, and this is my head canon: Ava is inordinately proud of having obtained her degree on Harvard's campus (or thereabouts), so she is going to disparage Princeton (or Yale, etc.) when they come up. In Abbott, Janine attended U Penn, but in real life, Quinta attended near-by Temple. I imagine that she may have heard comments comparing the 2 schools that did not favor Temple. So this is her in-joke.

I wondered if Gloria Vanderbilt (who was on her 4th and final marriage at this time) was completely left out of the show (at least, so far), so as not to antagonize Cooper. Of course, there was a miniseries about her childhood, but I don't think there's yet been a production that focused on her adult years. At one time she had a line of jeans, and her logo was a swan! From a New York Times article: about her: The jeans displayed her name on the back pocket for all to see and sported a little swan on the inner front pocket, a reference to Ms. Vanderbilt’s first stage role in 1954, in “The Swan” at the Pocono Playhouse in Pennsylvania. (She was also one of Truman Capote’s “swans,” that group of beautiful women he immortalized in the 1975 story “La Côte Basque 1965.”)

Neville works all day, correct? Other than taking him lunch, what is Jackie so busy doing all day that she can't order napkins or food? She could work 8 to 5 with a lunch break, then hand the dinner shift over to Harris and still be home more than Neville is (due to evening and weekend emergencies that call him out).

Ah, it wasn't the IRS: "Once a federal court ruled last March that Guest alone was responsible for Aerovias' bad debts, it was only a question of time before a federal marshal showed up at the Guests' Long Island estate. In August, he started tagging their paintings and objets d'art. Winston Guest went to court to stave off the indignity of a marshal's sale, got a month's grace, during which he scraped together the money to cover the half-million-dollar debt, plus $20,000 in interest and legal fees." That's why we later saw C.Z. tearing the tags off the paintings.

Becky is still in school and raising a child. Now Jackie will have to rely on Neville even more for money? Also, I just rewatched the first few minutes of the show and noticed that in the new opening, Darlene grabbed a random taco from the tray. So either she is eating meat, they are all eating fake meat (no way Dan would do that), or no one thought about the fact that she is a vegetarian when they were filming the opening, including Sara Gilbert (although Dan did mention Darlene's veggie dog in the Chicago scene).

Do you happen to know if the IRS raid on the Guests is fiction? I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else.

I kind of had the opposite reaction. In all the career days I've seen on television, multiple parents would come to talk to the class about their jobs. This was only one speaker per class (although they did not appear to be parents, so I acknowledge that it would have taken some time to arrange it), and it was treated like a ground-breaking idea. Also, shouldn't Janine have checked that all the iPads were working and fully charged before handing them out? Why would one of them have been at 7% when she had 2 chargers? Take turns charging them all before giving them to the class!

I also remember him from Sirens, where he had the same kind of delivery. (He was a good guy, not smarmy, so I'm predisposed to trust him.)