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Impeachment proceedings aired today instead of JJ locally, but I did see the end of the case with the nanny, the plumber and the goulash gourmet. How did it start? Reloading the website brought up the earlier comments, so my questions are answered. Thanks!

Billy Sparks! I found myself wondering who was on the other end of Sheldon’s flame war..... Another question: what will the modem use do to the phone bill? Will Sheldon have to get another paper route?

Watching today’s mother-of-the-year case reminds me of how I lucked out with my mother. The poor defendant - she reminds me of Cinderella: the plaintiff wanted an unpaid dog-sitter/eternally-grateful dogsbody. I hope the boyfriend is a good guy - she needs a break.

I didn’t realize the various companies OWN your DNA. What are they doing with it, practicing cloning?!?!? Leaked Black Friday adds show that some stores have door busters on DNA kits. Life is starting to feel like a Twilight Zone episode.

Maybe I’m alone in this, but I don’t have a problem with authorities using my DNA to find a relative who is otherwise getting away with a crime. I’d rather see science convict someone than a false confession. The familial DNA searches aren’t as creepy to me as Alexa - those in-home assistants are too close for comfort. You never know what is being recorded or what hackers are listening. Anyone ever read The Firm by John Grisham? The mob-installed home surveillance pros can only wish they picked up as much as today’s devices, brought into the home voluntarily.....

Michael Winslow!!!

I do, but only when I’m leaving the house for a few days. Not because I’m worried about my house becoming a crime scene, but because I don’t want my heirs to think I’m as bad a housekeeper as I am.

Defendant admitted to paying $5500 for her puppy, so $3500 was a discounted price. I believe the plaintiffs; the defendant didn't live up to the deal.

But I wonder if part of Edith's woe is due to a fear of deja vu: last time she was pregnant and the father went abroad, he never returned.....

Remember the case years ago when the plaintiff hit a bicyclist and then sued him for the car damage? JJ came out with her "you're lucky he isn't suing you" packaged response, only to grudgingly admit the plaintiff had a case when the entire accident was caught on a video from the bus behind the plaintiff: the cyclist had RUN A RED LIGHT! It took video evidence to tilt the case in the plaintiff's favor then, and JJ hasn't changed her preconceived notions in the interim.

Waxing philosophic here, but I think we all have a Pam Hupp type in our life. In this case, she is the extreme: one so evil as to end lives to for negligible benefit, but the world is full of people who enter our lives and then try to arrange our own situations to their advantage. Think of it: have you ever known someone who managed to influence your thinking, to add just enough information to fuel whatever distance/estrangement existing between two parties enough to create a huge conflagration? I've been on both ends of such events (the lied-to and lied-about, that is), and witnessed similar things happening to others. Pam Hupp is evil, but she is hardly unique. If Pride & Prejudice were a crime novel, she'd be Wickham: the one who comes in with a convenient story that confirms everything Lizzie wants to think about Darcy. Scheming opportunists are everywhere, but not usually as bold.

Thanks for the link! Have my tickets, and can now put a vacation day to better use, like seeing it for the second time....

Edith being Edith, this is my prediction for the movie: her ball gown never arrives, and she arrives at the formal event in a dress that Anna and Baxter make from drapes. She may be a marchioness, but something always goes wrong for her. Besides, Fellowes hasn't borrowed from Gone with the Wind yet.

That's what worries me about Missy: she seemed to be confident in the fact that she was the smartest person in the room. She comes off like an accomplished liar & manipulator who will do/say anything to get her own way. He's a pretty boy who has gotten by on his looks and wealth to date; she's methodical and deliberate. Perhaps this is going too far, but I hope the plaintiff has surveillance cameras around her home.

I have to say, both Jacob and the girlfriend had nice hair. Too bad everything below is off in those two. Watching the girlfriend, I don't think it was a physical therapy appointment she was rushing home for. And the more I watched her speak, the more I wanted to put her behind the 20 foot walls. She seemed much more certain of her privilege than he did; "affluenza" describes him perfectly, but she seems downright sinister. And she's only 16? I feel for her future college roommates.

In my mind, Mary Cooper wasn't there because she couldn't get a passport in time. (Can you get a passport in two months? I've never cut it that close.)

I don't have a hard time believing the daughter threw a hissy fit, nor do I have a hard time believing that the mother is at the end of her rope with the daughter. Would JJ have told the mother to eat the cost of the repair if the daughter had hit the mother's car instead of knocking the shower apart? And in the text, the one that JJ kept reading aloud in the clips (the "I'm having a hard time mama"): I think the lack of punctuation/capitalization worked in the daughter's favor. I didn't read "I'm having a hard time, Mama." I saw "I'm having a hard time believing your estimates. Mama D says that ...." Cases like this make me feel a little less sad about not having kids.

Going back to the case of the lions: did anyone else think that JJ was ready to throw out the case (with all the questions about lawyers, and "closing costs" - she got caught up in things that had nothing to do with what was in front of her), only to be confronted with irrefutable proof of a side deal (which she at first dismissed, not recognizing the defendant's reply at the top of the email?!?!?!)? It makes me wonder what else JJ dismisses/rushes through in pursuit of sushi day. But at least she grudgingly acknowledged she was wrong. With a less prepared plaintiff, the defendants could have been able to declaim the side bargain, and make off with the lions. How many other cases are like this one?

The defendant wasn't scared enough of him to avoid barging into the plaintiff's house in July. This whole case felt like JJ was a cat who was enjoying playing with two mice, and then got bored with both and dismissed them. The plaintiff deserved something; feelings are not evidence! Based on the defendant's affect, I'd be shocked to learn that the plaintiff is the only person in their small city who doesn't like her. For all we know, Jake is gaslighting her. Where was he? Jake is the Macguffin of the whole thing. Her account of six months worth of fear doesn't hold up when you take the confrontation in the defendant's home three months into this reign of terror. JJ made it up as she went along; must be the hair extensions in the ponytail.

Totally agree. The defendant has a kind of deer-in-headlights expression, as if she never expected the plaintiff to get his act together enough to go after her. Where is Jake in all this? And is there trouble in paradise - is the defendant's witness admitting that the defendant made it to work the first crack in their collusion? Will the witness have to find a new office manager after this, or a divorce attorney?

Regarding the unlawful eviction case: would a woman's shelter have room for the contents of the apartment? I thought there was a moment when JJ was going to trot out the old standby - "if your x was in the apartment, then you still owed rent" - but perhaps that has been retired. I think the plaintiff fled for her safety, and the landlord should have sucked up the rent owed as a quid pro quo for not getting sued over the assault. But there was so much left unexplained. It felt like JJ knew how she was going to rule before anyone said anything, and she just gave the defendant a chance to use enough rope.....

Perhaps I’m overthinking this, but where did the money for the campaign-handouts come from? The swag was modest, but still required money. And is Sheldon class president (only sophomores) or student body president? Why would sophomores be the only ones making school announcements?

What happened to Valley (college-roommate) Erica? Didn't we get the info on the arrest last year, when Erica and Barry went to Florida for Spring Break? Is the show on its last legs? How long before there is an episode of the Goldbergs watching Adam's old videos?

Anyone see last night’s Austin case? Thank heaven for night vision! The walk comparison was spooky.

I saw the hair, and the phrase “mutton dressed as lamb” came to mind. It was only in one case; was this a premature April Fool’s thing? It looked like a mullet in progress.