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I just started watching this show and I like the mother/daughter dynamic. Does anyone know how I can find the tile they used in one of the homes?

Wouldn't it be great to have a "Real Housewives of Academia"? We can have the struggling, insecure, tenure-track assistant professor; the "grand dame" -- a older, black feminist scholar; that scholar's nemesis; a graduate student dealing with the sexual advances of an important older, male professor; and an academic married couple whose marriage is on the rocks.

Yes, I was watching his face while Monique was speaking. It's obvious he likes her and would like to keep her on the show -- but if she's not remorseful, should he...? Even Porsha on RH Atlanta was remorseful when she pulled Kenya's hair and was off for a season.

I love Syngin's humor. I could tell Tanya was waiting to play the victim. Yay! The friends return!!!

Wait - Angela was on Maury?! Details and link, please! (I think...)

Especially since podcasts are relatively inexpensive to produce, once you have the equipment. And the equipment can be rented fairly inexpensively if it is not owned by the person doing the podcast.

Yes. Basically, colleges and universities hire recent Ph.Ds as "adjuncts" or visiting assistant profs., pay them about $20-50,000, and minimal benefits. The gold standard for a newly minted Ph.D. is a tenure-track position in which you work for about 6 to 7 years and then come up for tenure. A positive tenure decision results in a tenured position which you hold until you resign, retire, or do something really egregious such as harass a student. Depending upon the field (English, Psychology, etc.), you may have to write a book or a several articles and have good teaching evaluations to get tenure. Some departments/schools are notorious for NOT awarding tenure, no matter how good you are w/ publications and teaching, such as Harvard and Yale. Johns Hopkins is a top university and I imagine they expect a lot of publications and/or a book in Educational Leadership.

According to this, Wendy is an assistant professor, which means she is untenured: https://education.jhu.edu/directory/wendy-osefo-phd/ Depending upon when she was hired, she will be coming up for tenure in the next few years. I wonder how being on this show will affect her tenure decision. (Some assistant professors have been denied tenure just based on their Twitter feed.)

Yes... I worked with someone like her. She attended Howard and she has reverends in her family. It's almost eerie to see the similarities between my former co-worker ad Gizelle.

I do not like Candiance and think she is fake as h*ll. But Monique was in the wrong here. She flipped Candiance's hair - more than once - and then pulled Candiance's hair. I didn't see a glass being thrown. I'm really sorry to see this. It just plays into all of the stereotypes about Black women. They are both better than this.

Does he have a job other than real estate? Does he actually have a real estate license?

These tell-alls have become the 21st century versions of the Maury Povich show. I really wish there were more efforts at decorum and respectability.

Re-posting this question: Anyone know when or if a new season will start?

There was an episode in the first season where they did construction on a house in Chicago in January. Watching the show, I remember saying to myself "who would do a major outdoor renovation project during the winter in Chicago?" They had to stop construction for a few days because of the weather. That episode made me wonder about the hosts' decision making. And I knew nothing about the legal problems at the time. Now it makes more sense.

I saw the episode where they fixed up the rental house belonging to their contractor friend. Any one else suspect anything shady from how that went down? I can't believe a tenant did that much damage to a place and we learn at the end of the episode that the contractor has decided not to sell after all and will continue to rent it out.

Poor Tania, waiting for Syngin to decide if he will "commit" to her -- despite the fact that Tania told THE WORLD that Syngin was not her soulmate! I wonder what the family will make of that "soulmate" scene if/when they ever see it.

I'm sorry about her marriage. For some reason, she never grew on me. (There is something about her voice I don't like and I always thought she was a little stiff when she was working with Tarek.)

Yes, there was a lot about her thought process that I didn't understand. How will her dog be able to run around in one of the condos? And why the emphasis on not having extra space? edited to add: Ok, apparently she was concerned about her carbon footprint, which I get.

Can you provide the link?

Yes! This is so annoying! she plays with her hair more than Syngin.

I would love to see them on Pillow Talk. They were quite funny and honest. Paul was being quite manipulative by bringing his wife and child to the treatment plant. Instead of trying to get a job the old-fashioned, reliable way -- by calling the manager, submitting a resume or something -- he tried to play on the manager's heart strings and hope the sight of a wife and child would make the manager willing to give a deadbeat assh*** a job.

Tania: "I threw out my plans when I met Syngin." Conveniently forgetting that she refused to give up her plan to go to Costa Rica for a month -- after Syngin traveled across the world -- to "study herbs" and to get drunk, as she accuses of Syngin every five minutes. Finally, Syngin, came back with the truth about Tania: She wants more change from him than he has asked of her. Syngin, she is not your soulmate! I wish his friends and family would stage an intervention and get him away from Tania.

I thought it was interesting to see Tania's reaction after Stepdad said, "we saw the real you last night." She looked almost embarrassed. And then Syngin, being a gentleman, rescues her and says "no the emotional you."

I wonder how this family is doing during the quarantine. I know it's hard for normal-sized families to be with each other constantly... but what about this family? Plus home-schooling! I read the articles about the couple's past. That's sad...

Same. I'm impressed with the family so far. I love the discussion Karen had with her girls about their hair. These seem to be happy and well-adjusted kids. They joke but in ways appropriate for their ages... meaning they're not trying to sound like adults the way kids on TV sitcoms try to do. But there is something unusual about the tenant who is now like "family. Maybe it's just me but I sensed a gay vibe between father and tenant.