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SEASON FINALE! Promo: Original air date: 6/16/21

ITA that there is an extra level of Cathy's love/hate with Corrine that Chris just doesn't have. He never feared that he would turn into Corrine and abandon the people who loved him the most. Despite everything Corrine did, part of Cathy still loved her mother and wanted her love and approval just as much as Carrie did. Cathy just hid it better beneath all of her anger and plans for revenge. But she grew up envying her mother's beauty and body so once she hit her teen years, she was both happy and repulsed by how much she resembled the mother she once admired. Every time she looked in the mirror, it was a reminder that she was physically turning into her mother so constantly told her self that she would never turn into Corrine in all of the negative ways. The irony is that she did become like her mother. When her kids were born, Cathy promised that she would never let them feel neglected or unloved and then she proceeded to do exactly that with Bart. It was much less overt than the way Corrine made Cathy feel neglected and unloved, but it still happened.

All three of the finalists did well in their tutorials/presentations! For the final challenge, I liked the colors Dolli chose but once again, she was just a bit too messy. Craig also had some very vivid colors which I loved. Sophie's was much more of a beauty makeup than I expected from her but it was so beautiful. Her finished makeup was really striking. In the last face off, I was distracted by the orangish color that Craig chose for his model's foundation. I wished that Sophie had filled in her model's eyebrows a tiny bit because there was a small gap between where the top of the eye shadow color ended and the bottom of her eyebrows. Congratulations to Sophie! If Craig decides to keep doing tutorials, I hope he takes some kind of voice lessons so that he can knock it off with that super annoying vocal fry. It drove me crazy most of the season but it was even more apparent in the last episode because there were only three of them left.

Laura Benanti appeared on Jimmy Fallon last night. Lin-Manuel Miranda and other Broadway stars (Olga Merediz, Phylicia Rashad, Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Jackson, and Jimmy Smits) were celebrating the pending return of Broadway!

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Jackson, and some non-Hamilton Broadway stars (Olga Merediz, Phylicia Rashad, Kristin Chenoweth, Laura Benanti, and Jimmy Smits) celebrate the pending return of Broadway with a parody of “You’ll Be Back”

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Olga Merediz, Phylicia Rashad, Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Jackson, Laura Benanti, and Jimmy Smits celebrate the pending return to Broadway!

My sister trained at a gym that had several national team members (and one girl who was an alternate at the Olympics) but thankfully her gym did not have that kind of toxic culture. The coaches obviously wanted their gymnasts to win, but not at the cost of being abusive assholes. They didn't have weigh ins, they didn't berate the girls, and they didn't humiliate them or force them to work out when they were injured. They also had a viewing room for the parents. It had huge glass windows with views of the entire gym so that the parents could see/hear that the coaches weren't being jerks to their kids. My sister and I both danced from childhood through college so between the two of us, we had A LOT of coaches and teachers. Some of them were tough, but none of them were abusive (physically or emotionally) We have discussed several times how lucky we are that we managed to land at gyms and studios with kind, supportive adults and that we never ended up with eating disorders or major injuries. My sister didn't get a major injury until she was a collegiate cheerleader (she was stunting and her partner didn't catch her correctly so she hit her head and got a concussion). I'm pretty sure our experiences were the exception though.

Cathy was 12 and Chris was 14 when they went to Foxworth Hall. One of the previous times that I re-read the books, I made a timeline of all the birthdays and other dates because it always drove me crazy that the ghost writer clearly contradicted some of the ages and info from the earlier books. Cathy and Chris Sr. were both born in April. Chris Sr. died on his 36th birthday. Corrine took the kids to Foxworth Hall in June, so Cathy was 12 years and 2 months. Cathy mentions that Chris Jr. was 2 years and 5 months older and that his birthday was in November. He was 14 years and 7 months when they got to Foxworth Hall.

Janine is such an optimist that she convinced Esther she should eat so that she'll still be alive when things get better. There are other handmaids who would have told Esther to find a way to kill herself because things will never get better and a lifetime of rape/abuse as a handmaid isn't worth living for. I wonder how long Lydia will be able to keep Janine and Esther at the red center. I kept waiting for something to happen at Nick and June's secret meeting. I didn't know if the guardians would pop up to arrest June, kidnap Nichole, etc. so I was surprised when June drove away and nothing happened. The suspicious part of me thought that Nick put a tracker or some kind of device in the doll he gave to Nichole (even though I realize that's completely unnecessary since Gilead knows where June is). Oh, how things have changed. Serena is wearing pants and writing and admitting that Gilead isn't that great for a woman without the clout of being the respected wife of a commander. Handmaids were a totally acceptable part of society when she got a baby out of the deal, but the prospect of actually becoming a handmaiden is too icky for Serena to imagine. No surprise there though - oppressors are always fine with the status quo when they're the ones doing the oppressing. It's only unfair and awful when they have their privilege revoked.

Lawrence: Hello, June Osborn. And hello, Canada. June: Thank you for taking the call. How are you? Lawrence: Oh, I'm peachy. The weather's fine, too. You must want something. June: I need your help. It's about getting Hannah. Lawrence: Again with this? June: She's my daughter. Lawrence: Yeah, and you're mother of the year. What a nightmare you've been for her. Just leave the poor kid alone. June: She needs to be with me and her father. Lawrence: Does she? Honestly. Does she, June? She has a lovely home. June: That is not her home. Lawrence: It's all she knows. You want to rip her out of there? June: No one will love her like we do. Lawrence: Your love fucks people up. You're a fountain of heartache and trouble. Lawrence: I'll make you a deal. I'll get you Hannah if you get me ten of the kids you flew out of here. I hear a lot of them are struggling. They miss their parents in Gilead. June: You know we're never giving those children back. Lawrence: Come on. That's how you negotiate? The June I know would bargain, at least, to save her daughter. Say, five of those kids for Hannah? June: I can't. No. Lawrence: Wow. You've gone soft in Toronto. Must be all that maple syrup. Fred: Our baby inspires them. Look, we're beacons of hope. Read this. Serena: Am I allowed now? Now that nobody's watching? Lydia: To dawdle is an affront to God.

I think this is partially rooted in what Cathy realized in one of the earlier books (I'm 99% sure it was Petals on the Wind but it was also mentioned a little in Flowers in the Attic) - Chris had no problem admitting that he loved Cathy and that she was the only one he could ever truly love because of what they'd been through, but because Cathy looked so much like Corrine, he had to keep loving Corrine a little bit because he saw her face when he looked at Cathy. It's like that episode of Friends where Sean Penn breaks up with Ursula and then starts dating Phoebe. He is still furious at Ursula for lying to him so every time he looks at Phoebe, he sees Ursula and the anger comes back. He couldn't hate Corrine and simultaneously love Cathy for that reason. In addition, Chris was always described as the optimist while Cathy was the pessimist, so I think in general he would be more apt to let things go and want to believe the best in a person while Cathy was the one who would stew in her anger and then lash out. At the end of Petals on the Wind when Corrine admits that she poisoned the kids, Chris said that once they left Foxworth Hall, he didn't want to believe that she would do such a thing. I agree that Chris and Cathy's relationship only developed into what it became because they were in the attic with the twins. Before that, Cathy said Chris was just her annoying older brother. But once they realized that they were responsible for keeping Carrie and Cory alive, their relationship changed. I think that if Carrie and Cory hadn't been born and only Cathy and Chris had been locked in the attic, they would have come out damaged but not as crazy codependent on each other as they ended up. They still would have been traumatized by (1) being locked up (2) abused by the grandmother (3) abandoned by their mother (4) betrayed by their mother, but I truly believe that if had been just the two of them, they would have come out with PTSD and then gone on with their lives. It was knowing that Cory and Carrie needed them in order to survive that really changed their relationship. If not for that, I think that Chris wouldn't have looked as Cathy as anything but his sister.

ITA but for the record, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis only trained for six months to do Black Swan. They both had taken ballet as kids so they had at least some basic technique before they started. I didn't think the acting on this show was egregiously worse than other teen centered shows I've seen on the CW, Freeform, etc. I blame the writing and the dialogue for a lot of the problems because you can only polish a turd so much. Obviously these aren't Oscar winning performances, but I'd rather see okay acting from real dancers than okay acting from actors who need body doubles for all the dance scenes.

Per production, Shannon's spinoff has been in the works for over two years. I don't know about the actual timing of the logistics, but I'm guessing that Nicole's contract for Kim's Convenience was for 5 years and they wanted to have her finish that before moving her onto her spinoff. Simu and other cast members have said that they like Nicole and support her new show. The fact that the only main character who is white/not Asian got a spinoff is what's problematic, not the actress.

Thanks! I still think it's ridiculous that Vulcano got cut for her shoes. It's not like she was going barefoot or wearing flats. And even if the judges hated her shoes, she still looked better from the ankle up than just about everyone else on the runway!

One thing I have disliked about the explosion/destruction challenges on previous seasons/other iterations of Lego Masters is that it sometimes relies on the aim of the host who's wielding the baseball bat or the bowling ball that destroys the creations. For that reason, I LOVED that in this challenge the builders were given two charges and it was up to them to place them exactly where they wanted them. I hated Amy's outfit. From the waist up, she was going to brunch. From the waist down, she was going to the gym or the grocery store.

S1.E5: Bust a Move Original air date: 6/9/21

My sister was a gymnast so I know enough about people being photographed while tumbling to have a very strong opinion on the parkour photos that were taken in this episode (mostly because I've seen a lot of bad gymnastics photos, and most of them were awful. Saying that you were going for a 90s/00s skater aesthetic translates to "I don't know how to photograph humans in motion and I don't know how to photograph in low light so here are my shitty blurry low resolution pictures." And Jackson even said during the photo shoot that he didn't know what he was doing but if his pictures didn't turn out well, he would come up with an artsy excuse for why they weren't good. How did Rankin and his team fall for Jackson's obviously bull shit excuse for having zero technical skills in this situation? At least Ali was honest during her critique and said that she had no idea what she was doing but that lucked into an okay photo. It helps that she also listened to the advice she was given. She specifically told the expert that she got some better photos after she listened to him and adjusted her settings. I thought Georgie's photos had more of the old school skater aesthetic that Jackson claimed he was going for. I did appreciate this this week's expert made sure to give the contestants pointers about using a lower ISO and a higher shutter speed, which is more useful information that some of the past experts have shared. I found it kind of hilarious that Paul's expertise with wildlife photos really helped him with this challenge. It's no coincidence that the one person with the technical skills needed for this assignment produced the only photo that I really liked. Paul's photo of the parkour guy upside down was great. Tyrone had a similar picture but the background was completely blacked out because he used his flash. As I said, my sister was a gymnast. I was a dancer. In both instances, photographers are NOT allowed to use flash in performance settings, so for that reason I disqualified Tyrone's photo. Technically, he wasn't told he couldn't use a flash but that's a pretty cardinal rule when shooting dancers and gymnasts. The photographers really should have listened to this week's expert when he said to watch the athletes to get an idea for the timing of when to take photos because from the footage we were shown, they did the same 3 moves over and over. Jackson's whining is getting annoying. When he complained that "everything's stacked against me" in the parkour challenge, I just rolled my eyes. Oh, boo hoo, you're being asked to do something that you don't know how to do. So it's the show's fault that you don't know how to shoot motion or low light? I know that all of the contestants have different photography backgrounds but if you're going into a competition, you should at least have a cursory knowledge of areas outside what you normally do. You don't have to be an expert in everything, but you also have to know that you might be asked to do things that you don't normally do. I thought the client challenge was an interesting demonstration of how the photographers work. Part of me felt bad that Chelsea couldn't get the suits she wanted because it wasn't her fault that this challenge had such a compressed timeline (normally if you got hired for a campaign like this, you'd have more than 24 hours to get everything set up so you wouldn't be scrambling to get a special suit the day before), but she seemed so defeated. As Rankin pointed out, you can't just give up. Sometimes things don't work out the way you want and you have to roll with it and improvise in order to get the job done. You can be sad/annoyed/frustrated about it afterward but you can't let it interfere with finishing the task at hand. That's the difference between a professional and everyone else.

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Even when you take all the abuse coverups out of the equation (and make no mistake, Larry Nassar is NOT the only coach who abused gymnasts that USAG knew about and covered for), the selection process for the Olympic team has been shady for decades. They say that nationals and Olympic trials are prerequisites but for years, Bela/Marta and the selection committee just picked whoever they wanted for the team regardless of their scores. At least for Tokyo, whoever places first and second at Olympic trials is guaranteed a spot on the team which is an improvement. In the past, it was just whichever 5/6/7 gymnasts the Karolyis deemed worthy. But that's why it's hard for me to be mad that Jade opted to try for the World Cup qualification for the Olympics. This way, she secured a spot without having to worry about what USAG's grand plan was. I know things change, but she went this route with the intention of not being on the 4 person team so I think that she should not even try to make the team. I think the chances of her being put on the team are slim to none. She has decently solid scores, but they aren't high enough to merit putting her on the team. If she had finished second behind Simone consistently throughout nationals, then sure, but she finished 8th on bars, 8th on floor, 11th on beam, and 4th on vault. The 4th on vault isn't as impressive as it sounds either because only 4 people at nationals opted to do vaults from two different families (a requirement for the event final), which means she finished last. Realistically, I think that unless everyone else makes massive mistakes, she isn't really in contention to medal at the Olympics so her goal is probably to land her new move so that it can be named after her in the code of points. You can blame the FIG president because the 4 person team was his idea. Then the FIG realized what a horrible idea it was but it was too late to change it for Tokyo. For Paris, they're going back to 5 people on the team. In the past, it was 6 people per team, all 6 people competed on all 4 events, and the lowest score on each apparatus was dropped. At the 1996 Olympics, the 7-6-5 format was introduced. 7 gymnasts were on the team. 6 competed in each event. The top 5 scores were counted toward the team point total. This was the beginning of having specialists on the team. Amy Chow and Amanda Borden were the first specialists on the American team. Amy competed on vault and bars while Amanda competed on floor and beam. At the 2000 Olympics, the team was back to 6 members but only 5 members competed on each event. The top 4 scores were counted toward the team total. This was a slight swing back towards stronger all around gymnasts. On the American team, only two gymnasts (Amy Chow and Elise Ray) competed on all four events. The other four gymnasts competed on three events each. At the 2004 Olympics, the FIG took a hard left into creating teams of specialists. Each team had 6 gymnasts but only 3 gymnasts were allowed to compete in each event and all 3 scores counted (no more dropping the lowest score). Carly Patterson was the only one on the team who competed in all four events for the team final. Annia Hatch competed only on bars. The 2008 Olympics followed the same format. Shawn Johnson was the only one to compete in all four events in the team final. Nastia Liukin and Alicia Sacramone competed in three events. Chellsie Memmel and Bridget Sloan each competed in one event. At the 2012 Olympics, there were 5 team members but only 4 gymnasts competed in each event and all four scores were counted toward the team points. Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, and Jordyn Wieber competed in all four events. Kyla Ross competed in 3 events. McKayla Maroney competed in only 1 event. At the 2016 Olympics, there were 5 team members, but only 3 gymnasts competed in each event and all 3 scores counted. Simone Biles was the only one to compete in all 4 events. Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez competed in 3 events. Madison Kocian and Gabby Douglas competed in only 1 event each. At the 2021 Olympics, for the qualifying round, all 4 gymnasts will compete and the lowest score will be dropped. For the finals, only 3 will compete in each event and all 3 scores will be counted.

At the end of Petals on the Wind, he found out what Corrine had done. Cathy showed up at the Foxworth Christmas party and told Bart about how Corrine kept them locked in the attic even after Malcolm died. At first Bart didn't believe her, but Cathy gave him too many details (the green dress, the swan bed, the sex book disguised as a needlepoint book in the nightstand, the safe combination that was Corrine's birthday, admitting that she stole the cash from his room that he thought the servants were taking, the codicil that said Corrine would lose her inheritance if it was ever proven that she had children from her first marriage). Bart took Cathy and Corrine into the library to discuss it away from the party. At first Corrine denied it, even after Cathy brought up the donuts, but then Cathy whipped out the birth certificates that Corrine had sewn into the lining of their suitcase when they first came to Foxworth Hall. Bart was still defending Corrine at that point, but he asked her point blank if Cathy was her daughter and she said yes. That's when she admitted she had poisoned her children. She and Cathy rehashed a lot of the past during this argument, all of which Bart heard. She also revealed her idiotic plan to poison the kids enough to get them sick so she could get them out of the house. Cathy asked what Corrine had done with Cory's body because she had been unable to find any record in the cemeteries or hospitals that an 8 year old boy died. Corrine said she knew she would be charged with murder so she threw the body in a ravine and covered it with leaves. Cathy said she found the other stairway and smelled something dead and rotten which she assumed was Cory's body (although would it still have been smelly after 15 years?). Then Chris walked in and Corrine thought it was Chris Sr. so she freaked the fuck out and started screaming about how she didn't mean to kill the kids. Bart asked Chris if Corrine was his mother and if she had kept them locked in the attic for more than three years. Chris confirmed it and also told Bart that she killed Cory. Bart was going to leave Foxworth Hall with Cathy and Chris until he saw that the house was on fire. I don't necessarily know if he would have ended up divorcing Corrine and marrying Cathy if he hadn't died in the fire, but in the moment he seemed ready to leave Corrine after he found out the truth. And he REALLY wanted that baby. When he found out that Cathy was pregnant, he begged her to stay.

The director of 'Crazy Rich Asians' says he regrets casting Brown actors in stereotypical roles in response to whitewashing criticism Some excerpts:

Colin: At the end of our last session, you said you didn't like me. Brooke: I said that it wasn't important for the work we do in here for me to like you. Colin: You can hear how that sounds like you don't like me, right? Brooke: And you can understand how it's different from what it sounds like. Colin: I don't want to think about her. Her time will come. She'll slip up, the world will turn on her. I'll sit quietly by, sipping a piping hot cup of go fuck yourself. But until then, I just want to put her out of my mind. Brooke: Okay, rooting for another person's public demise isn't great, but we only have so much time. Brooke: Busy parents are a good thing from a therapist's standpoint. Colin: Yeah? Brooke: Much easier to untangle busy parents than overly attentive ones, depending on what they were doing. If they were busy doing cocaine, that's bad. Colin: So if I told you I did write to that woman, that tech fuck, and told her to rot in hell, get fucked by a thousand fire horned demons, that wouldn't affect my standing? Brooke: Did you do that? Colin: It's just a hypothetical. Brooke: I would find it disturbing. Colin: Why do you believe me? Brooke: I have to take what you say at face value. Honesty is all you can offer another person. If you give them honesty and they don't respond in kind, that's on them.

I agree. Corinne and Christopher were in love and were willing to give up everything (money, their family) to be together whereas Jillian never loved Cleave. He was a convenient solution for being knocked up. But I think there's some similarity with Corinne/Bart and Jillian/Tony. Corinne and Jillian wanted to feel worshipped and they found that in Bart and Tony. They craved that kind of adoration so much that they hid massive secrets in order to get and keep their husbands. Tony was trapped by the prenup but I never understood why Bart put up with Corinne in the later years when he was complaining about her being off at the spa and sleeping with Cathy. Speaking of Bart, who thinks he would have left Corinne for Cathy because she was pregnant? Or do you think he would have stayed with Corinne? Bart Sr. would have been 42 when Bart Jr. was born (which would make Corinne 50).