Enginerd

I love Hawaiian pizza. In fact, I like to get it with DOUBLE pineapple. But I hate a lot of the things most people apparently love such as coffee, beer, and seafood. I hope my opposite taste bud wiring will serve me well in the bad place. Do your worst, demons! No, not Brussels sprouts! (Yum...)

I love how The Good Place can make you think a guy who routinely stole stuff, blew stuff up, and betrayed his friends deserves nice things. Such is its magic. (I love Jason.)

I think Clifford was a good 10 to 15 years older than all the other parents...but he was definitely creepy and evil enough to have either statutorily or violently raped a high school girl. Although I think this scenario is unlikely; whenever Alice interacted with Clifford, I never sensed any extra level of history between them. Although continuity is a low priority when drama is on the line.

Tall Boy! I can never remember his name. I always think of him as "the guy who is way too old to be hanging out with all these baby high school gangsters." Clifford as Chic's dad makes a lot of sense. Wouldn't Cheryl be thrilled to have a new brother?

I'm voting for Chic's father being the other old Serpent guy; the grizzled one with lighter coloring than FP and the terrible hairscaping. I think FP knows about the situation but isn't the father. Maybe he was into Alice back then but she didn't reciprocate. If Hal were the father, why wouldn't they take back their own child once they were settled down and ready for a family, if he was never adopted? Unless of course they could tell he was evil. I think Hal didn't want him because he wasn't the father. Although Alice might also have worried people would realize Chic was her biochild and not some random kid they adopted, and gasp, what would people think?

I think Eleanor paid as much attention to the upscale society magazines as she did to The Atlantic and Utne Reader, which is to say, none. Even though Tahani was right in front of her on a magazine at the checkout, she would not have noticed. She'd gravitate right to the most garish and trashy tabloids. Even if Tahani were in a photo with Stone Cold Steve Austin (which seems like a rare celebrity "friendship" Tahani would probably not embrace), Eleanor would barely even see her. She wouldn't remember some woman she didn't recognize in the photo.

Yes.

Shawn: I took the form of a 45-year-old white man for a reason: I can only fail up.

I just started watching this show last month, when it was one of the few options on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong. Was immediately hooked. I gave up cable years ago...Roku and a Hulu subscription are where it's at. Amazing how the demon version of Dax Sheppard wasn't really any different from the sleazebag dude he played who hit on Kristen Bell at the class reunion in the Veronica Mars movie. Torture Demons: they're just like That Guy.

So...someone is going to get tortured in Archie's soundproof music practice garage, and no one will hear the cries for help, right? Why else would they mention so many times that it's soundproof? Also, I love Fred's support of Archie's music ambitions. "Music? Okay! I made you this nice soundproof room so I don't have to listen to it!" I totally feel you, Fred. Jughead, you dumbass. Where was your sense of righteous indignation when you were attending a school that was part of the same district as Riverdale High, so had the same source of funding, and yet was a dangerous hellhole without adequate sanitation and textbooks? Wasn't THAT the scandal, that the municipality was not fairly funding and maintaining one of their schools? Glad the other Serpents called him on the stupidity of objecting to going to a better school. He's leaning into his new identity WAY too hard. Few things are as annoying as the zeal of a fresh convert. How are those dorky khakis and polo shirts supposed to help them fit in? Aside from the gang insignia jackets, the Southsiders' own clothes were fine, just normal teen casual wear. Backhanded "helping" there, Veronica.

Buffy is a timeless classic, and everyone at every age should watch it. :) They seem like they'd be into the occasional retro binge, especially of something involving magic and witchcraft and hot dudes.

It's the little details that make this show so awesome...like Jason drinking wine out of a red Solo cup when everyone else has wine glasses, and Tahani changing into a ballooning outfit.

I liked the episode, but I'm looking forward to the team getting back together instead of being so separated. Alice in particular seemed so alone and sad. Can Eliot not use his loathed agriculture skills to help the people develop an irrigation system for the crops? Although if they're already in a food crisis, maybe they can't last long enough for a non-magical growing season. Or the horrible fairies would ruin anything they tried. Eliot doesn't seem to have developed any paternal instincts, which I suppose isn't terribly surprising since he hasn't been around the baby. But he's worried about the people starving, wants control of the kingdom back, and has a certain amount of pity for poor Fen, but never seems to have any impetus to rescue his child in particular. I know I'm old and nerdy because Bacchus and his rager party just seemed tedious and annoying to me...to attend; as a show scene it wasn't bad. LOUD!!! and FLASHY!!! and INTOXICATION!!! and WACKY!!! clothes seem like a poor and try-hard substitute for more enjoyable things to me. I'd rather find one interesting person, maybe two or three, to talk with and slink off to some cozy quiet corner with a fireplace and comfortable place to sit. Or go hot air ballooning or something. So much less headache!

The aggravating thing is that they were INNOCENT originally! Yes, he died, but it was accidental and a clear case of self-defense. So if they'd immediately screamed for help and told the police exactly what happened, we could still have had a season of their dealing with the fallout, the police not believing them or trying to coerce them into other things like what the original guy did to Lidia but in new and different ways (Angeles still could have seduced the officer), the public trying to dig up every bit of irrelevant dirt. But now they're actually criminals, and it would be more satisfying if they were better at it. I wonder where it goes from here. Lidia sitting in prison while Carlos hires a nanny for his new baby isn't much of a story...maybe Francisco's habit of eavesdropping and blackmail will come in handy?

I've finished season two now and I am agog that both of these men are back to being desperately in love with Lidia. What sort of powerful pheromones does she have? What's in the drinking water at the phone company? I, too, am hoping for a better haircut for Francisco in the next season. He looks unkempt. Although his unkempt look was kind of working for me in his brief stint of manual labor. Any insight to the man who was some former associate of Lidia's who she let into her room and he rifled through her things? Setting up the next season's arc, maybe? I can't believe they went back and bribed the farmer who witnessed Lidia sending the car over the cliff. Originally, he wouldn't have had a close enough look to necessarily definitively ID her. Now he knows exactly what she looks like. Also, disguises, ladies, when you're up to nefarious business! Marisol is such a drip. She needs to get some self-respect and move on, preferably off screen. She doesn't need an ex-fiance to make her look bad; she's an overachiever in that on her own. Why on earth would she or anyone want to be married to a man who didn't want to be married to her?

I really hope the afterlife doesn't entail getting everything I've EVER wanted. I've wanted lots of things in the past that I certainly don't want now!

What about bragging about your favorite team's victories in phrasing that implies you yourself were out there on the field running and throwing and catching, when in fact you were on your sofa stuffing junk food into your face and yelling a lot?

I just learned in this episode that Jason's favorite team plays football. I thought he'd been talking about basketball all this time. Is ignorance of professional sports plus or minus points regarding my afterlife prospects? I'm glad Derek served his purpose, but it's fine with me if he stays with Mindy and never reappears. I find his schtick tedious rather than funny. Magnet Janet was a hoot. A little disappointed Trevor didn't drop by for the party, but it was still a lot of fun. A way to include references to ongoing Earth events in the show, such as the Jaguars, would be if at every reset the time in their realm actually went back to the time at which they arrived there, so it isn't advancing past Earth time. If it didn't restart, wouldn't Shaun think it odd that these people who had supposedly been there for the equivalent of hundreds of years were still acting like newbies?

Yeah...none of these people are saints aside from Marga, who is a little TOO innocent. I like that about the show; that they are complex people and not written as too good to be true. But even so, I am rolling my eyes at Alba's shock that Carlos would turn around and do to her the same thing she did to him (though he suffered much greater losses when she betrayed him), and her confusion that he somehow doesn't want to marry her anymore. Perplexing! Carlos is justifiably angry, but he's still too much of a smug entitled spoiled child for me to subscribe to a lifetime membership in his fan club. Team Francisco, and that's only 90% because I have a thing for Yon Gonzalez. Francisco has worked hard for everything. Sure, he was blackmailing people, trying to cheat on his wife, enabling theft from the company, lying to his best friend, and smoking (ew!), but he's resilient and keeps a cool head. He may prove to be the schemiest schemer of them all. Carlota might be my real favorite, though.

Episode 9: I'm so glad this is back but YIKES, what a way to start the season. I've only seen the first epi and a bit of the second of the second series so far and that's a heck of a dark beginning. Not that I'll miss that abusive creep, but when the ladies kept making things worse (not reporting the death, moving the body, dumping him in the river, dumping the car (with a witness), lying to police, etc.) I just kept thinking they were digging themselves into further and further trouble. I suppose in 1920s Madrid they wouldn't have had much a chance just telling the truth? The death was in fact accidental and also self-defense. But now they've definitely committed crimes. I couldn't tell if the scenes were a bit disjointed and we skipped over a lot of stuff or if I was just too tired to track the plot. There was a lot of jumping around. I think I need to rewatch.

It does look bad for Petra. She was in the room fighting with Anezka right before she fell. And it better have been Anezka who died. I think, moment of Rafael's passion aside, they would actually be very cautious about getting together. They need to stay functional for Mateo's sake, and a renewed romance and potential breakup AGAIN could definitely stir up fresh turmoil between them. Plus Rafael might remember that he was second choice before and wonder if he's really okay with being second choice just because her first choice is no longer an option. I suspect they'll be together eventually but it might not be happily ever after quite so soon. Or maybe they'll decide to let them be happily ever after and show that they can still do fun and interesting plots after the question of romance is settled. I think they should get married and then start an underground railroad/home for unofficial refugees or other undocumented immigrants at particular risk. My favorite part of the episode was Jane and Alba dancing.

If Jane is 28, then Xo is 44 or 45. Unlikely to get pregnant, but it's still very possible.

I thought the LinkedIn reaction was hilarious! I have a LinkedIn account which I never use, and I am constantly getting repeat reminders from it, frequently about link requests from people I've never heard of who aren't even in my industry or state. I'm sure it's useful to someone, but I don't get it.

Hey, Rafael. If those hotel uniforms are so hideous and embarrassing (and they ARE; they look so cheap and tacky), why have you been making other people wear them? The Marbella needs to step the quality back up. Maybe they can do another makeover once Rafael gets it back. Also, if he put some effort into the bartending, learned out to actually make the drinks and displayed some charm, he could make pretty good tips. Not hotel owner money, but probably as much as Jane's making or more. Why are Xo and Ro even fighting? Since Rogelio knew that Xo was pregnant, they must both have known all these years that he knew that there was at least a possibility that a child had been born and was living. Why would Xo think he had never wondered about that? Probably after awhile he figured that if she'd kept the child, she would have let him know, so she must have gone with abortion or adoption or had a miscarriage, but he still wouldn't have been sure and would have wondered what had come of the situation. But since she hadn't contacted him, maybe he felt it best to stay away and not intrude. Well, Adam served his purpose of making Jane realize she might be able to fall in love again. Maybe next time she'll find someone more on her wavelength.

Maybe Kevin used his dad's police resources to find the Black Hood himself, offed the Black Hood, collected the artifacts that proved a connection to the shootings, and then started making calls and sending letters to Betty to get back at her. That would a massive over-reaction, but why not?