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    S07.E16: May Your Choices Reflect Hope, Not Fear

    in Chicago Med

    · Edited by wonderwoman

    2 hours ago, Driad said:

    Is there a medical drama trope that if an infant needs a transplant, the next baby who comes in will die?

    in words of one syllable: yes! and not just infants. any patient needs a transplant — odds are that another patient will wind up brain dead. 

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    S06.E08: Guitar Man

    in This Is Us

    6 minutes ago, tomsmom said:

    Was anyone else hoping the hospital guy would tell Kevin to STFU??? 

    What a useless episode.

    thanks! was starting to think it was just me.

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    S04.E08: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

    in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    · Edited by wonderwoman

    42 minutes ago, CinAZ said:
    42 minutes ago, CinAZ said:

    I am not sure how I feel about Lenny and Midge sleeping together. It seemed… anti-climatic. But his talk with her on stage was perfect. 

     

    both predictable and anti-climatic. but that scene between lenny and midge on the carnegie hall stage should be on luke kirby’s emmy real. same with midge’s performance at the strip club.

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    S06.E07: Taboo

    in This Is Us

    2 hours ago, Empress1 said:
    2 hours ago, CdrJanny said:

    love, love, LOVE to bake sweet potatoes and then mash the pulp with just a bit of butter and maybe a sprinkle of nutmeg.  Yum, yum, yum.  So tasty and full of fiber and other micronutrients.  

    Me too. I also do a meal where I stuff a sweet potato with chickpeas and tomato and greens and certain spices. Really great veggie meal.

    I am weird - even though the microwave can get it done in a few minutes, I prefer the old-school way of roasting them in the oven. I feel like they're sweeter that way.

    love roasting sweet potatoes in the oven — loved the small purple japanese ones they had until recently at trader joe’s. my latest fave is cutting a largish sweet potato into chunks, throwing in a bunch of roasted broccoli, and finish with a drizzle of orange-infused olive oil and some sliced scallion. 

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    S06.E07: Taboo

    in This Is Us

    4 hours ago, Trillian said:

    My ex mother-in-law did a version of that to me with her son’s favourite cookie recipe. I kept asking her for the recipe & she finally - but very grudgingly - gave it to me when she ran out of excuses not to.   I couldn’t get them right, though, and she resisted all my attempts to watch her make them (would whip up a batch when I was talking to FIL, for example.  “Oh dear, I forgot you wanted to watch me”). Finally, I showed the recipe to a friend who was a good baker and she figured out that the recipe had doubled the leavening agent and left out something else (can’t remember exactly what now).

    Totally passive aggressive move, just like Rebecca’s mom. Why Rebecca would do the same thing is just out of character.

    there’s a funny episode of ‘everyone loves raymond’ where marie does the same thing to deba. shares her spices, but jar labeled basil actually contained tarragon. of course, had debra been more of a cook she would have seen and smelled the switch, but still.

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    S04.E05: How to Chew Quietly and Influence People

    in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    5 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

    haven't read the Salon article yet, but skimming, this popped out and reminded me of my own different-than-others' take on:

    • "For a show, especially a long-running one, especially one just renewed for a final season, to continue to gather momentum and not become stagnant, there has to be movement. The characters have to go on a journey — and not just to get famous and richer. Midge has to change along the way, hopefully into someone better.
      "She hasn't yet." 

    I am more of the "a leopard doesn't change its spots" opinion of people. I do think people can get wiser, but ultimately, we really (IMO) just become more of who we are.
    So I'm okay with Midge staying her same old spoiled, thoughtless self while she continues on her journey through life. 
    Beaver Cleaver and Dennis the Menace didn't change, and I think it's a bit idealistic to expect Midge to change. </end-unpopular-opinion>

    leave it to beaver and dennis the menace were sitcoms about children. the only growing those characters did was to get older and taller — and that’s all viewers expected of those shows. 

    but, serial dramas are different. one aspect of soap opera (and this show embodies at lot of soaps)) is that characters do grow and and learn — and suffer the consequences of their actions (at least they did in the early days of soaps). 

    as you noted, people can get wiser, i would argue while still retaining their basic personality. so yes, midge is self-centered, and likely always will be, but that doesn’t mean that she can’t learn from her mistakes. and it doesn’t help that there are never any real and lasting consequences stemming from her childish — and sometime downright mean — behavior. 

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    S06.E06: Our Little Island Girl: Part 2

    in This Is Us

    · Edited by wonderwoman

    10 minutes ago, CleoCaesar said:

    cringed throughout Beth's revenge phone call to her former teacher. Did she drunk dial him or something? Gah. Kate's tirade to her abusive ex was bad enough but this was worse because Beth is the rare character I actually enjoy. Enough with the cheesy "empowering" monologues, writers. You suck at them.

     

    9 minutes ago, LexieLily said:

     

    It was supposed to be a taking-back-her-power moment but Beth's phone call with Luka Kovac was so much secondhand cringe for me.

     

    glad it wasn’t just me. i’ve always felt that beth was the only pearson who didn’t need to get over herself. oh well…

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    Fin Tutuola: Attitude with A Badge

    in Law & Order: SVU

    · Edited by wonderwoman

    36 minutes ago, WendyCR72 said:

    I think it's the usual answer: $$$$$$$$$.

    yes, of course.

    but three commercials with the same actor, running at the same time, is pretty unusual— rare even. i could be wrong, but i can’t think of another actor doing that — ever. maybe voiceovers, but not on screen.

    S12.E12: The Reagan Way

    in Blue Bloods

    · Edited by wonderwoman

    6 hours ago, SnazzyDaisy said:

    The rape story will be more interesting if the writers weren’t focusing on Eddie/Erin’s disagreement so much.

    i found eddie’s behavior so out-of-line, that i’m not embarrassed to admit that  i was hoping it would have turned out that it wasn’t rape. really — no one’s shit detector is 100% — well, except for the reagan’s

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    S12.E12: The Reagan Way

    in Blue Bloods

    18 minutes ago, DavidWeis1 said:

    Yet another episode where it seems the only point is to make the Reagens look like overbearing fools. Not that the Reagan’s are wrong, god forbid … just overbearing. Do the writers not like the Reagens? Do the viewers? Do the Reagans?

    exactly what i was coming to say! and the archbishop (who, btw, in nyc would almost certainly be a cardinal) looked and sounded like a fool, as well.

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    S12.E11: On The Arm

    in Blue Bloods

    11 minutes ago, DanaK said:

    That captain was a pompous ass,

    anyone who opposes any of the reagans is always presented as a pompous ass — one of the things that has always bugged me most about this show — no complexity, much less nuance. 

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    S12.E11: On The Arm

    in Blue Bloods

    so did jamie start behaving like a dick hoping to catch the imposter? or was he just behaving like a dick for no apparent reason and catching the imposter was just dumb luck? his behavior just seemed way out of character — and i didn’t get the impression that it was a means to an end (catching the guy). have to say,  that ovation at the end made me want to puke!

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