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Excellent point! Did this concept description originate with you, @Driad? End of Service Life. Like a refrigerator, when they are ready to bring out the new model, the company stops supporting the old one. Ah. My guess was End of Series Life. I think this show will get at least one more season after the one that's about to start.

Barely. Or should I say for about 3 seconds? Both of these ^^ points, plus: Isn't Darius Tanz too big of a hi-tech superstar to be jettisoned over a little opaque bookkeeping? I mean, doesn't his brand count for a lot?

There were three other moments that made me chuckle, but I couldn't stay awake through the first viewing, so I'm not about to rewatch to note them.

If the entire populace is presumably so zoned in on TMZ that none have noticed the asteroid, do they really deserve to be alarmed?

"Unusual proposal?" Probably nothing as charming as the cigar band ring from The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Silly and soapy. Shouldn't Grace's last words have been "God help us" instead of just echoing the swearing in with "so help us God"? I mean, it would have been funny. Sorry, I like a little levity with my doomsday.

Here in CT it's 9pm, but I still rarely stay awake through an entire episode of anything at that time. I may have to record it or watch it online later. Even 3am is better than 9pm for me. Plus, I really don't like soap operas. Sigh. What have they done to my show?

[Me plaintively whining]: Whyyyy?

No wonder MF can play a believeable version of Gød. Thanks for posting this, @CooperTV.

I really appreciated the way Steve Harvey reassured her in a joking way that no answer was her best answer. I wonder if she liked what he said too or not. Evidentally it did happen on the regular Family Feud, because an episode I saw recently referred to it having happened with that same family member in the previous round of Fast Money. Sorry I don't recall the name of the family or the air date.

Or maybe recast the family? Like the two Darren's on Bewitched?

I hope the family that lost in one of today's reruns gets to come back "due to technical difficulties" as they like to say on the Feud. It was the final chance at the final question. The family who had the opportunity to "play" had used up all of their strikes. If the other family correctly guessed one of the two remaining answers, they would win the game, but if not, the family who got to "play" would win. The question was: If you don't tip a waiter, where are you likely to be seated in the restaurant? The challenging family guessed: In a tight space. This answer was met with the buzz and XXX; the other family won the game. But then the unguessed answers were revealed, including: In a corner. Given all of the times the judges stretch the answers meanings to match the guesses' meanings, I don't see how being seated in a tight space of a restaurant is any different than being seated in a corner. The only reason I can imagine for the ruling is that the "winning" team was culturally more closely matched with the survey population, and so more likely to win the Fast Money round (which they did), and Steve Harvey seems to really want the contestants to win the money. Or maybe the judges were just distracted in the moment.

I was sure (and taken aback when) I just thought I heard the NPR Congressional Correspondent say, "You're not going to get that wall, Honey," but it must have been, "not going to get that wall funding."

It sure feels like that. And did they think Jackson strung up by his rotator cuffs for 2 episodes was supposed to be sexy? Because so not! Each episode it feels more and more like someone behind the scenes is ranting "Billy Burke must not be the best part of the show, even if it kills the show to make it so!"

Or: "We were on a break!" (™ Friends)

I am so confused. Way too many alter egos.

Good point. Any chance that the "Darius is next" text is a coverup?

Or at least Darius and Liam taking off in Salvation WITHOUT Grace's daughter, Harris' son, or annoying reporter girl. ETA: Yes, @Rachel RSL, I meant to stipulate that Jillian be left behind too!

Oh, yes, of course! This is why there are writing teams.

I totally missed the pregnancy of the actress, so my understanding is probably not the most observant, but I think it was that Intrepid Reporter Girl's story revealed that the US had used the previous asteroid as a WMD on purpose (albeit in an unpopulated area) instead of by accident. Or it could just have been the optics of having the previous weaponizing of an asteroid revealed to the world (including the Russian population). But either of these only makes sense as a motive for the Russians backing out if the Russians either don't believe an earth killing asteroid is imminent, or if they'd rather all die than survive as suckers, or (most logical) if they think the real plan is to have the asteroid move off course enough to devaste Russia but not the whole earth (the US government's original plan). And maybe it was a little unclear because the writers changed the plot and motive too close to shooting to smooth out the script edits, but I don't know anything about how that process works.

Huh. I rarely admit that I watch DS, so I'm not sure whether to be surprised that it's included in something called the TriBeCa TV Festival, or what…

So it seemed to me that Walternate is the invisible boss calling the shots for Harris's son's hacking group and maybe Walternate also had the White House phones hacked to order the hit on Grace—since it seems like the POTUS is too sick to have planned anything as elaborate as getting a hit man that would appear to be connected to Harris. Plus we know that Walternate doesn't want Darius to be distracted by romance—which, on this show, kind of makes me want to be on Team Walternate. What are the odds that POTUS is suffering from something like radiation poisoning? (I watch too much TV.) I'm still convinced that they have a different writer for Harris every week, and each week's writer only gets to see the last line Harris had in the previous episode (like that old birthday party game that ends with a very silly story).

There's a TV commercial airing these days selling a multi-sink vanity (maybe for Lowe's?) that shows Mom and Dad waiting with their towels and toothbrushes while the 2 kids are making a mess of the only bathroom sink. It's a great selling point for families who are trying to get ready in the morning, but having done it with and without multiple sinks and/or bathrooms, IMO, showering at night and brushing my teeth in the kitchen in the morning while one or more teens use the bathroom is just as good. I never see anyone cleaning the sink or toilet on TV.

Congratulations! What are you bringing?

Now I'm picturing fleas with the gift of flight and a hive mind assembling themselves in such tight formation that they lift Mitch/Duncan out of the plane by his jacket and land him in a tree. So y'all agree I could write for this show and quit my day job, right? I mean, if my private college employer cuts my benefits much more, I'm not going to be able to afford to get my chemo port flushed.