Enginerd

I've seen the first two episodes so far, and I'm really enjoying this! Assane is so clever and versatile. The bike delivery thing was so funny. Yikes, that prison stint was risky, though. Actually letting himself get stabbed? Commitment. I like the relationships they've set up with the other characters as well. I do wonder how much of his success is accurately predicting what other people will do, and how much is being able to adapt on the fly. ElectricBoogaloo, you appear in the forums of almost every show I watch! Maybe I should just start checking your list when I need something new. Clearly you have superb taste!

And there's usually NO foreplay other than a saucy look and a quick kiss maybe. Clothes off, have at it, done. They should at least do a little more lead-up and then more camera cuts to slightly different positions to imply that it's lasting longer.

Definitely. What she did was not right at all. Although her anger at his deception was justified, that was not the way to address it. Simon was also right to be mad when he found out she did this on purpose, although if he really wanted to stop, he should have said so. I myself thought his behavior during the scene indicated "this is hot; let's keep going; to hell with my stupid revenge plan". Also, to be indelicate, he doesn't seem to last long, does he? All these quickies with like two seconds of foreplay. How has Daphne been enjoying most of their encounters?

Watching the supposed rape scene, I didn't see a rape at all. Simon said "wait", which was vague, but then was just moaning "Daphne...Daphne", which could be interpreted as being in the throes of passion and wanting to keep going. That's what I thought was happening, especially since he looked excited when she got on top, until it was over and he was mad. He's much bigger and stronger than her and could have easily pushed her off, or actually told her to stop instead of vaguely moaning things she was apparently supposed to interpret. I didn't think she was trying to force him; she knew she was physically incapable of doing so if he wanted to stop her. I think she wanted to see how far he would go with his scheme and if he would confess to what he was doing. She did want a baby, but needed his cooperation on some level.

I find it completely believable that upper class girls knew nothing of sex. Unlike the lower classes, they weren't living in small homes with thin walls and potential exposure to their parents' nocturnal activities, or to women giving birth nearby or nursing babies in view of others, or having to help with the farm animals. They lived in mansions with governesses and constant supervision. Any saucy activities or discussions could be kept in private rooms far from the eyes and ears of children and unmarried women. They didn't go to school with all manner of people sharing information. They were educated by their governesses and tutors in only "appropriate" subjects, which didn't include much anatomy. Their media was very limited, to approved books etc. All the adults and boys were strictly trained to keep any frank talk or salacious materials well away from proper young ladies. Their friends were carefully limited to girls who were sheltered in the same way. They had periods, but dealt with them with rags etc., no need to touch. They would likely have been taught to avoid touching their nethers, although they would have been told it was because it was dirty, being where pee and poop come out. No suggestion of possible titillation, and why would most of them think to try? The appeal of marriage was that you had status and security and decent companionship if you were lucky, and could have children, which just come naturally after you're married. They were conditioned from birth to set their boundaries of what was acceptable to think about or talk about so far back from actual sex that they would likely not have wondered up to that point what was that far past the boundary. Unless they were particularly inquisitive, like Eloise, and also not easily cowed by chastisement.

That makes more sense, that they just need some sort of baking to supply the other businesses. But in that case, why operate the truck while Paige is gone? Why not just sell all of it out of the store or Jack's? Not cute enough for this town? Surely Preacher could get in some wholesale baked goods and stick them in the oven in the bar kitchen, while also somehow turning out 5 star-worthy meals solo AND tending bar AND waiting tables and doing cleanup since they're so poorly staffed and Jack can't be arsed.

I kept thinking the same thing. Running a bakery is not something you just pick up on the side to help someone out. Even if Connie had experience working in a bakery and knew the processes, it's still a ton of work. You basically have to be up most of the night to have all those different breads and pastries ready in the morning. Or I guess you could bake the night before and they'd be a tad less fresh, but it's still hours of work every day. Unless the secret of the bakery truck is that everything is bought wholesale and maybe frozen and they just thaw it and stick it in the oven. Even so, you need a good idea of the local demands to know how much to make. What are they doing with the finances if Paige isn't there? Is it even legal for this truck to be run if no one with a food handling license is around supervising? How much does this bakery truck in this tiny town even earn, that it's worth it to pay people to help out in order to presumably continue sending Paige some money? How much do they charge Hope when she marches up, bangs on the closed truck, and bellows "COFFEE!" so rudely?

Well, she doesn't just whine. She also makes unreasonable demands and asks nosy questions.

The SIL is a truly terrible person. Showing up to demand a piece of jewelry that belongs to another person is bad enough. A ring that's a symbol of a woman's marriage, even worse. That her husband is dead and this is one of the few meaningful mementos she has of him, worse still. And then the SIL's coup de grace(lessness) is that she heard Mel's marriage had been rough anyway? Oh, these people were having a difficult time after suffering THE LOSS OF THEIR BABY DAUGHTER? That's what you want to bring up to pretend their marriage didn't really count and Mel doesn't count and you should get jewelry that doesn't belong to you? Go to hades, SIL.

It's so beautiful. It's making me wish even more that I could go to BC again. Maybe next year.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think a show should have only 1-2 antagonists and mostly characters the viewers like or are neutral about. And I don't like murder plots in my pretty scenery + emotional recovery + bland romance shows.

As far as I'm concerned, Hope is the villain. She's a messy bench who loves drama, and not in a good way. I don't think she loves Doc or Jack nearly as much as she loves sneaking and shenanigans. Once they're settled as an ordinary married couple again, she'll probably be bored and start stirring up new marital drama. And I do know that Doc cheated on her, but that just means they're both terrible.

These people ALL need to stop enabling her. Jack should get a lawyer to talk about custody. Hope should have just refused to let her live in her house. Doc and Mel should have fired her as a patient and told her to go to some other medical practice. Maybe she'd be a little more civilized if she had to be in order to get anyone to put up with her.

You didn't miss anything. Nothing happened. It's exactly what you already know: she's acting out, he's easily snookered into doing her bidding, he's proclaiming he's a good guy who really cares about her and apparently not realizing she only settled for him because older, hotter, badder men (Brady) wouldn't go for her. I suspect this entire season was adapted from the books by middle school writers who aren't aware that MOST adults don't behave like dramatic, impulsive middle school kids. Even for a soapy drama, there's been a HUGE amount of childish behavior and lack of consideration of consequences. Either that or next season we find out that the logger drug dealers have been poisoning the water supply and that's why everyone is so stupid.

They talked once, to gossip about the exercise instructor and so Mel could swoon about how great sex with Jack was. They also reminisced about boating with Captain Dead Husband.

Probably. He's such a puppet. Poor kid doesn't seem to realize she's just using him. Or maybe the sex is enough to not care. He'll get eaten alive if he ever makes it to the Marines.

Naturally, she has to be as difficult as possible. Fear of needles is very real, but she is an adult and needs to figure out how to deal to save her and her babies' lives. In real life, she'd get a few minutes of help relaxing and being distracted while they got that needle in. She wouldn't get two days of a doctor and nurse (not to mention the father of the babies) being her personal servants and treating her like a diva they have to humor.

So was the fight Doc and Mel had during the poisoning incident because he didn't want to admit he had some health problem that made it too hard for him to do "her" part of the assembly line patient processing? It seems like something is going on with his health. Or was that just him being a stubborn overbearing crab as usual? He seems to think everyone in this town is devoted to him as their sole health care provider, but if I lived there, I would go somewhere else for anything that wasn't urgent but not life threatening. No way I want this rude know-it-all up in my business.

This season is so frustrating. So many people being aggressively annoying and making terrible decisions. Hope is such a smug, passive-aggressive, spoiled childish brat. Did she never leave middle school? And Charmaine...exactly the same. Maybe these two hate each other because they're so much alike and two petulant divas in town is too many. The plots were just nonsense. A woman with HG/high risk pregnancy. CLEARLY the answer is to get her to live with someone who hates her, in a tiny village out in the boonies, with no hospital and only one doctor and one nurse who are always out and about not working. And spend two or three days fussing over finding her a place to live and getting her settled in while she's theoretically seriously dehydrated, and keep bringing her glasses of water she can't keep down. Excellent treatment. I'm no special nurse, but shouldn't she have had an IV long before that if she were actually suffering from HG and dehydrated? It almost sort of seems like she's faking a lot of the difficulties to get Jack's attention and time and make Mel run in circles around her. Because she's an adult woman who can make her own decisions and she doesn't need to do what any of these people say. She could go get treated in another town, maybe one with one of those cozy not-so-hospital-like pregnancy and birth facilities. Lizzie as well...she's an adult; she doesn't have to live with her overbearing aunt just because her parents "sent" her there! Lizzie, you can go where you want! Go live in the big exciting city, find some job that pays the bills and a place to live, and go clubbing and have sex as much as you want! Or, maybe go to school? As long as you do the absolute minimum to keep up with some classes in the area of your choosing, your rich negligent parents will probably pay for you to stay there! And colleges have other young people and parties! Sheesh. Jack has been absolutely terrible to Preacher. Leaves him to run the whole understaffed place all the time and won't even take a minute for a conversation with him? It will serve him right if Preacher leaves. Was the friend who showed up and gave Christopher to Preacher implying that Paige was dead? Or severely injured? I liked Paige and hated that she left. I think it was a mistake and she would have been much better off reporting the accidental death. She'd clearly been beat up, and I don't think a California jury is going to care how well connected her husband and his thug family were in some Florida PD. If anything, they'd be more on her side after hearing he was an abusive officer. The "logging" company guys are stupid. Of course you're going to get investigated and raided when you're acting all shady and thuggish like that. They should have pretended better to be a legitimate operation. Put up a fence with a sign saying like "DANGER! Hard hats and safety gear required! All visitors check in at office!" Been nice and friendly to people in town. Then no one would have been interested in what they're doing. Jack will probably be in a coma and wake up just in time for Charmaine to give birth to babies that may or may not be his, and to see that Mel is very visibly pregnant.

I've been rewatching the last few weeks, since I've burned through about everything else I wanted to see and new stuff is limited. Never stops being hilarious. Relatable, too, even though I am absolutely nothing like any of these people. I definitely experience the overactive imaginary version of what's happening or might happen the way Nina does, though. As well as her awkward tripping over herself in conversation. I was supposed to go to Australia again this coming February, and that seems unlikely. So I guess I'll live there vicariously through the screen instead.

Ander's mother probably already suspected he was gay and was somewhat prepared mentally for the possibility. She seems like a loving, attentive parent. His dad seemed less accepting and like he was being prodded into acting supportive by the mom. And I don't think his mom was set on him playing tennis, either...that was also the dad's dream. He seemed very rigid and controlling, while she seems to want her kid to be happy. And they divorced, so clearly they were not generally on the same page. I was surprised they wouldn't allow the hijab at school. All the other students get away with uniform modifications and extensive accessorizing. Maybe the anti-Muslim sentiment is that widespread. Or maybe it was just a plot device for Nadia. The school in general seems much more progressive than that. There are lots of gay characters in Mexican telenovelas. By which I mean most of the telenovelas I've watched have a few gay characters. I don't know much about the rest of Latin America and their shows.

I like a lot of the car rental scenes, but sometimes the pranks and cliquey-ness goes too far to believe Shannon as a competent professional. I hate the way they pick on Terrence. It's not cool to torment or belittle or take advantage of someone just because he's awkward and weird.

I do not see the appeal of Gerald. He's a limp beige jellyfish of a person. I like Raj much better. Sure, the surprise engagement thing was not great, but on the other hand, he is nice eye candy. Also it seemed like he didn't really have a serious relationship with Divya, either, prior to their abrupt engagement. And we saw so little of his and Janet's relationship, I wonder if Janet just assumed they were exclusive after a few dates and/or makeout sessions, and Raj was not on that page, and as per usual, there was a major failure to communicate. Though he should never have gotten engaged so halfheartedly, and he should have called it off much sooner once he realized he wasn't committed enough. Everyone sucks here Anyway, Janet should grow up a bit and learn to communicate better and be more considerate of others and less of an entitled slob in general. She doesn't need a romantic relationship all the time. Go to Tanzania and have an adventure. Maybe Jung should get his own apartment all by himself for awhile. Let Kimchee and Gwen have some space.

I did not like the last set of episodes. Maybe all the doom and tragedy was realistic for the time, but it was not enjoyable to watch. In the first seasons, there was intrigue and danger and sadness, but it was interspersed with fun and romance and the thrill of newfound freedoms and technology. The last series was just relentless torture and trauma and one roadblock after another and death, with no relief. BLEH. Also, Carmen's turnaround was not believable at all. I didn't care about her in the first place and certainly didn't want to see so much of her up until the end. I don't care if she tried to redeem herself. Too little, too late. Also thought it was odd that when they went to Elisa for help, the concern was mainly that she didn't like Lidia, without really even acknowledging that Francisco had been married to her. I also wondered why, since they had a prison nurse mole, they didn't try to, like, put knockout drops in the tea of all the prison staff so they could all make an easy exit and be to the ship or the border by the time they woke up. I wanted a triumphant ending, not a noble sacrifice. Sigh.

Also, being with Shira doesn't seem to have done anything for his social status. She may see herself as a cool influencer type, but most of the other kids seem to be indifferent to her or dislike her. Being able to host a party was a bigger deal. My own high school experience, which was a long time ago and of course not the same as everyone's, was that most of the kids didn't necessarily want to be part of one main "popular" group or a star amongst the whole school. They wanted to be well-liked and feel like they were valued and belonged among the particular subgroup of people who shared their interests and style.