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I enjoyed the band plot. It might have been a total suspension-of-disbelief moment when Jimmy's band knew Music Exec Dad's song, Smells Like Teen Spirit, despite the fact that everyone was a stranger 30 seconds ago, but perhaps the cover band covered this by playing very awkwardly at first? Still, I wish that scene had aired!
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11 hours ago, Tdoc72 said:
BBM. I don't care. He deserves it. He tried multiple times to kill his family until he finally succeeded. He then repeatedly lied to the dad about his level of involvement before running away all while having his father's support. So I don't have any compassion for him. He can sit and rot.
To clarify: I think the commutation of the sentence is entirely for the father’s benefit. He doesn’t have to bury another son, and the son will have a harsher-yet-longer life. Rot he will, and he does deserve to. He wasn’t spared because he deserved it, but because dad couldn’t cope with another burial.
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I found myself more interested in the Wedding Singer scenes than the show itself. I hope next week’s is better, or at least, not as tired.
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On 1/7/2019 at 2:55 PM, mythoughtis said:
My spouse and I watched that same 48 hours. We discussed how hard it has to be for that father to lose his wife and son at the hands of his other son. How hard it must be to think of your only remaining son being executed.
The question of whether the son is going to heaven after he dies has nothing to do with whether or not he’s executed. Religious ( or even victim) forgiveness is a totally separate application from our nations laws. The legal punishment accorded for murder for hire in this case is/was death. The truth is the father didn’t want to be all alone here on earth, nor could he deal with the idea of killing his remaining son. I don't what I could or would do if I was him. However, he’s just sentenced himself to prison visits to his son for the rest of his own life. Meaning every week or Month, he makes the trek to/from the prison, deals with all the bureaucracy and limitations of being a visitor to a maximum security level prison. Will he travel or become a snowbird in his retirement years - probably not. The fathers own future life will be affected forever.
Would it be more merciful to be executed? The thought of spending the next 50 years in a cage seems much worse than execution. Once his father is gone, will there be anyone on earth who cares about the condemned? The killer could live another 60 years; his father won’t. The father has acted as a loving father; the killer will be forever confined, and all alone after the father ages out of visits or dies. That seems the bleakest of all.
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I think I’ve missed the point of this show: after watching the series, my house seems clutter-free enough. I have a lot of clothes, but nothing like Mt Wendy: I never had enough money to buy things that didn’t spark joy.
Inertia has taken over: my house is okay. I don’t have the energy to spark additional joy.
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On 1/2/2019 at 8:24 PM, tobeannounced said:
Working 50 to 60 hours a week. What the hell was she doing? She's a SAHM with two kids and has to hire someone to do laundry? And, yes, I was a SAHM with two kids who was not the greatest housekeeper, but damn, girl, buck up and do the basics for your family. Because you know she has a housekeeper as well. If your kids are running you that ragged, you need to start teaching them how to play independently.
ETA: @MoreCoffeePlease, I hope you don't think my vitriol was geared towards you. That mom just really bugged me, and I had to vent.
She’s not only a SAHM, she teaches world communications, despite the fact that she seems confused about English grammar (“Kevin and I’s relationship?!?! From a teacher, no less. Side rant: would you invite someone to dinner at I’s (sic) house, or offer to lend someone I’s (sic) shoes? Of course not! Using a compound phrase does not change the rules of grammar. NEVER! Stupid grammar mistakes annoy me, and I embark on a fruitless journey of calling people out on the internet. I’m a troll, but one who enjoys cathartic typing.). Hearing such a simple mistake from a COMMUNICATIONS teacher is as disturbing as seeing an accountant add 10 to 90 and write down 1000.
Otherwise, I thought the house looked great at the end of the show.
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If my mother had stolen my ring to give to my brother, I would have had her arrested. Wasn’t the ring worth enough for a grand larceny charge? That is a cold thing to do, but that is the kind of behavior I would have learned from such a mother. The fact that the daughter didn’t just demonstrates that she is the unsung nice person in the family. I hope she finds a family that appreciates her.
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On 11/15/2018 at 7:11 PM, PaulaO said:
I’ve been a professional librarian for over 30 years. I find it hard to believe that Cal Texh doesn’t license every database in the world. No need to manually verify citations—scientific databases go back to the 1900s. And I hope Amy and Sheldon have actually read the papers they are citing....
I too am a librarian (20 years).
What I didn’t like about the basement scene was the darkness. On the campuses where I’ve studied, they are the best-lit buildings, partly because administration doesn’t want students sleeping in the stacks.
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On 11/5/2018 at 1:44 PM, Annber03 said:
This. That's the big reason why I watch these kinds of shows, and follow true crime stuff in general. It's the "why" of it all, wondering what leads somebody to do the horrible things they do. Especially if the target is somebody they know and (supposedly) love-a family member, a spouse, a friend. Just the idea that you may not be able to trust those you should be able to trust, that things can be going along fine until one event sets somebody off, that "perfect" families and couples are often hiding dark secrets...it's a concept I find really interesting, and, as noted, learning about those warning signs through stories like this can make for a good public service as well.
I also love seeing the investigation side of things on shows like this. It's always great to see the detectives who stick with a case and do not rest until they get justice for the victim and their families, and who genuinely value the work they do. And on the flip side, I also appreciate it when these shows highlight investigations that were handled poorly, or cases that don't get the attention they deserve because the victims weren't the "right" kind of people to care about, or things of that sort. We need to be aware of any flaws and abuses in our justice system so that we can work to fix them, and I'm glad these shows take the time to address those issues.
Has anyone seen Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? There is an episode in the latest season, where Titus refers to true crime shows as "white lady porn" - going on to explain that "Their lives are safe and predictable, so every once in a while, they need to see Tim Daly push a woman down a staircase."
I"m a white lady, and while my life isn't completely safe and predictable, there is something reassuring about the endings of most of these shows: the villains are caught. When everything else is off, it can be reassuring to know that, many times at least, the bad guys/gals do get caught. When so much is left open-ended or ambiguous, these shows mostly offer proof that bad deeds do catch up to people. Or at least they do, some of the time.
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Billy Sparks!
I can’t help but love that sweet/funny face!
He's always happy on the show, and I don't think there is a mean bone in his body.
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Cellphone kid: WHY not just turn the phone in to lost & found? Then it isn’t your problem anymore.
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Just wondering about the window-smashing case: were the identical piercings in the plaintiff and defendant done to mark them as the property of the unnamed Romeo? The same glittery-stud in the same place. Why?
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10 hours ago, nilyank said:
Did they explain where Barry was? He was the only missing member of the JTP today.
Until I read this post, it never occurred to me that Barry wasn’t in it. My enthusiasm for this show has waned.
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54 minutes ago, Spunkygal said:
. . . . two kids that we know of! I bet you a case of cheese balls that there are more!
Despite my fondness for cheese balls, I'm not going to take that bet. There is too high a chance I'd have to share my stash with you - you're more likely to borrow my car/get added to my cellphone plan/rent a room in my house without a security deposit than get anywhere near my cheesy indulgence.
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If JJ keeps correcting grammar, we'll never make it through any case. A sad commentary on....everything. I wonder what set her off on that approach, since there have been many litigants with fewer grammar skills. Maybe she'd rather fixate on the grammar than on the fact that two women are fighting over a 27-year-old-college student with two kids. The plaintiff did not seem at all fazed that her "boyfriend" had another baby with the defendant since they started dating; after all, he only had one child with the defendant when they started going out. Yes, because babies multiply like weeds.....
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Remember the episode when Raj threw the murder-mystery party with the forward-in-time leap? Penny said that she wasn’t putting her body through 3 pregnancies, and Leonard was dismayed about that limit. Hard to believe there never was a follow-up conversation after that.
But I liked Raj’s storyline, and I hope he gets his happily ever after.
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Except for the Rush-guy’s haircut, I HATED every single thing about the episode.
What happened between prom and September?
Is Barry still in high school?
Where was Adam’s girlfriend on his birthday?
If the rest of the season is like this, it should have ended last year.
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On 9/11/2018 at 8:32 AM, TipseyGirl said:
So, I have a question. In the case of the Bottle Throwing Baby Momma, the plaintiff said the incident that he had on video happened on June 18, 2018. Why then was there snow on the ground in the video and Baby Momma was screeching about him taking her baby out in the cold? WTF?
That was so confusing! I went back and watched that - there was snow on the sidewalk by the cars, but none where they walked. And in the beginning of the tape, def said plaintiff couldn’t take her son out in the cold.
I know Spring was late arriving this year, but it wasn’t that late. Something seems off about the case. Either something was pulled over on JJ, or the production put something over on the audience.
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I enjoyed this episode (Stonehenge!). After watching, it felt like this was one of the extra episodes ordered for the season - no connection to any other episode or the soon-to-reappear Michael. I’m also happy to have a break from summer re-runs.
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Regarding the two exes fighting over lawyer-money: if plaintiff got away with stiffing the defendant on child support, then I see her point in the excuse. The fact that he was so blasé about his daughter’s arrest and would have preferred a public defender makes me wonder what else he skimps on. I’m glad he’s not my father.
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If I went to PF Chang’s and found him to be my server, I would not want to hand over my credit card to him - I already know that he is a scammer.
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36 minutes ago, GoodieGirl said:
I'm not going to say that I totally agree with how JJ handled this case, but IMO there are far too many people who look to litigation to settle the score for every little thing. There are also too many people who never take the blame for their mistakes. In this case it was both, a driver who may or may not have been aware of her surroundings and a child who was clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. It would have been the fairest decision for JJ to order mom of the little girl to pay half the damages, and let the driver suck it on the other half since they were both partly to blame. I felt JJ was pointing out to the driver that it could have been way worse and she should have never brought this to court, and the quick glimpse of the vehicle she was driving makes me think she could afford the $700. Heck, I drive a 2009 Hyndai Sonata (totally paid for!) and knocked a side view mirror off at a drive-thru ATM, cost me $300 out of pocket, I did not make a claim to my insurance since it was under my $500 deductible. If she's able to drive what looked to be an higher end vehicle, she can afford the cost of the new side view mirror, instead of coming on national TV to whine about a 6 year old girl running into it.
I don't have insights into the budget of the plaintiff; I only know that I don't have an extra $700 that I can kiss goodbye because my car is in someone's way.
When is someone old enough to take responsibility/suffer the consequences of her actions? She was 9; not 5. It is a painful lesson, but hopefully next time, she won't disregard the crossing guard. As long as we're using hypotheticals, next time, she might run into a semi. If she is spared the consequences of thoughtless action as a pedestrian, heaven help us all when she's a driver.
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14 hours ago, Brattinella said:
You have covered exactly all my talking points about this case. I also think suing for the mirror was a bad choice. But JJ needs to stop fantasizing about theoretical cases and pretending that is what happened. Lady could have been parked there, and if little girl ran full tilt into a parked car, it would have ended the same way.
But in MY America, people can be made whole when they suffer damages due to the actions of people without clean hands. Maybe that mother can't afford $700 out of pocket because lil Emy wants to take a shortcut. There are policies with $1000 deductibles, so all the money could have been out of pocket. The plaintiff deserved to be made whole; and in MY America, she would have been.
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And there is an update to the Target story - apparently the bloom is off the rose!
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Season 32 (2018/19): Episode Discussion
in 48 Hours
I wonder how many cold cases will be solved by genetic databases? That is a fascinating byproduct. Who knew 5 years ago you could identify a criminal through the DNA an unknown 2nd cousin once removed?