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How old is she supposed to be? Early to mid 40s? I know multiple people who had a surprise baby at that age and everything turned out just fine. Not sure why you think it's unrealistic, stupid, and irresponsible. I can see why a lot of people wouldn't choose to, but Jean seems like someone who would just roll with it. And I think she's happy to have another child to fuss over now that Otis is on the verge of leaving the nest.

I wish Charlie had made that more clear. Nick was not even out to his mom yet. Why would he want to be out to a guy who has always been hostile to him? Isaac found out by accident (although he suspected anyway, because he notices more than people think). Tori knew because she's also attentive, and Charlie basically just confirmed it but he knew it would go no further and her knowing would not affect Nick. Everyone else, it was Nick's choice when he was comfortable having them know this about him. As Charlie agreed to. So suck it, Tao. Grow up and stop being peevish. You shouldn't be antagonistic to people and then expect them to tell you sensitive personal things.

Maybe she submitted samples and found out that Otis isn't her ex-husband's bio child, but the child of some other rando she hooked up with all those years ago. New daddy for Otis! I wonder if this show will ever get around to making the point that, while teens are going to have sex and they should be able to ask questions and get accurate information and have happy, healthy sexual lives, that doesn't mean that SEX SEX SEX all the time everywhere is appropriate. There are constantly kids fornicating right in front of everyone at school and stuff. Subjecting other people to your sexual activities without their consent is not okay. Find the happy medium between oppression and being sex creeps with no respect for boundaries, occasion, or location.

I don't understand why they always feel the need to have some demanding, needy, rude Brit join the story. It just takes time away from more interesting characters whose stories I'd rather see. I guess it's probably reflective of what India has had to put up with for eons, but ugh. I hated that both Mari and Ruby punched Gabriel. Yes, he did Ruby wrong, but violence is not okay. Why are there always so many people at the hospital? It's basically a carnival. Is it a hot hang-out spot? Do they really manage to treat huge numbers of people? Does every sick person's whole family just camp out there until the patient is ready to go home?

Traditionally, surgeons are called Mister, not Doctor.

I can see how she said no. Clearly there's passion there, but there's a long history of separating whenever things aren't blissful anymore, they don't want the same life at all, and Zion still basically expects his life to be on his terms and doesn't want to compromise. Georgia wants her idyllic small town life with a nice house with a garden. Zion wants them all to move to an apartment in Boston. It would make her kids move yet again, and they've made it clear they resent having their lives uprooted due to Georgia's relationship whims. I think Georgia also believes he'd start to feel trapped and resentful again after some time dealing with family issues day in and day out.

I don't get why Chloe's deathbed was supposed to be such a dark moment of trauma for Rory. Rory is an angel. Can't she travel between heaven and earth? Unlike most humans, she'd know that wasn't the end for her mom, AND she'd know that she could still visit her. Of course, there's no real reason she couldn't have had a relationship with her father all that time, either. I think she was self-actualizing barriers so she could keep being an angry brat.

Are police detectives more likely to have college degrees than patrol officers? He went to the police academy.

She's an art teacher, so presumably she was working also.

Given what we saw of Nalini's parents here, the way she responded to Ben after he started crying in her office makes a lot more sense. It seemed a little uncharacteristically sensitive of her at the time. I think she saw a lot of herself and her own childhood in him.

I don't understand why everyone acts like Paxton is some haggard old age-spotty wrinkly cryptkeeper. No, he doesn't really look particularly teenaged, but actors on the sorts of teen shows with sex plotlines almost never do. Even the actors who actually are teens are rarely the young-looking teens, and if they are they are playing even younger roles. Also high schoolers can look really different. Some still look like they're ten, and some could easily pass for 30. Maybe it bothers me less because I watch on my tablet, not a massive screen, so I don't see every microscopic detail, but I also know some real high schoolers with crinkles around the eyes already and more sun damage than they should have.

I think Nalini knew her parents were kind of self-absorbed and not terribly doting, but probably that didn't matter much to her all these years that she didn't really need their help, and it wasn't something she had to personally experience much since she wasn't around them. She probably figured they'd be excited to see her since she's been away so long (I don't think we know how long it's been since she visited, but it seems like they haven't seen each other at least since Mohan's death, if they even bothered to visit after that). She probably also thought they'd step up when she had actually asked them for help and arranged a specific visit. How hard would it be to look more happy that she's there and spend a couple days with her and help look at real estate, after all, when she'd arranged this trip just for that purpose and they knew it? Why wouldn't they have more interest in having their daughter and granddaughter around? Expecting to be warmly welcomed home and then getting such an indifferent reception from the parents you rarely see would be disheartening, even if you know they mostly care about their social life. Like, why aren't YOU an important part of their social life, even for a day or two? Why are you, their child, the one who seems to matter the least to them? Nalini's parents remind me of a former friend of mine. I eventually kind of just stopped ever seeing her because when we discussed getting together, I thought we had made a definite plan and she apparently thought it was a back-up idea in case nothing better came up. Even when she showed up, she wasn't really present. She just seemed to really not care that I had made any effort or gone somewhere based on our agreeing that it was what we were going to do.

They need to start doing two seasons per year. Ten episodes released in the summer and ten released in the January doldrums seems perfect.

The red Solo cups at the Fancy Wine Station were hilarious.

Hey, we have the same birthday! And yes, it sucked as a kid having a birthday that time of year. I was sick on my birthday multiple years, and when I wasn't, there was usually a school holiday concert or church Christmas party on my birthday or just everyone was busy with other stuff. I got a lot of combination birthday/Christmas presents, while most other people got two separate presents. I had very few birthday parties when I was a kid. As an adult, I like to take a vacation for my birthday, because I have the money and freedom to do that now, but I'd never expect anyone else to make a big deal of my birthday anymore. Almost every adult I know works on their birthday unless it happens to fall on a day off, and they celebrate by going out to dinner or doing something on the weekend. It isn't really a thing that everyone is expected to take the day off for their birthday.

The main issue I have with this season, aside from the lack of plot or character development, is that there was so little variety. All the characters were basically up to the same thing. Having sex, trying to have sex, having sex with more than one person and having angst about which of them to have sex with, trying to get someone to have sex with you instead of the other person they're having sex with, trying to avoid sex with a sex pest they don't want to have sex with. Cayetana is sort of vaguely trying to become a fashion designer, but we saw almost none of that pursuit. There was a sort of debate but it was not much of a story except an opportunity for Ari to be a jerk to Samuel, tying in once again to their sexcapades. In past seasons, there was more happening. Nadia was trying to be accepted for who she is, and also decide who exactly she wanted to be. They were competing for a scholarship. All the less privileged scholarship kids were struggling to fit in at the posh school. Marina had HIV, then was pregnant. Assorted characters were gay or bisexual and struggling more with coming out. There were family issues - parents going to jail or otherwise committing serious crimes, loss of financial security, sibling accused of murder, health scares, overcontrolling parents, underinvolved parents, I will leave out the incest plot because no one needed that. Ander had cancer. Kids were being used as pawns by parents who apparently are behind the times and think arranging a marriage is a good way to make business deals. The characters used to have a lot of individual personality and their own concerns. Now they kind of all seem the same. Except Azucena. I think she was the only one I actually liked this season.

Showrunners: We can save a lot of time and money if we just film a lot more nekkid scenes instead of going to all the trouble of thinking out plotlines and fleshing out the script and characters. Also, just fall back into the old rich snobby horny kids cliches, and forget about any empathy or maturity they may have gained through their last few seasons of hardships.

Guzman is being such a jerk, especially to Samuel. What does he have against Samuel? I thought they'd reached a more pleasant status after it was clear Samuel had nothing to do with Marina's death and their whole hideout adventure. The new kids aren't working for me because the balance of characters is off. Almost everyone is behaving horribly with not enough redeeming traits to make me care, and they're also not that entertaining because they pull the same stunts over and over. There aren't enough genuine, healthy relationships, whether friendly, family, or romantic. When everyone is a disaster, the show has no grounding. I haven't finished the season yet, maybe things get more compelling.

Raoul seemed pretty passive through most of his ordeal. I expected him to be more like his father, since he's also into the Lupin books. I thought he'd be more clever and try to help himself. He seemed to be just waiting for Assane to do his thing.

I'm on the 3rd or 4th episode of the new season. Is there a plot other than the new man and his kids are all terrible and annoying people, and lots and lots of sex? I miss Nadia. I miss the characters actually having things going on other than hookups. Also, why are they always taking such long leisurely showers in the school locker room? Back in my day, you had like one minute to shower after gym to have a chance to get dressed and to your next class on time, maybe two minutes, and people would have been super creeped out if you were checking them out and propositioning them in the group shower. I guess eons of primping and sex time are what you pay for at a super posh school.

These people and their issues are an absolute gold mine though, so it makes good business sense if not exactly sensible sense to keep them all as clients. There is no end to their need for therapy. Plus, I think talking to the literal devil and an angel and a demon and the various people who know them and do or do not know their identities is so fascinating to Linda as a psychological study that she can't give it up. You can't get that kind of novelty with regular clients.

The hospital, too. No one in that obstetrics department has any sense of boundaries or professionalism whatsoever. Hostile work environment with legit harassment cases on the daily. Just the sort of place a patient would want to be at her most naked and vulnerable.

I always watch foreign language shows with subtitles rather than dubbing. I think dubbing almost always loses something of the character or the nuances of the scene. And sometimes it's just clunky.

That was the part that really bothered me. There didn't seem to be a good reason to do it, and it was very risky. Plus, he took off the mask in the street right outside and it looked like he dropped it on the sidewalk?! I watched a video on Youtube once where a woman who had worked for the CIA arranging disguises talked about disguise scenes in movies. She didn't like when they were evading someone and changing their appearance as they went and dropping clothing etc. She said you shouldn't drop things in public because that's evidence. You'd stuff things into a bag and maybe have another bag to put that bag into, but you'd keep your things in your control. Plus, if someone from the studio or someone who watched the show walked out and saw the mask on the sidewalk, they'd know for sure the interviewee was a disguise, which might get investigators wondering how many of the other people involved were disguises. And from there it doesn't seem like very many steps to identify Assane.

They're very efficient. Saves a lot of time, which they can put to use wandering the house and grounds and having sex again in new places. (Those poor servants...)